Honkai Star Rail Gallagher Kit and Traces Priority
Gallagher's kit is a cocktail of features and functions in Honkai Star Rail.
Gallagher's kit in Honkai: Star Rail is straight-forward enough in practice, but in theory, there are still a lot of moving parts to it. Break effect and break damage play central roles in the fiery healer’s skills and even in how much he can heal allies.
Our Honkai Star Rail Gallagher kit guide breaks down what the mysterious bartender does and which of Gallagher's Traces you should spend your mats on first.
For more on Gallagher and how to make his kit work, take a look at our Gallagher build.
Honkai Star Rail Gallagher Kit
Gallagher’s kit is split between debuffing foes, healing allies, and setting enemies up to take heavy amounts of break damage in Honkai Star Rail. Split kits often bode poorly for effective units, but Gallagher seems, on paper, like he balances his different functions pretty well.
While his skill heals just one ally, his talent bundles healing for any ally who attacks enemies with increased break damage. It also gives Gallagher a minor debuff role, as it enhances his basic attack and adds an effect that reduces an enemy’s attack.
There’s a lot going on here, basically, and since his talent and ultimate are so important, we’re starting with them.
Gallagher Ultimate: Champagne Etiquette
Gallagher deals fire damage equal to 75/150 percent of his attack to all enemies and inflicts the Besotted effect on all foes. Gallagher’s next basic attack has the Nectar Blitz effect.
Gallagher Basic Attack: Corkage Fee
Gallagher deals fire damage equal to 50/110 percent of his attack to a single target.
Gallagher Enhanced Basic Attack: Nectar Blitz
Gallagher deals fire damage equal to 125/275 percent of his attack to a single target.
Gallagher Talent: Tipsy Tussle
Enemies with the Besotted effect recent 6/12 percent more break damage. When an ally attacks a Besotted enemy, that ally recovers 80/640 HP.
Gallagher Skill: Special Brew
Gallagher heals a targeted ally for 200/1,600 HP.
Gallagher Technique: Artisan Elixir
Attacks the enemy, inflicts Besotted on all foes, and deals fire damage equal to 50 percent of Gallagher’s attack to every enemy.
Gallagher Bonus Traces
Bonus Traces are always helpful, but Gallagher’s really make him more viable as a supporter and healer in Honkai Star Rail.
- Novel Concoction (ascension rank two): Increases Gallagher’s outgoing healing by an amount equal to 50 percent of his break effect, up to a total of 75 percent more healing.
- Organic Yeast (ascension rank four): Gallagher’s action advances by 100 percent after he uses his ultimate
- When Gallagher uses Nectar Blitz on Besotted enemies, he heals all allies
Gallagher Traces priority
The way Gallagher’s Traces scale means you’ll want to prioritze his talent to maximize healing and his basic attack so the enhanced version takes a bigger chunk out of an enemy’s attack. That assumes you’re running a Gallagher with enough energy restoration to keep enemies in the Besotted state almost constantly. If not, make sure to give his skill some love as well, since it’s a surefire way to restore a large chunk of HP.
His ultimate’s damage scaling is pretty low, so you’re free to ignore that Trace until last.
The TL;DR for Gallagher’s Traces priority is:
- Talent
- Basic Attack
- Skill
- Ultimate
If you're wondering who else might work with Gallagher, check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list, and head over to our Honkai Star Rail codes page for some freebies to help with your next pull.