Sam in Honkai Star Rail: How to Defeat the Stellaron Hunter

In Honkai: Star Rail Stellaron Hunter Sam is a strengthened enemy, the first meeting and fight with which occurs as you complete story campaign " The Sound and the Fury "on the planet Penaconia. For most of the battle, Sam is in a buff state, in which the pack suffers from periodic Burn damage and the boss' powerful attack moves. In this guide, we will tell you how to defeat a group member as a Stellaron Hunter: we will analyze the enemy’s skills and vulnerabilities, the most advantageous combinations of units and tactics of the fight against Sam, as well as the achievements available to obtain.

Completing the Battle Challenge with Boss Sam in Honkai: Star Rail

How to meet your opponent

To the moment version 2.0 Sam appears only at the end of the main plot component of the patch, in the location Grand hotel in the world of dreams on the quest " And who is the killer?.. " In addition, the Stellaron Hunter is one of the main enemies 11 stages “Longing for the World of Dreams” (temporary chapter) Hall of Oblivion, valid until 04/01/2024).

Boss Weaknesses and Resistances

Boss Mecha is susceptible to Imaginary, Quantum and Electric damage types, but has 50% resistance to any stun effects. He himself attacks with the Fire element, which causes a decent amount of dot damage with Burning.

Robot skills

The fight with Sam consists of one stage , during which the Hunter alternates the following set of attacks (their description can be studied in the screenshots above):

• Single attack[BHF: Огненное наступление] ;
• Attack on target and adjacent units[BHF: Небесный огонь] ;
• Massive Impact[BBHF: Выжженная земля] ;
• Talents[SGE: Ядро плавления] And[SGE: Двигатель плавления] .

In addition to the above skills, Sam has two critical skills tagged DHGDR: "Secondary Combustion" and "Supernova Overload". The first greatly buffs the mech, but in return it loses health, and the second carries out a massive attack with impressive damage and a high chance of putting “Burning” on our team.

Tips and team selection

When going against Sam, you should consider the following features of the future boss fight:

• The most useful supports will be shield warriors and heroes who remove weakening - Sam puts a lot of dot-fire fire damage on the squad, which will not be superfluous to neutralize;
• If you play with healers, then take well-leveled heroes into your squad, since one of the Hunter’s talents significantly reduces the effectiveness of treatment;
• One of Sam’s enhanced modes can be knocked down by spending action points on your turn, so you shouldn’t take into your squad characters with a low frequency of using E-shki (especially those like Blade and Jingliu);
• If your squad is low on survivability, be sure to take both a shield warrior and a healer.

Here are just a few examples of packs that are suitable for defeating the Hunter:

Tactics	Maine-DD	Sub-DD	Sub-DD/Support	Support
Dot damage	Kafka	Black Swan	Guinaifen Sampo [«R» на ПК]	Bailu
Breaking through the vulnerability	Moon Eater Jing Yuan	Bronya	Tingyun	Luocha
"Monoquant"	Seele	Silver Wolf	Sparkle	Fu Xuan Lynx
Bonus attacks	Ratio	Xueyi	Hanya Fu Xuan	Huohuo
F2P squad	Serval	Yukong	March 7th	Lynx

It is worth mentioning that Sam will not turn out to be a problematic opponent for you even without more suitable characters in the squad (for example, you often play with Blade and/or Jingliu), if your team members are well pumped .

Battle strategy

Unlike Meme zone memories "Something to die", the battle with which is divided into 2 phases, the battle with Sam will take place in one pass.

At the beginning of the fight, and until the Hunter's first turn, he is completely invulnerable to breaking the durability scale. Also, from the very start we have support from Black Swan - extra. skill "Ethereal Cradle" .

When Sam gets into " Secondary fire ", each of his attacks will spend his own HP. With this buff, a mark with 5 stacks will appear under his health bar - knock her down, actively using the E-shki of squad members, and the boss will exit the enhanced mode.

Please note that in the above state, in which we are recommended to cast E-shku often, for each such action we will also be lose health squad members (even under a shield).

Under the buff from “Secondary Combustion”, the boss’s enhanced attacks become even more dangerous, and the effectiveness of our healers becomes lower (+ dot damage from “Burning” increases). At such moments, healers with the skill of neutralizing effects (for example, the budget Lynx) will be of great support.

Other tips for passing this battle can be found in our guide to the task " And who is the killer?.. ".

Achievements for the battle with the boss Sam

In the battle with Sam you can get two at once achievement :

• "Silent Burning" Issued after you defeat Secondary Combustion before the robot uses its massive Supernova Overload attack. Try to use the E-shka as often as possible and attack the Hunter with elements to which he is vulnerable;
• "Fire my heart, burn my body." Can be obtained if the health of one of the allied units is reduced to five% of the maximum. HP due to the use of action points (during Secondary Combustion on Sam). To avoid losing a squad member to boss attacks, try to apply shields more often.

Reward for collecting each of the trophies received: 5 star jade.