How to Defeat Sam in Honkai Star Rail: Boss Guide

Sam's boss "Hall of Oblivion". When fighting an enemy, it is important to monitor your health bar, which will decrease as you use skills. Additional challenges to survivability will arise due to the reduced healing and constant damage from the Burning status.

In the guide we will look in detail at how to defeat Sam in HSR. Let's look at the vulnerabilities of the Stellaron Hunter boss, his active and ive skills, as well as the teams of heroes most suitable for battle and tips for fighting.

Basic information about Boss Sam

The boss fight takes place in one phase, in which Sam can enter an enhanced form and activate ive talents that change the rules of battle. The initial state of the Stellaron Hunter is protected from damage to the fortitude meter and lasts for one turn. The enemy then changes stance, opening a vulnerability, but skill points begin to consume the health of the squad .

All Sam's vulnerabilities and resistances:

1	2
Vulnerabilities	Quantum Imaginary Электрический
Resistances	All control effects 50%

Sam Boss Attacks: Stellaron Hunter

Before moving on to squad selection and battle tactics to defeat the Stellaron Hunter boss: Sam, let's look at the enemy's offensive abilities and ive talents.

BHF: Fire Offensive — makes a sharp lunge towards one hero and inflicts low fire damage.
BHF: Heavenly Fire — carries out a jumping attack, damaging one of the characters and neighboring targets.
BBHF: Scorched Earth - Deals medium fire damage to the entire group.
DHGDR: Secondary combustion — consumes part of its HP and enters the “Secondary Combustion” state. At the same time, the vulnerability protection is removed, ive talents begin to take effect, and the damage of all the boss’s attack skills increases.
DHGDR: Supernova Overload - the most dangerous attack, causing significant damage to the entire squad with a high chance of inflicting a periodic “Burning” status.
SGE: Fusion Core - Sam sets fire to the battlefield and action points, and also reduces the healing abilities of healers. When using ignited skill points, part of your health is spent, and attacking abilities deal additional fire damage. In this state, the Stellaron Hunter gains a Melting Energy meter.
SGE: Melting Engine - in its enhanced form, it has “Melting Energy”, which can be reduced by using attacking skills. Reducing the Melting counter to 0 or breaking the shield will take Sam out of Secondary Combustion and restore maximum skill points to the squad.

How to defeat Sam

In addition to the story mission, from time to time you will have to fight with the Stellaron hunter in an updated activity "Hall of Oblivion". Next, we will present tips on selecting a squad and conducting a battle.

Detachments

Assemble a team based on the units presented to defeat Sam (the boss):

Character 1	Character 2	Character 3	Character 4	How to use
Devour. Moon	ruan mei	Hanja	Hoho	Strategy: hypercarry. The Devourer's ability to spend a lot of skill points will come in handy in the battle with Sam and will allow him to be deprived of his vulnerability in a minimum number of moves. Ruan Mei will not allow the enemy to restore vulnerability and repeat the rotation. Hanya will help with extra points and increase damage on a single target. Hoho will infuse energy and give a buff to attack power from the ultimate, and after exiting the “Secondary Combustion” phase, it will restore all the health of the squad in one turn.
Seele	Silver Wolf	Sparkle	Fu Xuan Lynx	Strategy: "monoquant". Zele's high speed allows her to walk frequently, thereby spending action points. The wolf applies a large number of various debuffs to the skill and basic attack. In addition, reduces defense through the use of superpowers. Sparkle increases the command resource limit for using skills, promotes Zele's action, and gives a crit buff. damage and increases the attack power of quantum allies. Fu Xuan's defensive skills are not affected in any way by the reduction in healing, but it may affect the effectiveness of the talent, so it is important to remove Sam's vulnerability before the ive skill triggers. Otherwise, it is recommended to replace the girl with Lynx.
Kafka	Swan	Sampo Gui Luke	Locha	Strategy: DoT damage. Kafka plays the classic role of the backbone of a DoT team, depleting the enemy's health with periodic damage. Black Swan lowers resists, applies additional statuses, and allows periodic effects to ignore defense. Sampo is also a source of DoT damage, and through its ultimate it increases the damage the enemy receives from team mechanics (replaced by Luka or Guinaifen, which are also capable of increasing the damage received by the enemy). Locha ively heals the unit after each attack carried out by allies. In addition, it helps deal damage and break through the boss's durability bar.
Xueyi	Serval	Fire. hero	Lynx Natasha	Strategy: a game from two heroes. The first two slots contain the most advanced damage dealers. The Preservation Path Pathfinder often uses a normal attack to generate both shields and skill points. A healer is placed in the last cell, who will one-time heal the squad from the health spent by “set fire” skill points, for example, Lynx. If she is missing, you can use the skills of the free Natasha.
Ratio	sang	Luke	Natasha	A squad of epic characters and Dr. Ratio: Veritas copes well with single targets, attacking both directly with skills and ultimate, and with bonus attacks. For a comfortable game, the main damage dealer needs debuffers, in this case, Pela and Luka. The girl lowers Sam's defense, and the Fight Club champion increases damage taken and applies Bleed. Natasha heals the squad from their injuries.

When teaming up against Sam, it is important to keep in mind that you can reduce Molten Energy in its enhanced form by spending skill points on hitting the boss. Refrain from building a team around a main DD who doesn't spend skill points when dealing damage (jingliu).

Tactic

When completing the challenge, follow these guidelines to complete the battle safely:

Throughout the battle, the enemy alternates between two stances: protected and reinforced. Before entering the Secondary Combustion state, Sam's vulnerability gauge cannot be damaged, and the enemy himself attacks once. During the specified period, it is worth accumulating as much as possible action points, in order to quickly interrupt the enhanced stance with skills.
Focus on getting out of the enhanced phase, but keep an eye on your health indicators. Set skill points on fire spend HP, which could put the character at risk.
When selecting a squad, give a priority shield warriors whose abilities will not be affected by the reduction in healing. And also (de-)buffers with damage-dealing skills, which will bring double benefit by spending resource points.
During Secondary Combustion, refrain from using ultimates with healing properties. While the field is set on fire, the effectiveness of healers is significantly downgraded.
If survivability is low, use tactics with two defensive s and be sure to take scutellum, which will protect you from lethal damage.

Achievements for Sam

During the battle with the Stellaron Hunter, you can earn 2 achievements.

Quiet burning

Condition: During the battle with Stellaron Hunter Sam, allow him to enter the Secondary Combustion state and remove this state until he uses the DHGDR: Supernova Overload skill.

Reward: star jade ×5.

During any phase, try to interrupt your opponent's enhanced state before his next turn. To do this, you will have to spend all 5 set fire skill points or completely break through the vulnerability in one wave of allied actions.

Set my heart on fire, burn my body

Condition: During the battle with Stellaron Hunter Sam, use ignited skill points and reduce 1 ally's HP to below 5%.

Reward: star jade ×5.

Wait until Sam uses the SGE: Melting Core skill so that skill points begin to drain the health of allies. Protect one of the heroes from external damage with a shield and try to reduce the health bar to a minimum using skills.

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