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As you playHonkai: Star Railand get to the late-game content, you’ll realize the sheer importance of having a sustainer on your team. Due to the turn-based nature of combat, it’s almost impossible to defeat boss enemies without them getting a couple of turns and dealing a ton of damage to your team.
If you want to stand a chance against these enemies, you’ll have to get a shielder or a healer like Gallagher on your party. Gallagher is a four-star Fire unit following the path of Abundance, and he can be quite phenomenal in certain teams.
Updated on July 18, 2025, by Sanyam Jain:Gallagher didn’t have a lot of relic and light cone choices when he was first released, but the push for Break-based meta by the developers changed that. This guide has been updated with all the new options you have for him now.
Best Gallagher Relics And Planar Ornaments
Gallagherdoesn’t have any signature set that completely suits himat the moment, but here are the ones that will give you the most value:
Reason For Synergy With Gallagher
Iron Cavalry Against the Scourge
This set not only increases Gallagher’s Break Effect but alsolets him ignore the enemy’s DEF based on how much Break Effecthe has. It can be great to deal some massive damage with his buffed basic attack.
Relics
Thief of Shooting Meteor
You’ll find yourself getting the most value out of this relic set since itincreases his Break Effect by a whopping 32 percent. Moreover, you can get some extra if you break an enemy’s Weakness with his attacks.
Ideally, you’d want to use other characters to break enemy weakness, but thisworks if some smaller mobs get their weakness brokenduring your Ultimate.
Passerby of Wandering Cloud
This is another decent set on Gallagher if you want to focus on hishealing abilities and a small Skill Point generation. However, you’ll get more Outgoing Healing bonus from the Thief set unless you max out his bonus ability.
Musketeer of Wild Wheat
If you can somehow get a decent Crit build on Gallagher along with a ton of Break Effect and ATK,his basic attack can deal some respectable damage. If you’re using this build, the damage can be buffed using the Musketeer set.
Planar Ornaments
Broken Keel
If you’re using Gallagher alongside a Crit-based DPS, this set works perfectly sincehe already has the Effect RES to get the bonus from it.
Penacony, Land of the Dreams
On the other hand, if you’re using him alongside another Fire DPS, this set can also give you good value since theEnergy Regeneration will let him get various enhanced basic attacks.
Gallagher Relic Stat Priority
Luckily, the best sets you’re able to use on Gallagher are all unlocked quite early in the game, but you’ll still have to struggle with the stats on each relic. He’sone of the few healers that gets more value if you get specific stats:
Break Effect
ATK Percent > SPD > HP Percent
Depending onhow patient you want to be with Gallagher’s relics, there are essentially two builds you may go for:
You can go for the firstmain stat mentioned in the table if you’re going for a damage buildand the second one if you’re going for the normal support build. You’ll also need to build some Crit on your sub-stats for the first build.
Best Gallagher Light Cones
Here are all the choices you have while trying to look for a Light Cone for Gallagher:
Scent Alone Stays True
Lingsha’s release brought this beautiful Light Cone for Gallagher that can give her a 60 percent Break Effect while also letting him dealincreased damage to the enemies for two turnsafter using his Ultimate.
The Iron Cavalry set with this Light Conemakes Gallagher viable to break the enemy’s Toughness.
Echoes of the Coffin
This is the best in slot Light Cone for Gallagher as it gives you some ATK to increase your basic attack DMG while alsogiving you a significant Energy boost with every Ultimate.
You alsoincrease all allies' SPDwhenever your Ultimate is used.
Time Waits for No One
This is essentially the jack-of-all-trades Light Cone that works on most healers in the game. It gives you some Outgoing Healing bonus whilealso dealing extra damage based on the healing done.
What Is Real?
If you’re looking for an F2P-friendly Light Cone for Gallagher, this one istailor-made for him with the Break Effect increase. He can also heal a bit of health every time he uses the basic attack.
Perfect Timing
Gallagher already gets some Outgoing Healing boost from his Break Effect, and this onelets him get even more based on his Effect RES.
Gallagher Trace Priority
Gallagher’s kit is pretty straightforward to understand, and you’ll easily find a use for him on his team if you’re an F2P player. However, his value decreases a lot more if you have other Abundance characterssince the healing from his Skill is single-target. Thankfully, the high Break Effect makes him good for DoT-based teams.
Ideally, you’d want toupgrade Gallagher’s Skill first since the healing gets a massive bonuswith the levels. You can then upgrade his Talent to get more value from his Besotted state. If you’re planning to build Gallagher as a semi-DPS, you can upgrade hisbasic attack followed by the Ultimate as well.
