Sampo in Honkai Star Rail: Build Guide and Best Teams

Sampo in HSR is considered a secondary DPS representative from the Path of Nihility, which focuses on dealing periodic wind damage. Accordingly, he can become a budget option for an allied hero in teams tied to DoT mechanics.

Most of the young man's skills are focused on imposing the "Wind Shear" status on opponents, but this feature is not the key to his skill set. No less significant and interesting is the character's technique, which allows you to "blind" enemies and thereby delay their action when entering combat for a certain time.

Hero's story

Sampo is a mercenary from the Wildfire organization and a wandering merchant, who is always in high spirit and jokes without reason. Some call him a swindler, since his actions are often ambiguous and have an ulterior motive, which the merchant from Belobog sometimes justifies. He is a cunning, emotional and eloquent guy, who mysteriously always appears at the right moment.

An adventurer from the Underworld has a huge amount of information, but you should approach him with caution - the buyer can turn into a product in a second. Due to his absurd actions, he is especially popular with the guards: they are always trying to catch the elusive Koski. His exact origin is unknown, so he may ultimately turn out to be far from such a simple person.

How to Get the Character

You can pull for Sampo in the following banners:

• with some probability in "Departure Warp";
• along with other epic heroes in the "Star Warp";
• with an increased chance in "Event Warp: Character" if listed in the list of 4⭐ units that are available to obtain at the same time as the "limited" legendary character;
• with some chance on par with other epic characters in the "Event Warp: Light Cone".

In addition, during certain periods, the Wildfire representative can be purchased for 140 Undying Embers in the section of the same name within "Pom-Pom's Store".

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Features

As an Underworld Adventurer levels up, basic stats such as HP, attack and defense increase. Speed and taunt are fixed, but can be affected by skills or equipment.

How Sampo's Skills Work

The hero has skills that deal massive damage and apply debuffs to opponents. The abilities of the Belobog merchant are especially effective against monsters that are vulnerable to wind-type damage. His additional feature is applying the Wind Shear status, and in some conditions also the imposition of Blind.

Active skills

Passive Skills

Leveling Order

Superpower > Skill > Talent > Normal Attack.

The Wildfire Mercenary's primary abilities are his ult and skill. The 2-turn ultimate will allow the entire party to deal more periodic damage to enemies, and the skill is also useful against one monster, since the blades can hit it several times. The Talent contains his core mechanic with Wind Shear stacks that apply periodic DPS that comes into play in longer fights. His Normal attack can also apply this type of debuff, but is the least priority.

Traces

The increase in characteristics at maximum level will be:

• EHR - + 18 %
• Attack Power - + 24 %
• Effect RES - + 10 %

Eidolons

All Sampo consts:

The best eidolons of Sampo:

• E1 – Increases the number of skill bounces by 1 - from 4 to 5 times. Bonus random damage can go through both multiple targets and one, which is why the constellation is useful everywhere.
• E4 – Increases the damage from Wind Shear at a certain number of debuff levels, which is achieved without problems. The constellation is not bad and gives a pleasant increase to DPS.
• E6 - Useful when building into Break. The strongest constellation, increasing damage from Wind Shear more than others.

How to play Sampo in HSR

The Belobog merchant primarily specializes in imposing negative statuses. The main debuff, Wind Shear, deals periodic wind damage and has several levels of stacks, the number of which cannot exceed 5. Otherwise, playing as a representative of Wildfire does not pose any difficulties and allows you to save points for your allies' turns.

During the battle, Sampo's rotation looks like this:

• If possible, start the battle by using the "Shining Bright" technique, hitting an enemy in the open world for 10 seconds, which will apply AoE Blind to monsters and delay their first actions in combat. After the time has elapsed, the Blind zone will disappear.
• Basic AttackDazzling Blades" and the regular skill "Ricochet Love» cast Wind Shear on mobs to cause damage to regularly pass through them and gradually remove the shield.
• Try to use the ultimate "Surprise Present» before the actions of partners with the activation of periodic DPS, so that the enemies receive more damage. Otherwise, the ultimate still causes damage to enemies in the area and will be able to remove part of their armor if they are vulnerable, and at the same time increase DoT damage.
• Keep an eye on your Wind Shear levels, as once you reach their cap you will be able to leave action points for other team members.

All about character leveling

Upgrading the level and abilities of the mercenary from the Underworld to maximum requires a certain amount of resources, presented in the tables below.

Ascension materials

To upgrade the Belobog merchant to level 80, you will need the following materials:

• Credits - ×826 200. The main currency can be obtained as a reward for completing most quests, for sending heroes on assignments, and for completing the Calyx trials on Yarilo-6.
• Ancient Part, Ancient Spindle, Ancient Engine – ×12/13/15. The material can be obtained for killing automatons and other enemies in the Robot Settlement or in the Grand Mine on Yarilo-6. Other sources: Simulated universe, assignments, Pom-Pom's shop. The second and third resource rarities are available starting with 2nd and 4th Equilibrium Level.
• Storm Eye - ×50. Reward for clearing the Stagnant Shadow in Rivet Town on the planet Yarilo-6.

All materials, with the exception of credits, can be crafted or exchanged in the Omni-Synthesizer.

Skills Upgrading Materials

To enhance the abilities of the Wildfire Mercenary, additional resources must be prepared.

New materials for leveling skills:

• Credits ×1 758 000.
• Ancient Part ×22, Ancient Spindle ×35, Ancient Engine ×20.
• Obsidian of Dread ×8, Obsidian of Desolation ×42, Obsidian of Obsession ×77 - obtained after clearing the Calyx in the Great Mine on Yarilo-6. Materials can be upgraded to higher rarity with the Omni-Synthesizer.
• Tracks of Destiny ×3 - a rare resource is available when a certain number of points are collected weekly in the simulated universe, is also available for purchase in the Pom-Pom's store and as a temporary event reward.
• Guardian's Lament ×9 - available for defeating Cocolia in the Echo of War, which can be found at the location of Everwinter Hill on Yarilo-6.

The order of leveling traces

The table shows the full amount of all materials for upgrading the Underworld Adventurer's Traces in order of improvement.

Total amount of components:

• Credits ×642 000.
• Ancient Part ×6, Ancient Spindle ×7, Ancient Engine ×22.
• Obsidian of Dread ×4, Obsidian of Desolation ×12, Obsidian of Obsession ×28.
• Tracks of Destiny ×2.
• Guardian's Lament ×3.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Like all characters, the merchant from Belobog has some "pros" and "cons", which is important to familiarize yourself with before deciding to level him up.

Best Sampo Builds in Honkai: Star Rail

The Underworld Mercenary follows the Path of Nihility and has a mechanic of periodic damage. His skills are capable of not only debuff targets, but also inflicting decent DoT damage on them thanks to Wind Shear which in some groups allows him to take on the role of a support DD. His Eidolons increase DPS, and his abilities are highly dependent on the ATK stat. The Wind Vulnerability Break parameter affects the DoT mechanic. Do not forget about speed, so that the Belobog merchant has time to apply debuffs before his partners' turns.

Proper Sampo build in HSR requires special attention to be paid to the following characteristics:

• ATK - Affects all DPS inflicted by the character, including periodic statuses.
• Speed — the order of turns during battle depends on the parameter. A high value allows you to apply statuses more often and generate the ultimate.
• Break - The higher the damage from vulnerability break, the more non-Talent Wind Shear will deal.
• Chance to hit - the basic probability of inflicting periodic damage is not that high, so it is necessary to additionally increase this stat.

Recommended Stats

When leveling relics, we advise you to pay attention to the following parameters:

Additional stats:

• ATK.
• Break.
• Speed.
• Effect Hit Rate.
• crit dmg and crit rate - can be gained in lower characteristics to increase your own instant damage.

Optimal values ​​of key characteristics:

• ATK: 2+;
• speed: 120 and more;
• Effect Hit Rate: 40-67%;
• break: 30-50%.

Light Cone Rating

The light cone must match the Path of Nihility, otherwise the passive bonus of the weapon will not work. When choosing a weapon for the Wildfire Mercenary, pay attention to one of the following options:

What relics and ornaments are needed

In artifacts for the Underworld adventurer, we recommend looking for several parameters: wind damage, ATK, break, speed. Crits are not a priority due to the greater emphasis on other stats. Break is more stable than attack power, but is only useful against mobs vulnerable to the wind element. Also, attention should be paid to EHR.

Cavern relics

Planar ornaments

Team Guide for Sampo in HSR

Sampo's role in the team is related to providing support by debuffing opponents and inflicting periodic damage on them, so usually a main DD is required in a group with him. Damaging allies will come in handy for the second and third slots, depending on the type of battle. These are the Path of the Hunt, Destruction, Erudition representatives and/or (de-)buffers. For the sake of the survival of partners, the last one in the team is to choose the hero of the Path of Preservation or Abundance.

Which characters are suitable?

The following heroes are suitable as allies for the salesman from Belobog:

Best team samples

With the above units it will be possible to form the following groups:

To beginners, we advise to set up one of the following teams:

Conclusion

Sampo is a surprisingly good Path of Nihility representative, especially in protracted fights due to the DoT mechanic. At first glance, it seems that he only has area damage, but in fact he is capable of bringing in huge DPS against single targets. He applies the Wind Shear status to potential victims better than any other character of his element.

With the ability to damage his victims, the hero is not particularly demanding, since the periodic damage is affected by the easily gained ATK parameter. It is worth gaining several levels of Wind Shear in battle, and the enemies will simply be blown away by the wind from the battlefield. This is an perfect support for characters who own periodic damage. Although the adventurer from the Underworld has several drawbacks, he is much better than he seems and is a strong fighter.

We hope this Honkai: Star Rail guide helped you create the best build for Sampo, a cunning merchant from Belobog. Feel free to sak questions in comments, so that the author or other players can help you.