Welcome to Hoyobuilds

Hoyobuilds is a site dedicated to helping you bring out the best of all your favorite characters in Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail.
We cover roles in a team, equipment, resource priorities, and teammates among other topics. We also monitor the development patterns of both games and their character combinations to predict when and what will come in future updates. Check below for recent updates.

Changelog

Updated Genshin tracking to 4.2

Sunday, November 12th 2023

Updated the Patterns and Combinations to version 4.2!

Team Archetypes

Thusrday, October 12th 2023

Check out our new guides covering 64 Archetype teams (with examples) within the 12 Elemental Reactions, Hypercarry, Mono, and More! Discover your new favorite team!

Icon of Zhongli from GenshinZhongli - Should you pull?

Monday, September 4th 2023

Zhongli Should you Pull guide is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment to help you decided!

Icon of Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae from Star RailDan Heng - Imbibitor Lunae (Character Review)

Monday, August 28th 2023

The character review for Dan Heng - Imbibitor Lunae from Star Rail is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Icon of Lynette from Genshin ImpactLynette (Character Review)

Monday, August 21st 2023

The character review for Lynette from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Icon of Lyney from Genshin ImpactLyney (Character Review)

Tuesday, August 15th 2023

The character review for Lyney from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Update to version 4.0 (Genshin Impact)

Monday, August 14th 2023

Updated Content Patterns and Character Combinations to reflect version 4.0 in Genshin Impact.

Icon of kafka from Genshin ImpactKafka (Character Review)

Tuesday, August 8th 2023

The character review for Kafka from Honkai: Star Rail is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Added Totals to Content Patters (Genshin Impact)

Monday, August 7th 2023

Added a Totals row after the duration of a Nations lifespand. Made minor adjustments to the table to improve clarity.

Icon of nahida from Genshin ImpactNahida (Character Review)

Tuesday, July 25th 2023

The character review for Nahida from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!"

Improved Article Readability

Monday, July 24th 2023

Added icons, pictures, quotes, updated Table of Contents and improved overall structure on desktop and mobile versions.

Updated Honkai: Star Rail content to reflect version 1.2

Monday, July 17th 2023

Added Kafka, Blade, and Luka to Character Combinations. Added 1.2 new content to Content Patterns.

Icon of blade from Genshin ImpactBlade (Character Review)

Monday, July 17th 2023

The character review for Blade from Honkai: Star Rail is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!"

Character Combinations Update (Genshin Impact & Star Rail)

Thursday, July 13th 2023

Added a Character List table on each respective page of Character Combinations.

Icon of raiden shogun from Genshin ImpactRaiden Shogun (Character Review)

Monday, July 10th 2023

The character review for Raiden Shogun from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Content Predictions & Calender (Fontaine)

Thursday, July 6th 2023

The update calender for 4.x versions in Genshin Impact has been updated! Check out when new patches will drop and what content is predicted to be in them.

Character Combinations Update (Star Rail)

Tuesday, July 4th 2023

The Character Combinations for Honkai: Star Rail has been updated to include three combinations. See how many 4* Adult Females wield the power of Lightning!

Character Combinations Update (Genshin Impact)

Tuesday, July 4th 2023

The Character Combinations for Genshin Impact has been updated to include three combinations. See how many 4* Polearm characters hail from Liyue!

Icon of yukong from Genshin ImpactYukong (Character Review)

Monday, July 3rd 2023

Character review for Yukong from Honkai: Star Rail is live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Icon of luocha from Genshin ImpactLuocha (Character Review)

Monday, June 26th 2023

Character review for Luocha from Honkai: Star Rail is live! Check out his best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Icon of silver wolf from Genshin ImpactSilver Wolf (Character Review)

Wednesday, June 7th 2023

Character review for Silver Wolf from Honkai: Star Rail is live! Check out her best builds, teammates, and equipment!

Icon of venti from Genshin ImpactVenti (Character Review)

Thursday, June 1st 2023

Character review for Venti, the Windborne Bard, from Genshin Impact is live. Check out his best builds, teammates, and artifacts!

Character Combinations - Star Rail

Thursday, May 11th 2023

A page comparing various aspects of the characters in Star Rail has been added. Compare how many characters have the same path and element, path and model, or rarity and faction. And every combination in between.

Content Patterns - Star Rail

Wednesday, May 10th 2023

A page to track content released for Star Rail has been added. Currently, there are no patterns, but they will be updated after each patch goes live.

Update Schedule - Star Rail

Tuesday, May 9th 2023

A page for the Update Schedule for Star Rail has been added. Check out when future livestream, updates, and banner changes will happen. Currently, there are no predictions, but they will be included in future versions.

Character Combinations - Genshin Impact

Monday, May 8th 2023

A page to compare various aspects of the characters in Genshin Impact has been added. Compare how many characters have the same element and weapon, weapon and model, or rarity and nation. And every combination in between.

Content Patterns - Genshin Impact

Sunday, May 7th 2023

A page to track content released for Genshin Impact has been added. Check out which versions released expansions, characters, artifacts, and bosses. Along with boss material usages and flagship event tracking.

Update Schedule - Genshin Impact

Thursday, May 4th 2023

A page for the Update Schedule for Genshin Impact has been added. Check out when future livestream, character teasers, updates, and banner changes will happen. Along with some predicted content coming in each patch based on previous patterns.

Frequently Asked Questions

Wednesday, May 3rd 2023

Added a page for frequently asked questions. Come find out what Hoyobuilds is about!