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
Updated the Patterns and Combinations to version 4.2!
Team Archetypes
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!
Zhongli - Should you pull?
Zhongli Should you Pull guide is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment to help you decided!
Dan Heng - Imbibitor Lunae (Character Review)
The character review for Dan Heng - Imbibitor Lunae from Star Rail is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!
Lynette (Character Review)
The character review for Lynette from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!
Lyney (Character Review)
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)
Updated Content Patterns and Character Combinations to reflect version 4.0 in Genshin Impact.
Kafka (Character Review)
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)
Added a Totals row after the duration of a Nations lifespand. Made minor adjustments to the table to improve clarity.
Nahida (Character Review)
The character review for Nahida from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!"
Improved Article Readability
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
Added Kafka, Blade, and Luka to Character Combinations. Added 1.2 new content to Content Patterns.
Blade (Character Review)
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)
Added a Character List table on each respective page of Character Combinations.
Raiden Shogun (Character Review)
The character review for Raiden Shogun from Genshin Impact is now live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!
Content Predictions & Calender (Fontaine)
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)
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)
The Character Combinations for Genshin Impact has been updated to include three combinations. See how many 4* Polearm characters hail from Liyue!
Yukong (Character Review)
Character review for Yukong from Honkai: Star Rail is live! Check out the best builds, teammates, and equipment!
Luocha (Character Review)
Character review for Luocha from Honkai: Star Rail is live! Check out his best builds, teammates, and equipment!
Silver Wolf (Character Review)
Character review for Silver Wolf from Honkai: Star Rail is live! Check out her best builds, teammates, and equipment!
Venti (Character Review)
Character review for Venti, the Windborne Bard, from Genshin Impact is live. Check out his best builds, teammates, and artifacts!
Character Combinations - Star Rail
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
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
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
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
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
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
Added a page for frequently asked questions. Come find out what Hoyobuilds is about!