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Sampo Build Guide
Honkai: Star Rail

Sampo Build Guide

Discover the best build for Sampo in Honkai: Star Rail! This guide covers his best Light Cones, Relics, Planar Ornaments, and team compositions to maximize his damage and debuff capabilities.

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Discover the best build for Sampo in Honkai: Star Rail! This guide covers his best Light Cones, Relics, Planar Ornaments, and team compositions to maximize his damage and debuff capabilities.

Sampo is a 4-star Wind Nihility character who excels at applying DoT (Damage over Time) effects and debuffing enemies. He is a valuable addition to teams that focus on damage-over-time strategies.

Best Light Cones:

  • In the Name of the Peace (Best-in-Slot for DoT teams)
  • Good Night and Sleep Well (General strong debuff option)
  • Fermata (F2P friendly, good for Nihility synergy)
  • Before the Tutorial Mission Starts (Excellent for breaking enemies and energy)

Best Relics:

  • 4-piece Prisoner in Deep Confinement (Maximizes DoT damage)
  • 2-piece Messenger Traversing Hackerspace + 2-piece Musketeer of Wild Wheat (For Speed and ATK)

Best Planar Ornaments:

  • 2-piece Broken Keel (Crit DMG boost for the team if Effect RES is met)
  • 2-piece Space Sealing Station (ATK boost when Speed is high)

Stat Priority:

  • Body: Effect Hit Rate / ATK%
  • Feet: Speed / ATK%
  • Planar Sphere: Wind DMG Boost
  • Link Rope: Energy Regeneration Rate / ATK%
  • Substats: Speed, Effect Hit Rate, ATK%, Break Effect

Best Team Compositions:

  • Kafka + Sampo + Luka/Serval + Healer/Shielder: Classic DoT team focusing on Wind and Lightning DoTs.
  • Kafka + Sampo + Ruan Mei + Healer/Shielder: Ruan Mei provides significant buffs to DoT and Break Efficiency.
  • Sampo + Other DoT characters + Bronya/Tingyun + Healer/Shielder: If Kafka is not available, Sampo can still lead DoT teams with other characters.

Skill Priority:

  1. Ultimate (Wind Shear DoT application and debuff)
  2. Skill (Direct damage and Wind Shear application)
  3. Talent (Passive DoT damage)
  4. Basic Attack
Tips
  • Sampo's damage scales heavily with his DoT effects, so prioritize Effect Hit Rate to ensure they land.
  • His Ultimate applies a debuff that increases Wind DMG taken by the enemy, making him great for Wind-weak targets.
  • In teams without Kafka, focus on stacking as many DoT effects as possible before the enemy's turn.

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