Overview
Xi Shi (西施) is a Resonance (共鸣) in Honor of Kings: World, confirmed in the S0 Season launch roster on April 10, 2026. She is a member of Jixia Academy and functions as a 辅助 (Support) Resonance whose kit revolves around soft crowd control using gauze-themed abilities. Her S0 tagline is "玩非所重，知己共平生" ("What matters is not the game; a true friend is a lifelong companion"). She is confirmed by current community data.
Verified HoKW Kit
Skill names below are taken official HoKW hero compendium.
Skill | Chinese | Description |
|---|---|---|
Basic Attack | 普攻 | Ranged magical bolts with a charged ricochet variant |
Sealed Gauze Mark | 纱缚之印 | Signature pull/displacement control. Initial cast marks enemies; recast drags them to a formation point |
Gauze Spirit | 幻纱之灵 | Orb-drop projectile that detonates for damage |
Undivided Focus | 心无旁骛 | Store-and-empower buff with reflective heal on-hit |
Gauze Formation | 幻纱法阵 | Ultimate: pulls enemies into a formation and detonates for heavy damage |
Xi Shi's MOBA signature is a two-stage enemy pull, and her HoKW kit preserves this through the 纱缚之印 and 幻纱法阵 combo. The primary combat pattern is to mark enemies with 纱缚之印, drop 幻纱之灵 orbs near the formation point, cast 幻纱法阵 to cluster enemies, and then detonate the orbs for cascading AoE damage.
Combat Role
As a Support Resonance, Xi Shi provides crowd control and positioning utility that lets the party's damage dealers land clean burst windows. Her 心无旁骛 buff adds a defensive/reflective layer to her support toolkit, which gives her value even when she is not actively using her control abilities. In co-op boss encounters, her primary job is to maintain enemy positioning and set up ally burst windows.
Playstyle Tips
Use 纱缚之印 to mark enemies at the start of a fight, then recast to pull them into a cluster
Drop 幻纱之灵 orbs ahead of the pull's destination so they detonate on clustered targets
Save 幻纱法阵 for moments when the party's high-damage abilities are off cooldown
Activate 心无旁骛 when you expect incoming damage; the reflective on-hit heal sustains you through pressure windows
Pair with Offensive Resonances whose burst damage benefits from clustered, stationary targets
Launch Progression
Xi Shi is one of the earliest story-linked Resonances in the launch build. Current new-player guidance lists her among the main-story unlocks, and by the time Jixia Chapter 5: Proof of Strength begins, her Companion Invitations route is already available.
She is also repeatedly recommended as the safest early support investment because she brings both control and healing value.
Chapter 4 explicitly works well with a prepared Xi Shi build because the Guiling route favors crowd control.
Story Presence in Early Jixia
Xi Shi stays visible across the whole early Jixia arc. She is a main companion in Jixia Chapter 4: Jixia Secretsremains relevant in the Chapter 5 invitation window, and continues into Jixia Chapter 6: When Stars Converge where her control tools still define several boss and mob pulls.
Combo Rotation with the Child of the Primal Flow
Launch-week Chinese guides treat Xi Shi as the setup half of the Child of the Primal Flow pairing. Xi Shi's role is to position the boss and stack incoming damage, after which the active Resonance swap shifts the play onto the Child of the Primal Flow's burst window.
Five-Input Setup (EREEQ)
E launches an initial 幻纱之灵 orb-drop projectile.
R (the 心无旁骛 store-and-empower buff) resets the E cooldown and starts the reflective heal-on-hit window.
EE drops two more orbs in quick succession.
Q (纱缚之印) marks enemies and pulls them toward the formation point; the orbs detonate on the clustered targets.
Hand-Off and Recasts
After the EREEQ chain, swap to the Child of the Primal Flow and execute their EEAAQQAARRAA route. If the boss exits Xi Shi's circle radius mid-fight, swap back to Xi Shi briefly to recast Q and reposition the formation point, then return to the damage Resonance. The same routing also doubles as the standard Phase 2 reset for Xi Shi-led 4-player co-op runs.