Forming the right team composition is one of the key aspects inHonkai: Star Rail’s gameplay. With the ever-increasing roster of playable units, different characters can have different synergies that allow you to take on any and all content, with some being ahead of the rest.
Supports are a sub-category of characters that focus on providing utility to your team, be it in the form of buffing, debuffing, healing, or shielding. Choose the right support character that fits with your team’s playstyle to ease your way through the game’s content.
Updated on June 30, 2025, by Sanyam Jain:With time, the value of support characters in Honkai: Star Rail has only gone up. It’s now at a point where you’ll need the best supports to make any DPS shine, so getting a flexible unit like Tribbie feels quite good.
16Topaz and Numby
Topaz and Numby are a unique duo as they’re one of the first playable characters to be released as two units in one. After unlocking the necessary Traces, every part of Topaz and Numby’s kit is considered a follow-up attack, with Numby being the main event when using their Skill and Ultimate.
Despite being a Hunt character that excels at dealing decent single-target DMG, Topaz and Numby are best played when used as a support for other follow-up attack characters. Their Skill will inflict a debuff to a target enemy, which increases the DMG they receive from follow-up attacks by up to 55 percent.
15Luocha
Luocha is famed for being able to heal huge amounts of HP. Aside from that, he also brings other forms of utility by being able to cleanse debuffs from your team and even cancel buffs on multiple enemies.
He can deploy a field that will heal your entire team when any of your characters perform an attack, allowing you to get healed on the go. However, Luocha’s biggest selling point is that he never has to use any Skill Points, as his Skill can automatically trigger when one of your characters falls below 50 percent HP.
14Pela
Pela may be a rarity lower than most characters in this list, but she remains as a staple in many teams with her simple yet effective kit. Her main role in teams is to reduce the enemies’ DEF, as well as increase your team’s Effect Hit Rate and occasionally dispel buffs from enemies.
Pela’s Skill can also reduce a target enemy’s Ice RES with her fourth Eidolon, making her a great teammate for Ice characters.
Pela’s Ultimate is great for reducing the DEF of all enemies in the field. Additionally, since using her Skill isn’t necessary,she’s great for generating Skill Points, especially with a SPD-focused build.
13Silver Wolf
The genius hacker of the Stellaron Hunters has the unique ability to implant a Weakness that corresponds to your team’s Type to a target enemy. This mechanic allows your characters to fight enemies they aren’t initially strong against.
When Silver Wolf implants a Weakness to an enemy, their DMG RES to that Type will be reduced by 20 percent, and their All-Type RES will be reduced by an additional 10.5 percent.
Her Ultimate decreases the DEF of a target enemy by up to 48 percent for three turns. Meanwhile, any of her attacks can implant a random debuff on a target enemy, each having their independent durations: 11 percent ATK reduction, 8.8 percent DEF reduction, and 6.6 percent SPD reduction.
12Tingyun
Another four-star in this list, Tingyun has remained as avaluable support charactereven with new five-star characters being released. Using her Skill will provide an ATK buff to a target ally, which scales with her own ATK.
Meanwhile, her Ultimate does two things: provide DMG Bonus to a target ally, and increase that ally’s Energy, helping them get their Ultimate faster. She’s also extremely efficient for generating Skill Points, as her ATK buff lasts for three turns. It’s important to remember that she won’t be able to provide Ultimate to characters like Acheron or Feixiao.
11Huohuo
The scaredy-cat (or fox) Judge of the Ten-Lords Commission, Huohuo, is another healer who can regenerate HP passively, making her a comfortable sustainer. She performs the following after using her Skill:
Aside from healing, Huohuo also functions as a semi-Harmony character with her Ultimate. Casting it will grant an ATK buff to the whole team, as well as regenerate everyone’s Energy.
10Lingsha
Lingsha is arguably a better sustainer than most on this list, but her low placement is due to her niche usability in Break-Based teams. While you can use Lingsha in any team to keep everyone alive, you’ll still get a lot more value with the likes of Aventurine and Huohuo due to the buffs they can provide.
As for Lingsha, this unit is phenomenal at breaking the enemy’s Weakness if they have Fire weakness and deal a bunch of Super Break DMG on broken enemies. She can also consistently provide heals to your team, though you’ll have to use her Skill quite often as well.
9Fu Xuan
Fu Xuan is a special type of Preservation character, in the sense that she’s the only unit from the “shielding” Path that doesn’t provide any form of shielding. Instead, her utilityfocuses on DMG mitigationand allowing your fragile characters to take huge and hard-hitting attacks like it’s nothing.
Aside from DMG mitigation, the field from Fu Xuan’s Skill will also increase your team’s HP and CRIT Rate, as well as grant a one-time immunity to any Control Effects.
Her Skill places a field that will significantly reduce the DMG taken by her allies, while also absorbing some of that DMG herself. When she reaches below 50 percent HP, she can automatically heal herself to near full health if certain conditions are met, making her and her allies almost unkillable.
8Bronya
Bronya is arguably the most valuable five-star out of the standard roster, as well as one of the most powerful supports even with the release of newer ones. Her strength comes not just from her buffs, but also because of her ability to manipulate the turn order, and allow your characters to advance their action.
Using her Skill will make any target ally move directly after her, regardless of their SPD, while increasing their DMG and removing debuffs. Additionally, her Ultimate provides a teamwide ATK buff, and increases their CRIT DMG based on Bronya’s own CRIT DMG.
7Aventurine
Our resident gambling enjoyer, Aventurine, serves as the best all-rounder sustainer in the game, and there are many reasons for this. Firstly, he can produce consistent shields for the entire party with her Skill and follow-up attacks, which usually trigger often enough to prevent you from using your Skill in most cases.
He can also increase the Crit DMG taken by one enemy with his Ultimate, which also adds Harmony elements to his kit. Essentially, if Aventurine is in your team, you wouldn’t have to worry about any character being knocked down.
