Best Support Characters In Honkai: Star Rail 3.4

In the cosmic battlefield of Honkai: Star Rail, support characters are the “behind-the-scenes masterminds” of the team. They can not only build a survival barrier with healing and shields, but also break down the enemy's defense line through debuffs. Moreover, they can activate the full-team burst with energy circulation and damage-boosting buffs. No matter how complex the version iteration and enemy mechanisms are, as long as there are suitable supports to back things up, DPS and tanks can exert their strength precisely, and turn every turn-based battle into your own “dimension-reducing strike”!

Wondering which supports can carry the game in Version 3.4? Keep reading —

 

Best Support Characters Overview

Below is a list of the eight best Honkai: Star Rail characters for version 3.4.

SS
Tribbie	Sunday	Robin	Ruan Mei
S+
Traiblazer (Remembrance)	Hyacine	Cipher	Sparkle
Bronya	Tingyun·Fugue	Jiaoqiu	Lingsha
Silver Wolf	Aventurine
S
Pela	Traiblazer (Harmony)	Topaz	Tingyun

 

SS Tier

Tribbie

Sunday

Robin

Ruan Mei

 

1.Tribbie

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Quantum

Path: Harmony

Best Played With: All teams

Tribbie stands as a powerful Harmony unit. She can enhance the entire party’s All-Type RES PEN and deal a decent chunk of damage via her Follow-up attacks. When facing numerous enemies, Tribbie’s Ultimate enables the team to deal Additional DMG, making her highly effective in AOE situations.

If you own The Herta or utilize DPS units that scale with HP, Tribbie is a fantastic Support to pull for, all thanks to her beneficial buffs. Tribbie provides top-tier cross-type damage buffs, has decent damage output, and is a core component of the life system.

 

2.Sunday

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Imaginary

Path: Harmony

Best Played With: Hypercarry team

Sundayis a great support, benefiting not only DPS characters that use Summons but also hypercarry DPS overall. His Skill lets your DPS and their Summon take an extra turn and boosts their damage. His Ultimate provides them with Energy and raises their CRIT DMG.

He can also get rid of a debuff via his Skill, and using his Skill doesn't cost or gain SP. If you need a character to enhance Summons, grant extra turns, and provide other offensive buffs for your hypercarry team, go for Sunday.

 

3.Robin

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Physical

Path: Harmony

Best Played With: Follow-Up ATK team, DOT Team

Robin is a one-of-a-kind Harmony character. She can offer powerful buffs to the party, like a damage boost for the whole party and a CRIT DMG buff. What's more, her Ultimate can make allies take action right away.
Her Concerto state is also very valuable. For example, it provides an ATK buff that depends on her own ATK, and extra damage to enemies that allies have attacked.
If you're in need of a versatile Harmony character that provides plenty of offensive benefits and buffs, or if you have a Follow - up attack team, then Robin is worth getting.

 

4.Ruan Mei

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Ice

Path: Harmony

Best Played With: Break Effect team, DOT Team, Ice-Quantum Team

Ruan Mei is a top - notch support character. She can enhance the entire party's Damage, SPD, and Break Efficiency. Additionally, Ruan Mei can impede an enemy's recovery following a Weakness Break and deal a fairly substantial amount of bonus damage.
In numerous team setups, Ruan Mei is the optimal teammate for her role. Given the useful abilities she offers, she's a must-obtain character.

 

S+ Tier

Traiblazer (Remembrance)	Hyacine	Cipher	Sparkle
Bronya	Tingyun·Fugue	Jiaoqiu	Lingsha
Silver Wolf	Aventurine

 

1.Traiblazer·Remembrance

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Ice

Path: Remembrance

Best Played With: Remembrance Team

The Remembrance Trailblazer is an excellent Support. It offers CRIT DMG buffs and extra damage via True DMG. This Trailblazer can also advance the turn order of allies, which is really valuable, especially for F2P players.
Unlocking its Eidolons will give useful buffs to Remembrance characters. With that in mind, the Remembrance Trailblazer works best when paired with characters that consume a large amount of energy for their Ultimate.

 

2.Hyacine

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Wind

Path: Remembrance

Best Played With: HP-Scaling Team

Hyacine is an extremely fast and efficient Remembrance healer. She can heal all party members and deal respectable damage. With proper building, her high SPD stat lets her take at least two turns per wave.

Though Hyacine can fit into any team, she pairs particularly well with Castorice. This is thanks to her abundant healing and HP consumption for generating Newbuds.

If you have Castorice or need some limited sustain, Hyacine is worth pulling. Hyacine combines healing, HP-buffing (Life Buffer), and sub-DPS roles into one. She’s the “transformation engine” for HP-scaling teams, perfectly synergizing with Castorice and Tribbie to reach the meta pinnacle.

 

3.Cipher

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Quantum

Path: Nihility

Best Played With: Follow-Up ATK Team, Acheron Team

Cipher is an extremely fast Sub-DPS. She can frequently launch Follow-up attacks and, when her Ultimate’s damage is totaled, deal a substantial amount of harm. Moreover, while she’s on the field, she can boost the damage that enemies take.

Cipher acts as an upgrade option for teams centered around Acheron, Feixiao, and Dr. Ratio. This is because she can apply debuffs and unleash a plethora of Follow-up strikes.

That said, Cipher isn’t a must-obtain if your Acheron or Feixiao teams already have potent Sub-DPS units such as Jiaoqiu or Topaz. However, if you lack those characters, then Cipher is definitely well worth pulling!

 

4.Sparkle

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Quantum

Path: Harmony

Best Played With: Mono-Quantum Team, Hypercarry Team

Sparkle is a highly useful support for DPS characters that use up a lot of Skill Points. As long as an allied unit expends a Skill Point, Sparkle can push forward a character’s turn and boost the whole party’s damage output.
Go for Sparkle if you aim to strengthen your Mono-Quantum team or if you require a unit that can supply a large quantity of Skill Points and enable turn advancement.

 

5.Bronya

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Wind

Path: Harmony

Best Played With: All teams

As a standard roster character, Bronya is frequently overlooked. However, she ranks among the top-tier support characters in Honkai: Star Rail, mainly because of her ability to manipulate the turn order. Bronya’s skill guarantees that the targeted ally acts right after her, creating significant tag-team potential. Naturally, it also helps that the ally’s damage gets boosted and their debuffs are removed.

The optimal moment to use this skill is when Bronya is about to use or has just used her ultimate. This support character’s ultimate provides a substantial buff to a teammate’s attack and also increases their critical damage based on Bronya’s own critical damage stat.

Bronya's turn-pulling and damage-boosting abilities are still powerful, yet the demand for high-cost cultivation restricts usage by F2P players

 

6.Tingyun·Fugue

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Fire

Path: Nihility

Best Played With: Super Break Team

The key draw of Fugue lies in being a significantly better substitute for the Harmony Trailblazer. In case you have no intention of ever having your Trailblazer follow any other Path, then you may think about passing on Fugue.

Yet, because Fugue is presently the sole other unit that offers Super Break to allies, she’s a must-obtain for those who love using Break teams and for players who plan to have the Trailblazer utilize other Paths.

 

7.Jiaoqiu

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Fire

Path: Nihility

Best Played With: Acheron Team, DOT Team

Jiaoqiu is a Fire-attributed Nihility character. He can raise the total damage enemies receive via his Ashen Roast debuff and enhance the Ultimate damage enemies take with his own Ultimate.

His kit centers on debuffing foes and allowing DPS characters to deal more damage to them. He can serve as support in DoT teams and perform even better in teams where the DPS deals massive damage through their Ultimate, such as teams with Acheron.

If you find his kit appealing or need a Nihility character that can amplify the damage enemies take, then Jiaoqiu is an excellent pick.

 

8.Lingsha

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Fire

Path: Abundance

Best Played With: Break Effect Team, Erudition Team, Fire Team

Lingsha functions as a healer capable of summoning Fuyuan onto the field. Whenever Fuyuan takes an action, Lingsha can trigger a Follow-up attack. This attack damages enemies while also healing all allies.

Lingsha’s Ultimate has the ability to heal every ally and apply the Befog debuff to an enemy. This debuff raises the Break DMG that your characters deal to that enemy.

Go for Lingsha if you aim to enhance your Break Effect teams or if you’re in need of an additional Sustain unit.

 

9.Silver Wolf

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Quantum

Path: Nihility

Best Played with: Acheron, Jiaoqiu

Silver Wolf’s Weakness Implantation is irreplaceable, yet her single-target restriction and reliance on Quantum teams affect her rating.

If you already possess a powerful Main DPS, then pull for Silver Wolf. By carefully planning the Element or Combat Type within your party, she can make your team compositions more flexible, allowing your strongest DPS to be effective in any battle.

 

10.Aventurine

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Imaginary

Path: Preservation

Best Played with: Follow-Up ATK Team, Nihility Team

Aventurine is a Sustain unit. He can grant powerful shields to the party and deal a fairly large amount of damage to enemies. Both the strength of his shields and his damage output can go up based on how much DEF stats he possesses.

If you have a Follow-up attack team or are in need of another sustain unit that can also deal damage, Aventurine is an excellent character to pull.

 

S Tier

Pela

Traiblazer (Harmony)

Topaz

Tingyun

 

1.Pela

Rarity: 4-star

Type: Ice

Path: Nihility

Best Played with: Danheng, Acheron and Jingliu

Pela stands out as a top-tier 4-star character in Honkai: Star Rail. Her design features a “SP-Positive” playstyle–meaning using her abilities generates or saves Skill Points rather than draining them–and she can debuff the DEF of every enemy on the field.

Additionally, her Skill has the unique effect of stripping away enemies’ beneficial buffs, which proves extremely valuable when facing foes like Shape Shifters (who rely on buffs to transform/strengthen) and Mara-Struck Soldiers (who often gain dangerous enhancements). This combination of utility makes her a staple in many teams, especially against content where enemy buffs or high DEF would otherwise stall progress.

 

2.Traiblazer·Harmony

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Imaginary

Path: Harmony

Best Played with: Break Team, Mono-Imaginary Team

Trailblazer ·Imaginary is a free-to-obtain Support character that specializes in providing Break Effect buffs. Their Ultimate allows allies to deal Super Break DMG to enemies that have had their Weakness Broken.

If you have units whose strength scales with the Break Effect stat, we suggest building the Imaginary Trailblazer.

 

3.Topaz

Rarity: 5-star

Type: Fire

Path: Hunt

Best Played with: Follow-Up ATK Team, Fire-Quantum Team

Topaz is an excellent Sub-DPS. She can deal substantial single-target damage and boost the Follow-up Attack DMG of the entire party. She excels as a great support for Follow-up attack teams, is friendly to Skill Points usage, and can deal substantial Toughness DMG once her Ultimate is available.

If you own DPS characters that specialize in Follow-up Attacks, or if you desire a cute Trotter that can assist you in treasure-hunting, having Topaz in your collection can be really great!

 

4.Tingyun

Rarity: 4-star

Type: Lighting

Path: Harmony

Best Played with: Hyper Carry Team

Even though Tingyun is one of the characters released right at the game’s launch, she remains an excellent 4-star Harmony unit thanks to her ability to restore Energy.

If you own Tingyun, go ahead and build her as soon as possible. This is because she can fit into numerous team comps that have a need for Energy.

 

Conclusion

That’s all for our rundown of support characters in Honkai: Star Rail. As a crucial role in the game, supports play an irreplaceable part in team cooperation and combat — a great support can take your gaming experience to the next level. Cerydra, set to debut in the second half of the Version 3.5 banner as Phanion’s support partner, is surely bound to deliver a standout performance. For more details, click →Cerydra Kit, Eidolon, Gameplay & Signature Light Cone Leaked.

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