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There are quite a lot of steps involved when you get a new character in Honkai: Star Rail. If you're lucky enough to pull a five-star limited character like Jing Yuan, you'll first have to focus on getting his best Relics, Light Cones, and upgrading his Traces, which is a monumental task in itself.

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Once you're done building the character, you'll then be looking for the best team members that support their play style. There are over 20 characters in the game, and only a few of them can bring out the true potential in the general of The Xianzhou Luofu.

Updated on February 29, 2024, by Sanyam Jain: It was quite difficult to build a good team around Jing Yuan when he was first released, but this has become much easier with the release of phenomenal supports like Topaz or Sparkle.

10 Tingyun

Honkai Star Rail Tingyun Splash Art and Menu
  • Path - Harmony
  • Combat Type - Lightning

Tingyun is one of the characters featured in the first Jing Yuan banner, which makes it easier to get her alongside the five-star character himself. Her Skill and Ultimate can increase Jing Yuan's DMG and allow him to use more Ultimates, which will let you have ten stacks on the Lightning Lord consistently.

Moreover, there's a Harmony Light Cone called Planetary Rendezvous that increases the ally DMG by 24 percent at Superimposition five if they deal the same type of damage as the person having this Light Cone. Both Tingyun and Jing Yuan are Lightning characters, which allows her to buff him even more using that Light Cone.

9 Himeko

Honkai Star Rail Himeko Splash and Menu
  • Path - Erudition
  • Combat Type - Fire

Himeko might not be as good as Jing Yuan, but they can be quite decent in a team together. You can get her on the Stellar Warp banner or if you lose your 50:50 on the character event banner. Beside Himeko's portrait at the bottom during battle, you'll be able to see the current stacks you possess out of three.

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These stacks increase by one every time an enemy loses its Toughness bar and Weakness Break is triggered. When you trigger three Weakness Breaks, Himeko launches an AoE follow-up attack that deals a ton of damage. The reason this synergizes super well with Jing Yuan is that he's great at shredding the Toughness bar.

His Skill and Ultimate both hit every character on the field, which means that they all lose a bunch of Toughness as far as they're weak to Lightning. Moreover, if you have seven or more stacks on the Lightning Lord, you'll be able to see their Toughness get demolished in no time.

8 Welt

Honkai Star Rail Welt Splash and Menu
  • Path - Nihility
  • Combat Type - Imaginary

Honkai Impact 3rd fans will feel a close connection to Welt in Honkai: Star Rail, and he's also one of the Standard Banner characters in the game. He can apply the Imprisonment effect on the enemies by breaking their Toughness bar and using his Ultimate. This effect delays the enemy's action massively.

SPD is one of the most important stats on Jing Yuan since you'd always want to use at least two Skills in between two Lightning Lord's attacks. The slow provided by Welt also helps with that since the enemies get fewer chances of attacking you. All of this goes very well together since Jing Yuan's Lord also gets extra SPD when you get the stacks.

7 Pela

Honkai Star Rail Pela Splash and Menu
  • Path - Nihility
  • Combat Type - Ice

There are plenty of characters that can increase your character's ATK and DMG, but only a few characters can decrease an opponent's DEF. Pela is a four-star Nihility character who can do that using her Ultimate. She applies the DEF shred to all the enemies on the field when using the Ultimate.

This allows you to deal even more damage from Jing Yuan's Lightning Lord and Ultimate if you time it correctly. Moreover, some enemies can have a one-hit barrier and it can be quite troublesome if this barrier prevents all the damage from your Lightning Lord. Pela can prevent this from happening since her Ultimate also damages them and removes these barriers.

6 Silver Wolf

Honkai Star Rail Silver Wolf In Game and Splash Screen
  • Path - Nihility
  • Combat Type - Quantum

Even though Jing Yuan is great at shredding the health of all the enemies on the field, he can be a little useless if the opponents don't have the Lightning Weakness. You'd usually have to look for another DPS character to replace him in these instances, but Silver Wolf can affect that decision massively.

With her Skill, you can plant a new Weakness in a certain enemy for a couple of turns. The Weakness implanted will always be one of your team members' combat types. If the enemy is already weak to other types apart from Jing Yuan, Silver Wolf will always give them Lightning Weakness, and reduce their DEF against Lightning DMG.

5 Natasha

Honkai Star Rail Natasha Splash Art and Menu
  • Path - Abundance
  • Combat Type - Physical

Honkai: Star Rail features a turn-based combat system, which means all of your characters will be on the field at all times. This leaves your squishy DPS characters like Jing Yuan susceptible to enemy damage. Healers and shielders are extremely important in the game because of that, and Natasha is the best one.

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Not only does she heal your characters through the Skill and Ultimate, but also removes one of their debuffs if you have a certain bonus ability unlocked. This will prevent Jing Yuan from getting crowd-controlled for too long as that also prevents the Lightning Lord from taking action.

4 Herta

Honkai Star Rail Herta Splash and Menu
  • Path - Erudition
  • Combat Type - Ice

We can't talk about the best team members for a character involving follow-up attacks and not mention Herta. She's a four-star character that you can get up to Eidolon three for free simply by finishing the first difficulty of Simulated Universe on all the worlds. Her follow-up attack is triggered whenever the enemy goes below 50 percent health.

This synergizes well with Jing Yuan since his Lightning Lord will bring a bunch of enemies below the required health threshold. This is perfect for times when the surrounding smaller enemies are left with one health after the Lord's attack so you won't have to waste a character's turn to get rid of them.

3 Topaz And Numby

Honkai Star Rail Topaz and Numby Splash and Menu Art
  • Path - The Hunt
  • Combat Type - Fire

Follow-up characters were falling quite far behind in the meta as more characters got released to the game, but Topaz brought them right back up with her phenomenal support abilities. Topaz's Skill can grant the target enemy a special effect that massively boosts all the follow-up attack DMG received by that enemy.

While playing as Jing Yuan, you'll commonly encounter scenarios where a boss enemy is surrounded by multiple smaller enemies. You can apply Topaz's effect on the boss enemy and enjoy some phenomenal damage whenever Lightning Lord gets a turn.

2 Bronya

Honkai Star Rail Bronya Splash and Menu
  • Path - Harmony
  • Combat Type - Wind

Bronya is a staple five-star character who can work well with any DPS in the game regardless of their path and combat type. Her Skill can give one character an instant turn, remove a debuff from them, and increase their DMG for the next turn. She can also increase all her allies' Crit DMG through the Ultimate.

All these buffs provided suit every character including Jing Yuan. He already gets around 24 percent Crit Rate from his Traces, so the extra Crit DMG from Bronya and Relics can make him do some astonishing damage.

1 Sparkle

Honkai Star Rail Sparkle Menu and Splash Art side by side
  • Path - Harmony
  • Combat Type - Quantum

If you want to go one step beyond having Bronya in Jing Yuan's team, you can spend your precious Stellar Jades to get Sparkle. This won't be a problem since Sparkle is one of the most future-proof characters in the game, and you can use her with any DPS that uses a lot of Skill Points.

Whenever Jing Yuan uses a Skill Point during his turn, Sparkle gives the entire party a DMG bonus. Moreover, she can increase Jing Yuan's Crit DMG while also pulling him up in the action order and give him a turn much faster. All of this allows Jing Yuan to put out much more damage than he normally would.

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