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Highlights

  • Forming a balanced team with characters that can cover each other's weaknesses is crucial for victory in Honkai: Star Rail's battles, where exploiting elemental weaknesses is key.
  • Yanqing is a strong single-target attacker and pairs well with characters that can provide him support, such as Bronya who can buff his attacks and give him an extra action.
  • March 7th is a free four-star unit and an excellent support character that can provide shields, making her a perfect match for Yanqing's abilities. Tingyun, on the other hand, can buff characters and add additional lightning damage to their attacks, while Gepard can cast shields and freeze enemies, making them both good choices for Yanqing's team.

Honkai: Star Rail includes many characters that allow you to be creative with your team compositions as you travel through space within the Astral Express. As exploiting elemental weaknesses is key to victory in battle, forming a competent and balanced team that can cover each other's weaknesses and holes in their ability kit is crucial.

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Yanqing is a Five Star character under The Hunt path, making him a great option to include a strong single-target attacker to make easy work of your foes. Yanqing is best paired with characters that can provide him the support he needs to shine his brightest.

Updated September 30, 2023: We've updated this guide with a video to help you build the ultimate team to support Yanqing.

5 Bronya

Honkai Star Rail Bronya Splash and Menu

If you're looking for one of the best supports in the game to maximize your Yanqing's potential, look no further than the Commander of the Silvermane Guards herself, Bronya. Not only does she have great utility with her Combat Redeployment skill, which dispels a debuff and gives one of your characters an extra action, but her Ultimate can buff all of your allies' attacks, making Yanqing even more deadly. By giving him an attack boost and an extra action, Yanqing can outsmart his competition by overwhelming them with damage.

Bronya is a great unit to bring along in a fight. The only downside is that, since she is a Five Star unit that you can only acquire through the gacha system, it might be a bit difficult to obtain her unless luck is on your side or you start to dish out some of your precious and hard-earned Stellar Jades.

4 March 7th

Honkai Star Rail March 7th Splash and Menu

March 7th is one of the three main protagonists that you meet as you wake up in the opening scenes of Star Rail. Not only is she a free four star unit to acquire, but March 7th is also an excellent support unit that can provide a shield with her skill, The Power Of Cuteness. These shields are essential not only to Yanqing but throughout the early game segments since healing is scarce unless you pulled Natasha or Bailu early on.

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March 7th pairs perfectly with Yanqing since his critical rate increases as long as his HP is not lowered. Yanqing's abilities, like Soulsteel Sync, are a perfect match for March 7th since she can enable his game plan by providing much-needed protection from attacks. March 7th can also counterattack if the shielded unit is attacked by an enemy. However, this might not happen as often since Yanqing tends to lower his chance of being attacked while in Soulsteel Sync; the extra damage might come in handy. When trying to make sure Yanqing hits a critical every time, "shields" is the name of the game.

3 Tingyun

Honkai Star Rail Tingyun Splash Art and Menu

Tingyun is one of the best support characters in the game for a reason. Not only can she buff your characters at a rapid pace with her Soothing Melody skill, but she can also add additional Lightning damage to their attacks. Tingyun might not be the fiercest attacker, but that additional damage adds up.

Although her skill is one of the strongest in the game, alongside her technique, her Ultimate is what makes her shine alongside Yanqing. Ritual of the Auspicious Cloud refills energy for a specific target of your choosing, letting them use their skills faster and more often, allowing Yanqing to be constantly in a Soulsteel Sync state, making him a swift and relentless attacker.

2 Gepard

Honkai Star Rail Gepard Splash and Menu

If the best thing to pair with Yanqing is shields, then Gepard is the best pairing by far. His Ultimate can cast a shield on the entire party depending on Gepard's defense stat, and having the highest defense stat in the game means the largest shields. Gepard's other abilities can cause the enemy to freeze.

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While it might seem counter-intuitive to bring two Ice units to a fight, a constant barrage of Ice might be helpful to stall for enough time for Yanqing to do his thing. It might not seem like such a great match since you can only use your Ultimate so often, but Gepard's technique can also apply a smaller shield before the battle even begins; that way, Yanqing can quickly burst down the enemy with his powerful Ice attacks.

1 Trailblazer - Fire

Female Trailblazer Splash Art and Menu in Honkai: Star Rail.

Once you progress far enough into the main storyline in Star Rail, you'll get the opportunity to change your Trailblazer's main element to Fire, completely changing their kit into a more defense-centric build. The Fire Trailblazer can provide shields for the entire parity while drawing aggro from the enemies, opening up a path for your attackers and supports to do their thing.

This is a great match for Yanqing since the shields provided will protect him from hits, prolonging the Soulsteel Sync, and even extending it since all enemies will be targeting your Trailblazer rather than the small Icy retainer. This ability, combined with Yanqing's evasive skills, will make your team one of the deadliest around.

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