5 best Honkai Star Rail characters to team with Yunli (and 3 to avoid)

Yunli has officially debuted in Honkai Star Rail, featuring a unique playstyle. Since the game requires Trailblazers to construct a team with four characters, they have to pair Yunli with three more units. To ensure this new Destruction unit performs exceptionally well with her teammates, she must have great synchronicity with them.

Here are five units you should team with this brand new 5-star Destruction unit and three characters you should avoid to ensure you're not limiting Yunli’s potential.

Note: This article is subjective and solely based on the writer’s opinion.

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5 best characters to pair with Yunli in Honkai Star Rail

Robin

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In a team with Yunli, Robin is an important asset. Since Yunli’s primary source of damage is her follow-up attack-based counterattacks, pairing her with Robin is an excellent choice. The latter specializes in boosting her allies’ follow-up attack damage, which can greatly increase Yunli’s damage output.

Additionally, you can build an auto-battle team consisting of both these units.

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Topaz & Numby

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To build a follow-up attack team with dual DPS units, Topaz is the best character you can pair with Yunli in Honkai Star Rail. The former is an exceptional Hunt DPS character who wields the Fire element. This allows the team to cover more elements, so you can inflict Weakness Break consistently.

Moreover, since Topaz can deal a ridiculous amount of damage to her adversaries, both units can sequentially unleash attacks, dealing massive amounts of damage.

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Jade

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Another DPS unit you can pair with Yunli is Jade. The latter is the newest addition to Honkai Star Rail’s Path of Erudition character roster. In various activities such as the Apocalyptic Shadow or the Pure Fiction, Pairing Jade with Yunli is an excellent idea since both units can unleash successive attacks and defeat waves of enemies in the blink of an eye.

Apart from Pure Fiction, Jade is still a viable teammate for Yunli due to their exceptional synergy with each other, Additionally, Jade can mark Yunli as her Debt Collector, which allows the former to gain her Charges pretty quickly and consistently launch her follow-up attacks.

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Aventurine

Aventurine in Honkai Star Rail (Image via HoYoverse)

After pulling for Yunli in Honkai Star Rail, you may wonder who is the best sustainer for her. As you may have guessed already, it's no other than Aventurine. His role is to ensure every ally stays healthy. Since Yunli’s kit directs the opposition’s aggro toward herself, Aventurine’s shield will help her stay engaged in the fight for a long time.

Additionally, Aventurine can launch follow-up attacks occasionally, which makes him the perfect sustainer for Yunli.

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March 7th (Hunt)

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March 7th (Hunt) is an exceptional choice to pair with Yunli in Honkai Star Rail. She's is a free-to-play unit that Trailblazers can easily unlock in version 2.4. Additionally, building her is quite easy as she can be built like a normal DPS with CRIT stats or Break Effect.

March 7th can mark Yunli with her skill, Master, It’s Tea Time, which will greatly help the former gain her Charge points to deal to enhance her Basic ATK.

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Characters you should avoid when using Yunli in Honkai Star Rail

Yanqing

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Among the three characters to avoid pairing with Yunli, Yanqing is one you should stay away from at all times. Placing him in the same team as Yunli will not benefit the latter since Yanqing doesn’t sync well with her.

In a team featuring the follow-up attack play style, collaboration is one aspect you should prioritize over anything else. If this factor isn't good, the team will deal worthless damage.

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Boothill

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Boothill is a Hunt character who specializes in dealing damage by inflicting the Weakness Break effect, and another character to avoid with Yunli. As most of the team compositions for Boothill feature the hypercarry playstyle, it will not be beneficial for Yunli and him to be paired with each other.

Boothill cannot unleash his full potential when he is teamed up with Yunli, and the same applies to the latter.

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Acheron

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Acheron's among the best DPS characters in Honkai Star Rail. Although she's one of the greatest, she doesn’t get to be as effective when paired with Yunli. The latter features the follow-up attack playstyle while the former requires DoT units in her team to make sure her kit works properly.

Moreover, Acheron needs a certain number of debuffs on an enemy to trigger her ultimate ability which she cannot achieve quickly when teamed up with Yunli.