Best Lingsha Teams in Honkai: Star Rail

HoYoverse is at it again. Lingsha is the featured limited event character for phase two of Honkai: Star Rail update, and she makes at least three other premium character teams immediately stronger just by being on them. In this guide, I’ll go over all three, as well as a potential F2P team to help make the most of this powerful character.

The Best Teams for Lingsha in Honkai: Star Rail

Lingsha’s kit revolves primarily around her Skill, which directly powers her Talent, which summons a cute, fiery bunny named Fuyuan to make follow-up attacks and help heal the party. Her Ultimate also applies a debuff to all targets and increases their damage taken, and she can directly increase the amount of Break damage your party deals. She does a lot, in other words. To my mind, there are three teams where Lingsha truly excels, and sadly, they’re all filled with limited 5-star characters.

Best Premium Lingsha Teams in Honkai: Star Rail

Lingsha and Firefly

• DPS: Firefly
• Sub-DPS: Harmony Trailblazer
• Buff: Ruan Mei
• Sustain: Lingsha

In many ways, Lingsha is a straight improvement on everything Gallagher can do, with more consistent healing, debuff removal, debuff application, and better Break potential. Adding a follow-up attack that does almost all these things a second time is almost criminal. If you’ve been holding out on filling out your Firefly team with its fourth and final 5-star character, I can say with certainty that Lingsha will provide everything you could ever want.

The one thing I will say to the contrary is that as much as Lingsha elevates the core Firefly team, she isn’t strictly necessary. Much like how Feixiao benefits from but doesn’t require Robin to function at a high level, Lingsha is something of a luxury if you have a well-built Gallagher. If you only have a few sustain characters and need one that will dominate for a long time to come, however, adding Lingsha is a no-brainer.

Lingsha and Feixiao

• DPS: Feixiao
• Sub-DPS: Topaz, Hunt March 7th, or Moze
• Buff: Robin
• Sustain: Lingsha

As much as I don’t like losing the invulnerability that Aventurine provides, Lingsha does something he can’t: add Fire Weakness Break potential. Lingsha doesn’t have as many raw follow-up attack opportunities as Aventurine, either, but where he can only debuff one enemy at a time, she can apply a status to the entire enemy line. Aventurine also lacks a cleanse, relying instead on increasing your team’s Effect RES to avoid statuses entirely.

However, because Feixiao gets a lot of her Ultimate damage when attacking a Weakness Broken target, and one of Lingsha’s specialties is Break Damage, it’s a good trade. If you build Lingsha correctly, she can also heal enough that losing Aventurine’s massive shields isn’t much of a loss. Feixiao still gets her extra stacks for her Ultimate, you get a fourth kind of Break Damage, plus a bunch of other benefits.

Lingsha and Dr. Ratio

• DPS: Dr. Ratio
• Sub-DPS: Topaz, Moze, Hunt March 7th
• Buff: Robin, Silver Wolf, Pela
• Sustain: Lingsha

Dr. Ratio‘s damage output relies heavily on debuffs, and Lingsha’s Ultimate provides one set, the good doctor provides some, and you can add a character like Silver Wolf or Pela for the third he needs. Having Topaz, Moze, or Hunt March 7th there as supplemental damage is a distinct bonus. Of the three, I probably prefer March 7th for her massive buffs and Skill Point economy, but Moze is nice for the Lightning damage and Topaz remains tops for follow-up attack teams overall.

You might not see the same massive damage numbers with this team that you’d see with Feixiao, and certainly not with Firefly, but never doubt the power of death by a thousand cuts. Dr. Ratio remains a solid pick for most endgame content even after almost a year since his release, and in the absence of other S-tier choices, he serves nicely.

Acheron and Lingsha

• DPS: Dr. Ratio
• Debuff 1: Silver Wolf, Pela (with Resolution Shines with Pearls of Sweat)
• Debuff 2: Jiaoqiu
• Sustain/Debuff 3: Lingsha

I don’t personally think Acheron needs any more help, even from Lingsha. The default team on her release with Silver Wolf and Pela ensured she was the absolute queen of pure DPS. That hasn’t changed. Now, with Jiaoqiu being a blanket buff for Acheron, adding any additional damage potential isn’t just a luxury. It’s downright unnecessary. But hey, number must go up, right?

Lingsha’s Ultimate applies a powerful debuff to the entire enemy team, and combined with Silver Wolf, Pela and/or Jiaoqiu, it’s easier than ever to get Acheron’s ultimate rolling. Lingsha boosting everyone’s Break Damage is just icing on the cake, and if you choose to pair her with Silver Wolf over Pela, it’s tough to not be breaking enemy Toughness. If you saved/swiped for Acheron and have any of her Eidolons, especially her E2, then you can swap either of your debuff characters for a buffer like Sparkle, Ruan Mei if you’re going overboard, or whoever you have to hand. Sparkle’s probably the best choice for her absurd Skill Point gain, but she’s not the only choice.

Free-to-Play Lingsha Team in Honkai: Star Rail

• DPS: Qingque
• Sub-DPS: Hunt March 7th
• Buff: Harmony Trailblazer or Asta
• Sustain: Lingsha

The only not-Lingsha character on this team starting to show their age is Hunt March 7th, as she just released in patch 2.4. Both Qingque and Asta are two characters who will almost never lose value and keep getting better for F2P players, but there are still better options if you do at least a few pulls. In the event Lingsha is your first limited 5-star character, however, I think this team will perform relatively well up to the highest-difficulty endgame content. It’s only at the hardest levels of Memory of Chaos and Apocalypse Shadow that you’ll really start to see the walls start to go up.

Subbing in Harmony Trailblazer for Asta will sacrifice a lot of team Speed, but adds the new-ish Super Break hotness to your arsenal. In fact, that’s probably the better choice, but if you haven’t yet reached the Penacony part of the main story quest and Natasha or Lynx just aren’t doing enough to keep your team alive, then pulling Lingsha is a solid option.

As much as I hate to say it, the last few limited 5-star characters have relied much more on other limited 5-stars to reach their full potential. You don’t need a full team of 5-stars to make any of them work, but having a lot available makes building any of their teams easier. Lingsha is basically no different, with most of her best choices being made of characters you only see up for pulling every six months or so. Pulling for her now, if you don’t have too many characters to choose from, adds a powerful sustainer, a key member of any team at any stage of the game.

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