Select characters you own to check four source-linked team examples below, or use the role checklist to plan other compositions. For advice from your synced characters, weapons and artifacts, download Luminary on iOS or Android.
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Select characters you own to check four example lineups across two team families. This small catalog covers nine characters; it does not evaluate every possible team.
A complete example means all four listed characters are selected. It is not a team-strength rating or a damage/DPS calculation.
Choose your characters to see complete lineups and missing members.
Missing members only describe these four examples. Use the role checklist to plan with other characters you own.
Bennett heals, buffs and supplies Pyro particles. Xiangling deals off-field Pyro damage; Xingqiu supplies Hydro for Vaporize.
Sucrose provides Anemo support. Plan energy and rotation before expecting repeatable Bursts.
Source guide: KQM: Xiangling · guide version 3.4
Bennett heals, buffs and supplies Pyro particles. Xiangling deals off-field Pyro damage; Xingqiu supplies Hydro for Vaporize.
Kazuha replaces Sucrose. With Xingqiu against a single target, plan Hydro absorption in Kazuha’s Burst; the setup changes.
Source guide: KQM: Xiangling · guide version 3.4
Shinobu heals and triggers Hyperbloom. Alhaitham and Nahida supply Dendro; the Hydro slot enables Bloom.
Xingqiu adds interruption resistance and damage reduction. Follow this lineup’s rotation in the linked guide.
Source guide: KQM: Kuki Shinobu · guide version 5.4
Shinobu heals and triggers Hyperbloom. Alhaitham and Nahida supply Dendro; the Hydro slot enables Bloom.
Yelan replaces Xingqiu and offers a damage buff. Their utility and rotations differ; use the Yelan rotation in the source.
Source guide: KQM: Kuki Shinobu · guide version 5.4
Ownership is a starting point. Check levels, weapons, artifacts, talents, energy and rotation in the source before investing. These are examples, not current-meta rankings. Shared characters prevent some lineups from forming two Abyss halves together.
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Start with your preferred damage dealer. Check these jobs across the whole team; one character can cover several.
A tier list ranks characters in a vacuum. Your account has levels, weapons, artifacts, constellations, and — most importantly — gaps. The useful question is never 'who is best?' It is 'which four characters I already own cover damage, setup, survival, and battery the most cleanly?'
Write down who is actually built. Ignore names sitting at level 20. A team-builder that does not know your investment will keep recommending a fantasy lineup. Luminary starts from the synced roster so that step is automatic; doing it by hand is the same logic.
Every reliable team answers four jobs: who deals the damage, who enables it, who keeps everyone alive, and who keeps energy and buffs flowing. The specific characters change every patch — the role structure doesn't.
If two of your strongest characters want the same on-field time, they are competing, not synergizing. Slot the second into the other Abyss half, or rebuild around a different driver. Start from the jobs your account can already fill, not from a content creator's ideal lineup.
A character you've leveled, talented, and geared will out-perform a higher-rarity one sitting unbuilt. Before you slot anyone, ask: are they ascended, are their talents high enough to matter, and is the artifact set pulling in the right direction?
Owning a character and being able to use them are different things. Four-star enablers and healers with real investment carry more teams than an unbuilt five-star trophy. Spend resin on the four you will actually play this month, not on spreading thin across a dozen names.
Two strong characters who don't share a win condition lose to two modest characters who do. The best team for you is the one where each pick makes the others hit harder, recharge faster, or survive longer — given exactly what you've built. Elemental reactions, energy funneling, and buff uptime are the glue; screenshot DPS without a team context is noise.
Most accounts clear faster when one character owns the field and the other three exist to set up their damage window. Split-DPS teams can work, but they demand more investment and cleaner rotation timing — budget you may not have yet.
If your current 'team' is four on-field damage dealers taking turns, pick the one with the best weapon and artifacts and rebuild the other three slots around them. That single decision usually recovers more stars than another ten-pull.
A team is done enough when it clears the content you actually run without a wipe, and the next resin dump would buy more progress on a different bottleneck — talents, a missing role, or the other Abyss half. Perfect artifacts are a horizon, not a gate. If you are still fishing for a better circlet while your second team cannot survive floor 12, the roster is telling you where to look next.
Run this against the four names you are about to take into domains or the Abyss. If any box fails, fix that before you pull for a 'better' character.
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The website compares your selected characters with four reviewed lineups. A complete match means all four listed members are selected; it is not a team-strength rating or a damage/DPS calculation. It does not score unlisted compositions or use levels, weapons, artifacts, or rotations as inputs.
This small catalog has no complete example for your selection. Use the four-role checklist to plan with characters you own, then the guide to review roles and investment. For roster-based advice in Luminary, use the roster synced in the app; the website selection is not transferred.
Start from roles, not names: a main damage dealer, an enabler who sets up their damage, a healer or shielder for survival, and a support that restores energy and adds buffs. Fill each role with the best-invested character you actually own, then check that their effects reinforce one another. Luminary does this automatically from your synced roster.
No. A meta team you can't field is worth nothing. You'll get more out of a well-built team using characters you've actually leveled and geared than a 'better' team sitting half-complete. Build around what you have, and pull to upgrade specific roles over time — the wish planner is the place to decide whether a banner actually fills a gap.
Absolutely. Many of the most consistent enablers, healers, and supports are four-stars, and a fully invested four-star beats an unbuilt five-star. What matters is investment and role fit, not rarity.
Two cores, not ten. Spiral Abyss asks for two halves, so a second team is the first real expansion. Everything beyond that waits until those eight (or fewer, with some overlap on supports) are actually built. Spreading resin across a full roster is how accounts stall.
Rebuild when two on-fielders are fighting for the same field time, when you have no survival slot, or when a newly built character clearly outclasses the current driver. Upgrade in place when the roles are right and the bottleneck is talents, weapons, or artifacts — that is an optimizer problem, not a team-building one.
The names on banners change. The jobs do not. Treat patch notes as a reason to re-check whether a new character fills a hole on your account, not as a reason to throw away a working team. Evergreen role logic plus a live roster is more stable than chasing a new 'best team' screenshot every version.