When it comes to keeping your Honkai: Star Rail team alive, Aventurine is one of, if not the, best limited five-star support characters in the game. If you’re considering rolling for him, or you’re just looking for a little insight, here’s everything you need to know about Mr. Aventurine.
Strongest Aventurine Build in Honaki: Star Rail
Aventurine is a Preservation Imaginary character that acts as a damage repellant to any team he is on via his constant application of meaty shields. While protection through shielding is his primary role, uniquely, Aventurine’s kit also allows him to be a very solid sub-DPS (via his follow-up attack and Ultimate) without sacrificing support effectiveness. Despite a big chunk of his shielding being reliant on his follow-up attack, he can fit into any team composition much like Fu Xuan can, due to his largely self-reliant kit.
Aventurine applies an application of his shield to your entire team every time he uses Skill or his follow-up attack. His Technique also applies a large shield to your whole team at the start of a fight. Regardless of the application method, his shields last several turns, meaning he is a skill-point-positive character (he doesn’t need to use a skill point every turn).
Best Relics for Aventurine
Aventurine is a Preservation unit that scales solely off of Defense (DEF) and is a shielder, meaning his best Relic set is without a doubt Knight of Purity Palace. You can farm this relic set from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Holy Hymn.
The two-piece provides a very hefty 15% increase in DEF while the four-piece makes his shields 20% stronger than normal. Thanks to the Aventurine-unique Talent Trace, Leverage, Aventurine converts a significant portion of his DEF stat into CRIT RATE (Critical Strike Rate), up to a maximum of 48%. This is very strong, as it almost entirely allows you to ignore CRIT RATE on gear drops for him. This also greatly benefits his sub-DPS role, again, without affecting his supporting power. To reach the 48% ceiling for Leverage, you need roughly 4000 DEF on Aventurine.
For Aventurine’s Sphere and Robe set, Inert Salsotto is likely is best option, as he nearly gains the entire benefit of this set for free thanks to Leverage. Inert Salsotto provides a solid 1% DMG (Damage) boost to follow-up and Ultimate attacks if the wearer has at least 50% CRIT RATE. Leverage gives Aventurine 48%, so you just need to get 2% from a subset on any of your relics. You can farm Insert Salsotto from Simulated Universe: World 6.
Best Team Comp for Aventurine
Due to Aventurine’s kit, he is able to fit into any team comp that needs a sustain support. However, his absolute best-performing team comp is actually a follow-up comp due to the functionality of another one of his Talent Traces, Bingo!
For Aventurine to launch a follow-up attack, he relies on a stack mechanic called Blind Bet. Blind Bet stacks up to seven times, and in order for him to gain stacks, allies under the effect of his shield must suffer attacks. He gains one stack of Blind Bet every time this happens and gains an additional stack when he is attacked directly. When Blind Bet reaches seven stacks, Aventurine will launch his follow-attack, dealing AOE (Area of Effect) damage while shielding your entire team.
This is how Blind Bet functions normally, but with follow-up attackers, Aventurine gets one stack every time a teammate under the effect of his shield launches a follow-up attack. As such, Topaz and Numby, Dr. Ratio, and Ruan Mei are Aventurine’s best teammates.
Topaz and Numby provide a significant damage boost to any follow-up attack that hits their debuff target. Naturally, this affects Aventurine as well. Additionally, Topaz herself only has follow-up attacks, meaning she will provide him with a Blind Bet stack every turn. Numby separate attacks will also give a stack of Blind Bet.
Dr. Ratio launches follow-up attacks at a constant rate, which provides Aventurine with Blind Bet stacks.
Ruan Mei provides a massive team-wide damage boost, something other Harmony characters cannot consistently do. Aventurine benefits from this via his Ultimate and follow-up attack.
Should you get Aventurine’s Lightcone in Honkai: Star Rail?
Aventurine is not a character that requires his Lightcone: Inherently Unjust Destiny, to function at his core. While it is his best option, there are plenty of strong alternatives that will allow him to perform his role (sustaining via shielding) to perfection. I highly recommend you use Trend of the Universal Market instead of his Lightcone so you can save your Stellar Jades for something more impactful.
That said, the one nuanced case where you should pull for his Lightcone is if you want him to deal significant damage. Without it, his damage is fairly mediocre, but remember that the job of a sustain is not to deal damage anyway. Trust me, it’s not worth it.
Best Eidolons for Aventurine in Honkai: Star Rail
Aventurine does not need any of his Eidolons to perform his job of sustaining your team at any level of content. That isn’t to say he doesn’t get better with Eidolons, but know that he is a complete character the moment you obtain him. Even so, if you’re gung-ho about getting Eidolons for Aventurine, then I recommend grabbing up his E2. For your reference, here are all of his Eidolons.
- Prisoner’s Dilemma (E1) – Allies shielded by Aventurine get an additional 20% CRIT DMG (Critical Damage). Additionally, his Ultimate now also provides an application of his shield to your team.
- Bounded Rationality (E2) – When Aventurine uses his Basic ATK (Basic Attack) on an enemy, all of their resistances are reduced by 12% for three turns. This is a larger damage boost than it sounds.
- Droprate Maxing (E3) – Provides a damage buff to Aventurines Ultimate and Basic ATK.
- Unexpected Hanging Paradox (E4) – Aventurine’s follow-up attack gives him a 40% DEF buff. Additionally, his follow-up attack will hit 10 times instead of seven.
- Ambiguity Aversion (E5) – Boosts the potency of Aventurine’s shields.
- Stag Hunt Game (E6) – Every ally that is shielded by Aventurine gives him a 50% damage boost, up to a maximum of 150%. Yes, this is as insane as it sounds.
