With Sumeru on the horizon with Version 3.0 only being about a month away, many players want to have the best teams possible before venturing into the new region. We already know Dendro will only react with Electro, Hydro, and Pyro and thankfully most of the best supports in the game also fit those elements.
Top 6 Best Support Units in Genshin Impact as of Update 2.8
There are many kinds of support in Genshin Impact- healers, shielders, sub-DPS, reactionary, and so on. The best supports usually fulfill more than one support role. Below are the top supports in Genshin Impact arranged in no particular order.
Kazuha
Kazuha is a 5-star Anemo unit that increases your whole team’s elemental damage which scales off of his high elemental mastery. Additionally, he’s also reactionary support due to him being an Anemo unit and thus facilitating Swirl reactions. Being an Anemo unit, he also has reliable crowd control abilities with his elemental skill. He synergizes with almost any team thus being one of the best support in the current meta.
Raiden Ei
Raiden Shogun or Ei is a 5-star Electro unit that’s one of the strongest sub-DPS or DPS in the game. She boosts the elemental burst damage of her teammates and acts as a battery for her whole team. Raiden is an energy recharge unit that provides her whole party with energy for their bursts. Using the bursts of your other teammates also boosts her own burst damage. With her on the team, you’ll almost always have everyone’s bursts up after a single rotation.
Zhongli
Zhongli is a 5-star Geo unit who’s the best shielder in the game to the point he makes the role of healers useless. If you have a Zhongli with over 30k HP then you can forget about taking damage. His shield also has a low cooldown so you can expect a 100% up-time. He can also act as a burst-DPS with his broken elemental burst that also petrifies enemies for a few seconds. His shield can also shred enemy resistances so your characters will be doing more damage while protected by it.
Bennett
Bennett is a 4-star Pyro unit who’s an accidental masterpiece because of his broken burst. His burst can not only heal you instantly but also gives your characters an insane damage boost that scales off of his Base ATK. He’s easy and cheap to build and he can buff characters within his burst with over a 1000 ATK if you have his C1. All he needs is a high-base ATK weapon on him and you’re set. His C2 is the ideal build since it also removes the HP% restrictions for the ATK buff.
Jean
Jean is a 5-star standard banner Anemo unit who’s an excellent sub-DPS with her powerful elemental skill which also has crowd control functionality. However, she shines best with her elemental burst which instantly heals all of your party members for a large amount of HP. If you find your whole team on death’s door, just switch to Jean and cast her burst to bring them all up to almost70-80% of their HP.
Xinqiu
Xinqiu is a 4-star Hydro sub-DPS who synergizes with almost any team due to his elemental burst which dishes out tons of Hydro damage in tandem with your main-DPS. This also facilitates Hydro-based reactions thereby further increasing your team’s overall damage. His elemental skill also provides super-armor and also a bit of healing so he’s all-rounded support.
Some honorable mentions in this list would be Yelan, Xiangling, Diona, and Venti who are great supporters in their own right but just aren’t the top 6- maybe a top 10 would include them in the list. Other than the Anemo units, all of the above units are Sumeru ready and players will have to explore and experience in their own way how these supports synergize with the Dendro element.