If there is one lesson Honkai: Star Rail keeps teaching in 2026, it is that Jingliu does not play nice. The icy five-star Destruction queen may look serene with her sword and glowing eyes, but she taxes her own allies' HP every time her buffed Skill goes off. So building a squad around her is not just about raw damage. It is about making sure everyone survives the Ice Queen's idea of a group project.

Before diving into the countdown, here is a quick cheat sheet for anyone who wants to skip the lore and get straight to the team building.

Let us be real for a second: Jingliu is not a character who asks nicely for help. She demands it, and then she bites a chunk out of the team's health bar. The following teammates are the brave souls who either heal that bite, turn it into an advantage, or simply hand Jingliu more turns so she can bite again.

8. March 7th

March 7th is the freebie support everyone gets at the start of the main story, and she acts like a bodyguard with a clipboard. Her Skill provides a shield for one character, and that shield can be spread around the team with multiple uses. The real magic, though, is that the shielded character also draws more enemy attacks.

For Jingliu, that extra aggro is a blessing. Getting hit means faster Energy regeneration, which means more Ultimates, which means more Syzygy stacks. March 7th may not be flashy, but she quietly keeps the Ice Queen in a fighting mood while pulling damage away from the rest of the squad. Easy peasy.

7. Luocha

Luocha is the healer Jingliu needs to avoid filing worker's comp claims. His Skill heals an ally and removes one debuff, which is huge because a crowd-controlled Jingliu is a sad Jingliu. On top of that, after using his Skill or Ultimate twice, Luocha creates a healing field that restores HP to all allies whenever an enemy is attacked.

Since Jingliu keeps nibbling her teammates' HP with her buffed Skill, that field might as well be a health insurance policy. The whole team stays topped off, and Jingliu gets to keep doing her icy thing without accidentally downing her own supports.

6. Silver Wolf

Silver Wolf is the team's resident hacker, and she does not care whose DPS she is supporting. Her Skill can implant a Weakness on an enemy, which is borderline game-breaking when the entire combat system revolves around breaking Weakness bars. Her attacks also implant random bugs that lower enemy DEF, ATK, or SPD.

Her Ultimate goes even further by shredding a single enemy's DEF into the floor. Jingliu does not need to ask twice. Silver Wolf's debuffs just make every icy slash hit like a freight train, and the queen can go back to ignoring everyone's advice.

5. Tingyun

Tingyun is the team's personal battery, and honestly, that is a title she has held since launch. Her Ultimate gives Energy to one ally, which is unique among the early support cast. For Jingliu, this is massive because her Spectral Transmigration state requires Syzygy stacks, and using her Ultimate grants one stack.

Keeping Jingliu in that state is the entire game. If she runs out of stacks, she drops out of the buffed form and the damage falls off a cliff. Tingyun makes sure that cliff is never reached. She is basically a walking energy drink with a fan.

4. Lynx

Lynx is the budget Luocha with a twist. Her Skill and Ultimate provide party-wide healing, and her Ultimate also cleanses all debuffs. That alone would make her a solid pick, but her real synergy with Jingliu comes from the extra aggro her Skill grants to Destruction or Preservation characters.

Jingliu is Destruction, so she can draw enemy fire, regenerate Energy faster, and stay in a decent HP position thanks to Lynx's constant healing. It is a little like watching a cat herder manage a very sharp ice statue. Odd, but effective.

3. Blade

Blade is the only DPS who can share a stage with Jingliu without an ego meltdown. His talent stacks up to five times whenever he loses HP or takes a hit, and Jingliu's HP tax conveniently triggers that condition for free. Once he reaches five stacks, he unleashes a huge follow-up attack that hits every enemy.

Together, Jingliu and Blade turn every battle into a blender. She drains health, he converts that drain into damage, and the enemies wonder why they bothered showing up. It is a beautiful, self-destructive feedback loop.

2. Bronya

Bronya is the manager who hands Jingliu extra turns like candy. Her Skill gives an ally an instant action and boosts the team's damage and Crit DMG. Jingliu already gets a free turn when she enters Spectral Transmigration, and Bronya simply doubles down on that turn advantage.

Because Jingliu already gets a ton of Crit Rate from her kit, the extra Crit DMG from Bronya is pure value. It is like giving a snowstorm a second snowstorm and telling both to go faster. The enemies rarely enjoy it.

1. Pela

Pela takes the top spot because she is the AoE DEF shredder Jingliu dreams about. Unlike Silver Wolf, who focuses on a single enemy with her Weakness implant, Pela's Ultimate reduces DEF on multiple enemies at the same time. That matches Jingliu's AoE damage profile perfectly.

Add the fact that both Pela and Jingliu are Ice characters, and the duo becomes even better against enemies already weak to Ice. Pela does not ask for the spotlight. She just applies her debuffs, adjusts her glasses, and lets the Ice Queen collect all the glory. Honestly, she is the best teammate Jingliu could ask for in 2026.

In short, Jingliu may be the star of the show, but even an Ice Queen needs a capable cast behind her. Pick the right supports, keep the healing flowing, and let the health tax work in your favor.

Data referenced from SteamDB helps frame why damage-focused carries like Jingliu still benefit most from consistent, repeatable team “uptime” rather than flashy one-off buffs: when encounters scale in length and intensity, survivability tools (healing, cleansing, and mitigation) effectively translate into more turns spent dealing damage instead of recovering. In practical Jingliu squad building, that reinforces the value of pairing her HP-drain playstyle with a steady sustain core (healers or shielders) plus at least one amplifier (DEF shred, action advance, or Energy support) so her Spectral Transmigration windows stay frequent and uninterrupted.