For most teams in Genshin Impact, you’ll probably want to bring along a healer. Which healer you should bring along depends on what your team needs. What sets some healers apart from others is what else they bring to the table, be that buffs, debuffs, or elemental application.
So what healers should you consider building up? We’ll answer that question right now. Here are the top 10 healers in Genshin Impact as of version 4.8!
10. Charlotte
Charlotte is a 4 star Cryo catalyst with healing that scales off of her attack stat. She has very flexible builds, and you can choose if you want to gear her to focus more on her healing or damage output.
Consider building Charlotte if you value these traits:
- Teamwide Healing: Charlotte’s Burst heals your entire team, and also creates a field that deals Cryo damage to enemies. Access to teamwide healing is a great option to have, especially in teams with Furina.
- Off-field DPS Abilities: Charlotte’s Skill marks enemies and deals continuous Cryo damage. This means that Charlotte can be built as an off-field DPS. Her healing and damage both scale on attack, so her healing output will still be decent even if you use a Cryo damage goblet and a crit circlet. She is also a great source of off-field Cryo application for enabling reactions.
- Self Buffs: Charlotte’s Ascension 4 passive gives buffs to herself depending on your other party members. For each Fontainian character in the party, she gains an increase to her healing bonus, whereas for each non-Fontainian character she gains a Cryo damage bonus. Increases to her healing and damage are both useful, however it can restrict your team options if there is a specific buff that you’d like to max.
9. Diona
Diona is a 4 star Cryo bow. She is a hybrid of a healer and shielder, and can be a very comfortable support option for a lot of teams. Both her healing and shielding scale on her max HP.
You should consider Diona if you want:
- Strong Defensive Support: Diona’s shields are weaker than those of dedicated shielders like Zhongli and Kirara, but they are a great addition to her support capabilities combined with her healing. The shields provide valuable resistance to interruption, which is a very uncommon buff for healers to bring to the table. The extra layer of protection also helps to mitigate the fact that she has no access to teamwide healing. Her healing output is exclusively single target on your active character.
- Off-field Cryo Application: Diona’s Burst not only provides healing to your active character, but it also deals Cryo damage to enemies within its radius. This helps to facilitate reactions like Melt or Freeze for your other team members.
- Buffs and Debuffs: Diona has additional support abilities in addition to her shielding and healing. Her Ascension 4 passive decreases the attack of enemies within her Burst, further amplifying your team’s survivability. If you have her C6 unlocked, she has even more to offer. Within her Burst, your active character will gain a 30% bonus to incoming healing if their HP is below 50%, or a 200 Elemental Mastery bonus if they are above 50% HP. This EM buff is huge for teams like Melt that rely on reactions for damage output.
8. Yaoyao
Yaoyao is a 4 star Dendro polearm. She can provide single target healing to your active character with her Skill as well as teamwide healing with her Burst. All of her healing abilities scale off of her max HP.
Yaoyao is great at:
- Strong healing: Yaoyao has very good healing output, and she can easily keep your team healthy. Keep in mind that she needs to stay on-field to provide teamwide healing through her Burst. Her Burst will end if she is switched out early.
- Off-field Dendro Application: Yaoyao’s Skill provides off-field Dendro damage in addition to her healing, which can be great to enable Dendro reactions for the rest of your team. When Yaoyao’s skill is active, she’ll deal Dendro damage to nearby enemies if your active character’s HP is above 70%, and heal them if they’re below 70% HP. Her Dendro application is too slow to be the only source of Dendro in a Hyperbloom team, but she can definitely be the solo Dendro character in a Quicken team.
7. Jean
Jean is a 5 star Anemo sword. She provides powerful teamwide healing through her Burst, and with Furina’s release her value has increased quite a lot. Her healing scales on her attack.
Consider putting Jean on your team if you want:
- Role Consolidation: Because Jean is an Anemo character, you can combine your healer and Viridescent Venerer holder into one teamslot. This can make building the rest of your team a lot more flexible.
- Crowd Control: Jean’s Skill allows her to pull enemies toward her and then launch them in the direction that she is facing. This is weaker than the crowd control provided by the likes of Kazuha and Venti, but it can be a nice option to have nonetheless.
- Teamwide Healing: Jean’s Burst provides a very strong heal to your entire team, and then creates a field that will continue to heal your active character. This field also damages enemies whenever they enter or exit it. This makes her an amazing teammate for Furina, who really appreciates strong teamwide healing thanks to her HP draining mechanic.
6. Chevreuse
Chevreuse is a 4 star Pyro polearm character. She acts as a dedicated support character for Overload teams by providing powerful res shred to both Pyro and Electro damage. She also provides healing to your active character via her Skill that scales on her max HP.
Chevreuse is a great character to build if you want:
- Strong Buffs: Chevreuse has turned the often overlooked Overload reaction into a powerful team option thanks to her strong buffs. As long as your team only consists of Pyro and Electro characters, she’ll provide very strong res shred for both elements. She also provides an attack bonus to Pyro and Electro characters that scales on her max HP, up to a max of 40%.
- Role Consolidation: Chevreuse would be a strong character even if she didn’t have healing built into her Skill. By combining powerful buffs and healing into one character, you’re free to dedicate the rest of your team slots to DPS.
5. Kuki Shinobu
Kuki Shinobu is a 4 star Electro sword. Although she was quite weak on her release, her strength increased very dramatically with the release of Dendro in version 3.0. She’s now a very strong character that’s easy to slot into Hyperbloom and Quicken teams.
You should consider Kuki if you value:
- Easy Hyperbloom Trigger: Kuki’s Skill creates a ring around your active character that deals Electro damage to nearby enemies, but the placement of this ring also makes it very easy to hit Dendro cores. This allows Kuki to act as both your healer and your Hyperbloom trigger.
- Elemental Mastery Scaling on Healing: At base, Kuki’s healing scales on her HP, however she has a passive talent that also increases her healing based on her Elemental Mastery. You’ll want to build her on a full EM build to maximize your Hyperbloom damage, but thanks to this passive talent she’ll still have good enough healing output to sustain your team. Keep in mind that her healing is single target only, so she doesn’t have access to teamwide heals.
4. Xianyun
Xianyun is a 5 star Anemo catalyst. She provides strong healing in addition to acting as a dedicated support for Plunging attacks. Her support abilities are niche, but they are irreplaceable in the teams where she excels.
Xianyun is an amazing option if you want:
- Unique Support Abilities: No other character enables Plunging attacks. Xianyun’s release has been a huge buff for characters like Diluc who have high Plunging attack multipliers, but no way to easily perform these attacks. The buffs that she provides to Plunging attacks is also incredibly strong, so she is an amazing support option for Xiao even though he can perform Plunging attacks without her.
- Crit Rate Buffer: Xianyun also provides a teamwide Crit Rate buff. Although not as unique as her other buffs, this is still a powerful and almost universally useful effect.
- Role Consolidation: Xianyun provides powerful buffs, teamwide healing, and single target healing to your active character. Plus, as an Anemo unit she can also wear the Viridescent Venerer artifact set to inflict elemental res shred on the enemies when she triggers Swirl.
3. Sangonomiya Kokomi
Kokomi is a 5 star Hydro catalyst. She can provide constant single target healing to your active character with her Skill, and she can also provide teamwide healing via the enhanced Normal attacks that are enabled by her Burst. All of her healing scales off of her max HP.
Consider Kokomi if you’re after:
- Strong Healing Output: Kokomi is able to continuously provide healing to your active character through the jellyfish that she places on the field through her Skill. Not only that, but her Burst enables teamwide healing. She needs to stay on-field to use Normal attacks in order to heal the entire team, but her healing output is quite high so she’s able to top up the team quickly.
- Constant Hydro Application: The jellyfish from Kokomi’s skill not only heals your active character, but it also applies Hydro to nearby enemies. The duration of her Skill is refreshed by her Burst, so the uptime on her off-field Hydro application is great.
- Flexible Team Building: Kokomi fits into a lot of different teams. Her consistent off-field Hydro application makes her a great choice for Hyperbloom, Freeze, Vaporize, and Electro-Charged. Her Burst also increases the damage of her Normal attacks based on her Healing Bonus stat, so she can also be used as an on-field driver for reactions.
- On-field Driver Capabilities: Kokomi’s Burst enhances her Normal attacks so that they deal increased damage based on her max HP and her Healing Bonus stat. This allows her to work as an on-field driver to enable reactions with off-field DPS teammates.
2. Baizhu
Baizhu is a 5 star Dendro catalyst. He has powerful teamwide and single target healing in his kit, as well as some buffs for Dendro reactions.
Go with Baizhu if you need:
- Teamwide Healing with Skill: Baizhu has strong teamwide healing on his Skill, so his healing can be used very consistently. Baizhu is one of the best options for Furina teams because his high healing output offsets the HP drain that she inflicts on your team and helps to maximize her Fanfare stacks quickly.
- Resistance to Interruption and Dendro Application with Burst: Baizhu’s Burst creates weak shields around your active character. These shields increase your resistance to interruption and heal your active character when they break or expire. The shield is refreshed every 2.5 seconds, so they greatly improve your active character’s survivability through stagger immunity and constant healing. While his Burst is active, he’ll also apply Dendro to enemies. This is great for characters like Cyno who need Dendro application but need to stay on-field for long periods of time without switching out.
- Dendro Reaction Buffs: Characters protected by Baizhu’s Burst gain a damage bonus to all Dendro reactions based on Baizhu’s max HP. Baizhu’s healing also scales on HP, so stacking HP not only increases his healing output but also provides a damage bonus for your Dendro reactions. Keep in mind that this buff will only apply to your active character, so any teammates that deal damage while off-field won’t receive this buff.
1. Bennett
Bennett is a 4 star Pyro sword. With his Burst, he provides single target healing and a huge attack buff to your active character. His healing scales off of his max HP, and his attack buff scales off of his base attack. That means that to maximize his attack buff, you just need to give him a high base attack weapon, and then you’re free to stack HP on his artifacts to increase his healing. His attack buff is extremely powerful and irreplaceable in a lot of teams.
Bennett is amazing because he offers:
- Massive Attack Buff: The attack buff that Bennett provides to your active character is huge and is the single largest stat buff in the game. This makes Bennett an extremely flexible character who works well with almost any attack scaling character.
- Role Consolidation: Bennett fulfills both the role of a buffer and healer in one teamslot, making team building with him very flexible. And his healing output is quite good - even though it’s single target only, he can top off most characters in just a few ticks of his Burst.
- High Energy Generation: Bennett’s Burst is high cost, however his Skill has a very low cooldown. This allows for easy spamming to get his Burst back up and to battery other Pyro units in your party.
And that’s it - the top 10 healers in Genshin Impact as of version 4.8! Did your favorite character make the list? If you have a favorite healer, be sure to tell us in the comments!
