Aventurine Best Builds, Teams & Relics

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Last Updated: on Jun 20, 2025 at 22:00

Introductions

Aventurine is a 5★ Imaginary Character following the Path of Preservation. Aventurine is a Shielder character that can sustain your team through even the most brutal encounters.
Our Aventurine Build Guide will show you the best Light Cones, Relics and Team Compositions build the best Aventurine you can.

Aventurine's Best Light Cone

These Light Cones are listed in order of overall strength for the team taking into account both offensive and defensive power.

Inherently Unjust Destiny
S1
Increases the wearer's DEF by 40.0 / 46.0 / 52.0 / 58.0 / 64.0%. When the wearer provides a Shield to an ally, the wearer's CRIT DMG increases by 40.0 / 46.0 / 52.0 / 58.0 / 64.0%, lasting for 2 turn(s). When the wearer's Follow-up ATK hits an enemy target, there is a 100 / 115.0 / 130.0 / 145.0 / 160.0% base chance to increase the DMG taken by the attacked enemy target by 10.0 / 11.5 / 13.0 / 14.5 / 16.0%, lasting for 2 turn(s).

Sources: Event Warp (limited)
This is Aventurine's Signature Light Cone and is his best choice for damage. This Light Cone provides Aventurine with a significant amount of Base DEF and DEF %, a large CRIT DMG buff and applies a debuff to enemies increasing their DMG taken.
Overall this Light Cone provides the highest DPS to your team as well as being incredibly well-rounded defensively.
Journey, Forever Peaceful
S5
Increases the wearer's provided Shield Effect by 12.0 / 15.0 / 18.0 / 21.0 / 24.0%. When an ally target has a Shield, the DMG dealt increases by 12.0 / 14.0 / 16.0 / 18.0 / 20.0%.
This 4★ Light Cone is available from the Battlepass starting from Patch 3.4 and is a great build option and is Aventurines second best option. This Lightcone provides a large increase to shield effect. Shield Effect is not found very frequently and massively increases his overall team sustain and provides all allies with a moderate DMG increase.
Moment of Victory
S1
Increases the wearer's DEF by 24.0 / 28.0 / 32.0 / 36.0 / 40.0% and Effect Hit Rate by 24.0 / 28.0 / 32.0 / 36.0 / 40.0%. Increases the chance for the wearer to be attacked by enemies. When the wearer is attacked, increase their DEF by an extra 24.0 / 28.0 / 32.0 / 36.0 / 40.0% until the end of the wearer's turn.

Sources: Stellar Warp
This is Gepard's Signature Light Cone and is relatively easy to obtain due to being in the Shop. This Light Cone provides a large amount of Base DEF from the cone itself and a lot of DEF % from the passive effect and effect. The Effect Hit Rate is wasted on Aventurine while the taunt is incredibly useful as Aventurine is incredibly tanky and he generates an additional stack of Blind Bet when hit.
Journey, Forever Peaceful
S1
Increases the wearer's provided Shield Effect by 12.0 / 15.0 / 18.0 / 21.0 / 24.0%. When an ally target has a Shield, the DMG dealt increases by 12.0 / 14.0 / 16.0 / 18.0 / 20.0%.
Day One of My New Life
S5
Increases the wearer's DEF by 16.0 / 18.0 / 20.0 / 22.0 / 24.0%. After entering battle, increases All-Type RES of all allies by 8.0 / 9.0 / 10.0 / 11.0 / 12.0%. Abilities of the same type cannot stack.

Sources: Stellar Warp
This is a 4★ limited Light Cone and has the second highest team defensive benefit of 4★ Light Cones due to providing All-Type RES to all allies.
Texture of Memories
S5
Increases the wearer's Effect RES by 8.0 / 10.0 / 12.0 / 14.0 / 16.0%. If the wearer is attacked and has no Shield, they gain a Shield equal to 16.0 / 20.0 / 24.0 / 28.0 / 32.0% of their Max HP for 2 turn(s). This effect can only be triggered once every 3 turn(s). If the wearer has a Shield when attacked, the DMG they receive decreases by 12.0 / 15.0 / 18.0 / 21.0 / 24.0%.

Sources: Herta's Store
This is a 5★ Light Cone from the Herta Shop. This Light Cone is easy to obtain and can be used if you do not have any other options but provides no damage bonuses and only weak defensive bonuses which only affect Aventurine.

Best Relics and Planar Ornaments for Aventurine

Best Relics for Aventurine

These are the best Relic Sets to build for Aventurine. These relics are listed in order of overall strength for the team taking into account both offensive and defensive power.

Knight of Purity Palace
2-Piece Set: Increases DEF by 15.0%.
4-Piece Set: Increases the max DMG that can be absorbed by the Shield created by the wearer by 20.0%.
This Set Bonus is great defence as it provides a lot of DEF while shield absorption increases are incredibly rate. Increasing the maximum size of Aventurines shields by 20% makes allies far more durable against damage and can save Skill Points because you may not need to refresh his Shield manually with his Skill.
Knight of Purity Palace Warrior Goddess of Sun and Thunder
2-Piece Set: Increases DEF by 15.0%.
4-Piece Set: Increases the max DMG that can be absorbed by the Shield created by the wearer by 20.0%.
2-Piece Set: Increases SPD by 6.0%.
4-Piece Set: When the wearer and their memosprite provide healing to ally targets aside from themselves, the wearer gains "Gentle Rain," which can be triggered up to 1 time per turn, lasting for 2 turn(s). While the wearer has "Gentle Rain," increases their SPD by 6.0% and all allies' CRIT DMG by 15.0%. This effect cannot be stacked.
Building the Knight of Purity Palace 2pc alongside any other 2pc is a decent option if you do not have four good Knight pieces. We suggest using these Relics (in order):
  1. Warrior Goddess of Sun and Thunder / Messenger Traversing Hackerspace / Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal - 6% SPD
  2. The Ashblazing Grand Duke (20% Follow-up DMG) / Pioneer Diver of Dead Waters (12% DMG to debuffed enemies) / Wastelander of Banditry Desert (10% Imaginary DMG)
  3. Scholar Lost in Erudition (8% CRIT Rate) / Wavestrider Captain (16% CRIT DMG)

Best Planar Ornaments

Broken Keel
2-Piece Set: Increases the wearer's Effect RES by 10.0%. When the wearer's Effect RES is at 30.0% or higher, all allies' CRIT DMG increases by 10.0%.
This is Aventurine's best Planar Ornament for supporting CRIT DPS. Aventurine gets 50% Effect RES for free from his talent Shot Loaded Right making this completely free to include.
Lushaka, the Sunken Seas
2-Piece Set: Increases the wearer's Energy Regeneration Rate by 5.0%. If the wearer is not the first character in the team lineup, then increases the ATK of the first character in the team lineup by 12.0%.
This is another competitive Planar Ornament for Aventurine that provides 12% ATK for your main DPS. This is only useful with ATK-based Main DPS units. Currently there are very few non ATK-based main DPS units that make sense to run with Aventurine so this is an excellent all round choice if you want slightly more compatibility than Broken Keel.
Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves
2-Piece Set: When an ally uses a Follow-up ATK, the wearer gains 1 stack of Merit, stacking up to 5 time(s). Each stack of Merit increases the DMG dealt by the wearer's Follow-up ATKs by 5.0%. When there are 5 stacks, additionally increases the wearer's CRIT DMG by 25.0%.
This Planar Ornament is the best for increasing Aventurines own damage contribution. Aventurines own damage contribution is relatively low without exceptional gear or vertical investment via Eidolons so this is not recommended over the support sets listed above.

Aventurine's Stat Priority

Body
DEF%
-
CRIT DMG
Feet
SPD
=
DEF%
Planar Sphere
DEF%
-
Imaginary DMG Boost
Link Rope
DEF%
Stat Priority
DEF%
-
SPD
-
CRIT Rate
-
CRIT DMG

Recommended Endgame Stats for Aventurine

HP
2800+
DEF
4000+
CRIT Rate
30-52%
SPD
134+ SPD
CRIT DMG
100%+

Traces Priority

Skills Priority
Skill > Talent > Ultimate > Basic
Major Traces Priority
Bingo! > Hot Hand > Leverage

Aventurine Build Comments

Aventurine's build revolves around stacking as much DEF as possible to provide shields to his Allies. Aventurines A2 Trace Leverage increases his CRIT Rate for every 100 DEF over 1600, capping at a 48% CRIT Rate increase at 4,000 DEF.

Aventurine does not need his best-in-slot Relic Set to be effective and can be geared using pieces that you obtained while farming for other characters that were previously unusable due to having DEF %. This does make him slightly weaker but the increased Trailblaze Power Efficiency is very nice if you have many units to build.

Aventurine has an important consideration while gearing   How much SPD to build. Aventurine is good no matter the SPD you have on him but it can affect how he operates in a team.
The faster your Aventurine is the more Skill Points he will generate for the rest of the team but the weaker his shields will be because you did not invest those sub stats into DEF % instead.
If Aventurine's shields end up becoming too weak you will end up using his Skill more often to supplement the shields generated by his Talent Shot Loaded Right and his A6 Trace Bingo!. This can result in less Skill Points generated than if he had more DEF and less SPD.
We suggest just using your relics that have the highest overall amount of SPD and DEF % rolls as having more stats is more impactful than having a singular stat.

In Follow-up teams that have very high hit frequency SPD is even more important as Follow-up ATK teams can cap out his A6 Trace Bingo!. If Aventurine is faster he get more turns resulting in more overall Shielding from Bingo even if he has less Defence from shifting the stat.

Best Synergies for Aventurine

Feixiao
Feixiao

Feixiao is the premier Follow-up ATK carry and works amazingly with Aventurine. Aventurine launches incredibly frequent Attacks and Follow-up ATKs that build Feixiao's ultimate extremely quickly. Aventurine also benefits from all of the Follow-up ATKs that Feixiao launches to generate more stacks of Blind Bet via his A6 Trace Bingo! which helps him generate more Shields faster.

Topaz & Numby
Topaz & Numby

Topaz is a Follow-up Sub DPS unit that has one of the highest number of Follow-up hits per turn of any unit. These Follow-up generate more stacks of Blind Bet via his A6 Trace Bingo! which helps him generate more Shields faster and each time his Follow-up ATK goes off he will Action Advance Numby boosting Topaz's DPS.

Robin
Robin

Robin is a very powerful versatile Harmony Suppport and is excellent in Follow-up teams which are synergistic with Aventurine. Robin gives Aventurine a considerable boost to DMG % and CRIT DMG while the ATK boost isn’t useful. Robin also adds a large Additional DMG hit after each of Aventurine's Attacks. Overall the increase in DPS from the DMG % and the Additional hits is pretty significant making her one of the best units with Aventurine.

Aventurine's Best Teams

Aventurine is an incredibly versatile sustain unit and can be played with nearly any DPS in the game. Feel free to play him with anyone but be wary of units that take too many turns or are played with multiple Action Advance units like Aglaea since if they take too many turns in a row his shields can expire on them. We also do not suggest playing Aventurine with units that deal damage to themselves or their teammates like Castorice as he has no way to restore their HP after it goes down.

This is not a comprehensive list of teams. The inclusion or exclusion of any given team does not necessarily reflect its power level. These are just examples of teams that have good synergy with him.

Feixiao Cipher Robin Aventurine
The Herta Anaxa Tribbie Aventurine
The Herta Jade Robin Aventurine
Feixiao Remembrance Trailblazer Topaz & Numby Aventurine
The Herta Herta Himeko Aventurine
Feixiao The Hunt March 7th Moze Aventurine
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