Ruan Mei Best Team Compositions & Character Synergies

The Dahlia is an amazing Break team support that patches up the archetype's ramping weaknesses by allowing Break teams to deal Super Break damage before enemies have been broken, and provides a large amount of SP regeneration and Toughness damage herself. Ruan Mei’s break buffs and damage amp synergize well with Dahlia's kit to support a strong, Break-centered hypercarry.

Fugue serves as the original premier Super Break support, providing Exo-Toughness and Super Break multipliers that Break teams need to function. Ruan Mei’s additional damage amplification and Weakness Break Efficiency assist Fugue in amping break teams, allowing for faster breaks with high Super Break damage.

Harmony Trailblazer acts as a good stand-in for Fugue on Break teams, allowing you to run two Harmony units alongside Ruan Mei on sustainless setups. This lets you use powerful Harmony Light Cones, such as Dance, Dance, Dance! or Ruan Mei’s signature Light Cone.

Firefly serves as the current best Break DPS, dealing extremely high Super Break Damage on her own. Ruan Mei’s Speed buff, extra Weakness Break Efficiency, damage amp, and SP positivity help Firefly snowball during her Complete Combustion state by breaking enemies faster and allowing her to tear through enemy lineups using her enhanced skill.

Boothill is a solid Break DPS that benefits from Ruan Mei in the same way Firefly does. Boothill additionally enjoys the Weakness Break Efficiency due to the benefits of his Pocket Trickshot mechanics.

One of Rappa’s main kit features is the ability to regenerate energy on breaking enemies, which can be amplified by supports that help her break enemies faster. Ruan Mei’s Weakness Break Efficiency helps greatly, and is further amplified by the additional speed she gives to Rappa, allowing her to take more turns to regenerate more energy.

Many hypercarry-focused DPS can also benefit from Ruan Mei’s cocktail of buffs, and Phainon is no exception. Ruan Mei’s Weakness Break Efficiency is helpful for endgame modes such as Apocalyptic Shadows, where the main gimmick is to break the boss as fast as possible. For any team with flexible support options, Ruan Mei can be used in the support team slot to facilitate faster breaking while bringing solid buffs as well.

Lingsha is one of the few healers in the game that provides a benefit to break teams via a debuff on her talent and Ultimate. Ruan Mei can still be used in conjunction with Break sustains, but with Break teams naturally breaking enemies and delaying turns, alongside Ruan Mei providing additional delay and the ability to break enemies faster, sustains in break teams should only be considered under circumstances with extremely high outgoing enemy damage or encounters that drag on for a long time.

While Evernight and Ruan Mei have no obvious synergies at a glance, Ruan Mei works well in teams with a significant amount of Ice Damage due to the Break effect of Ice characters allowing for easier sustainless runs. In teams with high Ice Toughness damage, Ruan Mei’s Weakness Break Efficiency, Break recovery delay, and Evernight’s and Evey’s high HP pool allow teams to endure more hits and take fewer turns. This is further increased if other synergistic Evernight teammates are in the mix, such as Cyrene or Remembrance Trailblazer.