Dive into the heart of Honkai: Star Rail’s Aetherium Wars with the ultimate team lineup that dominates every Victory Zone and Championship duel. Whether you’re facing mechanical behemoths or aberrant spirits, mastering the synergy of healers, buffers, and damage dealers like Silvermane Cannoneer and Voidranger: Reaver is your key to victory. Discover the best strategies and team compositions that will crush your opponents and secure your place as the supreme commander in this high-stakes event.
The event will stick around forever, but the rewards (including Stellar Jade) are only obtainable until update 1.5 launches (approximately Nov. 15).
Below we list the spirits we used and the chips we equipped to them to fully auto through all the Aetherium Wars fights (that you can auto-battle through).
Best Aetherium Wars team comp
The best Aetherium Wars team composition in Honkai: Star Rail typically revolves around a balanced mix of healing, damage, and strategic support units to counter various enemy types effectively. A commonly recommended meta team includes Warp Trotter as the main healer, Aurumaton Gatekeeper for summoning allies and applying control effects, and Silvermane units like Silvermane Lieutenant, Cannoneer, and Gunner to provide strong follow-up attacks and buffs. This setup ensures sustained healing, crowd control, and consistent damage output, making it versatile against different enemy teams across the event. Players often tailor their team with specific Aether Spirits and expansion chips based on the enemy composition, focusing on type advantages such as Mechanical, Humanoid, or Aberrant to maximize effectiveness in battles.
The best Aether Spirits, along with where you unlock them, are as follows:
- Silvermane Lieutenant, Corridor of Fading Echoes
- Silvermane Cannoneer, Corridor of Fading Echoes
- Warp Trotter, starting default spirit
- Entranced Ingenium: Obedient Dracolion, Cloudford
That being said, you can pretty much use this method near immediately, once you find the Silverman Lieutenant. Make sure your spirits are always at their max level and you’ll be able to blow the enemies away, regardless of type match-up.
This works kind of like running Clara and March 7th in your team. The Silverman Lieutenant will counter-hit every enemy for massive damage, and if you use the Silvermane Cannoneer’s skill on the Lieutenant, it’ll follow up those counters with another attack. Your Warp Trotter will just sustain everyone and make sure they won’t die. We used the Entranced Ingenium for more sustain. Just make sure to use the cannoneer’s skills on the Lieutenant and keep the other skills going for sustain.
If you don’t feel like you need the extra sustain, you can use the Silvermane Soldier (found in Great Mine) or another support unit instead.
We were able to auto through every auto-able fight with this set up.
Best Aetherium Wars Expansion Chips
For the best Aetherium Wars Expansion Chips in Honkai: Star Rail, focus on those that significantly enhance your Aether Spirits’ abilities and synergize well with their kits. Key chips include “Backstage Enhancement,” which boosts damage outside the wearer’s turn, perfect for follow-up attackers like the Silvermane Cannoneer, and “Morale Activation,” which increases damage, damage resistance, and speed for all allies after an attack. Defensive chips like “Auto-Repair” and “Emergency Reboot” provide crucial survivability by restoring HP or preventing knockout once per battle. Offensive chips such as “Shieldbreaker,” which increases damage against shielded targets, and “Threshold Disruption,” which boosts damage against high-HP enemies, are also highly effective. These chips can be obtained by progressing through various Victory Zones and defeating specific challengers during the Aetherium Wars event, making them essential for optimizing your team’s performance in challenging fights.
We set up our spirits with the following chips, but you don’t really need all of these immediately, so don’t stress if you don’t have them when you’re looking through your inventory. Just use what you have and swap them out with the below chips once you get them:
- Silvermane Lieutenant: Efficiency Optimization, Backstage Enhancement, General Upgrade
- Silvermane Cannoneer: High Load-Low Speed, Deep Clean
- Warp Trotter: Parallel Enhancement, Morale Activation, Trotter Patch, Safe Mode
- Entranced Ingenium: Obedient Dracolion: Shield System, Firewall
You should have most of these chips as you finish up the Great Mine. (Notably, the Trotter Patch chip comes from beating Topaz at the Red Light Level of Hyperlink Matches, so you won’t get that until a bit later.) If you’re missing other patches, make sure that you’re battling all the opponents in each level.
What makes the Aurumator Gatekeeper the best shield in Aetherium Wars
The Aurumaton Gatekeeper stands out as the best shield in Aetherium Wars due to its unique ability to summon two Illumination Dragonfish upon activating its ultimate, effectively tripling the application of damage-over-time (DoT) effects on enemies and significantly increasing sustained damage output. Its ultimate also synergizes powerfully with Silvermane Cannoneer’s skills, enabling multiple follow-up attacks that amplify damage further, creating a highly effective offensive and defensive combo. Additionally, the Gatekeeper’s talent delays enemy turns and reduces their damage output, enhancing team survivability by controlling the pace of battle. The combination of strong shielding, turn manipulation, and DoT stacking makes Aurumaton Gatekeeper a cornerstone for durable and high-damage teams in Aetherium Wars.
Why is Aurumaton Gatekeeper considered the best shield in Aetherium Wars
The Aurumaton Gatekeeper is considered the best shield in Aetherium Wars primarily because of its powerful ultimate ability that summons two Illumination Dragonfish, which apply multiple damage-over-time (DoT) effects and deal follow-up attacks every turn. This ability not only boosts sustained damage but also synergizes exceptionally well with Silvermane Cannoneer, whose skills trigger follow-up attacks on every hit the Dragonfish make, creating a high-damage combo that can overwhelm opponents.
Additionally, the Gatekeeper’s talent delays enemy actions and weakens their damage output, providing strong crowd control and enhancing team survivability. Its shield is robust enough to absorb significant damage, and when combined with the right expansion chips (such as Sudden Interjection and Saturated Activation), the Gatekeeper can repeatedly use its ultimate to maintain pressure on enemies and protect allies effectively.
This combination of durable shielding, turn manipulation, and DoT stacking makes the Aurumaton Gatekeeper a cornerstone defensive and offensive unit in Aetherium Wars, outperforming other shields that either lack the same synergy or sufficient shielding power.
