The 13 Best JRPG Healers
If you’re feeling down, these people are the best at what they do. Bringing you back up and treating your wounds is second nature to them.
In JRPGs, healers serve as the cornerstone of any party. They will heal you when things aren’t going your way, they can lower the total amount of damage you take, and they can silence your enemies with magic. All of these skills are standard for healers.
What makes each of these things on this list unique is how they stand out from the rest. Some are important for protecting yourself and your group, while others are walking powerhouses who are also good at healing. You can’t go wrong with any of the people below.
Luocha – Honkai Star Rail
Luocha is not the kind of person who will tell important things about himself until the time is right. You only know for sure that he is a merchant and needs to bring a coffin. Even the last bit about delivering that box is unclear because he definitely uses it in battle.
As a healer, Luocha has a lot of skills that will keep your party healthy and ready for battle. Abyss Flower, his passive-aggressive skill, will heal anyone in your party who is below 50% health without using any of your energy. If that’s not enough, Luocha can cast a field that turns all damage done by enemies into HP to save his party. It’s not strange that someone from the house of Abundance would do that.
Compa – Hyperdimension Neptunia
The Hyperdimension Neptunia games try to answer the question, “What would happen if our game systems were turned into powerful goddesses who had to save all dimensions?” Compa is a friend you meet on your journeys. She works for Compile Heart, the company that made the game. Having the company guard and heal the characters makes the story feel more personal.
Compa only wants to become a nurse so she can help people who are sick. She has a big heart, and she is too nice for this world. Even better, you can focus on building up her defense stats to make her a tanky healer who can take a lot of damage.
Estelle – Trails In The Sky
Estelle isn’t just a healer like the other characters on this list, but she’s a great all-around character you can use in many different ways. She is your only healer for most of the game and the only one who can learn all the healing spells once the requirements are met.
In fact, the best thing about having her in your party is that she can do a lot of different things in fight. Even though Estelle isn’t the strongest, she makes this list because of her determination, charm, and desire to use her famous stick to knock someone out.
Princess Garnet – Final Fantasy 9
In Final Fantasy 9, Garnet shows what it means to be persistent in the face of trouble and to never take “no” for an answer. Even when you first meet her in the game, she tries to get away from her home and joins Zidane and the company in their plan to steal the princess. Not only does she have to watch as her mother, Queen Brahne, goes on a rampage across the land, but when she becomes queen, she also has to try to put things back together.
She starts out as a good healer, but a traumatic event makes her skills go away for a while. Once she’s healed up, she’s not only a great healer to have in your group, but she’s also the best summoner in the game. Even though she is one of only two summoners in the game, we shouldn’t underestimate how much power she has. Just look at how bad the damage is that the call did to her.
Estelle Sidos Heurassein – Tales Of Vesperia
In Tales of Vesperia, the world runs on a magical material called Blastia. Blastia powers everything, from electricity to magic that people use every day. Estelle is a special kind of person who can use magic. Because she is a child of the moon, she is the only one who can use magic without Blastia.
She has everything you’d expect from a healer: she can heal a single target or a group of them, remove status effects, and cast defense spells. But she’s not there just for the heels. No, she won’t let anyone stand in her way without hurting them. She has a number of moves that use the power of the stars.
Mercedes – Fire Emblem Three Houses
People in the Blue Lions house in Fire Emblem: Three Houses have learned that Mercedes, the house’s healer, is always on their side. Even though any house member could become a healer through the job system, Mercedes has two spells that make her stand out from the other nurses at the school.
First, she has a spell called “Fortify” that can heal friends within a certain range. But Mercedes’s magic, “Live to Serve,” is what makes her stand out from the rest. When you cast the magic, it heals both the person you want to heal and Mercedes herself.
G’raha Tia – Final Fantasy 14
Okay, alright. G’raha Tia isn’t a healer in the strictest sense, but she does a lot of different things. G’raha, on the other hand, has had the time and patience to learn all of them, which is different from other people in the same group. He has helped many friends, like the Warrior of Light, stay alive. So, is it such a crazy idea to not think of him as such?
You can use the Trust System in Final Fantasy 14 to go into dungeons with your favorite characters from the game. All of the other characters are stuck in their jobs, but G’raha has a job called “All-Rounder” that no one else has. He can make a tank for you if you need one. Want DPS? He also has you there. He can also heal. It puts him on the same level of skill as you, who have fought gods and won.
Princess Peach – Super Mario RPG Legend Of The Seven Stars
Legend of the Seven Stars takes the characters you know and love from the Super Mario series and gives them new RPG moves to play with. Princess Toadstool is the last person to join your team, but given what she can do in battle, she is easily one of the best. The princess is not very good at being rude, but she is very good at helping others.
Princess Toadstool brings the power of good mental health and caring for others. Therapy is a single-target heal that gives you some HP and removes status effects. Group hug is a multiple-target heal that costs less HP and heals more people. She also has moves like Sleepytime and Mute that make it easy for her to control a crowd. This princess is nothing like a lady in distress.
Yu Nanba – Yakuza: Like A Dragon
In Yakuza, Yu Nanba is the sad healer of your group of funny outcasts: Like A Dragon. He used to be a doctor, so it comes naturally to him to heal. When Ichiban was found unconscious and bleeding in the trash, he took care of Ichiban. He starts out as cold and sneaky, but by the end of the game, he and Ichi are as close as brothers.
He starts with Power Nap, a move in which he falls to the ground and does exactly what the name says: fixes himself. Nanba eventually learns other skills that let him fix others, cast Regen, and even bring you back from the edge of death. …watch out for that last one, because he has bad breath.
Aerith Gainsborough – Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Why the remake instead of the first one? It’s because of one easy, if heartless, reason: she wasn’t in Drive Mad long enough. This is another reason why she’s not higher on this list. Great Gospel, her last Limit Break, is something you can only see if you grind fights. Not a fun thing to do.
She is just leaving Midgar in Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Since Remake seems to take place in an alternate reality, she may naturally reach her full potential. All of Aerith’s limit breaks heal her, but what’s great about her level 3 and 4 limit breaks is that they reduce harm. They give her too much power when it comes to saving lives.
Alfyn – Octopath Traveler
Alfyn from Octopath Traveler is the only healer on this list who isn’t a pure magic user. He can use some magic on his own, but Concoct is where he really shines.
His apothecary skills can make all kinds of tonics that can fix, revive, and remove any status effects that have been put on you. You can also use these tonics to attack enemies, which gives him a lot of flexibility and makes him stand out from other magic-based healers.
Sophia Esteed – Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time
To put it simply, Sophia is a nuclear attack that looks like a healer in Star Ocean 3. Healing and small offensive powers like Fire Bolt and Ice Needles are where she starts out with her magic. If you put her in your main party and level her up, her moves will become more dangerous.
As she gains levels, for example, she starts to get summons and the power to call them to the field. Efreet, who is a real fire genie, is just the first of many. As you get closer to the end, she will be able to call monsters from hell, including the lord of hell, and drop asteroids on enemies. Sophia is your best neighbor friend, so you don’t want to upset her.
Yuna – Final Fantasy 10
In Final Fantasy 10, Yuna showed that stoicism and a strong will are the best ways to show how strong you are. She accepted the fate that was given to her at a young age and worked as hard as she could to become the summoner who could help Spira.
Yuna doesn’t take her job as a summoner lightly, so she takes the time to build relationships with each one that are more than just transactional. She treats each one with the respect they earn and more. When she combines her normal healing skills with Lulu’s black magic through the sphere grid, nothing can stop her.