diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/xray/balancers/balancer-helpers.ts b/frontend/src/pages/xray/balancers/balancer-helpers.ts
index 44e10e180..31eef3a9a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/xray/balancers/balancer-helpers.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/xray/balancers/balancer-helpers.ts
@@ -26,14 +26,23 @@ export function collectSelectors(list: BalancerObject[]): string[] {
 }
 
 // syncObservatories keeps the (burst)observatory sections aligned with the
-// balancer strategies that actually require them. Observatories have no
-// runtime reload API in xray-core, so any change here forces a full process
-// restart — that's why random/roundRobin balancers, which work fine without
-// an observer, never CREATE one: a plain balancer add/edit then stays a
-// routing-only change and applies live through the core API. An already
-// existing burstObservatory is still kept in sync for them (alive-only
-// filtering keeps working for setups that had it), it's just never the
-// reason a new one appears.
+// balancer strategies that actually require them. Observatories have no runtime
+// reload API in xray-core, so creating OR removing one forces a full process
+// restart — that's why an observer-less balancer never gets one and stays a
+// live, routing-only change applied through the core API.
+//
+// xray-core binds the Observatory feature to a Random/RoundRobinStrategy only
+// when its fallbackTag is set (issue #5605): with a fallbackTag the strategy
+// calls RequireFeatures(Observatory) and the core aborts startup with "not all
+// dependencies are resolved" if none exists; without a fallbackTag it never even
+// consults an observatory. leastLoad always needs the burst observer, leastPing
+// the regular one.
+//
+// So each observer lives exactly as long as something requires it, and is
+// dropped the moment nothing does — clearing the last fallbackTag (or deleting
+// the last leastLoad) removes the burst observer again. A no-fallback balancer's
+// selector is still probed while the observer exists for another reason, but
+// never keeps it alive on its own.
 export function syncObservatories(t: XraySettingsValue) {
   const balancers = (t.routing?.balancers || []) as BalancerObject[];
 
@@ -45,15 +54,20 @@ export function syncObservatories(t: XraySettingsValue) {
     delete t.observatory;
   }
 
-  const required = balancers.filter((b) => b.strategy?.type === 'leastLoad');
+  const hasFallback = (b: BalancerObject) => (b.fallbackTag ?? '').length > 0;
+  const required = balancers.filter((b) => {
+    const type = b.strategy?.type || 'random';
+    if (type === 'leastLoad') return true;
+    return (type === 'random' || type === 'roundRobin') && hasFallback(b);
+  });
   const optional = balancers.filter((b) => {
     const type = b.strategy?.type || 'random';
-    return type === 'random' || type === 'roundRobin';
+    return (type === 'random' || type === 'roundRobin') && !hasFallback(b);
   });
-  if (required.length > 0 || (optional.length > 0 && t.burstObservatory)) {
+  if (required.length > 0) {
     if (!t.burstObservatory) t.burstObservatory = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(DEFAULT_BURST_OBSERVATORY));
     (t.burstObservatory as { subjectSelector: string[] }).subjectSelector = collectSelectors([...required, ...optional]);
-  } else if (required.length === 0 && optional.length === 0) {
+  } else {
     delete t.burstObservatory;
   }
 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/test/balancer-observatory-sync.test.ts b/frontend/src/test/balancer-observatory-sync.test.ts
index d4d34b736..08c97c784 100644
--- a/frontend/src/test/balancer-observatory-sync.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/test/balancer-observatory-sync.test.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ function tpl(routing: Record<string, unknown>, extra: Record<string, unknown> =
 // Observatory sections have no reload API in xray-core, so creating one turns
 // a balancer save from a live (hot-applied) routing change into a full
 // restart. These tests pin the rule: only strategies that genuinely need an
-// observer may create one.
+// observer may create one — which, for random/roundRobin, means a fallbackTag
+// is set (xray-core then requires the Observatory feature; see #5605).
 describe('syncObservatories', () => {
   it('does not create burstObservatory for a fresh random balancer (stays hot-appliable)', () => {
     const t = tpl({ balancers: [{ tag: 'b1', selector: ['direct'] }] });
@@ -19,12 +20,65 @@ describe('syncObservatories', () => {
     expect(t.observatory).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
-  it('does not create burstObservatory for roundRobin', () => {
+  it('does not create burstObservatory for roundRobin without fallback', () => {
     const t = tpl({ balancers: [{ tag: 'b1', selector: ['a'], strategy: { type: 'roundRobin' } }] });
     syncObservatories(t);
     expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  it('creates burstObservatory for a random balancer with a fallbackTag (#5605)', () => {
+    const t = tpl({ balancers: [{ tag: 'OverProxy', selector: ['opera-proxy'], fallbackTag: 'warp' }] });
+    syncObservatories(t);
+    expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeDefined();
+    expect((t.burstObservatory as { subjectSelector: string[] }).subjectSelector).toEqual(['opera-proxy']);
+  });
+
+  it('creates burstObservatory for roundRobin with a fallbackTag', () => {
+    const t = tpl({ balancers: [{ tag: 'b1', selector: ['a'], fallbackTag: 'warp', strategy: { type: 'roundRobin' } }] });
+    syncObservatories(t);
+    expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeDefined();
+    expect((t.burstObservatory as { subjectSelector: string[] }).subjectSelector).toEqual(['a']);
+  });
+
+  it('treats an empty-string fallbackTag as no fallback (stays hot-appliable)', () => {
+    const t = tpl({ balancers: [{ tag: 'b1', selector: ['a'], fallbackTag: '' }] });
+    syncObservatories(t);
+    expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('removes burstObservatory when a random balancer drops its fallbackTag', () => {
+    const t = tpl(
+      { balancers: [{ tag: 'OverProxy', selector: ['opera-proxy'], fallbackTag: '' }] },
+      { burstObservatory: { subjectSelector: ['opera-proxy'] } },
+    );
+    syncObservatories(t);
+    expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('removes burstObservatory when a roundRobin balancer drops its fallbackTag', () => {
+    const t = tpl(
+      { balancers: [{ tag: 'b1', selector: ['a'], strategy: { type: 'roundRobin' } }] },
+      { burstObservatory: { subjectSelector: ['a'] } },
+    );
+    syncObservatories(t);
+    expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('keeps burstObservatory while another fallback balancer still needs it', () => {
+    const t = tpl(
+      {
+        balancers: [
+          { tag: 'b1', selector: ['a'] },
+          { tag: 'b2', selector: ['b'], fallbackTag: 'warp', strategy: { type: 'roundRobin' } },
+        ],
+      },
+      { burstObservatory: { subjectSelector: ['a', 'b'] } },
+    );
+    syncObservatories(t);
+    expect(t.burstObservatory).toBeDefined();
+    expect((t.burstObservatory as { subjectSelector: string[] }).subjectSelector).toEqual(['b', 'a']);
+  });
+
   it('creates burstObservatory for leastLoad (required by the strategy)', () => {
     const t = tpl({ balancers: [{ tag: 'b1', selector: ['a'], strategy: { type: 'leastLoad' } }] });
     syncObservatories(t);