In regards to tips/stations I’d point you over to this topic here, over element style tips/irons are old fashioned and dated and offer marginal performance gains (if any) over those crappy direct plug into wall soldering irons
I have a modern desoldering pump / station and tbh I very rarely use it and in hindsight it was a waste of money, they’re only really useful if you were doing very large component removal on a daily basis, takes ages to heat up (compared to a T12 iron) and on anything > 2 layers (not old school boards) it struggles, the nozzle gets jammed constantly and you have to use the round files to unblock…mine sits there collecting dust and I find even on the stuff where it might be useful it’s easier, quicker and safer either just to use your soldering iron and levering the through-hole component out then using wick or just using wick from the off