Tier lists

Positives

• Learns Attack Up IV, Attack Up MAX, Critical Impact (additional damage on critical) and Dark Attack Raise II
• High STR and DEF.
• Skill 3 is a large AOE, has significant break value and 3 base stock
• Strongest Primate (Talent 1) nullifies all Slayers and Killers against Tsukasa, which gives him viability against Seilios/similar units in Arena.
• In one blow (Talent 2) has 25% chance to ignore enemy defense by 100% on an attack. It's incredibly strong and the proc is fairly high.

Negatives

• Has a garbage paid weapon that only buffs slayers/killers.
• Very defensive physical DPS with no actual skill support for a tank build. Be aware of the heavy SC investment regardless of how you build Tsukasa.
• Lacks most core offensive or defensive passives.
• Extremely low MND.
• Locked to Dark element. A sidegrade over Zouglas, and in some situations Zouglas will do better than Tsukasa.

Positives

• Learns Science Level Up (INT +15% and stacks with Magic Up MAX), Archangel Blessing, Immovable Object, Staff High Boost, Quick Trigger, Spark of Science (Recover SCT during battle), Yuzuriha Healing (Recover HP and occasionally MP at start of each wave)
• Extremely high INT and base MP.
• Elemental spells are Tier 3 and non-timestop, so preferable for farming with. Directly powercreeps Popoi and Mana spells.
• Support spells directly powercreeps base buffs (i.e. Brave is 20% STR, Doping (Force) is 25% STR).
• Skill 1 has a chance of debuff enemy's physical attack power.
• Special recovers SCT for all allies, buffs Senku with damage reduction, and blinds enemies. It's a better version of Saintly Theria's Special.
• Can keep stacking unique magic buffs to stupid levels. For example, the AER on The Light of Science (SSR) is +50% Science magic. Talent 1 is another +50%. Talent 2 is another +20%.

Negatives

• Crashed the game for half a week on release.
• Hybrid physical DPS, mage and support. You can do either mage or physical DPS/support. Be aware of the heavy SC investment.
• All Science attack spells are non-timestop and learnable on the Dr. Stone Arks. Non-timestop makes Senku non-viable for difficult content such as Tower. But people have also cleared Tower with no timestop spells, which might say more about them than us...
• Lacks a number of core mage/support skills that other units learn for free.
• Lowest base HP in the game.
• The damage cap still exists, so all these magic buffs aren't really going anywhere. If only Senku had Lily's split damage for magic attacks...
• Locked to non-Light/Dark elements. Since half the game is weak to Light, his large element coverage isn't worth much.

Positives

• Free Dark/Earth/Fire/Ice/Lightning element coverage. Learns Tier 3 Dark/Earth/Fire spells for free
• Mana Magic buffs PDPS in party
• Glutton talent regens MP on kill, including kills with spells (better than Pose of Honor)
• Very cheap to build (30SC to reach same functionality as other 50SC mages)
• No time-stop spells, so Popoi can sync with PDPS
• Excellent for farming or as a secondary mage

Negatives

• Directly powercrept by Senku.
• Costs too much SC to specialise in all elements. Requires Loug Mekia (SSR) lv10 ark for element crit.
• Auto attacks with extremely weak regular attack if Popoi runs out of MP or doesn’t have an element to exploit
• Instant-cast Popoi will go through MP faster than Paula Deen with a vat of butter
• No time-stop spells – not viable for extremely difficult content without investment

Positives

• Mana Magic buffs PDPS in party
• Large element coverage on normals with unique Saber spells
• Talent increases buff duration. Stack with Magic Mirror Pomram (SR) ether accessory and Eternal Clock De=Rowe (SR) ark passive for unrivalled buffing durations

Negatives

• Equal stats (STR/DEF/INT/MND) across the board. Hard to build, and harder to be good at anything.
• Has built-in support spells but no core passives, so maxes out 60-80 SC quickly
• Defaults to melee AI, which can be suicidal in certain content

Positives

• Learns Diamond Dust, Ice Attack Raise, Ice Boost and High Level Magic Chant.
• Has some support spells for a PDPS/support hybrid: Resurrection, Cure All and High Regeneration.
• Skill 1 and Skill 3 can be activated from anywhere. Only Skill 2 needs to be aligned with "line of sight" (similar to snipers like Phal)
• Mercury Road (Skill 1) and Assault Water (Skill 2) has mild crowd-control in pushing enemies. Skill 2 pushes at the end of its skill animation.
• Summer Tears (Skill 3) has a low chance (20%) to debuff enemies' movement speed by 2
• Ultimate regenerates MP for all allies over time while also dealing damage. The amount of MP recovered is superior to Princess Lilah's Ultimate (60 MP vs 40 MP), but is recovered over 40 seconds instead of instantly.
• Talent buffs all magic critical damage by +50%. Viable as a 2-element crit mage with Heaven's Cry (Loug Mekia SSR ether reward) for unprecedented magic crit damage.
• Extremely high base INT.

Negatives

• Not enough SC to max out either element if running 2 elements (ice/??).
• Ice element is inferior to Light/Dark in current content.
• Powercrept hard as a mage by Saintly Theria, then Lily. No content in the game currently demands magic critical damage.

Positives

• Good tank centered passives that put him on par with Gorm for SC saves.
• The highest HP stats in the game, also has a respectable MND stat for a tank.
• His first talent when paired with the Guard Bell (automatic Guard) and Aigis Shield (Golem Core ether reward) gives him an average of 33% dmg mitigation per hit taken.

Negatives

• Powercrept in DEF stat by Zouglas.
• His second talent only prevents the Rage status which is a very uncommon debuff. It’s almost useless.
• His skills lack the crowd control that Goroth and Gorm have, with most pushing the enemies away.
• Damage reduction only.
• Whoever translated his lore should revise Strunk’s The Elements of Style before touching a keyboard again.

Positives

• Learns unique versions of all Fire spells with increased damage potential.
• Learns Magic Aura for free (no need for Skyship Lonvalion SSR ark)

Negatives

• Powercrept hard by newer mages
• Fire element-locked.
• Not much better than Dyne, and Dyne has innate 2-element which is better for farming with.

Positives

• Starts battle with three charges of Skill 1 and two charges of Skill 2 if his unique paid weapon is equipped.

Negatives

• Earth element-locked.
• Requires paid weapon to be better than average. It costs $130 USD.

Positives

• Learns Sky High 2, Attack Up IV, Life Brave (less HP = more STR) and Reverse Cross (+5% crit rate and +50% crit damage when attacking from behind).
• Encourages debuffs and additional effects on regular/physical attacks: Death God, Corrosion Fang, Shockwave.
• Skill 1 lets Zaix teleport to target while within line of sight (nerfed from JP, where Zaix could teleport from anywhere).
• Shares the Extort talent with Phantom Thief Robin, with the caveat of having to attack from behind instead of critical hits.
• Talent allows Zaix's frontal attacks to have a 25% chance to be recognised as a back attack. When combined with innate skills, Zaix has very high damage potential as long as he's mostly attacking the enemy from behind.
• Has decent survivability, especially in Arena, from second talent triggering random teleport when evading an attack. Mercury Veil also protects from a status ailment every 30 seconds.
• Extremely high base STR.

Negatives

• Do not learn Zaix's teleportation talent if you want to maximise Zaix's damage output. The talent enables Zaix to randomly teleport around the map when evading enemy attacks, and it will disrupt your attacks. You cannot unlearn it.
• You can't improve Extort chances on Zaix, whereas you can stack crit buffs on Phantom Thief Robin. Furthermore, Zaix is focused on stacking damage buffs, so he will usually kill enemies before extorting them. It's a wasted talent.
• Zaix's physical skills are different elements, making it difficult to maximise his damage potential. Trishula (Kaldina the Great SSR ether reward) can bypass element resistances on physical skills, but Zaix's Ultimate is Dark element and Trishula does not affect Ultimates.
• Learns a number of auxiliary PDPS passives but has few core skills.
• Not recommended for autoing.
• Low base MND.

Positives

• Learns Dual Wield, God Heal, Attack Up IV, Quick Trigger, Thunder Critical Raise (Increase 5% critical rate and 50% critical damage of Thunder attacks) and Combo Master II (30% damage at 50+ hit combo).
• Skill 3 has higher Break value to original Sevia's skill 3.
• Ultimate buffs all allies by 50% STR for 40 seconds and heals allies.
• Skill 3 and Ultimate both heal allies, and can synergise with Spirit Breath for SCT recovery.
• Levin Lifeyield (Talent 2) buffs SCT regen higher than original Sevia's talent since it's a 5% proc on each hit rather than a proc every 20 hits.
• Has incredibly good paid equipment that buffs an additional +50% damage and +50% healing.
• One of the best Thunder element physical DPS units and an excellent beginner unit.

Negatives

• Thunder element locked.
• Powercreeps original Sevia in stupid ways: the actual parts that matter saw very slight increase, such as SCT regen, and TSevia's STR buff is far inferior to the damage reduction on original Sevia. TSevia's damage output is much better than original Sevia, but it's Thunder element locked while original Sevia had Neutral element skills.
• Twinblade Thunder (Talent 1) requires 2 swords, and Trishula is a Machine weapon, so for TSevia to bypass Thunder element resistance, she would be giving up 40% damage.
• TSevia's damage is only average when compared to previous units.
• Despite her SC saves, TSevia still requires significant SC investment compared to other recent units. Her base skillset recommends a Crit build, and Crit is no longer the only or best meta for PDPS units.
• Dedicated support units do what TSevia does better (i.e. SCT regen for allies), and without needing a paid weapon or sharing their MP pool with Sharp Eyes (skill).

Positives

• Tank meta skillboard: Allure, Guard (and variants), Royal Armor, etc.
• Skill 1 is a low SCT AOE crowd control skill that juggles a group of enemies.
• Can go from one end of a map to the other with Spinning Strike (Skill 2) faster than any movement buffed dps.
• Ultimate is party-wide heal. Can restore everyone's SCT with his Ultimate if allies have Spirit Breath equipped.
• Synergises with Yggdrasil summon. Yggdrasil revives allies but leaves them at low health. Gorm can immediately top off allies' HP with his Ultimate.

Negatives

• High break value only on Skill 3, which only holds 1 charge.
• Alternative builds (i.e. Debuff tank, Crit tank) require significant SC investment
• Some people can’t stand that Gorm is rich and scatters gold coins everywhere in his victory animation
• Extremely low base MND for a tank

Positives

• Skill 2 warps from anywhere on the map, but is single hit and only holds 1 base charge.
• Skill 3 is single-target crowd-control juggle.
• Talent is chance to steal on kill. Steal chance can be increased by 5% with the accessory from Pirate Ship Legnis ether reward, for a maximum of 20%.
• Can equip all weapons.
• Best Ultimate attack animation in the game.

Negatives

• Low damage and overall stats.
• Raven’s Edge (Skill 2) is a 1-hit skill that reaches damage cap
• To maximise loot, Mage Robin build with time-stop spells is recommended. This takes significant SC and Ark investment.
  • On lower level maps where Mage Robin can wipe consistently, it's better to run Mage Robin over Phantom Thief Robin.
  • The new Science spell introduced with the Dr. Stone collab, After 3700 Years (timestop), is highly recommended for a Mage Robin build.

Positives

• Can airlock enemies with multiple physical skills.
• Learns a large list of core PDPS passives for free, plus Auto Brave and Piercing.
• Extremely high damage on single target ultimate.

Negatives

• Hits the damage cap too easily (requires Dual Wield)
• Shin is literally an overpowered isekai protagonist. Who said games couldn't jump on the isekai bandwagon too?

Positives

• Learns Archangel Blessing, Grand Regeneration and Magic Castle.
• First talent regens SCT, but at a much lower rate than Sevia's.
• Second talent reduces Light magic MP consumption, making Lukiel viable for certain gimmicky mage builds.

Negatives

• Requires significant SC investment to be a PDPS or support (60SC minimum)
• Melee AI.
• Extremely low defensive stats and overall low stats.

Positives

• Learns Magic Up III, Godly Body, High Level Magic Chant and Grand Aura.
• Also learns a number of supporting skills such as Grand Regeneration and Vitality.
• Super cute.

Negatives

• Summoner Leena's entire concept is summoning strong beasts that can kill stuff. Those beasts are unfortunately neither strong nor reliable. The developer said in a Q&A that they may revisit the concept in the future, which can be fairly interpreted as "We don't plan on buffing this unit anytime soon."
• SLeena has the dubious honor of having some of the worst translated lore in the game.

Positives

• Free support DPS/tank unit.
• Learns Grand Protection and High Regeneration.
• Very fast auto attack.
• Can heal up to 1000+ per crit with Proud Force if her HP falls below 30% due to her talent.

Negatives

• Increased soul costs to unlock Unit story
• Outdated skill-board, even at launch – Gorm is a better tank, and Leena a better support.

Positives

• Learns Death God, Terror Melt, Phase Change, Dark Critical and Abyss Gate.
• Phase Change proof of concept unit – converting INT to STR for additional damage on normals.

Negatives

• Powercrept by Lily as a Dark mage and Phantom Thief Robin as a Dark physical DPS.
• Missing most meta physical DPS and mage passives, so much that any build will easily run over 50SC.

Positives

• Learns Immovable Object, Poison Cloud, Tornado Storm, Crimson Flare, Silence Nil and Flame Critical.
• Second talent allows Dyne to switch any spell's element to Dark if the enemy resists Fire more than Dark.
• Talent gives Fire magic MP cost reduction.
• The meta mage at launch. Still very usable, but Light element is preferred to Fire/Dark.

Negatives

• Powercrept by Lily in general and by Eliza as a Fire mage. The damage gap between Dyne and Eliza is small but noticeable, and Lily is just overall much better than both.
• Saves less SC than newer mages.

Positives

• Learns Pirate's Feast, Counter and High Counter.
• Doura's talent allows him to counter 9999dmg crits with Lapis Axe (Terror in the Grana Seas (SSR) ether reward) because all Counter buffs stack.
• Has the best lore and best male unit design in the game.

Negatives

• Slow auto attacks, to the point that attacks can miss enemies.
• Low defensive stats for a tank, and Counter is an underperforming gameplay mechanic that hasn't featured on any other unit since launch.
• Low damage.

Positives

• Learns Sorcerer Killer and a number of party buffs (Critical Phaser, Brave Phaser).
• One-man CC unit, juggles enemies in the air with all his skills.

Negatives

• Most units can’t hit enemies that are in the air, so Gravein will be soloing most of the time.
• Low damage.
• Significantly falls off in end-game due to most enemies having anti-flinch.
• For a while people were convinced (because of a mistake in the JP datamine) that Gravein had the best break values in the game. He doesn’t.

Positives

• Learns Venomous Rainfall, High Level Magic Chant and Silence Research.
• Decent base INT.
• Can be used to farm Dark-weak stages quickly with Venomous Rainfall.

Negatives

• Physical skills are all STR-based.
• Melee AI and slow movement.
• Talent decreases Dark resistance on critical hit, but his entire skillset is Neutral element.

Positives

• Learns Beast Slayer, Determination and Shockwave.
• Auto attacks and Skill 1 are large and cause flinching
• Skill 2 groups enemies together.
• Skill 3 has high break/faint values.
• Talent gives SCT regen when using skills.
• Good damage tank, made better with the anti-flinch from Aldana Colosseum (SR) ark

Negatives

• Slow auto attacks and movement.
• Skill 1 and Skill 2 cause battle slowdown.
• Ultimate is useless.
• Easily flinched without anti-flinch buff.

Positives

• Learns Awaken, Fire Attack Raise and Dragon Slayer.
• Very powerful multi-hit auto attack.
• Strong physical skill damage.

Negatives

• Needs Trishula (Kaldina the Great SSR ether reward) to bypass Fire element resistance for Tower.

Positives

• Learns Earth High Boost, Earth Critical, Grand Cross, Determination and Guard Charge
• Tank, mage and physical DPS that can excel at any single role.
• Shares some of the best lore in the game with Doura

Negatives

• Doesn't save enough SC to be a true hybrid unit.
• Needs the ether reward from Final Oath (SSR) to excel at damage.
• Grand Cross is one of the weaker Tier 3 attack magic, and Earth-weak content is lacking.

Positives

• Learns Sorcerer Killer, Machine Slayer and Shockwave.
• Incredibly strong enemy when you fight him in Tower. Don't be fooled though.

Negatives

• Luger's concept is a "tank sniper". In his ideal meta, you stack aggro (Allure) on him, and kite enemies from a distance. Excellent idea, terrible execution.
• His talents are focused on buffing his damage, and he hits like a wet noodle.

Positives

• Learns Sword High Boost, Fire Attack Raise, Special Boost and Chance Drive.
• Talents boost damage and SCT regen during Break.

Negatives

• Extremely niche unit focused on Breaking bosses and dealing high damage during Break.
• Needs Trishula (Kaldina the Great SSR ether reward) to bypass Fire element resistance.
• Supreme Flare damage talent requires the correct Killers/Slayers to be equipped.

Positives

• Fast auto attack which interrupts enemies.
• Short cooldown on all skills.
• Significant break value on physical skills
• Overtuned damage on Ultimate

Negatives

• Powercrept by Vaughn as a breaker.
• Need to learn most core PDPS passives at significant SC investment.

Positives

• Learns Thunder Attack Raise.
• Innately high HP and DEF for a physical DPS.
• Strong AOE Ultimate for when you want a panic button.

Negatives

• Need to learn most core PDPS passives at significant SC investment.
• Needs Trishula (Kaldina the Great SSR ether reward) to bypass Thunder element restriction.

Positives

• Very fast auto attack.
• High damage potential with Magleon equipped.

Negatives

• Auto attack pathing on AI is horrendous – constantly readjusting, then readjusting, and then a bit more.
• Requires significant SC investment for any build.

Positives

• Learns Resurrection and MP Up MAX.
• High base MP.
• Kyle's waifu for laifu.

Negatives

• Significant SC investment needed for Theria to be an endgame healer.
• Some players wanted to run a mage Theria at launch because lolwhynot and we soon learned that Theria can reach 1.8k INT. The problem isn't whether we can, but whether we should. And my answer is, and has always been, no.

Positives

• Learns Blessed Speed and Sniper Killer.
• Increases STR based on number of Beasts in party. Works well with other Beast units. A future ark teaches Mimicry [Beast] to make this function easier.
• If you own Saintly Theria and have farmed her story, you should have Gaoul maxed already

Negatives

• Almost no standout points of value over actual units.

Positives

• Learns Determination and Counter.
• Talent provides damage reduction and lifesteal on kill.

Negatives

• Hobgobl is so unpopular that it was tied with Dabourne for being one of the hardest units in retrieving lore for. It really is a unit that exists for the sake of existing.

Positives

• Learns Grand Cross. Have you ever seen a Pokkle instant-cast Grand Cross?
• Talent triggers party-wide heal on Pokkle's death.

Negatives

• Underwhelming. It's a Pokkle, what did you expect?

Positives

• Revives on death, then revives again, and when you think you’ve finally killed it, revives again.
• All skills have a chance to inflict Ailments.

Negatives

• Good for a joke and certain 1-wave stages (like pre-balance Arena)
• Slow auto attack

Positives

• Learns Grand Protection.
• Skill 3 is the self-destruct nuke button.
• Talent boosts stats and provides a 25% chance of surviving lethal damage.

Negatives

• Powercrept by Soul Spark (skill). The current sacrificial strategy is to equip Soul Spark on your desired kamikaze unit – preferably a self-reviving unit, like Gorm.
• No-one we know has built Dabourne, so we can't review Dabourne very well. If you have a second opinion on this unit, contact us.

Positives

• Learns Annula Meth (-1 AOE Ailment debuff) and Giga Lostoma.
• High base INT.
• Ultimate gives 35% damage reduction from Human units, and has one of the shortest cooldowns in the game.

Negatives

• Low defensive stats
• Melee AI because auto attack is melee.
• Annula Meth will become an Ark skill in the future, thus invalidating Phantom's niche.
• Future content has +3 resist to certain ailments, thus making a -1 debuff useless.