Tier List Test/Wind

Portrait	Name	Tier	Role	Preference	Notes
	Lin You	S+	Attacker	Mercury	Lin You’s damage is fantastic since her S1 is very powerful, and she has access to the 5* wind axe with its great attack skill and unusually high strength. While her self buff suffers from a below average charge rate, the attack speed buff helps her charge SP faster to compensate, making it possible to get off two boosted S1 hits during the duration of a single S2 if you don’t have to stop to roll. Her damage alone is worthy of praise, and she’s also capable of inflicting 6-7 second sleeps in most wind-advantaged content, giving her strong utility value on top of her damage. Lin You’s capable of equipping Long Long over Zephyr thanks to her high critical rate, but even with an ideal wyrmprint you’d need further increases to critical rate through other sources like co-abilities for the damage to exceed Zephyr’s.
	Addis	S	Attacker	Imperial Onslaught	Addis has great damage output because he inflicts powerful bleeds when you use his S1 during his S2 self buff, and he has multiple passive skills to augment his damage output in Bleed Punisher and Broken Punisher. Addis might not reasonably maintain uptime on Bleed Punisher alone, but nothing stops a co-op room from running multiple Addis on the same team and stacking multiple bleeds for obscene damage.
	Maribelle	S	Attacker	Mercury	With Full HP = Skill Damage and 100% Skill Prep, she starts quests very strong. She has great AoE coverage and can help maintain Full HP = Skill Damage thanks to the self heal ability off of the 5* wind wand, but her damage output won’t excel if she can’t maintain it.
	Melody	S	Support	Imperial Onslaught	A great support character with a 15% team strength boost as her S1, which boasts a fast enough charge rate to maintain perfect uptime. Due to the value of increasing the damage of the whole team, the total damage she brings to a mission is higher than those ranked below her. She has good mobility and coverage thanks to the Blade moveset, has access to the great 5* wind blade with a good attack skill, and has Freeze res to help with Water IO.
	Musashi	A+	Attacker	Mercury	His base strength very high for a 4* character, he has access to a great attack skill from the 5* wind katana, and his kit adds additional damage through various buffs and poison. However, he’s held back because his S2 self buff seriously lacks the potency to make up for it’s minimal 5 second duration, making it not only worse than the average attack skill, but also worse when compared to the self buff skills seen on other blades such as Mikoto, Celliera, and Addis.
	Lowen	A+	Healer	Mercury	The best healing option available in wind. His kit is coherent and effective, but his healing output isn’t exceptional since he doesn’t have a regen skill. Very reminiscent of Cleo, but with a better S2 and slightly higher recovery potency. Interestingly, when he raises the team’s max HP, his healing on his S1 increases slightly to match.
	Johanna	A+	Attacker	Imperial Onslaught	Johanna has hard hitting skills with good animation speeds, and the 5* wind axe she has access to is very powerful. Her resistances are a disorganized mess, but her damage output is very good even when it’s not topped off by Slayer’s Strength.
	Hawk	A+	Attacker	Imperial Onslaught	Hawk’s kit is entirely built around stuns, both inflicting them and increasing his damage against stunned enemies. His damage isn’t the highest, but he has good utility value through his stuns and synergizes very well with any Roc or Zephyr in the room which enable him to leverage his extra Stunned Punisher damage in dragon form during the break. He’s well specialized for Water IO since the boss hardly resists stun, and he’s also immune to being frozen. However, his damage output is seriously limited in content with stun immune enemies, such as versus Mercury and raid battles, so he’s not worth using in those fights since he’s entirely dependant on stuns to have any amount of damage or utility value.
	Ranzal	A	Attacker	None	Ranzal excels versus multiple targets thanks to the wide swing of axes and his circular AoE on his S1, which helps him build up stacks of Slayer’s Strength. Against single target content, his damage contribution will be lower, but his 30% HP Shields are potentially a useful survival tool for blocking damage and ailments, albeit inconsistent.
	Louise	A	Attacker	Mercury	Louise can output good damage in ideal circumstances, but she’s reliant on conditional damage buffs that need good team support. She can’t trigger her own Strength Doublebuff, relying on either Lowen or Aeleen to help, and she alone can’t consistently maintain poison to increase the damage of her S2, which does extra damage to poisoned enemies. She mostly excels versus Mercury, where attacking from range is a more pronounced advantage than usual.
	Ku Hai	B	Attacker	Mercury	Ku Hai is too clunky to work effectively, since he lacks a high critical rate to get good value from his two critical damage passives, and the alternate force strike granted by his S2 is sluggish and doesn’t consistently apply all three hits. It’s difficult to credit the alternate force strike for its apparent increase in mobility since it tends to miss hits at close range by passing through targets, it’s inefficient to spend time positioning yourself to ensure all three hits connect, and it also knocks down small enemies which negates potential follow up attacks. Ku Hai’s damage output is actually higher if he ignores his S2, despite its crit buff, and focuses on using the default force strike from the sword moveset by chaining three attacks into force strike repeatedly, since the default force strike is quicker and can easily chain back into regular attacks afterwards. To add insult to injury, Ku Hai has poor choice of weaponry, as both the 4* and 5* wind swords have low-impact defensive skills that don’t help him output damage. Despite the failings of Ku Hai’s alternate force strike in most content, it shines in raids, since he’ll always connect all three times and can reposition with it.
	Su Fang	B	Attacker	None	Su Fang lacks ailment resistance and his damage output is a bit lacking, while the 20% Skill Damage and attack skill from the 5* wind dagger appear to be great boosts to his damage output his S1’s base damage is extremely weak and daggers in general are currently underpowered. However, he does have useful utility value through stun, since his S1 can apply a 5-6 second stun while his S2 is active. While his partial bog resistance would be potentially useful versus Mercury, he can’t apply stun in that fight, so he has some trouble finding a niche in current content.
	Eleonora	B	Attacker	Mercury	Eleonora is built around constantly inflicting poison, which is underwhelming since multiple poisons do not stack. Because of this, her DPS isn’t good, and her skills lack AoE to compensate. However, her bog immunity and ability to output damage from range at least make her well set up to face Mercury.
	Aeleen	B	Attacker Support	Imperial Onslaught	A generally solid choice for Water IO thanks to her immunity to freeze as well as Slayer’s Strength. Unfortunately her damage is on the low end due to her lack of attack skills, but she is a good pair for doublebuff characters like Louise since she has a team-wide defense buff..
	Nicolas	B	Attacker	Imperial Onslaught	His damage is okay and he has a chance at stunning enemies with his S2, but the stun lacks duration, and he doesn’t have strong passives or damage skills from elemental weapons to increase his damage. Healing Doublebuff synergizes with Lowen and Aeleen, but he can’t trigger it himself without using a suboptimal weapon.
	Francesca	C	Attacker	Mercury	While Francesca has access to multiple damage skills, they lack base damage and her overall damage output is low.
	Philia	C	Attacker	None	Full HP = 10% Strength patches up her damage output somewhat if she manages to keep it active, but her damage output is very low otherwise, and her ailment resistance is off element.
	Sophie	C	Healer	Imperial Onslaught	Her Recovery Potency skill helps her marginally, but her healing output remains low since she lacks multiple heals or Skill Prep. Her S2 contributes very little due to its low damage and range as well as it’s poor charge time. However, her freeze resistance makes her an okay pick for Water IO if nothing else.
	Pia	C	Attacker Support	Mercury	Has energy synergy in an element without any other energy characters, so her S2 doesn’t really do anything, and it’s single stack of energy would be low-impact even if there were a demand for it. It’s possible to reach energy full stacks on the right team through Energy Doublebuff, but energized skill damage doesn’t make up for her lack of damage elsewhere.