Tier List/Shark3143/Archive

v1.1, Last updated: January 7th, 2019

Tier list created and maintained by Shark3143 (/u/Shark3143 on Reddit, Shark3143 on Discord)

Rating Definitions and Criteria

Rating Definitions
S/S+:	Characters that perform their roles exceptionally well.
A+:	Characters that can perform their role well, only having minor issues.
A:	Characters that can perform their role well, but are not exceptional.
B:	Characters that can perform their role, but are held back by stats or other weaknesses, or are simply outclassed.
C:	Characters that cannot perform their role well, fill a niche that is not required, or outclassed by units in the B tier.
D:	Characters with serious problems.
Unranked:	Recently released characters that haven't been ranked.

Criteria
Adventurers are assumed to be promoted to 5 and to have all unlocked mana circles besides co-ability improvements and items (45 circles). Adventurers are assumed to have an optimal dragon equipped. Adventurers are assumed to have access to a 5 weapon. Adventurers are assumed to fight with elemental advantage. Adventurers are compared within their own element first before being compared to Adventurers in other elements. Adventurers are assumed to be controlled by the player, AI is not taken into consideration. The content considered are Master Dragon Trials, Master Imperial Onslaughts, Raid Events, and Facility Events. High Dragon Trials are not taken into consideration. Wyrmprints are not taken into consideration.

Change Log

Version 1.1 Changelog
Adventurer	Tier Change	Description
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	S -> A	The incredible potency and uptime of Sinoa’s buffs don’t make up for her inconsistency, and the defensively-oriented buffs are less valuable when Verica or Phoenix alone are sufficient to maintain a healthy party outside of High Midgardsormr, which isn’t covered by this tier list.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	A -> A+	The ability to stack multiple defense debuffs allows Ezelith to contribute much more damage than initially thought, despite her S2’s poor charge time and her S1 having lower DPS than her normal attacks.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	S -> A+	Musashi’s damage output was rated too highly, since he’s held back by the very short buff time on his S2 and inconsistent passives, and as such he can’t compete with Addis as a DPS.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	A+ -> S	Lucretia’s ability to charge energy was underrated. She contributes more damage herself and for the team than Amane, who she originally shared a tier with, since Amane’s strengths over Lucretia are cancelled out by the very long charge rate of her S2.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	S -> S+	Hildegarde's shields have more value than initially thought, due to their ability to block status ailments, and her healing output is excellent to boot. The short quest duration of the average content favors Hildegarde and her 100% Skill Prep over other healers such as Vixel and Verica who would otherwise eventually eclipse her healing output due to superior charge times on potent regen skills.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	B -> C	Ryozen’s damage output is seriously lacking, vying for the lowest among non-healers, and his defense buffs and self healing pale in value to using a healer instead. He’s nearly unkillable, but struggles to pull his weight as a DPS and offers too little to the team to make up for it.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	A+ -> S	Botan still has serious problems with her passive skills, but her damage output through bleed and team strength buffs greatly exceed those placed below her. Among shadow adventurers, only Ieyasu outdamages her.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	A -> A+	Sazanka’s bleed was undervalued. Even if her sleep kit is unreliable or useless in some content, she has high enough damage contribution to be a valuable pick.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	A -> A+	Zace has a higher damage output than any of those still remaining in A among shadow characters, and only benefits further from the attack skill on the 5* shadow lance.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	B -> A	Rodrigo’s High HP = Strength and multiple attack skills give him good damage contribution, and while his AoE might be less impressive than many swords, content hasn’t demanded AoE utility for shadow adventurers since the adds are so spread out in Light IO.
Lua error: Error: Table Adventurers not found..	B -> C	Berserker’s damage output isn’t good, and his survival capability, which isn’t weighted highly on this tier list, is also weaker than characters with similar tankiness such as Julietta and Ryozen. He’s still usable for Light IO, but shouldn’t be chosen for any other content.

Tier List

Note: Healers are in their own separate column on the far right of the list.

						Healer
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