Etheria: Restart Tier List

Categories

Here are the categories we're rating the characters in:

• Generic PVE - how the character helps with progressing and clearing PVE modes, including those that don't have their own tier list (Grim Pursuit, Ember Trek, EtherNet Rally),
• Threshold (Aurora, DokiDoki, Terrormaton) - how the characters performs against the three module farming bosses - each boss requires a different approach and also punishes some elements, so you can't use the same team against all three,
• Union Boss + Phantom Theatre - how the characters perform in both modes against the 5 bosses you fight there (5 per mode).
• PVP - PVP is an important part of Etheria: Restart and this ratings shows how they perform in both AI and RTA PVP.

Criteria

• Characters are rated at level 50,
• Characters are rated with their skills upgraded to level 5,
• But we have marked characters that heavily rely on their Skill Ups to reach their full potential,
• Characters are rated as if they are equipped with optimal Modules - that includes the correct sets and stats,
• Characters are rated as if they are equipped with their Best in Slot Shell,
• Characters are rated based on auto play (because let's not kid ourselves, nobody will farm bosses daily on manual in the long run),
• For characters that rely on specific teams or teammates, we're assuming you're using them with them (it's not a solo ranking),
• For the three Threshold bosses, we're rating the characters based on their Inferno performance (so the highest difficulty) - you can bruteforce most lower difficulties, but Inferno requires better planning and investment.

Roles

• DPS - Units that focus on dealing damage first, but they also may help the team (or hinder the enemy) in some other ways.
• Debuff - Units that debuff enemies, decreasing their ATK, DEF or other stats, making it easier to deal with them.
• Control - Units that disrupt enemies battle flow manipulation via Turn Meter/Speed decrease or Crowd Debuff.
• Support - Units that focus on providing buffs to allies.
• Sustain - Units that focus on keeping the team alive via Healing, Shielding or being a tank.

Tags

Tags represent the most defining features of a character's kit.

• Hybrid (X) - This character can fulfill multiple roles in the team and you can find the additional role in the brackets (that's on top of the default role decided by the placement in one of the columns).
• Advance - This character can advance their team by manipulating Turn Meter.
• Buff - This character can buff their allies by improving their stats or damage.
• CC - This character can stun or hinder enemies in another way, preventing them from taking action (Stun, Sleep, Frozen etc.).
• Cleanse - This character can cleanse debuffs from allies.
• Cooldown - This character can reduce the cooldown of their allies skills.
• Debuff - This character can debuff enemies by reducing their stats or damage.
• Delay - This character can reduce enemy's Turn Meter or reduce their Speed.
• Dispel - This character can dispel buffs from enemies - either by removing, stealing or converting them to debuffs.
• Speed - This character can buff their team's Speed.
• Sustain - This character can heal or shield allies or provide leach to them - though if the character is placed in Sustain category, the tag isn't applied to them as they do it by default.
• Fragile - This character needs protection from allies to be effective.
• Niche - This character excels only in specific situations, making them less effective in others.
• Lattice Hungry - This character requires their skills upgraded to perform at their full potential. If you don't give them what they want, they will perform at a tier below than they are rated.
• Windup - This character needs time to build up effectiveness.
• Counter - This character can do counterattacks.
• DoT - This character can deal Damage over Time (DoT, Bleed, etc).
• Follow-Up - This character can follow up on attacks, or make others follow up on attacks.
• Revive - This character can revive allies.
• Taunt - This character can Taunt enemies, focusing their attention on themselves.

Ratings explained

• T0 - Characters who almost always represent the strongest option within their teams/role.
• These characters are highly versatile and can be seamlessly integrated into various team compositions. They consistently outperform their alternatives within their respective roles.
• These characters significantly impact their teams’ performance by contributing an incredible amount of value - either as potent damage dealers or through powerful utility built into their kits.
• T0.5 - Characters not strong enough to be T0, but notably stronger than the average T1.
• While we tried to be as explicit as possible in our rating methodology, there will inevitably be characters that toe the line regardless how we go about it. In the interest of capturing this, this half-tier exists as an in-between.
• Certain characters excel in their niche, but may have a significant amount of their “value” tied to enabling some other (T0) character. These characters are undeniably important, especially given that this is a team game with heavy focus around character synergy, but to best reflect this relationship, they have been added to T0.5 tier.
• T1 - Characters that excel in their role or in a frequently occurring niche.
• These characters excel at what they do and are regularly called upon to fill that niche. These characters are staples to the roster and see frequent use across various game modes.
• T2 - Characters that excel in an uncommon, but important niche.
• These can be highly specialized or highly situational characters who, owing to some external factor, only see limited play.
• T3 & T4 - Characters playable if you like them.
• These characters struggle to make a noticeable impact or have big competition in their niches.
• T5 - Weak characters or those that can't be played at all.
• In this tier we're placing characters that don't offer anything worthwhile or characters that simply can't be used in that content due to for example elemental disadvantage (Inferno difficulty has additional 200% damage increase against the weak element, so they are simply one-shot by the boss).

21.03.2026

• Added
  
  Airon and
  
  Asal to the tier list.

03.03.2026

In today's update, we have replaced the Union Boss tier list with Nether Quarry. On top of that, we have added the two new characters: Added

Gianc

Here's a changelog dedicated to the PVP changes we made:

• 
  Gianc added to T0.5. He is a really unique single target nuker and surprisingly a good counter to Lowan, but he needs someone else to follow up and finish for him so he is a very unique character to use and will take people some time to get the hang of - he also might go up in rating later on.
• 
  Xuan Li added to T0. After her buff she is an absolute monster. A more defensive and reliable Rahu. Her damage is a bit less compared to a Rahu that gets lucky but she provides so much more utility and protection plus the reliability - very very good unit.
• Holden T0 → T1. Some people say Holden is trash now. I don't fully agree, and especially if you run Doki or Lily lock, then he can have some good use against certain things, but he is rarely seeing use at the moment, to be fair, and I think that warrants a move to T1.
• Massiah T0 → T0.5. Massiah is still very good, but his pick rate has gotten low enough that it warrants a move to 0.5 in my opinion, as he is just harder to use nowadays than ever before. There are just so many good cleave options that don't include Massiah now.
• Liliam T0 → T0.5. Similar situation to Massiah, still very good but just not picked often enough to warrant the T0 anymore.
• Rahu T0.5 → T0. Rahu went from picked sometimes to picked all the time with the release of Crow and his slight buff. He is a monster now, and everyone knows it. Rahu singlehandedly made Turn 2 a worse playstyle because the player who picked Rahu would struggle so much to beat him that you probably just want to go Turn 1 to have a better shot. This is a bit more manageable since Valerian's awakening and Xuan Li's release, but he is still a menace - easy T0.
• Borgne T0.5 → T1. Usage rate case once again. I feel like he is pretty good and has a bunch of viable builds, but the amount he gets picked is now very low, as there are just so many really insane characters. Hard to warrant picking him over a lot of them, but sometimes he pops up when it works, and he often does quite well.
• Rosa T1 → T2. She is just never seen anymore, probably not unplayable, but I don't think an account that isn't quite new would ever pick her in RTA right now.
• Mizuki Makoto T1 → T2. Literally never see her anymore.
• Yeli T1 → T0.5. Speed Yeli is really good with Turandot Lock - Tura into Senyu, Yeli is very strong.
• RC-77 T0.5 → T0. I'm definitely partial to RC-77 myself as he is my boy, but I genuinely believe he is really good right now, he is one of the few good answers to Valerian and he enables a playstyle that doesn't really exist without him in - Debuff Soup which is really strong.
• Nevette T1 → T0. Insane buff for Neevtte, and she is now one of the very best cc units in the game, plus she provides decent damage too, unlike all the rest.
• Veronika T0 → T0.5. Just less used nowadays, still good in the right situation, but many of the meta characters don't care much about her at the moment.
• Santik T0.5 → T0. Santik has risen all the way from the bottom on release without a single buff; he was just a bit of a complex character to get used to. He is now picked very often and he is very annoying to play against.
• Aya T0 → T0.5. Still good, but fewer situations where she is warranted in draft results in a lower pick rate, which results in me putting her lower
• Lingluo T0 → T0.5. Still very good but with Valerian and Doki being super popular, it's harder to fit in a Lingluo in many drafts and often Sania is the correct answer rather than her.
• Fuqiu T0 → T0.5. Considering how harsh the nerfs were the fact that Fuqiu is still at T0.5 and seeing decent usage means it was very warranted. Good nerf, still a pain to play against but the enemies don't feel completely unkillable anymore with the right comp.
• Valerian T1 → T0. She is absolutely insane, best awakening to date I think, maybe Turandot competes? She is extremely oppressive to play against and without very specific answers like Nevette on the field her shield makes the enemy team feel completely immortal. Which is funny since that was Fuqiu's role and now they nerfed her and made a better one. At least this one is free!

08.02.2026

• Added
  
  Kethos and
  
  Bornova to the tier list.

18.01.2026

• Added
  
  Palin to the tier list.

06.01.2026

• Added
  
  Palin and
  
  Senyu tier list,
• Updated the PVP tier list for the latest meta changes:
• Lilith T0.5 → T1 - Lilith is sadly seeing less and less play - too many units that do somewhat similar things and her own issues with some of the newly released animuses that are very popular (specifically Lowan) don't make for a good combo.
• Hizuki Mari T0.5 → T1 - Hizuki is a fine unit - she is just suffering from more and more units coming out and there being less and less room for simpler units like her.
• Viper T1 → T2 - There is just very rarely a spot where Viper is good nowadays, most of what T1 is doing he does not help with or there are just way better units for, and in T2 mirrors he just does not do enough anymore.
• Holden T0.5 → T0 - Holden saw a brief drop in popularity but the more people figured out the meta, the more he kept creeping in the drafts and well here we are - Holden is back just like normal.
• Rahu T0 → T0.5 - He just isn't seeing enough play to warrant a T0 spot. He is great when he is great, but Rahu games don't grow on trees anymore.
• Turandot T3 → T0 - Yeah well, the awakening here was a game changer and a half. She went from seeing 0 play to being the most popular pre-ban overnight. She is extremely difficult to fight against if you get outspeed and you bet you will because she is the fastest in the game.
• Sania T1 → T0.5 - Tentatively putting Sania in 0.5 - need more data, but she could be a future T0 for sure. She is being worked through a few different builds right now by people and we are sure she is effective, it's just how effective.
• Lingluo T0 → T0.5 - Still very good but she is not worthy of being on the same tier as the insanity that is Fuqiu.
• Chiaki T0.5 → T1 - Restructure of Healers in the list. Chiaki is still solid as long as u ban Turandot, but Ling and Sania are better generally.
• Sylph T0.5 → T1 - Restructure. Sylph is seeing quite a bit less play, but she pops up every now and then.
• Rc-77 T1 → T0.5 - RC looks like the weakest of the awakening units overall so far but he is also the most complicated so there might be more to him, but he seems very good on Rev in combination with things like Senyu etc. His s1 passive often nets you that extra damage you might have been lacking before.