Tier List

Last updated: 02.05.2024

Reverse:1999 is a game where team building and strategy is the main focus, so take the ratings listed here with a grain of salt, as most characters can perform well when under the right team and circumstances, while conversely, most characters rely on a good synergy with their teammates to deliver a good performance.

To build this Tier List, we tested all characters both on their lower levels and high level, as well as both in optimal and non-optimal scenarios. We took into consideration their versatility, performance compared to other characters of the same role/niche, and if they grow or fall off as the game progresses.

Tier List Options

Overall: How the character performs ignoring the patch specific content - the rating showcases the overall character strength,
Standard: How the character performs within their role in Event, UTTU, and Limbo,
Raid: How the character performs within their role in the content available in Raids (aka Mane Bulletin).

Tier List Criteria

Damage Dealer: Characters whose main function is to deal damage.
Support: Arcanists who you bring to the team for their utility or support aspects, be it buffs, debuffs, control, and so on.
Survival: Healers, Tanks, and the ones with tools who help keep the team alive.

S+ - characters that are the best at their role for this content.
S - powerful characters that are slightly inferior to the S+ ones, but there are some things holding them back.
A+ - strong character that perform well that still have place in the meta, but require a bit more work to shine.
A - decent characters that are commonly used to replace the meta ones when you don't have them or they have some niche uses.
B - average characters that have big flaws and only work as some niche replacements when you don't have anything else.
C - underwhelming characters that don't aren't worth using.

02.05.2024

Overall tier list has been updated. List of changes:

Blonney from B to A. A surprising resurgence in usage and a great user of the new "For Rehabilitation" psychube.
Shamane from S to A+. Now that type-specific damage is becoming more and more important, universal debuffers really struggle.
Diggers from A to B. Has some synergy in CC teams but there's honestly way better options and [Nightmare] still sucks.
Medicine Pocket from S to A+. Still a great healer but can't keep up with Yenisei defensively and can't keep up with Vila offensively.
Ezra from S to A+. Still a lot of debate about whether he's good and while he is amazing we felt this would be a better place.
Balloon Party from A+ to A. Fine healer but Lost HP healing is kind of niche and she doesn't stack up to the others in A+.
Sotheby from A+ to A. Fine enough healer but really wants to be in a team with Jessica and we can't consider that "meta".
Cristallo, John Titor and The Fool from B to C. Just don't do enough compared to Tennant and La Source.

The CN tier list has been updated from 1.7 to 1.8. List of changes:

Added Avgust. He is a really solid Support that properly balances Offensive and Defensive buffs in a way that makes both work at a level where you'd actually want to use him.
Added Vila. The new Healer release and probably the closest thing we've gotten to the second coming of Tooth Fairy; she's only held back by her overreliance on [Rusalka] and her mediocre performance outside of Mental teams.
Added Windsong. Probably the most broken addition to date even considering Jiu Niangzi. Windsong has the mathematically highest damage ceiling in the game bar none, and even when realistically simulated, her output is higher than that of Jiu Niangzi.

26.04.2024

Added Windsong to the tier list.

11.04.2024

Overall tier list has been updated. List of changes:

37 from S to A+ in Overall. Just average damage at P0 and honestly can't justify a better spot.
Marcus from A+ to S in Overall. Vila's release will make her better - no matter what and she deals really good damage at P0.
Charlie from A to A+ in Overall. She's still fine as a Carry and compared to Eternity she's great.
Ms. Newbabel from A+ to A in Overall. She's a Reality DMG Tank which is giga niche and she's only good in a single Raid.

Global Tier list has been updated for 1.5 patch. List of changes:

Ms Newbabel from A+ to A in Mane's. The [Counter] effect is not useful besides Marsh so she kinda mid.
Centurion from A to A+ in 1.5 Mane's. She can SSS the Robot Raid but is doodoo in the other Raids.
Voyager from S to A+ in 1.5 Mane's. Marsh isn't present so [Counter] sucks but Gorgon is back and she's good there.
Balloon Party from A+ to A in 1.5 Mane's. [Counter] sucks and HP Lost based healing isn't great for Endless Mode Raids.
Druvis III from A+ to A in 1.5 Mane's. She's a decent Support in Robot but beyond that she isn't used.
Kaalaa Baunaa from S to A+ in Mane's. She's fine enough as is as a base character but mid in Gorgon and bad in Exhibition.
Spathodea ratings added; A+ in 1.5 Standard and S in 1.5 Mane's.
Desert Flannel ratings added; B in 1.5 Standard and A in 1.5 Mane's.
Ezra Theodore ratings added; A+ in 1.5 Standard and S in 1.5 Mane's.
Ulu ratings added; C in 1.5 Standard and B in 1.5 Mane's.

02.04.2024

Tier list has been fully revamped.

10.03.2024

Updated the CN tier list to 1.7 patch and updated the Overall tier list. Some comments about the changes:

With the introduction of Isolde, Spathodea now actually has a good teammate as opposed to being relegated to be paired with Ult to provide [Burn] for her. Due to her hard-hitting kit especially under the effects of [Burn] we think she deserves to be raised out of A tier for it,
Centurion used to be the overall jack-of-all-trades Carry but now that specific teams are becoming more important Centurion is slowly falling out of meta for simply not being able to keep up with other units in terms of burst damage, so we decided to drop her to A in Overall tier list,
Voyager really needs [Counter] to be effective and the trickiness of getting her Skill 1 to rank 2 in order to apply [Confusion] is just really annoying. Needs to be somewhat AP greedy or be played very well in order to time her other debuffs and generally just... doesn't feel like she does much compared to the other Supports in recent times, so we dropped her to B,
Sonetto been A-tier since the very beginning but we just can't justify putting her in the same tier as Support powerhouses like An-an and Pickles especially because she's An-an's budget version. Still good, but with the insanely good Supports from 1.4 and onwards she just doesn't stack up as well, still fine though,
Getian's Domain Expansion is fixed and now properly stacks with other +DMG Dealt buffs like AAL and Pickles, so we're raising his rating,
With introduction of Isolde, 37 just kinda falls flat as a Support for the Jiu Niangzi National team. Her supportive capabilities just don't match up to what is expected of a Support and she was only a part of that team due to the unique interaction between Jiu's Channel and [Eureka]. Not only does Isolde synergize with Jiu's constantly attacks she is also a Reality/Crit debuffer and generally outputs a lot of damage for a unit that's categorically a Support unlike 37 who is 'officially' a Carry. So we're dropping 37 to A tier Overall.

29.02.2024

Updated the Global tier list to 1.5 patch.

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