Reverse: 1999 Tier List

• 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 - characters with very niche kits or that struggle due to low stats.
• D - characters with niche kits that are difficult to justify, as well as having low stats.

06.07.2024

The CN Tier lists have been update for 2.0 patch and the Global tier lists have been updated for 1.7 patch. List of changes:

• General:
• J (Joe): Placed [A+/A+/S]
• Pioneer: Remains unrated as his kit is generally confusing to place in the current meta where "moving" units isn't really something that sees use besides maybe Avgust.
• Global 1.7:
• Isolde: Placed [S+/S+/S+] for pretty obvious reasons. Overall best offense-oriented Support in Global with only 6 as actual competition currently.
• Marcus: Placed [S/A+/S] as she severely lacks teambuilding options in 3-man teams (Global) but excels at damage output when she is catered to (which she is this patch).
• Bkornblume: Adjustment Standard [S to A+] due to there generally being better options for Reality Support now in Getian and Isolde.
• Centurion: Adjustment Standard [S to A+] the prior update and this one is where Centurion generally starts to fall off, she also doesn't match any of the afflatuses present in Limbo.
• Ezra Theodore: Justification Standard [S], despite being known as a "raid only" unit, this the Limbos running throughout 1.7 benefit him greatly.
• Leilani: Adjustment Standard [A to B] as she is generally used in Raids to cheat out Ultimates but doesn't see much use elsewhere besides low-rarity teams.
• Lilya: Adjustment Standard [A+ to A] as she is pushed out by Isolde and Jiu in terms of 37 Support and with that she loses her niche in consistent FUAs.
• Satsuki: Justification Standard [A], as she is one of the core members of Petrify teams which is not only amazing in Standard content but supported by the afflatuses in Limbo this patch.
• Shamane: Adjustment Standard [S to A+] as damage-type-specific Supports become more relevant Shamane, as a universal debuffer, automatically starts to fall off.
• Regulus: Adjusted Raid [A+ to A] as while her Dodge is useful in the late stages of Raid she doesn't perform as well as other characters in most of the available Raids.
• Blonney: Adjustment Raid [B to A] as I think she generally functions pretty well in Raid content as a subsitute for Lilya for example (does better than people think).
• Darley Clatter: Adjustment Raid [B to A] as he is currently utilized in combination with Leilani to cheat out Ultimates rapidly, which is especially usable in 4-man content.
• Erick: Adjustment Raid [B to C] as we've honestly never seen her being used and there are way better supports for Crit even in her own rarity.
• Leilani: Adjustment Raid [C to B] as she does really well the Ultimate-cheating teams.
• Lilya: Adjustment Raid [A+ to A] as she doesn't really fit the bill on any of the available raids.
• Ms. NewBabel: Adjustment Raid [B to A] as she functions well in the Nightmare raid.
• Pickles: Adjustment Raid [S to A+] as Getian does his buffing job better and an AP-positive playstyle isn't as enjoyed in 4-man content.
• Shamane: Adjustment Raid [S to A+] for the same reason as his adjustment on Standard.
• Spathodea: Adjustment Raid [S+ to S] as she doesn't particularly excel at all 3 raids but remains an excellent boss-killer especially with Isolde now in the mix.
• Sonetto: Adjustment Raid [A+ to A] as she doesn't do as well as others anymore but her [Disarm] is useful and so are her buffs.
• Tennant: Adjustment Raid [A to A+] as she performs surprisingly well as a jack-of-all-trades in Hypothesis.
• Twins Sleep: Adjustment Raid [B to A] as one of the most slept-on Supports especially in content where AP doesn't fully matter.
• Ulu: Justification Raid [B] does well in one of the raids and CAN function in weird Isolde ramp teams if that's your style (and if it is, literally what are you doing).
• CN 2.0:
• Windsong: Adjustment Standard [S to S+], due to the new tuning offered in 1.9 she is quite straight up the best Mental Carry in the game and able to match Lucy even on Standard.

14.06.2024

The CN Tier lists have been updated:

• Kakania - Added! S+ on Mane's CN, A+ on Standard CN, S Overall. Kakania does well in all raids, thanks to her damage being mostly Genesis and the fact that she amps up both the survivability and burst capability of any team. She falls off a bit on standard 3P content, where fights are short and her tools aren't as effective, but this content becomes less relevant by the day, earning her an Overall rating of S.
• Blonney - Rating up to B on Standard CN and A on Raids CN. "For Rehabilitation" as well as newer supports/sustain characters greatly help amp up her potential compared to what she had available during her release.
• Lilya - From B to A on Standard CN. Same reasons as Blonney.
• Twins Sleep - From A to B in Overall and Mane's CN. Despite still being an overall useful and cheap pick, their low stats make them struggle to stay alive (and consequently useful) in newer content. Besides, there are a lot of newer picks that are hard to compete with.
• Ms. Newbabel - From A to B in all ratings. Can be very good in some content, but is overall very niche and relatively difficult to play. Used to be the closest thing to a "tank" in the game, but nowadays, we have better picks on the defensive area.
• Tennant - All ratings adjusted to A. Shielders have become more relevant in recent patches, she has more and better psychube options, more synergy options and can grant shields passively and actively. As well as dealing decent DMG and applying a good debuff to amp up Reality characters' DMG.
• Avgust - From A+ to A in all ratings. Avgust is still a useful and notable unit, but not as impactful as other picks in A+ tier.

Also, a lot of the tags in the Tier List were updated. They aim to reflect core aspects of the character in order to help with Team Building and synergies. If you want to check if a character is Reality or Mental type, you can hover over their picture or use the filter function in the Tier List.

07.06.2024

Tier list has been updated to 1.9 patch for CN:

• Lucy - [S+] Given her focus on AoE DMG and the FUA triggers off of kills Lucy absolutely dominates standard content on levels we haven't seen before.
• Windsong - [S+ to S] Due to her playstyle being based on card management she doesn't do well in content with less AP and less card space, still hits very hard but just tough to play.
• Jiu Niangzi - [S+ to S] Due to her high consistent damage (and BiS psychube) she wants to exploit long fights which aren't common in standard content.
• Spathodea - [S to A+] Doesn't do as much damage in content where she has a hard time stacking buffs and dealing single-target damage.
• A Knight [Justification] As one of the most AP-Positive Carry units he feels really good to play in standard content unlike most Carries nowadays.
• Druvis III - [Justification] In Standard content the Petrify team is one of the most notorious ez stage sweeper teams.
• 37 - [Justification] At P0 she doesn't function as a Carry in the slightest and her Support capabilities are so generally abysmal that we just don't see her be good there.
• Isolde - [S+] Basically the best debuffer, does her thing without having to move, throws out debuffs, buffs and FUAs, just does way too much.
• An-An Lee - [Justification] The counterpart buffer in the Standard TL, super AP-friendly, guaranteed offensive and defensive buffs and own card upgrading.
• 6- [Justification] While great 6 is a bit AP-negative which doesn't mesh with standard content and his buffs are a 5050 between offense and defense (he's also more defense oriented and has an ST Ultimate).
• Getian - [S to A+] Struggles in 3-man content at P0 due to the nature of his kit charging his Ultimate more slowly there.
• Shamane - [S to A+] Universal debuffers are less preferable now that type-specific comps are becoming more important.
• Pickles - [S to A+] Entirely carried by his AP-friendly playstyle and strong niche in dispelling buffs from enemies.
• Lorelei - [Placement] More or less a roguelike centered character, really enjoys content where more cards are featured (which is anything but standard content).
• Horropedia and X - [A to B] Dispellers aren't quite needed right now and while X' [Silence] spam is great it's situational to him being able to dispel buffs.
• Tooth Fairy - [S+] Everyone knows why she is here.
• Vila - [S] Down one tier for Standard, reasoning being that she doesn't function as well with a limited amount of teammates due to relying on Mental Teams to hit that [Rusalka] state asap.
• Kakania - Not placed yet due to testing.
• Medicine Pocket - [Justification] A part of their 'healing output' comes from the consistent [Sturdiness] severely impacting incoming damage.

30.05.2024

Tier list has been updated to 1.6 patch for Global.

• The Tier List takes into consideration the Limbo seasons favoring Mineral, Beast and Star. As well as the regular patch content and Mane's Bulletin.
• Jiu Niangzi is the highlight of this patch, no surprises or explanations needed for her position here.
• Spathodea does well both on the new raid boss and is still a top pick on the other two in this patch. Hence why she's S+ on raids despite her DMG not being on Jiu's level.
• Getian isn't the best support for 3-People content unless you have him at P2, but for 4-People content, he's one of the best partners for any Reality carry, and this patch favors Reality DMG dealers. He's good on all three raids.
• Yenisei is basically a 6-star healer in a 5-star disguise. Her shield + Immunity combo are game-changers for some of the more challenging content such as Mane's, but she lacks a bit of the utility and AP-positive gameplay that Tooth Fairy brings, and thus, Yenisei remains at S.
• 37 is a bit higher here due to the "Jiu National" combo. She basically got buffed by Jiu's existence.
• Desert Flannel does well with Getian and Spathodea, shining more on 4-People content, for the same reasons they do.

18.04.2024

• Jiu Niangzi from S > S+ in Overall tier list. Yeah, that was fast but we did say that we wouldn't put restrictions on high tiers and Jiu still matches Windsong in realistic simulations and also does better than Lucy in single target DMG, so we admit dropping her down a tier was a bit too sudden. Thanks for all the feedback!
• So for now, Jiu Niangzi, Lucy and Windsong will all sit in S+ tier for Overall and we will retest the different areas where they shine and reflect that in the Raid/Standard tier lists once they're updated to the 1.9 patch (which will happen soon!).
• Pickles from S > A+. He mostly relies on his Dispel niche and AP-Positive playstyle at the moment and new Supports just do more nowadays.
• Ezra from A+ > S. With Vila being added into S+ we feel like having Ezra back into S as an offensive option next to Yenisei's defensive one is appropriate.

17.04.2024

Added 1.9 characters to the Overall tier list and made several changes to other ratings. Summary:

• Lucy is hard to play but hits like an absolute goddamn truck. Her damage potential is just really high, she is really easy to build into Crit teams due to a ridiculous 882 Crit Tech (29% base Crit Rate, highest in the game) and her psychube giving Crit also. Her only flaw presently from testing is that she's harder to play than most other Damage Dealers.
• Jiu Niangzi from S+ to S. Lucy has completely and utterly outclassed Jiu Niangzi in pretty much every way. Unhinged damage, a ridiculous 800+ Crit Tech and unfortunately Reality DMG which makes her contend with Jiu for a spot. An argument in Jiu's favor is that she is incredibly simple compared to Lucy, but we don't really factor difficulty of play into our ratings unless its team-based such as with Kaalaa Baunaa in a 3-man team.
• Jessica from S to A+. The Poison archetype has been left pretty much in the dust and she just doesn't deal as much damage as other Carries anymore.
• Kaalaa Baunaa from S to A+. Still deals great damage but just gets outclassed by newer Carries and is nowadays functionally relegated to Raids most of the time.
• A Knight, Centurion, Charlie, Druvis III, Regulus from A+ to A. Most of these units just struggle to keep up nowadays, they have their uses especially in Raids and still function fine in standard content but they're not big hitters like Marcus or Melania.
• Blonney, Eternity, Lilya, Sweetheart from A to B. Lowered only by virtue of having the A+ lowered to A.
• Eagle, Kanjira, Leilani, Matilda, Pavia, Satsuki from B to C. Lowered only by the virtue of having A lowered to B.
• Bunny Bunny, Mondlicht, Rabies from C to D. Lowered only by virtue of having B lowered to C.
• Semmelweis is quite strong and has a really nice damage amp however due to her health drain she is quite risky to play without a shielder which ends up breeding a new kind of niche that could see shield based sustain units increase in play rate.
• Click, Ulu, Darley Clatter from B to C to split up the crowded B-tier and show who are more generally useful in that group. These characters occupy a VERY specific niche that rarely comes up.
• Bette, Door, Mesmer Jr, Ms Radio, Nick Bottom, ONiON, Sputnik, TTT from C to D by virtue of others moving from B to C.
• Vila from S to S+. While Tooth Fairy is still the premiere Healer who you use in Crit-based teams, Vila focuses more on generic DMG increase and better healing. So they both can be best in slot depending on the team you want to run.
• Dikke, La Source, Tennant from A to B to split up the crowded A-tier. Dikke has clunkier healing, La Source has unfortunately low stats and rarity and is thus low prio and with the amount of amazing Reality Supports in the game now Tennant is hard to justify using.
• aliEn T, APPle, Poltergeis, Ms Moissan, The Fool from C to D to split up the C tier. These characters really don't provide that much anymore at this stage of the game.

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.