Wuthering Waves Team Tier List

We offer separate tier lists that assess characters based on different criteria due to the diversity of character traits and abilities different contents require in order to beat them. As a result, we recommend you to check all of the tier lists we offer before concluding on a character’s full position in the game’s meta. The better they perform in a variety of gamemodes, the more valuable they are overall.

Our Team Tier Lists focus on the performance of full meta teams within the game’s hardest contents, Tower of Adversity (ToA) and Whimpering Wastes (WhiWa), grading their peak potential at different levels of play. Off-meta teams are not considered, we strictly focus on the performance of the best teams of all characters in the game and put their performances up against one another.

Important! Teammates are ordered from left to right, top to bottom within a team slot based on strength. Teams are ordered alphabetically within a tier.

Criteria

The Team Tier List has no categories and instead rates full teams. We aim to compare teams against one another while ensuring that all meta-relevant teams are ranked for each character, and to include as many viable, but unique team archetypes that encompass the full character cast if possible (or at least the ones that are meta-relevant).

A team can have multiple characters filling the same slot or same purpose. In those instances, alternatives will be listed as long as they are worth considering for a similar degree of performance than what is listed on our Tier List. But remember that the lower down the list of alternatives you go, the more a team’s Tier List placement is subject to be lowered compared to what is shown on Prydwen.

Team placements are determined by performance of the team within their respective gamemode, Tower of Adversity or Whimpering Wastes depending on the Tier List you view.

The characters listed aren’t the only ones that are viable for a given character’s team, but are the ones capable of outputting the most damage. For more information on alternatives and their performance against one another, please refer to individual character pages, where we go in-depth on their Teams & Synergies. Finally, keep in mind lower tier characters are less likely to appear in the case of a much lower performance in regards to team damage output/effectiveness in the gamemode graded by the Tier List viewed.

For character-specific Criteria, refer to our general Tier List.

About Skill Ceilings

We cannot expect players reading the Tier List to play like AI, inputting every action as quickly as theoretically possible, perfectly optimized for maximum DPS, and without any mistakes. This means we at a baseline can only compromise and consider the most powerful Swap Cancels and Animation Cancels (think switching out of animations that are several seconds long and easy-to-input Animation Cancels), and generally speaking the characters will be judged using the rotations that serve as the baseline for calculations on the character pages in an order that makes sense given their role on the team. We do this in an attempt to try to portray a Tier List that will be as accurate as possible to the majority of our readers.

Special tags

More complex techniques and skill need to be taken into account in some capacity, since a Tier List needs to grade characters or teams when played optimally. Hence, those cases will be reserved for a special tag, called Expert, which can alter team performance when played at a more optimized level (still different from theoretical perfection, but closer to practical perfection with the purpose of clearing endgame contents in mind — which means speedrun-exclusive techniques still won’t be considered). This will not affect the character’s base position on the Tier List, but teams with the tag could be considered to be able to perform higher depending on player skill. On the Team Tier List, a specific teammate may be the team’s reason for obtaining the Expert Tag due to enabling a separate, more advanced playstyle - the best teammate is still determined based on highest baseline performance, however for more information on Expert teammates and alternative playstyles, we strongly recommend visiting the characters’ individual “Gameplay & Teams” sections for more information.

Finally, some teams may be put on a Watchlist in the case that their placement is subject to fluctuation but not finalized. Such teams will be marked with a Watchlist tag, which may cause them to either go Up or Down 1 tier on the Tier List based on specification. We welcome your feedback about the performance and future Tier List placement of watchlisted teams on our Discord server!

Meta Lines

Meta Lines categorize each section of the tier list into a power bracket. Here are the three brackets:

• Apex Teams - The teams in this bracket are the best of the best, and generally have the highest performance when played at their peak. They will allow for the most comfortable clears for both casuals and experts, consistently displaying high performance across a wide variety of encounters and battle scenarios within the specifications of the gamemode.
• Strong Teams - Teams in this bracket still have the capabilities required to clear endgame contents with relative ease, however they’re lacking something when compared to Apex Teams. This can be for a wide variety of reasons, but common themes are a lower degree of performance, a much higher barrier to entry which makes them less casual-friendly, or an inability to succeed in the widest variety of battle scenarios possible, only specializing in specific kinds of encounters.
• Niche Teams - Teams in this bracket start displaying much lower performance especially when compared to the top tier teams. They have one fundamental flaw that makes them comparatively worse to higher tier teams, or they have multiple smaller flaws that add up together. More often than not, they cover a niche that’s filled by another higher-tier team that performs much easier than them. They’re played noticeably less and will require higher maintenance to perform due to not being on the same standard.

26/02/2026

Hello, we’re here to introduce what’s probably our biggest change to the Tier List to date overall! We revamped our individual Tier Lists to account for some big meta changes and also finally established 2 Team Tier Lists which focus more on the value and performance of complete meta teams rather than characters in a vacuum. We exclusively focused on meta teams here. For off-meta teams, please refer to individual character pages where we go more in-depth on alternatives and their relative performance to other top teammate choices for the characters in question.

Finally, for more information on this Tier List and the technical details of how we rank characters, please refer to the “About the Tier List”, “Criteria and roles”, and “Ratings & Meta Lines” tabs above this changelog. Thank you!