Tier list as of March 2025

How can a character be both a top tier support and DPS? By having two powerful yet viable specs based on which passive you level up. Tsuruko is the first limited character in Tribe Nine, and proves her power through her sheer versatility and high amounts of DPS. As she damages enemies she charges up her Unending Twilight; once maxed, Tsuruko creates a large field that empowers her strategy skill and can either heals allies based on the damage she deals (further enhanced with her first passive), or remove the healing entirely to deal bonus damage based on her support stat (by levelling her second passive). With two very different builds, Tsuruko can fulfill different roles for your team all while doing her job better than most of her competition. Her only real weakness is her spotty AI; she's definitely best played manually to fully maximize her potential damage and/or supportive capabilities.

Pros/Cons

• Top Tier Support
• Top Tier DPS

• Requires her Zone
• No Damage Ultimate

One of the starting characters you get. Don't let her free status fool you; Iroha is one of the strongest characters in the game once she has enough rank ups. This is thanks to her second passive providing her with a massive boost in damage based on a percent of her support stat. This not only makes her ultimate deal extremely high damage, it also buffs her follow up DPS for a short time afterwards. Combined with her already solid DPS and break values, and Iroha is a sub DPS that really makes one question if she's actually a main DPS. And if that isn't enough for you, she also gives your team crit rate on her chain skill, which combined with the support stat you've likely invested in and your team will utterly nuke bosses off the full chain rotation into Iroha ultimate.

Pros/Cons

• Exceptional Breaker
• Decent Buffer
• Nuclear ultimate

• None

It's not every day that one can put the main character of a gacha game is a top tier contender, and while our roster size makes it a bit easier to do, Yo's kit more than justifies this placement. His kit flows smoothly into itself; his primary attack string is fairly quick, his secondary attack is a little committal but activates his unique passive [Burt Drive] which in turn activates both of his potential passives as well as his strategy skill Hitting Stride. It's in his passives that Yo finds his power; his first passive gives him a massive boost to his primary attack and strategy skill damage multipliers, while his second passive lets him heal the team based on the damage he deals while in [Burst Drive]. Between these great passives and his high break values, Yo excels in literally every role. This gives him the current undisputed titled as the best (and currently only) all rounder character.

Pros/Cons

• Jack of all trades, master of everything
• Simple To Learn

• None

Miu is a high damaging DPS with solid DPS and possibly the strongest ultimate in the game once charged To charge her ultimate, she first needs to use her strategy skill Vertical Crystal to drop down a turret. Enemies that take damage within its AOE will build charge for it each time they take damage. While it may take a little time to fully charge her ultimate, she can acquire a large amount of charge by using her chain attack. While Miu is mostly flawless, she has very poor break values on her primary and secondary attacks, and her turret does none at all. As such, she does rely on her teammates to give her the break she needs to both fund her ultimate and help her get charge. However, this downside is easily made irrelevant as bosses tend to melt once hit her with her fully charged ultimate, costing only one bar to activate and dishing out up to 20 hits of high damage made more damaging by levelling her second passive.

Pros/Cons

• Great DPS
• Lightning Fast
• Life Bar Melting Ultimate

• Poor Breaker
• Melee Counterattack

Jio is a solid all rounder in theory, but in reality his primary reason to be played is his unique 25% armor shred and ability to deal decent break damage. Jio's main gimmick comes from his Venom, a damage over time [DOT] debuff that deals a little damage per tick based on how many stacks are on the enemy. When the Venom reaches its cap it will detonate, dealing AOE damage to all nearby enemies. While the damage can be improved, including making the detonation crit, it's not enough to consider him a main DPS when compared to the dedicated DPS characters. His break damage is also quite good, but not exceptional enough to call him a dedicated breaker. However, no other character in the game can apply armor shred, which combined with the above factors results in a surprisingly good character.

Pros/Cons

• Lethal Debuff
• Great AOE

• Average Overall

Q comes winging in as a fairly underwhelming character upon initial impression. However, while he may lack an immediately obvious and abusable trait he makes up for by simply doing everything well. Make no mistake; Q is no DPS or breaker. He's outclassed on both fronts by dedicated characters. But he splits the difference well enough to stand out off of pure role compression, while also being a very strong tank. His strategy skill Declaration applies a global taunt once it is fully cast, then enters [Berserk] state allowing him to automatically dodge attacks with the first two attacks of his primary string or counterattack on the third. This is not reliable in the slightest and really just serves to cover a mistake you may have made. He also gets a new strategy skill (Frantic Impale) which deals decent damage and break for a low stamina cost. As AI Q is notably quite bad, it is highly suggested to manually pilot Q to ensure a smoother battle.

Pros/Cons

• Jack of all Trades
• Great Counterattack

• Master of None
• Manual Preferred

Wielding a massive claymore and even more massive damage, Enoki is a powerhouse DPS who embodies high risk and high reward. Her main form of damage comes from her strategy skill Grill Impact, a massive leaping attack that deals nearly half the damage of most characters ultimates. However, she can only use this ability once her heat is stacked up. Heat can be acquired in a few ways; the fourth hit of her primary attack string, her secondary attack, her counterattack, and by extension of her unique perfect evasion derivation attack, her perfect dodge attack. However, if she gets hit by any attack from the enemy ALL of her heat will be removed. Combined with her low defenses and second passive draining her own life to further increase her damage output results in one of the riskiest but rewarding characters in Tribe Nine.

Pros/Cons

• Nigh Uncontested DPS
• Good Breaker
• Snowballing Damage

• Inherently Risky
• Manual Only
• Awkward Teammate

The ultimate tank in terms of pure survivability. With the simple press of his strategy skill Shock Absorber, Saigo becomes nigh immortal as he trades his stamina for a massive 70% damage reduction. While "blocking" attacks in this state, Saigo builds Up his rage, granting him bonus defense percent based on the amount of rage he has. With his first passive, he also gains health regen based on his rage, while his second passive turns his ultimate into a high damage nuke (albeit at the cost of 3 bars). Unlike his competition, AI Saigo is also noteworthy as being one of the best AI options in the cast, doing its job quite well outside of its propensity to fully charge his secondary attack. Because of this, and because he's a free character, Saigo is a solid character to bring with you to almost anything. That being said, Saigo isn't perfect. His damage is awful, although certainly better than other support characters placed lower on the tier list. His break seems good from a numbers perspective, but his slow animations result in his break speed being deceptively slower than expected. While his ultimate CAN do big damage, it still lacks in comparison to the DPS and high tier breakers. But no one in the game can take hits like Saigo can.

Pros/Cons

• Immortal Wall
• AI Friendly
• Workable Break Damage

• One Trick Pony

Todoroki is one of the best supports in the game, acting as both a tank and a buffer. His primary value comes from his strategy skill Spotlight, creating a field around himself that buffs the crit rate of allies within the area. In turn, each time his allies deal damage in his spotlight applies a self buff that refunds part of the cost (turns it into a 1 bar ultimate, although you still need 2 bars of tension to activate it) and increases the total duration of his ultimate (up to 25 seconds). With his second passive, gaining these stacks will also generate tension for the team, a very rare trait to have. Upon ulting, he applies a buff to the whole team that increases the primary and secondary attack multipliers of your team by a whopping 60%. This can be further improved my levelling his first passive.

Pros/Cons

• Insane Buffs
• Simple Tank

• Terrible DPS/Break
• Buffers Unneeded

While Senju's kit makes him seem like a supportive DPS that protects his allies at the cost of his own life, his true purpose is as a speedy breaker quickly generating tension for the team to quickly kill bosses. For the sake of completion we'll cover his shield. Whenever the third hit of his primary attack string, strategy skill, or chain attack land, Senju gains a certain amount of Fighting Spirit. When reaching the maximum amount, he applies a shield to his teammates that reduces damage taken, but also redirects the damage to his own life bar. That being said, there's no real reason to think about this when you can instead spam his secondary attack for a massive 600 break value per swing, unmatched by any character in the game currently. This does necessitate manual play as the AI prioritizes his mostly useless shields, but with the right partners allows for some of the fastest clears possible.

Pros/Cons

• Breaker King
• Speedrun King

• Low DPS

A simple yet effective ranged DPS, Gotanda beams down his enemies before unleashing a devastating ultimate attack. His playstyle is pretty straight forward; your goal is to build up his charge by either using his primary fire (slow, but costs no stamina) or (ideally) his secondary fire (a high damaging laser beam that consumes stamina but quickly builds charge). You can then spend this charge on either his strategy skill or hold it to boost the crit rate on his ultimate skill. He can further increase his ultimate damage by levelling his first passive, or buff his team's attack upon ult activation with his second passive.

Pros/Cons

• Safe and easy to use

• Ult Reliant
• Bad Strategy Skill

Minami makes a strange case for a team slot. Her poor damage, terrible break values, and heal over time focus make her utterly outclassed by Tsuruko and only a sidegrade to Koichi. What pushes her over the edge is her stalling potential. When paired with a tank Minami can grind any fight to a halt, slowly winning via a war of attrition thanks to her consistent healing and powerful shield. This is not a particularly recommended strategy, but if you're having issues fighting a boss it is a valid option.

Pros/Cons

• Great Healer
• Strong Shield

• Low Damage, Bad Break

A buffer with an evasion tank spin, Mita is a decent option as a support. He is unfortunately held back due to superior options existing on all fronts, but his unique ability to buff the Attack and Support stats allow him a niche use case for very specific teams. Unfortunately, these teams don't actually need buffs, or a tank, to function properly. To even access his buffing capabilities requires him to apply the debuff [Illusion] to the enemy, which allows him to automatically dodge an attack from them and gain a stack of [Energize]. With 3 stacks of [Energize], his next secondary attack will instead launch his buff to the closest ally. However, the buff decays over time, losing a stack every 5 seconds. With all these conditional and positional requirements, the question of whether it's worth all that effort certainly comes to mind.

Pros/Cons

• Role Compressor
• Unique and Strong Buff

• Conditional Buffer
• Outclassed

Providing a massive burst of healing and not much else, Koishi is unfortunately a very mediocre character. He is a free character at least, so if you lack better options you don't have much of a choice if you want a healer.

Pros/Cons

• Unmatched Burst Healer
• Free character

• Mediocre in Almost All Regards