R Character Tier List

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Reading the tier list

The following sections are general guidelines on how to interpret the tier list.

Important points

• The value and usefulness of a character varies based on your rank, your team, fight length, fight mechanics and how you play.
• Each element is evaluated on its own. A 9.5 rating in Fire is not the same as 9.5 in Water.
• The rating reflects the median usefulness of a character. A character may lose points for being hard to use or fit in a team, or gain points for being strong in certain raids. Judging a character by HL usefulness alone may be unhelpful as HL teams tend to deviate from other content.
• Ratings are based on the character's highest uncap level. Some character abilities may be dramatically different before reaching maximum level.
• Ratings are strictly taken from Gamewith. Tier list remarks and bullet points on gbf.wiki are not necessarily from Gamewith and are usually from wiki contributors.
• The Eternals and Arcarum Evokers have their own rating system separate from other characters.
• At the end of the day a tier list is just a tool to help you find useful characters.

Please see this page for further notes

Role meanings

Roles describe what a character is generally good at.

• Attacker - Focuses on dealing damage through skills and attacks, including selfish or mostly-selfish buffs.
• Defender - Focuses on protecting the party through damage mitigation or attack redirection. Includes Party DMG Cut, Substitute, high hostility, etc.
• Debuffer - Focuses on decreasing an enemy's effectiveness or ability to do damage through stat decreases or statuses. Includes Delay and Gravity.
• Healer - Focuses on directly restoring the HP of other party (or raid) characters. Does not include self-healing or shields.
• Support - Focuses on increasing the party's (or raid's) effectiveness or ability to complete content through stat increases or statuses. Includes Clarity, Dispel, etc.

Rating range for each rarity

SSR Characters

SSR characters are generally scored between 7 to 10 points.
However, only characters that affect the balance of the game as a whole may score 10 points.

For SSR characters an easy way to read these ratings are:

10 rating	Gamebreaking
9.5 rating	Vital in many team setups
9.0 rating	Fills the gaps between 9.5 characters
8.5 rating	Useful for specific fights or challenges
8.0 rating	For teams lacking something or rare circumstances
7.5 rating	Should have been an SR.
7.0 rating	Garbage

SR Characters

SR characters are generally scored between 4.5 to 9.0 points.

9.0 rating	An exceptional SR character. Equal power with average SSR characters.
8.5 rating	Outperform SSR characters with proper setup.
8.0 rating	Can compete with standard SSR characters for party slots.
7.5 rating	Higher SR standard. No real faults, and can complement a team well.
7.0 rating	Middle SR standard. Competent functionality.
6.5 rating	Lower SR standard. May perform a role decently, but will never excel.
6.0 rating	Functional, but easily overshadowed.
5.5 rating	The minimum SR usefulness.
5.0 rating	Ask for a refund.
4.5 rating	Garbage to detrimental. More trouble than they're worth.

R Characters

R characters are generally scored from 3 to 6.5 points.

6.5 rating	As useful as an SR character
6.0 rating	Outstanding for an R character. Exhibit a special feature or exploit that gives them an edge.
5.5 rating	Functionally equivalent to and typically able to replace a low-tier SR Character.
5.0 rating	Useful kits that can fit well into team compositions.
4.5 rating	Usable in standard situations.
4.0 rating	Serviceable but lack outstanding contributions to the team.
3.5 rating	Detrimental to themselves.
3.0 rating	Detrimental to the team.

Filtered lists

Rating	Fire	Water	Earth	Wind	Light	Dark	Any
9.0
8.5
8.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0

Icon	Name	Type	Rating	Remarks
	Alistair		4.5	-
	Anna		4.5	-
	Anna		4.0	-
	Bakura		4.5	Role: Healer Short cooldowns allow consistent team functionality. Damage and Heal skills start fairly weak. Spends Charge Bar quickly on skills; likely will not participate in Chain Bursts. Benefits greatly from help with Charge Bar gain (DA/TA/Charge Bar Gain buffs).
	Balurga		5.5	Role: Attacker Overdrive Assassin and a good attack stat to go with it
	Barawa		6.0	Role: Attacker Random damage nuke, can instantly hit for 10 million damage if you get lucky.
	Bridgette		5.5	Role: Support Can apply StrengthATK is greatly boosted based on how high HP is to two allies simultaneously.
	Cailana		6.0	Role: Attacker High uptime 30% Bonus Water DMGDeals bonus water DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks Strength: 30%Duration: 5 turns. 10% Water DEF DownDEF is lowered for water DMG Strength: 10% combined with her Support Skill make her a decent attacker.
	Camieux		4.5	-
	Camieux		5.0	Role: Attacker Mostly used for her plain damage nuke to farm slimes in co-op Can buff Charge Attack damage
	Catura		8.5	-
	Chloe		5.5	Role: Support Makeover has useful, but unreliable effects. HypeATK is boosted Being able to switch out with a sub-party member is a rare and potentially valuable utility. Charge Attack deals no damage.
	Cordelia		5.5	Role: Defender Access to Substitute and Defense Up can keep other party members alive. All-around decent defensive skills with no real weaknesses. Has no offensive options.
	Daetta		5.0	Role: Attacker Full Break has surprising utility for an R character, but only during Overdrive. Extended Mastery Support Skill gives respectable damage potential, but relies on luck. No real drawbacks outside of long cooldowns.
	Dante		6.5	Role: Attacker Does significantly more damage when under the effect of Frozen BladeFrozen blade is cast . Does a lot of Water damage, despite being a Fire character, making him less useful on-element. Requires support from other characters to heal damage caused by Frozen BladeFrozen blade is cast .
	Deliford		4.0	-
	Drusilla		5.0	Role: Rupies Spender Can't attack. Uses your Rupies to randomly buff all allies.
	Elmelaura		4.0	-
	Eso		4.0	-
	Farrah		4.0	-
	Feather		4.5	-
	Flesselles		5.0	-
	Galadar		5.0	-
	Garma		4.5	Role: Attacker Has Break Assassin, giving him one turn of big damage
	Hazen		4.0	-
	Herja		4.5	-
	Ippatsu		5.0	-
	Ippatsu		5.5	Role: Buffer Useful buffs, but hard to plan around due to their random nature.
	Jasmine		4.0	-
	Joel		5.0	-
	Karteira		5.0	Role: Rupie Generator If Negotiations is active, her Charge Attack generates up to 10,000 rupies (if the target survives the attack).
	Karva		5.0	-
	Krugne		3.5	Role: Luck based Support/Debuffer Can inflict useful buffs to party and debuffs on an enemy... or paralyze himself on a bad roll. The skills' randomness and very long cooldown makes him completely unreliable in any type of fight.
	La Coiffe		5.5	Rating: Support Heal and ShieldNext ATK received will be ineffective for a fixed amount in one ability. Highlights can prevent multiple debuffs for a single turn. Extremely useful EMP Skill that combines the effect of 10% ATK UpATK is boosted Strength: 10% with RefreshHP is restored on every turn .
	Lamretta		4.0	-
	Leonora		4.0	Role: Attacker Skill and increased auto-attacks offer standard offensive capabilities.
	Lowain		5.5	Role: Attacker Surprisingly strong buff with excellent uptime if the rest of the team is female.
	Lowain		5.0	-
	Lunalu		6.0	Role: Mimic Facsimile causes Lunalu to repeat the next skill your team casts (although it can fail). 20% self Attack buff helps make up for R-level stats
	Lunalu		6.0	Role: Mimic Instead of a self-buff, she can decrease the failure rate of Facsimile (at the cost of a self-Burn) Otherwise, she's the same as her original version.
	Mary		4.0	-
	Mary		4.5	-
	Nene		4.5	Role: Support Unusual utility that allows her to absorb or redirect pressure from enemies. Notable synergy with characters that have Dodge-and-CounterDodge and counter one-ally attacks Counter attacks grant 5% charge bar per hit. or Tank-and-CounterCounters upon taking DMG Counter attacks grant 5% charge bar per hit., but no innate Hostility UpMore likely to be attacked of their own.
	Norcel		4.5	-
	Pavidus		4.0	-
	Petra		4.5	-
	Philosophia		5.0	Role: Healer One of the most straight-forward healers in the game. Limited utility if healing is not necessary. Respectable healing cap and decent cooldowns. Cannot clear debuffs. Extended Mastery Support skill gives a self DA/TA buff, her only offensive option.
	Randall		5.5	Role: Attacker Kick it Up boosts CA damage. DA support through Charge Attacks and Support Skill.
	Richard		3.0	-
	Rosamia		4.5	Role: Attacker Unchallenged and increased Hostility can keep self and/or other units alive. Guaranteed DA, but only for one turn limits usefulness. 10% Defense Down is easily outclassed, but useful if no other alternatives present. All-around solid and consistent character with no specialties.
	Rosine		5.0	Role: Healer Produce CrackerRosine's homemade rice crackers, made with love. Use them to cast skills. every turn. Charge attack grants three CrackerRosine's homemade rice crackers, made with love. Use them to cast skills. (Max: 10). Heal 300 HP to an ally for 1 CrackerRosine's homemade rice crackers, made with love. Use them to cast skills. with no cooldown. Use all CrackerRosine's homemade rice crackers, made with love. Use them to cast skills. to inflict CharmedAttacks are slightly limited on a foe.
	Ryan		4.5	-
	Spinnah		8.0	Role: Attacker Potentially able to perform two attacks indefinitely. Can reduce max health to greatly increase DA/TA rates. Benefits from having outside TA sources to avoid using second skill.
	Stan		4.5	Role: Attacker Can put out a decent burst of damage during Overdrive every 5 turns
	Suframare		5.0	-
	Tanya		4.5	-
	Thelonim		5.5	Role: Attacker Thelonim's Magic is unreliable.
	Vanzza		4.5	-
	Vermeil		5.5	Role: Attacker Has no offensive skills, but his normal attacks deal high damage. Requires babysitting to keep effective and alive, but... Synergizes well with R and SR Light tanks (Cordelia, Naoise).
	Viceroy		4.5	-
	Vikala		9.0	Role: Support Greatly enhances Dark allies' C.A. specs as main ally. Can increase Dark allies' C.A. damage as sub ally, but at low magnitude. Can't attack at all, only useful as main ally to decrease lockout time.
	Volenna		5.0	-
	Walder		4.0	-
	Walder		4.0	-
	Walder		4.0	-
	Will		4.0	Role: Attacker
	Yodarha		4.0	-
	Young Cat		6.5	Role: Support/Debuffer Inflicts 30% ATK DownATK is lowered Strength: 30%Base Accuracy: 90%Duration: 3 turnsLocal status effect, 30% DEF DownDEF is lowered Strength: 30%Base Accuracy: 90%Duration: 3 turnsLocal status effect, and CharmedAttacks are slightly limited Duration: 3 turnsLocal status effect. Provides additional support through party-wide Charge Bar +Instantly boosts Charge Bar by and healing. Can also support from the backline by granting 5% DEF to the party and a small chance for Charge Bar +10%Instantly boosts Charge Bar by 10% Strength: 10%.
	Zehek		4.5	-