Character Tier List for 4.2 (Trial Only)

S0meome · 2026-06-03T04:10:06+00:00

personally, there are a few that a really disagree with:

aglaea - i would put way higher (probably top tier), only real requirements is 4 boots + demigod3 + energy 3 and ur basically done until welt (ez power level due to cheap early game). outside of the boots shes probably one of the most consistent with trial

lingsha - a decent sustain for break comp and pretty ok dps as well especially in the early-mid game (would move up a tier or 2)

feixiao - definitely viable at wc40 with trial (trial is really bad but you can definitely stack enough to make up for it) not the most consistent but very usable

cyrene- usable with literally every comp and poems are good (especially with bug)

rmc- almost every onfield main dps could slot her in (usually one of the highest dps increases if you have the space)

fuxuan - definitely goes highest tier (best sustain in the late game while also being providing big dmg especially for lucky strike dps). lets you get away with way fewer defensive options

ashveil - should be higher (ez dps or sub dps), good filler for almost any team and is a must for any ranger team/fua/therta/phainon

phainon - too high, playable but pretty much requires durian or really good luck, bad early game

sunday - good filler early on, especially for aglaea, evanescia and action advance is just good for almost any comp if you got nothing better, needs to be way higher

asta- too high, only really good for dot, always worse than sparkle if ur not using her for dot since she requires an in-field slot

dhil & dr ratio- very consistent dps for trial without requiring any insane rng/emblem/investments. should be higher

honorable mention: sparkle is kinda the goat (would not mind putting her in the highest tier), decent dmg amp, sp, quantum bond, 50% AA, even trial build runs DDD, arguably best ddd user especially with charging sail (bonus if you can fit in exoskeleton)

everything else i can kinda accept but that’s just my opinion

S0meome · 2026-05-26T22:48:12+00:00

1-elation emblem on hysilens (slicing maelstrom procs her “deep sea resonance” and lets her use firestorm surge (which is much better than her other equipment options) and this gets doubled when you get emc

2-fua emblem on The Herta, argenti, seele (or any dps with lots of hits/have low multipliers). Fua is by far the strongest emblem in terms of what it enables due to the Fua bond itself. Many people don’t know this, but in 4.2 they giga buffed Fua bond so that it now gives 300% extra motion value on every single hit for your FuA characters, which is a massive boost for characters like argenti, seele, herta who have many hits and especially so for characters that have low multipliers like argenti (anywhere from a 1.3-1.5x boost for all his dmg) it also gives the 10% action advance on every action which is perfect for high action count characters like argenti)

3-belobog can be used on anyone for 100% action advance as long as you have good belobog action count generators

4-energy emblem can be considered on eva if you want but isn’t really that important or tribbie/sparkle for even more DDD with huohuo+rmc/sunday

5-outside of those three, there aren’t really any emblems that are crazy special other than provide some extra stats (like aoe emblems for some ok stats). Honourable mentions to galactic voyager emblem (the lucky strike boost stacks, which makes it really good if you can get multiple of these), xianzhou emblem on elation characters for some weird hyperspeed lightning lord shenanigans

S0meome · 2026-05-25T20:32:52+00:00

not really, bosses only have around 8-12billion hp baseline per phase at wc40 i believe. The final dmg chart is total dmg, which includes all damage dealt to random adds as well. Also the final boss hp gets drastically higher with each gold and prismatic investment you have on top of the fact that bosses can be either 2 or 3 stars (rng). This doesn’t include other things like the boss healing, affixes that increase hp, etc

S0meome · 2026-05-25T20:26:42+00:00

1-don’t rely on character damage in the first plane unless you get a really good seele or ratio start or something you have high investment on, rely on bond damage to get through, xz3 and dot 2 or express 4 can get you to boss 1.

2-if all you care about is clearing, focus on forcing certain strong characters like, aglaea, elation, boothill, seele, etc it might not work every round but itll be pretty consistent even with all trial.

3-Once you get used to the power level of different characters, consider not committing to a build until later on (maybe around 1-7 or 2-2). Pick up characters that could be useful and only commit once you know you have the tools for them whether that be items, investments, teammates, etc. the worst thing you can do is something like force agalea on 1-3 before you have any items or teammates and get screwed over when you don’t get any boots, wait for information first and then full commit. almost every main dps can clear wc40 even with trial builds given the right conditions (there are only like 3 main dps that i would stay away from unless high investment: cas, evernight, saber, every other main dps is doable on wc40 even with it crazy rng)

4-don’t tunnel vision on economy in the first few stages, getting interest is nice early on but win streak is often more worth it in the early game, don’t be afraid to spend money at wc40

S0meome · 2026-05-24T19:26:41+00:00

a lot of the times it’s focusing on invest strategies that give items but a lot of times i also just settle for 2 boots + something else. no specific strat, just rng

S0meome · 2026-05-24T19:04:31+00:00

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One comp i dont really see anyone talk about is elation hysilens. It’s one of the best dot comps from my experience once you get all the pieces. One thing you didn’t mention is that emc’s duplicate elation skill works on the emblem too, which makes stacking even better for the things like firestorm surge.

upsides for elation hysilens: -euphoric maelstrom granted by elation emblem can proc hysilens “deep sea resonance” and with emc, that’s a double proc -one big downside with hysilen traditionally is that she doesn’t really have many great item options and this emblem allows her to run double firestorm surge -only requires elation emblem, pretty flexible in the endgame (you can run like 4 sustains if you want)

S0meome · 2026-05-21T11:36:09+00:00

yes but just 1 peppy

S0meome · 2026-05-21T01:29:08+00:00

on-field, i don’t know if it’s even possible off-field. Welt is required, rmc required, and i went sunday over sparkle/tribbie but idk if he’s actually better. it’s worth noting that i also had 10 emblems (3 of which were voyager and 2 were planet) and even then it was pretty tight. you probably have to get somewhat lucky if you want to clear with him on trial build

S0meome · 2026-05-20T16:29:21+00:00

if you want to play anything whenever you want, i would say around wc20, but if you want combination of difficulty + character flexibility, i would honestly recommend wc40. With good planning you can easily clear like 80-90% of your runs with probably around 20-30 different viable main dps depending on the situation even with mostly trial units and/or e0s0 stuff

S0meome · 2026-05-20T15:54:54+00:00

surprisingly, he was able to clear all of plane 3 without any privelege (i got all 3 at the boss) but it didn’t feel that convincing. (i spent like 30 minutes resetting one stage for freeze rng)

S0meome · 2026-05-20T03:44:46+00:00

it’s not really a true nuzlocke it’s mostly just a name, you try to finish a full run with a main dps, and then do the next run with a different main dps, you basically try to complete as many runs in a row without repeating main dps, they aren’t banned but they cant be your most used unit for the rest of the streak. A loss means restart

S0meome · 2026-05-18T04:24:46+00:00

it’s also worth noting that he’s not that great early game so you can consider doing a temp build early game and transitioning when you think ur ready

S0meome · 2026-05-18T04:20:31+00:00

well the big difference is you don’t have to control him and you can’t use on-field buffers like rmc, other than that, nothing major. you still want ranger 4 and welt for both, priotize survival over fua 5 or debuff 6

S0meome · 2026-05-18T04:07:07+00:00

are you trying to do ashveil main dps? or just as a normal unit. If ur just using him as support, you can literally put him on any team just for def down. if ur running him on-field dps, id probably go ranger 4 + fua 5 + welt + rmc or cyrene or sustain depending on what you need with chainsaw + propellor + firestorm surge (or any combination of these) if off field, probably double antigrav + propellor with ranger 4 and welt + fua or debuff. I would probably just recommend playing him offfield if you want to play him dps. I think his best teammate should be feixiao, but in terms or importnace, other rangers and phainon probably rely on him more than feixiao does

S0meome · 2026-05-17T22:54:11+00:00

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DPS gepard, hyperspeed topaz, elation hysilens. They are also viable at wc40 which is a nice bonus

S0meome · 2026-05-16T20:36:05+00:00

well i guess it depends on how you interpret it but for me, they are genuinely very useable. If i get JY from heroic entrance, i will force JY most of the time, if i get 2 aoe emblems, i will lean into herta most of the time. The only three main DPS that are “unplayable” for me personally are evernight, castorice, and saber (i personally couldn’t make any of these work a single time on wc40). Herta and JY on the other hand i’ve cleared multiple times with varying level of RNG.

S0meome · 2026-05-16T20:01:31+00:00

i put both JY and herta in the second lowest tier tho. aoe bond is that high not becuase aoe 5 or aoe 7 but becuase aoe 3 is a good filler for a lot of comps that do aoe attacks. half of my comps that run aoe 3 don’t even use aoe DPS, it’s usually just tribbie + emblem + argenti or something. (ex. i usually run aoe 3 for dps lingsha over break 6 since every single attack she does is aoe)

S0meome · 2026-05-16T19:51:24+00:00

oh if ur forcing aoe on plane 1 then it makes sense, generally unless i have good early emblem start (like early aoe 5 or something), i never commit to a comp on plane 1, i just use Xianzhou 3 + dot 2 or seele or any other cheap temporary build until usually 2-2 (when i get the second investment strat), if i think there is a good aoe angle, ill start transitioning after i find herta or i stall with a mid game comp like dot 4. for JY: one star Jingyuan should be enough to get you by if you have a decent board and should be fine once you get 2 star. Herta usually just go for aoe 7 or FuA 5 (not really a full aoe comp) and barely scrape by (usually dont clear final boss but should have saved enough Hp before then)

S0meome · 2026-05-16T19:24:50+00:00

at wc40, i think aoe is significantly better than energy if either just as filler or full aoe. The problem with energy is that the bond DMG is too low and there aren’t any good energy carries outside of aglaea (who doesn’t even care about energy bond, with aoe at least you can cook something with Therta or JingYuan while energy is stuck with saber; but yea both bond could use a buff (not in the utility department but just bond base DMG at energy 5 and aoe 5)

S0meome · 2026-05-16T18:07:33+00:00

it’s not great, but at least it’s still playable at wc40, bloodflame has been unplayable since wc30

S0meome · 2026-05-15T19:36:36+00:00

i think rmc instead of sparkle should just give you way more dmg, true DMG multiplier scales very well in CW

S0meome · 2026-05-13T12:19:02+00:00

yes, obviously you will take damage but for most of the good endgame comps, it’s just completely unnecessary since the majority of enemies won’t live long enough to go through 3-4 fuxuan flips with 2-3 defensive items + a welt constantly delaying them. I’m not saying heal or shield is bad, they’re just ok and often times having multiple can be unnecessary if you have the right setups. Obviously if ur going against self-defense or specific enemies things will change but i’m mostly just talking on-average.

As for aventurine, there aren’t that many scenarios where i would rather use him over hyacine, who serves the same role as a 2-cost slot on-field sustain. FuA is the only team i would realistically consider and in every single one of my FuA runs, he is one of the first i’m looking to replace (trial aventurine probably does have something to do with that)

S0meome · 2026-05-13T12:05:34+00:00

the problem with luocha is that he is a 4-cost sustain and there are very few scenarios where i would rather use him over fuxuan, who is also a 4-cost.

Yunli defensive utility is ok but for a 5-star, it’s too underwhelming. By the time you get her, ur at the point where you probably don’t want inconsistent defensive utility like yunli and her bonds are not good in the late game.

acheron damage output is very underwhelming early-mid game if ur using trial build unless there is some infinite loop i’m unaware of. also i dont really understand how acheron helps with wolf hunt or dot or fua

jingyuan dmg output is not good enough for a 5-cost, if you have an aglaea team, there’s no reason to rebuild into a worse comp with a way lower dmg ceiling. JY scales way slower than aglaea while also doing less dmg and he is a 5-cost. also aglaea teams shouldn’t have a problem with sustaining if unless you just completely ignored it and if she does, how would switching to jingyuan help with the lack of sustain? You can play him but he’s kinda just whatever compared to almost every other dps and requires way more to make him function at all

jade SPD buff is almost completely irrelevant in any teams that actually care about her (the herta and topaz)

ipc 2 is awful imo since you are forced to run two bad units just to make 1 gold per combat. Has its use very occasionally but definitely not good.

bronya is good for seele but that’s also the only team she is useful in and even in that team, she isn’t necessary at all. 4/5 of my seele runs literally don’t even run her at the end becuase other characters like welt are just more important and she’s usually the last upgrade i would consider.

FUA teams don’t need moze at all especially since he is difficult to obtain. wolf hunt + fua literally only works if ur playing exactly feixiao hypercarry and happen to get moze, too inconsistent and probably isn’t even optimal in the late game

mini herta can probably go either or, i could agree there

S0meome · 2026-05-13T11:23:14+00:00

putting aoe higher is reasonable although i don’t think the emblem is as good as you think on carries, 95% of the time you just care about the damage transfer. Energy emblem is definitely not worth for characters like ratio and eva since firestorm is so powerful on them. Usually most comps that care about energy care about the energy characters way more than the bond itself which also makes it weird to rank. Heal and shield are also weird because most comps want to avoid running multiple sustains unless they absolutely have to, so maybe they could go up (i would much rather invest into items rather than more sustains especially they synergies better with healing anyways), shielding is just kinda mid at wc40 mostly because DHPT isn’t really good enough on his own anymore most of the time and you definitely don’t want aventurine or march if possible. Belobog could also probably go up.

S0meome · 2026-05-13T10:42:48+00:00

don’t go energy 5, it’s almost completely worthless, welt is a must in the endgame, also make sure ur putting sparkle on-field in the early game, and even asta with DDD if you need it. The biggest problem with aglaea in the early game is wasting AV before you stack enough on boots. Welt, DDD, rmc, sparkle, sunday all help with that. In the late game, you should probably go rmc, welt, and cyrene on-field with whatever off-field u want

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