Character Tier List Based on Darkness 15

[[ATG] Derrick770]

Since I made a weapon tier list I thought I may as well make a character tier list. I will be ranking the characters based on how easy or consistent it is to win with them on darkness 15 as well as taking their synergies with weapons and skill. I will be ranking them from S to D in tier list fashion. Note- All the characters are perfectly able to win with certain weapons, I am merely comparing them to each other.

S Tier- Abby, Spark, Shauna

Abby- This comes as no surprise, Abby is the strongest character in the game. She does well with almost every weapon but in particular the dual SMGs and batgun do serious work. Even the grenade launcher is not half bad on her. Her 3 unique skills are all great or ok, 2 of them being great and one of them being just ok, so this is good for building a run. Skills are amazing with Abby as she is able to spread frost at an unsurpassed rater and projectile increases are ludicrous with her. Additionally, lightning is very good as it increases her time in her ability.

Spark- Spark is a very good character who can work well with many weapons and skills. She works well with almost every weapon excluding the cross bow and grenade launcher, but her favored weapon is the Dual SMGs as it allows for way more lighting. Speaking of which, the lighting skill is quite good for her as it can make her have nearly infinite ammo and do a lot of damage. She is average when it comes to spreading frost and paired with her immense lighting/fire synergy it is quite strong. Her unique skills are range from ok to great with the 2 of them being great and one of them being ok.

Shauna- The starting character is also one of the strongest. She is able to re-roll skills which is useful for higher darkness levels. But what really bumps this character to S tier are her unique skills. All three of them are among the best unique skills in the game. The Halo is the weakest of the three due to its delayed impact but is is undoubtedly quite strong. The 40% extra XP is absolutely invaluable as it allows you to be well ahead of the difficulty curve. And the x3 to next upgrade is game breakingly good as it can allow you to become invincible. However, I will not consider the absolute peak of this skill to rank her so I did not rank her higher. She has no particular synergies with any weapon or skills and any can work with her.

A Tier- Diamond, Lilith

Diamond- Diamond has a lot of health which at first glance may not seem like that big a deal as you should not be getting hit to often if you are able to beat darkness 15 consistently. What really make Diamond good are her unique skills, all of them increase her stats based on taking damage or healing, meaning that you can leverage your high HP to get other stats. This can get out of hand quite quickly if you get the HP regen skill early along with runes you can get quite a bit of stats out of your HP. Other than this she does specifically synergize with any weapons or skills.

Lilith- Lilith's specialty is summoning. However, I don't particularly like the summoning playstyle and think you should take another route. Even without going for the summoning route Lilith basically gets extra damage for every kill so I think she is still quite strong. If you want to go the summoning route, the batgun is the obvious choice, otherwise every weapon has no specific synergy with Lilith. Her three unique skills range from bad to good. The skill that makes two skulls per kill is quite good regardless of build, and the one that increases summon damage highly is good for summon builds and make the skulls better. The other one is bad as it is simply not as good as the other two.

B tier- Scarlett

Scarlett- She is supposed to be based upon fire but I don't particularly value the burn status effect. However, why her ability is good is not the burn, but the ability for it to spread frost as it has infinite pierce. Scarlett plays particularly well with the dual SMGs as it allows her to belt fire. Her unique skills are quite good other than the one that increases burn damage at the expense of bullet damage.

C tier- Hina

Hina- Unfortunately, Hina is the worst character in the game as she has only a soft synergy with summon builds and again summon builds are not really my favorite. Her ability to dash and put a shadow clone is not good, unless you get her 1 good unique ability, which makes her invincible when dashing and dealing damage to whatever you dash through. This ability kept me from putting her in D tier as it is legitimately strong, but not enough for me to put her any higher than C tier.

[little Star]

Postat inițial de ATG Derrick770:

That does look quite powerful and fun, might have to re-evaluate scarlett further if this is easily reproducible.

https://gyazo.com/6af25985aee187a0071e624e78d1559b

Ever looked at that kinda stuff too?

[anima132000]

Postat inițial de ATG Derrick770:

That does look quite powerful and fun, might have to re-evaluate scarlett further if this is easily reproducible.

I've also recorded it earlier with flame cannon but in that run I received Pyromaniac as my last talent, but what happens there is the barrage of bullets are so high that it ends up lagging the game.

Here is the time stamp to see what it looks like:
https://youtu.be/4uzzOtMD40E?t=1198

But other than that if you look through the earlier parts of the run again ethereal activates consistently enough that I can do a pseudo pyromaniac for most part.

[Senki]

Scarlet is S tier with the flamethrower, or at the very least A.

[Chael]

Hina is broken though?, grenade launcher + prism is all you need to clear every single wave without firing once. With a proper build her clone covers half the screen and hits 9 times for over 1k dmg each hit.

[Jetrel]

Postat inițial de Jaeus:

Frostbite needs a nerf. The crowd control proc should not also be an absurd source of Max HP% damage. Frostbite+Shatter pretty much obsoletes all other sources of damage while being the strongest crowd control available.
I don't hate the CC.
I don't hate damage procs to offset weak hits.
But I don't think attaching those 2 traits together was a good balance decision.

I would like to see the CC remain but the % damage procs moved somewhere like that Death Rounds synergy or the Overload synergy.

Take frostbite and shatter then add a specialised assassin skill to it. I absolutely wrecked a game with that just now. it was ridiculous.

[Steelz Cloud]

I think scarlett deserves a spot in A tier simply because of how the burn increase firerate upgrade scales so fast that you can instantly shred anything.