Character power tiers

[Pogobear]

Zephyr seems crazy powerful to me. You roll her early, take out an enemy, wait for parry to trigger. Then Terminal's cooperate becomes literally "Kill another guy and parry tank another one", so Terminal's turns functionally kill 3 people while Z is on the field. It's bonkers.

I've struggled to find use with Axiom. I really want to like him. Has anyone had success? How?

I've also noticed that a number of characters are night and day with reflex triggers. Godmother is a monster with a reflex trigger and many different options (Autoloader, Hair Trigger, etc). Patchworks feels super mediocre to me even when she is hacking bots, because 2/3 of her turns are just randomly zap something for 4 and do nothing else. After she gets reflex trigger she at least has shoot + zap on her non MC turns. She got stasis and I was expecting her to become bananas, but she really just didn't get there until reflex trigger.

Cherub also seems mediocre to me. Nullifying an attack + a pistol shot isn't actually bad... it's just not great.

Verge, Zephyr, Terminal just seem so far above, with Godmother and Torque both pretty close. I don't always love Torque, but her breach ability and venom spit are both actually very good. The difference between characters that always get 2 meaningful actions and characters that only sometimes get 2 meaningful actions is just so immense though. Even with Reflex trigger turning some characters into 2-action characters, it does cost them a mod slot for it (which is valuable).

Other thoughts?

[Archmage MC]

Claymore is S tier

Two greandes plus a shaped charge plus a 5 damage stickybomb every breach? Jeez, the guy is stronger than a fully maxed out grenader from XCOM 2. If you ever see him pop up, get him. He is insanely good and can carry entire missions by himself. Give him a plasma grenade or incendiary gernade and watch the explosions.

EDIT: I found if you don't move and have the shotgun that gives you Run and Gun, you can activate the ability to place TWO shrapnel and the sticky in one turn!

[DeadlyGrub]

Combo him with Terminals extra Turn. He is broken as ♥♥♥♥.

[Big Stick Energy]

...I had to choose between him and Torque.

I'm not disappointed per say, but I haven't gotten him since and I've been getting meh tier people.

[Archmage MC]

Originally posted by BORDER PATROL:

...I had to choose between him and Torque.

I'm not disappointed per say, but I haven't gotten him since and I've been getting meh tier people.

Just restart your game and turn off the tutorial. It lets you choose your squad.

[NukaPooka]

Claymore is a hunk and a beast of a character.

[NukaPooka]

What difficulty are you playing?

I love Zephyr, however she can be really squishy if you are unlucky.
Cherub is a godsend and works very well partnered with Zephyr, especially if hes 1st in turn order, so you can shield Zephyr after a breach. Since she just hangs out in the open.
Cherub is technically meant to be played as a support/tank. Can take hits, charges up attacks and massive shield butt and is extreamly useful on Extreame and Impossible mode :D


You haven't seen Claymore and Terminal's partnership yet. Thats OP.

[Pokemastuh]

Give torque a mach vest and get her her 50% dodge increase. Instant bait snek. Also, you might try the mod in the workshop that gives cherub 1 armor for weilding a shield. Makes a remarkable difference, but not enough to feel unbalanced.

[Horrible Marksman]

Shelter is an odd one that I really like. Not the dominant killer compared to some of these other characters, but with his teleport that lowers turn order and likely leaves something flanked and easy to kill, then his psionic attack lowering turn order and ignoring cover, followed by terminal with her suppression and concentration? It also works well combined with overwatch or Zephyr's Lockdown. He is fun to use.

[ASPIK]

Patchwork is from far my best character even not fighting robotic unit.
As soon as you unlock the fact her drone can stun anytime.

she has a free stasis for turn order control - all the time an ennemy will pass near by it will be most probably stun with the auto attack drone - throw the drone when ennemies are packed and also insta group stun.

She then become a very powerful front line character as she can stun constantly any ennemies moving close to.
As all the environnement are very tiny you are constantly in close combat anyway.

Very good combo with torque when both are close - grabbing ennemy close to patchwork in a poison cloud with nanokit you are immune anyway- stun it and repeat - torque will get free life standing in the cloud also.
I am playing IM/Expert.

[snuggleform]

Who else is S tier? I heard zephyr is?

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by snuggleform:

Who else is S tier? I heard zephyr is?

The black guy with a gun, he can shoot twice and he his a really good DPS, give him a bluescreen round and he can destroy a MEC in a turn.

[Zaltys]

Originally posted by snuggleform:

Who else is S tier? I heard zephyr is?

Blueblood. Uses pistols, but... he has double attack, can attack for increased damage at cost of accuracy, can get automatic overwatch after moving...

I got Patchwork in new game+, she seems great so far, but I haven't got all of her promotions yet.

Zephyr is good for early game, but has tough time in endgame. Wouldn't rank as tier S.

[Hendumaica]

Zephyr is trully strong if you can manipulate/bait the AI to aim at her with her best shot. That being said, torque is really strong for VIP missions and she can perma CC the strongest enemy which is always helful.

Blueblood is ridiculous so is claymore. If by S tier you mean broken: Only those 2 are. If S tier is really really strong you can add zephyr and blueblood in the mix.

[Zantetsuken]

Snake lady is OP. Once upgraded her bind is doing 5 damage per turn. She can pull someone from anywhere in the room and turn them off. With how much damage the bind does now they turn off permanently rather quickly. Then it's time to pull another guy and turn him off too.

[Hendumaica]

Yeah she is op in vip situations.