Arknights: Endfield Tier List – Best Operators To Build

Tier List Considerations And Disclaimers

The Arknights:Endfield tier list will rank Operators in the game based on various important criteria, depending on the Operators’ role in a team and by themselves, with damage-oriented characters being rated based on their overall damage output and ease of use, while Support-oriented characters will be rated based on their support abilities like buffing, debuffing and providing sustain to the team. 

While ranking each Operator, their overall level of investment will be at the maximum level when rated and some operators will gain additional rating points if their performance is extremely good at a lower level of investment compared to other Operators. Additionally, the overall partner restriction when team-building for various Operators will also be taken into account when rating these Operators to ensure an overall balance in rating.

The Operators will be ranked into these different tiers, each with their own meanings:

– S Rank: The best of the best Operators and the most meta operators. Investing in these Operators are extremely recommended as they will serve as vital pieces for different important team comps with their overwhelming performances.

– A Rank: Powerful Operators that are often used to fill in the team gap alongside the S Rank Operators. Their performances are above average and can become team carry Operators at high level investment.

– B Rank: Mediocre performing Operators that can serve as substitutes for A or S Rank Operators depending on if players do not have them. They mainly fill in the gap for team building and perform relatively average even at a high level of investment when compared to other Operators.

– C Rank: Below Average performing Operators. These operators perform relatively weakly even at higher levels of investment and are extremely niche in nature, making them hard to justify building.

Please note that these rankings can be changed depending on how the game’s meta changes over time and the overall performances of different characters in the same tier might fluctuate when compared to each other as different Operators fill different roles in different teams.

S Tier

The best of the best Operators and the most meta operators. Investing in these Operators are extremely recommended as they will serve as vital pieces for different important team comps with their overwhelming performances.

The Operators in this Tier are:

Laevatain	Yvonne	Tangtang	Ardelia
Pogranichnik	Gilberta	Wulfgard

Explanation:

– Laevatain: Laevatain is one of the game’s best Heat Damage Main DPS Characters and one of the game’s best Main DPS characters overall. Her ability to deal massive amounts of burst damage to enemies in a wide area makes her an incredible character capable of sweeping all enemies in front of her out in an instant. Laevatain high damage output and powerful AoE damage ability makes her one of the game’s top tier characters that can clear all of the game’s high level content with ease even at lower investment levels.

– Yvonne: The powerful main DPS option for the Cryo team, Yvonne’s rating is extremely high due to her high damage ceiling as a Cryo Damage Main DPS character. Despite her flaw of not having much AoE capabilities, when against bosses or single target enemies, Yvonne can absolutely shred them with ease with her powerful critical Cryo damage output, making her a very powerful and core Operator for the Cryo team and one of the best Operators in the game.

– Tangtang: Tangtang is a character that elevates the different Cryo team’s damage output with her amazingly versatile ability to inflict Cryo Infliction and Arts Susceptibility on the enemies, crowd control large crowd of enemies while also dealing relatively high damage to them and her unique ability to stop enemies’ movement in a wide area. Her versatility to offer way too many different utility to the team makes her a core character for various Cryo damage centric teams and one of the best Operators in the game.

– Ardelia: Ardelia’s job is relatively simple: heal the team a lot, while also offering powerful buffs to the team. With her amazing ability to completely heal the team while also applying Arts and Physical Susceptibility to enemies, having Ardelia in the team not only helps to keep it alive but also helps the entire team to deal more damage overall to the enemies. Despite being a free character, Ardelia absolutely excels at what she does, making her one of the best Operators in the game.

– Pogranichnik: Pogranichnik is a core member of any Physical team and one of the best Operators in the game thanks to his ability to quickly generate SP and crowd controlling the enemies. Pogranichnik’s skill kit offers many different core utilities needed for any Physical team: SP recovery, Vulnerability applicant and crowd control effects. Not only that, Pogranichnik can also become a good Physical DPS character by himself. These facts make Pogranichnik an absolute core member of a Physical team and players should have him before thinking of building a Physical team.

– Gilberta: Gilberta’s main strong point lies in her versatility as a character, with her abilities allowing her to be slotted into any team with ease. Gilberta excels at crowd controlling large groups of enemies and applying powerful Lift and Gravity effects to them, helping the team to group enemies together for any teams that lack AoE options. Additionally, Gilberta’s skill kit offers many different powerful effects to the team like Ultimate Gain Increase and Arts susceptibility, making her a very good versatile Operator to have.

– Wulfgard: Wulfgard is a Heat damage team enabler, with his ability to inflict frequent and multiple stacks of Heat Inflictions onto the enemies with relative ease. This makes him a very core member of any Heat team, helping to facilitate different team comps that requires Heat Infliction stacks in quick succession. He can also deal above average level of damage output to enemies.

A Tier

Powerful Operators that are often used to fill in the team gap alongside the S Rank Operators. Their performances are above average and can become team carry Operators at high level investment.

The Operators in this tier are:

Rossi	Chen	Lifeng	Da Pan
Endministrator	Last Rite	Xaihi	Antal
Arclight	Perlica	Avywenna

Explanations:

– Rossi: Rossi is a hybrid Heat and Physical Damage dealer capable of dealing powerful damage of 2 different elements and helping the team apply Vulnerability stacks on enemies. Despite dealing relatively high damage output, Rossi is held back mainly by her generally difficult to build skill kit and playstyle, with her needing both Heat and Physical Damage stats and her Combo Skill being relatively difficult to trigger despite being very good, reducing her overall rating.

– Chen: Chen is an amazing Operator that specializes in enabling the Physical team by applying Vulnerability stacks to enemies. Her skill kit is relatively easy to use, making her a rather good enabler for the Physical team. Her only downside is that her overall damage output is relatively low when compared to other Operators.

– Lifeng: Another of the Physical team enabler, Lifeng is a strong Operator capable of crowd controlling large groups of enemies while applying various Physical effects to them. He is in the same situation as Chen, being a very good Physical team enabler character.

– Da Pan: Da Pan is a Physical DPS character capable of dealing massive amounts of damage to enemies, especially by taking advantage of the different Vulnerability effects on the enemies. The only reason why Da Pan is at A Rank is because his damage output is relatively lower than the other elements like Heat and Cryo.

– Endministrator: In the same vein as Da Pan, the Endministrator is a Physical DPS character capable of dishing out powerful Physical damage to enemies by consuming Vulnerability stacks on them. Endministrator and Da Pan’s performances are relatively the same and either one can be used as the Physical team’s main DPS depending on which character players want to invest in.

– Last Rite: Last Rite is a decently strong Cryo DPS character that is capable of being one of the game’s best on field characters, capable of dealing high power Cryo damage to enemies and easily staggering enemies with her normal attacks. However, compared to Yvonne, Last Rite’s slow movement and relatively difficult to use playstyle makes her damage output lower overall, resulting in her lower rank.

– Xaihi: Xaihi is the primary support Operator for the Cryo team, capable of applying Cryo Amp, Nature Amp, inflicting Cryo Inflictions and even heal allies. Her main downside is that her healing and Cryo infliction effects are relatively slow to trigger, making it hard to use her as the main enabler for the Cryo team. However, when going with other Cryo characters, she is a very core member of the team.

– Antal: Serving somewhat of a same role as Xaihi, Antal is a decently strong support operator that is capable of maximizing the damage output of Electric and Heat teams thanks to his ability to apply Electric and Heat Amp in addition to Electric and Heat Susceptibility. While having Antal helps to max out the damage output of Electric and Heat team, due to him not having that high of a sustain effect, players will need to play more carefully when using him in a fully offensive team comp.

– Arclight: Arclight is the main enabler for the Electric team, with her ability to recover SP and forcefully apply Electrification onto enemies for further play. Her main downside is her relatively low damage output and the fact that the Electric team’s performance is worse overall when compared to other teams in the game.

– Perlica: Perlica is yet another enabler for the Electric team with her ability to apply Electric Inflictions and Electrification onto enemies. Once again, the only reason why she is ranked lower overall is due to the state of Electric teams performing not as good as other teams in the game right now.

– Avywenna: Avywenna is the Electric team’s primary Main DPS character, capable of dealing amazing Electric damage to enemies by taking advantage of Electric Inflictions and Electrification. However, she is held back mainly by her playstyle that requires precise positioning, making her lose a lot of her damage when players can not execute her playstyle correctly. Additionally, the Electric team is performing relatively worse than other teams in the game, making her not ideal to build despite being a very good Operator.

B Tier

Mediocre performing Operators that can serve as substitutes for A or S Rank Operators depending on if players do not have them. They mainly fill in the gap for team building and perform relatively average even at a high level of investment when compared to other Operators.

The Operators in this tier are:

Alesh	Estella	Snowshine	Ember

Explanations:

– Alesh: Alesh is a Cryo character whose gimmick lies in his ability to forcefully apply Solidification onto enemies by consuming Cryo Infliction stacks. While in theory, his skill kit relatively good to use, the fact that he consume Cryo Infliction stacks and has a random SP recovery effect makes him very difficult to use in actual combat, especially in Cryo teams that are severely lacking in characters that apply Cryo inflictions onto the enemies. 

– Estella: In a similar situation to Alesh, Estella skill kit is designed in a way so that she can help apply Cryo Infliction stacks to facilitate the Solidification playstyle. However, half of her kit caters to Physical Cryo Shatter hybrid teams instead, with her applying Physical Susceptibility instead of Arts Susceptibility, making it very awkward to use her in a Cryo Arts damage based team.

– Snowshine: Another Cryo character, Snowshine’s skill kit is relatively strong, with her being able to apply both Cryo Infliction stacks and forcefully apply Solidification onto the enemies in a wide area. However, her main downside comes from the fact that she needs to parry the enemies’ attack to apply Cryo Infliction and she can only use her Combo Skill and Ultimate after a long period of time, making her skill kit too slow to make work in an active battlefield.

– Ember: Ember is a very unique Operator in that her main strongpoint does not lie in her skill kit but in her ability to deal powerful Stagger damage to enemies with her basic attacks. Ember’s main strong point is that she is the game’s best stagger damage dealer, capable of dealing massive amounts of damage to enemies with Basic Attacks alone. However, her skill kit doesn’t do anything beneficial overall and offer way too little utility to actually make her usable in a proper team comp.

C Tier

Below Average performing Operators. These operators perform relatively weakly even at higher levels of investment and are extremely niche in nature, making them hard to justify building.

The Operators of this tier are:

Catcher	Flourite

– Catcher: Catcher is a defender Operator whose entire gimmick revolves around his ability to parry enemies’ attacks. And that’s it. He doesn’t do much damage and does not offer much utility aside from his ability to parry the enemies’ attacks to recover the team some SP and HP, making it hard to justify using him overall.

– Flourite: Flourite is a very interesting Operator in theory, with her ability to inflict both Cryo and Nature Inflictions on enemies and even essentially doubles the Infliction stacks on enemies with her Combo Skill. However, the fact that her Combo Skill takes 40s to charge and the fact that Nature teams don’t really exist in the game yet, this makes Flourite too slow and clunky to be used in any real team comps.

Conclusion

With that, we have gone over the tier list of the best Operators in Arknights: Endfield. If you are eager to get your hands on these amazing operators to build the best teams, then don’t hesitate to take advantage of Enjoygm’s special discounted deals for Arknights: Endfield Top Up and roll on these operators before they are gone forever.