character tierlist

S (far and away the best, probably only characters that can global at this point)

crystal (big fucking purple rock)

YV (think people are forgetting how absolutely incredible this character is due to the uprising of tanky motherfuckers)

eyes (pretty much a mix of YV and crystal in terms of being really offensively and defensively strong, very flexible in terms of build as well, no necessity for pluto opens up a slot, take paw or stomach and embrace the tank, etc)

chicken (would be god awful if not for game breaking passive, downside is that you basically play her expecting you to fuck up/the game to fuck you over at some point, when another character could potentially avoid these "game fucks you over" situations entirely (eyes active is fucking absurd for this, crystal just should never die to throne 2, etc))


A (solid characters that are outclassed but still pretty viable)

plant (easy pick for top 5, snare is bonkers even without butt.  think eyes does a lot of similar things but better with monster style, but a super stacked butt + scarier build on plant is rare but gamebreaking)

fish (basically just poor man's YV)

rebel (probably the most underdeveloped character imo but she's really awkward and ally iframes can be pure cancer sometimes.  she completely shuts down every boss except the thrones, i'd argue her as the best ballmom killer in the game)

horror (fallen out of favor but still the go-to if you dont want to fuck around with mutation RNG.  beam still has some solid niche uses and meltdown is a pretty good ultra)


B (kinda bad but playable)

rogue (necessity for boilies in deeploop hurts her a lot, but super blast armor is pretty solid imo.  she's still just a strictly worse crystal, though.)

frog (people way overrate how bad his passive is (understandably), distance is actually a really sick ultra (completely fucks over snipers in palace and softens up a bunch more enemies), just have fun if you get a bad bandits or bad throne 2 luck)


C (real bad but vaguely playable - literally no reason to play these over other characters)

robot (literally does nothing)

steroids (he actually has some pretty cozy things going for him (auto fire spc, no fiddling with swapping SPC/ushovel removes potential for human error, optimal stress swings with ushovel, dumb shit like that) but his inaccuracy sucks ASS and needing to take up a slot with eagle eyes is a load of shit)


F (oh god why)

melting (6 hp simply isnt enough for consistent deep looping - even slightly bad throne 2 luck causes him to fall over and palace utterly walls him)

skeleton (lol no)