There are definitely some units that are clearly designed to work with a composition but other that can just “work” by themselves It’s nice there’s so much variation in this game

I think featherstaves really shine when paired with a frontline Berserker/Werelion. Their ability to increase healing received seems to apply to Bulk Up, and their initiative is fast enough to throw it out quickly. Moreover, their native ability to overheal makes it easier for Berserkers to be at the full health threshold for the extra Grand Slam damage. Their ability to allow a unit to survive a lethal blow is their weakest feature IMO, unless maaaaybe paired with a Doom Knight.

Snow Archer locks S tier if for no other reason than bringing a whole-ass bakery into the battle 🍑

I feel vindicated on Were-bears, my friends talked down so much on them but man they absolutely elevated my units

As someone who vowed to use 1 of every class in the game, Lex is the only character I've thought of benching. If he had a row cover against ranged attacks, he'd be great, but most flying and ranged attacks late game end up having multiple targets, and he just ends up doing nothing. His active skills are all terrible. His taunt only affects a row (LOL). He's just bad in every way. Elven Archer is the only class I ended up using 3 of because it's so good. Magic Conferral is beastly. You can freeze 2/3 of the enemy back row while you beat down the front. They have a team heal. Debuff removal. Just an amazing and flexible utility class that often feels like "Just what I need" to round out a squad.

Found you when i stumbled upon unicorn overlord. Your videos have shown me how to best utilize the units typea and helped me build the squads i want without having to copy unit builds. Started Tactics Ogre but it isnt gripping me(just fought vyce the first time on Law), think im gonna try eiyuden chronicles after seeing your videos. While the VO is campy and wild, i kinda like it in your streams so far lol.

Bro I agree with a lot of what you say but you need to split your S tier in two and shift the whole list down. There's no way in hell Yunifi, Berengaria and Rosalinde are at the same level of any Sorceress/Sainted/Doom Knight etc. Also separate unpromoted from promoted classes because comparing them and putting them in the same list makes the whole thing weird and confusing. It would be more useful for new players to have three separate videos to look at: - unpromoted / early game - which classes to promote first - promoted / lategame

I do think werewolf gets underrated a lot, even somewhat here. They're pursuit machines. Stacking pursuit damage with the hunter's claymore + earrings gives them fantastic damage with great accuracy for a backline melee class. Pursuit synergises with their "win more" stuff because it's such a good way to weaken them for their low HP row attack. Or they die from the pursuit, get AP and then they have additional turns, which is when decimate gets strong. Or you just use their howl to make them akin to great knight that can work with any physical unit. They can definitely contend with most of A-tier, imo.

Quick Dispel alone makes wereowl A-S tier. It counters tons of all-hit comps in the colliseum.

Feather staff shouldn't be a whole 2 tiers under the next healer. Their flying and their long range heal alone should have them in B. They easily keep the squad they're in topped off. They can remove afflictions while healing. Like other angels, they're even better during the day. You pretty much start any fight completely healed with them, if not over-healed. If one of your units _does_ get close to death, feather staff is designed to almost guarantee it doesn't happen. My units felt very safe with a feather staff behind them. Honestly, the worst thing about feather staff is how late in the game you get them, but even then you can recruit one in later mid-game if you want.

Dreadnought doesn’t want to fight alone, she just likes support allies more than anything

I commented on the last Tier List Video my personal scale by which I judge the classes in Unicorn Overlord and along with it my rankings for basically all of the promoted classes that weren't Elves, Bestrals, and Angels. Here is where I clear that up. This is basically how I rated my Tiers: S Tier: A Completely indispensable class that should always be a 1st consideration for a squad A Tier: An excellent class that can perform well as the backbone damage carry or support of a squad B Tier: A solid class that adds significant value to any squad even if other classes can perform certain roles better C Tier: A serviceable class which performs its function adequately and can provide a plan B to another member D Tier: An underwhelming class which inconsistently fulfills its designed role, leading to much better alternatives Starting with the Elves, the two unique Elf classes are both S Tier and I don't think we need to debate why. Elven Archer for me was a High B Tier unit. They provided great support, solid mixed magical and physical damage, and with a little tweaking enabled solid healing strats. They aren't A for me as they are a little unwieldy if you want to max out their potential. At their best they are probably A Tier, but mostly I consider them to be a high B Tier class. Elven Fencer is a mid B Tier unit for providing solid offensive utility especially when running comps using Legionnaires as the dodge shield against ranged attacks is useful and the stun can be so powerful at times, but they generally don't do a ton of damage and don't feel like they dramatically improve a squad just for being on it. Moving on to Bestrals, Werelion is a high B Tier/borderline A Tier for me as it is basically a better Berserker/Gladiator which I had in C Tier. Werewolves I have in low B Tier because they are basically massive damage dealers who only live up to that reputation at night. They don't do anything unique and simply have raw power as their selling point. Werefoxes I have in mid B Tier because of them being slightly better single target Rogues that get a huge movement and ability bonus at night. Werebear I have in C Tier as they honestly did not feel better than a Legionnaire to me even with the night bonus. There is less utility in the choices for Axes vs Lances, especially given that if you need consistent poke damage you can always forge an Unwavering Spear and skip an accuracy check. Wereowls are low A Tier only because of their fragility. In terms of support, they function as arguably the best battery units and they can disrupt opponents better than any other healing support. Finishing out with Angels, Featherswords are a High B/Low A Tier unit as while they require specific comps to truly shine and damage nukes, once in those comps, they perform significantly better than other single target offensive nukes like Werewolves. The fact that they are fliers also grants them naturally built in higher evasion to give them more staying power. Featherbows are solidly A Tier because of Blinding Light. They are not S Tier however as their damage output even against fliers is fairly poor and the debuffs they put on are not necessarily always that helpful. Feathershields are a High B Tier unit as while they are basically the only good magic tanks in the game and have decent overall physical bulk, they don't tend to offer that much aside from their strengths against magic, especially considering the class uses swords of which there really aren't too many that the Feathershields can get much value out of. Finally Featherstaves are C Tier as I just never felt like they brought much utility beyond being flying healers. Greater sustain is nice, but more often than not I would rather have the utility of a Bishop, High Priestess, or Wereowl. As for the change to Swordsmaster, to me it bumps the class up from C Tier where I had it originally, to B Tier. I still probably wouldn't base a squad solely around what Swordmasters are capable of, but they are pretty darn capable spot nukes.

Your list is really good. I agree with most of it - at the least the units I used a lot. The only class I really want to argue for is Rogue. Rogue is at least high B tier, if not A. I got a lot of really good usage out of shadowbite removing AP and I found the class overall much better than Werefox. Being able to manipulate enemy AP and PP and gain additional PP is really versatile. I think I also would have split S tier into an S and SS Tier. The top of the uniques are a cut above above even the best generics. High Lord, Dark Marquess, Snow Ranger, Elven Augur at least.

I made an incredibly fun team, where I gave my Wereowl the staff that gives back AP to allies and my Aramis/Melisandre frontliners are doing miracles, constantly recycling and restoring AP and PP, deleting one unit after another, with Primm boosting attack and reserving one PP for the resurrection in case one of them couldn't dodge or parry all the attacks... I got an Elven Fencer in the back to help survivability and to dish magical damage but I was thinking of putting a Viking for that nice piercing damage since the team isn't even using a start of battle tactic (aside from Melisandre having a situational one that I dedicated to recognition units/weak fliers which gives her 2 PP when she kills)

I completely disagree with the rogue ranking ( mass blind, dodge tank) but everything else is well argumented.

Dreadnought would be A tier to me, but it's absolutely savage combined with a wereowl to keep its passive points up. That way you can smash people into oblivion with her kick and still use her massive accuracy/damage boost.

nice!

A few different perspectives for dreadnaught would be utilizing them as a combination of both a) a head hunter. They’re very strong at overpowering any Column or single unit due to the Hawkeye ability and combined with any attack ups from the team. Easily can reach pesky fliers and back row units without the need for an archer B) an anti frontline. Wild kick has a very impactful utility when combined with units like breakers or rogues neutralizing the block to allow for on hit effects or straight up one shots. This can also just be for general guard disarm for other units to then finish off the tanks before the dreadnought even takes its first turn. This is to build on your opinion on how they like to fight alone. Assisting the team with guard disarm and tanking while being able to delete key opponents. Food for thought, let me know what you think about it

Ok so Swordsmasters and Dreadnoughts are high tier damage dealers. The Dreadnought is basically the same other than Dreadnought doesn’t need gambler’s coin and Swordsmaster can parry. Put 3 Swordsmasters in the front built for Crit Rate and Damage. One House Carl in the back to open with War Horn and use Dirty Gambler’s coin once. Finally a Druid in the back equipped with Two feathers for +25 Initiative with dual “Go Getter” traits and it’ll put her in front of the Swordsmasters by just 1 point. This way she can debuff the entire enemy team’s defenses before they attack. You can also opt to put Gilbert in instead to buff Attacks but I use him on my main Coliseum squad. You’ll open with War Horn, then you will Debuff Defenses of the enemy squad, then your dirty Gambler’s Coin will go off and boost the front line (They should have between a 68-72% crit rate already so this bumps them up to 98-100% crit rate meaning they will only crit and no need for Seargents) then your Swordsmen will hit for 200-300 damage each. You’ll wipe the entire front line including the Hoplites. If you use Dreadnoughts then you’ll need 1 Seargent to buff them each turn with Keen Call. This mixed with their passive that goes off before they attack will be a guaranteed hit for about 200-350 damage per enemy. You’ll need a way to defend them from magic attacks so you’ll need to put them with a Feathershield to reflect magic attacks. 5th slot is up to you. You could either put a Hopilite and run a Holpilite/Feathershield front line because Dreadnoughts are better late fight if you can keep them alive, or you could run a Mage like Auch for magic follow up damage for those enemies that have top tier defense and they survive the hit. You could also go Sorceress for her quick cast back line freeze or Gilbert of course.

Amalia comes in so late I'm also not sure if she's amazing or just good. She certainly was a lot squishier than I was expecting in my limited experience. Then again, I had her sharing a frontline with Hodrick, so maybe she was squishy by comparison.

Swordmaster def fits as B after the patch. I will say that since the buff I've found them more reliable and easier to fit into a working team than sellswords, in large part because it isn't a death sentence to put a swordmaster in the front row, but I've just flat-out struggled to get any real mileage out of "counterattack" classes that aren't The Invincible Virginia given that they all start with the assumption of you taking damage *first*, which is already a bad deal in TZ.

I think I just played the game very differently than you did. I didn't use a lot of your favorite classes at all for various reasons. That said, I felt like Rogue evade tanks carried 2 of my best units allowing squishy damage dealers to shine. I never even used 5 members in those squads mostly. Just 1 rogue in the front. That's probably my only disagreement that I have. Rogue is S, or at least high A for me. That said, maybe werefoxes could do it better, I just had so many characters by the time I was in Bastorias that I didn't use them or angels much. In some ways I almost wish I could play the game backwards and have more time to get to know bestrals and angels better. I was so attached to my humans and some elves that I didn't make room for them.

Hows the dodge hoplite holding? Maybe S-TIER still

swordmaster with the buff i think is def A tier

yeah you made it before the last stream elfheim is gonna be fucking Vietnam in the TZ run

There's honestly not that many placements I hard disagree (2+ tiers) with. Rogues (S-tier) and Nigel and Elgor (B-tier). Rogue I still think is far more powerful than you give it credit for, particularly because of its high speed row blind. It is like a Featherbow you have more control over, while being an amazing dodge-tank. Their only true weakness are swordmasters with hastened strike - which is easily dealt with by even half-durable units. Truestrike is hardly an issue because gets countered by Blind. They combine particularly well with classes that benefit from afflictions like Berengia and Doom Knight (which are some of the best classes in the game) - and PP steal can neutralise annoying units like gladiators. If you throw in a viking or druid, they can even take legionaires out of the running. They're amazing. They're a little too finicky to plug and play into every squad like High Lord or Prince, so you might not rate them as highly as I do, but damn do they bring a lot of synergy to the right one. Nigel and Elgor on the other hand feel like they have some big issues. 2 of Elgor's skills needing to be turned off because they're harmful to a composition, leaving him as a quick, dodgy frontliner with a stun. Which is fine, but doesn't belong in S-tier because it lacks real team synergy. Nigel IMO fares a bit better than Elgor, but his stats don't make him amazing at anything except burning. He isn't bulky enough to reliably survive the frontline and Advance Cover often gets him killed when a more conventional frontliner could've easily lived or dodged the hit. Parting Death is nice in theory, but by the time you get Nigel you have all the tools to make squads that one-round enemies easily, or leave them so damaged you get a free kill with a plume or 2, potentially healing yourself with anything from brooches to first aid. Still, a row burn is nothing to sneeze at and advance cover can reward helping out the backline.

You're stil sleeping on Swordmasters in my opinion. They're strong as both frontline and backline fighters, and their only weakness is armors. The game tries to sell archers as the swordfighter's weakness due to true hit, but parry saves them from archers more often than not. I can't say they didn't improve any party i put them in, and honestly two make a solid offensive frontline. Also glad to see you changed your mind on elven archers. I recently did so myself, and they really do slot in well on any team for utility. Definitely netter than fencers from what i could see, might have missed something there though.

Lex hate gang. Rise up.

I'd say you're misevaluating werewolves. You are rating them like dmg dealers (which they're not). They're a support class. If gilbert can rank high by boosting 5% more atk than bestral howl, why is werewolf below? if sergeants, elven archers, sorceress buff one ally and rank high, why do werewolves who can buff a row ranked low? Werewolves are similar to sergeants. Its primarily a support class that can deal a bit of dmg. its actually best to ignore the whole "win more" mechanic and assess the usefulness of werewolves in how good they can buff your board nuker. Bonus: killing pursuit is a nice follow up skill to use on whatevers left standing in the wake of your board nuker.

Kind of surprised to see Werewolves get put in B. They feel a bit to me like a Sellsword who traded the big nuke of Bastard's Cross for more, and more cheaper damage from their AP/PP efficiency. And with the Wolfpack Gauntlets? I'll spare the build unless you want, but my Weresquad ended up being one of my, if not the, strongest units I ever built. I don't think anything threatened it, once I got it tuned. 🤔 Even my Alain squad (Alain+Ren|Rosa+Berenice+Yahna) couldn't survive. (Which reminds me, I should see how it does in the Coliseum..!)

I feel Amalia is B-tier actually. She's extremely powerful for sure, but she still folds like wet tissue paper against magic and Breakers like other armoured classes (Feathershields excepted). Maybe I should be putting her in the backline, but it feels wrong to put an armoured class in the back. I think most people's opinions on Amalia being really good are because you can cheese the Coliseum, pick her up early and she'll demolish everything in her path. However, as I brought her back out for endgame, she was okay. I didn't feel like she was contributing any more than other classes. Unless you build a squad around her, she'll just be a decent unit.

Oh hell no. Sword dark marquess is not the weakest. If i had to put an order, staff dark marquess is the strongest just for its limited skill that is absurdly strong and even its famage is good. Then i would put sword and axe at the same level but they are not the same type of tank. Axe can heal while sword can block for other. But inferno from sword is so strong. And at the last place would be spear. First you need to disable the block skill because its a unit that dodge not really block and we dont want it to steal pp. And second its damages are not as good. But its limited skill can be good if there are no healer to stop his skill. Definitely all s tier but spear is the weakest

Please shift it all down and split S tier in 2

I am sorry but fighter are just bad hoplites