Arknights: Endfield Team Tier List

Ratings

The team tier list has no categories and instead rates full teams. The team tier list aims to cover teams from two angles:

• Ensuring all meta-relevant teams are ranked.
• To include as many viable team archetypes that encompass as much of the cast as possible.

Given that a team may have multiple characters that can fill a slot, all variations are listed where applicable. When assessing the power of a team for a tier placement, only the best character combinations are considered. Team placements on the tier list are determined by their overall efficacy across encounters in Umbral Monument, with higher teams being more capable of consistently clearing faster than lower-ranked teams.

The characters listed aren’t the only synergies and compositions playable for a team, but are the ones capable of outputting the most damage - meaning lower-tier units and Survivalists are less likely to appear.

Criteria

For character specific criteria, check the general tier list.

29.03.2026

• Rossi Hyper added to T0: Rossi has a mind-boggling number of possible teams that she can work with, and while some appear to be better than others, most are doing well. Her teams are well-balanced in damage distribution, resulting not only in speedy boss kills, but effective mob clear too. Be it in crowd control with Physical statuses to lock-down frustrating enemies like in 2-2 Umbral monument, strong Ultimate burst for RE-Crisis speedruns, or even acing open world and farming content owing to fast Vulnerability stack build and Crush, Rossi teams consistently perform well despite the seemingly awkward compositions. Our placements are made primarily on Umbral Monument, and the current shill environment does muddle things somewhat, but even then Rossi teams have all the tools needed to do well outside of it, landing them firmly in T0.

15.03.2026

Tangtang’s arrival has rippled across Cryo teams, so there’s been some movement in the Team Tier List:

• Yvonne Hyper T0.5 → T0: Tangtang's arrival has been a definitive improvement to Yvonne teams. It's not as if she is free of her issues: even with an SP-free Cryo Infliction on Ultimate and SP return, rotations can be excruciatingly long at 0 Ultimate Energy starts. Tangtang's buffs are saturated by Gilberta if she replaces Alesh, and if she takes Gilberta's place with Perlica in the flex slot, her buffs aren't as strong. Yet even then, between her personal damage contribution and readily accessible Inflictions, the positive impact she has had to Yvonne teams is evident. As more and more players get built units, time-to-kill has steadily gone down, and the breadth of Tangtang's utility is ever more valuable for faster and more consistent clears. Be it in Umbral Monument or RE-Crisis, fights with adds or pure single target, the Yvonne and Tangtang duo have the tools they need to excel. While the ideal Yvonne team is very expensive, packing 3 limited operators, its power is reflective of it, and so deserves being moved up to T0.
• Last Rite Hyper Added to Watchlist UP: While Yvonne teams have benefitted from Tangtang, Last Rite arguably has even more so. Tangtang's area attacks make up for Last Rite's weak mob clear ability and the synergy between them is ideal, with incredibly easy triggers for Tangtang's Combo Skill that condense rotations and allow for damage sets to be used. The Prydwen team strongly considered whether Last Rite Hyper deserved a move up as well, but the current content spread has not been particularly kind to her. Umbral 1-1, 1-2 and 2-2 are rough, and Yvonne appears to often outperform Last Rite even in RE-Crisis stages. When Potentials are considered, these comparisons aren't as salient; just having Last Rite P1 can help with better stagger management (a big deal for 1-3, 2-1 and 2-2 especially), not to mention damage increases from high Potentials, but as we evaluate at P0 and look to factor in the current content meta, it seems prudent to keep Last Rite at T0.5 for the time being. With how easy "endgame" is currently, these differences are truly marginal, but a line has to be drawn somewhere, so we have Watchlisted UP instead to see how future content will treat her.

03.03.2026

A month has passed since last update and we're making further adjustments to the tier list:

• Physical Sustainless T0.5 → T0: Physical Sustainless needs multiple characters to be built, with almost every unit contributing damage in some form, but when it is properly geared it consistently outperforms many others. The "sustainless" here refers to a lack of healing, as the team has both strong sustained damage output and burst potential, making them a prime pick for both Umbral Monuments and even RE:Crisis, coming through with some of the fastest clears. Given their all-round strong performance, we feel them to be deserving of a T0 placement.
• Yvonne Hyper T1 → T0.5: As per our notes on the standard Tier List, Yvonne has been able to perform exceedingly well in all forms of content, be it in Umbral Monument Inorganic Construct or even RE:Crisis. Although she does see some difficulty in Umbral Monument Those Forsaken by the Land, her general strong times make her teams deserving of at the very least a T0.5 placement.
• Avy Electric T1 → T1 (No Change): Avywenna's high burst coupled with the team's strong grouping ability when run with Gilberta means that this team is at times matching or even exceeding the performance of T0.5 teams. Unfortunately, this is dependent on character Potentials: Avywenna's and Perlica's especially. As most players are unlikely to have them, our Tier List evaluation revolves around P0 performance, and at that level the team does suffer, so they remain at T1. No change has been made, but we find it worthwhile to call out that this team can punch above its weight in this Tier List when 5-star Potentials are considered.
• Wulfgard DPS T1.5 → Removed: Although Wulfgard can be run as a damage dealer, such a team is exceptionally niche. We wanted to offer F2P alternatives for players in this Tier List, but between Physical, Electric, Shatter, and even standard 6-star options like Last Rite (which are now easily accessible owing to the free selector), there are enough options. As a result, the Wulfgard DPS team has been removed.

02.02.2026

Now that Endfield has been out for almost 2 weeks and millions of players have had a chance to sink their teeth into 1.0, many new team compositions and optimizations for characters have been found. This, in addition to a few balance changes that Hypergryph slipped in at the last second have all led to assessments of characters within the game's very early meta shifting. Based on that, and now that things have settled somewhat with people reaching max level, characters were updating both tier lists.

We’ve added a lot more synergies to teams on the team tier list based on what people are finding success with. Umbral Monument isn’t out on live servers yet, so we may further adjust some of these picks in upcoming updates as what’s best is honed in on, but for now, we feel showing as many possible ways to play the top teams is most helpful. In addition to this, we’ve also added Yvonne’s team and Physical Sustainless to the list.

• Yvonne Hyper: Based on current testing, theorycrafting, and calculations, the 1.0 reworked Yvonne isn’t currently performing at the same level as Last Rite for most players. Because of this, and the fact that both characters share a very similar niche of Infliction ramping and single-target damage, we're starting Yvonne off a tier below Last Rite. However, we’re also watch-listing her. Most players haven’t had a chance to play with Yvonne yet, as this version of her wasn’t available for testing in beta. She also hasn’t been tried in Umbral Monument either, so it’s possible new comps, rotations, encounter design, or energy breakpoints could elevate her performance.
• Physical Sustainless: It’s possible to play Physical teams without a sustain instead focusing on maximizing resource generation in order to take advantage of being able to establish Breach at the same time as landing Crush for large damage spikes - something teams with Ardelia struggle to achieve consistently. When playing Physical this way, more damage is available, but at the cost of riskier, more demanding gameplay. You’ll have to align Vulnerability stacks correctly, and work around a lack of healing to have this team work - something which certain encounters can make quite difficult.

20.01.2026

The initial release of the team tier list.