CounterSide Tier List Update

PVP Tier List Update

It is time for regular PVP tier list maintenance. The primary objectives of this update are to:

• Rate newly released unit. Check out the review on the site.
• Adjust ratings for characters with new alternium reactors. Check the updated reviews for those units.
• Adjust ratings for underappreciated strikers touched on the recent SSR striker stat buffs

The CounterSide PVP tier list has been updated and changes were made to reflect the current state of PVP meta. This blog post provides some commentary on changes made to the ratings.

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ASSR Commentary

Six Wings Amy Firstwing

B🡒A

Amy’s review was updated, diving deep into all the issues her alternium reactor didn’t solve. Her damage is better now so she is a bigger threat.

Ais Wallenstein

S🡒SS

Aggressive Ais teams are harder to stop than initially assessed. By focusing on enabling Ais’s absurdly high damage potential (by using Albion’s S1 stealth and a lot of forward deployable units) it is possible to quickly overrun teams that lack an answer to Ais’s gameplan. As those answers often do not meaningfully contribute in other matchups, the impact Ais has on weekly metagame is too high to be rated lower.

Awakened Lee Sooyeon

S🡒A

Even with alternium reactor, ALSY requires specialised Anti-Air DMG gear to consistently kill high end air threats. This cripples her already mediocre damage output against ground units and combined with her low range makes her into a joke of a damage dealer.

Awakened Mordred

A🡒S

Mordred’s long range and striker priority make her a good choice whenever striker damage dealers are present. Even on dedicated anti-striker gear she provides enough value after dealing with striker priority targets to not be a burden on the team.

Striker Balance Changes

While 4 out of 5 strikers didn’t meaningfully change and remain playable only on their UP weeks, there is one outlier that won the buff lottery:

Yen Xing Lanchester

C🡒A

Yen Xing Lanchester had a very strong kit (improved even further by Alternium Reactor), held back by lack of defensive stats. With massive boosts to HP and DEF she can finally exist in the hostile frontline environment. Her anti-buff niche remains relevant and powerful Ultimate Skill can close out games.

SSR Unit Commentary

Quick commentary on units that deserve it.

Carmen

SS🡒S

Carmen remains relevant in the metagame mostly as an answer to Awakened Seo Yoon on healing heavy weeks. She was downtiered to better illustrate the massive gap between Rearm Chinatsu/ Acolytes and the rest of sustain supports.

Ciel

A🡒S

Ciel is just a really tanky frontline striker. She is less flexible than Ramlethal and weak to barrier hate, but was deemed a strong enough option to move up the ladder.

Kestrel Xiao Lin

A🡒B

KXL remains the only sniper in the entire game that can kill lvl120 strikers while being lvl110. This is not enough to let her keep the spot in the “actually playable” category.

Agent Eujin

B🡒A

As many other backline harassment tools were nerfed, Rearm Eujin emerged as a niche but powerful backline harassment option. She requires high end gear and good timing, but can dismantle teams that rely on single high cost backline damage dealer.