Limbus Company – Changelog for Tierlist Revision on 01/01/2026
Starting the new year off, we are making big changes to our Criteria and Ratings for the tier list.
Tanks as an archetype of a unit is proven to be a niche that isn’t meta-defining, which is why most of the tanks are either shifted to another category or severely downgraded in tier list placements.
- T Corp. Don Quixote – SS → S+, Tank → Status Specialist.
- Even though her tanking capabilities are quite strong due to the passive, her usage is applying Time Moratorium, which is a meta-defining status for the Tremor team.
- Zwei Ishmael – SS → A.
- Her stats are above average, but wasting turns for increased tanking capabilities half of the fight, combined with average overall damage and status application for makes her a perfect example of an A-tier unit
- T Corp Rodion and Outis – S → S+.
- Their main role is to apply a time moratorium. Due to how strong Time Moratorium set-ups are, they are barely able to climb to the S+ tier
- Heishou Mao Ryoshu and Outis – SS → S+.
- Current setplay does not require you this much of Rupture count, and their speed RNG makes it less consistent. Minor kit problems made them fall in priority.
- Full Stops – SS → S+.
- Still the best Pride damage dealers, but not one of the best damage dealers anymore.
- Firefist Gregor – SS → S+.
- Still an amazing damage dealer, although not amazing enough nowadays.
- Wild Hunt Heathcliff – SS → S+.
- Even though his relevancy has not fallen off yet, the inconsistencies and RNG in his kit make him less powerful compared to other units.
- Heishou Wu Yi sang – S+ → S, Tank →> Support.
- Nowadays, his main role is to help little hierarch Ishmael generate Poise and provide some extra stats and damage to his team, making him more relevant in the support category. He and Ishmael are proven to be a decent and relevant duo.
- Priest of La Manchaland Gregor – S+ → A, Tank → Support.
- Most of the damage he is tanking is self-inflicted, which he applies to generate Bloodfeast for the team, turning him into a support unit. His priority has also fallen significantly in the Bleed team due to an outdated kit.
- Pequod Captain Ishmael – S+ → B.
- Average setup results, combined with greedy SP nature. Did not age well.
- The Prince and Princess of La Manchaland Meursault and Rodion – SS → S+.
- Even though their relevancy didn’t fall off, their overall strength is a bit lacking to be left in SS, even with their key E.G.O.s for Bleed.
- The One Who Grips Faust – S+ → S.
- SP battery with a very outdated kit that is barely able to clash
- Liu Yi sang – S+ – S, Status specialist → Support.
- Liu Rodion but SP heal instead of Wrath Damage Up, further placing him in the same tier.
- Regret Faust – S+ → A.
- Aged very poorly, just an average Tremor unit with an AoE.
- LCE Yi sang – S+ → SS.
- Level 1 on death set-ups allows him to generate a lot of tempo, which has proven to be very powerful on multiple occasions.
- Jeong’s Office Rep Ishmael – S+ → SS.
- Overlooked at her initial rating. Her stats and damage make her SS tier worthy.
- Blade Lineage Mentor Meursault – SS → S.
- Old man’s time has come, he is no longer the best Meursault ID. The only meta-relevancy that is left in him is Screwloose Wallop E.G.O., which makes him a sacrificial target after using To Claim Their Bones.
- Molar Boatworks Fixer Ishmael – SS → S.
- Even though her status infliction is superb even up to this day, other Ishmael IDs can be used in Sinking, severely crippling her meta relevancy.
- W Corp. Yi Sang – S+ → S.
- Lack coins for Rupture triggers. Do keep in mind that he is still one of the best Rupture inflictors, just less relevant
- Kurokumo Ishmael and Heathcliff – Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Their damage used to be very high, to the point of neglecting their status infliction. Now we have put them in their respective category.
- N Corp Ryoshu – S+ → S, Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Damage ramp up is quite slow, and modern setups are using her for either Bleed infliction or Tremor conversion, in which she is definitely strong, just not meta-defining
- N corp Yi Sang – S+ → S.
- Too slow to be meta-relevant, though he is quite strong with and without his E.G.O.
- R Corp Rabbit Heathcliff – S+ → S, Damage Dealer → Support.
- His only role is fragility setup with Skill 3, in which he is still relevant with average stats by modern standards.
- R Corp Reindeer Hong Lu – S+ → S.
- Ramp-up is too slow. Otherwise, his damage and Sinking are good, but he is not necessary in any of his team compositions.
- Barber of La Manchaland outis – S+ → S.
- Damage power creep affected her badly
- Ring Yi Sang – S+ → S, Damage dealer → Status Specialist.
- Lacks damage modifiers to stay relevant, and he is only used to apply Bleed nowadays.
- Thumb Sinclair – Damage dealer → Status Specialist.
- Even though his damage is quite strong, he is mainly used for Tremor-Scorch conversions with strong Burn application.
- W Corp. Ryo – S+ → A.
- Just a decent statstick, nothing more, nothing less
- Multicrack Heathcliff – S+ → A
- Charge teams do no longer benefit that much from having his supper and W Heathcliff is just better in every other regard
- W Corp. Heathcliff – Tank → Damage Dealer
- Does more damage than tanking, so his category is adjusted
- Pequod Heathcliff – S+ → B, Tank → Damage Dealer.
- Cannot take hits from enemies anymore. The only thing left for him is the below-average damage he has.
- Dieci Assoc. Rodion – S → A.
- Solid unit. Still a good Rime Shank E.G.O holder
- Dieci Assoc. Meursalt – S → B, Tank → Status Specialist.
- Not even tanky, all he does is apply Insight and Sinking, which he is quite bad at.
- Yurodivy Hong Lu – S → A.
- No reason to run him in the Tremor team on the meta level, it is better off to use Full stop or Lord of Hongyuan Hong Lu with Cavernous Wailing rather than him. Aside from meta relevancy, he is still a decent Tremor applicator who is carried by having Tremor-Reverb entanglement. Without it, he is very bad.
- Seven Assoc. Heathcliff – S → B.
- Due to the influx of Rupture units, he ended up being a niche option for his team
- Lantern Don Quixote – S → A.
- A better Seven Heathcliff who can use the broken Red Sheet E.G.O.
- Ring Outis – S → B.
- Only used for niche status infliction. Her stats are outdated compared to current standards.
- Blade Lineage Sinclair and Yi Sang – S → B.
- They are A-tier damage units that require setups involving Swordplay of the Homeland, which is niche
- Cinq Assoc. Sinclair S → B.
- Used for some fragility. Other than that, he is just below average stat stick
- Edgar Family Chief Butler Ryoshu – S → B.
- Used for AoE, which she doesn’t really excel at.
- Drifting Blade of Hongyuan Ryoshu – S → S+, Damage Dealer → Support.
- Sin resource generation was previously overlooked, which is extremely strong. This utility makes her a fine alternative to Mao Ryoshu, placing her at the same tier.
- Dieci Assoc. Hong Lu – S → B.
- No reason to run him in Sinking over R Corp Hong Lu, his own damage is outdated, and all he has is 3 insight tech, which can be a way to cheese the early game.
- Red Eyes & Penitence Ryoshu – S → A, Damage Dealer → Tank.
- Extremely bad in both damage and status effects. Better off using her as a meat shield.
- Molar Outis – Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Used for frequent Tremor bursts, not damage.
- R Corp. Reindeer Rodion – S → A.
- Not only is she a worse R Corp. Hong Lu, but there is also a way stronger alternative.
- In the Name of Love and Hate Don Quixote – S+ → SS.
- Her AoE damage can rival AoE E.G.O. spam, and even her single-target damage is not that bad.
- Middle Sinclair – S → S+
- As previously mentioned, with more Envy Res support, this unit will start to climb its way to meta, and with newly found setups, he slowly does. We acknowledge his potential to one-shot Envy fatal bosses.
- The One Who Shall Grip Sinclair – S → A.
- Decent stat stick that has a very greedy SP management, even if he is somewhat above average.
- Tingtang Gang Gangleader Hong Lu – S → A.
- Just an average statstick
- W Corp. Don Quixote – S → A.
- W Corp Ryoshu for Don Quixote slot
- Blade Lineage Faust – A → B, Damage Dealer → Support.
- Below average damage dealer. The only reason to use her is to apply Defense Level Down and fragility with the Plum debuff, in which she is quite niche
- Cinq Assoc. Meursault – Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Not used for damage, only for his Rupture count neutrality.
- R Corp. Reindeer Ishmael – A → C.
- By modern standards, she has 5 Skill 1 and a single Skill 2, which makes her just a very bad option to use in current content
- Seven Assoc. Faust – A → B, Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- A very niche Rupture unit
- Shi Assoc. Faust – A → B.
- Gimmick is too niche to be used in normal teams.
- Pequod Yi Sang – A →> B
- Without specific Poise support, he is not worth using.
- Blade Lineage Don Quixote – A → B, Status Specialist → Support.
- Very niche Poise generation support unit
- Edgar Family Butler Ishmael – A → C. She is just bad
- Fanghunt Hong Lu – A → B.
- Average Rupture 15 potency and 3 count unit, unfortunately, said condition is no longer meta.
- Kurokumo Ryoshu – A → B.
- Niche Bleed Count Applicator.
- Molar Yi Sang – A → C. He is just a bad unit.
- Oufi Assoc. Heathcliff – A → B.
- Tremor-Decay is too niche to utilise properly.
- Seven Assoc. Outis – A → C. Too outdated.
- Seven Assoc. Ryoshu – A → C. Too outdated.
- Cinq Assoc. Outis – A → B. Tanking is a niche.
- K Corp. Hong Lu A → B. Tanking is a niche.
- Zwei Assoc. West Section 3 Sinclair – A → C. A worse Zwei Ishmael
- Zwei Assoc. Gregor – A → C. Too outdated
- Zwei Assoc. Faust – A →> D.
- A Worse Zwei Gregor
- W Corp. Hong Lu – B → D. He does nothing
- W Corp. Faust – B → C. Bad stats for niche debuffs
- Middle Meursault – B → A.
- Has “Middle” faction tag, recovers SP for others, and can spam Electric Screaming E.G.O., which helps a lot in the Envy Charge team.
- Seven Assoc. Yi Sang – B → C. He is too outdated.
- N Corp Heathcliff – B → C.
- Plus coin drop is not a relevant status, and everything else he has is outdated.
- LCCB Ryoshu – B → C, Status → Support. Outdated unit with good passive
- Shi Assoc. Ishmael – B →> C. Too outdated
- Liu Assoc. Ryoshu – B → C, Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Exist for some Burn potency, bad at everything else
- Kurokumo Rodion – B → C Inconsistent and bad kit
- Kurokumo Hong Lu – Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Exist to apply a lot of Bleed potency with Skill 2.
- Hook Office Fixer Hong Lu – B → C. Too outdated
- Cinq Assoc. South Section 5 Don Quixote – B → C. Too outdated.
- Magic Bullet Outis – S+ → SS.
- With her E.G.O., she makes Pride, Burn, and Pierce damage-oriented teams Meta.
- Wuthering Heights Chief Butler Outis – Damage Dealer → Status Specialist.
- Even though her kit revolves around dealing damage, she only exists to apply manors for burst setplays with Bygone Days.
- Rosespanner Rodion – A → B.
- Even though her stats are lackluster, she still has a lot of Tremor Bursts, which may matter in niche comps.
- W Corp. Outis – A → B, Status Specialist → Support.
- Lacks stats to compete with current units and exists only for her niche utility.
- Kurokumo Gregor – B → C. Powercrept.
- G Corp. Outis – B → C. Too outdated.
- Rosespanner Gregor – B → C. Lost his niche.
- R Corp. Rhino Meursault – B → C. Powercrept.
- Liu Meursault – B → D. Powercrept.
- Liu Gregor – B → C. Powercrept.
- Liu Hong Lu – B → D. Powercrept.
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Radio
This has to be either ragebait or AI generated, right? Are we for real putting a unit whose only purpose is to KILL HIMSELF over units like Wild Hunt, the Full Stops, Prince and Princess of La Manchaland and Firefist? You guys have to be kidding. This cannot be a real opinion written by a real human. I genuinely believe this might be the worst change ever made to this website. You guys are either stupid, high or written by AI. Please hire better writers and theorycrafters.
hex
Have you perhaps consider the fact that you’re just not that knowledgeable about this? LCE Yisang is deserving of the SS tier. Before this overhaul, he’s placed and S+ and A LOT of good players (which actually have a track record of being good and not just self-proclaimed ‘good’) wanted him to be placed higher. However, it’s a common understanding that people who never tried optimizing will never know the value of LCE Yisang so I don’t blame you.
DunwichFear
We are not pretending that Priest Gregor, the guy holding bloodfiend teams together, is worse than [LCE E.G.O::Lantern] Yi Sang or [R Corp. 4th Pack Rabbit] Heathcliff
This list has to be AI Generated
Grillya
What team is he holding together? Priest gregor has low damage output, obscenely long ramp up, and a useless in current meta niche. Bloodfeast battery isnt a real thing either due to the bleed team stacking enough bleed to fully supplement his usage
DunwichFear
Who cares about his damage, he’s a TANK UNIT with one stagger threshhold, who never dies. He feeds the bloodfiends their resource. His ramp up doesn’t matter, he helps the other bloodfiends, as well as gives Sancho one of her empowered skills. Also , he doesn’t die, and has aggro
If you think there’s any other bleed unit to run over all 5 bloodfiends + 2 other bleed units, you’re crazy.
Oh yeah, and did I mention, he DOESN’T DIE and self heals. To try and claim he’s in the same tier as [The Middle Little Brother] Meursault is simply misinformation . Not every character needs to do 700 damage outside of mirror dungeon
Siltcurrents
Priest Gregor’s issues stem largely from this game encouraging far more dps centric teams, which leaves little room for a tank ID like him. I’d personally say Priest Gregor is a good ID, it’s just that the role they fill in the bleed team is as a tank when it’s needed, which it often sadly isn’t.
Realbum
Heishou-Wu Yi Sang and Priest Gregor are in the same tier as Rabbit Heathcliff? “Most of the damage he is tanking is self-inflicted, which he applies to generate Bloodfeast for the team, turning him into a support unit” this is insane work, let’s ignore his damage, healing, 1 stagger bar, and above average health.
saurus
priest gregor has bad damage(no dynamic modifiers except on s3 with a very difficult conditional to max out, and doesnt even give the most), a mid – bad skill 1 and 2 too. tanking as a niche sucks too, inflicts bad as well. Hitting 30 bloodied hand is horrible and insanely slow too.
Dante 'The Lunacy Lunatic' Limbus
Angela, turn these writers into popcorn machines
ultranum
BARBER OUTIS SHOULD BE SS TIER! HOW COULD YOU FORGET ABOUT SUPERBIA!
Anonymous
I haven’t use Love & Hate Don Quixote but do you guys agree on her being SS now?
Siltcurrents
Not as versatile or braindead as an ID like ThumbSault, but on an envy team + her respective EGO, yeah the damage is completely bonkers. Less so against single targets though, she gotta make use of her attack weight
John Limbus
justice for priest gregor
RABBOJJ
Do I understand correctly that you think that W corp outis at D level is bad because it is only for one team, while Lord of Hongyuan at SS level is also only for one team? What’s wrong with you?
Tom
Are you REALLY comparing the mighty Lord of Hongyuan with W corp Outis? You´ve gotta be kidding me. Even without the heishous, his damage is still cracked. His skill 2 does twice the damage of Outis´ skill 3 and besides that he can provide defense level up, which is niche, but better than Outis, who provides nothing to a random team and on top of that, if someone substitutes, the substituter will execute a skill 1. Also, just ask any limbus company player which character they would rather slot in their team. The only real value, that I can see in W corp Outis, is her in solo runs. But oh wait!!! Her defensive skill is guard-based and not evasive-based? Well then, you´re absolutly horrendous and provide little to no value compared to the mighty Lord 🤣🙏.
Siltcurrents
R. Corp Ishy in the same tier and category as Suncliff? Same with Zwei Gregor matched with N. Sault? I could go on, but the balance in each tier is pretty abhorrent. We get it, they’re not ever used competitively and are overshadowed in that regard but they can actually clash and deal a fair amount of damage, which other ids in the same spot simply cannot. Please look at the other ids in the same category before jumping to “oh yeah C tier sounds about right” because the tier balancing is completely out of wack.
Actual Limbus Player
I’m so Sorry people here are so butt hurt over the fact id’s don’t get perfect scores when the Higher teirs are used for INSANE id’s. My only gripe with this whole list is I think Mersetti is maybe a slot too low? the support damage and clashing he gives id’s like man don and princess Makes him in my eyes the best bloodfiend as well as his cheap bloodfeast requirements.
2nd S. Deluge ID
Spaghetti Meursault didn’t fall off, but he doesn’t pull together the bleed team as much as Lord Hong Lu does with rupture. Also, you’re still objecting over a placement like the rest so don’t act like you’re an outsider to being butt hurt.
DunwichFear
They ain’t paying you bro
These are all valid criticisms , not just ‘being butt hurt’
sun
“when the higher tiers are used for INSANE ID’s”- Lantern yi sang is in the same tier than capo mersault, lord hong lu, sancho, reverse potential woman rodion, zilu faust, and it’s now in a higher tier than both maos and princess/priest… yeah, totally balanced
Givy120
According to this tier list – Lantern Yi Sang is a direct upgrade to Mao Ryo and Outis and better than such IDs as Wild Hunt Heathcliff and Prince Meursault.
Toaster
I have found out all of the changes and the blog is 77% Ai generated, in other words, mostly AI.
I trusted you, Prydwen. I trusted you.
Super Sodium
Jeong Office Rep Ishmael at SS is nuts right? She’s not as good as KoDya or Thumbsault, nor is she better than Wild hunt. Also Wildhitn being at S+ while Middle Sinclair and DawnClair being there is baffling. Also the tiers are way too imbalanced, no way R Corp Ishmael is on the same level as Base Faust or Base Heathcliff.
idealGuy
much needed balancing imo. i like that the actually busted units take up the very sparse SS while the A tiers are actually useful rather than being the home of the backups. A tier to me should be the cusp of high tier, not barely usable like before. Only small personal gripe is Yurodivye Hong Lu’s placement. 3 tremor bursts is massive. Good changes all in all though.
Sun
this is lowkey the WORST overhaul I have ever seen, they lowkey put yi sang lantern over princess priest, Wild hunt, both full stop, both kurokumo, firefist, and im just putting a few, you are trying to tell me that you lower down priest and princess because they doesn’t get “enough value” but you put in SS an id that literally in their own review says “it lowkey is more useful dead than alive”
I understand that they are doing an “end game” tier list, but you can’t be serious, even in refraction railway you can’t put lantern in the same tier than sancho and lord hong lu. Also I do think making a tier list just for refraction railway is just stupid, as I said, I understand it’s the “end game” of the game, but let’s be serious, NOBODY is playing refraction railway for a third time, you do it once for the rewards, maybe twice if you didn’t get the turn reward, but after that, nobody touches it, you SHOULD do a tier list taking in consideration mirror dungeon from 5/10 and 10/15, because that WHAT the actual end game players play a least once a week for the rewards, even more if you like to do it, but this lowkey is even worse than before
hex
Nowhere in this blog is RR even mentioned btw. Also regarding RR, yes, LCE Yisang is more relevant than Sancho in literally all RR after his release LMAO, and even better once the other RR Bokgaks are released. Just because he’s better dead than alive doesn’t mean he don’t have any value or stops having value after he died, I advice you to actually read his passive/kit if you think otherwise.
If making a tier-list based on Refraction Railway is bad, then making it based on Mirror Dungeon is even worse. You get buffed by a bajillion EGO gifts that IDs kit get reduced to ‘whoever have the most keywords and can utilize the most EGO gifts’. Even Mao Faust, who is unarguably the best ID in the game, will still lose in MD compared to worse ID with more keywords (For example: Si Rodion can clash better and deal more damage than Mao Faust once you get to floor 7+ because she can utilize both rupture and poise keywords). Tier list made with MD in mind would most likely have Mao Faust in S tier instead of her actual #1 rank.
Refraction railway, unlike MD, doesn’t buff your IDs to oblivion, making use of their kit as intended. This tier-list is not made with RR in mind, but even if it is, while its true that your average players doesn’t play this mode much, it’s still the hardest content you can get that actually uses their kit, and not EGO gifts. It’s still a way better metric to comparing ID kits than MD will ever be.
Actual Limbus Player
You do understand how Limbus id’s work right?
you have 6 skills, 3 weak ones, 2, nice ones, 1 very strong one. This isn’t a 100% formula (looking at n Faust, liu ishmail and rodion and 7 Faust etc.. who all have better clashing skill 2’s) Getting to field an Id and have them do their strong gimmick and then instantly leave the battle, granting you ego resources for strong damage ego or passives as well as giving you a bump to rupture. You can spend 1-2 turn’s and get the FULL value from lantern Yi sang and then he’s gone and another Id can take his spot.
How many turns does it take priest Gregor to fully come online?
DunwichFear
Priest Gregor does not need to ‘come online’ because he is a tank, he self inflicts bleed to fuel the other bloodfiends.
For an ‘Actual Limbus Player’ you clearly don’t know how he works.
carnivalphantasm
although I feel SS is a *tiny* bit of a stretch, LCE yi sang isn’t anywhere near as bad as people make him out to be; i feel like people just saw the “more useful dead than alive” and immediately wrote him off. he’s a pretty nasty id when you actually know what you’re doing. you honestly can’t go wrong with him either–after all, he’s cheap and gets the job done