Unit Rankings

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Unit Ratings (7★ Units)

Only units that can be awakened to 7-star are rated.

Please keep in mind that each list considers that players have fully ability awakened a unit's kit.

Please read the in-game news to learn how to awaken a 7★ to avoid any confusion or mistakes.

Name	Role	Rating	Notes
Physalis		20.5	Ice physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Agent Olive	x24px	20.5	Dark/fire physical chainer. Can also serve as a finisher, but can only burst once per fight. Alternately, this skill can be used to burst as a chainer if you can provide her with external chains to cap. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Doctor Aiden		20.0	Healer with plenty of utility. Healing from his abilities is low, which can make it hard to actually make the most of said utility without external support, especially if the tank is taking lots of damage.
Operative Zyrus		20.5	Ice/lightning/dark magic chainer. Can burst hard once per battle via his Magnus skill. Chains with the Absolute Zero, Bolting Strike, and Chaos Wave Awakened families.
Mastermind Xon		20.5	Physical chainer with significant utility. Can maintain 70% breaks on a single enemy by alternating his cooldown breaks with another Mastermind Xon. Can provide AoE mirage. Can copy buffs from allies or enemies, then share them with the party. Chains with the Bolting Strike, Stardust Ray, Absolute Zero, Absolute Mirror of Equity, and Aureole Ray families.
Jade		19.5	Fire/ice/lightning physical chainer. Requires an external imperil. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
The Lord of Shadows		20.0	Dark physical chainer. Has an 80% ATK/MAG break, but it renders the boss immune to damage for two turns, making it more of an emergency tool than anything else. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Sylvando		20.0	Buffer with some unusual abilities. Can buff stats, elemental resistances, and physical mitigation. Can provide mirage, 2k AoE barriers, AoE LB fill, and some backup healing.
Rab		20.5	Wind/lightning/dark hybrid chainer. Can provide significant backup healing. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Jasper Unbound		20.5	Lightning/dark physical chainer. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Erik		21.0	Earth physical chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Magitek Warrior Terra		19.5	Fire/wind/light magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
Adventurer Locke		20.0	Breaker and water physical chainer. His damage drops drastically if you want him to maintain breaks, so in practice he is only doing one or the other. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Aldore King Rain		20.5	Fire physical chainer. Can also use lightning or earth at a minor damage loss. Can provide AoE barriers. Technically chains with the Stardust Ray family, but works very poorly with it in practice as most of his damage comes from his LB.
Assassin Shadow		19.5	Dark/wind physical chainer. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Archmage Kefka		19.0	Ice/lightning/dark magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
Godrea		20.0	Water/dark/ice physical chainer. Requires several turns of setup to deal optimal damage. Can restore the party's HP and MP by using items in an AoE. Chains primarily with the Divine Ruination, but can also chain with the Bolting Strike, Absolute Mirror of Equity, Absolute Zero, and Chaos Wave families at a moderate damage loss.
Karten		20.0	Dark physical chainer with high burst. Chains with the Bolting Strike family, aside from his burst, which chains with the Aureole Ray family (singlecast only).
Chocobo Fina		19.5	Physical chainer who scales off of SPR. Requires an external imperil. Her high SPR makes her very durable against magic damage. Has some healer-ish utility, such as reraise. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Dark Mage Exdeath		19.0	Wind/earth/dark magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Warrior of Light Krile		19.5	Light/wind magic chainer. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Warrior of Dawn Galuf		21.5	Provoke and physical cover tank that can provide 50% general mitigation to the party. Can easily reach 100% passive provoke. Has 10% innate dodge (making it easier to gear for 100%) and can chain with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Wild Rose Firion		19.5	Physical chainer with some elemental flexibility. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Dark Knight Leon		20.5	Dark physical chainer. Bursts very hard. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
A.I. Katy		20.5	Time limited unit Physical/magical cover tank who can also provide 70% breaks. Typically must use her cover each turn to reapply the barrier, or she's at a higher risk of dying. Alternately, she can be built for damage and used as a chainer, although this is a much less potent option.
Mordegon		19.5	Time limited unit Ice/dark magic chainer. Requires extensive ramp up time to reach peak damage, and suffers greatly if he dies. Can provide powerful breaks, but must be paired with another copy of himself so that they can stagger their break cooldowns to maintain 100%. And this won't work well against bosses that must be dispelled frequently. Chains with the Absolute Zero family.
Serena		19.5	Time limited unit Healer with good utility. Can buff magic mitigation by 30%, provide AoE reraise, grant ST ailment/charm/stop/break immunity (with AoE on a cooldown), restore MP, and briefly buff general mitigation by 40%.
Veronica		19.5	Time limited unit Nonelemental magic chainer. Requires extensive ramp up time to reach peak damage, and suffers greatly if she dies. Chains with the Absolute Zero family.
Eleven		20.0	Time limited unit Fire/lightning physical chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Lovely Katy		18.0	Time limited unit Healer that can also provide AoE reraise. Has a fairly bare-bones kit by healer standards.
Riku		20.0	Time limited unit Dark physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Sephiroth (KH)		20.0	Time limited unit Dark/light physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Elena		20.0	Hybrid chainer with elemental flexibility and buffing capabilities. Can provide stat buffs and mitigation to the party. Chains with the Stardust Ray and Bolting Strike families.
Sol		19.0	Light/dark magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Esther		18.5	Lightning physical chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike, Absolute Mirror of Equity, and Aureole Ray (singlecast only) families. Has absurd survivability for a damage dealer, with over twice as much HP as most other chainers on top of innate dodge and guts.
Neverending Hope		20.0	Versatile buffer who can grant a wide variety of elemental resistances. Excels at charging up the LB gauges of allies. Also has some subpar breaks that could be useful in rare situations. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Warrior of Light Bartz		20.5	Wind physical chainer. Requires several turns of setup time before dealing any damage. Has Entrust, and his LB automatically fills at the beginning of each stage, allowing him to instantly fill any other unit's LB at the start of a fight if desired. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Warrior of Light Lenna		21.0	Healer that can provide immunity to ailments, breaks, stop, and charm. Can buff mitigation by 30%. Has AoE reraise on her LB. Fills the LB gauge a bit while healing, and can massively fill ally LB gauged by emptying her own.
Radiant Lightning		20.5	Lightning physical chainer. Can serve as a breaker in a pinch, although her damage would suffer greatly and she would struggle with bosses that get dispelled. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Tsukiko		19.5	Magic chainer with several elements to choose from. Can provide 75% breaks, although 100% uptime requires a dupe to stagger cooldowns with and a somewhat wonky rotation. Can effortlessly maintain 65% breaks as part of her normal damage rotation. Chains with the Chaos Wave, Absolute Zero, and Bolting Strike families.
Zeno of the Beta Star		20.0	Fire physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Monk Sabin of Kolts		19.5
Circe		19.5
Dressy Aileen		19.0
Yuffie		19.0	Powerful physical chainer with elemental flexibility. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Akstar		19.0
Kimono Ayaka		18.5
Malphasie		19.0
Red XIII		19.0
Auron		19.5
Ellesperis		18.5
Mediena		18.0
Summer Fina & Lid	()	20.5	Excellent breaker with incredible utility. In addition to providing breaks, has strong AoE healing, AoE reraise, AoE MP recovery, can grant a physical water Aureole Ray chaining move to allies and herself, can imbue allies with water (although this may also charm them), buff water resistance, imperil several elements, buff LB fill rate, and fill the LB gauge.
Beowulf		19.0
Citan		18.0	Time limited unit
Crimson		16.0
Randi		18.0	Time limited unit
Regina	x24px	18.0
Sacred Shield Charlotte		21.0	Extremely durable provoke and magic cover tank with incredible support skills. All of her skills last four turns, instead of the more common two or three, giving her more spare turns. Can buff general mitigation by a whopping 50%, magic mitigation by 30%, fill LB gauges, buff light/ice resistance, buff DEF/SPR, and more. Can chain with the Aureole Ray, Disorder, and Absolute Zero families.
Squall	x24px	17.5	Physical chainer with elemental flexibility. Can also function as a finisher, although his hits are spread out and may not fit well into many chains. Technically chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family, but his chaining moves are very weak and the bulk of his damage comes from capping his own chains with Keen Edge, which would break the chain when done with anyone but another Squall.
Summer Folka & Citra		17.5	Excellent water/light evoke chainer with incredible utility. Can grant ailment/break/charm/stop resistance to allies, buff water/light resistance, buff stats, AoE recover LB, buff LB fillrate, provide healing and mitigation (on a cooldown), and imbue allies with light (which may charm them). Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family, and can grant a physical water Aureole Ray attack to themselves or allies.
Yego		17.5	Strong earth physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Elly		16.5	Time limited unit
Folka		20.5
High Seraph Ultima		17.0
Kaito		17.5	Physical solo damage dealer. Very unusual in that his damage comes almost entirely from damage over time effects, meaning that he doesn't work as a finisher (and his damage as a chainer is not worth mentioning). Can provide AoE mirage. Will struggle (and typically fail) at trials that impose time limits.
Jecht		17.5
Karlette		17.0
Loren		19.0
Machina		19.5	Breaker and physical chainer. Damage drops significantly while maintaining breaks, so you typically have to choose which to focus on. Can buff physical and magical mitigation by 20%. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Myra		20.5
Nagi		16.5
Sephiroth		16.5	Light and dark physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family. His damage requires several turns to ramp up.
Sylvie	()	20.5	Can turn other units into chainers. Excellent support unit with incredible utility. Can provide typed mitigation, stat buffs, ailment immunity, break immunity, and massive elemental resistances. Can grant physical or magical chaining moves to allies (Bolting Strike and Absolute Mirror of Equity options for both types), and imbue allies with several different elements. Has 70% breaks for ATK/MAG and DEF/SPR, albeit on a cooldown.
Zack	x24px	18.0	Excellent physical finisher. Relies on an external imbue to maximize his damage output.
2B		18.5	Time limited unit
Aerith		20.0
Atoning Dragoon Kain	x24px	17.0
Black Mage Golbez		16.5
Chow		19.0	Time limited unit
Fei		17.0	Time limited unit
Kurasame		20.5	Hybrid ice chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Maria (Xenogears)		17.5	Time limited unit
Mercenary Ramza		19.5
Morgana		16.5	Evoke chainer. Suffers from insufficient orb generation, making it impossible to maintain her ideal damage rotation without significant external support. Chains with the Absolute Zero and Chaos Wave families.
Sieghard		20.5	Physical cover and provoke tank. He can cover magic, but isn't particularly great at doing so, as his magic cover ability has a cooldown and his stats are more aimed at surviving physical damage. His LB provides a 45% general mitigation buff to the party for three turns.
Olberic		20.0	Physical cover and provoke tank. His LB provides a powerful 40% general mitigation buff to the party for three turns. Chains with the Aureole Ray family.
Primrose		18.5	Buffer with a fairly standard kit. Can buff mitigation by up to 40% (but drops down to 30% on some turns due to cooldowns), provides stat buffs, imbues allies with dark, and can fill the LB gauge. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Kimono Fina		19.5	Ice/light magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family. Can provide some minor support capabilities, most notably LB fill via her own LB.
Sophia		16.5	Time limited unit Magical chainer with elemental flexibility. Chains with the Chaos Wave and Quake families.
Sora		19.5	Time limited unit Physical chainer. Has no imperils of his own. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.
Wilhelm		19.0	Extremely powerful provoke and physical cover tank. Has excellent utility in the form of his powerful mitigation LB, LB fill rate counter, and single-stat 60% ATK/MAG breaks.
Yuraisha		20.0	Excellent support unit with powerful buffs. Can provide large buffs to all stats, as well as all three types of mitigation. Has AoE barriers, resistance buffs, and AoE HP/MP regen. Can cure breaks.
Aurora Fryevia		20.5	Light hybrid chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity, Divine Ruination, and Aureole Ray families.
Ayaka		18.5
Bai Hu & Zhu Que		15.5	Time limited unit
Basch		19.0
Beatrix		17.0
Cloud (KH)		19.0	Time limited unit Physical chainer. Has no imperils of his own. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Fayt		16.5	Time limited unit
Felix		15.5	Time limited unit
Kunshira		14.5
Lila		17.0
Lotus Mage Fina		19.5	Excellent healer with Curaja and Reraise. Can also apply AoE reraise. With her latent abilities, she can provide good buffs and elemental resistances via W-Ability, although the low healing on the turns that she refreshes these effects might be a problem.
Lulu	x24px	16.0
Prompto		18.0
Rena		18.5	Time limited unit
Tiana		16.0	Time limited unit Earth magic chainer. Chains with the Quake family. Can help to sustain the party's HP/MP via her limit burst.
Tifa		16.0	Water physical chainer. Requires several turns of ramp up. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
White Knight Noel		19.5	Time limited unit Provoke and magic cover tank. Has very little in the way of utility, but can chain with the Freeze and Tornado families.
Yun		16.0	Time limited unit Good fire physical chainer. Chains with the Octaslash and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.
Yuna		19.0	Healer with some support capabilities. Has great utility-- various Bar-ga resistance spells, esper gauge fill, and a powerful DEF/SPR buffs on her LB.
A2		16.0	Time limited unit
Awakened Rain		19.5	Extremely powerful magic cover and provoke tank. Can grant ailment/stop immunity to allies. Has AoE heals/MP restoration, at the cost of LB gauge.
Balthier	x24px	16.5
Barbariccia		14.0
Beryl		19.0
Christine		18.0	Time limited unit Ice magic chainer. Technically chains with several families, but in practice, her damage will plummet if she is not paired with a copy of herself.
Demon Rain		19.0	Time limited unit
Eiko		18.0
Fryevia		19.5	Ice hybrid chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Grim Lord Sakura		18.5	Time limited unit Fire/dark magic chainer with support capabilities. Chains with the Chaos Wave family. Can buff DEF/SPR, provide 35% AoE mitigation, reraise allies, grant break/partial ailment immunity, apply barriers, restore MP, and slightly fill the LB gauge.
Hyoh		20.0	Fire/lightning physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.
King Edgar of Figaro		18.5
Kryla		20.0	Time limited unit Breaker with breaks of up to 74% for every stat, including a turn 1 70% full break. Can also imperil various elements, buff elemental resistances, and dispel + rebreak on the same turn. Chains with the Absolute Zero, Bolting Strike, and Chaos Wave families.
Lilith		19.5	Time limited unit Magic cover tank with some utility. Can buff the party's general mitigation by 35% and magic mitigation by 30%. Can also cover physical, although her stats are not well-suited for it. Chains with the Divine Ruination, Bolting Strike, and Aureole Ray families.
Maritime Strategist Nichol		20.0	Powerful buffer with access to a wide range of potent abilities. Can buff all stats, regenerate HP/MP for the party, provide mitigation, buff elemental resistances, and cure breaks. Almost all of his abilities can be dualcast via Linked Stance. Can also help to fill the LB and esper gauges.
Pyro Glacial Lasswell		19.5
Queen		15.0
Raegen		19.0	Fire and ice physical chainer. Imbues himself with both elements as part of his rotation, so his damage suffers noticeably if the enemy is immune to either one. Can buff most elemental resistances. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.
Rem		18.0
Seaside Nichol		19.5	Support unit focusing exclusively on defensive buffs. Can provide significant DEF/SPR buffs, all three types of mitigation, and some minor barriers. Unfortunately, his physical/magical mitigation buffs cannot be dualcast, which means he cannot provide much in the way of HP/MP restoration while maintaining those. Can cure imperils and berserk (as well as breaks, charm, and stop).
Zargabaath		19.0	Support unit with powerful general mitigation buffs. Can massively buff stats and mitigation, especially via his LB. Can temporarily provide break immunity. Can reraise allies and provide massive HP/MP restoration to single targets. Can chain with the Octaslash family.
Aloha Lasswell	()	19.5	Water/wind physical chainer with high innate evasion. Reaches 80% dodge with just two copies of his own TM, making it very easy to gear him for 100%. Has a provoke skill. He has a physical AoE cover ability with a cooldown. If you pair him with another copy, you can alternate the cooldowns and maintain 100% uptime. Burns through MP very, very quickly. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Ang	x24px	15.5	Time limited unit
Bart	()	18.0	Time limited unit
Cid	x24px	19.5	Physical finisher. Requires several turns of setup, and relies heavily on external imperils in order to deal good damage, but can burst very hard in the right circumstances.
Dracu Lasswell		15.5	Time limited unit
Elephim		17.5
Emperor Shera		15.5
Heavenly Technician Lid		19.0	Powerful breaker. Her T1 AoE breaks aren't quite as strong as those of some other units, but she can later on upgrade them to 79%, which are among the strongest in the game.
Rivera	()	19.0	Unusual support unit able to turn any ally into a provoke tank or AoE physical cover tank, although whoever she picks will be significantly less durable than a "normal" tank. Can provide AoE Mirage, restore MP, and heal.
Lenneth		14.5	Time limited unit
Rinoa	x24px	16.5	Non-elemental magic finisher. Can slightly fill ally LB gauges with Aura.
Trance Terra		14.0	Fire/dark magic chainer. Requires an external imperil. Very high MP consumption. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Aranea	x24px	15.5
Flammie		18.0	Time limited unit
Gladiolus		18.0
Knight Delita		16.5
Nalu		18.5	Physical lightning chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Onion Knight		14.0
Onion Knight Refia		14.5
Tidus		13.5	Good DH water physical chainer. Technically chains with the Quick Hit family, but his rotation is a mess. Constant switching between single cast, dual cast, and triple cast means he has no real partners.
Veritas of the Dark		14.0	Good dark physical chainer. Has a bit of utility in the form of AoE mitigation, AoE full break, 74% ATK break on his LB, and AoE dark resistance. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Aileen		14.0	Terrible earth physical chainer. Can provide AoE LB fill. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Estark		13.5	Time limited unit
Ignis		20.5	Buffer with strong, flexible options at the expensive of slow, clunky setup time. Can provide 50% AoE mitigation, massive AoE LB fill, 80% elemental resistances, stat buffs, and more.
Immortal Flame Katy		13.5	Time limited unit
Jiraiya		14.0
Nyx		15.0
Orlandeau	()	14.0
Reberta	x24px	19.0	Fire/ice/lightning physical chainer or finisher. It can be difficult to chain her consistently due to the timing required to properly cap her delayed chains with her timed jump.
Roy		17.5	Support unit with strong buffs and breaks on T1. However, as soon as they expire, he becomes significantly worse because he can't refresh them with the same potency. Works best when paired with another breaker who cannot break well on T1.
Veritas of the Flame	x24px	15.5	Physical fire finisher.
Veritas of the Light	x24px	13.5	Light hybrid AoE chainer or finisher. Can cure all debuffs from a single ally, including berserk, charm, stop, imperils, and breaks.
Blossom Sage Sakura		18.5	Lightning magic chainer. Has some decent support capabilities, including AoE mitigation and ailment immunity buffs.
Cloud	x24px	15.5
Duke	x24px	15.5
Elfreeda		17.0
Emperor	x24px	17.0	Fire magic finisher. Requires some ramp up time to hit peak damage.
Ignacio	x24px	18.0	Fire physical finisher who can also imbue other units with fire. Has some minor buffing capabilities, but the stat buffs cost LB crystals.
Lunera		13.5
Lucius		20.0	Time limited unit Dark/fire physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Prishe		13.5
Viktor Marchenko		17.0	Time limited unit Provoke tank with subpar survivability. Chains with the Aureole Ray family. Can become immune to charm, stop, breaks, and ailments. Can heal himself and restore his own MP.
Vincent		13.5	Subpar physical chainer with no partners. Has a single target 55% full break.
Arngrim	x24px	14.5	Time limited unit
Dragonlord	x24px	14.0	Time limited unit
Fohlen	x24px	14.0
Freya (VP)		13.5	Time limited unit
Gilgamesh		13.0
Lightning		13.5
Livid Shantotto		17.0	Primarily fire/water magic chainer. Can also use other elements. Has horrifically low health, which impedes her usability on harder trials. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Nameless Gunner Jake	x24px	18.0	Physical finisher with elemental flexibility. Requires several turns of setup.
Noctis		15.0
Olive	x24px	15.0
Ramza		16.5
Ace		16.0
Adam Jensen		13.5	Time limited unit
Dark Knight Luneth	x24px	14.5
Delita		13.5
Luneth	x24px	14.5
Pure Summoner Rydia	x24px	14.0
Qin		16.0	Time limited unit
Seabreeze Dark Fina		17.0	Magic chainer. She is locked into using two elements at once, has ramp up time, and will suffer greatly if she dies or if the boss gets dispelled. Her damage is absolutely terrible unless you unlock her latent abilities.
Shadow Lord		20.0	Dark physical chainer. Has ludicrous survivability thanks to his upgraded Immortal Justice passive. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Citra		15.0	Terrible magical light chainer with some minor support capabilities. She can chain with the Divine Ruination family. Can buff the party's magic mitigation by 20%, refill MP, fill the esper gauge, and heal the party a bit.
Dark Fina		16.5	Magic chainer. She is locked into using three elements at once, has ramp up time, and will suffer greatly if she dies or if the boss gets dispelled. Her damage is absolutely terrible unless you unlock her latent abilities.
Marie	()	15.5
Dark Knight Cecil	x24px	14.0
Marquis de Léon		13.5	Time limited unit
Popstar Katy	x24px	11.0	Time limited unit

Unit Summaries (7★ Units)

2B

Breaker with some weak physical chaining.
Chains with the Graviton Cannon and Stardust Ray families.

A.I. Katy

Physical/magical cover tank who can also provide 70% breaks.
Typically must use her cover each turn to reapply the barrier, or she's at a higher risk of dying.
Alternately, she can be built for damage and used as a chainer, although this is a much less potent option.

A2

Physical chainer who relies on external imperils.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Ace

Subpar buffer.
Unfortunately, his buffs are semi-random.

Adam Jensen

Terrible fire/lightning physical chainer with innate dual wield.
Has high burst (relative to his base damage) via his cooldown skill, and very low damage on other turns.

Adventurer Locke

Breaker and water physical chainer.
His damage drops drastically if you want him to maintain breaks, so in practice he is only doing one or the other.
Can provide AoE mirage.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Aerith

Healer with some utility.
Can provide break immunity, AoE reraise, 30% general mitigation, and help to fill LBs.

Agent Olive

Dark/fire physical chainer.
Can also serve as a finisher, but can only burst once per fight. Alternately, this skill can be used to burst as a chainer if you can provide her with external chains to cap.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Aileen

Terrible earth physical chainer.
Can provide AoE LB fill.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Akstar

Fire/ice physical chainer.
Requires several turns of ramp up to reach his maximum damage potential.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Aloha Lasswell

Water/wind physical chainer with high innate evasion.
Reaches 80% dodge with just two copies of his own TM, making it very easy to gear him for 100%.
Has a provoke skill.
He has a physical AoE cover ability with a cooldown. If you pair him with another copy, you can alternate the cooldowns and maintain 100% uptime.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Ang

Fire physical finisher.
Relies heavily on his limit burst for optimal damage output.

Aranea

Physical finisher.
Has no utility and requires several turns of setup for one turn of burst damage.

Archmage Kefka

Ice/lightning/dark magic chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.

Arngrim

Terrible fire finisher.
Burns through MP very quickly.

Assassin Shadow

Dark/wind physical chainer.
Can provide AoE mirage.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Atoning Dragoon Kain

Physical chainer with elemental flexibility. Can also serve as a finisher (which requires several turns of setup).
Chains with the Graviton Cannon family.

Auron

Breaker who can also provide support chaining.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Aurora Fryevia

Light hybrid chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity, Divine Ruination, and Aureole Ray families.

Awakened Rain

Magic cover and provoke tank.
Can grant ailment/stop immunity to allies and buff stats by 120%.
Has AoE heals/MP restoration, at the cost of LB gauge.

Ayaka

Fairly standard healer.
Can slightly fill ally LB gauges and provide barriers.

Bai Hu & Zhu Que

Terrible fire/lightning physical chainer.
Can swap elements mid-fight.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Has an alternate SPR-heavy build, but this option deals much less damage.

Balthier

Physical finisher with elemental flexibility.
His damage output is heavily affected by randomness, and may break some chains.

Barbariccia

Terrible magical wind chainer.
Can cap her chains with Raging Wind for massive damage after several turns of ramp-up, or instead cap with Aeroja for AoE damage.
Chains with the Tornado family.

Bart

Bizarre mix of dodge-based provoke tank and support.
Can provide 60% AoE breaks, AoE mirage, AoE LB fill rate, single target imbues, single target LB fill, and some minor AoE MP sustain.
Chains with the Kingsglaive, Tornado, and Flood families.

Basch

Physical and magical cover tank.
Has some support capabilities in the form of breaks and buffs.

Beatrix

Subpar ATK/MAG breaker and terrible chainer.
Her damage suffers tremendously if she tries to chain and break at the same time, so you will often just focus on breaking and let her partner do most of the damage, or bring a separate breaker and just have her chain.

Beowulf

Excellent breaker with decent hybrid chaining capabilities.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Beryl

Magic tank with some support capabilities.
Can provide breaks, but because you typically need both breaks and cover on turn 1, he may not be able to replace a dedicated breaker in many team compositions.
Chains with the Bolting Strike, Chaos Wave, Octaslash, and Disorder families.

Black Mage Golbez

Terrible dark/light magic chainer.
Burns through MP very quickly.
Has a lot of built-in elemental resistances.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Blossom Sage Sakura

Lightning magic chainer.
Has some decent support capabilities, including AoE mitigation and ailment immunity buffs.

Chocobo Fina

Physical chainer who scales off of SPR.
Requires an external imperil.
Her high SPR makes her very durable against magic damage.
Has some healer-ish utility, such as reraise.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Chow

Unusual combination of healer and magic cover tank.
Has Curaja along with a standard tanking kit.
LB provides 1 turn of 54% mitigation and also refills the team's MP.

Christine

Ice magic chainer.
Technically chains with several families, but in practice, her damage will plummet if she is not paired with a copy of herself.

Cid

Physical finisher.
Requires several turns of setup, and relies heavily on external imperils in order to deal good damage, but can burst very hard in the right circumstances.

Circe

Magic chainer with plenty of elemental flexibility.
Chains with the Absolute Zero, Chaos Wave, and Bolting Strike families.

Citan

Physical water/wind chainer.
Requires an external imperil.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Citra

Terrible magical light chainer with some minor support capabilities.
She can chain with the Divine Ruination family.
Can buff the party's magic mitigation by 20%, refill MP, fill the esper gauge, and heal the party a bit.

Cloud

Physical finisher.
Can also chain with the Meteor Rain family, but the damage is pretty bad.

Cloud (KH)

Physical chainer.
Has no imperils of his own.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Crimson

Fire physical chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families, but the bulk of his damage comes from his LB, meaning it's far from ideal to pair him with anyone other than a duplicate.

Dark Fina

Magic chainer.
She is locked into using three elements at once, has ramp up time, and will suffer greatly if she dies or if the boss gets dispelled.
Her damage is absolutely terrible unless you unlock her latent abilities.

Dark Knight Cecil

Terrible dark physical finisher.
Has lots of human killer passives, but even with those, his damage is not competitive.

Dark Knight Leon

Dark physical chainer.
Bursts very hard.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Dark Knight Luneth

Dark physical finisher with extreme suicidal tendencies.
His extremely high HP costs coupled with triple cast means that it is nearly impossible to keep alive.

Dark Mage Exdeath

Wind/earth/dark magic chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Delita

Terrible dark physical chainer.

Demon Rain

Physical cover and provoke tank.
Has high survivability, but not much utility.

Doctor Aiden

Healer with plenty of utility.
Healing from his abilities is low, which can make it hard to actually make the most of said utility without external support, especially if the tank is taking lots of damage.

Dracu Lasswell

Terrible ice physical chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.

Dragonlord

Terrible fire magical finisher.

Dressy Aileen

Earth physical chainer with some utility.
Can also use light, although she has no imperil for that element.
Can fill ally LB gauges.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Duke

Ice physical finisher.
Requires several turns of setup.

Eiko

Healer who can fill the evoke gauge.
Can cure all debuffs, including berserk, charm, stop, imperils, and breaks.

Elena

Hybrid chainer with elemental flexibility and buffing capabilities.
Can provide stat buffs and mitigation to the party.
Chains with the Stardust Ray and Bolting Strike families.

Elephim

Support unit with both breaks and buffs.
Can break ATK/MAG by 55% on T1 while also buffing DEF/SPR, then eventually ramp into her LB for a 75% full break and 145% buffs to all stats.
Relies heavily on LB autofill when gearing

Eleven

Fire/lightning physical chainer.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Elfreeda

Terrible provoke tank.

Ellesperis

Dark physical chainer.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Elly

Wind magic chainer.
Wind is her strongest option, but earth isn't too far behind, and she can also choose to cap some of her chains with other elements if desired.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Emperor

Fire magic finisher.
Requires some ramp up time to hit peak damage.

Emperor Shera

Very weak fire physical chainer.
Can imbue himself and another unit with fire, but this lacks 100% uptime and his terrible damage makes him a poor chaining partner.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Erik

Earth physical chainer.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Estark

Terrible dark physical chainer.
Can chain with the Divine Ruination family.

Esther

Lightning physical chainer.
Chains with the Aureole Ray (singlecast only) family.
Has high survivability for a damage dealer.

Fayt

Physical chainer with elemental flexibility.
Requires quite a few turns of ramp-up to reach his maximum damage potential.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Fei

Dark physical chainer.
Can also chain with wind, which is noticeably weaker, or with several other elements, which are drastically weaker but could be useful in certain situations.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family (only with his dark move).

Felix

Terrible fire/earth hybrid chainer.
Has no real chaining partners-- technically, several of his moves do belong to the Aureole Ray and Octaslash families, but those moves are very weak and he wants to cap his chains with the much stronger Salute - Blade Rush, something that only another Felix can do.
Requires several turns to really get going.

Flammie

Subpar buffer.
As a buffer, he has some uncommon and useful utility, but is also missing some standard buffer abilities, such as 100% uptime on general mitigation and AoE MP regen, which may force you to rely on other units to cover the gaps in his kit.
Can chain with the Aureole Ray family.

Fohlen

Terrible physical finisher.
His burst is decent but requires several turns of setup.

Folka

Healer with a varied support kit.
Has Curaja and Reraise.
Can buff every type of mitigation (albeit on separate cooldown abilities that lack 100% uptime), provide immunity to breaks/ailments/stop/charm, and restore MP to the party.

Freya (VP)

Terrible magic chainer.
Burns through MP very quickly and is forced to use a mix of elements and non-elemental damage.

Fryevia

Ice hybrid chainer.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Gilgamesh

Terrible physical chainer.
Can gear for almost any type of killer passive by equipping different weapon types.
Has a 55% full break.
He has two moves with Divine Ruination frames. The baseline move does only 7 damage. He has a much stronger version that he can unlock by using his limit burst, but it can take several turns to get to that point.
He fares better when chaining with a duplicate, as he can then use Tri-Attack starting from turn 1.

Gladiolus

Physical cover tank.
His other skills are, unfortunately, mostly irrelevant.

Grim Lord Sakura

Fire/dark magic chainer with support capabilities.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Can buff DEF/SPR, provide 35% AoE mitigation, reraise allies, grant break/partial ailment immunity, apply barriers, restore MP, and slightly fill the LB gauge.

Heavenly Technician Lid

Powerful breaker.
Her T1 AoE breaks aren't quite as strong as those of some other units, but she can later on upgrade them to 79%, which are among the strongest in the game.

High Seraph Ultima

Extremely powerful non-elemental magic chainer with solid utility.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Can simultaneously dispel enemy buffs and ally debuffs, while leaving enemy debuffs and ally buffs intact.
Burns through MP extremely quickly.

Hyoh

Fire/lightning physical chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.

Ignacio

Fire physical finisher who can also imbue other units with fire.
Has some minor buffing capabilities, but the stat buffs cost LB crystals.

Ignis

Buffer with strong, flexible options at the expensive of slow, clunky setup time.
Can provide 50% AoE mitigation, massive AoE LB fill, 80% elemental resistances, stat buffs, and more.

Immortal Flame Katy

Terrible magical chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave, Quake, Tornado, Flood, and Freeze families, although her damage is by far the best with Chaos Wave.

Jade

Fire/ice/lightning physical chainer.
Requires an external imperil.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Jasper Unbound

Lightning/dark physical chainer.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Jecht

Physical water chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Quick Hit families.

Jiraiya

Subpar hybrid chainer with some elemental flexibility.
Requires setup before he can use any of his best moves, and even then his damage isn't amazing.
After setup, he can chain with the Divine Ruination, Kingsglaive, and Octaslash families.
Can provide decent AoE elemental resists with attached mirage.

Karlette

Excellent hybrid chainer with elemental flexiblity and support capabilities.
Can buff elemental resistances and mitigation.
Can AoE break ATK/MAG by 70%, but this ability is on a cooldown.
Chains with the Quick Hit, Absolute Mirror of Equity, and Aureole Ray families.

Kimono Ayaka

Physical chainer whose damage scales off of SPR.
Requires an external imperil.
Can provide some AoE healing/MP regen.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Kimono Fina

Ice/light magic chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Can provide some minor support capabilities, most notably LB fill via her own LB.

King Edgar of Figaro

Powerful breaker.
Lacks powerful T1 AoE breaks, but can apply them later in the fight via his LB or other skills.
Can imperil several elements and chain with the Stardust Ray family.

Knight Delita

Physical chainer or finisher with a 74% ATK/MAG/DEF break attached to his LB.

Kryla

Breaker with breaks of up to 74% for every stat, including a turn 1 70% full break.
Can also imperil various elements, buff elemental resistances, and dispel + rebreak on the same turn.
Chains with the Absolute Zero, Bolting Strike, and Chaos Wave families.

Kunshira

Hybrid chainer with great elemental flexibility.
Can buff various elemental resistances, while also buffing DEF/SPR at the same time. With two of her, you can maintain this buff 100% of the time..
Chains with the Aureole Ray family.

Kurasame

Hybrid ice chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Lenneth

Terrible dark physical chainer.
Has very high damage, but also very high MP consumption.
Can somewhat chain with the Piledriver family, but expect breaks as Lenneth caps her own chains and does not use Piledriver twice.

Lightning

Terrible lightning physical chainer.
Chains with the Quick Hit family.
Buffs her own stats by 150%, which can allow you to forego a buffer.

Lila

Terrible physical chainer.
She also has SPR-scaling moves, but they are much weaker.
She can switch between fire and lightning damage.
Chains with the Graviton Cannon and Stardust Ray families.

Lilith

Magic cover tank with some utility.
Can buff the party's general mitigation by 35% and magic mitigation by 30%.
Can also cover physical, although her stats are not well-suited for it.
Chains with the Divine Ruination, Bolting Strike, and Aureole Ray families.

Livid Shantotto

Primarily fire/water magic chainer.
Can also use many other elements, but these must be unlocked and can be difficult to maintain.
Has horrifically low health, which impedes her usability on harder trials.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Loren

Competent breaker that can also chain.
Chains with the Onion Slice and Aureole Ray families.

Lotus Mage Fina

Healer with Curaja and Reraise.
Can also apply AoE reraise.
With her latent abilities, she can provide good buffs and elemental resistances via W-Ability, although the low healing on the turns that she refreshes these effects might be a problem.

Lovely Katy

Healer that can also provide AoE reraise.
Has a fairly bare-bones kit by healer standards.

Lucius

Dark/fire physical chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Lulu

Terrible water magic chainer.
Chains with the Flood family, but damage will drop drastically with anyone other than a dupe.

Lunera

Terrible magic chainer with some buffing capabilities.
Chains with the Aureole Ray family.

Luneth

Terrible physical finisher.

Machina

Breaker and physical chainer.
Damage drops significantly while maintaining breaks, so you typically have to choose which to focus on.
Can buff physical and magical mitigation by 20%.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Magitek Warrior Terra

Fire/wind/light magic chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.

Malphasie

Wind/dark hybrid chainer.
Can chain with the Bolting Strike, Aureole Ray, and Tornado families.
With her cooldown skill, she can AoE fill the LB gauge and break enemy DEF/SPR by 74%.

Maria (Xenogears)

Magic chainer that can choose between fire and non-elemental damage.
Has significant ramp-up time with non-elemental damage.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family (with her fire move only).

Marie

Subpar support unit that focuses on buffing elemental resistances.
Can also (on a cooldown) provide AoE mitigation or barriers, which is good for surviving nasty boss threshold attacks.

Maritime Strategist Nichol

Buffer with access to a wide range of potent abilities.
Can buff all stats, regenerate HP/MP for the party, provide mitigation, buff elemental resistances, and cure breaks. Almost all of his abilities can be dualcast via Linked Stance.
Can also help to fill the LB and esper gauges.

Marquis de Léon

Terrible provoke tank with a few very weak chaining skills.
Has a 60% break on a 5 turn cooldown, which can allow him to weaken nasty threshold attacks, but he cannot serve as a primary breaker.

Mastermind Xon

Physical chainer with significant utility.
Can maintain 70% breaks on a single enemy by alternating his cooldown breaks with another Mastermind Xon.
Can provide AoE mirage.
Can copy buffs from allies or enemies, then share them with the party.
Chains with the Bolting Strike, Stardust Ray, Absolute Zero, Absolute Mirror of Equity, and Aureole Ray families.

Mediena

Magic ice chainer.
Can buff the party's stats and restore MP.
Chains with the Absolute Zero and Freeze families.

Mercenary Ramza

Versatile tank. Able to provoke and cover physical or magical damage.
His magic cover has a cooldown, which may be a problem if you're planning to rely on reraise, or if the boss dispels him.
Is immune to all ailments and charm, is 50% resistant to Stop, and has 30% innate resistance to all ailments.
Has Entrust.

Monk Sabin of Kolts

Fire/water physical chainer.
Requires external imperils.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Mordegon

Ice/dark magic chainer.
Requires extensive ramp up time to reach peak damage, and suffers greatly if he dies.
Can provide powerful breaks, but must be paired with another copy of himself so that they can stagger their break cooldowns to maintain 100%. And this won't work well against bosses that must be dispelled frequently.
Chains with the Absolute Zero family.

Morgana

Evoke chainer.
Suffers from insufficient orb generation, making it impossible to maintain her ideal damage rotation without significant external support.
Chains with the Absolute Zero and Chaos Wave families.

Myra

Excellent healer that can also provide buffs.
Can bring stat buffs, partial ailment immunity, break immunity, and charm immunity.
Has a version of Entrust that works with W-Ability.
Her healing output is slightly lower than that of most other healers.

Nagi

Light/dark hybrid chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Aureole Ray families.

Nameless Gunner Jake

Solid physical finisher with elemental flexibility.
Requires several turns of setup.

Nalu

Physical lightning chainer.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Neverending Hope

Versatile buffer who can grant a wide variety of elemental resistances.
Excels at charging up the LB gauges of allies.
Also has some subpar breaks that could be useful in rare situations.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Noctis

Bizarre physical chainer who requires setup and has several turns of downtime.
Damage output is high while Armiger Wakes, then plummets to almost nothing for several turns while waiting for the unlock to cool down again.

Nyx

Physical fire chainer with good damage and utility.
Can AoE fill the team's LB by sacrificing his life.
Relies on Fixed Dice for good damage output, which means that he can be very inconsistent.

Olberic

Physical cover and provoke tank.
His LB provides a powerful 40% general mitigation buff to the party for three turns.
Chains with the Aureole Ray family.

Olive

Lightning finisher.
Can deal significant burst damage with Immolation Blast, although you'll need to raise or reraise her, as she dies when she uses it.

Onion Knight

Physical damage dealer with excellent elemental flexibility.
Can break enemy DEF by 74%, and buff several elemental resistances by 70%.
Chains with the Onion Slice family.

Onion Knight Refia

Physical damage dealer with elemental flexibility.
Chains with the Onion Slice family, but not very well, due to requiring unlocks.

Operative Zyrus

Ice/lightning/dark magic chainer.
Can burst hard once per battle via his Magnus skill.
Chains with the Absolute Zero, Bolting Strike, and Chaos Wave Awakened families.

Orlandeau

Light physical chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Physalis

Ice physical chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Popstar Katy

Absolutely terrible magical chainer/finisher.
Far worse than most 6* units.
Do not use.

Primrose

Buffer with a fairly standard kit.
Can buff mitigation by up to 40% (but drops down to 30% on some turns due to cooldowns), provides stat buffs, imbues allies with dark, and can fill the LB gauge.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Prishe

Physical chainer.
Locked behind setup turns and has no chaining partners.
Can provide AoE reraise.

Prompto

Breaker with chaining capabilities.
Chains with the Octaslash family.
Has a 65% AoE ATK/MAG break and a 70% DEF break.

Pure Summoner Rydia

Weak summoner.
Requires setup before bursting for very low amounts of damage.
Has niche applications against bosses with high mitigation, as evoke damage will ignore said mitigation.

Pyro Glacial Lasswell

Fire/ice physical chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
His damage relies heavily on unlocking his latent abilities.

Qin

Support unit that suffers from extensive setup time.
Cannot provide all of the same benefits at once that other buffers can, forcing you to pick and choose which effects you want.

Queen

Lightning physical chainer.
Has very high survivability thanks to the 200% DEF/SPR buffs from Berserk+2.
Provides MP regen for the party.
Chains with the Quick Hit family.

Rab

Wind/lightning/dark hybrid chainer.
Can provide significant backup healing.
Chains with the Bolting Strike family.

Radiant Lightning

Lightning physical chainer.
Can serve as a breaker in a pinch, although her damage would suffer greatly and she would struggle with bosses that get dispelled.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Raegen

Fire and ice physical chainer.
Imbues himself with both elements as part of his rotation, so his damage suffers noticeably if the enemy is immune to either one.
Can buff most elemental resistances.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.

Ramza

Mediocre support unit with breaks and buffs, although he has trouble providing both at once in a clean rotation.
Can dualcast 60% breaks for all four stats.
Can sing for buffs/regen, but you will have gaps in the song buff uptime if you try to have him also maintain breaks.
Consider giving Cradle of Horns to him or another party member to cover those gaps.

Randi

Decent physical chainer with some elemental flexibility.
Chains with the Aureole Ray (singlecast only), Absolute Mirror of Equity, Bolting Strike, and Absolute Zero families.
Pairs decently with Esther due to being able to match her rotation, although his damage is far, far lower than hers.

Reberta

Fire/ice/lightning physical chainer or finisher.
It can be difficult to chain her consistently due to the timing required to properly cap her delayed chains with her timed jump.

Red XIII

Powerful physical chainer with elemental flexibility.
Can provide AoE mirage.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Regina

Powerful physical finisher.
Can also serve as a chainer, as her LB will chain with a copy of her.
Suffers from very, very low survivability, and keeping her alive will be a struggle on many fights.

Rem

Unusual combination of healer and chainer.
Can dualcast Curaja and Tornado, allowing her to serve as a support chainer.
Unlike most 7* healers, does not have the ability to heal and reraise on the same turn.

Rena

Healer with access to powerful buffs.
Relies heavily on her LB, but can struggle to fill it up consistently unless you gear for it at the expense of healing stats.

Riku

Dark physical chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Roy

Support unit with strong buffs and breaks on T1. However, as soon as they expire, he becomes significantly worse because he can't refresh them with the same potency.
Works best when paired with another breaker who cannot break well on T1.

Rinoa

Strong non-elemental magic finisher.
Can slightly fill ally LB gauges with Aura.

Rivera

Unusual support unit able to turn any ally into a provoke tank or AoE physical cover tank, although whoever she picks will be significantly less durable than a "normal" tank.
Can provide AoE Mirage, restore MP, and heal.

Sacred Shield Charlotte

Extremely durable provoke and magic cover tank with incredible support skills.
All of her skills last four turns, instead of the more common two or three, giving her more spare turns.
Can buff general mitigation by a whopping 50%, magic mitigation by 30%, fill LB gauges, buff light/ice resistance, buff DEF/SPR, and more.
Can chain with the Aureole Ray, Disorder, and Absolute Zero families.

Seabreeze Dark Fina

Competent magic chainer.
She is locked into using two elements at once, has ramp up time, and will suffer greatly if she dies or if the boss gets dispelled.
Her damage is absolutely terrible unless you unlock her latent abilities.

Seaside Nichol

Support unit focusing exclusively on defensive buffs.
Can provide significant DEF/SPR buffs, all three types of mitigation, and some minor barriers.
Unfortunately, his physical/magical mitigation buffs cannot be dualcast, which means he cannot provide much in the way of HP/MP restoration while maintaining those.
Can cure imperils and berserk (as well as breaks, charm, and stop).

Serena

Healer with good utility.
Can buff magic mitigation by 30%, provide AoE reraise, grant ST ailment/charm/stop/break immunity (with AoE on a cooldown), restore MP, and briefly buff general mitigation by 40%.

Sephiroth

Light and dark physical chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
His damage requires several turns to ramp up.

Sephiroth (KH)

Dark/light physical chainer.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Shadow Lord

Dark physical chainer.
Has ludicrous survivability thanks to his upgraded Immortal Justice passive.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Sieghard

Physical cover and provoke tank.
He can cover magic, but isn't particularly great at doing so, as his magic cover ability has a cooldown and his stats are more aimed at surviving physical damage.
His LB provides a powerful 45% general mitigation buff to the party for three turns.

Sol

Light/dark magic chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Sophia

Excellent magical chainer with elemental flexibility.
Chains with the Chaos Wave and Quake families.

Sora

Physical chainer.
Has no imperils of his own.
Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.

Squall

Solid physical chainer with elemental flexibility.
Can also function as a finisher, although his hits are spread out and may not fit well into many chains.
Technically chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family, but his chaining moves are very weak and the bulk of his damage comes from capping his own chains with Keen Edge, which would break the chain when done with anyone but another Squall.

Summer Fina & Lid

Excellent breaker with incredible utility.
In addition to providing breaks, has strong AoE healing, AoE reraise, AoE MP recovery, can grant a physical water Aureole Ray chaining move to allies and herself, can imbue allies with water (although this may also charm them), buff water resistance, imperil several elements, buff LB fill rate, and fill the LB gauge.

Summer Folka & Citra

Excellent water/light evoke chainer with incredible utility.
Can grant ailment/break/charm/stop resistance to allies, buff water/light resistance, buff stats, AoE recover LB, buff LB fillrate, provide healing and mitigation (on a cooldown), and imbue allies with light (which may charm them).
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family, and can grant a physical water Aureole Ray attack to themselves or allies.

Sylvando

Buffer with some unusual abilities.
Can buff stats, elemental resistances, and physical mitigation.
Can provide mirage, 2k AoE barriers, AoE LB fill, and some backup healing.

Sylvie

Excellent support unit with incredible utility.
Can provide typed mitigation, stat buffs, ailment immunity, break immunity, and massive elemental resistances.
Can grant physical or magical chaining moves to allies (Bolting Strike and Absolute Mirror of Equity options for both types), and imbue allies with several different elements.
Has 70% breaks for ATK/MAG and DEF/SPR, albeit on a cooldown.

The Lord of Shadows

Dark physical chainer.
Has an 80% ATK/MAG break, but it renders the boss immune to damage for two turns, making it more of an emergency tool than anything else.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Tiana

Very powerful earth magic chainer.
Chains with the Quake family.
Can help to sustain the party's HP/MP via her limit burst.

Tidus

Good DH water physical chainer.
Technically chains with the Quick Hit family, but his rotation is a mess. Constant switching between single cast, dual cast, and triple cast means he has no real partners.

Tifa

Excellent water physical chainer.
Requires several turns of ramp up.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Trance Terra

Very powerful magic chainer with a bit of elemental flexibility.
Has very high damage on certain turns and very low damage on others. It averages out to a high number, but can be a problem if you need multiple turns of high damage in a row.
Very high MP consumption.

Veritas of the Dark

Good dark physical chainer.
Has a bit of utility in the form of AoE mitigation, AoE full break, 74% ATK break on his LB, and AoE dark resistance.
Chains with the Divine Ruination family.

Veritas of the Flame

Powerful fire finisher.
Can burst extremely hard via his cooldown.

Veritas of the Light

Solid light hybrid AoE chainer.
Can cure all debuffs from a single ally, including berserk, charm, stop, imperils, and breaks.

Veronica

Nonelemental magic chainer.
Requires extensive ramp up time to reach peak damage, and suffers greatly if she dies.
Chains with the Absolute Zero family.

Viktor Marchenko

Provoke tank with subpar survivability.
Chains with the Aureole Ray family.
Can become immune to charm, stop, breaks, and ailments.
Can heal himself and restore his own MP.

Vincent

Subpar physical chainer with no partners.
Has a single target 55% full break.

Warrior of Dawn Galuf

Provoke and physical cover tank that can provide 50% general mitigation to the party.
Can easily reach 100% passive provoke.
Has 10% innate dodge (making it easier to gear for 100%) and can chain with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Warrior of Light Bartz

Wind physical chainer.
Requires several turns of setup time before dealing any damage.
Has Entrust, and his LB automatically fills at the beginning of each stage, allowing him to instantly fill any other unit's LB at the start of a fight if desired.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Warrior of Light Krile

Wind/earth/dark magic chainer.
Chains with the Chaos Wave family.

Warrior of Light Lenna

Healer that can provide immunity to ailments, breaks, stop, and charm.
Can buff mitigation by 30%.
Has AoE reraise on her LB.
Fills the LB gauge a bit while healing, and can massively fill ally LB gauged by emptying her own.

White Knight Noel

Absurdly durable provoke and magic cover tank.
Has very little in the way of utility, but can chain with the Freeze and Tornado families.

Wild Rose Firion

Physical chainer with some elemental flexibility.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Wilhelm

Extremely powerful provoke and physical cover tank.
Has excellent utility in the form of his powerful mitigation LB, LB fill rate counter, and single-stat 60% ATK/MAG breaks.

Yego

Strong earth physical chainer.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.

Yuffie

Powerful physical chainer with elemental flexibility.
Can provide AoE mirage.
Chains with the Stardust Ray family.

Yun

Good fire physical chainer.
Chains with the Octaslash and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.

Yuna

Excellent healer with Curaja and Reraise.
Also has great utility-- various Bar-ga resistance spells, esper gauge fill, and a powerful DEF/SPR buffs on her LB.

Yuraisha

Excellent support unit with powerful buffs.
Can provide large buffs to all stats, as well as all three types of mitigation.
Has AoE barriers, resistance buffs, and AoE HP/MP regen.
Can cure breaks.

Zack

Excellent physical finisher.
Relies on an external imbue to maximize his damage output.

Zargabaath

Excellent support unit with powerful buffs.
Can massively buff stats and mitigation, especially via his LB.
Can temporarily provide break immunity.
Can reraise allies and provide massive HP/MP restoration to single targets.
Can chain with the Octaslash family.

Zeno of the Beta Star

Preposterously powerful fire physical chainers.
Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.