Unit Rankings

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Ratings are maintained by FFBE subreddit's Discord. Newbie questions and question whether a certain unit is good or not should be asked in #global-help. If you have experience with the game you may freely discuss unit ratings in #wiki-unit-ratings. These lists provide a rough estimate of units' utility when used by casual players. These ratings are only for the 7★ versions of units. At 6★, units may be drastically worse or have non-functional kits. The ratings for attackers are calculated using a unit builder based on specific criteria. Visit Unit Rating Notes. Updates: Read recent changes here.

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
Paladin Cecil		23.5	Magic cover and provoke tank with a full support kit. Can buff all stats by 180%, all elemental resists by 80%, and general mitigation by 50%. Provides massive passive AoE LB fill via counters. Can provide AoE HP/MP restoration, single target reraise, and emergency 65% breaks. Can dualcast his abilities (including cover and provoke). Has incredibly high survivability even by tank standards. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Palom & Porom		20.5	Fire magic chainer. Can provide AoE mirage and 20% magic mitigation. Can provide significant healing, but this requires multiple turns of setup and will fall apart if they die, making them a poor substitute for an actual healer in most cases. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
White Mage Rosa		20.0	Healer with a fairly basic kit. Can provide AoE reraise. Can technically be used as a damage dealer, but is terrible at that role.
Emperor Foo		21.5	Time limited unit. Combined buffer/breaker. Is somewhat subpar at each of those invidual roles, but being able to do both at once can be very valuable in many team compositions. Can provide breaks of up to 70%, stat buffs of up to 200%, 30% physical/magical general mitigation, AoE mirage, and significant LB fill. Also has some other buffs that cannot be maintained the entire time, such as 40% general mitigation and various elemental resists.
Xuan Wu & Qing Long		22.0	Time limited unit. SPR-based physical fire/wind chainer. Has ludicrous survivability vs. magic damage, even beating out many actual magic tanks. Has access to AoE mirage. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Hess King Lasswell		20.5	Physical fire/ice chainer. Can provide AoE reraise on a long cooldown. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Sacred Shield Charlotte		22.5	Provoke and magic cover tank with significant 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.
Warrior of Dawn Galuf		22.5	Provoke and physical cover tank that can provide 50% general mitigation to the party. Can reach 100% passive provoke without the need for limited gear. Has 10% innate dodge (making it easier to gear for 100%) and can chain with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Awakened Warrior of Light		22.0	Physical cover tank with significant support capabilities. Can reach 100% passive provoke without the need for limited gear. Has Curaja, elemental resistance buffs, physical mitigation, and AoE barriers. Can provide 50% general mitigation to the party, but the cooldown on this skill is longer than the duration, so he cannot maintain 100% uptime on this.
Ignis		22.0	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.
Lucas		22.0	Time limited unit Magic cover and provoke tank. Has significant utility, including AoE 50% general mitigation, magic mitigation of varying strengths, physical mitigation, mirage, imbues, and elemental resists. Relies on his LB to buff general mitigation, but may have trouble filling it quickly enough if he's only getting by elemental attacks that he fully resists, as he relies on his counters to fill his LB gauge efficiently. Chains with the Absolute Zero family.
Lunafreya		22.0	Buffer who specializes in magic mitigation. Can buff magic mitigation by up to 50%, general mitigation by 30%, stats by up to 200%, and four elemental resists by up to 100%. Can provide significant AoE LB fill and an AoE water imbue/imperil.
Regis		22.0	Buffer with an array of defensive options. Can buff general mitigation by up to 50%, physical and magical mitigation by 20%, provide barriers, buff stats by up to 200%, fill LB gauges, and grant break immunity to allies. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Warrior of Light Lenna		22.0	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.
White Knight Noel		22.0	Time limited unit Provoke and magic cover tank. Can reach 100% passive provoke without the need for limited gear. Can AoE buff mitigation by 50%. Chains with the Tornado, Freeze, Absolute Zero, and Chaos Wave Awakened families.
A.I. Katy		21.5	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.
Folka		21.5	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.
Kryla		21.5	Time limited unit Breaker with breaks of up to 75% for every stat, including a turn 1 70% full break. Can also imperil various elements, buff elemental resistances, fill ally LB gauges, and dispel + rebreak on the same turn. Chains with the Absolute Zero, Bolting Strike, and Chaos Wave families.
Levinson		21.5	Time limited unit. Ice/fire hybrid chainer. Can provide breaks and significant elemental resistance buffs starting on T2. Chains with the Bolting Strike and Aureole Ray families.
Maritime Strategist Nichol		21.5	Buffer with access to significant general mitigation buffs. Can buff all stats, regenerate HP/MP for the party, provide mitigation, buff elemental resistances, and cure breaks. Can also help to fill the LB and esper gauges.
Myra		21.5	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.
Sieghard		21.5	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.
Summer Fina & Lid	()	21.5	Breaker with significant 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.
Sylvie	()	21.5	Support unit with incredible utility. Can provide typed mitigation, stat buffs, ailment immunity, break immunity, and significant 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.
Adventurer Locke		21.0	Breaker with breaks of up to 84%. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Aerith		21.0	Healer with some utility. Can provide break immunity, AoE reraise, 30% general mitigation, and help to fill LBs.
Doctor Aiden		21.0	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.
Erik		21.0	Earth physical chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Neverending Hope		21.0	Buffer who can grant a wide variety of elemental resistances, along with the more standard stat and general mitigation buffs. Can buff magic mitigation. Can provide significant ST LB fill. Also has some subpar breaks that could be useful in rare situations. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Olberic		21.0	Physical cover and provoke tank. His LB provides a 40% general mitigation buff to the party for three turns. Chains with the Aureole Ray family.
Sylvando		21.0	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.
White Lily Dark Fina		21.0	Earth/dark/fire magic chainer. Can buff those same elemental resistances by 80%. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
Yuraisha		21.0	Can provide buffs to all stats, as well all three types of mitigation (although said mitigation buffs are not very strong). Has AoE barriers, elemental resistance buffs, and AoE HP/MP regen. Can cure breaks.
Agent Olive		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.
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.
Ardyn		20.5	Dark/fire physical chainer. Can provide breaks that ramp up to 74%, although they're weak on turn 1 and will eat significantly into his damage if he tried to maintain them. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Auron		20.5	Breaker who can also provide support chaining. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Aurora Fryevia		20.5	Light hybrid chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity, Divine Ruination, and Aureole Ray families.
Awakened Rain		20.5	Magic cover and provoke tank. Can grant ailment/stop immunity to allies. Has AoE heals/MP restoration, at the cost of LB gauge.
Dark Knight Leon		20.0	Dark physical chainer. Bursts very hard. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Jasper Unbound		20.0	Lightning/dark physical chainer. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Kurasame		20.5	Hybrid ice chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Lilith		20.5	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.
Lotus Mage Fina		20.5	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.
Machina		20.5	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.
Mercenary Ramza		20.5	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.
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.
Physalis		20.5	Ice physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Rab		20.5	Wind/lightning/dark hybrid chainer. Can provide significant backup healing. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Radiant Lightning		20.0	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.
Seaside Nichol		20.5	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).
Serena		20.5	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%.
Warrior of Light Bartz		20.0	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.
Assassin Shadow		20.0	Dark/wind physical chainer. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Basch		20.0	Physical and magical cover tank. Has some support capabilities in the form of breaks and buffs.
Beowulf		20.0	Fairly standard breaker. Will struggle with fights that require AoE breaks. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Beryl		20.0	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.
Chow		21.0	Time limited unit Unusual combination of healer and magic cover tank. Can provide stat buffs and 30% general mitigation. His LB provides 1 turn of 54% general mitigation and also refills the team's MP. His rotation can be somewhat awkward to work with, and he lacks much of the standard healer utility, so replacing your healer with him has drawbacks.
Demon Rain		20.0	Time limited unit Physical cover and provoke tank. Has high survivability, but not much utility.
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.
Eleven		20.0	Time limited unit Fire/lightning physical chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike 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.
Heavenly Technician Lid		20.0	Her T1 AoE breaks aren't quite as strong as those of some other units, but she can later on upgrade them to 79% once her LB is ready.
Hyoh		20.0	Fire/lightning physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.
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).
Loren		20.0	Competent breaker that can also chain. Chains with the Onion Slice and Aureole Ray families.
Lucius		20.0	Time limited unit Dark/fire physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Mastermind Xon		20.0	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.
Riku		20.0	Time limited unit Dark physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Rivera	()	20.0	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.
Sephiroth (KH)		20.0	Time limited unit Dark/light physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
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.
The Lord of Shadows		19.5	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.
Wilhelm		20.0	Provoke and physical cover tank.
Yuna		20.0	Healer with some support capabilities. Has some utility in the form of various elemental resistance buffs, esper gauge fill, and a DEF/SPR buff.
Zargabaath		20.0	Buffer with significant general mitigation buffs. 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		19.5	Fire physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
2B		19.5	Time limited unit Breaker with some weak physical chaining. Chains with the Graviton Cannon and Stardust Ray families.
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.
Ayaka		19.5	Fairly standard healer. Can slightly fill ally LB gauges and provide barriers.
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.
Christine		19.5	Time limited unit Ice magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
Cid		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.
Circe		19.5	Magic chainer with plenty of elemental flexibility. Chains with the Absolute Zero, Chaos Wave, and Bolting Strike families.
Fryevia		19.5	Ice hybrid chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Holy Night Amelia & Emilia		19.5	Time limited unit Physical chainer with subpar breaks. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Jade		19.5	Fire/ice/lightning physical chainer. Requires an external imperil. Chains with the Bolting Strike 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.
King Edgar of Figaro		19.5	Will struggle with fights that demand AoE breaks on the first turn. Can imperil several elements and chain with the Stardust Ray family.
Magitek Warrior Terra		19.5	Fire/wind/light magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
Monk Sabin of Kolts		19.5	Fire/water physical chainer. Requires external imperils. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
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 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.
Primrose		19.5	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.
Pyro Glacial Lasswell		19.0	Fire/ice physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family. His damage relies heavily on unlocking his latent abilities.
Rena		19.5	Time limited unit Healer with access to 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.
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.
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.
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.
Warrior of Light Krile		19.0	Light/wind magic chainer. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Wild Rose Firion		19.0	Physical chainer with some elemental flexibility. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Akstar		19.0	Fire/ice physical chainer. Requires several turns of ramp up to reach his maximum damage potential. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Archmage Kefka		19.0	Ice/lightning/dark magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave Awakened family.
Bart	()	19.0	Time limited unit 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.
Cloud (KH)		19.0	Time limited unit Physical chainer. Has no imperils of his own. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Crown Prince Noctis		19.0	Physical finisher. Requires an external imperil.
Dark Mage Exdeath		19.0	Wind/earth/dark magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Dressy Aileen		19.0	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.
Eiko		19.0	Healer who can fill the evoke gauge. Can cure all debuffs, including berserk, charm, stop, imperils, and breaks.
Flammie		19.0	Time limited unit 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.
Gentiana		19.0	Ice magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Gladiolus		19.0	Physical cover tank. His other skills are, unfortunately, mostly irrelevant.
Lovely Katy		19.0	Time limited unit Healer that can also provide AoE reraise. Has a fairly bare-bones kit by healer standards.
Malphasie		19.0	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%.
Prompto		19.0	Breaker with chaining capabilities. Chains with the Octaslash family. Has a 65% AoE ATK/MAG break and a 70% DEF break.
Raegen		18.5	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.
Reberta		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.
Red XIII		18.5	Physical chainer with elemental flexibility. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Rem		19.0	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.
Sol		19.0	Light/dark magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Yuffie		18.5	Physical chainer with elemental flexibility. Can provide AoE mirage. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Blossom Sage Sakura		18.5	Lightning magic chainer. Has some decent support capabilities, including AoE mitigation and ailment immunity buffs.
Elephim		18.5	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
Ellesperis		18.5	Dark physical chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike 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.
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.
Kimono Ayaka		18.0	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.
Nalu		18.5	Physical lightning chainer. Chains with the Bolting Strike family.
Roy		18.5	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.
Beatrix		18.0	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.
Citan		18.0	Time limited unit Physical water/wind chainer. Requires an external imperil. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Elfreeda		18.0	Terrible provoke tank.
Ignacio		18.5	Fire physical finisher who can also imbue other units with fire. Has some minor buffing capabilities, but the stat buffs cost LB crystals, meaning that they are typically unusable on the first turn.
Immortal Knight Garland		18.0	Dark physical chainer. Can buff several elemental resists by 70%. Also has a 70% AoE full break, albeit on a very long cooldown. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Mediena		18.0	Magic ice chainer. Can buff the party's stats and restore MP. Chains with the Absolute Zero and Freeze families.
Nameless Gunner Jake		18.0	Physical finisher with elemental flexibility. Requires several turns of setup.
Randi		18.0	Time limited unit 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.
Regina		18.0	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.
Viktor Marchenko		18.0	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.
Zack		18.0	Physical finisher. Relies on an external imbue to maximize his damage output.
Jecht		17.5	Physical water chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Quick Hit families.
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.
Knight Delita		17.5	Physical chainer or finisher with a 74% ATK/MAG/DEF break attached to his LB.
Maria (Xenogears)		17.5	Time limited unit 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).
Ramza		17.5	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.
Squall		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		17.0	Water/light evoke chainer with significant 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	Earth physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Ace		17.0	Subpar buffer. Unfortunately, his buffs are semi-random.
Atoning Dragoon Kain		17.0	Physical chainer with elemental flexibility. Can also serve as a finisher (which requires several turns of setup). Chains with the Graviton Cannon family.
Emperor		17.0	Fire magic finisher. Requires some ramp up time to hit peak damage.
Fei		17.0	Time limited unit 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).
High Seraph Ultima		17.0	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.
Karlette		17.0	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.
Lila		17.0	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.
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.
Qin		22.0	Time limited unit Combined buffer/breaker. Is somewhat subpar at each of those invidual roles, but being able to do both at once can be very valuable in many team compositions. Can provide breaks of up to 65%, stat buffs of up to 200%, 40% general mitigation (50% on a cooldown), and 70% to all elmenetal resists.
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.
Balthier		16.5	Physical finisher with elemental flexibility. His damage output is heavily affected by randomness, and may break some chains.
Black Mage Golbez		16.5	Terrible dark/light magic chainer. Burns through MP very quickly. Has a lot of built-in elemental resistances. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
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.
Elly		16.5	Time limited unit Wind magic chainer. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Fayt		16.0	Time limited unit 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.
Marie	()	16.5	Terrible support unit that focuses on buffing elemental resistances. Can also provide AoE mitigation or barriers via cooldown.
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.
Nagi		16.5	Light/dark hybrid chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Aureole Ray families.
Rinoa		16.5	Non-elemental magic finisher. Can slightly fill ally LB gauges with Aura.
Sephiroth		16.5	Light and dark physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family. His damage requires several turns to ramp up.
Sophia		16.5	Time limited unit Magical chainer with elemental flexibility. Chains with the Chaos Wave and Quake families.
A2		15.5	Time limited unit Physical chainer who relies on external imperils. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity family.
Crimson		16.0	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.
Lulu		16.0	Terrible water magic chainer. Chains with the Flood family, but damage will drop drastically with anyone other than a dupe.
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.
Yun		20.0	Time limited unit Fire physical chainer. Chains with the Absolute Mirror of Equity and Bolting Strike families.
Ang		19.5	Time limited unit Fire physical finisher. While his maximum burst can only be done once every five turns, he can use smaller bursts in between.
Aranea		15.5	Physical finisher. Has no utility and requires several turns of setup for one turn of burst damage.
Bai Hu & Zhu Que		20.5	Time limited unit Fire/lightning physical chainer with fairly high survivability vs. incoming magic damage. Chains with the Divine Ruination family. Has an alternate SPR-heavy build, but this option deals much less damage.
Cloud		15.5	Physical finisher. Can also chain with the Meteor Rain family, but the damage is pretty bad.
Dracu Lasswell		15.0	Time limited unit Terrible ice physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination and Absolute Mirror of Equity families.
Duke		15.5	Ice physical finisher. Requires several turns of setup.
Emperor Shera		15.5	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.
Felix		15.5	Time limited unit 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.
Veritas of the Flame		15.5	Physical fire finisher.
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.
Kunshira		15.0	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.
Noctis		15.0	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		15.0	Physical fire chainer with terrible damage and utility. Can AoE fill the team's LB by sacrificing his life. Chains with the Kingsglaive family.
Olive		15.0	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.
Queen		15.0	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.
Aileen		14.5	Terrible earth physical chainer. Can provide AoE LB fill. Chains with the Stardust Ray family.
Arngrim		14.5	Time limited unit Terrible fire finisher. Burns through MP very quickly.
Dark Knight Luneth		14.5	Dark physical finisher with extreme suicidal tendencies. His high HP costs coupled with triple cast means that it is nearly impossible to keep alive.
Lenneth		14.5	Time limited unit 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.
Luneth		14.5	Terrible physical finisher.
Marquis de Léon		14.5	Time limited unit 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.
Onion Knight Refia		14.5	Physical damage dealer with elemental flexibility. Chains with the Onion Slice family, but not very well, due to requiring unlocks.
Barbariccia		14.0	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.
Dark Knight Cecil		14.0	Terrible dark physical finisher. Has lots of human killer passives, but even with those, his damage is not competitive.
Dragonlord		14.0	Time limited unit Terrible fire magical finisher.
Fohlen		14.0	Terrible physical finisher. His burst is decent but requires several turns of setup.
Jiraiya		14.0	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.
Onion Knight		14.0	Physical damage dealer with elemental flexibility. Can break enemy DEF by 74%, and buff several elemental resistances by 70%. Chains with the Onion Slice family.
Orlandeau	()	14.0	Light physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Pure Summoner Rydia		14.0	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.
Trance Terra		14.0	Fire/dark magic chainer. Requires an external imperil. Very high MP consumption. Chains with the Chaos Wave family.
Veritas of the Dark		14.0	Dark physical chainer. Has a bit of utility in the form of AoE mitigation, a 74% ATK break on his LB, and AoE dark resistance. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Adam Jensen		13.5	Time limited unit 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.
Delita		13.5	Terrible dark physical chainer.
Estark		13.5	Time limited unit Terrible dark physical chainer. Can chain with the Divine Ruination family.
Freya (VP)		13.5	Time limited unit Terrible magic chainer. Burns through MP very quickly and is forced to use a mix of elements and non-elemental damage.
Immortal Flame Katy		13.5	Time limited unit 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.
Lightning		13.5	Terrible lightning physical chainer. Chains with the Quick Hit family. Buffs her own stats by 150%, which can allow you to forego a buffer.
Lunera		13.5	Terrible magic chainer with some buffing capabilities. Chains with the Aureole Ray family.
Prishe		13.5	Physical chainer. Locked behind setup turns and has no chaining partners. Can provide AoE reraise.
Tidus		13.5	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 Light		13.5	Light hybrid AoE chainer or finisher. Can cure all debuffs from a single ally, including berserk, charm, stop, imperils, and breaks.
Vincent		13.5	Subpar physical chainer with no partners. Has a single target 55% full break.
Gilgamesh		13.0	Terrible physical chainer. Chains with the Divine Ruination family.
Popstar Katy		11.0	Time limited unit Absolutely terrible magical chainer/finisher. Far worse than most 6* units. Do not use.