Updated 12 November 2026

Etheria: Restart tier list

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What each Etheria: Restart character does

S tier: Top picks

  • Plume

    A Curse Quill debuffer: the basic hits every enemy and always applies a stack, and any debuff your team lands can add more.

  • Sania

    An SR healer who works passively: at the end of each turn she heals the two weakest allies for 16% of her max HP and cleanses a debuff from each, healing more the lower her own HP gets.

  • Lingluo

    A healer who heals off allies' max HP: the basic patches the two weakest allies for 15% with a chance to cleanse, and the second skill heals everyone, extends every buff by a turn and gives the chosen ally an extra 20%.

  • Freya

    A buffer who covers the team in Dreamweave: the second skill gives every ally DEF up and Dreamweave for two turns, with an 80% chance of an extra stack, and the ultimate adds ATK up before a four-hit AoE that can inflict Nightmare with each hit.

  • Heinrich

    A buff-stripping gunner: every attack he makes has a 50% chance to dispel a buff, and once a target has nothing left to strip it can collect Last Words stacks instead.

  • Yeli

    A crit attacker who chains follow-up shots.

  • Shadow Sania

    A DoT specialist: her passive adds a DoT stack whenever she deals damage, her AoE extends every DoT on the enemy team by a turn, and her ultimate settles all of them at once.

  • Lily

    A support built around one partner: Twin Trick goes on an ally alongside team SPD up, and her AoE resets every cooldown that ally has while trying to push enemy cooldowns back a turn.

  • Kloss

    A Turn Meter thief: her AoE steals Turn Meter from every enemy and splits it among your team, taking 10% more for each Hacking Progress stack on the target (Hack In!

  • Sharon

    A DoT dealer who follows every action with a free 270% AoE that turns an enemy buff into DoT, or adds two DoT stacks if there's nothing to convert, guaranteed when her max HP beats the target's.

A tier: Strong

  • Liliam

    A single-target killer who can't be debuffed, delayed or pushed back at all.

  • DokiDoki

    A pure tempo support: one skill cuts a cooldown by a turn five times over, always picking the ally with the most cooldown left, and the ultimate adds 12% Turn Meter eight times to whoever is furthest behind.

  • Valerian

    A healer-support who keeps the team standing instead of dealing damage.

  • Fuqiu

    An HP-scaling support: her ultimate shields the whole team for 24% of her max HP, gives the others SPD up and puts Moonlit Veil on her.

  • Massiah

    A bruiser who keeps himself Invincible: his AoE ignores 70% DEF and enemy passives and gives him a turn of Invincibility, and every kill grants or refreshes it again.

  • Rosa

    A crit attacker: her crits put Bladeheart Bloom on targets that don't have it, and her ultimate gives the whole team CRIT up before hitting every enemy three times, with crits rolling a 40% SPD down.

  • Rahu

    A DEF-scaling attacker who builds Wrath: he opens with three stacks, gains more as allies act (faster if they skip attack skills) and adds three with his ultimate.

  • Helkid

    An ATK-scaling shield support whose ultimate hits every enemy three times and gives the team a Shroud Barrier worth 240% of his ATK.

  • Areal

    A crit-based healer: her heals can crit, and every 1% Crit Rate she has also cuts her damage taken by 0.5%, up to 50%.

  • Santik

    A crit support: the first crit your team lands each turn permanently adds 5% CRIT DMG to every ally, stacking up to 20 times, and every allied crit heals for 20% of its damage.

  • Raymerry

    An HP-scaling executioner whose basic kills anything left below 15% HP, and those kills ignore death prevention and can't be revived.

  • Holden

    A DEF-scaling tank whose stats feed back into the kit: every 500 DEF at the start of battle adds counterattack rate, damage and damage reduction.

  • Tiamat

    A self-damaging tank who soaks 25% of the damage your other allies take and spends her own HP on every skill.

  • Mio

    A Freeze-heavy AoE controller: the second skill has a 60% chance to Freeze every enemy, and when Mio is about to die, every enemy gets Frozen with no roll.

  • Xuan Li

    A DEF-scaling damage dealer who also shields the team.

  • Chiaki the Echo

    An SR buffer who hands out ATK up constantly: before each of her turns she puts it on three random allies, and her ultimate gives the whole team ATK up plus 20% Turn Meter.

  • Beyontin

    A turn-control support: her second skill gives one ally their next turn immediately and cuts their skill cooldowns by 2, and it even works on fallen allies, reviving them at 50% HP if she has an Underworld Flower stack.

  • Nathenn

    An HP-scaling executioner whose second skill kills anything left under 15% HP and heals him for 50% of his max HP, or heals the whole team if it scores the kill.

  • Ninfoniel

    A cleanse and buff support: the second skill purifies three debuffs from everyone, evens out the team's HP percentages and heals all allies for 25%.

  • Dinah

    An SR debuffer whose AoE climbs a ladder: each of its four hits tries for DEF down, then Vulnerable on targets that already have DEF down, then Erosion on targets that already have Vulnerable.

  • Xiada

    An attacker who ramps up as she collects buffs.

  • Qano

    A finisher built to chain kills: every kill resets all of Qano's skill cooldowns, and a kill with the 360% skill adds 60% Turn Meter.

  • Marvell

    An SR controller whose AoE always inflicts SPD- and RES- on every enemy and has a 60% chance to knock 50% off their Turn Meter.

  • Lowan

    A DEF-scaling tank who marks a target with Exaltation using her ultimate, a four-hit skill that strips buffs, taunts for two turns and always lands the mark.

  • Mia

    A support whose ultimate heals the team for 25% of her max HP, cuts everyone's cooldowns by one, lengthens buffs and shortens debuffs by a turn.

  • Bornova

    A Festering stacker: every skill applies it with no roll, two stacks from the basic and the AoE and four from the 300% ultimate.

  • Xuan Chi

    A DEF-scaling attacker whose kit gets better against anyone with less DEF than him.

  • Rin

    A DEF-scaling SR tank: one skill shields the whole team for 270% of Rin's DEF and gives everyone DEF up.

  • Lian

    A buff-fed attacker: each type of buff on her adds 6% damage (up to five), and her phoenix skill sends one extra 160% hit per buff she carries, up to three, at random enemies.

  • Fiamelia

    A cleanser whose ultimate gets stronger the more it removes: it purifies every debuff on your team, drains 16% of her max HP from each enemy and heals your allies the same amount, and each debuff type removed adds another 3% to both plus more Turn Meter reduction.

  • The Lumiwarden Diting

    A DEF-scaling tank whose passive cuts Turn Meter reduction against your whole team by 80%.

  • Gray

    A crit-driven SR attacker who buffs the team's CRIT Rate and immediately takes another turn, so the buff costs him nothing.

B tier: Solid

  • Veronika

    A support whose damage and shields both scale off her Max HP.

  • Obol

    An SR DoT caster whose AoE has a 60% chance to turn two enemy buffs into DoT stacks.

  • Diting

    A single-target sniper who marks the enemy with the lowest HP percentage each turn, gaining 60% Crit Rate against them and turning 150% of any excess into CRIT DMG.

  • Batsby

    A debuff-punishing AoE attacker: damage rises 25% for each debuff on the target (40% against an affinity Batsby counters, up to six stacks).

  • Airon

    A bodyguard support who picks one ally with Lion's Guard, shields them for 30% of their max HP and then works entirely for them: his attacks move that ally's debuffs onto the enemy, and his 420% ultimate also hands them the enemy's buffs and 50% of its Turn Meter.

  • Senyu

    An SPD-scaling support who gives the whole team a turn of Immunity after every action, and it still triggers when Senyu can't act.

  • Tsukiyo Mi

    A DEF-scaling support who pushes your main attacker forward: her ultimate fills one ally's Turn Meter by 100% and hers by 35%, and gives the team ATK up and SPD up.

  • Nahor

    A debuffer whose single-target skill has a 70% chance to strip every buff, Block for two turns and Freeze.

  • Rilmocha

    A burst attacker whose ultimate hits one enemy three times (75% stun chance on the first hit), then splashes a third of the total damage across the enemy team, or all of it if the target dies.

  • Celince

    A shield support: at the end of each of her turns she covers every ally in an Aqua Shield worth 16% of her max HP, and the fight opens with a 40% shield on the team.

  • Nevette

    An Effect ACC damage dealer who can't crit: every 1% Effect ACC she has ignores 0.25% of the target's DEF and adds damage against bosses weak to her affinity.

  • Sylph

    An SR healer with healing on every skill: the basic heals the lowest-HP ally for 20%, the second skill fully cleanses one ally and heals them for 50%, and the AoE cleanses a debuff from the team with each hit before healing everyone for 30% with DEF+.

  • Lilith

    An HP-scaling controller who plants Graceful Mischief on every enemy with her ultimate and takes another turn right away.

  • Borgne

    A bruiser who converts ATK into HP at the start of battle (500% of his ATK as extra max HP) and then adds 30% of his max HP to every attack.

  • Danvery

    A Turn Meter thief built around Specular Casket, which the ultimate places on the main target after stealing 25% Turn Meter from every enemy and sharing it with your team.

  • Piayera

    A gambler support: the second skill gives the team Grace Card plus two of Immunity, Invincibility or Heal Over Time, picked at random.

  • Mizusumi Aya

    A cleanse support who purifies two debuffs from every ally at the start of each turn, and anyone cleansed also heals 15% and gains 10% Turn Meter.

  • Nell

    An SR support for your main damage dealer: the four-hit skill heals the highest-ATK ally for 12% of their max HP and moves them 20% up the Turn Meter.

  • Palin

    A counterattack support: with Palin on the field your team gets 15% Counterattack Rate and 10% Turn Meter after each attack, and the ultimate adds DEF+ and more Counterattack Rate for two turns.

  • Kokardi

    A protected damage dealer: enemies can't pick him as the main target of a skill while any ally is still standing, unless he's under control effects.

  • Jolt

    An AoE attacker with support mixed in: the second skill cleanses a debuff from every ally, hits all enemies twice (harder against wounded ones), then shields your team for 40% of the damage dealt.

  • Sylvia

    A healer whose passive heals each ally for 12% of max HP after they act (24% if they're under 30%) and gives them a turn of SPD up.

  • Fangus

    A DoT shooter with a 50% chance to join in whenever an ally uses a damage skill.

  • Kazami Kazuyo

    An SR support whose ultimate cuts every ally's cooldowns by a turn and adds three turns of SPD up.

  • Hoyan

    A self-damaging executioner: her ultimate costs half her current HP for a 520% hit that grows with every 10% of max HP she's missing.

  • Hizuki Mari

    An aura support: while she's out, every unit on the field, enemies included, gets 30% more ATK and 30% less healing, and your allies can't be given ATK+.

  • Cachi [The Guard]

    An SR support whose ultimate gives the team two turns of DEF+, with extra effects that roll off his Effect ACC: Immunity on a Success and longer buffs on a Critical Success.

  • Khloros

    A single-target finisher whose 400% ultimate gets 25% stronger every time he casts it, up to 100%, and anything it kills stays dead for the rest of the battle.

  • Viper

    An anti-crit support with a strong AoE.

  • Dorothy

    An ATK-scaling SR healer: her basic heals the weakest ally for 150% of the damage it deals, her second skill heals one ally, cleanses all their debuffs and adds Casket's Remedy, and her ultimate heals the team and puts Casket's Remedy on everyone for three turns.

  • Kraken

    An SR controller built around Freeze: his second skill has a 70% chance to Deep Freeze one enemy, and his AoE knocks Turn Meter back by 35% before rolling Freeze on everyone, guaranteed on any target whose meter hits zero.

C tier: Situational

  • Dorothy the Wisher

    A crit-flavored SR support: the second skill gives one ally 50% Turn Meter, CRIT DMG up and a turn off every cooldown, and the Turn Meter doubles if the effect crits.

  • Steelheart Dinah

    A Silence-focused attacker whose AoE always strips two buffs from every enemy and has a 65% chance to Silence them.

  • Rin the Unbowed

    A SPD-scaling SR attacker: both his main skills gain damage for every point of SPD he has, and his basic hits 50% harder against slower enemies.

  • Kethos

    An HP-scaling disruptor: his AoE delays every enemy's cooldowns by a turn (guaranteed when his max HP beats theirs) and speeds up his own.

  • Luvia

    A Witherbloom applier: the basic and both hits of the AoE land it with no roll, and the AoE has a 75% chance per hit to dispel.

  • Yang

    An offensive support who fights alongside the wolf Ado.

  • Mizuki Makoto

    A DEF-scaling SR fighter who enters Retaliation after every four hits she takes, and starts each battle already in it for two turns.

  • Victor

    A brawler who gets stronger the lower his HP goes.

  • Gianc

    An HP-scaling attacker whose ultimate takes 65% of the main target's current HP, paying the same amount from his own, while hitting everyone else for 60% of his max HP and inflicting Weakness.

  • Kazuyo the Reverie

    A sleep controller who can hit Slumbered targets without waking them, knocking 15% off their Turn Meter with each hit.

  • RC-77

    An SR debuffer whose ultimate opens with a 65% stun on one enemy, then hits everyone three times with 45% chances at ATK down and DEF down.

  • Asal

    A stacking attacker: every hit she lands puts Presence on non-boss enemies and builds Menace on herself, with her AoE and her two-hit 240% skill piling on three stacks at a time.

  • Oryes

    A defensive support whose passive gives every ally 60% more Extra Effect RES, and the first time each ally resists that way in a turn, they gain 12% Turn Meter.

  • Tsutomu

    A single-target attacker who leans on crits.

D tier: Weak

  • Oboro

    A single-target SR swordswoman: her second skill always lands DEF down, and her 390% ultimate can't be blocked, with a 75% chance at two Bleeding stacks and a 45% Turn Meter knock on crits.

  • Vice

    An R-rarity bruiser who hits off his own HP and heals whenever a debuff sticks.

How this list is made

We combine 12 tier lists from the Etheria: Restart community. Each character's tier is the middle of where those lists place them, so one list can't move anyone up or down on its own, and the PvP tabs only use the lists that rate that mode. The list is rebuilt every week.

Sources: dotgg.gg, gamezebo.com, gamingonphone.com, hellhades.com, ifanzine.com, kongbakpao.com, millenium.org, mobi.gg, pockettactics.com, powerupgaming.co.uk, prydwen.gg and showgamer.com.