Red Purgatory Ban

Red Purgatory Ban is a 3-star Strength character in The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross.

On our The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross tier list Red Purgatory Ban is S tier, 4th of the 177 characters ranked, from where 3 current tier lists put Red Purgatory Ban.

Other Strength characters in The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross: Red Arthur, Red Ban, Red Benimaru, Red Camila, Red Christmas Elaine, Red Demon Meliodas and 49 more.

Purgatory Ban scales every attack off his own Max HP, so stacking HP gear both boosts his damage and keeps him alive at the same time, and his Detonate effect punishes enemies who haven't spent their ultimate gauge yet, which is brutal against anyone trying to Ult Rush. His Gift skill restores a percentage of lost HP while temporarily raising Max HP, feeding directly back into how hard his other attacks hit, and his unique cleanses stat-lowering effects while stacking bonus Max HP over several turns.

He usually runs with Red Excalibur Arthur tanking and Red Reinhard as a second attacker, with Red Twigo (or Red Terry, a weaker option) in the sub slot, and he's genuinely hard to land a crit on. Effects like Infect, Buff Cancel, Rupture, or disabled buff skills are his real counters, since his damage and healing both depend on buffs sticking. We rate him S tier.

Pairs well with: Red Excalibur Arthur; Red Reinhard; Red Twigo; Red Terry.

Purgatory is a realm that is located in the space in between the living world and the afterlife, where time is warped - a minute in the real world corresponds to a year in Purgatory.

Merlin has second-hand experience with Purgatory after her father found a way to open a portal, and went into it for only a minute to her perception.

He came out a shell of the man that he was, mumbling constantly until his dying breath about what he had seen inside.

From what he described, Purgatory is an endless, chaotic, hellish realm where mutilated souls and predatory monsters seek prey.

The air is both scorching hot and freezing cold at the same time, and the earth is toxic, together destroying the flesh and bone of the living.

After Meliodas was awakened in his demon state with determination to become the next Demon King, it was found out that the current Demon King had taken Meliodas’s emotions and locked them away in Purgatory.

As a result, Meliodas was very cold to his friends and even went so far as to disband the Seven Deadly Sins, much to the shock of everyone on the team including Elizabeth.

Before he left the Seven Deadly Sins to seek out his brothers, he made a remark to Hawk, asking the Demon King if he’d enjoyed spying on them.

As the Seven Deadly Sins recovered from their shock of Meliodas’s departure, Hawk reflected on this comment.

Merlin stared into Hawk’s eyes and realized that Hawk actually has a connection to Purgatory and someone can travel through his eyes into the other realm.

However, as Merlin had described previously, it’s not a safe journey and thus Ban volunteers to enter by himself since he possesses immortality.

During his time in Purgatory, Ban was subjected to very harsh conditions.

As a result, his endurance and durability were drastically increased.

His physique evolved and adapted significantly, and his physical strength and speed also increased dramatically.

Eventually, he was able to escape from Purgatory and return to the world of the living.

After Ban returned from Purgatory, he found Elaine having exhausted all of her power in battle against Grey and Red Demons, despite having been warned by Gerharde not to expend too much energy.

As Elaine stated to Gerharde, she knew that her life was on borrowed time from Melascula and so she was willing to say goodbye and wait to see everyone until her next lifetime.

However, Ban did not accept this resignation and he instead grasped Elaine and used the ability “Gift” to transfer his immortality to hers, thus saving her life but rendering him no longer immortal.

However, thanks to the changes that his physique experienced from Purgatory, even without his immortality Ban was still able to withstand similar harsh conditions as Purgatory and come out unscathed.

Thus, after leaving Purgatory, Ban is considered to be the strongest member of the Seven Deadly Sins and was even able to compete in physical combat without needing to use Snatch against the Demon King in Meliodas’s body.

Festival unit

Red Purgatory Ban's signature weapon is Draupnir.