Arknights Endfield’s combat often boils down to the team setup and your choice of operators rather than actual combat skill. This makes it highly important that you only pull for characters who are good for your playstyle and team. Follow our Arknights Endfield tier list to learn about the best characters in the game and who you should be pulling in the banners.
Note: Last updated Arknights Endfield tier list on January 29, 2026
Arknights Endfield Character Tier List
Arknights Endfield characters can be primarily classified into three roles: main DPS, element driver, and support. The main DPS characters specialize in dealing a ton of damage, and you have to build teams around them. Next, characters who are element drivers inflict elemental susceptibilities that allow your main DPS to deal more damage. Finally, support characters can either buff the damage or heal allies, or do both.
Here is a quick overview of the Arknights Endfield character tier list so that you know which characters are best at their roles at a simple glance:
Tier Characters SS Ardelia, Laevatain, Yvonne, Pogranichnik, Gilberta S Last Rite, Xaihi, Antal, Lifeng, Avywenna, Endministrator A Wulfgard, Perlica, Akekuri, Chen Qianyu B Da Pan, Arclight, Alesh C Ember, Snowshire, Estella, Fluorite, Catcher
Best Arknights Endfield SS Tier Characters
The SS-tier characters in our Arknights Endfield tier list are the absolute best characters to get in the game at the moment. These characters are either incredibly strong with solo-carrying capabilities or are strong support assets to most team comps.
Ardelia
Ardelia is arguably the best support in Arknights Endfield. Her Skill inflicts Corrosion, reducing all elemental resistances for enemies. Other than that, she also increases the Physical and Arts damage enemies take. Overall, she is an extremely strong asset in most teams.
Laevatain
Laevatain is currently the best DPS character in Arknights Endfield. She is also the first featured 6-star character on the banner, which shows why she is so incredibly powerful. Laevatain deals a very high amount of AoE damage. What’s best about her is that she is very F2P to build, as her core team members can be obtained for free.
Yvonne
Yvonne is another very strong DPS in Arknights Endfield. She has incredibly serious single-target damage, amplifying more after she activates her Ultimate. Yvonne can also apply solidification with her Skills, giving her some crowd control. If you are looking for a solid DPS unit, then Yvonne is worth getting.
Pogranichnik
Pogranichnik is an incredible asset to any team because of his insanely high skill point generation ability. He is a Physical Support, and his Ultimate provides Skill Point, while also giving a team-wide DMG buff. With such strong supporting abilities, he will likely stay in the SS-tier of the Arknights Endfield tier list for quite some time.
Gilberta
Gilberta is easily one of the strongest supports in Arknights Endfield. She has an innate ability to AoE crowd control, which automatically makes her a good character. Pair it with her ability to apply Art Susceptibility, and she is an extremely strong support worthy of her SS-tier spot.
Best Arknights Endfield S Tier Characters
The S-tier characters are also incredibly strong in Arknights Endfield, but they cannot be called the best in their domain. However, they can easily replace the SS-tier characters for their role type with minimal difference.
Last Rite
Last Rite is one of the strongest Cryo DPS units in Arknights Endfield. She is only a 5-star character, but is incredibly strong and probably is one of the more attainable characters in the game that you should definitely try building.
Xaihi
Xaihi is a strong healer and a really good Cryo inflictor. She also provides a ton of great buffs for your team and is one of the necessary characters to make a Cryo team work. She is an incredibly strong asset in Arknights Endfield.
Antal
Antal is only a 4-star character, the most attainable rarity, but that doesn’t stop him from being literally one of the best in the game. He is a specialist who is the perfect support for Heat and Electric operators, who are also the meta characters currently.
Lifeng
Lifeng is a 6-star character who is an incredibly strong support with a high Vulnerability application. He can inflict Physical Susceptibility with his skill, and his combo ability buffs the next Battle Skill or Ultimate of the next character on the team. All of this makes him perfect for the S-tier spot in our Arknights Endfield tier list.
Avywenna
Avywenna is currently the strongest Electric DPS character in the game and drives the Electric meta alone. She has incredibly serious damage and can inflict Electric Infliction on enemies. If you want to play an Electric meta team, you must Avywenna at the moment.
Endministrator
Endministrator is the main protagonist that everyone gets to play for free, but don’t mistake them for a weak character. Instead, he is easily one of the best characters to build at the moment due to the good DPS damage, crowd-control, easy-to-trigger combo skills, and buffing potential. When built correctly, they can carry you easily to the current end-game content.
Best Arknights Endfield A Tier Characters
The A-tier characters in the Arknights Endfield tier list are those who only fit into specific teams to be counted as useful. These characters are not individually that strong, and are only there as either replacements or for very specific roles.
Wulfgard
Wulfgard is one of the free characters you will get at the start of the game, and he is a really good Heat DPS. You will need him for Laevatain teams as a Heat driver, which alone brings him up into the A-tier.
Perlica
Perlica is the first free character you unlock in Arknights Endfield after the Endministrator. She perfectly complements the protagonist and is a core character for Electro teams. If you are playing an Avywenna electric team comp, then you will need Perlica as well.
Akekuri
Akekuri is a 4-star character, and alone, she is not highly impressive. However, she is a really good Skill Point generator for many teams, and her Heat application is vital for Laevatain.
Chen Qianyu
Chen Qianyu is not just a support character for your teams; she also boosts the production of your AIC Factory. She can provide multiple Lift effects and has decent crowd control and stagger effects.
Best Arknights Endfield B Tier Characters
The B-tier characters in Arknights Endfield are those that don’t really stand out in the crowd and only work as replacements for the A-tier characters in certain teams. These characters alone are not that effective and require serious strength accompanying them to be effective in battles.
However, the importance of these characters might change over the upcoming patches with the arrival of new 6-star characters and Meta changes.
Best Arknights Endfield C Tier Characters
The C-tier characters in Arknights Endfield are decent, but currently lack any influential teams in the current meta. These characters don’t offer much alone, and it is best to mostly skip building them unless you really like their lore or character design.
Ember, Snowshire, Fluorite, Catcher, and Estella are currently part of this tier, and they can only become effective if new meta characters are introduced in the future that tie up with their kits.
So, this was our Arknights Endfield character tier list. Remember that the tier list is based on my personal opinion and view of the game. Only take it as a reference, but don’t stop yourself from pulling or building characters that you like personally. Also, let us know in the comments what you think about this tier list.
