Tier List

This list summarizes which characters and mirrors in Utawarerumono: Lost Frag are stronger and/or more useful compared to others, in the subjective opinion of the editors of this wiki. Check AppMedia's Japanese tier list for alternative opinions by Japanese players, as well as a tier list for mirrors.

You can also create your own Tier List with this tool.

Character Tier List
Note that the "roles" listed here are merely the opinions of the editors of this wiki, and through team synergy and equipping the proper Mirage Mirrors on them, you may be able to make characters excel in different roles than those listed. With every unit and mirror released each unit's utility may vary. '''On each character page there is an specific analysis. There is no in-tier sort.'''

Details about Attackers
Attackers are ranked based on their capability of bursting down enemies alone, existing some specific combinations that could make some of them excel over others indepently of their ranking. There are mainly three kind of approach about how to play attackers. One would be boosting their stats, second would be speeding up the zeal charge to let them do chains faster, and third would be keeping them alive either with mirrors (evade, damage inmune), Healers or Tanks that capitalize Hostility. Difference between tiers is purely based on their capability of dealing damage. Anyway, some units might be actually also good at other roles due to their utility. For instance Atuy can stun all the oponents during 10 seconds, move to the backrow (if you got a free space there) and keep attacking from there, making her more hard to hit. Apart from Attacker, Oboro is considered a really good support too since he gives you a zeal bar for free at the start of battle and when doing C3 recovers the two zeal bars that he used, so you don't lose anything at all. Because of this you should try to put to good use the utility of the units you have on the stage in question that you are trying to beat.

Details about Tanks
Tanks are ranked based on their capability of mitigate damage and stay alive the longer possible time. Often they will need a decent healer on their back, otherwise on the harder levels they will die anyways before being able to do anything at all. You can extend their survivability too with mirrors, highly increasing their HP pool, buffing their damage cut or giving them some damage inmune/evade stacks. I'd say it's better spending those mirrors on Tanks since they usually capitalize Hostility, so combining that they are the main focus of the enemies with them missing hits and damage is a huge advantage.

Details about Healers
Healers are ranked based on their capability of sustain the party, whatsoever with barriers or heals. There aren't many so their use is really situational depending on the units you have. On the current meta usually is preferable to kill before getting killed, so if you have damage enough you won't be using them a lot. On the other hand if you didn't pull really good Attackers but got Eruruu or Nekone you'll be giving them a good use for sure. As you will be losing zeal to keep the party alive is highly recomendable to equip them with mirrors that boost zeal so you can be ready for attacking as soon as possible.

Details about Supports
There are many aspects that work around supporting, many buffs and debuffs to take in count. Here we rank them based on our own experience of their usefulness on the current meta. Easily a lower rated support may excel on a very specific stage over a top tier one. We highly encourage you to try to understand the matchup you have in front and then start thinking of a viable strategy with the units you got. Sometimes even a little damage reduction optimization can give you the few seconds you need to generate enough zeal to end the stage.

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S-Tier
These characters are the very best at what they do and also provide value for the formation beyond that. You'll need very good reasons to choose other characters over any of them.

A-Tier
These characters are excellent at what they do and unlock new strategies based around them and their unique strengths. You should consider designing your formation with their abilities in mind.

B-Tier
These characters are solid performers who in many cases provide something unique to the formation not available from any other character of equivalent rarity. They are good choices for your team.

C-Tier
These characters can fill a space in the formation and perform their role, but aren't particularly powerful in any other way. Care should be taken before investing too heavily in them.

D-Tier
These characters perform notably worse than others of equal (and sometimes lower) rarity. They should be used only if necessary and replaced as soon as possible.

Nuwangi-Tier
These characters are absolutely terrible outside of rare situations which still do not justify using them. If you find yourself forced to put them in your formation, you should probably reroll.

Mirror Tier List
Mirrors are more straightforward than characters. With only a few highly situational exceptions, 3★ mirrors are always better than 2★ mirrors, and 2★ mirrors are always better than 1★ mirrors. In addition, 2★ and 1★ mirrors both tend to possess basic traits that don't differ widely from each other in power and usefulness.

Therefore, this tier list ranks only 3★ mirrors. You can find recommended 2★ and 1★ mirrors for every character in the 'Analysis' section of their wiki pages.

Note that even the 'bad' 3★ mirrors may well be worth leveling up and equipping on characters just for their stats.

S-Tier
These mirrors are excellent on most characters, especially ones who will use their chain attack often.

A-Tier
These mirrors grant multiple useful benefits to the equipped character and/or formation upon chain attacking.

B-Tier
These mirrors are situational and are not a good idea to equip carelessly on just any character.

C-Tier
These mirrors have a trait that only benefits certain characters, though their stat boosts and other trait still make them worth equipping on any character instead of a lower-rarity mirror.

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