User:Buckymancer/UnitTierList - Revision history

Buckymancer: Renaming the bottom tier

2026-05-23T04:35:00Z

Renaming the bottom tier

Buckymancer: /* Skirmishers/Fire Support */

2026-05-23T03:36:10Z

Skirmishers/Fire Support

35.146.42.241: /* Skirmishers/Fire Support */ Big Bertha belongs here, I guess

2026-05-23T03:34:57Z

Skirmishers/Fire Support: Big Bertha belongs here, I guess

35.146.42.241: Hermit up, Felon down

2026-05-23T03:30:53Z

Hermit up, Felon down

Buckymancer: /* Scouting/Intel */

2026-05-01T05:27:04Z

Scouting/Intel

Buckymancer: proofreading

2026-03-23T04:13:29Z

proofreading

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Buckymancer: /* Static Defense */

2026-03-19T23:41:55Z

Static Defense

Buckymancer: /* Anti-Air */ cleanup

2026-03-19T23:24:26Z

Anti-Air: cleanup

Buckymancer: /* Anti-Air */ Static AA is mostly B tier.

2026-03-19T23:23:56Z

Anti-Air: Static AA is mostly B tier.

Buckymancer: /* Scouting/Intel */ Intel buildings

2026-03-19T22:51:54Z

Scouting/Intel: Intel buildings

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 <span style="color:brown">'''F Tier'''</span>: Using this unit is actively detrimental to the team. It's best used as a reservoir of reclaim for projects that are actually viable.
-<span style="color:darkgreen">'''F- Tier'''</span>: Unsafe. Attempts to use this unit reach beyond the scope of the game to potentially do permanent damage to my ability to play.
+<span style="color:darkgreen">'''Radioactive Tier'''</span>: Unsafe. Attempts to use this unit reach beyond the scope of the game to potentially do permanent damage to my ability to play.
 <span style="color:#666">'''Unclassified'''</span>: I do not understand this unit well enough to rate it
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-<span style="color:darkgreen">'''F- Tier'''</span>
+<span style="color:darkgreen">'''Radioactive Tier'''</span>
 '''[[Felon]]''': The shieldbot factory has several very powerful shield units. Attach this to them to make them worse at their jobs. It's not so much that I think this could never ever work, as that I'd expect to Aquanim to get fed up and ban me several times over before I get there so I'm literally not touching the unit.

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 <span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>
 '''[[Big Bertha]]''': Has pretty good anti-army firepower at high densities, but you could just literally have an extra army instead.
 <span style="color:brown">'''F Tier'''</span>
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 <span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>
-(empty)
+'''[[Big Bertha]]''': Has pretty good anti-army firepower at high densities, but you could just literally have an extra army instead.
 <span style="color:brown">'''F Tier'''</span>
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 <span style="color:darkgreen">'''F- Tier'''</span>
-'''[[Felon]]''': The shieldbot factory has several very powerful shield units. Attach this to them to make them worse at their jobs. It's not so much that I think this could never ever work, as that I'd expect to Aquanim to get fed up and ban me ten times over before I get there so I'm literally not touching the unit.
+'''[[Felon]]''': The shieldbot factory has several very powerful shield units. Attach this to them to make them worse at their jobs. It's not so much that I think this could never ever work, as that I'd expect to Aquanim to get fed up and ban me several times over before I get there so I'm literally not touching the unit.
 = Riots =

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 <span style="color:brown">'''F Tier'''</span>: Using this unit is actively detrimental to the team. It's best used as a reservoir of reclaim for projects that are actually viable.
 <span style="color:#666">'''Unclassified'''</span>: I do not understand this unit well enough to rate it
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 '''[[Buoy]]''': High value as a defensive skirmisher vs. assaults. In exchange, they tend to lose slowly to other skirmishers. They're best as a fire support bolstering a complex army, rather than as a standalone harassment tool.
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 '''[[Dominatrix]]''': High risk high reward, but it gets bullied harder than anything else in the skirm mirror. If properly protected, though, a group of Dominatrixes can win a fight at ''negative'' cost. Notably the worst unit in the game for your attrition graphs, which don't count captures.
-'''[[Hermit]]''': They're just long enough range to skirmish most riots, and agile enough to dodge slow projectiles, and tough enough to make autoretreat useful. These strengths let them act as a very effective pseudo-skirm in the factory mirror, although Recluses generally overshadow them in the role.
 '''[[Bulkhead]]''': Good pressure tool. Bad under pressure. The best number to have is one - use it to pull their army into yours on pain of losing their light porc. If you're pushed ahead of the next lane over, and on the high ground, Bulkhead's a nice tool for cross-lane harassment.
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 <span style="color:brown">'''F Tier'''</span>
-'''[[Felon]]''': The shieldbot factory has several very powerful shield units. Attach this to them to make them worse at their jobs. In exchange, you get a few random pickoffs at the start of each fight. This suggests it should work as an attrition tool, but the damage it does to your ability to fight pitched battles usually means it won't survive.
+<span style="color:darkgreen">'''F- Tier'''</span>
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 '''[[Grizzly]]''': Doesn't get the inflated health pool of the other assaults, nor the speed of a fast assault, but its first strike from a generous standoff range mitigates some of those problems and it has Lobster in-fac if you really want a quick engage or disengage.
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
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 '''[[Knight]]''': Has trouble actually assaulting because it's so slow, and it's not particularly tough either. Use it in a different role.
 '''[[Minotaur]]''': This one can actually assault, it just refuses to shoot at things when it does. It's notably difficult to finish off, though by no means impossible, but it takes the big teams late game's low inflation for a badly damaged Minotaur to be worth repairing instead of recycling it into two thirds of a Fusion Reactor.

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 '''[[Swift]]''': The canonical deep scout in both the opening and the late game. You really need to be attentive when your teammate sends them in, because the vision they grant is very brief.
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
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 <span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>
 = Single-Use/Bombs =

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 = Static Defense =
 <span style="color:#90f">'''S Tier'''</span>
 <span style="color:#44f">'''A Tier'''</span>
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
 <span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>
-<span style="color:brown">'''F Tier'''</span>
+'''[[Stardust]]''': Faraday generally does its job better in a complex defense. It does have the best DPS per cost of any static, but its inaccuracy undercuts that.
-<span style="color:#666">'''Unclassified'''</span>
+'''[[Desolator]]''': While it can counter entire armies if they don't include artillery, it's worth bringing over all the artillery to kill for free.
 = Strider/Endgame =

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 = Anti-Air =
 <span style="color:#44f">'''A Tier'''</span>
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 '''[[Artemis]]''': Tends to be at once overtaxed and a single point of failure, so you don't want it as your only AA coverage. But a stocked Artemis makes a very good backstop for your entire rear zone, and a well protected forward one can zone most air units out entirely including the Owls. Some firestate management may be necessary - for example you don't want to let Swifts or a Krow empty it for an Odin follow-up, nor to spend the last missile on an Odin or Krow that isn't committed to a dive.
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>
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 '''[[Razor]]''': A hardy anti-gunship defense for a contested frontline. Razors are not self-sufficient because they're inaccurate outside vision, nor does a single one quite have the DPS to kill bombers, so they're best combined with flex AA that double as spotters, or else line-built as a mutually supporting barrier.
-'''[[Chainsaw]]]''': Integrated air defense keystone. Chainsaws can assist the main air defenses of multiple lanes while their rear arcs pick off deep-scouting Swifts and rack up damage against Odin run-bys. In other words, as an area defense they complement Artemis's comparative weaknesses. Late game AA schemes typically include an array of Chainsaws with overlapping coverage.
+'''[[Chainsaw]]''': Integrated air defense keystone. Chainsaws can assist the main air defenses of multiple lanes while their rear arcs pick off deep-scouting Swifts and rack up damage against Odin run-bys. In other words, as an area defense they complement Artemis's comparative weaknesses. Late game AA schemes typically include an array of Chainsaws with overlapping coverage.
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 '''[[Hacksaw]]]''': Are they really dumb enough to fly into it? Sometimes, yeah. And sometimes them not flying into it is exactly what you need right now.
 = Static Defense =

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 '''[[Angler]]''': The champion at stuffing bombers on a budget. Their baitability and low long-term DPS are issues, and they struggle to keep up with most armies, but if you want quick and cheap shootdowns they're your best mobile option.
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>
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 '''[[Zephyr]]''': Hard target for air. Its total DPS output is very cost efficient, similar to a Razor's, and the radar guided missiles are effective out to the edge of its considerable range. Add that to a tough enough chassis to survive a Likho hit and a mass of Zephyrs is disproportionately difficult for an air player to challenge head-on. Unfortunately, it's seabound and vulnerable to subs, and it's not quite good enough as a landship to compete with the statics - but many maps have enough sea frontage to make Zephyr a viable component of a zone defense.
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 '''[[Crasher]]''': Short enough range to almost be overshadowed by Fencer, and a reload long enough to ruin their DPS without giving them notably good burst. Their main benefit is speed - outrunning most raiders being able to keep up with targets even Flail cannot. They're saved from D tier by chasing tactics and the Roam move state, as well as the occasional situation that requires mobile AA so urgently that you can't plate.

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 '''[[Owl]]''': Ultimate intel asset. It spots units and keeps a radar lock on them, all from a safe distance. It's the best way to get eyes on high plateaus. It lets your artillery get consistent direct hits on their artillery. The presence of a single Owl frequently turns around otherwise losing lanes and it's well worth the price of a plate, or even a factory later in the game, for just one Owl.
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 '''[[Cutter]]''': Sonar specialist. It's useful as a simple sonar picket, but it's also a cheap and speedy deep scout at sea. Airlifted or beached Cutters are underrated as torpedo-immune sonar stations. Cutters have the vision advantage over land units in coastal fights, giving allied Lances and Envoys the edge in artillery duels.
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>