User:Aquanim/UnitTierList - Revision history

Aquanim at 00:46, 6 May 2026

2026-05-06T00:46:36Z

Aquanim: /* Water maps */

2025-12-23T06:09:51Z

Water maps

Aquanim: /* Raiders etc. */

2025-12-13T07:35:51Z

Raiders etc.

Aquanim at 07:35, 13 December 2025

2025-12-13T07:35:25Z

Aquanim at 00:19, 8 November 2025

2025-11-08T00:19:36Z

Aquanim at 08:06, 6 November 2025

2025-11-06T08:06:17Z

Aquanim: /* Riots */

2025-09-22T13:41:22Z

Riots

Aquanim at 23:03, 21 September 2025

2025-09-21T23:03:22Z

Aquanim: /* Commanders */

2025-09-21T12:18:18Z

Commanders

Aquanim: /* Endgame */

2025-09-21T12:11:10Z

Endgame

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-Updated for 1.13.9.5, September 2025
+Updated for 1.14.5.0, May 2026
 = Preface =
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 '''Outlaw''': Does the job it is supposed to do for a shieldball.
-'''Dante''': If you need a bunch of small (maybe cloaked) units fried at a moderate distance, Dante is your guy. A bit too fragile to be used as a generic unit.
+'''Dante''': I'm not yet sure about reworked Dante, but it ought to at least be good in conjunction with a cloak.
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
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 '''Ravager''': "Light-weight assault" is just not a very powerful role. Assaults want to get in and out without losses and Ravager takes too much attrition, or gets wrecked by stuff like Imp, far too often for my liking.
-<span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>
+'''Hermit''': Like Ravager, but slow. Very efficient stats, but its weaknesses are often easy to exploit - unless the map is sufficiently hilly.
 = Artillery =
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 '''Phantom''': Lance's only real competition in its role. Sacrifices some damage for being much harder to find and kill.
-'''Firewalker''': Clunky, but unless you are willing to spend for Dante this is the best way to clean up small units and detect cloakers at a distance.
+'''Firewalker''': Clunky, but this is the best way to clean up small units and detect cloakers at a distance.
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>

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 '''Hunter''': In very small teams on very large maps (think Inculta Wet) Hunter stocks go up a lot. In the typical sea game its mobility is not so much of a strength.
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
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 '''Reef''': The guided disarm missile has interesting applications. Everything else about this unit is somewhere between "useless" and "an outright liability".
 <span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>

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 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>
-'''Kodachi, Pyro''': Very good early game, but they lose value a lot quicker than the A tier raiders. I have a serious skill issue with both of these units.
+'''Kodachi, Pyro''': Very good early game, but they lose value a lot quicker than the higher tier raiders. I have a serious skill issue with both of these units.
 '''Scythe''': I also have a skill issue with this unit. At its best this is maddening. At its worst you are just punting metal. YMMV.

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 '''Mason, Quill''': Meh.
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
 '''Wasp''': Useless as a combat constructor, but decent at expanding if it doesn't die to Swift.
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 = Raiders etc. =
 <span style="color:#44f">'''A Tier'''</span>
-'''Scorcher''': When you need sheer DPS, accept no substitutes.
+'''Scorcher''': The best raider for sheer DPS if it can stay at close range... which is not always practical.
-'''Glaive, Bandit''': Throwing some of these into almost any army composition makes it better. Good screening, good DPS.
+'''Bandit''': Very good at screening, excellent range for a raider, good HP, decent DPS. A bit on the slow side, though.
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>

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 '''Raptor''': I genuinely think this is OK, if your job is to fight Swifts and gunships with help rather than chasing down bombers. I would always have some Swifts though.
-'''Magpie''': Good against a range of likely early game targets, considerably weaker later. Probably best on high-wind maps to offset the large rearm cost.
+'''Raven''': Not the game-defining unit it once was, but there is nothing wrong with the Raven of today. Does the job it is designed to do.
-'''Raven''': Not the game-defining unit it once was, but there is nothing wrong with the Raven of today. Does the job it is designed to do.
+<span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
 <span style="color:#666">'''Unclassifiable'''</span>

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 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
-'''Scallop''': This would probably be D tier if it wasn't in the same factory as Lobster.
+'''Scallop''': In combination with Lobster it's obviously a lot better than this.
 '''Claymore''': Occasionally solves problems for Hover on land. Remember that they can shoot over terraform for no particularly good reason.

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 <span style="color:#44f">'''A Tier'''</span>
 '''Recon''': Does not die to Placeholder. Dies a lot to Lance though. S tier if it enables expansion for you (like on Quicksilver). To avoid throwing your computer out a window when you get Lobstered, this chassis is mandatory on lava maps.
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 '''Engineer''': Dies to Placeholder and Lance. The blueprint-stealing tool has some useful applications though; for example, if you are playing air grab a land constructor.
 = Raiders etc. =

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 <span style="color:#90f">'''S Tier'''</span>
-'''Trinity''': At worst, forces single points of failure on your opponent. At its not uncommmon best, ends the game on the spot.
+'''Trinity''': At worst, forces single points of failure on your opponent. At its not uncommmon best, ends the game on the spot. Dies to Odin, but can be hidden quite well.
 <span style="color:#44f">'''A Tier'''</span>
-'''Paladin''': For bullying your opponent around with the EMP missiles and safely getting attrition with the laser, Paladin is unmatched. Not the greatest unit in a pitched battle, though.
+'''Paladin''': For bullying your opponent around with the EMP missiles and safely getting attrition with the laser, Paladin is unmatched. Not the greatest unit in a pitched battle, though. Doesn't die to Odin.
 <span style="color:lightblue">'''B Tier'''</span>
-'''Zenith''': The standard superweapon at the moment, mostly on the basis of its cost. You don't have to be losing a game all that badly for Zenith to be unable to save you, in my experience.
+'''Detriment''': Might actually be better than all of the superweapons now - it doesn't die to Odin.
-'''Starlight''': Obviously the best superweapon, if you can afford it. It would have to be a pretty weird game for this to be better than getting a Zenith 22K metal earlier, but stranger things have happened.
+'''Zenith''': The standard superweapon at the moment, mostly on the basis of its cost. You don't have to be losing a game all that badly for Zenith to be unable to save you, in my experience. Dies to Odin.
 <span style="color:gold">'''C Tier'''</span>
-'''Bertha''': Does not end games. Can be okay on maps I do not choose to play.
+'''Bertha''': Does not end games. Can be okay on maps I do not choose to play. Dies to Odin.
 <span style="color:orange">'''D Tier'''</span>
-'''Disco Rave Party''': I am told this is terrible now. Not sure I 100 percent buy that, but I guess I will defer to the experience of people who actually make superweapons. If it's good anywhere it is when it won't have to traverse its turret much.
+'''Disco Rave Party''': I am told this is terrible now. Not sure I 100 percent buy that, but I guess I will defer to the experience of people who actually make superweapons. If it's good anywhere it is when it won't have to traverse its turret much. Dies to Odin.
 = Water maps =