Snowbreak Containment Zone Tier List Wiki [2024 May]

Here’s a complete Snowbreak Containment Zone tier list guide. We aim to rank every character in the game based on their current performance.

This Snowbreak tier list has been compiled by veteran Snowbreak player vicyush. It’s based on their experience of the game during CBT and the global release.

Update: August 3, 2023
Updated the Snowbreak tier list.

Notes

Ratings and reviews reflect my personal opinion on the state of the game – you may disagree! (I won’t care if you do) (jk). Please direct all complaints about how I did your waifu dirty towards @vicyush on the official Snowbreak server: https://discord.gg/snowbreak. Or yell at me on Twitter.
Units are assessed at the maximum possible strength; any practical reduction in power and corresponding rating decrease at lower character development levels will be noted.
No ratings are listed within a certain tier, and the placement of an operative within a certain tier does not imply anything about this.
Support skills may be undervalued in this analysis, as I do not typically use them (most content is easy enough that you don’t really need it).
A character being rated low does not mean they are (completely) useless! The main story and many other game modes are easy enough that they can be completed with any appropriately-levelled operative in the game. Despite this, using higher ranked units will make your life much easier even when playing said content, obviously.
A glossary of terms used is below the tier list; use it as needed.
If you’re looking for freebies, check out our Snowbreak Containment Zone codes page.

Snowbreak Tier List: S+ Characters

Yao – Winter Solstice

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S+

Rarity	Weapon	Type

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Gun Class: Sniper
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Thermal
Role: General DPS
Secondary Role: Bossing

Summary

Winter Solstice is, bar none, the best bossing DPS in the game. She has insane synergy with Space Cowboy, which allows her to consistently pump out high-damage shot after high-damage shot by using her active skill, Scorching Sun Awakening. Her ultimate skill, Searing Resurrection, then proceeds to temporarily give her a gun that does even more damage while also passively reducing all damage she takes by 20% while not in her ultimate skill form.

While insanely good, even without manifests, manifest 1 sees a massive power spike from being able to reload her special weapon from Searing Resurrection. However, she is however highly dependent on Space Cowboy to reach her full potential and drops to S-tier without either that or manifest 1.

Both neuronics for her active skill and ultimate are very strong investments. Her support ability neuronics are less important, as scenarios where you wouldn’t want her as your active operative are far and few between, anyways.

More Info: Yao Winter Solstice Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Acacia – Kaguya

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S+

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Gun Class: Pistol
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Frost
Role: Mobbing
Secondary Role: CC/Utility

The simplest way to describe her kit is that Kaguya throws a lot of things, and everything she throws is good.

Her normal ability throws projectiles that orbit around her, doing good damage and reducing enemy move speed. With neuronics, she can have more of these, and they can also freeze enemies and make them take enhanced damage on Kaguya’s next attack. Her support skill throws another dart that this time orbits a targeted area, dealing damage and more importantly reducing enemy resistances; a very potent debuffing tool. The star of the show, though, is her ultimate, which again throws a projectile that lingers at the target area, dealing very large damage to enemies caught in it. When upgraded, it will also suck in enemies, making it very easy to use.

Kaguya’s manifests are best described as “nice-to-haves,” and none of them significantly make or break her. While Pine Aurora is good for getting the most value out of her support skill, cash-strapped players probably won’t miss it too much. Rotten Orange (4) and Muddy Snow (3) are both strong options for enhancing her active operative power, while there is no downside to using Star Ocean (5*) unless your Kaguya is manifest 2 or higher.

Shockingly, the vast majority of her power is not locked behind manifests, but instead neuronics. All of them are good. Get all of them.

(Prioritise her normal skill neuronics and the ultimate neuronic that sucks in enemies.)

Snowbreak Tier List: S Characters

Ji Chenxing – The Observer

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

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Gun Class: Assault Rifle
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Electrical
Role: Zone Control DPS
Secondary Role: Healer Support

Summary

Ji Chengxing has an interesting zone control playstyle that is just cohesive enough to work. All of her abilities can provide points of safety due to repelling enemies, especially useful against melee opponents. Her normal ability, Heavenly Law, essentially drops a turret that fights for you and also draws enemy aggro. When upgraded through neuronics, these turrets also have strong mobbing due to their chain lightning effect.

Psychic, her support skill, makes Chengxing only the second character in the game to have a healing ability. Compared to Yao’s healing, Chengxing’s heals are chunkier in size, but fewer in amount. This leads to lower absolute healing, but allows for more freedom in positioning due to the heal dispenser (which also can attract enemy aggro) basically yeeting the heal over to your active operative (range is unknown, but probably less restrictive than Yao’s band-aid circle).

Unlike Yao’s heal, Chengxing’s support ability also increases the active operative’s skill damage, essentially trading off some healing for potentially a lot more damage. The kit is tied together with Chengxing’s ult, Divine Purification. This drops a larger turret which again repels enemies, and buffs up your existing attack turrets. When upgraded, it unleashes a burst of damage, but more importantly gives Chengxing chain lightning of her own that ricochets up to five times for quite a bit of damage.

Neuronics allow for her standard and support abilities to further buff up the active operative’s skill damage by a significant amount, which means her support skill provides an even larger buff, and when used as an active operative means that Chengxing’s turrets output even more damage. Being heavily oriented towards a zone-control playstyle, one might find her a little awkward to use on certain missions where you’re constantly moving to new zones, but when allowed to set up camp, her potential will truly shine.

Can use any AR, but Trial’s Eve is an incredibly potent signature weapon that nearly rivals Winter Solstice and Space Cowboy. All five manifests are meaningful, but she works perfectly without.

Heavily prioritise her ultimate or support ability neuronics, depending on whether you value her more for her healing or her active operative performance. As for her standard skill, the Ultimate Thunder neuronic is good quality of life, but your mileage may vary for the turret healing mechanic on the other neuronic.

Fritia – Hush

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

Rarity	Weapon	Type

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Gun Class: Assault Rifle
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Electrical
Role: Single Target DPS
Secondary Role: Laser Beam Death Ray

Summary

Hush’s character bio notes that her exoskeleton more or less only got approved because of the heat ray that it comes with, and this translates over to her gameplay disappointingly well. Her normal ability, Strongest Chain, is an AoE crowd control tool with respectable damage to boot. However, the ability only pulls in four other targets, which is a strange caveat to include.

Her support skill takes a similar support approach like her 4* variant, this time providing a defensive buff that comes with CC immunity¹ when upgraded with neuronics. Once again, it has a strange drawback of being limited to five hits (though it can linger with halved effectiveness once you unlock the corresponding neuronic), and also only lasting ten seconds. Being restricted in lifespan by both hits and time (neither of which are particularly impressive) makes this an ability that must be used wisely and limits its overall usefulness, especially in stages with turrets and other rapid firing enemies.

Perhaps the reason that these two abilities are so confusingly limited in effectiveness is to allow for more power budget to be distributed to her ultimate ability, the heat ray. Damage-wise, it is good. Very good. In fact, it’s the main reason for Hush’s high tier placement. However, using said heat ray roots you in place, which is less than desirable. Additionally, being CC’d while using your ultimate cuts it off early, which is a mild inconvenience.

The solution to this problem turns out to be through manifests. Lots and lots of manifests. To gain maximum effectiveness out of her ultimate, Fritia needs to be manifest 4, which is not exactly cheap. Manifest 2 is the most sane stopping point as far as cost to benefit goes, as this is the point where using her ultimate applies her support skill buffs to Fritia herself.

This significantly reduces the drawback of being rooted during her ultimate, and if her support skill has the appropriate neuronic, also gives Fritia CC immunity¹ to prevent inconvenient interruptions. Manifest 1 also removes the limit on her ult duration, extending it to “as long as you have the energy to use it.”

As stated before, Hush is heavily manifest-dependent, and sees reductions in her placement depending on manifest count. Manifest 4 is required to maintain Tier 0, while Tier 1 requires at least manifest 2. Otherwise, has Tier 2 performance. Lava Bones is the no-brainer best-in-slot, but at best pushes her to Tier 1 when combined with manifest 1. You do want to give her a fire AR though, as this unlocks one the free method of increasing her ult damage via neuronics.

Given that the main gimmick of Hush is her heat ray, you will obviously want to prioritise both of her ult neuronics, with the CC immunity (“Iron Body”¹) on her support ability being the next most important. The other three neuronics are of less importance.
¹(Please note that I have not actually confirmed that “Iron Body” is CC immunity;” if it turns out to be not that, expect a reduction in rating.)

Fenny – Coronet

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

Rarity	Weapon	Type

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Gun Class: Shotgun
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Electrical
Role: Off-Tank
Secondary Role: Close Range, Break DPS

Summary

While it may initially seem that this is an awkward attempt at making a DPS shotgun operative viable, Coronet has very potent self-buffs from her active skill, Optimal Condition, and AoE crowd control from her ultimate skill, Center Stage, to buy you breathing room to work with.

As well, said self-buffs allow you to shred boss health bars when in break states, while also not having to worry about reloading, given the short window that Coronet will be operating in this scenario. Furthermore, Coronet is one of only two operatives in the game able to directly buff the active operative with their support skill, further enhancing her value.

Useful even without manifests, though manifest 1 is a major power spike. Not particularly dependent on a weapon, though Sunny Payback is an excellent quality-of-life improvement.

All six neuronics are useful and worth investing in; which and how many you level is dependent on what you want out of Coronet and how much you’re willing to invest.

More Info: Fenny Coronet Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Marian – Swift

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

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Gun Class: Sniper
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Kinetic
Role: Long Range, Single Target DPS
Secondary Role: Bossing

Summary

An exception among the current sniper roster, Swift is a sniper who does not have to aim. With enough manifests, her active skill, Cloud Shot will automatically lock onto a designated target and fire a homing shot as well as making the next normal shot lock on as well, allowing for constant mobility while maintaining DPS. Of course, aiming at targets marked by Cloud Shot is still desirable when possible, as the mark will make any standard shots deal an additional 20% damage.

Requires heavy manifest investment to reach this level of power. Large amounts of her abilities’ power is locked behind manifests, to the point where a manifest 0 Swift plays entirely differently from a manifest 1 Swift. Without at least manifest 2, Swift drops to A-Tier, and without manifest 1 drops to potentially even B-Tier.

NOT RECOMMENDED AS YOUR FIRST DPS. Unless you somehow get large amounts of manifests very quickly, other operatives will have more value due to simply being more useful more immediately.

Both neuronics for her active skill and ultimate are useful investments, while her support skills are more niche and situational in value.

More Info: Marian Swift Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Fritia – Little Sunshine

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

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Gun Class: Assault Rifle
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Thermal
Role: Support
Secondary Role: Mid-Range Mobbing

Summary

Fritia Little Sunshine is able to buff the active operative’s damage with her support skill. She’s B-Tier as an active operative. You really just want her for her support ability.

Useful even without manifests. Prefers Strawberry Shortcake to gain maximum value out of her support skill.

Both support skill neuronics are very good. If you insist on using her as an active operative, prioritise her active skill neuronic that increases its range, as this will allow you to deal with large groups better.

More Info: Fritia Little Sunshine Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Enya – “Big Sis”

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

Rarity	Weapon	Type

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Gun Class: Pistol
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Thermal
Role: Yao Support
Secondary Role: Mobbing, CC

Summary

An interesting mix of abilities, Enya suffers from wanting to do both mobbing and single-target DPS, ultimately being mediocre at both. Her active skill does not have enough range to effectively deal with groups of enemies not in close range, and spreads out too much to be useful against all but the largest hordes. Rich Lights is an interesting bonus damage mechanic, but does not recharge fast enough for it to make a large impact in many scenarios.

None of her performance as an active operative actually matters because she’s Winter Solstice’s best friend. Her support skill amps the next shot’s damage by up to 40%, which is a lot when you consider how much damage Winter Solstice is outputting per shot. Adding on top how low the cooldown is, her ability to roid up Winter Solstice single-handedly pushes her to S+ Tier.

Useful even without manifests, but wants Prismatic Igniter to further buff Winter Solstice.

All of her neuronics are pretty decent upgrades to her abilities. Choose based on what you want out of her, but you probably want to upgrade her support neuronics first to better support Winter Solstice.

(Thank you Aliko for mentioning how silly support Enya is with Winter Solstice)

More Info: Enya Big Sis Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Lyfe – Wild Hunt

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: S

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Gun Class: Submachine Gun
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Frost
Role: Close-Range DPS
Secondary Role: Bossing

Summary

A good operative held back by a ~~bad~~ mediocre gun class. Strong skill damage and CC make Wild Hunt great for mobbing, even potentially outclassing Coronet against groups of unarmored enemies.

However, much of her damage value drops off once enemies are farther away or become more commonly armoured; the high reflection rate, damage dropoff, and recoil inaccuracy of the SMG class unfortunately holds her back greatly as far as her DPS potential goes. Provisionally rated at S-Tier, as initial testing indicates that SMGs are much less useless than they were before. Can move back down a tier if later testing proves otherwise.

While useful even without manifests, manifest 1 is a major breakpoint in maintaining her skill uptime. Potentially B-Tier without manifest 1. Not particularly bound to a weapon, but Stardust Memory is preferred.

Both active skill neuronics are a high priority. Your mileage may vary for the others.

More Info: Lyfe Wild Hunt Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Snowbreak Tier List: A-Tier Characters

Marian – Queen of Pain

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: A

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Gun Class: Sniper
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Chaos
Role: Long Range DPS, Burst
Secondary Role: Bossing

Summary

Practically on the doorstep of being S-Tier. Strong damage that rewards good positioning to be able to take advantage of her passive buff to ADS ballistic damage while not moving.

Excellent for mini-bossing due to her ultimate ability’s low cooldown and energy cost, allowing you to use it on tougher enemies for quick takedowns while also not feeling pressured to save it for an eventual boss fight like you might with Winter Solstice.

Smokescreen, her active skill, is situational but can occasionally get you out of a tight spot or can be used for bonus damage when using her ultimate once the corresponding neuronic is unlocked.

Useful even without manifests. She is not reliant on a specific weapon but prefers Mark of Mesmer to further enhance her ADS playstyle.

Prioritize her ult neuronics. After this, the other four are of lesser importance.

More Info: Marian Queen of Pain Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Acacia – Redacted

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: A

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Gun Class: Pistol
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Chaos
Role: Mobbing
Secondary Role: Mid-Range DPS

Summary

Quite possibly the best mobbing operative in the game, her active skill’s bouncing daggers can absolutely shred tightly packed hordes of enemies. While her ultimate might seem to be of limited use initially, it can be upgraded to also provide a damage boost, while also slowing bosses to allow for other DPS units to more easily aim for weak points and face lower pressure from attacks while doing so.

Useful even without manifests. She is not reliant on a specific weapon but prefers Nexus to enhance her skill damage.

Her active skill cooldown reduction neuronic is of high value, as lower cooldown allows you to recharge an extra dagger in the time it takes you to throw the ones already stocked up. Her ultimate ability neuronic that increases operative attack while in her ultimate zone is also recommended.

More Info: Acacia Redacted Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Yao – Quiet Quitter

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: A

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Gun Class: Sniper
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Frost
Role: Mid/Long Range, General DPS
Secondary Role: Healer

Summary

The only healer currently available and, curiously, also a sniper. Relies heavily on her active ability, Fire Minute Break, to enhance her DPS – upgrade both neuronics for it ASAP. With it active, she becomes a fast-firing DPS with a bottomless magazine great for cleaning out groups of mobs in the mid-long range.

Also, her healing utility through her support skill and ultimate cannot be understated and can be clutch in Abyss Purge or other high-difficulty stages that require operatives to end above a certain percentage HP threshold for full rewards.

Useful even without manifests. While initially weapon-agnostic, will want a Frost sniper once her neuronics are unlocked to get the most value out of her abilities. Olympus is ideal.

Both active skill neuronics are highly recommended, as this is your only way to increase your DPS. After this, the neuronic that allows her support skill’s healing drone to follow the active operative is a valuable investment to allow for extra flexibility when using it. The remaining neuronics are of lesser priority.

More Info: Yao Quiet Quitter Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Mauxir – Kitty

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: A

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Gun Class: Submachine Gun
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Frost
Role: Single Target DPS
Secondary Role: Bossing

Summary

The only viable bossing SMG in the game. Her unique soul-grab mechanic allows for Mauxir to bypass traditional SMG weaknesses and effectively deal damage to bosses. Has a very strong self-buff via her ultimate ability, but the execution effect is questionably useful at best. Suffers from being bound to Underworld Program to output DPS while also not having easy-to-access tools to deal with mobs.

Useful even without manifests. Not reliant on a specific weapon, but Hypchlorous Acid is preferred.

Both active skill neuronics are a high priority, with the others being less so.

More Info: Mauxir Kitty Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Lyfe – Wednesday

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: A

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Gun Class: Submachine Gun
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Electricity
Role: Close-range DPS
Secondary Role: Mobbing

Summary

Wednesday is most simply described as a budget version of her SSR variant, Wild Hunt. Despite both versions suffering from the same drawbacks of being an SMG user, Wednesday finds her workaround to be much less compelling. Persistent attack drones sound interesting on paper, but ultimately do not do enough meaningful damage, nor do they provide CC like Wild Hunt’s Frost Wolves. While her support and ultimate abilities have strong CC, they are again outshined by her rarer variant, who provides a larger area of effect and deals more damage. Fundamentally still a decently designed kit with undertuned numbers; increased damage ratios can easily see her uprated to A-Tier.

Not meaningfully dependent on manifests, but you will get at least manifest 1 on her no matter what, as the game provides many free Wednesday shards through career missions. Not reliant on a specific weapon, both Duckling and Work-in-Progress are strong choices depending on your playstyle.

All of Wednesday’s neuronics are meaningful upgrades, though neuronics that refresh drone duration can be hard to effectively use given the lack of a clear indicator on their remaining duration.

More Info: Lyfe Wednesday Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Snowbreak Tier List: B-Tier Characters

Fenny – Lionheart

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: B

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Gun Class: Shotgun
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Kinetic
Role: Close range, CC/Mobility
Secondary Role: None

Summary

Queen Bee, Queen Bee, Queen Bee.

Lionheart may be a one-trick pony, but by god if it isn’t a really good trick. Queen Bee is a deceptively amazing ability that grants mobility and CC while also seeing eventual upgrades that grant her a shield and the ability to reset its cooldown. Quite ironically a great partner to her other variant, Coronet, as a way to deliver her into a crowd of enemies so Coronet can open fire. Queen Bee can very usefully also be cast without a target, providing free mobility to reposition away from a dangerous area. Her support skill is useful CC; though her ultimate is quite disappointing in damage output and too energy-intensive as a CC tool.

“Useful” even without manifests. She is not reliant on a particular weapon, given her intended role is not as a DPS, but Tiny Grains has good synergy with her role as an initiator.

Both active skill neuronics are very strong and worth investing in. The rest are less so.

More Info: Fenny Lionheart Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Cherno – Those Two

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: B

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Gun Class: Submachine Gun
Rarity: 5-Star
Type: Chaos
Role: Close-range DPS
Secondary Role: None

Summary

Another oddball of a unit. Her active skill is a reasonably useful area interrupt, though its range is too small to be effective without her neuronic upgrade (and still a bit lacking afterward). Her support skill disappointingly is only a slow effect and does not deal damage. Clear Empty Skies, her ultimate ability, attempts to get around the inherent weaknesses of the SMG class… by outsourcing the work to someone else. I wouldn’t blame her. Beloberg actually can output some very strong damage numbers, but the inability to directly control its behaviour and its constant HP drain on Cherno makes it a tricky and sometimes frustrating tool to use, even with the ability to switch out to another operative after summoning Beloberg.

A minimum of manifest 1 is recommended to reach a baseline level of effectiveness and is C-Tier otherwise. Not specifically reliant on a weapon, but Arctic Fox is recommended for offensive purposes, with Hypchlorous Acid as a more defensive, off-tank playstyle.

All of Cherno’s neuronics provide meaningful upgrades to her abilities; while her ultimate ability neuronics are recommended as a first priority, it is ultimately up to your own playstyle and what you want.

More Info: Cherno Those Two Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Snowbreak Tier List: C-Tier Characters

Haru – “The Ace”

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: C

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Gun Class: Pistol
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Kinetic
Role: Mid Range DPS
Secondary Role: Bossing

Summary

A clunky mix of abilities leaves Haru with a confusing playstyle that reaps questionable rewards. Her active skill, Triple Tap, wants to be charged up to have maximal effectiveness, but its long charge time means you’re giving up non-insignificant gun DPS in exchange for it. Vanishing Phantom, her support ability, sounds good on paper as an execute ability against low-health targets, but has extremely low range and thus sees limited usefulness.

The one bright spot in Haru’s kit is her ultimate ability, which applies a knock-up and provides decently strong followup damage via her Sword of Oaths on shots hit. However, the split power budget that adding both a knock-up and a damage buff creates makes this ability one that tries to do two things and is resultantly not great at either; the knock-up does not do damage and the zone is not particularly large, and the Sword of Oaths has too long of a cooldown to majorly contribute to DPS, even with her neuronic upgrade.

Does not see any major gameplay strategy changes as she gains manifests. Prefers Star Ocean, though whether you want to spend resources pulling this may be questionable at best.

If you are dead-set on using Haru, you’ll find that all of her neuronics have some use, and you can invest in them to suit whatever playstyle you manage to come up with for her.

More Info: Haru The Ace Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Nita – Hands

Snowbreak Tier List Rank: C

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Gun Class: Shotgun
Rarity: 4-Star
Type: Kinetic
Role: Shield Tank
Secondary Role: CC

Summary

Simply put, Nita is a solution in search of a problem.

Her active ability is a strong close-range CC tool that also allows her to generate a large amount of personal shielding, while her ultimate and support abilities are useful CC tools. Combined with all her manifest and neuronic upgrades, Nita becomes a potent shield tank with high durability.

However, such a role is simply not needed in the game’s current state, as enemies simply do not deal enough damage for a main tank to be necessary. Furthermore, as a consequence of her defensive prowess, Nita does not deal enough consistent damage to be viable as a shotgun DPS like Coronet and lacks the mobility of Lionheart. Maybe someday she’ll find a place in the meta, but for now your resources are better spent on better ways to increase your DPS output.

Does not see any major gameplay strategy changes as she gains manifests, though her first manifest does provide a way to convert her shielding into more damage. Not reliant on a specific weapon given her role is not as a DPS, but Precious Baby can further increase her survivability (not that it’s currently needed).

Like Haru, all of Nita’s neuronics do provide some use, and you can invest in them as you wish depending on how you want to attempt to make her meta-relevant.

More Info: Nita Hands Best Build, Team, and Skills wiki guide

Changelog

21/07/2023 – First revision based on live release data. Added Ji Chengxing – The Observer (S-Tier), Acacia – Kaguya (S+ Tier), and Fritia – Hush (heavily conditional S-Tier). Lyfe – Wild Hunt and Lyfe – Wednesday provisionally both increased in rating to S-Tier and A-Tier, respectively.

17/07/2023 – Final version using CBT data.

Glossary of Terms

AoE

Short for Area of Effect. Denotes abilities that can also affect nearby enemies that are not the primary target.

Bossing

The act of fighting strong boss-type enemies, or the corresponding role that an operative might have.

See also: mini-bossing, the same concept but applied to less powerful enemies that are still significantly stronger than average mooks.

Short for Crowd Control. Denotes the ability to temporarily disable an enemy’s ability to act, or the corresponding role an operative might have.

DPS

Short for Damage Per Second. Denotes the ability to output consistent damage, or the corresponding role that an operative might have.

Different types of DPS exist:Break DPS: Specialised in doing large amounts of burst damage during boss fights where the boss is temporarily downed and vulnerableGeneral DPS: all-purpose, good at everything but may not be the best at anything. Single Target DPS: large amounts of damage, but in a way that may limit the number of targets that can be quickly and effectively engaged.

Tank

An operative with the role of taking damage for other operatives.

May have sub-specialized roles: Off-Tank: Short for Offensive Tank. An operative that intended to take hits while also dealing back non-insignificant damage as well.Main Tank: An operative intended to be heavily focused on taking damage, often at the cost of personal damage output.Shield Tank: An operative specialised in mitigating damage taken through the use of shields.

Mobbing

The act of effectively fighting large clusters of enemies, or the corresponding role that an operative might have.

Conclusion

This Snowbreak Containment Zone tier list serves as a guide for making the most of your time in the game. Remember, the tier list is not set in stone, and the game’s meta can change over time. So, make sure to adapt your strategies accordingly.

If you’re interested in finding out more information about the game, head on over to the official website.

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