Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Tier List

• To get heals on every rotation you need another Aegis Squad member on the team. You still get heals on her burst but only every other rotation
• 40-second burst 2 means you need to change your team composition and always run double B2

• Pilgrim unit, either you get her on her banner or you might be cindiless for months / years
• Not a great character for high deficit campaign pushing

Incredible damage dealer. Worth building for all types of content, not only elemental. Beginner and auto friendly character.

• Skill 2 can be hard to sustain 100% uptime depending on the healers you have available AND positioning of your units

• First seasonal Pilgrim character. Opens up the door for Shift Up to release more characters like this, which is bad for everyone
• Pellet mechanics still have no usage. Neither Summer Doro nor Maid Privaty actually benefit from pellet buffers (only Leona at the time of writing this)

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself

• Needs 3 rotations to fully take advantage of her buffs and CDR

Amazing support providing offensive buffs and repairing the cover for the team. Used since day 1 and doesn't look like she's going anywhere.

Let the grandma retire Shift Up.

• Siren is bringing a new level of powercreep to the game that most people are ignoring or directly downplaying

• 10 second stun every 3rd rotation can destroy your burst rotations, depending on your composition. Without Maid Anchor, you need a 20-second burst as your second B2
• There is no other character outside of Maid Anchor that can help her not get stun, making team compositions pretty limited
• Hit rate debuff makes her hit absolutely nothing if the enemy is far away. Mid to close range this debuff isn’t as bad since she still hits pretty consistently core
• Since both Skill 2 and burst scale based on how many stacks of drunken you have, you need to heavily invest into both of them. Please give us more books Shift Up

One of the best support in the game even without using Tia. Doesn't require a lot of investment. Can be used on any team as your main support.

• Over-Spec is a stupid idea just for Shift Up to put more 1% banners

Too strong. Best burst 1 and burst 3 in the game. Best fire and iron DPS in the game. Best CDR and even when acting as burst 1 provides amazing damage on her own.

• Not auto friendly for newbie players that might get confused with her kit

• Her buff modifiers are not that high (ATK and attack damage) but it’s a nice extra to the CDR
• She needs to be positioned in the back row (position 2 or 4) and most people will either never read that part of the kit or completely forget
• Not auto or beginner-friendly because the positioning mechanic for the buffs since units are getting more complex and people… well, they just don’t read

• Pilgrim unit, either you get her on her banner or you might be scarletless for months
• Sucks to play on auto since she has an animation lock similar to A2, which you can skip, but it’s not consistent for most people

Amazing single target damage. Despite being a rocket launcher, can be built for infinite ammunition if you get 1-2 lines of max ammo and use bastion cube.

Like normal Scarlet, can be used on most content as a DPS without worrying about team compositions.

• Limited unit, if you are not playing in summer you will have to wait a year
• Needs high investment in order to be usable on raids to not depend on max ammunition capacity increase buffs from other units

Hyper carry and elemental buffer. Avoid using units that increase max ammo on the same team. Requires high investment.

Burst at level 9+ is required to shot a rocket every shot, otherwise she will have 2 ammo or more depending on the team composition.

• 20 bullets base magazine means you need to overload her or go with a fast reload team so she can keep dealing damage
• You need buffers that don’t use the same buff types Asuka already have, limiting team compositions

• Hard requirement to have someone from 777 squad in the team to work as a burst 2

• Without distributed or sustained damage buffers, she's literally a useless character
• She got nerfed before release because Shift Up doesn't know how their game works

Skill 1 is not really worth levelling up past 4 unless you are using her on your main teams for progression.

Burst level 7 is generally going to be enough but people who are using her in raids will always benefit from extra damage.

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself

• Shift Up is designing damage dealers that need investment on all skills, making them quite expensive to invest in

• If the boss has parts, you are better off using Red Hood or units that can pierce since they will perform way better than EVE
• Hard to slot on campaign at a high deficit outside bossing stages since both skill 1 and burst affect random enemies
• Building the usual DPS lines + crit damage means more rerolls and more rocks used. She can be pretty expensive to min-max in contrast to other damage dealers

No need to invest in her burst if you plan on using Ludmilla only as an offburst.

• Both Electro buffers are limited characters, making it hard for new players to get good teams on this element

Great electro buffer that doesn't require a lot of investment. Can also be used as DPS with higher investment. Limited unit.

• Skill 2 ATK based on her own ATK means you can almost ignore this skill since she’s a supporter, level 4 is more than enough
• Damage to shields its still an incognito when it comes to how usable it will be, we’ll see in the future
• If you’re using her as an offburst, you’re missing on 40% attack damage for everyone in the team which is huge

• For a 1% banner she feels weak. I personally think we will see more units like this (and more often). Shift Up regrets doing 2% units and it's going to get ugly from now on
• For a selfish DPS she gets no self buffs outside sustain damage on skill 2. You NEED ATK buffers in the team if you want her to catch up to meta DPS units
• She's weaker on bosses or enemies with debuff immunity since sustained damage counts as one

Sustained damage is weird. We can't see if she's properly applying chains on burst hence a lot of people will say she's bugged and better off used as an offburst character.

That's why for now burst recommendation will be 4 until Shift Up confirms or says anything regarding her kit. If you want to burst with her, level it up to 7.

Skills 1 and 2 get little return going above level 7 since the increase in % is too little.

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself
• Depending on your playstyle fishing for crits can be seen as a negative or a positive

• Skill 1 targeting is not really “closest to crosshair” because of how layering works in Unity3D
• Team compositions are limited since she depends on increased pellets or attack speed to fully make use of her kit

Amazing shotgun DPS. Pairs well with increased pellets and/or attack speed units. Needs high investment for full potential. Mostly finds a place as a staple unit on electric weak type raptures on raids.

• Since she buffs herself so much with ATK, Attack damage and distributed damage, she needs specific buffers to properly build a team around her
• Needs high investment in both skills and gear (she’s a needy girl and Shift Up doesn’t give us enough materials)

Strong water DPS for bosses and single taget damage. Needs high investment with hit rate and elemental lines plus skill investment in order to shine.

• Without units that duplicate stack count of buffs, she cannot sustain 30+ golden chips since she gets roughly one stack every 1.5s
• Outside elemental content and shotgun teams, she will see almost no usage unless she’s your waifu
• Shotgun teams perform better on bosses without cores, making it even harder to fully commit to investing in 5 niche units for a full SG composition

Good DPS for shotgun teams. Hard to justify bringing her outside that niche. Needs a unit to duplicate stack count of buffs to sustain damage. Extends Full Burst by 5 seconds, making compositions a little bit tricky.

• Forces you to play double burst 1
• Needs to be paired with Naga to be usable

• Both Phase 2 and 3 don't really change much for the price that it takes to max out
• Background fire looks like it was made by a 12 year old sharing his animated backgrounds in Wallpaper Engine

• Needs 3 rotations to fully take advantage of her buffs and CDR
• Self attack buff on skill 1 is terrible, not worth scaling with skill investment.

CDR unit. Critical buffs are still not amazing in NIKKE but recently Shift Up has started releasing units that can take advantage of them.

Best jiggle in the game.

• Healing output is decent but not enough to sustain units like A2 with Mode B. For units like Scarlet, it’s good enough
• As a support, she’s “tied” to Water type teams because of her skill 1, losing value if she’s not supporting those NIKKEs

Re-enters burst 1 making her a good healer without stealing buffs from your main burst 1. Can work anywhere but excels at buffing water type units.

• She can only be paired with Isabel at the time of her release, there are no other electro units reducing full burst time
• Instead of releasing treasures for bad units, Shift Up keeps releasing characters like this which is not a real solution to the core issue of underwhelming characters
• Outside of bosses, there's no real usage for her and Isabel. Build them only if you care about raids

Only skill 2 is worth taking higher for the cooldown reduction.

Her buffs are huge even at level 4 but you can take them to level 7 if you care about raids (which is the only reason to build her to be honest).

• Requires manual play to get her buffs going. Without manually applying either of them, she loses most of her kit
• The amount of characters she can really buff are pretty low at the time of her release since both distributed and sustain damage type DPS units are scarce
• Skill scaling it's one of the worsts in the game, with 1% increase on buffs most of the time per skill level

• Like all treasures, expensive to build

• Even with her absurd ATK buff percentage, her damage is underwhelming compared to the other water girls
• Without core, it takes around 40–45 seconds to fully stack her skill 2 and the current units that can duplicate stacks do not help
• Continuous damage is not sustained damage, Shift Up’s wording as usual is quite confusing and makes no sense

• Isabel, on her own, it's trash. She only works because they introduced a buffer specifically made for her (Arcana).
• Low damage multipliers for Marked Target and marking system are only beneficial over long fights
• Reducing Full Burst duration for a majority of units is a downside and lowers DPS (this does not apply if using units like Arcana)

Not worth taking skills any higher, since all her damage is coming from Arcana buffs rather than her own kit.

Also not worth building if you don't have Arcana.

• Stacks on skill 1 getting cleared every full burst while having 120 ammo smg by default it's an... interesting choice. Shift Up makes kits that contradict themselves to avoid making them meta, while in the proccess making characters that are limiting themselves
• If you are bursting too quick, she can't get stacks properly, making team compositions a little bit tricky and requiring manual play depending where you are using her

Only level up her burst if you plan on using her on a normal composition. If you are running her as an offburst character, you can leave it at 1.

I feel most people want to keep it at 7 so you have the option to switch as needed tho.

Skill 1 does not proc with 4 pellets landing a crit, but 4 hits landing a crit, doesn't matter if she's in SMG or shotgun form.

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself
• Can't cover during her burst, making her an easy target depending on the boss mechanics

• Increased number of pellets does not increase damage, which can lead to DPS loss depending on the stage
• Maximum effective range is useless in PVP and situational for PVE since shotguns compositions are only used on some bosses

Sadly, increased pellets doesn't increase damage, making shotgun compositions quite limited. Versatile buffer for crit teams and people lacking other burst 2 buffer / supporter units.

• At the time of her release, sustained damage still doesn’t have a proper team, making her burst lose some value over other DPS units
• Limits team compositions since you need to be careful who is getting the Charge Time buff on the team. In the case of SBS, there cannot be another rocket launcher / sniper rifle on the team

• Skill 2 has a hard requirement to trigger for a fairly mediocre buff

• Required to be used with Blanc or Rouge to maximize potential.
• Cannot use with “Trigger on last bullet” units due to max ammo increase
• Shy, give us more sassy girls 😭

Amazing support if paired with Blanc or Rouge. Doesn't require a lot of investment but it's recommended. Can be used on her own as support

• Situational character. She needs to be played manually and have a lot of adds in order to fully take advantage of her buffs

• Reduces magazine capacity is good but double edge sword depending on team composition
• Skill 2 doesn’t proc often since there are few units in the game that actually stun

• 60-second cooldown burst skill in the Burst 1 slot

• She has less voice lines than Makima which is pretty hard to achieve
• Damage to shields is a pretty niche mechanic right now that finds no real usage
• Her shield on burst is quite useless outside of helping Asuka proc her kit

• Loses value if not used with Wind Asuka since their kits were made to be used together
• Low base damage compared to other Assault Rifles
• Skill 2 is kinda useless

• At the time of her release, there are not enough sustained damage units for a full teamn
• Outside of her burst, her kit is too situational to be worth using. Damage to parts is not bad, but buffs focused on damage are better in most situations if not all
• Skill 1 ATK buff is based on her own attack as a supporter unit and the % itself is not enough to be worth investing
• Skill 2 extra damage is worthless in most situations since she is a supporter with low priority to OL

• Need to charge the 1000% for best damage, requires high charge speed to sync with buffs during burst for maximum damage
• Requires specific team around her to maximize damage, lower RNG and reduce the amount of fishing for crits

• No usage outside shotgun teams and some raid content
• Skill 1 is expensive since it requires level 9 for consistency

Sadly, increased pellets doesn't increase damage, making shotgun compositions quite limited. Versatile buffer for crit teams and people lacking other burst 2 buffer / supporter units.

• At the time of her release, only Scarlet can benefit from her buffs since they are oriented towards assault rifles
• Skill 2 is completely useless if you don't have invested electric assault rifles
• Wording on skill 2 might confuse some players. Buffs are applied to only one assault rifle in the team going left to right for the priority on who gets that buff
• Burst skill is wasted if your damage dealers don't deal AoE damage

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself
• Skill 2 has really low value considering how expensive it is. You can even leave that at level 1 if you want.

• Limited unit, if you are not playing during the collab it's joever
• Needs a healer to stay above 40% HP for Mode B

• Chihuahua

• You can’t choose a target for her debuff, bad for bosses with minions
• Shield is mostly RNG and will not always be up when you need it

• Her percentages are too low compared to how useful true damage is right now
• Support for non-existing characters. At the moment of her release, only Laplace and Frima have true damage with their treasures
• Half of her kit is locked behind full burst, so she can’t have 100% uptime on her buffs

40-second Burst 2 buffer for true damage. At the time of her release, there is only 1 character that can benefit from this, making her kinda useles.

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself
• Underwhelming kit even with a treasure considering the price to build them

• Targeting her burst can be a pain
• Buffs are fairly weak in the current state of the game

Can be used as DPS or support unit. Doesn't require a lot of investment.

• Requires investment and rerolling overload gear for good stats, mostly max ammo to take advantage of her skill 1
• Abnormal unit, when she’s gone you can’t get dupes

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself
• Underwhelming kit even with a treasure considering the price to build them

• Needs to be low HP in order to take advantage of her heals, easy to get killed
• Her skin sucks

• Liberation system sucks, takes really long without using gems to cap out points
• Getting copies is time gated behind Union raid token acquisition

Good DPS for wind type content. She needs to be paired with hyper carries, since she duplicates ATK from other units.

• Her damage output outside of her burst phase is lackluster, making her heavily reliant on burst rotations
• If the shield gets destroyed, her burst becomes ineffective, leaving her vulnerable and reducing her overall damage output
• While HP buffs significantly boost her burst damage, Kilo does not benefit from ATK buffs, limiting team composition options and requiring specific support strategies

• Base heals don’t scale up with buffs or OL gear
• Burst 2 is a really competitive spot to justify investing in her

Good sustain for the team + storage mechanic. Doesn't require a lot of investment. Best belly in the game.

• Unit tied to landing constant crits and being low HP
• Not really worth using outside of bosses

Good support for crit and Max HP teams on boss stages. Doesn't require a lot of investment.

• Dispel has no usage on the current game right now
• Max ammo buff means reduced team compositions
• Getting max stacks takes some time even with the duplication of stackable buffs

Budget burst 1 buffer. Provides max ammo and damage taken reduced for the team. Takes time to fully stack buffs. No real usage for dispel right now.

Used for one-shot teams usually revolving around Snow White. Not really worth investing unless you are going for her treasure.

• Manual play is required for I-framing if you are abusing her taunt
• Noise’s sustain only comes when she bursts
• No inherit damage reduction, if she taunts she can die fairly easily

• Maximum investment into Burst is mandatory, especially for competitive content
• Outside of her Burst, her actual buffs are non-existent or extremely weak overall
• Meant to be used on boss encounters to maximize damage in a single burst

Decent single target debuffer (Increased damage taken debuff). Fairly weak kit outside the debuff

• Reliant on low ammo count to maintain optimal healing
• Needs max stacks for best performance and healing is fairly low
• Manual play is required to maintain consistent healing

Decent healer that benefits from manual play. Avoid using with units that increase max ammo. By second anniversary standards, not a good option for sustain.

• Government lapdog

Strong shield but long cooldowns + 40-second burst. Doesn't need high investment.

Decent sustain for DPS units and herself. The % on her skills are small compared to similar units so only used when nothing else is available.

• Limited usage becuase defender focused kit. Until we get more defenders, she's useless
• Why give a rocket launcher to a blind girl 💀

• Confusing mechanic for new players and 99% of gacha players who don’t read how a character works to alternate between holding and full charge attacks
• Amazing design wasted with this kit, as it's usual with Shift Up shenanigans

• For your own sanity, don’t position her in the second slot of your team
• She will steal ATK buffs thanks to her skill 1, making team compositions tricky
• Can have problems to keep alive units that are not rocket launchers since she needs to burst to share lifesteal with everyone in the team

• She has yet to develop her big gun
• Welfare unit, needs silver mileage to get core ups

Decent damage output limited by long reload speed. Selfish DPS so only used for bosses where shotgun teams can shine.

• Distributed damage teams are a half cooked idea by Shift Up, and we don’t have enough units for it to work yet
• Outside of bosses, it’s really hard to justify using her since she loses a big chunk of her damage coming from the brand
• She requires high investment on her burst to start doing decent damage

• “Target appears” trigger is too niche as the buff duration is too short to make any real impact
• “Vamp” buff is too difficult to make use of as you are unable to choose a NIKKE to target with it
• Self hit rate buff is small, not meaningful enough to outweigh shotgun range falloff
• Burst 2 positions for pure DPS units is too niche and too competitive

Good unit to fill teams for elemental content. Vamp mechanic has no usage in the current meta. Burst 2 supporter with low utility for the team outside skill 1.

• Critical rate is kinda useless unless you are going for the one-shot team or Soline (kinda copium this last one)
• Burst 1 unit without CDR makes her almost instantly useless in most case scenarios, since that spot is just too competitive

Cover HP recovery is welcome, but the rest of her kit is too niche. Outside one-shot teams, there is no usage for her right now.

• No real usage for immunity / cleanse on most content right now
• 420 bullets per immunity proc is way too much for an assault rifle

• Her buff % numbers are just too low for a 40-second burst 2 making it super hard to justify bringing her on any team
• Damage share finds zero usage on PVE, making Bay another PVP only focused unit that is not meta even there
• Her damage taken decreased buff for allies is only 9% every other rotation
• Her cover repair (max cover HP increased) is not even good enough since it’s also only can be used every 40 seconds

• Outside PvP she finds almost no usage considering she's still 40 seconds and basically no offensive buffs provided
• Damage share finds zero usage on PVE, making Bay another PVP only focused unit that is not meta even there

Awful scaling as selfish Defender. No damage output. She deserves a memory wipe. Even with all that, would still smash to be honest.

• Another overly specific niche character meant for specific encounters

Niche usage for Wind elemental content, destroying parts and fast bursting. Provides immunity to stuns. Doesn't require a lot of investment.

• Instant burst can only be activated once per battle, making her kit lose a lot of value for long battles

• Low damage on boss stages due to heavy requirement to self scale damage by killing multiple enemies continuously.

Good for basic campaign stages with a lot of spawning enemies (Base defense, Zone defense) but useless anywhere else. Even there, hard to stack up her buffs.

• At the time of her release, there’s barely any true damage DPS units that can take advantage of her buffs. In fact, most of those units also require a treasure, making her almost useless
• Her heals can’t keep up unless fully invested (gear and skill levels) which is not worth it unless you are a whale or she’s your waifu
• Overshadowed by most burst 2 units since she is 40 seconds cooldown

Taunt without heals means she dies most of the team if not paired with a decent healer.

Taunt without heals. Good unit for levels with a lot of enemies, but she can be killed really fast because of her taunt.

Indomitability allows you to cheese some boss mechanics. Doesn't require a lot of investment.

40-second burst 1 healer.

Can't keep up on most content because her cooldowns are too long.

• Another welfare character Shift Up doesn't really put any effort into making usable
• Her shield is nice but under heavy combat power deficit she gets killed easily since she has no proper heals
• Sustained damage buffs are still useless. 10% is nothing and barely any DPS units can take advantage of that

• No ability to sustain through the damage without some form of damage reduction or massive defense buff
• Burst position is highly contested by units with overall better buffs (Burst CDR, Increased damage taken debuff etc)
• Ruru

Defensive unit with Taunt and increase HP potency but difficult to use due to lack of self recovery

• Takes minimum 90 days to unlock her completely free to play and without gem resets
• Getting dupes is locked behind Union raid, so getting copies is time locked to 1 copy every 2 months (assuming your union is clearing fast)
• For a Pilgrim unit, her damage is noticeably lower than some non Pilgrim Burst 2 units

Welfare unit from anniversary. Decent taunt with her decoy, but only works once per battle.

• A character released almost 2 years after release that it’s, by far, the WORST unit made by Shift Up up to this point
• Skill 2 will not proc if you are full charging shots for skill 1 to proc
• You cannot maintain skill 1 if you are full charging to proc damage to parts in skill 2
• Gym girl with noddle arms

Selfish burst 2. Damage dealer unit that does nothing for the team since her skill % numbers are low.

Potentially can have one of the highest damage in the game, but the conditions are just too tedious. Constantly 100% HP and full investment on a situational unit.

• A character kit that feels like it was released in 2022 with those skills rather than 2025
• Her skill values are pretty bad, going anything above 4/4/4 it's a waste of resources
• Only heal available on burst and she's a 40-second unit. Compared to other healers that can constantly heal (last bullet, full charge, etc.) she's really weak

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself
• Underwhelming kit even with a treasure considering the price to build them
• Burst cooldown reduction so bad you are better off using Sakura