Neverness to Everness Tier List and Best Character Rankings

Welcome to our comprehensive Neverness to Everness Tier List, where we break down the best characters to help you break down the meta. Our Tier List will rank each character based on their performance in various roles, now that the game has officially launched globally.

Last updated on Jun 03, 2026 at 16:33 by ChAkira

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Neverness to Everness Tier List

When looking at Character Tier Lists, we always recommend to keep certain key considerations in mind, such as:

Fun and Gameplay Feel: Would you rather have fun playing an A-Rank character, or dislike playing an S-Rank character? Many characters have very different playstyles, and some might just not be enjoyable to you, even if they're high-performing.
Style: You're likely going to end up having more fun playing characters whose design you appreciate and enjoy. A player who enjoys a certain character will typically end up performing better on it as well.
Strength: Naturally, under ideal conditions, some characters end up dishing out higher numbers than others. If you can make full use of a character like that, they will end up carrying you through parts of the game.
Synergies: There are many synergies in the game, like Esper Cycles. Many characters only unlock their full potential by being paired with other characters.
High vs Low Spender: Some characters perform well on a budget, while others might outperform them, but only at much higher investment. If you plan to stay mostly F2P, some of the characters that require their signature Arc weapon may not be the best choice for you.

	Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
S	ChizA0 NanallyA0 LacrimosaA0	ZeroA0 HotoriA0	SakiriA0
A	AureliaA6 BaicangA0 HathorA0 JiuyuanA0	DaffodillA0	HanielA6
B		FadiaA0	AdlerA6
C	MintA6 SkiaA6
D			EdgarA6

Recent Tier List Changes

Lacrimosa is here! She is a member of the Bureau of Anomaly Control, ETD-4 alongside Baicang and Skia. Lacrimosa functions largely as a main dps, though with good on-field and off-field presence, she can also function as a sub-DPS. She is our second Chaos esper alongside Daffodill giving us another way to access the Nova, Scorch, and Discord reactions.

Lacrimosa is focused on dealing damage over time with her Nightmare stacks when she hits enemies with her attacks. In addition, she can record enemy attacks and replace her Redirect skill with a copy of an enemy's attack, allowing her a lot of flexibility as you can plan out what her redirect skill does depending on your needs. For example, you can set her up with a strong single target hit for bosses or a large AOE attack for dealing with smaller enemies. When on a team with Hotori, Hotori is able to record the enemy attack Lacrimosa uses like she does any other skill and replays that attack during her ultimate. Her unique Discord ( Chaos + Incantation + Psyche) reaction Enhancement allows her to deal a large amount of damage based on her Attack when discord is applied to a broken enemy. This enhancement works particularly well when she is in a team with Daffodill as Daffodill is a character focused on breaking enemies, allowing their team to take advantage of that effect more often.

Previous Tier List Changes

Hotori Release

Hotori has arrived, giving us the leader of the Eibon Antique Shop. She is a a Sub DPS Cosmos character similar to Zero. However, they function very differently. Hotori is able to record the damage her teammates do with their support or redirect skills within a specific time period by using her own redirect skill. She's then able to do a burst of damage with her Ultimate that also replays the recorded attacks before putting her in a time stopped state, letting her do up to 10 hits for even more damage.

Hotori is able to fill the Sub DPS role on many teams, especially if they are able to use their support and redirect skills often for her to record. Though like other Cosmos characters, she works particularly well with Anima and Lakshana characters to to trigger the three different Esper Cycle reactions associated with those attributes. She personally has a Blossom ( Cosmos + Anima) Enhancement, allowing the blossoms to function even when she has frozen time. This also makes her our first Cosmos character to not have an enhancement to the Charge reaction. This would normally require the team to have both Anima and Lakshana characters.

Rankings Explained

As with all tier lists take the rankings with a grain of salt. All S rank characters are Assumed to be at Awakening level 0, while all A ranks are assumed to be at A6.

Main DPS: This sections holds all characters designed around mainly being on field to do the majority of their damage.
Sub DPS: This section holds characters that spend the majority of their playtime off field using skills or Ultimate bursts for the majority of their damage on the team as well as often having some support options built into their kits.
Support: The Espers in this section are ones who are primarily designed to support the team. Support could be in the form of sustain, such as healing or shields, or buffing the team's damage.

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This guide is written by Written by ChAkira, an avid gamer having spent countless hours playing colony and factory simulator games, as well as having a love for gacha games. He particularly enjoys team building and clearing endgame content.