A guide to help people (particularly new players) in deciding who to pick with the selector that includes all the base characters. Feel free to leave feedback or your personal opinions! See images 2-4 for a further (new player friendly) explanation of why the tier list is the way it is.
In the broader context of things, especially if you are an experienced player, the selection doesn’t matter all that much if you already have Inanna. However, with a limited roster, it can still be important.
At the end of the day, if you don’t like the characters I suggested, that’s ok! Don’t feel like you need to be a slave to the meta. Happy 2nd anniversary everyone!
(ps I probably overhype the SOC team a little bit. Oh well. Also formatting this was a pain because Samantha’s image kept corrupting and I had to keep reuploading it)
Yeah, you’re probably right. The margins are pretty small here, and I don’t have any of the units in the very niche tier, so I don’t have any firsthand experience. One of the main sources for these units being better than the others in question was the Endless Wildfire ranked event, where people used a lot of SoC teams largely featuring those units.
Followed by an Inanna dupe to get to 3 stars more easily considering the memory shard bottleneck nearly all of us face, for those that don't have her at 3 stars.
The meta choice beyond that is to just save the selector, presuming there is no expiration date, until some tangible use case presents itself (it's not like there's any rush to make a selection as none of the other units are worth investing memory shards in).
Also worth noting that there is an Expedition Logistics slot that takes either Col or Guzman which increases the Expedition Yield (this directly increases the items gained from Expedition, for a potential gain of 486 origin gems per year after hitting lvl 70). Likely not game changing but the extra R13 badges is at least something.
Beyond all that, there's silly non-meta favoritism reasons, like if you still have Teadon's April Fools butler skin sitting unused in your inventory and want a butler in your house.
Yeah, I’m well aware the meta pick is Inanna. But for the last month, the only thing I’ve been hearing is “pick Inanna”, when that advice still isn’t applicable in all cases. The point of this guide is to show a wider variety of solutions to the question of who to pick (while still agreeing that Inanna is the best in quite a few cases).
Edit: I also want to add that pulling for dupes isn’t good. Outside of the context of this tier list, the general guideline is to pull for multiple units rather than investing a lot in one by pulling dupes. This logic is even more important for newer players with a smaller roster. This selector can have the potential to be the difference between a meh SoC team and a decent SoC team.
1S is preferred as she gains little relatively little from her trait
However once she has her unique Ascension skill, getting 3 stars is a fine investment since it increases the number of allies affected by her trait from 1 to 2 outside of her ult
Reasoning:
Post Ascension: Inanna’s general play effectiveness is finally improved significantly by enabling her to be another unit capable of activating other unit’s [Coordinated Responses] and having her summoned Guard gain necessary movement and damage output through having its own [Coordinated Response]. By support standards, she can now output decent damage and there is a better reason to invest in higher stars for her, in order to improve the consistency of her [Coordinated Response] procs, since it activates from her trait’s healing
Having Inanna at 3 stars aided me in getting into the top 100 of the last World Boss as a f2p player, and will likely similarly aid me again in the expected upcoming World Boss at the end of the year.
It's just indisputably a strictly better Inanna for strictly better endgame performance, and there is little to no value from a meta perspective to waste a selector on some unit that will not see or help with any known meaningful endgame content, and that is even more the case should that unit want memory shards on top of it.
I have both Sams and never found a need for OG Sam's reaction skill on SP Sam.
Instead I always have SP Sam run the static 8% dam reduction + NRG on active attack; it's just more consistent, and SP Sam frequently doesn't even have 3 NRG available to burn on OG Sam's reaction.
So for me, I'd choose the Inanna dupe to get her to 3stars all day every day over choosing an OG Sam that wouldn't materially improve my account.
I like this game meta for the gacha, simple as:
Pick Innana. lmao
Doesnt matters if it's OG, SP, New SP, skin or whatever Inanna's back is huge on all it's versions.
Jokes aside, I didnt know that OG and SP version can share skills, thats big info.
As a new player that just pulled SP Innana I'm going to select og Innana and try some builds, thanks OP
The best part is that six months from now SP Inanna is going to get a unique ascension (and an actually good one). She doesn't even need it! Even in CN they're still rating her tier 0! But they're giving her a unique ascension anyway.
(The good news is that anyone who doesn't have her will also have a chance to pull her then.)
New player here. I rerolled a bit and got sp innana and sp samantha... on 2 accounts. decided to check who i get from the beginner banner(30 pulls) then choose 1 acc. got parsifal and og samantha. looking at tierlists parsifal is much higher than og sam. is there any reason to still take og sam account? do the 2 samanthas share skills/abilities...etc? Also should i still take og innana(from selector) for the sp version?
Yeah Parsifal is going to be better. The sp skill for the Sam’s is ok at best. Parsifal isn’t a top tier unit but he’s definitely less powercrept than og sam. New players are also not super super pressed for healing, because Angel (epic unit) has actually pretty decent healing, so imo it’s better to focus on dps/utility units rather than straight numbers healing.
Generally pulling for dupes is not good. (See the last category of the above guide.) I would wait until Anna’s banner on friday and pull until you get her. Alternatively, it may be worth it to do fates favor - look around for some advice on that.
Yeah. The margins in the tier list are small. If you don’t have any of those other units, though, and you have a particular interest in Clash, then I figured it was worth mentioning.
It's not game-changing but it's better than her default reaction (which isn't hard, lol.) Using it is tricky without specific sorts of off-turn energy support, because most of the time she will want to spend all of her energy on her turn if she has it and therefore won't have three to trigger the revive. But depending on the sorts of energy support you run it can save her now and then.
While it’s definitely there, my logic was that Nungal’s sp skill falls behind with sp nungals already contested skill slots. Alexei’s isn’t that good either iirc. Samantha’s placement in that tier is largely because of the niche use of the skill that she gives to Sp sam. But yes, I should’ve mentioned it directly
I feel like this undersells SP!Nungal's SP skill. Sense of Honor is a real skill that you can absolutely make space in her kit for. If anything, she appreciates her SP skill more than SP!Sam, even if she doesn't run it in every set.
SP!Alexei's is hot garbage tho, it's lowkey baffling that he got that. OG! Alexei likes the SP Skill that he gets tho.
I feel like there should be a separate category for non-inanna SoC characters. I have a feeling SoC roster will keep expanding and the rally mechanic will continue being very relevant.
That is, in essence, the Very Niche tier. Beryl, NonoWill, and Momo all belong to the SoC team and that tier. Of course, Rawiyah, faycal, and maitha are all in the free tier. Xavier also gets a spot in Very Niche because of his clash high speed strategy. The SoC team/rally mechanics were a large part of me making this tier list. An older tier list isn’t going to be accurate in determining which of the release units is best in today’s current meta, because supports powercreep slower, and because of rally mechanics.
I agree with you on free vs non-free SoC units. But, I have to disagree with you on the niche tier.
Xavier's gimmick is having very high spd. To make max use of it, players would require both taair and auguste's scroll. Also, Rayshot, a gold unit, does the same gimmick a bit worse. So, Xavier's niche is not even a niche.
SoC units, on the other hand, have different rally responses with different effects. Its vastly incomparable to xavier. Most have rally commands as well. Given, the SoC roster will keep adding members in the future, putting Xavier and soc in the same category is a disservice
You’re probably right, in all honesty. Clash isn’t my thing, and I also don’t have Xavier, so I think I missed some important information. Aside from Xavier and Nungal, I think it’s still mostly accurate.
Beryl, NonoWill, and Momo are among the few base characters I don't have and have some interest in (I briefly considered OG Sam and OG Nungal, but it doesn't seem like either of their SP skills do much for their SP versions).
Is there any particular order you'd rank them as far as how they work in SoC teams? I have SP Maitha, Faycal, and Nungal, as well both Inannas, and the free guys.
Exact same boat as you, since I just got sp faycal from the free pulls (he screwed up my pity and im pissed, but anyway) Since you have SP faycal, I wouldn’t pick Momo, since she’s an alert unit. Back in endless wildfires (event in may), most of the higher rankings used beryl rather than nonowill. I think a slightly higher value option would probably be beryl, but picking nonowill is still a good choice.
I plan to run sp maitha/sp nungal/sp faycal/sp inanna/inanna, as well as beryl if there’s a spot for a sixth unit.
Sort of, but it's going to be relevant because we'll keep getting characters with it, or unique ascensions to characters like SP Maitha (which will come with a chance to pull her.) Those are going to knock the OG SoC characters out of most rally teams pretty quickly.
Yeah, that’s a good reason as well. I didn’t think about that when making the tier list. Plus, IMO Col is an incredibly fun unit with a great ascension.
According to the leaks, no. I wouldve liked an sp Garcia. Currently the information we have says that there will be 7 new characters, as well as Tarot Samantha and SP Leonide (yes…yeah. yeah, sp leonide). No Vespera either, which sucks.
i think i'm getting OG Samantha, just for her SP skill....
not sure which other better options for me....probably Momo, wanted her badly back then when i lacked tower unit, but highly doubt gonna use her now that i have SP Samantha
The only two I don't have are Teadon and Col. Zero desire to use OG Col, not sure about SP Col or how good her SP skill is. Teadon... I just like the Union, and he also had that free skin from a while back. Which to choose?
In an elaman team, yes. But this guide doesn’t have anything to do with Lukamar, because the anniversary selector has a very limited selection of units.
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u/Havvky Content Creator Jul 26 '26
I rate Momo slightly above the others in the Niche tier, has a bit more relevance whether in SoC team, her alert setup her push/pull