DragonSword Tier List: Two Rankings, One Honest Comparison

Game version checked: 1.0.10 (19 August 2026 patch). DragonSword patches frequently — if a newer version is live, cross-check tuning-sensitive numbers in-game.

Before you read any DragonSword: Awakening tier list — including the two on this page — know this: the two most-cited English rankings disagree with each other, badly. One site puts Reina in B tier; the other puts her in S. There is no in-game compatibility chart, no official ranking, and the game has been out since 22 July, which is not long enough for a settled meta.

So instead of publishing a third confident ranking, this page puts the two existing ones side by side and tells you where they agree — because the agreements are the only part you should treat as reliable.

The two rankings, side by side

One housekeeping note that trips up every reader comparing sources: English media cannot agree on spellings. Kalsion/Calcion, Cerese/Seris and Sion/Zion are the same three heroes — GameRant and games.gg use the first spelling of each pair, Pro Game Guides uses the second. Any tier list that appears to rank "both" is ranking one hero twice.

Where they actually agree

Only a few placements survive both lists, and those are the ones worth building around:

Kalsion is S on both. The reasoning converges too: a melee fire hero whose burn-plus-launch chains do sustained combo damage with real area control. If you want one aggressive pick that no source disputes, this is it.

Ornette is S on both. Shock application plus the Holy Circle critical-damage buff makes her the roster's clearest "makes everyone else better" pick — a support whose value does not depend on which damage dealer you run.

Alex grades B or lower on both. Both lists read him as a defensive kit the game does not currently reward — general utility is low, and nothing in the ailment economy needs what he provides.

Eileen is bottom of the one list that rates her and unrated on the other. Between that and her Airborne overlap with Astria and Reina, there is no argument for prioritising her with your early tickets.

Why the disagreements happen

The Reina gap (B versus S) is the informative one. Pro Game Guides grades her as a narrow airborne specialist; games.gg grades the airborne loop itself as one of the strongest patterns in the game and her as its best operator. Both descriptions of her kit are the same — the disagreement is about how much the aerial playstyle is worth, which depends on how you like to fight.

Theresia splits the same way: highest damage ceiling in the game on one list, A-tier on the other because that ceiling sits behind the hardest execution in the roster. If you will not practise her, her S placement is not for you.

The honest conclusion: past the four consensus calls above, tier placement is measuring the reviewer's playstyle as much as the hero.

Building a team instead of collecting S ranks

Both sources and the Steam community converge on the same construction rule, which matters more than any individual grade: one hero who applies an ailment, one who cashes it in, one who holds the team up. Players in the Steam discussion thread describe it exactly that way — pair the applier with the payoff, never three appliers of things nobody answers.

Worked examples from games.gg: Theresia or Lute as the main damage pick, Castella for knockdown control, Dana or Roxy in the third slot. Their aggressive alternative stacks damage-over-time: Kalsion, Ornette and Charlotte layering burn, shock and poison. Pro Game Guides' beginner advice is simpler — take Kalsion or Cerese first for damage with built-in control, or Sion/Dana if you would rather play the balanced-support route.

One roster fact shapes all of this: Lute is the only hero with an on-demand heal, and this game has no natural HP regeneration. A tier list can afford to put him mid-table; your actual party mostly cannot.

Spending Fate's Invitations against this table

Eleven heroes are ticket purchases — you pick them directly in the Exchange, no randomness. Story chapters and Hero Quests keep supplying tickets, so nothing is permanently missable; the only cost of a "wrong" pick is time. Against the table above, the low-regret early buys are the two consensus S picks (Kalsion arrives via story, so in practice: Ornette if you need support, Dana or Charlotte if you need damage flexibility). Full unlock mechanics are on the all heroes page.

What this page refuses to rank

Sion, Astria, Eileen and Othello carry a "not rated" from games.gg because that site marked their evaluations incomplete, and we are not going to fill the gap with our own guesses. Four more heroes — Ryza, Jerome, Veronica and Logan — are confirmed free roadmap additions for later in 2026 and cannot be ranked before they exist. When either changes, the table changes; the date at the top tells you when we last checked.