Gold Units
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Rino (This cute, dorky schoolgirl with a bunch of meme fanart is the most generically useful gold unit. Though she has a long startup time, she is cheap, easy to level and provides massive coverage and solid magic damage. Used in subjugations and AFK strategies, as well as general map clears) GRADE: SS
Margaret (Does the most DPS of any gold unit. And the most DPS of any plat unit. Pretty close to the top when compared to black units too. One of the most useful golds with her one-time use Rion-wannnabe skill. Frequently present in Majin. She's also pretty) GRADEL SS
Aria (If any soldier will do, Aria is the best choice, as she provides a few levels worth of attack to all units with her passive. Get her and mincost her if at all possible during Anya's event) GRADE: S
Bernice (Quintessential F2P tank, often obtained from a Gold Rush. Offers everything you'd want from such a unit - well, except DPS) GRADE: S
Santa Alyssa (Sexy Christmas themed version of silver healer, available for limited durations from Gacha. Though not a Feng Shui, she is something of a pseudo-Rinne with the way she provides sudden global heals. Combined with a rearguard for better effect) GRADE: S
Katie (Everyone gets her, and is the most popular first AW of all players. Vital for early F2P) GRADE: A
Cuterie (Cuterie has the important affection item drop rate boost and is a competent fighting unit with a ranged SAW. Her DPS is pretty massive during skill, especially for a gold unit) GRADE: A
Iris (Decent healer obtained for free, with an attack boost. Early AW of her or Sedis is vital for F2P) GRADE: A
Eln (Healing angel. Has high stats for cost. Most people will prefer Chloe or Miruno, however) GRADE: A
Claire (Not the shining star she used to be now that everyone gets a free Bashira, but still useful and easy to level) GRADE: A
Marie (Deals considerable DPS during SAW, with a good uptime. Be wary of the lessened range) GRADE: A
New Years Soma (Permaskill gives her a lot of field presence, and she deals bonus damage to various dangerous and common enemy types. Worth getting whenever she shows up for Rainbow Crystals) GRADE: A
Mehlis (Solid uptime, range and DPS at the cost of some splash size. Generally worth it) GRADE: A
Zola (Cost effective splash damage. Has a magic conversion skill that provides a large AoE and a small damage boost) GRADE: A
Leda (Item drop increase in exchange for a difficulty spike. Better than Anita due to being cheaper to level) GRADE: A
Noel (Her performance is passable for a bishop, but it's really the Gold % gained passive you want her for. Now level her to AW80 and yolo roll Mia right afterwards) GRADE: A
Kojourou (This guy is way less appealing since Hibari came out, but he's a good tank if you happen to not have her, are running gold and below strats or are desperate to prove the power of MEN) GRADEL B
Erett (Heals in a melee spot. Has really long range with skill. Unlike some higher rarity war priests, she has a really hard time in melee, so be wary of blocking with her)
Kaname (Notable for range/attack + combination. Her SAW has great uptime) GRADE: B
Maurette (One of the better gold get units, with a splashy SAW. Poor uptime though) GRADE: B
Rilke (Golems can be useful, as can her damage conversion, but both are stage-dependant) GRADE: B
Georg (His one-time use SAW with a good initial, combined with the long-range attack, make him fairly viable as a stopgap unit) GRADE: B
Frey (Loses out when compared to Marie due to lower attack making it much harder to penetrate defense. Normal range, though) GRADE: B
Fedora (Another pseudo-Rinne for when you don't want your healer anywhere near the frontline) GRADE: B
Garrett (Better than you probably think he is, with an alarmingly high DPS on a heavy armor during SAW) GRADE: B
Raichi (F2P mage armor. Lost a lot of luster after units like Hibari were released, but still okay) GRADE: B
Fuuka (Cute range, with all the useful gimmicks it provides. Her SAW is okay too) GRADE: B
Kerry (Everyone's favorite traitor boasts high stats during SAW when timed properly. Beware her slowed ASPD) GRADE: B
Krile (If you need a Feng Shui and don't have one of the plat ones, she's pretty cute and does the job) GRADE: B
Betty (Has Gold Get and a reasonably powerful SAW. Hard to recommend using over Cypria for general F2P purposes, however) GRADE: B
Yuyu (Becomes a mage with high range and decent DPS during SAW, but loses her slow. Okay uptime. Pretty good) GRADE: B
Bella (Has range boosters. She's never been as favored as Claire and time really hasn't changed that) GRADE: B
Peach (Her miniscule downtimes means she is provided lots of value statwise with her auto-swapping SAW, whether offensive or defensive, but it may also may make her difficult to use in some scenarios) GRADE: B
Matilda (Awful uptimes make it hard to recommend her, to be honest, but she does have paralysis if you need it) GRADE: C
Laurier (Used for her tokens. She can also buff her tokens) GRADE: C
Julian (A signicantly less cool - and less useful - Jerome. He's okay but there's no reason to use him over the F2P options) GRADE: C
Mistel (Offers marginally decent magic DPS and a strong slow, but you'll still be primarly using her for hertokens) GRADE: C
Boris (Features a longer duration than other puppeteers and a double hit, but Rikka is usually going to be a better investment) GRADE: C
Mel (Gains massive range during SAW, and regains her lost ASPD and then some, but since her skill is AoE and not multi-target, and her DPS is not good, she will frequently just hit whatever she feels like continously, and not priority targets) GRADE: C
Ryuryu (Loses range that she gains while using her SAW. Deals fairly high magic damage during her SAW. The uptime is not great, though, so be wary) GRADE: C
Hien (Sort of does the Nagi thing where he gains a block and gets really tanky for the duration. Also revives when he dies during skill. It's alright) GRADE: C
Themis (She does solid magic damage during SAW, but she trades all of her defensive ability for it, so beware. I don't really recommend her)
Cloris (Not terrible, but there's a number of F2P witches that are better) GRADE: C
Vincent (The real reason Vincent tries to commit seppuku is 'cause he found out you boned his loli vampire daughter) GRADE: C
Leaf (High ehp during skills allows her to tank high-damage but slow-hitting enemies very easily) GRADE: C
Conrad (Both a source of awful memes and mediocre unit performance! He's actually not that bad, and can deal large bursts of damage over short durations, with a paralysis effect that lets you filter enemies through you don't want him to block) GRADE: C
Gina (SAW has a bad initial timer but provides a ridiculous amount of HP for the duration. Useful for tanking high damage but slow enemeies) GRADE: C
Stella (Provides ample DPS and clear potential for short bursts against low Defense enemies. Her short duration can prove problematic, howeve, placing her in compromising positions or leaving her job half-done in longer waves) GRADE: C
Cyrus (His SAW is pretty strong, no doubt, but you're likely gonna only pull it off once, so time it well) GRADE: C
Balbastroff (Like Cyrus, he features a strong SAW, but he trades ASPD for range as a passie so he gets less hits in range, but is more likely to get shots off) GRADE: C
Roberto (He's as cheap as a silver healer, and heals about as strongly as one, too. Roberto also likes punching things and long walks on man beach with his booze collecting passive) GRADE: C
Abel (Only for those most devoted to the way of MEN) GRADE: F
Sabein (Though that Call Reinforcements IV looks juicy, in the immortal words of a certain fish-faced admiral who was terrible at his job, "It's a trap!") GRADE: F
Goliah (Kind of beefy base stats and has a splashy SAW. Horrible uptimes and general lack of reason to use him over many other options ruin him) GRADE: F
New Years Leanne (Has Gold Get. It even features a higher chance of getting gold than usual! Annnnnd that's about it) GRADE: F
Anemone (Inexplicably awful uptimes on inexplicably boring skills result in an inexplicably mediocre unit. Just use one of the event fencers instead) GRADE: F
Chizuru (Has lots of gimmicks, all of them terrible) GRADE: F
Mitra (Fetish fodder unit for those with particular tastes. Completely unremarkable otherwise) GRADE: F
Stray (He is a really bad version of Katina. Let that sink in for awhile) GRADE: F
Xiao (Cute. Terrible, but cute) GRADE: F
Dorothy (Useless dwarf loli revives after death, sort of like how she never stops showing up in the gacha) GRADE: F
Zaram (Maybe the stars will align and you'll time his skill at just the right time, allowing him to do some heavy damage and make up for the magic crystals you spent to buy him. One can dream) GRADE: F