Anime Origins tier list

Where the three lists disagree most

9 units are ranked at least two tiers apart across the three sites. If you are deciding what to invest resources in, these are the ones where a single list will mislead you.

Placement type decides more than tier does

This is a tower defense game, so every unit occupies a specific kind of slot. Only one of the three tier lists records that, and the other two omit the column entirely — which makes their rankings hard to build a team from, because the constraint is slots, not stars.

1 unit in the table has no placement type listed by any of the three sites, so we have left that cell blank rather than guessing from the character it is based on.

How to use three lists that contradict each other

Showing you the disagreement is only useful if it helps you decide. Four rules that come out of the comparison itself:

1. 1Where all three agree, treat it as settled

   The three Secret units top every list. That is the one part of the ranking with genuine consensus, and it also happens to be the part you have least control over — two of the three are not obtainable from the banner at all.

2. 2Where they disagree, look at what each site is measuring

   Bluma is the clearest case: ranked S, A, and filed outside the tiers entirely. It is a Farm unit, so a list ranking raw damage will rate it low and a list ranking contribution will rate it high. The disagreement is not error — the lists are answering different questions.

3. 3Prefer the slot you cannot fill over the letter you can

   Only three units in the whole documented roster take Hill slots, and exactly one farms. If you have none of those, the highest-rated Ground unit does not fix it.

4. 4Discount everything by the age of the game

   These lists were written within days of launch, before anyone had cleared the late content. The one site that says so on its own page is the one the others quote without repeating the caveat.

The three units every list puts on top, and how you actually get them

A tier list tells you what is strong. It does not tell you what is reachable, and for the top of this one those are very different questions — only one of the three comes from the summoning banner, and it is the one with the published rate of 0.01%.

The practical reading: Madaro drops from Legend Stages, which you unlock by clearing the regular story — it is the Secret unit most accounts will actually own, and it costs time rather than luck. Cursed Lover comes from Rifts, which appear on their own schedule, so it costs patience. Valcrad costs roughly ten thousand pulls at the published rate, which for most players means it is not a plan. Building around Madaro is the route the tier lists imply but never state, because ranking strength and ranking obtainability are not the same exercise.

Every unit the three lists cover

26 units, grouped by rarity, with each site's ranking and the placement type — which matters more for building a team than the tier letter does, and which two of the three lists leave out.

This is not the full roster. Pro Game Guides states it covers only Secret, Mythic and Limited units and deliberately skips Legendary and Epic, so the game has more units than 26 — the lower rarities are undocumented by anyone we could find.

Three units are spelled differently depending on where you look

Useful if a search turns up nothing: you may be searching the other site's spelling. We have not verified any of these against the in-game unit index, so we are not declaring a correct one — though Pro Game Guides is the only site that also names the source character, which at least gives its spellings a reason.