Anime Overload Tier List – Best Units & Traits [RELEASE]

Updated on March 30, 2026: Added elemental icons, FAQ, farming guide and reranked the units after nerfs.

Anime Overload has a great spread of various unit types like pure DPS, supporting/debuff DPS units, cleanse units and farm units. Finding the right balance and team setup is key for late-game modes and challenges. Here’s my Anime Overload tier list for the best units and traits.

Anime Overload Best Units & Traits

The best units in Anime Overload are split across two categories with the pure DPS units with the best damage and the supporting units with debuffs/CC. That’s why I’ll split each tier into these two categories. Note that some support/debuff units also have high DPS like Red Hair. Make sure to bring at least one or two Debuff DPS units since they deal great damage while providing various supporting effects. Let’s dive into each unit below and talk about what they’re good at and the best traits for them.

EVO: I’m ranking the Evolved versions of all units at their peak and you can consider their unevolved versions as one or two tiers lower (For example, if BH SS is S then BH Serious is A and base BH is B).

Best Mythics To Focus On: Sukuna and Bald Hero for Hybrid DPS.

Best Beginner Units: Inoomaki for a great beginner support, Yono for early Air, Buls/Sunji for great early burn DPS and Jaken Hunter (Kid)/Ener for easy Legendaries that evolve into high-tier late-game units.

Cleanse: These are easy-to-get units that cleanse status effects (Great supports for harder stages).

S-Tier DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Bald Hero (Super Serious) Mythic 100% Shopping Coupon – Act 2 Namek	• Amazing beginner unit for a quick Hybrid DPS • But also scales into the late-game with its two EVOs • You want him at the front for constant attacks to proc his crit buffs • The ultimate destroys shields and stuns which is amazing utility Best Trait: Overloaded
Crimson Queen (Dominant) Event Secret EVO Chains – Event Shop Makima NPC outside of Summon	• Late-game Meta DPS unit • Stacks damage buffs and gains massive crit when CCed • Also deals heavy bleed damage with both her abilities and her ultimate • The ultimate shreds bosses Best Trait: Overloaded
Strongest Alien (Burst) Banner Secret	• Harder to get than Mythics but deals a ton of damage with a nuke active • Situationally, he’s better than Crimson Queen due to the Hybrid attacks • That said they fill the same secondary role of Nuke/Boss Killer Best Trait: Overloaded
Sokona (Domain) Mythic Cursed Finger – JJK Legend Stage/Cursed Arena Act 2	• A Meta Hybrid unit that competes with Secrets post nerfs • Sokona deals a ton of AOE burst damage both with base abilities and ult • A great Hybrid option to get ASAP Best Trait: Nullshot

S-Tier Support/Debuff DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Red Hair (Conqueror) Banner Secret Gryphon – Marine Fortress Act 3 + Sky Island Act 3	• Tons of damage and tons of stuns • Has auto-crits and overall is a Meta unit Best Trait: Overloaded
Goju (Unlimited) Mythic Azure Eyes – Act 3 Cursed Arena	• Tons of utility with enemy slows and reducing their buffs • Pierces shields • The ultimate is a massive AOE stun which is a great supporting ability • Plus, he has great AOE damage for clearing crowds Best Trait: Voidborn
Ener (Lightning) Mythic Legend Stage Sky Act 3 Unit Lightning Drums – Act 2 Sky Island	• Has a ton of AOE damage and stuns to stall enemies • Also has great self buffs as he progresses his Vari Bar • At max bar you can do an AOE stun similar to Goju so Ener is a great support to bring Best Trait: Overloaded
Greye (Frost) Mythic	• One of the better Ground DPS units with Meta Support status effects • You want Voidborn, not Overloaded because the more copies you have the more you can spread out the status effect Best Trait: Voidborn

A-Tier DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Kaitou (Scythe) Guild Shop Mythic	• Even though Strongest Alien and Sukuna are better Kaitou is still a competitive DPS • Scythe deals amazing bleed damage for bosses and has an execute ability for low HP mobs • Scythe is the best option then Trinity then Hammer then Gun Best Trait: Voidborn
Jaken Hunter (Adult) Mythic	• A jack of all trades with decent DPS and stuns • Leans more toward DPS due to massive damage with his second ability • Boss killer Best Trait: Overloaded
Chain Man (Psychotic) Mythic EVO Heart – Event Shop Makima NPC outside of Summon	• After the buffs and nerfs Chain Man is actually pretty strong • His rapid damage ups in a group make him excellent for crowd control Best Trait: Nullshot or Overloaded

A-Tier Support/Debuff DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Susano (Indra) Secret Unit – Act 3 Ninja Leaf Chakra Bolt – Act 2 Ninja Leaf	• The stunning aura is really strong making Susano an excellent support • Plus you get a strong Air option • The DPS is a bit weaker than some other S-Tiers so he’s a good A-Tier unit Best Trait: Voidborn or Overloaded
Kid Psychic (99%) Mythic	• Gains buffs each Wave and if nearby enemies get CCed • Once fully stacked becomes a great DPS/Support unit • The support power mainly comes from the Repel effects to stall enemies Best Trait: Voidborn
Death Surgeon (Operation) Mythic Surgeons Cap – Marine Fortress Act 2	• Not a priority to rush Evolving but has nice supporting options with the slow • A decent support Ground DPS mix Best Trait: Voidborn

B-Tier DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Devil Knight (Berserk) Mythic	• Great Hybrid DPS alternative to the higher tiers • Would be higher if he stacked his ability faster and had a higher chance for his double attacks • A bit situational since you need Physical/Dark/True units to benefit from his AOE damage buff Best Trait: Overloaded
Maine (Final Push) GamePass Mythic	• Probably one of the weaker Hybrid units DPS-wise but still a Hybrid which is the most useful unit type Best Trait: Overloaded

B-Tier Support/Debuff DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Imperial Silver (Prime) Mythic Shake Fruit – Marine Fortess Act 1 + Sky Island Act 1	• A decent unit to bring for a mix of DPS and a bit of Repel for stalling enemy units • A mix of support and DPS that’s just slightly weaker than the A-Tiers but the best B-Tier • A nice bonus to bring for farming Evolve materials due to increased material drop chance Best Trait: Voidborn
Kaitou (Hammer) Mythic	• A decent DPS/Support mix with the Stuns • Scythe and Trinity deal better DPS though Best Trait: Voidborn
Sosoke (RS) Mythic Purple Eyes – Act 1 Ninja Leaf	• Decent utility unit for both Ground damage and stalling enemies • You get slows with trance • You also get damage amplification for all your units when Sosoke marks them with dark flame • Overall good support unit Best Trait: Voidborn
Yono (Spirit) Mythic	• Great beginner Air unit to rush and Evo • A mix of DPS and slowing Best Trait: Voidborn

C-Tier DPS

Unit	Ranking Explanation
Natso (Fire & Lightning) Legendary	• Decent Burn damage but there are better options • Can be sometimes useful for elemental weaknesses and Burn synergy
Vegetable (Almighty) Legendary	• A weaker version of Kaitou’s Scythe execute • Can be decent for beginners as long as you keep him towards the front for constant attacks
Tojee Legendary	• Not the most powerful raw DPS-wise but a quick access to shield breaking which is incredibly useful

Anime Overload Farming Guide – Gems, Traits & More

Here are the best ways on how to get and farm everything in Anime Overload:

• Gems: Legend Stage, Quests, Infinite on Leaf Village and Vending Machines (RNG-based).
• Traits: Raid Shop and farming Raids, Challenges, Daily Shop, Vending Machines.
• Gold: Selling Summons (New Event Banner is the best way since currency for it is easy to get), Legend Stage for 250 gold per clear.
• Tokens: Raid Shop and farming Raids, 2nd Expedition, Legend Stage.
• Stat Cubes/Stat Lock: Raid Shops and farming Raids, Challenges.
• Stars: Legend Stages, Challenges, Raid Shop and Daily Shop.

Anime Overload FAQ

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The Play It Your Way update has dropped in PEAK, and it completely introduces the way we have played the game so far. If you felt that the general gameplay was a hard challenge, it all changes now. This guide will give you a quick overview of all the major changes and what you can expect from the patch.

Complete PEAK Play It Your Way update patch notes

Here’s an overview of all major changes made as part of the new patch.

Custom Runs

You can completely change how runs worked so far in PEAK. You can make them as easy or hard as you want. You can also choose which tools to spawn with and what kind of hazards you can encounter on your run. You can also tweak how the environmental hazards work and how severe/relaxing their effects are.

Mini Runs

If you don’t have time for a full-scale adventure, you can try out Mini Runs. They will allow you to play a single biome of the daily map. These quick runs can be quite intense without being unnecessarily long.

Campfire Autosaves

It’s now easier to pause and resume our adventures without losing much progress. All you need to do is reach a campfire. You’ll be able to save all your progress automatically by accessing a campfire, and you can quit. You can later resume the adventure from the autosave, and this works until you win, lose, or begin a fresh run.

Additionally, you can hang out at a campfire without any hunger or fog progression. It will only extinguish after the scout leaves.

Zombie Phobia mode

If you hated the zombies, you can now disable them completely on Custom Runs. However, you can also use the Zombie Phobia mode to make things less graphic if you want.

Here are some minor changes that are part of this patch.

• Achievements that need to be done in a single run will now maintain their progress if a player disconnects/reconnects (such as Gourmand or Mycology badges)
• Fixed a long-standing issue where interacting with a rope shooter’s rope immediately after it was fired could cause a division by zero, causing chaotic behaviour, including locking the player’s controls or sending them to the void.
• Fixed issue where sometimes scouts would not revive when reconnecting in cases where they should have.
• Made the endgame scout report work properly after disconnecting and reconnecting to a game.
•  Audio sliders and kick button will now show up immediately when a new player joins without needing to re-open the menu.
• Scouts that were skeletons when they disconnected will still be skeletons when they reconnect.
• Fixed a bug where Player 3 and Player 4 would spawn in the same location.
• Rescue Hook now doesn’t put you in a ragdolled state for as long, making it easier to use.

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