Restart tier list January 2025

Who’s at the top of the Etheria: Restart tier list? As of the beta, this fresh, turn-based gacha game has a massive roster of 18 SSR characters, 23 SR characters, and seven R characters, and with only four to five spaces on your team, it can be tough to work out who to bring to the battlefield. Luckily, we’re here to help, with our comprehensive tier list ranking all the Animus based on their power and utility across different game modes.

Working out who’s the top of the top also helps you decide which of the Etheria: Restart banners to pull on, and who’s worthy of all yourhard-earned upgrade materials and currency. So, once you choose which team you want to rock with, make sure to check out our list of all the new Etheria: Restart codes for some extra summons.

Here’s everything in our Etheria: Restart tier list:

Etheria: Restart tier list

This Etheria: Restart tier list is based on the core gameplay, and ranks the characters based on how much they can help you as you progress through the early game. If you want to know which characters are best in PvP content, scroll down to check out our dedicated PvP tier list.

Keep in mind that these ranks come from community opinions and our experience during the Etheria: Resart beta, meaning rankings are likely to change come the full release.

Also, a big shout out to ZoxaskunX on YouTube, who has made some incredibly helpful Etheria: Restart video guides and tier lists with input from viewers, which have really helped us pin down our ranks for both tier lists during this beta. I highly recommend checking out his videos for an in-depth look at the characters and gameplay mechanics!

Here’s our single-player Etheria: Restart tier list:

Etheria: Restart PvP tier list

Below, we’ve ranked all the Etheria: Restart characters based on how they perform in PvP gameplay as of the beta. Some characters who shine in early progression and single-player content may struggle in PvP and vice versa, so you may need to build some new teams before taking on other players.

Once again, these ranks are based on community feedback online as well as our own experience with the beta, and rankings may change come the full Etheria: Restart release date.

Here’s our Etheria: Restart PvP tier list:

Which Etheria: Restart SSR should I pick?

During the beta, Etheria: Restart features a Directed Summon banner where you can choose one original SSR to target, and you’re guaranteed to get them within 40 pulls.

When picking which SSR you want, we recommend picking a character that appears in our top ranks for both the single-player and PvP content, as they will be able to carry you through most of the content that the game offers.

Here’s our recommendations for the best Etheria: Restart SSR character to pick:

• Celince – a unique support capable of inflicting enemies with a variety of debuffs, including attack break, crit rate down, and a type of silence that cancels their passive effects. Celince’s passive also provides a shield that absorbs and reflects damage back onto enemies, making her a great counter for single-target nuke opponents in both PvE and PvP
• Helkid – a solid damage dealer who can inflict attack breaks, stun enemies, and provide allies with a bulky, team-wide attack-scaling shield that has debuff immunity. He also deals increased damage when protected by his shield
• Lilith – an incredibly useful support and HP damager that can stun enemies and provide your team with extra turns
• Rahu – my personal favorite! Rahu is a defense-oriented damage dealer who buffs his own defense each turn, transfers enemy debuffs, and provides a team-wide defense buff. He then deals massive damage based on his own defense
• Tiamat – a hybrid support who has an AoE taunt and can heal and shield your whole team. She also builds up stacks over time, then transforms into her ultimate form, changing her kit to one skill that dishes out a heap of AoE damage based on her HP
• Veronika – a powerful survivability-focused support who provides a shield based on the HP she removes from enemies. She’s also capable of inflicting enemies with an attack break, increasing her own strike prep when she’s attacked, and stealing buffs from enemies and redistributing them amongst her entire party. On top of this, Veronika has an incredibly useful ability that grants all of her allies with Soul Ward, which prevents them from falling below 1HP
• Kloss – a hybrid damage dealer and debuffer who can absorb and manipulate strike prep, inflict enemies with a defense debuff, and boost the amount of damage that enemies take. However, note that during the beta Kloss is also available on her own limited banner where she’s the only five-star, making her much easier to get – so it may be better to pull for her there and choose someone else for the SSR selector

Can I perform an Etheria: Restart reroll?

As the game is currently in beta, there’s no reason to perform an Etheria: Restart reroll. Throughout the CBT, you have access to the aforementioned selector banner, and can even use the Animus Configuration event to refund materials if you built a character you’ve decided you don’t like.

On top of that, you get so many free summons and currencies through the CBT rewards that there’s genuinely no point in going through the effort of rerolling – especially when all of your progress disappears after the beta ends anyway. This is just a good opportunity to try out different characters and see what the game has to offer!

However, if you’re determined to reroll, the only real way to do it is to either switch servers when launching the game or to log in with a new email address. After that, you just need to complete the Prologue: Meltdown Crisis to unlock the summon function, then Chapter 1: Vanishing Train (Part 1) to unlock the in-game mail system and claim your beta rewards. Do a couple of pulls, and repeat the process if you don’t get what you want.

That’s everything in our Etheria: Restart tier list right now, but we’ll be sure to update this guide when the full game launches. Or, if you’re looking for more gacha goodness in the meantime, head over to our other guides for the best gacha games, including our Honkai Star Rail tier list, Genshin Impact tier list, and Zenless Zone Zero tier list.