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· This video covers the latest tier list for Reverse: 1999 Chinese server up to the latter half of version 3.5.
· The evaluation primarily focuses on manual play environments, with information for auto-play discussed separately at the end of the video.
· Character evaluations may include personal opinions and are relative assessments within a specific version's meta.
· 6-star characters are evaluated at 0 fragments, and 5-star or lower characters at 5 fragments.
· Characters in the "Cosmos" tier are evaluated in their "Cosmos Unleashed" state.
· Evaluations are based on 0 fragments, meaning limited characters might be ranked lower.
· Unimplemented Japanese character names may be displayed using their Chinese translated names.
· Tier scores are calculated with the following weightings: 45% for Cosmos, 45% for Allegiance War, and 10% for Daily/Exploration.
· Tier evaluations are primarily based on manual play in the latter half of version 3.5.

· These characters don't fit neatly into other tiers but demonstrate extremely powerful performance in specific scenarios.
· They can play crucial roles in certain content due to their unique abilities or team synergies.
· Often usable without extensive investment.

· A 4-star Foundation supporter added in version 3.4 of the Chinese server.
· Grants various tiers of "Special Status" to provide elemental bonuses.
· Possesses the ability to survive critical damage and recover HP when under certain Special Statuses.

· Includes characters who have stronger counterparts or whose performance can be replicated by others.
· Useful for beginners or general content progression, but may struggle in high-difficulty content.
· Worth investing in if you lack higher-tier characters or are in the early game.
· Characters not yet "Cosmos Unleashed" have potential to become stronger later.

· While they might lack some firepower, support, or healing in high-difficulty content, these characters are perfectly fine for daily activities and story progression.
· Good to invest in if you lack higher-tier characters or are in the early game; they might become stronger when "Cosmos Unleashed."

· Analyzes some limited and new characters with "Cosmos Unleashed" applied.
· Cosmos Chi Yan (Cosmos Unleashed): A real-time damage chasing dealer, this is a limited character. Her ultimate is powerful against single targets and groups, and her firepower significantly increases after Cosmos Unleashed, though there's still a gap compared to top-tier damage dealers.

· Characters with decent performance but who don't currently stand out in high-difficulty content or have stronger alternatives.
· Their base performance is solid, so investment is recommended.

· These characters show relatively high suitability even in current high-difficulty content and can serve as alternatives to top-tier characters.
· Analyzes some limited and new characters with "Cosmos Unleashed" applied.
· Version 3.4 Cosmos Unleashed 6: A real-time damage supporter. The synergy between debuffs and buffs is optimized, leading to better application on targets. Efficiency of applying poison and burn damage has increased, and MP cycles can boost ultimate multipliers.

· Characters with exceptionally good performance, making them high investment priorities.
· Analyzes some limited, new, and "Cosmos Unleashed" characters.
· Epio (added via collaboration): A real-time damage assassin, chaser, and ultimate user specializing in poison. Through the "Assassinate" ability, damage increases based on the difference in critical techniques between allies and enemies during attacks. Gains specialized abilities through weapon switching, allowing adaptation to various team compositions and high damage output. Extremely powerful when "Cosmos Unleashed."
· Wako (version 3.4 Chinese server): A real-time damage chasing specialist, supporter, and dealer. When allies attack, she chases enemies multiple times. Upon acquiring her unique ability, she grants powerful buffs to the entire team and gains self-buffs and consecutive actions for 2 turns after her ultimate. Primarily used in "Moonflower" compositions for strong synergy.

· Version 3.5 Cosmos Unleashed Kai'en (Chinese server): A real-time damage burn dealer. After Cosmos Unleashed, she acts as an ultimate dealer utilizing the "Afterglow" system. When paired with an "Afterglow" supporter, her ultimate can deal high damage.
· Collaboration Version Cassandra: A real-time damage assassin character. Cassandra's "Critical Wound" allows allies other than herself to trigger assassinations. The "Ability Point" system allows for job changes and grants "Power Field" buffs. Powerful with Epio as a supporter and highly versatile.
· Version 2.8 Cosmos Unleashed Lucy: A limited real-time damage dealer. A growth-oriented dealer for "Power" compositions, specializing in AoE damage. Her damage output increases significantly after Cosmos Unleashed, allowing for high firepower. "Power" compositions with characters like Uleki and Charon are strong.

· Highly excellent characters with strong specialization, making them the highest investment priority.
· Analyzes some limited, new, and "Cosmos Unleashed" characters.
· Key characters: Grayish Blue, Tooth Fairy, Deities, Charon, Grayish Blue Contract, Cosmos Anna, Cosmos Isolde, Cheese Day, Cosmos Milola, Monna, Corvus, etc.

· Version 3.4 Cosmos Unleashed Tooth Fairy: A real-time damage healing supporter. After Cosmos Unleashed, she utilizes the "Improvised Spell" mechanic, allowing for additional "Detective Points" and enhanced critical damage. Her ultimate can record "Improvised Spell" damage and grant consecutive actions. Similar role to Aleph in "Detective," and pairs well with version 3.4 limited characters.
· Version 3.4 Deities: A limited real-time damage "Detective" character. She can split "Improvised Spells" to attack more targets and deal Foundation damage. Can also significantly enhance "Improvised Spell" damage, but her performance drops when used alone, requiring synergy with characters who have "Detective" abilities like Tooth Fairy.

· Cosmos Anna: A limited mental damage character with action control debuffs, making her powerful in specific situations. Her firepower significantly increases after Cosmos Unleashed, especially useful in "Contract Chase" compositions. Forms a powerful synergy with Grayish Blue's contract.
· Version 3.5 Cosmos Unleashed O'ade: A poison dealer, core to poison compositions. After Cosmos Unleashed, her MP cycle is optimized, granting increased poison damage under certain conditions. She becomes stronger with improved MP circulation and reduced spell consumption. The addition of Ramona has boosted the evaluation of poison compositions.
· Version 3.4 Cosmos Unleashed Milola: A Foundation mental damage poison dealer. After Cosmos Unleashed, her self-MP cycle is enhanced, allowing her to use skills repeatedly over more turns. Poison damage and "Magic Toxin" multipliers have increased, and the addition of Ramona has boosted the evaluation of poison compositions.

· Latter half of 3.5 Ramona: A Foundation mental damage poison dealer. She has the ability to add poison damage to enemies based on the number of unique debuff stacks. Her ultimate deals mental damage to all enemies and converts multiple poisons into a single "Genesis Solvent" for powerful Genesis damage. Essential in combination with Cheese Day, she plays a key role in poison compositions.

· Version 2.8 2nd Anniversary Limited Character Siha: A real-time damage character utilizing the "Blood Cycle" system. A powerful main dealer for the "Blood Cycle" and her own systems, she also functions as a chasing dealer due to many actions being considered chases. Possesses evasion and damage reduction abilities, making her highly durable. Her basic mechanics are complete, but her abilities significantly improve with fragments.

· Characters with high suitability for high-difficulty content due to their all-around support capabilities, high versatility, and powerful unique systems.
· Key characters: Marsha, Beryl, Lorenz Butterfly, Kai Farina, Patapata Paper, Moonflower, etc.
· Marsha: An ultra-durable character with real-time damage "Afterglow" system. Continuously provides damage reduction and immunity to incapacitation shields to the entire team. Upon activating her ultimate, she increases critical rate, spell power, and critical damage, and converts excess critical rate into critical damage during attacks. Excellent in both durability and damage support.
· Beryl: A limited character, a versatile dealer utilizing the mental damage "Afterglow" system. Depending on the chosen crystal combination, she grants various effects to her own spells and applies different attack effects to enemies as "Afterglow" accumulates. Stability and firepower significantly improve when paired with characters like Marsha and Lorenz Butterfly.
· Lorenz Butterfly: A dealer/supporter with the mental damage "Afterglow" system. Grants MP to allies with "Afterglow" and enhances burn damage efficiency. Her own spell level increases, allowing frequent use of high-level spells. During her ultimate, she can flexibly copy normal spells to acquire them on the next turn. Active not only in the "Afterglow" system but also in poison and "Moonflower" chase compositions.
· Kai Farina: A shield durability and firepower supporter. Possesses shield durability and firepower support capabilities that can fit into any team composition. After gaining Insight, her passive activates shields and debuff removal every turn under certain conditions. When holding a shield, critical rate and damage bonuses increase, and she gains "Extreme Light Sensation" through various methods to enhance spell damage bonus and critical conversion effects.
· Patapata Paper: A high-quality real-time damage support and sub-dealer. Plays a key role in chase counter compositions and can increase action points with spells. Also excels in AoE firepower and is a highly versatile character.
· Moonflower: A limited real-time damage chasing dealer. After Cosmos Unleashed, her damage output significantly increases due to optimized self-cycling, including increased additional attack multipliers and automatic ultimate activation. When composed with characters like Wako and Lorenz Butterfly, the operational difficulty decreases, and maximum damage output improves, making her one of the strongest characters in Cosmos.

· Auto-play performance only evaluates the strength of the composition, not the overall character evaluation.
· This is based on auto-play performance; the manual play tier list is the comprehensive evaluation.
· Tier scores are calculated with the following weightings: 30% for Cosmos, 40% for Allegiance War, and 30% for Daily/Exploration.
· Evaluation criteria are based on auto-play in the latter half of version 3.5.
· This is an evaluation based on specific compositions and does not include all possible formations.
· Tier 4: Compositions with low auto-play performance, where manual play is recommended (e.g., Grayish Blue Contract composition).
· Tier 3: Compositions that may encounter issues during auto-play (e.g., 5-star Detective Igor composition).
· Tier 2: Compositions that struggle to perform well in auto-play and have some issues (e.g., Assassin compositions, Cosmos Moonflower composition, Poison compositions, Flamewood Afterglow composition, Marcus composition).
· Tier 1: Compositions with average performance, usable without issues in both auto and manual play (e.g., Cosmos Lucy composition, Corvus composition, Blood Cycle composition).
· Tier S: Compositions that perform excellently in both auto and manual play (e.g., Afterglow compositions, Foundation Detective compositions). For auto "Afterglow" compositions, Patapata Paper is more suitable than Lorenz Butterfly.