At A Glance
- Discover the strongest characters for PvE and PvP.
- Learn which heroes deserve your upgrade materials.
- Build a balanced team that can handle every game mode.
Why a Tier List Matters in Cursed Energy Overload
If you’re new to Cursed Energy Overload, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is investing all your resources into the first characters you unlock. Upgrade materials, awakening items, and premium currency become increasingly difficult to earn later in the game, making every investment important.
While nearly every character can be useful in the early campaign, only a handful continue to dominate in endgame content such as boss battles, PvP arenas, guild events, and challenge towers.
This tier list is based on community feedback from Reddit, popular YouTube creators, experienced players, and the current game meta.
S Tier Characters
These are the best characters currently available. If you pull one of these heroes, they’re worth building immediately.
Gojo: Gojo remains one of the strongest units thanks to his incredible damage output, crowd control, and survivability. His strengths include massive area damage, high critical hit potential, excellent boss damage, strong defensive abilities, and usefulness across multiple game modes. Gojo fits into nearly every team composition, making him one of the safest investments in the game.
Sukuna: Sukuna excels at dealing sustained damage over long fights. His abilities allow him to destroy bosses quickly, ignore portions of enemy defenses, apply powerful debuffs, and scale well with late-game equipment. Many experienced players value him as a high-impact damage dealer.
Yuta: Yuta provides an excellent mix of offense and support. His toolkit can contribute team buffs, strong burst attacks, reliable survivability, and energy support. Because of his versatility, Yuta works well in both PvE progression and competitive content.
A Tier Characters
These characters are excellent choices and can comfortably complete difficult content when properly upgraded.
Toji: Toji specializes in physical burst damage. He’s particularly effective against single bosses and elite enemies but generally benefits from strong investment to reach his full potential.
Nanami: Nanami offers consistent damage while remaining straightforward to use. Reliable critical hits, a simple skill rotation, useful farming performance, and solid accessibility make him attractive to players building a dependable core team.
Maki: Maki can shine in longer battles where sustained damage matters. She is particularly useful in encounters where consistent output is more valuable than a short burst window.
B Tier Characters
These heroes can perform well during the early and mid-game but generally fall behind stronger characters later. Examples include Panda, Miwa, Kamo, and Mai. They’re perfectly usable if you enjoy their playstyle, but they shouldn’t automatically receive your rarest upgrade resources once stronger options become available.
C Tier Characters
Lower-tier units can struggle to compete because of weaker damage, limited utility, or poorer scaling. They may still complete campaign content, especially when your account is new, but they are usually the first characters replaced as your roster grows. Unless you’re deliberately building a favorite character, avoid spending rare awakening materials without a clear reason.
Best Team Composition
Rather than filling your squad with attackers, successful players usually build balanced teams. A strong general lineup typically includes a main DPS, a secondary damage dealer, a support, a defensive character, and a flexible utility option. This structure gives you enough damage to progress while retaining room to adapt when a boss or stage punishes a one-dimensional team.
Which Characters Should Beginners Upgrade?
New players should focus on characters that remain valuable throughout progression. A sensible priority is your main damage dealer first, followed by support, survivability, secondary damage, and then specialist utility. Avoid spreading resources evenly across every hero. Fully investing in one coherent team generally delivers more progression than building a broad collection of underpowered units.
Should You Reroll?
Rerolling can be worthwhile if your opening recruitment gives you no dependable carry, especially for free-to-play players who want to conserve future resources. However, rerolling is not mandatory. A balanced account with several useful characters can be better than one top-tier unit surrounded by weak synergy. Set a stopping point and begin progressing once you have a team you’re comfortable developing.
Common Tier List Mistakes
Common mistakes include upgrading every new character, ignoring support units, chasing competitive builds too early, forgetting equipment or development systems, and following outdated rankings after major balance changes. Tier lists should guide decisions, not replace your own testing. Your best team will always depend partly on which characters you own and how well they work together.
Final Thoughts
Choosing the right characters in Cursed Energy Overload can dramatically speed up progression. Focus your resources on a small number of proven units, build a balanced team, and avoid treating rarity as the only measure of value.
As new characters and balance updates arrive, expect the meta to evolve. Keeping your roster flexible and investing wisely will give you the best chance of remaining competitive across campaign content, bosses, events, and other difficult challenges.