Dawn's Wake Tier List - Best Characters

Dawn’s Wake has many characters to pull, but to maximize your resources and progress, focus on the best ones. In this Dawn’s Wake tier list, I rank each character by META relevance.

This tier list helps you find the core characters for your team, but each character needs a specific team to perform at its best.

That’s why team balance matters, too.

Dawn’s Wake Tier List

I will divide this tier list into five categories:

SS: The strongest characters in Dawn’s Wake, and also the top of the current META. You can use them in all PvE content without worry.
S: Very good characters with a reliable kit that can handle most PVE stages
A: Good if you don’t have the better options.
B: Kinda underwhelming compared to other characters.
C: You’d better not use them.

But before you move on to the main topic, you might want to check out the available codes in Dawn’s Wake Codes first. It can help you to get the best characters in this game. But if are not satisfied with your current account, then this Dawn’s Wake reroll guide can help you.

Dawn’s Wake Tier SS Characters

Characters	Roles	Best For
Xiaodao	DPS	All in one DPS
Ye Yushi	Tank	Toughest tank in the game
Yu CHi	DPS	Summoner with high scaling damage

Xiaodao

Xiaodao is not just one of the best DPS in Dawn’s Wake. He can also support your team with utilities like applying key debuffs to enemies.
For damage, he can land a high-multiplier Ultimate DMG for 850% ATK + 325 Internal DMG. He can also summon a phantom that inherits 30% of his ATK. This phantom replicates all his attacks and applies the same effects and debuffs.
For debuffing utility, he has Punish the Wicked, which increases the damage enemies take by 30%.

Ye Yushi

Ye Yushi is your best choice if you want the toughest tank in Dawn’s Wake. He has plenty of self-sustain and team utility to keep your team going.
The gold standard of a reliable tank is having Taunt, and he has it. He also has Super Armor Charge that makes him immune to hard CC and soft CC for 10 seconds.
While he’s on the frontline, he gains a shield, stacks DEF up to 50%, 30% DMG Reduction, and even Invincibility. Killing him is really hard, even if you are in a deficit stage where most enemies are stronger than you.

Yuchi

Her Ultimate, Void-Rendering Divine Edge, deals massive damage with 550% ATK + 275 External DMG scaling. For each Mechanical Hawk on the field, it gains a 100% ATK + 50 External DMG bonus. It could become the hardest single-target skill in this game.
Another reason she hits so hard is that she can summon up to 3 Mechanical Hawks, and each hawk can deal meaningful damage while tanking your enemies’ damage at the same time.
Yuchi’s Meridian is wild. She can get +65% Ultimate DMG for each Mechanical Hawk on the field. So in total she can get +205% Ultimate DMG. She can nuke everything with this number.

Dawn’s Wake Tier S Characters

Characters	Roles	Best For
Zhuge Linglong	Tank	Counterattack
Bai Yuan	DPS	Reset cooldown on kill
Yelu Hong	DPS	High Burst Damage
Ling Xue	DPS	Slowing down enemies

Zhuge Linglong

Zhuge Linglong is an offensive tank, thanks to her counterattack mechanics. She also has Taunt, making her counterattack deal meaningful AOE DMG to surrounding enemies. She even has 20% True Damage during her Ultimate state.
As a tank, she can increase her own HP and restore HP. Her Heaven’s Heart Guard increases her Max HP by 20% + 100. Her Meridian gives you another 10% Max HP and 10% self-healing. This number is kinda small for a tank. But she also has useful debuffs, like Exhaustion, which reduces enemies’ ATK by 30%.
Compared to Ye Yushi in terms of pure tanking capability, she’s far behind. But again, she can also deal a lot of damage.

Bai Yuan

Bai Yuan is the only DPS who resets his cooldown and refunds 1 Rage each time he defeats an enemy, so you can expect him to become your team’s hitman. In terms of numbers, his Ultimate hits hard for 620% ATK + 320 Internal DMG.
His passive skill, Innate Bestial Nature, stacks each time he kills an enemy and grants up to 60% ATK and 36% ATK SPD. He transforms into a giant if he has full stacks.
To reach his full potential, don’t pair him with another powerful single-target DPS like Yuchi.

Yelu Hong

His Ultimate deals heavy single-target damage, but it costs 15% of his Max HP. It deals 565% ATK + 282.5 total damage.
He’s so good because he has so many self-offensive buffs. He can get permanent 60% ATK and 75% Crit DMG. His Auto Skill also lets him deal an extra 50% ATK + 25 Internal DMG whenever he lands a Crit. His Meridians also grant an additional 20% bonus DMG or 10% Lifesteal.
Overall, he’s a complete DPS package that can deal heavy damage while staying self-sustaining. You can definitely rely on him as your main DPS.

Ling Xue

Ling Xue is the first limited character in Dawn’s Wake global server, and yes, she’s good at both dealing damage and debuffing enemies.
Damage-wise, her ultimate, Wind-and-Snow Divine Sword, is a massive AOE DMG attack with high scaling. It deals 450% ATK + 198 Internal DMG. It can increase to 550% ATK if you hit at least 5 enemies at once. Based on her numbers alone, she looks mid because other characters can reach almost 1000% ATK DMG, but remember Ling Xue is an AOE DPS, and her Ultimate range is wide.
She has Slow as her main debuff. Her debuff is AOE and lasts 10 seconds. This debuff matters in this kind of game because enemies can move freely during battle. Especially because she is an AOE character.

Dawn’s Wake Tier A Characters

Characters	Roles	Best For
Bai Yi	DOT DPS	Poison
Qu Yu	Healer	Defensive support
Chi Lu	Support	Rage recovery buffer
Mo Qi	DPS	Summoner
Zhan Yan	DPS	Self-sustain DPS
Qing Long	DPS	Berserker playstyle
Qu XIn	DPS	Massive ATK SPD

Bai Yi

Bai Yi is the core of the DOT team because her debuffs increase enemies’ DOT damage taken by 15% and increase DOT damage by 30%.
She can apply and stack a lot of Poison from both her skills and her basic attack.

Qu Yu

Qu Yu is the current best healer in Dawn’s Wake. But not because she’s truly good, but because there is no better option. That’s why I put her in A tier.
She can give your team a package of survival utilities like shields, healing, and debuff removal
But the main problem, her scaling is too low.

Chi Lu

Chi Lu has a unique mechanic called Sustained Channeling, where she dances in the middle of the arena, buffing your team with a +100% increase to Recovery Rate, but she takes 50% more damage during this period.
She can also permanently buff your allies’ ATK slightly.

Mo Qi

Mo Qi sacrifices all non-Warrior summons on the field, then summons her own giant mechanical beast. This summon has really amazing damage scaling and can even stack its own buff a lot.
Still, given OP summoners like Yuchi or Xiaodao, I don’t think she’s that good. That’s why i put on A. But if you don’t have them, then she’s a must-use character.

Zhan Yan

Zhao Yan is a self-sustaining DPS who gives shields to himself when he deals damage to enemies.
But to compensate for his survivability, his damage is kinda low.

Qinglong

Qinglong revolves around making himself low on HP before he can truly unleash his full damage potential.
His ultimate consumes 20% of his Max HP and grants him 50% ATK, 100% Crit Rate, and 50% Crit DMG. But he can’t be healed or use lifesteal. His HP keeps draining while he’s in this ultimate state. His fourth basic attack gets a big buff: it now deals 140% ATK + 50 Internal DMG, and for every HP lost, his DMG can rise up to 60%. In simple words, he deals a lot of damage.
His only survivability comes from his Invincibility status.

Qu XIn

Qu Xin relies heavily on her ATK SPD, but her own skills can grant her up to 100% ATK SPD. Each Basic Attack adds an extra 50% ATK + 25 External DMG. On her fourth Basic Attack, she deals an extra 200% ATK and 100 External DMG.
Overall, she’s a reliable damage dealer for elite enemies and even bosses.
Thanks to her Meridians, she also has important immunities to certain debuffs.

Dawn’s Wake Tier B Characters

Characters	Roles	Best For
Ling Qiu	Support	Assist attack
Xihe Jialuo	DPS	Single target DPS
Xiao Mingyi	DOT DPS	HP conversion

Ling Qiu

Ling Qiu is the only character who can mark an enemy with her Jingwei’s Chirp. She and her 3 allies focus their attacks on the marked enemy.
She can also apply useful debuffs, like increasing an enemy’s damage taken by 30%.
But this kind of skill isn’t very important in real stages. In most cases, it will only ruin your gameplay.

Xihe Jialuo

She’s a single-target DPS that can stack her own damage.
She’s B-tier because her damage scaling and stacking buff are too low.

Xiao Mingyi

Xiao Mingyi’s gameplay is simple. She converts her HP into a self-buff, then deals damage and DOT.
But again, just like Xihe Jialuo, her scaling and buff are very low and not worth it.

Dawn’s Wake Tier C Characters

Characters	Roles	Best For
Jing Zhe	DOT DPS	Bleed

Jing Zhe

Jing Zhe revolves around his throwing knives, which can deal damage and apply Bleed.
But his damage isn’t worth playing.

Dawn’s Wake Tier List – Best Characters