Avowed's Companions: A Ranked Guide from Worst to Best
Beyond their narrative roles and dialogue, Avowed's Companions offer crucial gameplay advantages, from pathfinding to combat prowess. This guide ranks each Companion from least to most effective.
- Marius
Early-game exploration benefits from Marius's item and plant-finding abilities. However, his combat effectiveness quickly diminishes as other Companions join your party. His skills primarily focus on crowd control and weakening enemies, making him a niche choice.
- Blinding Roots: Roots enemies (upgradeable to stun, trap multiple, and inflict Bleed).
- Heart Seeker: Piercing shot that always hits (upgradeable for multi-target, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, and cooldown reduction).
- Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes an enemy (upgradeable for instant kills on stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, and increased target count).
- Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed Accumulation (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and further reduce enemy damage).
While useful against specific enemy types, especially with a melee-focused Envoy, Marius lacks the overall power to justify his inclusion for most of the Avowed journey.
- Giatta
Giatta, a support-oriented Animancer, excels at healing, shielding, and buffing the party. Her damage output is low, but her utility is invaluable during intense encounters like boss fights. She also unlocks late-game areas by activating Essence Generators.
- Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable for increased healing, enemy interruption, and increased ally damage reduction).
- Barrier: Provides allies with a temporary health shield (upgradeable for increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, and self-protection).
- Acceleration: Increases ally movement and attack speed (upgradeable for damage reduction, extended duration, and ability cooldown reduction).
- Reconstruction: Attacks heal allies (upgradeable for increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health for full-health allies, and ally revival on enemy kill).
Giatta synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.
- Kai
Despite being an early recruit, Kai remains a valuable asset throughout the game. This tank deals substantial damage and requires minimal player intervention.
- Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss shot with high stun and taunt (upgradeable for ignition, increased stun, and cooldown reduction).
- Unbending Defense: Regenerates health and increases damage reduction (upgradeable for increased damage reduction, increased health regeneration, and a damaging shockwave on expiration).
- Leap of Daring: Stunning and taunting area-of-effect attack (upgradeable for increased area of effect, temporary health per hit, and bonus attack damage per hit).
- Second Wind: Self-revival (upgradeable for increased health restoration, attack speed burst, and ability cooldown reset).
Kai's abilities are effective against various enemies, offering both single-target and crowd control options. His self-revival further enhances his effectiveness. He can also use fire to remove environmental obstacles.
- Yatzli
Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, delivers high damage and exceptional crowd control. She's the closest thing to air support in the Living Lands.
- Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable for increased blast radius, fire accumulation, and cooldown reduction).
- Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Volley of homing arcane missiles (upgradeable for increased fire rate, range, and shock accumulation).
- Arduos Delay of Motion: Slows enemies (upgradeable for increased slow, area-of-effect slow, and frost accumulation).
- Blast: Area-of-effect burst damage on enemy hits (upgradeable for explosive damage to break obstacles, increased stun, and status effect chances).
Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her the top Companion choice, despite being recruited last.
Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.
