Granblue Fantasy Relink AI characters tier list

Creating a strong AI team in Granblue Fantasy: Relink is key for both the main story and the endgame. In the campaign, they help you defeat tough bosses quickly. In the endgame, they’re crucial for helping you farm key items to make the rest of your team better.

The Relink AI characters tier list below is based on my own experience after playing the game for over 200 hours and a detailed fan-made chart that rates every AI character’s performance against bosses and Sir Barrold, the training dummy on the Grandcypher. While the chart is well-made, my gameplay showed me some characters shouldn’t be ranked as high or low as they are on the list due to how their performance vary depending on the boss. This tier list focuses only on how characters perform when the computer controls them, not when a player does. So, you might find strong characters ranked lower because their AI doesn’t work well, and other characters not often picked for online play ranked higher because they make great AI teammates. Here’s the list.

Full Granblue Fantasy: Relink AI characters tier list

Tier S

• Cagliostro stands out for her high damage moves, like Pain Train and various combos. As an AI, her key strength lies in Phantasmagoria, boosting the attack, defense, and critical hit rates for the whole team. This makes her a top support AI.
  • Recommended skills: Pain Train, Phantasmagoria, Rhizomata, Reinforce. Once you have Potion Hoarder at level 15, replace Reinforce for Alexandria for extra damage or Mehen for an attack debuff.
• Percival excels at stunning enemies with Macht and supports the team with Flammensmarsch, along with debuffing enemies with Petrified from X-Seele and Burn from Zerreissen. He’s always doing something helpful.
  • Recommended skills: Zerreissen, Macht, X-Seele, Flammensmarch (can be replaced with Roter Wirbel once damage cap is reached).
• Rosetta uses her roses to attack enemies within range, boosting her damage as an AI since the roses attack no matter what she does. Her natural combos also buff the team, increasing her overall value.
  • Recommended skills: Bouquet, Rose Tycoon, Spiral Rose, Lost Love. Against near-static enemies, Rose Barrier may fit in.

Tier A

• Eugen just missed the S rank because he sometimes acts weirdly against enemies despite being a ranged character. However, he’s great at paralyzing foes and stunning them with regular attacks. Plus, his aim with AI is essentially an aimbot, so he hardly ever misses his shots. He’s really useful.
  • Recommended skills: Sumrak, Healing Bullet, Paralyzing Bullet. If you have enough healing on your team, you can replace Healing Bullet with Venom Grande or Detonator.
• Id might act a bit strange sometimes, making him get to critical condition more than other characters. But he’s still a top damage dealer as an AI teammate. He’s one of the few characters you’d use more for damage than for buffs and support.
  • Recommended skills: Ragnarok Form, Scourge, Unbound, Never Enough
• Lancelot often breaks his normal attack chains, but his skill Glaciate from Kaltzwinger is so good it moves him up a tier, especially in tough quests where you want to make damage windows last to skip phases. His skill damage is pretty decent, too.
  • Recommended skills: Kaltzwinger, Southern Cross, Blauer Dolch, Blade Impulse.
• Katalina has a team-wide Invincibility skill, Light Wall, that can be a bit unpredictable with AI, but she’s still great for her utility with Glaciate from Sacred Winds, stun from Winter’s Rain, and defense from Emerald Shield. You might have to drop one for Azure Sword to help her with her Ares gauge.
  • Recommended skills: Light Wall, Sacred Winds, Azure Sword, Emerald Shield.
• Captain (Gran/Djeeta) is the most flexible character in Relink, so their AI build should be mixed too. Aim for a balance between attacking and supporting to avoid them seeming less useful compared to Cagliostro or Rosetta.
  • Recommended skills: Armor Break, Decimate, Clarity, Overdrive Surge.
• Siegfried is outstanding for both offense and support. His skill Nelah Nav stuns enemies well, and Salvator offers unique team-wide support by granting debuff immunity and providing Drain. Just having these skills makes Siegfried a great team member.
  • Recommended skills: Nelah Nav, Salvator, Uwe, Mirage.

Tier B

• Charlotta shines with her Königsschild Damage Cut buff and has great self-survivability with Invincible. Although her skills don’t help teammates much, her good damage output makes her a solid and dependable AI partner.
  • Recommended skills: Königsschild, Sword of Lumiel, Shining Onslaught, Invincible.
• Ferry is quick to fill her Skybound Arts gauge, making her valuable for teams that use SBA when available. Her consistent damage and strong self-buff skills also make her a reliable DPS, especially when she summons her spirits regularly.
  • Recommended skills: Hinrichten, Purge Spirits, Benediction, and Strafe.
• Narmaya stands out as a DPS character, especially with her Butterflies mechanic under player control. However, the AI struggles to use these butterflies effectively, leading to inconsistent performance.
  • Recommended skills: Kyokasuigetsu, Dance of Pink Petals, Transient, Setsuna
• Zeta faces issues with the AI not being able to execute her best combos that require aerial attacks consistently. Still, she provides good utility with Wingclipper’s Paralysis and Rain of Fury’s attack debuff.
  • Recommended skills: Rain of Fury, Wingclipper, Spear of Arvess, Vengeful Flames.

Tier C

• Ghandagoza has a strong self-buff with Lion Stance and some good damage skills, but he doesn’t offer much help to others and struggles against fast-moving bosses.
  • Recommended skills: Infernal Stomp, Lion Stance, Arhat Skybreaker, Iron Shoulder
• Io is interesting for players to use, but as an AI, she’s not that great. Her Mystic Vortex and Stargaze skills don’t work well with the AI, making her less useful compared to characters like Eugen and Zeta who offer similar support.
  • Recommended skills: Lightning, Freeze, Fire, Mystic Vortex
• Rackam is the go-to character for AFK farming, but as an AI, he’s not impressive. He doesn’t offer good help to the team, is slow with his skills, and often stops attacking to use skills at the wrong time. Eugen is a better choice for a ranged partner.
  • Recommended skills: Coffinmaker, Spitfire, Wild Gunsmoke, Bullet Hail
• Vane’s AI doesn’t use his best skill, Rampart, vert well, making his invincibility bubble almost useless. Other characters like Siegfried and Percival are better choices for a brawly tank like him.
  • Recommended skills: Heroic Beat, Arm Destruction, Energy Destruction, Drachenstolz.
• Vaseraga moves too slowly for most bosses and his best potential comes from balancing low health and Drain, which the AI doesn’t manage well. This makes him almost useless when controlled by the AI, except against very slow bosses.
  • Recommended skills: Forgotten Tales, Umbral Eclipse, Battalions of Fear, Great Scythe Grynoth.
• Yodarha’s special mechanic with Marks and combo finishers is too complex for the AI to handle properly. Without this, he’s just an average DPS with a very basic support setup with Mirror Image.
  • Recommended skills: Hymn of the Hundreds, Perpetual Rotation, Awakening, Empty Mist.