Tier List/Shark3143/Dragon Tier List

Dragons are difficult to place in a traditional tier list, due to the nature of their stat-boosting abilities often overshadowing their skills/attributes during shapeshift itself. However, when it comes to selecting the best dragons for your adventurer, a few general guidelines are as follows:


 * Dragons should be attuned to the same element as the adventurer they are equipped to, otherwise the stat-boosting ability will not take effect.
 * Using HP-boosting dragons on non-Staff adventurers is frowned upon, due to the damage-focused nature of the game’s current content. Healers are best able to utilize the HP increase due to their healing output being heavily weighted towards their own HP value.
 * Split HP/Strength boosting dragons are also generally frowned upon on non-ranged adventurers, but are acceptable substitutes in early game if you do not have any other choices.
 * Phoenix may be an exception to the rule under certain circumstances, due to the values on both her initial heal and the regen afterwards. In certain types of content where survivability is a concern, i.e. Raid or Facility events, using Phoenix on a damage-dealing adventurer may be a valid strategy, even when off-element. However, she cannot be used as a crutch for all types of content, especially in quests where dealing damage is emphasized. In particular it is frowned upon to use Phoenix on a damage-dealing Flame-attuned adventurer to survive the HP check of High Midgardsormr’s Trial due to a lack of damage contribution from whoever has Phoenix equipped.
 * dragons that boost strength by 20% and Skill Damage by 90% at max unbind are generally held as the most valuable dragon for damage-dealing dragons, with dragons that boost strength by 60% at max unbind being the next most valuable type of dragon. dragons that boost strength by 45% at max unbind will be more valuable than the aforementioned types of  dragons at 1-3 unbinds.
 * Though story greatwyrms and raid reward dragons have displayed rarities at and  respectively, their stats and abilities are inferior to dragons of equivalent rarity from the gacha, being somewhere between gacha obtained  and  dragons. Therefore, they should not be treated as equivalent to gacha dragons despite their rarities being the same.

As dragons obtained from the Gacha/Advanced Dragon Trials are the most diverse pool as well as the target for later content, their abilities are the most worth analyzing. Below are detailed breakdowns of their stat boosts, attributes, and effectiveness on different types of adventurers. All dragons are assumed to be at max unbinds and used on an adventurer attuned to the same element.

Dragon Analyses
v2.3, Last updated November 17th, 2019

Dragon Analyses created and maintained by JiMing (@JiMing#4813)