By fine-tuning the way you upgrade Sarah’s skills and gear, you can save yourself quite some Skill Medals and Universal Shards in the process and as not all skills have the same amount of impact but have the same amount of costs leveling up, fine-tuning them is worth it in the end.
Important! If you want to check how well Sarah does in the current meta of all heroes in Last War Survival Game, please check out my current tier list of all heroes here.
Tier B+Here is a quick overview of the rankings of Sarah for the different modes of the game. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all heroes in Last War Survival Game and full evaluation and priority.
Sarah’s Team Setups
Use our new squad planner to see how your ideal lineups look like not just with Sarah. It also let you exclude heroes you haven’t built or mark heroes as not fully built and you can see how that changes your ideal lineup:
Sarah’s Optimal Gear Setup(s)
Now we have to take a look at the gear setup, as it takes a lot of time and resources to craft higher rarity gear and not all gear is as impactful as the other one and you have to gear a couple of heroes in Last War Survival Game. Also upgrading gear gets very expensive and you simply can’t just pump all your Upgrade Ore randomly on gear.
- +1Tap a slotEvery gear slot around Sarah can be tapped. Empty slots pulse until you set them.
- −Lv 22+2Set what you have nowPick the item that's equipped in your game and its level. Nothing equipped? Choose "None yet".
- ▸ Upgrade next12 → 203Follow "Upgrade next"We compare your gear with the ideal order and show the one upgrade that gives the most power right now — plus the steps after it.
- ✓ Saved4Come back & updateYour gear is saved on this device. After upgrading in-game, update the slot and you get your next step.
Minimum, Sweetspot and Optimum under Sarah show how far your gear is.

Sarah’s Optimal Skill Upgrade Order
Upgrading skills is possible after you get Sarah to 2-Star and then you will be able to upgrade each skill in 5-level increments. White the first skills are rather easy and cheap, it will start to eat quite a bit into your Skill Medals and as you can’t produce them, you might end up with half-built heroes. So, here is the order you should work on the skills for Sarah so you only spend the Skill Medals where they actually provide good value:
Autobasic
Passivepassive
Tacticactive
Expertiseexpertise
- 1Upgrade to 2 StarsRequired
- 2
TacticLv 0 to Lv 5Start hereRequiredBring your active Tactic up from Lv 0 to Lv 5, and keep the rest of the skills as they are.Stop at Lv 5 for now; the rest comes after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 3
PassiveLv 0 to Lv 5RequiredLevel Passive from Lv 0 to Lv 5. Leave the other skills alone until it's done.Lv 5 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 4
AutoLv 1 to Lv 5RequiredTake your basic Auto from Lv 1 to Lv 5 before you touch any other skill.Pause at Lv 5. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 5Upgrade to 3 StarsRequiredUntil this upgrade, keep Auto, Passive and Tactic at Lv 5.
- 6
TacticLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredPut your medals into your active Tactic until it hits Lv 10. Everything else waits.Lv 10 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 4 Stars. - 7
PassiveLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredPassive goes from Lv 5 to Lv 10 now. Hold off on every other skill.Stop at Lv 10 for now; the rest comes after the upgrade to 4 Stars. - 8
AutoLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredPush your basic Auto to Lv 10 first. No other skill upgrades before that.Pause at Lv 10. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 4 Stars.
Low investment and nice improvement accross the board here that absolutely is worth it before starting to get more seelctive on what skills you actually upgrade next.
- CORE
- GOAL
- MAX
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Sarah’s Exclusive Weapon + Mythic Awakening
Sarah has no Exclusive Weapon and it is not sure if she ever will get one as she is one of the heroes that can be upgraded from Epic to Legendary
Conclusion
I hope this guide helped you to build your Sarah without just pumping your manuals into the skills. I assure you this will make your progress in Last War Survival a lot faster and get the biggest bang for your buck in terms of making the skills rock that really make a big impact espcially as costs get higher and higher.