Best Characters in Metal Slug: Awakening – Meta Tier List

The very core of your teams in Metal Slug Awakening are the characters, right? Well, they do build teams and use weapons and accessories, which can make things very complicated – so we throught we all narrow this down to make you a list that is primarily based on the viablility and the flexibility of each character – naturally spoken, how strong is a character as carry of your team or how flexible can he be used as support in other good teams.

What Characters Are Strong in Metal Slug: Awakening?

Please also keep in mind, we ranked the characters here based on their overall performance, which includes how strong they can either carry a team or how flexible they can be used as support in teams. For more info check out our team building guide here.

Trevor Spacey

S+

Incredibly strong when you build his team up well enough. His mechanics are simply good, easy to use and always hit the mark perfectly..

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Nadia Cassel

S+

She heals and is the perfect support character in Metal Slug Awakening for pretty much any team out there right now. She is a universal character that will be helpful so much that I really wanted to put her high here in this tier list.

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Violet

S

Her penetration can be hit-or-miss which can sometimes really be annoying but once she starts cycling through her ult and then can use her battle skill every 2s, she can be fun but you need to build her the right way for that.

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Layla

S

Hits a lot and crits like crazy and is one of the crazy damage dealers with the only single downside... you have to build her and her team around her up which doesn't come cheap. But she is just pure fun to play once you are there.

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Scarlett

S

Wild damage but with the disclaimer that you need to actually build her up to really unleash her full power.

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Eva Glenn

A+

If you do build a good team around her to scle her kit and build her up, she can do some work. I personally am not biggest fan of her kit in terms of playstyle but with all due to honesty you can run her pretty wild if you like how her kit works (scaling damage over time with magnetic balls). The good news here is, heroes like Gru Kang and Nadja Cassel which work in many teams also do really well with her so you can also switch her out for other main heroes later so I think putting her that high on the list is a fair evaluation of her in Metal Slug Awakening..

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Gru Kang

A+

I had a hard time rating him here (and not just because I don't like the character design too much). It's because his kit is not too great but he becomes really essential as scaler for a main character with ignite damage like Eva Flenn or Scarlett so he has his place in many good team. But again, he is not the main carry so you still need those main damage dealers along him..

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Tarma Roving

A

On his own he is okay but for the fact that he will scale wound damage up and can transfer his shield to allies makes him a useful character in many teams..

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Haran

A

The deal with him is that he deals damage and freeze is a useful skill in Metal Slug Awakening, but he becomes more of a supportive role towards the late and endgame so I don't feel I should rank him any higher.

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Marco Rossi

B+

I really don't know why other sources have him so high or even on top of their ranking! He is only great in the beginning when you start playing Metal Slug Awakening and also most of this comes with his synergy of the other two started heroes Fio and Eri which have a lot of synergy to make a great team. Don't bother too much, there are so much better heroes available!.

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Eri Kasamoto

B

Nice boom from her ultimate skill but at the end of the day she is designed to work with Marco and Fio in the strted team and after that you will not really think about her anymore..

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Fio Germi

C+

Primarily works in the team with Eri and Marco, that's it. Most of her kit is not even great filling roles in higher-rarity teams. She is a starter character in Metal Slug Awakening and that's it..

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Conclusion

I think this gives you a good idea what characters to focus on in Metal Slug: Awakening but also always keep in mind, the team makes it and not a single character – for that reason I can only highly recommend you to check out our team guide here so you can run a team where characters synergize well and work well together.