What Heroes Are Worth It In DC Worlds Collide?
Below is our ranking and we had a lot of time testing so feel free to dig in! Also don’t forget to give DC Dark Legion a try as well.
New Season coming with new heroes in October and adding more dodging and confusion to the meta. Hard to tell where the journey will head but as soon as more heroes are out we can tell you more. Below updated with the first hero, the Criminal Jester version Harley Quinn and Batwoman from the early access.
Please also check out our guide on the best teams and archetypes in DC Worlds Collide here.
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Tier A+She is a damage dealer that can even tank with her dodge but as soon as she starts using her ultimate her dodge becomes less and that is a little bit more than just a small problem. She needs her confusion effect to synergize well and honestly these heroes are are a lot about reactive synergy so I would think twice before investing.
Tier AThe interesting part here is that she has not the greatest stats as tank but incredible high damage reduction and block so if you will use her with the right team to stack confusion and enough enery she tanks extremely good. But there is a loophole that I want to mention, that all bases on her damage reduction and if I look a little bit into the track record how the developers nerf characters, I have a feeling there might be something coming soon that can ignore that effect. Just saying. But if you like this season and want some more confusion characters, she is actually a more than solid epic character that can potentially be S ranked with a team full of confusion and with a battery like Booster Gold.
Tier SOONNo info yet other than release date October 16th.
Tier SOONNo info yet other than release date October 23rd.
Legendary Heroes
Here are the legendary heroes in DC Worlds Collide ranked. They are by design stronger for base stats, scalers and having 5 skills, but building is a lot harder and not all of them are worth building if you take effort versus usability
Tier S+Wicked damage dealer that looks very well working against all kinds of setups. Hard to see what the other new season heroes will bring but honestly she already sets the bar quite high espcially with the incribly high damage output and directly countering meta heroes with her Nemesis functionality.
Tier S+Absolutely bonkers honestly, prime DPS with a lot of survivability with crit resist. But, there is a catch and that is not his ugly face. The catch here is that you need Emblem 30 + run him with another Absolutel unit (Absolute Wonder Woman or Absolute Superman, dealers choice) to get his synergy which makes a huge amount of his overall power. So, if you're willing to do that, you get the most ridiculous DPS you can have in the game right now, but how realistic that if is to you is something you need to figure out along with your wallet.
Tier S+Has a lot going on but as attacker provides also team-wide protection from burn (that actually feeds him) and he has the dynamic switch that makes him more offensive when above 50% HP and more sturdy below + has the survivabal for the first fatal blow. Super hero (phun intended) honestly and will not only put more tight-end to Firestorm but actually open more of their own meta.
Tier S+Burns and Frostbite tank with Superpower damage (they changed that a few days ago). Looks pretty good in all the kit and like a hero you can do a lot with and gives flexible possibilities to actually build multiple team.
Tier S+An Anti-Crit Tank, who can pick off enemies with Eagly. Honestly in the first test already he is pretty wild with significant damage dealt, great self-healing and tankining on top. And we haven't even had him along Judomaster and Vigilante to even more synergize onthe Fragile effect. He actually did damage that was towards what Wonder Woman did (still less, but just to show you how well he did). If you want to go for him, I am confident that he willbe rocking the show for quite a while.
Tier S+His kit so far looks really wild honestly with tanking, healing, protection and ally buffing he seems to be all you want to see in a tank and for sure is a hero to use.
Tier S+Hits hard like a truck and self-heals in a crit team amazingly well. Also his assassin-style targeting and damaging are really good. Came out of nowhere and for sure is a hero you want to have in your lineup. If you saved up resources for a special hero, he seems to be the one that works from PvE, Bosses to PvP modes well enough to be highly ranked!.
Tier S+He applies a lot of different status effects, making him versatile. The catch is he applies them to himself as well but also he scales off that. He works with so many different teams and combos, he is absolutely a hero relevant for 2026 but he needs quite an invest + his artifact to really take off.
Tier SFirst banner since release and already a overpowered hero. If you pulled your first banner (preferably Wonder Woman) this is the next goal here and getting and building him is for sure nothing that will set you back. He is strong in all means, can watch for himself and brings so much for your team on the table on top of his damage.
Tier SAll you want in a support character with damage mitigation, some control/debuff for the enemies and good healing for the team. He doesn't have the massive burst heal but for the most parts, he can keep your team alive and provide a lot of general support that makes more than sense to have.
Tier SA legendary destructive powerhouse with a new team synergy. Requires quite some invest though as most of her kit is locked behind actually heavy invest, unfortunately. However, the way she synergizes through her status effects with many other heroes makes her really interesting.
Tier SHonestly cool and works if you have a full amazonian team around him but in all reality he counters the Firestorm meta a little less than it would be needed to make it worth getting all amazonians + him and build them. If you love the character and want to get him and you did go for Artemis absolutely a move you will get a return value from but just him by himself without amazonians more than average.
Tier SNice damage and finisher paired with good durability through her block in her kit. I mean she won't change the world, she won't re-invest the wheel and also she will not lead to any massive new direction in the game but if you went for the other amazonians or you want and need a DPS unit that can sustain a tad, she is a good pick-up.
Tier SIncredible area damage and also good focus down damage makes her the best damage dealer in DC Worlds Collide right now and with the crit burst that can silence and also some damage support for the whole team she is the full package.
Tier SIncredibly stron with the way his shielding works and enabling team members for extra basic attacks and assists can enable so many cool combo builds with the right heroes that there is now way you can't make great use of him.
Tier A+Where to start here... she is absolutely a good tank with basically all you want from a tank. The real unique strength of hers is her synergy with block teams and since those teams struggled so far heavily it leaves you with two options when building her into a team - you either resurrect your neglected block heroes around Ocean Master and invest a ton there and also go for the upcoming Amazonian heroes that come later in the next weeks or you will have her as a tank alterntive that is not better than any other tank. You probably have a better solution for the front row so far anyway. She really only is a good option for the end-game players that really go all-in here, otherwise than that a regular frontline legendary tank you might not benefit all too much from.
Tier A+A front-row Tank that scales additional damage with posison stacks and even heals your team decently. He is a good hero, absolutely, and if you like the poison archetype there is no way around him but in the overall picture you don't really need him, espcially if you don't have many of the poison heroes like Poison Ivy or Scarecrow built and you're not planning to go in with Cheshire and Doctor Poison as well. He is not a must-pull like other limited banners we have seen before, that's the headline here.
Tier A+He forces enemy attackers into a duel and this is a hard counter to those Firestorm and other single-damage-dealer meta teams out there since he can actually take those out of the action while your team deals with the rest of the enemy team. I honestly think one copy is enough for all players here to shift the meta enough, espcially since he is quite easy to combine with different teams and is not as crazy tough about team synergy to work. On the other side, his job is hard-counter the meta so that means in a few months he probably won't be needed that much anymore.
Tier A+Cool haste buff and buffs for the team + turn meter manipulation makes him really useful... and the fact that he can revive once makes him even better.
Tier A+Solid damage with quite some cc and debuffing going on that almost always comes in useful and handy and is easy to throwi into most teams.
Tier A+Can revive and self-heal. And her ultimate makes your team use all their basic attacks so there is tanks with worst ultimates and with the Brother Eye recalibration of her stats and some of her skills, she became actually a very valuable tank that works now really well in DC Worlds Collide.
Tier ASynergizes super strong with shock heroes (Black Lightning, Lobo and the original Superman) and honestly I see him bringing shock to the top with the way he just absolutely pushes it. Why not top ranking? well, he depends on shock heroes to be built well to work so on his own he is pretty underwheming.
Tier AWith Bleed synergy you can't get around a team with him since he enables that archetype so heavily. Since it's strong he is ranked here but how dot will evolve in the meta is not clear so be aware of that.
Tier AVery interesting support and overall everything in his kit is useful. Shines more in debuff-heavy and bleed teams but overall is a nice hero to run in many formations.
Tier APretty strong protective frontrow, espcially agianst teams that can target your backrow directly where you can do quite some damage mitigation through him.
Tier AGood damage and shield that scales pretty good make him a universally useful hero in DC Worlds Collide.
Tier B+Can be funky with damage reduction, self revive and the way he works. I think the main problem is that he should be a tank but tries to also do damage and that hybrid role puts him in a pickle more often than noth, espcially considering the incredible effort it takes to build a legendary hero in DC Worlds Collide.
Tier BHe is not bad and has quite a bit in his kit that you want to see in a tank frontrow character in DC Worlds Collide, but his last skills are falling off, rarely triggering and looking at the other legendaries we have in the game, he is simply not my favorite choice but for the plain fact that he is legendary he is still useful.
Tier BHonestly I don't see all too much going together here with the way targeting and supplier stats for the skills actually work and the whole I-take-my-teams-health-to-damage is just a negative trade to begin with.
Tier BShines in a Frostbite team, otherwise half her kit is not really running that smoothly so do not use her without at least one other heavy frostbite hero.
Epic Heroes
Here are the epic heroes in DC Worlds Collide ranked. They are the core for most players with 4 skills and a lot easier to build than legendary heroes but still viable enought o get you to the endgame content
Tier S+Absolutely must-have epic honestly, he will just silence the enemy team completely with their abilities and removes debuffs from your team like crazy. PvP new meta will start with him and even if you're not too much inPvP, he will still work with every team so the situations where he is a can-opener against setups that hevily rely ond ebuffing your team or using abilities is incredible.
Tier SHe has become in the past month the MVP if you can have the burn synergy team with the meta characters around him. So, to all those that say ohh he is so S++++ meta I have to say he is only if you have all those burn S+ character for a team with him. He by himself doesn't do much without synergy and that is why I don't have him ranked top tier so every new player thinks that he is the best and will do all carry and then wonder why nothing happens.
Tier SVery likely the strongest epic hero in DC Worlds Collide honestly. Deals so much damage and his kit just keeps snowbaling with some self-sustain on top. For sure go for him and build him, he will carry you a lot.
Tier SThere is literally so much going on in his kit... hard to really tell how strong he will be but if you already got the other DCU heroes the synergy is strong and you should for sure at leat go for him. His ways of playing around with buffs and debuffs honestly along his targeting makes me feel he will be more RNG than not unless you run into certain comps that heavily use that. He is for sure needed in Superpower teams but those teams so far are not too easily accessible in terms of core heroes. And to top this all off, he now also applies the turnabout debuffs to random enemies when there is no direct opponent anymore which makes him even stronger.
Tier SRuthye is a top-tier support character in DC Worlds Collide who acts as a must-summon unit due to her exceptional ability to absorb team debuffs and provide powerful defensive buffs like dodge and shelter. Her incredible synergy and defensive utility allow her to easily fit into almost any team composition, significantly boosting survivability against even much stronger opponents.
Tier A+Starts blocking and counterattacking like crazy and if you can combine that with other heroes that have block, he can actually be a hot iron to attack for your enemy that not just soaks up damage but also chips counterdamage.
Tier A+The way he is working with Armor Break and as Fragile enabler and dealing massive damage himself is looking nice so far. I mean hard to tell how the meta will shift with physical damage in the next months but this season right now on release, he is a hero that can be well paired even without Peacemaker and do a lot of damage in any physical team. With peacemaker he is just another level strong. I am not giving him the top tier because he is very much Physical Damage and I have a feeling that will fade off quickly in the next season(s), but there is no evidence for that right now and I am as much wrong as I am right.
Tier A+Nice damage output overall and once he can start getting his extra turns when taking down enemies with his ultimate, he snowballs a lot and can carry stages.
Tier A+Good area damage and also has solid healing. I honestly don't like heroes in general that sacrifice themselves or other in order to work but his kit simply wrecks, espcially for being a epic and not even a legendary hero.
Tier A+More support than DPS, useful for redirecting enemy setups that kick off quickly to subdue their first ultimate. Honestly her banner is only available super short so for 99% of players I don't see the point to invest now and it feels just like the devs want to drain resources before pushing a super strong new character. If you are about arena, she is a hero that you will find useful, otherwise not that much.
Tier AWith the Brother Eye adjustments she got she is a lot more versatile and espcially if you have Aquaman she can be extremely strong when built.
Tier AA high Damage, auto-critting machine and once combined with heroes like Vigilante and Peacemaker they will go through everything with physical damage that is almost unstoppable. If you have skipped Peacemaker that is alright but without Vigilante there is not much use for Judomaster neither.
Tier ABrings some burst damage into poison teams and with higher invest also works with bleed, but actually there you already have great options. She targets the back row but without much poison synergy she is not really kicking it off too much unless you invest a ton in her (and why would you do that if you do not run any poison team). Still, she is good but not a hero you should drop everything for unless you made building a poison team your priority right now.
Tier AGot completely reworked with the Brother Eye Recalibration and where he was before a selfish and pretty much useless hero, he now counters shield and buffs extremely effectively and also brings more overall for your team as well.
Tier AHe can deal a lot of damage but before the Brother Eye Racilibration he simply died too fast to be able to snowball like he technically could. With the new stats and skill he does that a lot more and is a very interesting epic character now.
Tier ADebuffing and enemy energy bar reduction make him almost always useful and as a frontrow character with his kit, absolutely a cool hero to have and worth building.
Tier AGood enemy back row attacker and also holds up the front row pretty well. Do not get thrown off by his very early impression, he gradually also gains more backrow protection when building him with his emblem and artifact and he has some really sweet damage mitigation for the rest of the team in place.
Tier AGives your team lifesteal and attack buffs well. That is all there is and that makes pretty much all teams better. And unless you run a hyper-optimized synergy team she is like a swiss army knife.
Tier ADeals quite some damage, messes and debuffs enemies and can revive defeated allies. That already is cool and the only think I displike is that she adds random debuffs which makes her unreliable for damage-specific debuff teams. Like if she applies fristbtite and bleed but you run her in a burn team is just plain annoying. But overall she does a lot.
Tier B+She is here to dodge and scale through that and passively enable The Joker. Let's cut it short here, she is not great and the only reason why she would be useful is when paired with The Joker. If you like that, go for her, otherwise you will hardly make a proper team with her as she has barely any synergies outside directly stacking dodge on The Joker.
Tier B+She is cool but she requires basically a new team type to build with that synergizes around basic and follow up attacks and she is also quite greedy when it comes to her badge to become really good. She has high potential but that comes at a cost and I wouldn't recommend to invest pulling in her banner and rather wait until she is available in the regular banners.
Tier B+She actually requires a bit of work on your synergies to really pop off but the way she massively strikes targets, marks them and collects healing can make her very powerful in certain modes and with certain heroes together. She is no meta-buster hero but she has a ton of potential to make a difference... just don't judge her because she is no plug-and-play hero in any random team.
Tier B+Has good armor, shelter and good healing to keep your main tank alive. As team healer sometimes not enough but overall one of the best healers in the game.
Tier B+Got pretty good espcially when you can start running him in a team that continously crits and you get the gear to really make his strikes hit hard which are not neccessarily available that early in DC Worlds Collide.
Tier B+Helps cracking frontrow enemies and before the Brother Eye Recalibration that was all she got - now she also has benefits when the enemy front row is gone which makes her overall less niche (only good against teams with a very sturdy front row) and more univerally versatile.
Tier B+Really interesting tank with counterattacking and debuffing. Thanks to his Brother Eye rework he now also works a lot more stable without investing a lot into him.
Tier B+His kit reads a lot more chaotic than it is. he is a great control hero that deals well suppressing your enemy team, especially their backline.
Tier B+There is a couple things about her that you have to understand. So, her main role is being good ina. strong poison team and chip extra damage and just overall extends poison. If your poison team has holes in it, she won't do much. Also, to have her really perform well you need her Rank 7 Bonus and that is where things get tricky, espcially if you're a player that doesn't want to commit to poison archetype too much (which I totally understnad). So, that means for her ranking that she is good at Rank 7 with a strong poison team and as that is a lot of conditions and life is no fairytale where you can simply wish heros to be maxed in perfect surrounding I deducted her some tiers for the pure lack of viability.
Tier BYou get him as your starter hero so leveling is not that bad but he also is not that crazy I-am-keeping-your-in-my-lineup-forever-hero in DC Worlds Collide for the simple reason that he is not doing much than straight up deal some damage without much more helpful than his passive breaking armor. Again, he is alright and a good starter hero to carry for a while but he is not endgame material.
Tier BHis reputation on most sources here is worst than he is and he is actually growing a lot on me with the way he jumps in with counterattacks, protects allies in need and simply debuffs the enemies which can snowball in the right team very well.
Tier BShe always had issues to really take off but with the Brother Eye rework she can now actually fire ultimates back-to-back and snowball a lot more reliable overall.
Tier BNice damage but having him in a burn team is the lifeline for him to work, otherwise there is not too much he will and can do.
Tier BIf you can make his synergy work in your team he is a good frontline, but overall there are better frontline heroes of the same rarity in DC Worlds Collide in this tier list.
Tier BA wild mix of attacking skills and self-buffing and some control... and at the end she forgets about her main class role that makes her a tank so I am actually not really convinced that there is much place in the meta for her. They fixed that a bit in the Brother Eye Recalibration but overall she is still not one of the tanks that you should have on your shortlist honestly.
Tier C+Straightforward damage and some bleed. Works best in a bleed team but overall not too interesting as he hardly builds synergies well.
Tier C+She obviously works best in a poison team, not because all her skills are about poison but most of them don't do all too much without having that extended syerngy of a poison team.
Tier C+One of the toughest characters in DC Worlds Collide to rank to be honest. His team protection is cool if you need it but also as a damage dealer he is sub-par. And if you take him out of his class and want to use him as support, there is not much mroe support to see other than is early match block. Please convicne me otherwise but I haven't seen too much use for him so far other than actually arena.
Tier C+Alright emergency protection but if you need her you almost always so far behind and she barely turns anything around significantly.
Tier CBane is really strong early, with the way he does keep himself up and also still messes with the enemies is outrageous. But the problem is, his trigger for self-healing is not working the further you get in DC Worlds Collide and that makes his whole kit deflate itself and him less useful than he could be. Towards really late when you can actually give him the top gear and all that his kit works again, youprobably have switched to other heroes. I believe there will be a change soon but right now he has not much use for most players.
Elite Heroes
Here are the elite heroes in DC Worlds Collide ranked. They are rare so they only have 3 skills but a couple of them actually have decent relevance in the game
Tier BFor the action bar progress alone she is one of the most valuable elite rarity hero in DC Worlds Collide.
Tier C+As elite absolutely worth building since she can silence the enemy backrow and if you run into a setup where you actually need that, she is pure gold. She is NOT a healer to keep your team alive, espcially later but the silence is really worth it.
Tier C+One of the very few elite heroes that are worth using due to his ice coffin ability that can turn a frontrow character basically into a burst-survivor if needed. This is not a everyday-lineup situations but if you have to survive high burst, you will be happy to have a halfway decently built Mr Freeze available.
Tier C+Nice assassin type of mechanic where she targets the enemy that is going down the easiest. Useful in several class restricted modes. Powercreep will make her less useful later but early on a extended squad hero for sure.
Tier CActually nice overall and in a carefully orchastrated team he can do quite a bit, but honestly you can also powercreep through it without him so unless there is some more coming from him in the future I don#t see him relevant at all in the meta.
Tier CCool filler tank in the first steps in the game when you start out but you will really quickly realize that he is always the first hero to go down and unless you have class-favor he really has a hard time staying up. Build with great care.
Tier CAs a poison team enabler, yes, works alright and is worth having. But that's pretty much only cause and the main reason that is that his ultimate can add more poisons stacks.
Tier CActually cool assis and target amrking part. He is not scaling enought o have him in every team but there are modes and class-limited teams where he makes a lot of sense actually and he is one of the better elite heroes in DC Worlds Collide, for sure.
Tier CSeveral thoughts here... in a bleed team or class-limited team he can be decent damage dealer although the whole lifesteal part is not really that valuable. Wouldn't go out of my way to build him but having him in the roaster sometimes comes in handy in DC Worlds Collide.
Tier D+I am really disappointed in her. Half her kit is damage dealing which she is bad at since she is support hero. And then her buffs are not only random in targeting, they are also random in what they are. Long story short here is that she is not working well and there is not really much use in her other than gap-filling class restricted teams.
Tier D+Alright for burn team but also there is enough heroes available for burn teams that you can live a happy life in DC Worlds Collide without ever building him.
Tier D+Backrow targeting is cool but the damage is not that impressive and the random debuffing is not really adding to the reliability of him. He is alright and sometimes I have him in teams but overall not a hero you might think too much about and if you use his shards to rank up other heroes you will probably never be at a point where you really will regret that.
He can ba alright early and for some stages and modes where roaster is limited he can work as beefcake in the frontrow but in terms of investing I wouldn't mind too much.
Tier DSame as Phantom Stranger, his kit with self-sacrificing health is just not working.
Tier DHis self-sacrificing health with shielding doesn't scale one bit and after a few days you will see that he will rather drag you down than actually do anything valuable for you.
Rare Heroes
Here are the rare heroes in DC Worlds Collide ranked. Actually they are not even worth looking at.
Tier DDo not build, not worth any invest and even on the first day of playing you get better heroes.
Tier DDo not build, not worth any invest and even on the first day of playing you get better heroes.
Tier DDo not build, not worth any invest and even on the first day of playing you get better heroes.
Tier DDo not build, not worth any invest and even on the first day of playing you get better heroes.
Tier DDo not build, not worth any invest and even on the first day of playing you get better heroes.
Conclusion
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I apologize if I misunderstood something, but in Firestorm, the information indicates that the best artifact is the Kronas Power Gauntlet; however, that item can only be equipped by Green Lanterns. Is there any way for him to equip it? Thanks for your time and for the help with the game.
No unfortunately we had a flag set at him that made that error possible. Really sorry for the confusion, you can’t equip the Gauntlet on him (probably for the better). We fixed this, thanks for letting is know
Crazy, has Hugo Strange ranked higher than Firestorm and Cheshire. Absolutely bonkers
Why did you not read the text next to it? I explain why I did that which is due to the high team-building ceiling needed for Firestorm and I don’t want new players to him S+ and think he carries without the strong legendaries you need for the team. I mean just like you did… look at list, see image, comment non-sense. Firestorm by himself without a proper team around him doesn’t do anything so please everyone reading this, Firestorm is only meta if you go crazy on the legendaries around his synergy and that makes Hugo Strange a lot stronger by himself and that is why he is ranked higher.
Can someone edit the Aquaman picture and add the character render from the game?