The Best Heroes in DC Dark Legion
Please mind a few things for the tier list below that I changed recently to make it more valuable:
- removed epic heroes altogether. They have been more useful in the open beta but every player since goal launch knows they only feed shards
- use the “details” link on every hero to see the rankings for Campaign, PvP and Combat Cycle to see which modes a hero is really useful in
- Mythic heroes are your long-term goal in DC Dark Legion. I know early on legendaries are better since you can unlock their full kit fast and some actually carry a while but as soon as level deficits get higher, even a 3-Star mythic has better core stats that scale more. Keep that in mind and don#t over-invest into your legendaries as they will not be the ones that will carry you later
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Here are all iconic heroes. Those heroes are extremely powerful and only obtainable throught their limited events and require a high amount of money to be invested to unlock/build them
Tier S+Super overpowered and for most players incredibly hard to get to 5-Star without spending around USD 500 or more. I mean what should I say here how overpowered he is, how whales need him to continue to compete? He is so out of reach for 99% of the players that it makes little sense to write a straight up skill description here and pretent he is a hero like the others. Funplus started doing that in their other games as well with special rarity heroes that are incredible overpowered and super expensive to even get their full kit unlocked and I think we will see those iconic heroes drop more frequently now (e.g. in Sea of Conquest they have their SP heroes every 2-3 months). Good news is, if you are not a significant spender in the game life goes on and it's not like every other player is running around with Death metal Batman out of a sudden and normally you will be little in contact with players actually that have him well-built so you can continue playing the game as you used to.
Tier S+The event was super messy but the core here didn't change - you need to invest a high amount of money, and I am talking way upwards of 3-digit here to unlock and build her and in return you get the most insane hero in DC Dark Legion. She is so incredible powerful once you have her skills unlocked and her exclusive, she is so superior you can#t even compare her with the mythical heroes anymore. She is so strong I directly deducted one tier of any other hero straight up since no hero should be ranked in the same tier as she is. Is she amazing? Yes. Should you get her? Be ready to invest a solid 3-digit sum.
Mythic Heroes
Here are all mythic heroes. Once you get later into the game, those are the heroes running the show, but you need to unlock their skills first so if you're starting out right now maybe take a closer look to the legandry hero section below.
Tier NEWLet's be civil and ignore the fact that this is another batman variation where we still miss so many iconic characters and focus on his kit. He actually deals straight up massive damage without other utility so Bat Family is his biggest synergy to apply his buff but that is it. Not a hero that will change the meta but one that can output a ton of damage straight up.
Tier S+Just ranking her plain by performance with her dual-mode for sure the top of the line support heroes in DC Dark Legion but spending a medium 4-digit dollar amount to get her there to the blue/red stars is a different discussion to have. I mean we saw it with Death Metal Batman and Womder Woman so although not iconic the system seems to be the same for heroes like this and raises serious question if they just want a game where whales battle each other in the future.
Tier SVery interesting character and designed to replace Bane in the Arkham Most Wanted Team. Shines most in PvP where you can survive high bursts and use his crowd control abilities so meta there for sure. Also in Combat Cycle he is reliable for tanking and support against single target bosses.
Tier S+Absolutely crazy damage dealer that becomes stronger and stronger the longer the battle lasts + also loves to break shields. One of the strongest banners we had in a while and with some more Teen Titans in the team for yure a team to pursue.
Tier SWith the reworked VIP system she is only obtainable for purchase starting VIP Level 16, that means you probably invested a solid 4-digit amount in the game in total to be able to buy her. She comes after you finished building Green Lantern and she is a great damage dealer for those players who spend quite a bit on the game. For most players she will never be obtainable.
Tier S+He is amazing just for the way he can deal so much damage against high defense character and tanks (and even bosses). And if you plug him into a team that helps him chain crits his additional damage goes through the roof. One of the few characters that honestly will be in the future very valueble still as big parts of his damage is based on target max HP.
Tier SPretty cool kit with the massive enemy debuffing and the ally shielding. Has a little rough time for team building with the Arkham Mist Wanted synergy of his passive but can be brancehd out and honetly with hiding your comp in Meta Brawl he is for sure absolutely valuable there.
Tier SThe good news is she is really strong in reducing damage, healing and also deals some nice damage as well. But, and here comes the bummer, she needs for sure her legacy piece for that or she will only be mediocre and ideally you want to run her with a solid build Martian Manhunter and Arsenal to unlock that potential. If you do not have them or plan on building them, don't really thing about her too much.
Tier A+She is nuts honestly if you can build her up skill wise, use her legacy piece and combine her with well-build Superman and other fam heroes. I know, not for most players but with the changes to how you get shards in The Bleed it actually is alright as you probably will be able to unlock her full skills a lot easier now. Should you pull her and build her? Well, if you got Superman at a decent spot from the first banner and you are sitting on quite some shards to unlock her full kit and you will be also ready to pull Krypto in the next banner, you will (espcially if you skipped a few of the recent banners) get a huge upgrade to your roaster. But, as always, you need to build her up and simply pull and plug will not work all too well with her.
Tier A+First banner in the game when you start and for sure worth pulling. Works even without many skills unlocked good and becomes one of the strongest early-game damage dealers in DC Dark Legion!.
Tier A+Fun hero with massive massive crit strikes to burst. But that is that and you need to make her fill into a Bat Family Team and we all know how this meta is actually doing. She is not bad, just for the time of release feels not like she is taking the meta anywhere or goes with the meta honestly.
Tier A+Her kit doesn't really have to do much with a guardian honestly, she goes into damage and when she duels it's go-time but she can also be a glass cannon at times and is very rarely a frontline hero that can actually meatshield incoming damage well and against magic teams she is not holding up well at all and get chipped away by AoE damage even.
Tier A+His healing is so good since his excess healing is becoming a shield which helps a lot stacking up and keeping your team alive.
Tier A+A couple things about him. First of all, deals a ton of damage espcially when you can build him to crit all over the place. Combine him in a crit-heavy team that has cross-synergy and he will blast. But that also his his big downside actually (espcially when you are a F2P player that doesn#t have all heroes unlocked with their full skills) because he needs that crit heavy team to really work, so that limits him in terms of what teams he can work with and also those heroes and syerngies don't really have much support so the only real case where they shine is in PvP modes where you actually just burst damage through your enemies (the least friendly mode for players not spending significantly) and in Combat Cycle. So, honestly if you stockpiled some Anvils up to pull banner and you are a F2P or low spender, give this some thoughts and maybe skip Nightwing unless you are a fan and you want your bat family lineup running.
Tier A+Incredibly strong hero whenever you need a lot of damage and he does scale like crazy with his multipliers right now.
Tier A+Really exciting with the Justice league Dark synergy and the way it does suppress enemy energy. Obviously a more PvP focused hero but will shake things up in the arena and can make some accessible team with Wonder Woman, Zatanna and Constantine which are heroes that many players actually have.
Tier A+She is a little bit in the drenches betwen her rework that got taken back immediately but for sure what's coming for her will be top frontline.
Tier A+Nice area damage once you get him built to the point where it makes sense to use him. Really, whenever you have to deal with summons or adds, he is your man.
Tier AAbsolutely light and shadow here and if you can use him with Supergirl he will elevate like crazy. Incredible. If you pulled Supergirl and build here you will have at the point where Superboy is released the strongest pairing running. If not, honestly skip him as there is not much point to build him if you do not build your Superman Family team which requires Superman, Supergirl and Krypto on top of him.
Tier ARanking him is not that easy. his kit does damage which is good but not outstanding and the only thing here that stands out is that he can reduce enemy healing but that is it. Nothing special above that and that brings me to the second part which is the synergy that is primarily Suicide Squad and Weapon Master but that will put him in a team along heroes like Killer Croc and Captain Cold as there are no other synergies out so far which is, looking at your server age when he is released being like 10ish months not really too viable compared to the other teams. Cool character, not bad overall but lacks the amazing team or synergy to really leave a mark (but I am sure The Bleed will offer that soon).
Tier AAbsolutely useful character whenever you run into tricky setups and you will more often than you might think where he is literally the swiss army knife to open the door by taking out the key enemy - but has the downside that building him and unlocking him is expensive and not in all modes super helpful.
Tier AAbsolutely useful and cool character and messes with enemies so much that you almost always gain a huge advantage having him in your lineup.
Tier AWhere other buffing heroes come short, she deals damage and gives massive buffs so she is useful in almost all teams. Solid damage output and the massive attack buffs make literally every team better.
Tier B+Assassins are missing their core support still to keep them all together. So far, Ra's Al Ghul does sacrifiece so much health himself that even with a good healer you get in trouble with your team and this is where we need that Leage of Asaassins support but you also need a Deathstroke well-built. He is, right now, a powercreep and invest into the future. I mean you can still throw any healer in there but there is right now a spot open in the Leage of Assassins team sothis ranking here is in promise of that missing support hero.
Tier B+Super strong and very useful hero with her healing and although she got nerfed a tad in the later version of the public beta, she is still a great hero DC Dark Legion.
Tier B+New faction, new archetype with counterattacking but not even enough Outsiders yet to make the passive work. A hero with a lot of potential but needs Arsenal to really roll and whatever Outsider faction heroes we might see in the future. If you want to jump the gun with him I don't think you will regret having and building him but his immediate effect seems rather small at this very point right now unless you do top ladder PvP and compete in the ranks.
Tier B+All those reworks and buffing and nerfing through the different beta versions never made him useless and he is actually not just a cool but also a strong frontline hero in DC Dark Legion.
Tier B+Really important espcially earlier in the game where you don't have all your heroes fully unlocked with all the skills so his shield, which is massive, does help a ton with getting through difficult stages.
Tier B+He becoma a pure damage dealer, which is great. But the further you get and looking at the invest here, the more you will see that he is not enough anymore and you need heroes that actually also enable the other team members by either buffing damage or support and he doesn't really do that unless you have Legion of Doom allies.
Tier B+Donna Troy... honestly underwhelming. She is not able to really do frontrow and also not really good at dealing damage. Only reason right now is to use her along a Wonder Woman Death Metal which is incredibly expensive to get so the pattern here kind of disappoints when you can build her for free in the event but being useless unless you spend big in the event to get the other hero that makes her worth it.
Tier B+She is a solid hero for many players that don't spend much and getting her bump up to mythic once you finally max her stars out as legendary is a solid improvement here. This means you can actually start investing in her Force Tree and unless you frequently pull new mythic heroes in The Bleed, she will be a frontline hero for many players for a long time. Although she will not be top meta.
Tier B+Nice buff in his kit but I just can't seem to make him work in any main squad enough that I would want to trade him for a carry.
Tier B+Super team buff for any crit and sooner or later you'll need her but no need to think too much about her early on.
Tier B+Quite alright but not too good in a universal matter. There are enough setups and synergies where he can actually shine, but he is for sure no carry or top of the line assassin.
Tier BThe helaer for the Superman Family team. He is alright as healer if you look for a good option, but he is not top of the line and building through the event is alright but not too easy to get him to a great point without investing actually money. If you do have Superman, Supergirl and Superboy running in a team, he is THE healer for them since he provides extra traits and Krypto energy on top of his healing and shielding. If not, collect and unlock his kit and have some fun but I don't really see too much point into going wild here building him.
Tier BCool kit and she can heal and also damage and lifedrain through that with a kit that makes her stay alive quite well. The only real put-off here with her is that she swaps the position with, most of the time, a frontline ally through her 3rd skill and that most of the time doesn't end well for her and can make your team collapse. It's alright if you do it manually, but on auto mode she can break matches apart and I found myself biting my hand more than once because of that. The 3rd skill in general is not useful unless you have a setup where an enemy ports into your backrow and then you can use the swap. That's cool and all but most of the times there is no point in that.
Tier BShe does, just like Ra's, deal so much damage but without the proper support she is just a glass cannon and we are stillmissing the core support for the League of Assassin so this ranking here is more with that unreleased hero in mind and a future promise.
Tier BAlways good. In almost all teams. can deal damage in her line and even hold up frontline easily and with her kit you can keep the enemies at bay. Needs some investment but since you get her for free from the 7-Day-Login and then an relatively cheap get her shards from the daily offers, she can carry you a long time.
Tier BWas so useless when released in the closed beta but now really got it going since his enemy damage taken debuff is so incredible strong that he can make teams happen that aren't even remotely doing the damage output they need to make. For some game modes meta in DC Dark Legion but you will barely use him in your main squad since you need a healing support and running two supports is nuts.
Tier BIs the mythic version worth the effort? Well, the scalers become better but the only real upgrade you have here is that he is untargetable during his ultimate, which adds a lot to his survivability. And damage is alright but nowhere near the top. he becomes a niche option with the mythic upgrade but that's about it so don't spend any resources, do the mission and once you naturally have the Red Hood duplicates to actually to the upgrade you probably already have a other heroes and teams built.
Tier C+Still great ever since the first beta. I mean they obviously wanted a signature character that works for the game but also one that is not so powerful that there is nothing else there. You can safely build him and have a lot of fun with him.
Tier C+He is an alright damage dealer and his messing with enemy positions is nice but the reason he is not ranked higher in this tier list is the fact that he draws enemies together (cool to combine with area damage dealer) but also pushed them away (not so cool for that). And he is not the main DPS carry so you need to add more damage dealer with him. That could all be good but then you also have the 4th skill that literally forces him to be used ina. full team of Justice League heroes, what a limitation!.
Tier C+If you make her synergize well to just pull together enemies and nuke she works well but youhave twobig issues with her why I don'trank her higher. One is that she doesn't have enough sustain to overcome bigger level deficits and if you don't use her as frontline you have to replace one of you beloved backline damage dealers with her which won't work too well neither. If you're on the edge if you should pull her banner or not, I actually think you can skip her and will be fine with that.
Tier C+Nice area damage kit if you need it and there are stages where you need area damage, but him being a physical damage dealer but debuff spiritual damage feels a little off so I don't see him in the top tiers honestly.
Tier C+Was horrible in the horizontal version, is also lackluster in the portrait version. There are a lot better options, espcially for frontline where a pure meatshield will do it but I predict more viablility for PvP with him so have him on the radar later.
Tier C+The more I test him the more lackluster I find him too be. Like as a frontline there are so much better and easier heroes available that I hardly see the point in building him. But again, new heroes can quickly shift the meta so this one can come out on top easily just not right now. But he as a frontline is useless since he will not do what you expect a frontline hero in DC Dark Legion to do and if you're looking for a damage dealer or support there are way better ones available. He is like the mythical version of Cat Woman.
Tier C+Honestly one of the weakest mythics right now and I am sure that the meta with new heroes will change that in the future but I recommend collecting his shards, unlock his skills but do not really build him much before he can actually make some useful and powerful synergies. His whole kit with taunting is often a self-destructive mission and he is quite like the mythic version of Atom that will do a lot but then disappear leaving a big whole in your defensive line.
Tier C+Absolutely disappointing and a waste of spot in your squad since she can't keep your team alive and you need a secondary support. Now you have two of your 3 backrow slots busy... I mean unless there is a significant change she is not useful unless in very certain encounters.
Tier CFirst, he will become more relevant in the future once we see more Outsiders faction heroes. He enables counterattacking, which is specifically Martian Manhunters special so witout him he is just your average damage dealer. Unless you build MM, there is no need to rush Arsenal at this point.
Tier D+Still lacks some damage but has nice survivability. Just don't feel he is useful more than in encounters where you need him.
Tier D+Early on Intimidators aren't that much needed so you will probably not find much value in using her in the earlier stages of DC Dark Legion but that gives you time to unlock her full kit. For later, her scalers aren't the biggest so the percentages she debuffs aren't too impressive so building her shouldn't be something to think about too early.
Tier D+For me easily the weakest mythical hero in DC Dark Legion right now! There is simply not much he can do altogether and I would often enough replace him with a well-developed legendary hero.
Legendary Heroes
Here are all legendary heroes. They are for most players the bread-and-butter since you will be able to unlock their full skill kit soon and build them early on and they will carry you for the most parts - the only thing is, not all of them are that great
Tier B+Pretty strong and you will get him for free when starting out. Pretty nice hero, worth and cheap to build and absolutely a carry for a while.
Tier BPretty good, espcially considering that you will get her as a free starter hero and she can be a secondary tank for a while + once you max her starts, what you automatically will even as a F2P, you will be able to upgrade her to mythic. Unless you spend early on and pull mythics early on, she will be part of your path for quite a while.
Tier BGreat healer early in the game but has some flaws. She went up and down but I feel now with the global launch they have finally balanced her right for healing well enough without being too strong and being able to stay alive. You get her when you start and she can easily be your bread-and-butter healer for a while.
Tier C+Great early game damage dealer and stays alright espcially whenever you need spiritual damage. You unlock his kit very fast and from there you can use him in most teams for a while.
Tier CGood damage. I mean he won't change the world or scale much but for the earlier parts you can run him and build him as solid carry.
Tier CYou will get her right at the start and build her really easily. Still, she is not really fitting in with her kit since she can't off-tank much and also doesn't justify a spot in your teams with the mediocre damage she deals. Cool to fill your team early but also after a couple of days you can swap her out and never look back.
Tier CQuite good but misses synergy at this early stage which holds him back.
Tier CFantastic support overall and absolutely worth building since she scales allies attack by a multiplier which means that this will work a lot later with a lot stronger heroes as well. She chips good damage earlier but the further you progress, the more she will be the hero to constantly give your team the attack buff. She might not be the hero too use all too much very early until you specizalie your comps more so don't put all resources into her in the first days since she is rather a late bloomer.
Tier D+Decent character. I think if he lost his suicide bombing ultimate gimmick he would be pretty good. His shrinking skill helps him live and he does decent damage. He is an early cheese character if a chapter is tough but close and you can manually trigger his explosion to get maximum value but I doubt that is enough to really build him if I am honest.
Tier DConclusion
We hope this list helps you selecting the heroes that work well in DC Dark Legion and if you have any more questions, please let us know in the comments.
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In Super Girls details you mentioned krypton’s banner. But he doesn’t require a banner. Maybe you meant Superboy?
What happened to sinestro?
must have slipped out, let me check the database if for whatever reason he is set to not be included in the list. thanks for reporting
Awesome thanks !
Found him, must have accidentally deleted his line when updating. Thanks for letting me know 🙂
Thanks for the list, really helpful!