Maxing out a hero in Hero Wars takes a lot of time and resources so picking the right ones early in the game you put your effort into is probably the smartes thing you can do long-term. Below I have a tier list for you that will show you what heroes are actually worth it in Hero Wars.
There are also several heroes that are great early in the game but will get worse later and you have still wasted your resources on them.
Please also refer to my recently updated list of skins & glyps to level for each hero here, great hero synergies that makes great teams here and also useful, my guide for countering every hero in Hero Wars here.
What Are The Best Heroes in Hero Wars?
Before we jump into the tier list, please let me clarify something about the new ranking system.
The New Ranking System
So here’s the issue with many tier lists: they try to make sense of heroes individually. But individual strength means nothing in Hero Wars, it’s about who you counter and what heroes you form synergies with.
For that reason I chenged the ranking in my tier list for Hero Wars and I believe it makes a lot more sense for everyone looking what heroes are strong. The main new ranking criterias now are:
- Synergy: basically how easily can I combine the hero with other heroes and how many good teams use the hero. Heroes that are found in many teams and are going with more other heroes get a higher score for that. The reason is those heroes will make it easier for you to form teams for whatever you need later in the game
- Hydra: is becoming increasingly important in Hero Wars so the higher the ranking of a hero for that mode the more teams you can find that hero in that have proven to make great damage. Please refer to my top hydra teams guide here for more info.
So, this is how the total rank is calculated. Right now hydra makes 30% of the total rank but I might adjust that later on.
Updated! I added my first throughts in Folio and will update with more details very soon after her release to give you a good indication on if she’s worth building or not at this point.
Hero Wars Tier List
Alright, let’s go directly to the list:
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Conclusion
I hope you find the tier list useful and check out my other guides in Hero Wars. If you have further questions, just leave a comment below and I’ll be happy to answer.
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In every major update i never seen their tier change, isnt the game buff and nerf their heroes? I always use this as my reference but im not sure now cause the static ranking here
Hero Wars work different than other similar games as heroes will not go from zero to hero with some changes in their kit since their power comes from synergies with other heroes to make strong comps and their ability to counter other key heroes with their skill mechanics rather than stats. This means their role is often more shaped when new heroes are released which, before 2024, was not often the case and we saw somewhat like 2-3 new heroes per year. Hero Wars Alliance breaks that pattern now with monthly new heroes but unless they can smash heavily by making new and very strong synergies, the broad tiers are quite static. I think I can name super drastic changes from heroes being trash and then suddenly great and vice versa over the last 5 years on one hand. In general, all heroes are working more or less if you can set them in a fitting composition and against an enemy where they will work. Some just make more and easier synergies with more heroes and work against more setups better than others which makes a huge part of the tier list here. The only thing that normally changes a hero performance dramatically is when you see a dev post that has the phrase “hero rework” in it
I think some commenters are missing the point that this list ranks heroes primarily on their synergy potential and not their individual strength as a hero. This list is all about end game.
Thank you, that is the point 🙂
Hi, my name is Michael Nunes, you can call me just Michael! I’m guessing that you could make a tier list for the heroes to use against hydras, but I’m also guessing that you need to see a tier list that you haven’t seen yet perhaps and that it will shed some light on the heroes to use against the different hydras for each turn because there’s 3 turns against them. So in this case or scenario, I would like to know which hero teams to use in each turn against one hydra at a time similar to a tier list that I got about two or three years ago, is there some way I can attach a picture of this tier list to this message?
LEGENDARY*
Darkness
84.91 Water
57.98 Earth
Top 2nd
§a (A)
Top
2nd
Sed
Top
2nd
346 (0)
rutus
galahad aurora markus astaroth galahad celeste galahad andvari sebastian ging mao maya simir satori lihy simit yasmine
mojo daredevil celeste celeste sebastian nebula molo daradeni maya xe’sha fox nebula hu daredevil orion lorion fox sebastian martha dorian cornelius mojo dorian martha martha dorian
Low
37.15
26.01
521
18.60
10 64
8.18
2141
15 89
3
Nigh
39 46
30.20
15.25 22.39
2326
12.33
30.53
31 83
Light
91.36 wind
68.69
Top
2nd
3rd (A)
Тор
2nd
3rd
Top
201
censte
Thu
markus andvart astaroth markus marks elmir alvano
mojo daredevil ging mao ihu sebastian satori mojo
[hu
celeste
ke’sha fox
alvanor mojo daredevil alvanor xe’sha daredevil orion
Wth
dorian nebula xe’sha fox orion
Lith fox phobos
martha tha
cornelius martha dorian phobos martha dorian
Low
522
thes
17.86
6.74
35.09
19.01
6.16
High
52 22
2171
17.63
13s
48.24
23.90
23.32
9.02
50.76
86.74
Maybe this won’t be attached as a real picture I meant to send to you but can you contact to me by email so that I can send the picture attached to the message I will send, because this way, this tier list will be useful to me, I hope you’ll understand me, thanks!
Sincerely
Michael Nunes
Just wanted to let you know your missing Krista/Lars.
upvote the request 🙂
Thanks
What’s your YouTube account?
Hi, nice guide here! Just want to point out that the “BEST SKINS & GLYPHS PRIORITY” link under each hero goes to AFK Arena artifacts page.
Thank you for the lists you provide. I just wanted to point out Jhu’s photo is under both B and D. Heidi’s photo is under both C and F. Lilith, Alvanor, and Amira are missing.
Lol you don’t know shit…I wasted my time reading this
Comments like yours are completely useless to someone who took a lot of time to create this. Did he hurt your feelings because your KSJ team isn’t S+. Grow up and provide useful criticism. As far as I could tell everything was pretty close other than his Artemis facts which are way off since she is undoubtedly the strongest physical attacker in the game and her GTF combo is a doozy. Still try to not be an obnoxious tool and instead provide helpful info to make the site better. The biggest problem with HW community is people like you. There is an adage as old as time that still rings with truth. Talk to people like you want to be spoken to.
è la mia migliore eroina!! Sì!
Whatever hero you use, make sure to max out glyphs and artifact FIRST. These boost your hero’s stat at the least cost to you. I never used Aurora because I started in mobile and she was terrible in mobile. Thought Galahad was really good though… The reason I said glyphs and artifacts because they use resources that you should have plenty of and it boosts the hero by at LEAST 20,000-40,000 points if you have them maxed out. It’s much easier than trying to increase rank or skins. A hero at violet +3 with maxed out artifact and glyphs will be more powerful than a hero at Orange +4 without any artifacts or glyphs.
Maya saves my team again and again with her healing. D? Not at all, she’s rated A or B on other sites. Damn. And Astorath is sooooo overrated in all of these. He dies in a blink of an eye even with resurrection. Horrible hero. And damn, Aurora? She needs all resources devoted to dodge. Qing Mao, Maya, and Alvanor paired with Aurora (Alvanor, who you don’t bother to list) are A to S heroes 100%.
Yeah. Maya saves my full team in Compagion but nowhere else. Definitely not D tier. About A-B tier. Yasmine is pretty deadly and kills my team in a blink of an eye. S-A tier. And Astaroth? He’s killed right after I left to take a drink of water. ( even with resurrection) Aurora is good enough when she’s very upgraded( violet rank, dodge high, Cain protanged…) Also, here’s what’s funny: WHY IS CELESTE B+ TIER?!? She’s the second-best healer in the game in all guides that I know except for this one. Definitely an S- tier.
EXACTLY! She’s a GREAT hero. I’ve been trying to beat her in the tower for months, and I always failed. She is a great hero, in my opinion, her attacks are super strong. For example, my sister’s heroes are at violet rank. She’s been fighting in the tower. And for her, Yasmine is at violet rank too, whenever she fights in the tower. My sister always loses her at least 3 out of 5 heroes because of Yasmine. Yasmine is an awesome hero. I LOVE Yasmine. She is very deadly, just like you said
But she is so easily countered by Helios. She lasts no time at all if Helios opposes
What does tier “S” mean?
Do any of you like Lian and is she strong?
S tier is better than all the tiers, even better than A tier. S tier is sort of like a A++ tier.
”S” Tier means something like – ”Super” or ”Special” ( better than A+ )
Chabba survives well when upgraded I like how he just eats the enemy
Is there a web version of this somewhere?
Facebook.. if you mean the game
Luther is fairly good but he looses health too quickly so I have to wait until I can hit the opposing team really hard so he doesn’t die. If you use Astroath’s attack and his at the same time it can reduce some of the attack.
Markus’s ultimate skill will help Luther survive longer. You can put another healer for better support cause Markus can die too quickly.
No your playing the web version, I play both and the FB version i think is much harder because so many more play it
The list misses Thea (solo) and mentions Maya twice: D and B+.
Also, why is Yasmine ranked D? I think she can be quite powerful to clear opponents’ weak spots.
Why has this list changed so drastically in just two weeks??
Yeah ??? i don’t get it
Warum tauscht Isaac noch nicht auf?
Is luther really good?
imo luther is a good tank, however he is vulnerable to magic damage and cant compare to tanks such as asteroth who will survive much better overall. he is good to pair with asteroth since they both have good health pools and luther will benefit from asteroth’s blue skill.
he is good at distracting the other team but his health is really bad so when he teleports to the other team you are gonna have to end the battle really quick or you’ll lose him
In facebook you have max of 20 skill points.
Kai is the very best hero and that is a fact
just because you write it here doesn’t make it a fact 😉
I play on my computer, not on facebook and not on a moble device. My guess is that I play the facebook version, but I can’t confirm that. Can anyone help me out with this?
anything other than hero wars app on mobile can be considered the same as facebook, so yes, you play facebook.