Best Avowed Companions, Ranked by Helpfulness

Avowed's Companions: A Ranked Guide from Worst to Best

Beyond their narrative roles and engaging dialogue, Avowed's Companions offer significant practical advantages, from pathfinding to combat prowess. This guide ranks each Companion from least to most effective.

4. Marius

Early game exploration benefits aside, Marius quickly becomes outmatched. His passive skills aid in locating items and plants, but his combat effectiveness is limited.

• Blinding Roots: Roots enemies (upgradeable to stun, trap multiple, and inflict Bleed).
• Heart Seeker: Piercing shot that always hits (upgradeable for multi-target, increased damage vs. low health, and reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes (upgradeable for instant kills on stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low health, and increased target count).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and reduce enemy damage).

Marius excels against low-health, melee-focused enemies, but his niche abilities don't justify his inclusion throughout most of the Avowed journey.

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support-oriented Animancer, prioritizes healing, shielding, and party buffs over raw damage. Her protective abilities prove invaluable during challenging encounters, such as boss fights.

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable for increased healing, enemy interruption, and increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Provides temporary health to allies (upgradeable for increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, and self-protection).
• Acceleration: Increases ally movement and attack speed (upgradeable for damage reduction, extended duration, and ability cooldown reduction).
• Reconstruction: Heals allies with attacks (upgradeable for increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health at max health, and ally revival on enemy kill).

Giatta can also activate Essence Generators, opening late-game areas. She synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

2. Kai

Despite being an early recruit, Kai remains a valuable asset throughout the game. This tank deals substantial damage with minimal player intervention.

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss shot with high stun and taunt (upgradeable for ignition, increased stun, and reduced cooldown).
• Unbending Defense: Health regeneration and damage reduction (upgradeable for increased damage reduction, increased health regeneration, and a damaging shockwave on expiration).
• Leap of Daring: Stunning and taunting area-of-effect attack (upgradeable for increased area of effect, temporary health per hit, and bonus attack damage per hit).
• Second Wind: Self-revival (upgradeable for increased health restoration, attack speed burst, and ability cooldown reset).

Kai's abilities excel against both single, high-health targets and groups. His self-revival capability further enhances his effectiveness. He can even use fire to clear obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, delivers high damage and exceptional crowd control. She's the closest equivalent to air support in the Living Lands.

• Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable for increased blast radius, fire accumulation, and reduced cooldown).
• Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Volley of homing missiles (upgradeable for increased fire rate, range, and shock accumulation).
• Arduos Delay of Motion: Slows enemies (upgradeable for increased slow, area-of-effect slow, and frost accumulation).
• Blast: Area-of-effect burst damage on hit (upgradeable for explosive damage to break obstacles, increased stun, and status effect chance).

Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her the top Companion choice, despite being recruited last.

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.