Unicorn Overlord Tier List: How to Judge Classes

Tier lists are community-made rankings that sort units or classes into labelled groups, usually from most useful at the top. Unicorn Overlord has plenty of them on fan sites and video channels, but nothing of the sort appears in the material captured for this page on 2026-09-26: no ranking published by ATLUS or Vanillaware and no in-game ranking screen was found, and every readable list was written by a player or a guide site. That is a statement about what was found, not a claim that no official ranking has ever existed.

This wiki therefore does not publish a ranking of its own. The captured lists contradict each other on placements, none states a patch number, and the newest patch that could be confirmed is v1.05 (2024-05-27). What this page offers instead is the criteria those sources use, a description of what their lists claim, and a way to score your own units. The player-made video on this page is one of those rankings, and its advice is treated here as community guidance rather than as a verified description of game mechanics.

The captured sources all evaluate a unit against the squad around it, not in isolation. Run the same test on your own roster.

1. 1

   Name the object

   Are you judging a class (Knight, Hoplite, Witch), a named character, or a squad slot? Class-level and character-level verdicts describe different things and do not convert into each other.

2. 2

   State your rules

   One captured list states that its author played Expert without mercenaries, did not farm experience, gold or honors, and avoided swapping items mid-combat. A placement earned under those rules may not describe your run, and the community vote thread left difficulty open by design.

3. 3

   Score the criteria, not the label

   Ask whether the unit acts early, hits more than one target, applies control such as stun or blind, moves quickly on the map, refunds AP on single-target attacks, soaks damage by blocking or by evading, and how broadly it supports.

4. 4

   Check the date and the patch

   A placement is only as good as the patch it was made on. None of the captured lists states a version, so no placement can be checked against the confirmed v1.05 (2024-05-27) build.

5. 5

   Attribute anything you repeat

   Write down who made the list, on which platform, under which rules, and when. Without an owner and a rule set, a placement is just a label.

The captured sources agree on why rankings are unstable: value depends on the squad around the unit, its gear and the player's plan. A commenter in the captured personal-list thread argues the game suits tier lists badly because so much is formation and loot dependent. The author of the community vote thread summarises what players rewarded: going first, hitting several enemies at once, crowd control, map mobility, and single-target attacks that give AP back. Those are player preferences, not game formulas.

A second reason is form. A player-made video in the same capture warns that a base class's placement does not indicate where its promoted version lands, and says promoted classes will get a separate episode. Before comparing two lists, check whether they describe the same form.

• Initiative: acting before the enemy, especially for early buffs and debuffs.
• Multi-target damage and control: hitting rows or columns, plus stun and blind.
• Mobility and AP economy: leader movement on the map, and single-target attacks that refund the point.
• Survivability style: evade-based tanks versus armour-based tanks.
• Support breadth: healing, debuffing, conferral and charge support.

Three rankings were readable in this capture. Each is reported at its true weight, and each is a snapshot of opinion rather than a rule.

The first is a personal list on r/UnicornOverlord by Sleepyzzzzzzz, from an Expert run without mercenaries. It orders characters and units, and the author flags groups where units land oddly because of how he used them and how far into the game you are. The thread carries pushback: one commenter argues tier lists fit this game poorly, and several dispute placements.

The second is a community class list compiled by applejackhero from weeks of daily vote threads, described as a snapshot of how the community felt early in the game's metagame, covering single-player play in roughly the standard order with no difficulty specified. Vote counting used majority and then median figures and, in the author's words, sometimes vibes; he says a few placements are outliers he would change, and the list skips endgame classes.

The third is the player-made video on this page, by TitaniumLegman, ranking mid-game classes by how they function around the time you obtain them and how versatile they are. Valor skills are set aside, base classes are judged separately from promoted ones, and the author says he may shift placements before the series ends. Its caption source is unverified, and the video's date and patch are unknown.

None of the three settles anything: one is a single player's opinion from one run under self-imposed restrictions, one is a community vote from the game's early days, and one is a commentary series that plans to revise itself. Quote them with owners attached, not as facts about the game.

• You can explain a unit by criteria such as acting early or hitting a row, not by its position in someone's list.
• You can name the author, platform, rules and relative age of any ranking you pass on.
• You keep base and promoted forms apart, and you do not answer a class question with a character list.
• When two lists disagree, you can describe the disagreement without crowning a winner.

These are the failure cases the captured sources warn about themselves.

• You copied a placement and fights stall: the list was answering a different question, whether a different object layer, difficulty, rule set, or point in the story.
• Your unit is missing from a list: none of the captured lists is complete, since one excludes mercenaries and the vote thread skips endgame classes and admits counting errors.
• The same unit sits far apart in two lists: a known disagreement between these sources, and this wiki does not referee it.
• You judged a promoted form by its base form's placement: the video author warns that this does not follow.
• The list feels dated: no source carries a patch label, so nothing can be confirmed against v1.05 or later.

If you would rather skip lists entirely, the criteria in the steps above are the path this wiki recommends. Class vocabulary lives on the classes overview, pairings live on the class combinations page, and squad layout belongs to the formations pages.

This page reflects material observed on 2026-09-26. The newest patch that could be confirmed for this wiki is v1.05 (2024-05-27), and the supported platforms are PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S.

The gaps are worth stating plainly: the captured rankings carry no version numbers, and their absolute publication dates could not be recovered, only relative ages. One candidate result for this query returned no readable text at capture time and is not used here, and several other candidates were not retrieved at all. Patch notes before v1.05 were not reviewed, so nothing on this page should be read as surviving a balance change. If an official ranking ever appears, this page would be rewritten around it.