Avowed's Companions: A Ranked Guide from Worst to Best
Beyond their narrative roles and dialogue, Avowed's Companions offer practical in-game advantages, from pathfinding to combat prowess. This guide ranks each Companion from least to most effective.
- Marius
Early-game exploration benefits aside, Marius quickly becomes outmatched. His strengths lie in item and plant discovery, but his combat capabilities are underwhelming.
Abilities & Upgrades:
- Blinding Roots: Roots enemies (upgradeable to stun, trap multiple, and inflict Bleed).
- Heart Seeker: Piercing shot (upgradeable to hit two enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, reduced cooldown).
- Shadow Step: Vanishes and attacks (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, multiple targets).
- Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and reduce enemy damage).
Marius excels against specific enemy types, particularly when paired with a melee Envoy, but his overall impact is limited for most of the game.
- Giatta
Giatta, a support-focused Animancer, prioritizes healing, shielding, and party buffs over raw damage. Her protective abilities are invaluable during challenging encounters, such as boss fights.
Abilities:
- Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to increased healing, enemy interruption, and increased ally damage reduction).
- Barrier: Provides temporary health (upgradeable to increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, and protection from melee attacks).
- Acceleration: Increases ally movement and attack speed (upgradeable to damage reduction, extended duration, and ability cooldown reduction).
- Reconstruction: Heals allies with attacks (upgradeable to increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health for full-health allies, 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.
- Kai
Despite being an early recruit, Kai remains consistently useful. This tank deals significant damage with minimal player intervention.
Abilities & Upgrades:
- Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss attack with stun and taunt (upgradeable to ignite, increased stun, and reduced cooldown).
- Unbending Defense: Health regeneration and damage reduction (upgradeable to increased damage reduction, increased regeneration, and area-of-effect damage on expiration).
- Leap of Daring: Area-of-effect stun and taunt (upgradeable to increased area of effect, temporary health per hit, and bonus attack damage per hit).
- Second Wind: Self-revival (upgradeable to increased health restoration, attack speed boost, and ability cooldown reset).
Kai's abilities are effective against various enemy types, offering both single-target and crowd control options. His self-revival further enhances his value. He can also utilize fire to remove obstacles.
- Yatzli
Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, boasts high-damage attacks and excellent crowd control, providing the closest thing to air support in the game.
Abilities & Upgrades:
- Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable to increased blast radius, fire accumulation, and reduced cooldown).
- Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Volley of homing missiles (upgradeable to increased fire rate, range, and shock accumulation).
- Arduos Delay of Motion: Slows enemies (upgradeable to increased slow, area-of-effect, and frost accumulation).
- Blast: Area-of-effect damage on hit (upgradeable to explosive damage for breaking obstacles, increased stun, and status effect chance).
Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her a top-tier companion, despite being the last recruited.
Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.
