Best Avowed Companions, Ranked by Helpfulness

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

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

4. Marius

Early game exploration benefits aside, Marius's utility quickly diminishes as other Companions join your party. His strengths lie in item and plant discovery, but his combat effectiveness lags significantly. Here's a breakdown of his abilities and upgrades:

• 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 enemies, and reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes (upgradeable for instant kills on stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, and increased targets).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed Accumulation (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and further reduce damage).

Marius excels against specific enemy types, particularly when paired with a melee-focused Envoy, but his overall impact falls short for most of the Avowed journey.

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support-oriented Animancer, focuses on healing, shielding, and buffing. While lacking in raw damage, her abilities provide crucial utility, particularly during challenging encounters.

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable for increased healing, enemy interruption, and increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Grants allies temporary health (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 also activates Essence Generators, unlocking late-game areas. She synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

2. Kai

Despite being an early recruit, Kai remains valuable throughout the game. A formidable tank, he delivers substantial damage with minimal player intervention.

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss attack 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 regeneration, and area-of-effect damage on expiration).
• Leap of Daring: Stunning, 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 are effective against various enemy types, offering both single-target and crowd control options. His self-revival further enhances his value. He can also use fire to remove obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, delivers high damage and excellent crowd control. She's the closest thing 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 damage on hit (upgradeable for explosive damage to break objects, increased stun, and status effect chances).

Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her an invaluable asset throughout the entire Avowed experience.

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.