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

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

4. Marius

Early game exploration benefits aside, Marius quickly becomes outmatched. His utility lies in item and plant discovery, but his combat capabilities are underwhelming. His abilities, detailed below, primarily focus on crowd control and weakening enemies, making him a niche choice except for specific enemy types or melee-focused Envoy builds.

• 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 an enemy (upgradeable for instant kills on stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low health, and increased targets).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed Accumulation (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and reduce enemy damage).

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support-oriented Animancer, excels at healing, shielding, and buffing the party. While not a damage dealer, her utility is invaluable during challenging encounters. Her ability to power Essence Generators also unlocks late-game areas. She synergizes particularly well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

• 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: Attacks partially heal allies (upgradeable for increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health for full-health allies, and ally revival on enemy kill).

2. Kai

An early-game companion who remains useful throughout, Kai is a formidable tank capable of significant damage with minimal player intervention. His self-revival ability further enhances his value. He also utilizes fire to remove environmental obstacles.

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss shot with high stun and taunt (upgradeable for ignition, increased stun, and reduced cooldown).
• Unbending Defense: Regenerates health and increases damage reduction (upgradeable for increased damage reduction, increased health regeneration, and area-of-effect damage on expiration).
• Leap of Daring: Stuns and taunts nearby enemies (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 boost, and ability cooldown reset).

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, delivers high damage and excellent crowd control. Her abilities make her akin to air support in the game's world. She also clears obstacles, granting access to new areas. Despite being recruited last, she's a valuable asset.

• 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 obstacles, increased stun, and status effect chances).

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.