Avowed's Companions: A Ranked Guide from Worst to Best
Beyond their narrative roles and dialogue, Avowed's Companions offer practical advantages, from pathfinding to combat prowess. This guide ranks each Companion from least to most effective.
4. Marius
Marius proved less compatible with most playstyles in my Avowed experience. While his passive skills aid early exploration, he's quickly outmatched by later Companions. His strengths lie in item and plant discovery, but his combat capabilities are limited.
- Blinding Roots: Roots enemies (upgradeable to stun, trap multiple, and inflict Bleed).
- Heart Seeker: Piercing shot that always hits (upgradeable to hit two enemies, increased damage to low-health enemies, and reduced cooldown).
- Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes an enemy (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage to low-health enemies, and multiple strikes).
- Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed Accumulation (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and reduce enemy damage).
Marius excels against melee enemies with low health, but his niche abilities don't justify his inclusion throughout most of the Living Lands.
3. Giatta
Giatta, a support-focused Animancer, utilizes magic for healing, shielding, and party buffs. While lacking in damage output, her utility shines in intense situations like boss fights.
- Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to increased healing, enemy interruption/knockback, and increased ally damage reduction).
- Barrier: Grants allies 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: Attacks heal allies (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, unlocking late-game areas. She synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.
2. Kai
Despite being an early Companion, Kai remains valuable throughout the game. This tank deals significant damage with minimal player intervention.
- Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss attack with high stun and taunt (upgradeable to ignite target, increased stun, and reduced cooldown).
- Unbending Defense: Health regeneration and damage reduction (upgradeable to increased damage reduction, increased health regeneration, and damaging shockwave on expiration).
- Leap of Daring: Stunning and taunting area-of-effect attack (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 burst, and ability cooldown reset).
Kai's abilities are potent against various enemy types, excelling in both single-target and crowd control. His self-revival further enhances his effectiveness. He can also use fire to remove obstacles.
1. Yatzli
Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, boasts high-damage attacks and superior crowd control. She's the closest thing to air support in the Living Lands.
- Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable to larger blast radius, fire accumulation, and reduced cooldown).
- Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Volley of homing arcane missiles (upgradeable to increased fire rate, range, and shock accumulation).
- Arduos Delay of Motion: Slows enemies (upgradeable to intensified slowing, area-of-effect slow, and frost accumulation).
- Blast: Area-of-effect burst damage on hit (upgradeable to explosive damage for breaking blocks/walls, shattering frozen enemies, and increased stun/status effects).
Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her an invaluable Companion, despite being recruited last.
Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.
