T3 Arena hero tier list: Best characters ranked

It’s a bit of an uphill task to pick the right hero in T3 Arena, as the game adds new characters pretty regularly, so our tier list has all you need to know to help you prioritize the best heroes for ranked mode.

T3 Arena roster of characters each has their own unique abilities and ultimates, but much like other games in the genre, some are generally more powerful than others. This doesn’t a necessarily mean they can deal more damage, but oftentimes, their kit allows you to easily make big plays regardless of the composition.

So if you want to know which characters can give you a huge advantage in your next match, keep reading for our rankings of each hero from best to worst.

T3 Arena character tier list

Tier	Heroes
S	Fort, Gloria, Hua Ling, Iris, Labula, Neon, Tigris, Victor
A	Aleta, Chemist, Cristina, Daimon, Fade, Gatlyn, Judex, Mark, Ossas, Shell, Sindri, Skadi
B	Diggy, Hunter, Johnny Jet, Lacia, Ono, Ruby, Vincent, Zero-Kelvin
C	Jabali, Kazama, Yaa

As of Super Season 4 – Lunar Royale (SS4), the roster size increased to a total of 31 heroes, with Tigris being the latest character to have joined the hero pool, who currently sits right up top in the S-Tier.

Following our previous update, the in-game meta has slightly shifted. The most significant change was given to Aleta, who went up to A-tier from C-tier. Utility-based characters such as Fort and Sindri also went up one tier, while Chemist and Diggy dropped down into lower rankings because they’re not as impactful as before.

Our tiers explained

• S-tier: These characters are the best ones to use, providing a lot of value during fights with their entire kit.
• A-tier: Though not as effective as S-tier, these characters are still great and worth having in your team.
• B-tier: Not the best characters to run, and if they are, it’s mostly situational.
• C-tier: These characters are generally outclassed by all the others.

S-Tier heroes

Fort

• Active Ability 1: Antimatter Barrier
• Active Ability 2: Antimatter Armor
• Passive Ability: Impact Shield
• Ultimate Ability 1: Gravity Swirl
• Ultimate Ability 2: Annihilation Bomb

Fort is the one tank you absolutely shouldn’t sleep on in this game. If there’s one way to describe him, he’s like a mix of Zarya and early Orisa from Overwatch 2. One of his abilities allows you to send a curved barrier to stop incoming damage or protect your teammates. Meanwhile, his Graviton Swirl ultimate is very similar to Zarya’s, dragging all nearby enemies in one spot.

There are a ton of combos you can pull off with your team when they’re all caught in his ultimate. Though you can also just use your weapon to stick out all his missiles that will explode after a short time, guaranteeing a sweep.

Gloria

• Active Ability 1: ZMR Assault Rifle
• Active Ability 2: Air Blast Mine
• Passive Ability: Dashing
• Ultimate Ability 1: Quicksand Bomb
• Ultimate Ability 2: Amplifier Module

Gloria is one such character who is efficient in both close and long-range combat. Her ZMR Assault Rifle acts like a shotgun at close range while zooms in with 30 bullets when you try to take down an enemy from a distance. Air Blast Mine is the second Active Ability that tosses an invisible mine that can explode twice and knock enemies away.

Her passive ability gives her a movement boost and can be quite useful when chasing down opponents or running away from intense moments.

Hua Ling

• Active Ability 1: Snare Bomb
• Active Ability 2: Petal Out
• Passive Ability: Infrared Scan
• Ultimate Ability 1: Blast Arrow
• Ultimate Ability 2: Whirlwind

Introduced in Season 1, Hua Ling is the master of archery in the game. When she combines her Snare Bomb with Blast Arrow, it becomes almost impossible for the enemy to survive.

Her second Active Ability allows her to jump backward and turn invisible. She’ll be visible after firing a weapon, much like Sombra from Overwatch 2.

Iris

• Active Ability 1: Pie-Bot
• Active Ability 2: Bursting Electric Arc
• Passive Ability: Med Sampling
• Ultimate Ability 1: Healing Field
• Ultimate Ability 2: Blinding Orb

Iris’ abilities make her the ideal healer in the game. Not only does her Pie-Bot ability lets her heal herself, but it can also be used to attach on an ally, which means you don’t always have to keep an eye on them at all times. Meanwhile, her Bursting Electric Arc ability can be clutch since it inflicts additional damage upon taking damage.

She also has a really useful passive, which makes knocked-out opponents drop health pickups. This can be crucial for her teammates when the fight gets intense.

Labula

• Active Ability 1: Bouncy Spores
• Active Ability 2: Eternal Generator
• Passive Ability: Charging Barrier
• Ultimate Ability 1: Coral Blast
• Ultimate Ability 2: La La Pop!

Labula is one such character in the game who can take down an enemy almost in an instant. His Bouncy Spores inflict a good amount of damage when hit, both in close and long-range fights. The second Active Ability summons an Eternal Generator that prevents allies from dying, but it’s limited to a certain range.

His ultimate deploys a non-moving clone but can double down on the damage where Labula is aiming at.

Neon

• Active Ability 1: Floral Radiance
• Active Ability 2: Floral Repay
• Passive Ability: Floral Gale
• Ultimate Ability 1: Floral Wall
• Ultimate Ability 2: Wrath of the Blossom

Neon is a healer introduced in Super Season 1. Her Active Abilities include Floral Radiance and Repay which allows her to heal and also teleport to allies. The Floral Gale ability gives her a move speed boost when she’s using Floral Radiance.

The ultimate makes her and the targeted ally’s first active ability temporarily invincible. These abilities make her one of the best active healers across the entire roster.

Tigris

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• Active Ability 1: Charged Guard
• Active Ability 2: Shield Slam
• Passive Ability: Charged Shield
• Ultimate Ability: Decisive Cast

Tigris was added in January 2024 and you may say this character is the Captain America of T3 Arena. He throws a charged shield at opponents that ricochets and explodes on contact. The ultimate ability goes a level beyond where the shield automatically seeks out opponents and stuns them. This alone makes him one of the best tanks in the game, as there’s so much team wipe potential that he brings to the team.

Victor

• Active Ability 1: Tackle Charge
• Active Ability 2: Well-built
• Passive Ability: Speed Loading
• Ultimate Ability 1: M.G.P
• Ultimate Ability 2: Ramming Speed

With his powerful shotgun, Victor can truly hit like a truck if you land your shots. He has a whopping 6600 HP and 4200 Shield counts, which can prove to be a nightmare when going head-to-head against the enemy team.

Though the shotgun’s fire rate is slow, he makes it up with his dash ability, giving him an extra mobility to finish off enemies or reposition.

A-Tier heroes

Aleta

• Active Ability 1: Holo-Dash
• Active Ability 2: Image Return
• Passive Ability: Duble-Jumper
• Ultimate Ability 1: Decoy-Bomb
• Ultimate Ability 2: Holo-Burst

Aleta is very similar to Tracer from Overwatch 2, She has dual-wielded pistols and has an excellent mobility thanks to her three dashes. Her Image Return ability allows her to teleport back to the position she was in three seconds ago, also recovering her HP to the highest level during that period.

She used to be ranked lower, but with a hero such as Tigris added to the game, Aleta’s kit makes her a fantastic flanker that can pressure and harass the enemy team’s backline.

Chemist

• Active Ability 1: Rapid-shot
• Active Ability 2: Life-Blocking Cannon
• Passive Ability: Improved Compound
• Ultimate Ability 1: Potent Trigger
• Ultimate Ability 2: Life Resonance

Chemist is one of those characters who can both inflict damage and heal her teammates at the same. Her first Active Ability fires multiple grenades at once while the second Active Ability fires a blocking cannon preventing opponents from healing temporarily. Her Ultimate ability can boost one of her teammate’s combat effectiveness for a short amount of time.

Although her kit sounds good on paper, as a healer, she’s outclassed by Iris. Since her weapon is a projectile, there’s a little bit of a delay of when her grenades will hit enemies or heal teammates. This also means you have to play quite closer to them.

Cristina

• Active Ability 1: Sticky Bomb
• Active Ability 2: Blasting Jump
• Passive Ability: Incendiary Casing
• Ultimate Ability 1: Cluster Grenade
• Ultimate Ability 2: Trap Blossom

Cristina carries a grenade launcher that shoots projectiles, much like Junkrat from Overwatch 2. These projectiles can deal some severe damage when hit, which your the accuracy needs to be very precise. Her Trap Blossom ultimate is perfect to set up on objectives, which in a way, would essentially force enemies to step on your traps in order to contest the point.

Daimon

• Active Ability 1: Greedy Leap
• Active Ability 2: Lazy Bomb
• Passive Ability: Arrogant Shield
• Ultimate Ability: Glutton Beam

Daimon was introduced to the game with Super Season 3 – War of Gods. A genetically modified human, you can unlock this character after reaching Level 30 of the Premium Battle Pass. Daimon’s Wrath Cannon is capable of insane damage while the active abilities allow her to reposition herself and deal additional damage.

Fade

• Active Ability 1: Plunder Rush
• Active Ability 2: Quantum Shield
• Passive Ability: C-Conversion
• Ultimate Ability 1: Atom Fade
• Ultimate Ability 2: Naval Bombardment

Fade is the 26th hero in T3 Arena and his main weapon, Quantum Cannon, can deal massive damage to opponents in close range. His first active ability allows him to dash forward aggressively, and if an opponent gets stuck along the way, they get damaged heavily and also become immobile for a moment.

The second active ability casts a Quantum Shield that blocks the attacks of the opponent.

Gatlyn

• Active Ability 1: ÜberCharge
• Active Ability 2: Restriction Lifter
• Passive Ability: Force Field
• Ultimate Ability 1: Crippling Rounds
• Ultimate Ability 2: Armor Warp

Gatlyn is quite versatile when it comes to her usage of weapons in the game. Her XM2140 Rotary Gun shoots at a very high rate, while her active ability wraps her with a shield to minimize damage intake.

Judex

• Active Ability 1: FS-105 Stunner
• Active Ability 2: G10 Stun Grenade
• Passive Ability: Tenacity
• Ultimate Ability 1: Dragonbreath Bomb
• Ultimate Ability 2: SD60 Energy Suppression

Judex is a fierce heroine in T3 Arena, rocking a powerful lever-action rifle. This rifle is effective in both mid-to-long range gunfights and when combined with her FS-105 Stunner, enemies get blinded and don’t get to stand a chance against her.

Mark

• Active Ability 1: Seeker Rocket
• Active Ability 2: Blasting Surfing
• Passive Ability: Proximity Sensor
• Ultimate Ability 1: Battle-Hardened
• Ultimate Ability 2: Optic Disrupt

After serving in the military, Mark has now taken the responsibility of dealing with the agitators in T3 Arena. His auto rifle is efficient at both mid-to-close range gunfights and his passive ability can restore his lost health after disengaging.

Ossas

• Active Ability 1: Shadowfall
• Active Ability 2: Shadow Jump
• Passive Ability: Whispers in the Night
• Ultimate Ability 1: Dark Surge
• Ultimate Ability 2: Teleporter

The only thing that you should avoid against Ossas is peeking! Being the only sniper in the game, his rifle can one-shot most enemies when fully charged. The only reason that puts him in this tier instead of S is that his learning curve is relatively steeper when compared to the rest of the characters.

Shell

• Active Ability 1: Shadow-Walk
• Active Ability 2: Dimension Blast
• Passive Ability: Energy Resonance
• Ultimate Ability 1: Dimension Rift
• Ultimate Ability 2: Mass-Nullify

Shell is more like an all-rounder in the game. She can deal damage and restore her lost HP with each hit, thanks to her passive ability.

While she has activated her Shadow-Walk, she becomes invincible for a short period of time, much like Reaper’s ‘Wraith Form’ from Overwatch 2. This makes her a solid choice if you’re the type of player who loves to flank and pick off enemies one by one.

Sindri

• Active Ability 1: Rage Ball: Deploy
• Active Ability 2: Light of Rage
• Passive Ability: Rage Ball: Assist
• Ultimate Ability 1: Rage Ball: Upgrade
• Ultimate Ability 2: Rage Ball: Drop-Pod

Sindri’s Plasma Drill has the ability to fire three flying and exploding projectiles at a time. One of her active abilities deploys a Rage Ball that automatically starts to fire at enemies. It also helps to restore HP over time while her passive ability gains a temporary shield upon retrieving it.

The second active ability, Light of Rage, upon activation, boosts the recovery effect significantly. With the right play, Sindri can be oppressive to the enemy team since her ultimate essentially summons an upgraded Rage Ball, attacking nearby enemies with devastating laser beams.

Skadi

• Active Ability 1: Dub-STOP
• Active Ability 2: Low Altitude Climb
• Passive Ability: Amped-Shot
• Ultimate Ability 1: Rock Blast
• Ultimate Ability 2: Wanna-Dance

Skadi rocks a large-caliber pistol that is capable of melting down opponents from a distance. Her abilities mostly deal with sonic waves that can be used as surprise attacks when situations get intense.

B-Tier heroes

Diggy

• Active Ability 1: Illusory Touch
• Active Ability 2: Submarine
• Passive Ability: Particle Mending
• Ultimate Ability 1: Illusory Blast
• Ultimate Ability 2: Cosmo Barrier

Diggy is all about firepower in T3 Arena. Her shotgun can deal an insane amount of damage in close-quarter combat and she also has the ability to turn into a shark. Her first Active Ability transforms her into a shark while the second one opens a submarine via which she can teleport to a different location after a slight delay.

The Passive ability helps to regain some of her lost health. Her Ultimate ability does the same with the bonus of extra damage inflicted and stunning her enemies at the same time. A good Diggy can be almost impossible to kill, but overall her kit requires a lot of game sense, so it can be hard to fully utilize them for beginners.

Hunter

• Active Ability 1: Flare Round
• Active Ability 2: Healing Field
• Passive Ability: Rotation Runner
• Ultimate Ability 1: Charged Shot
• Ultimate Ability 2: Phantom Light

Unlike the S-tier and A-tier characters, Hunter is quite situational. His primary weapon is a 3-round burst assault rifle while his abilities provide a speed boost and increase damage.

Johnny Jet

• Active Ability 1: Veil of Chaos
• Active Ability 2: Auto-Spray Can
• Passive Ability: Blending-in
• Ultimate Ability 1: Jet-Stim
• Ultimate Ability 2: Safe-Jar

Johnny Jet is mostly viable in close-quarter combats as his rapid-firing spray gun will trigger a critical hit only on multiple successful hits. His active ability can make him invisible and also recover HP while his passive ability gives a speed boost.

Lacia

• Active Ability 1: Wind Evasion
• Active Ability 2: Galeshadow Kunai
• Passive Ability: Reincarnation
• Ultimate Ability: Secret Art : Void Bolt

Lacia is the second character introduced in Super Season 3 – War of Gods. Her gravity-defying active abilities allow her to gain an advantage over enemies in unexpected ways and also deal additional damage on the way.

Ono

• Active Ability 1: Portable Barrier
• Active Ability 2: Furious Slash
• Passive Ability: Enhanced Blade
• Ultimate Ability 1: Shock Beam
• Ultimate Ability 2: Battlefield Rebirth

Ono is the 28th hero in the game and specializes in damage. His Storm Blades can vandalize enemies but you’ll need to master the throws, which can be a bit difficult during intense combat.

Ruby

• Active Ability 1: Mystic Shields
• Active Ability 2: Blast Card
• Passive Ability: Reflux Barrier
• Ultimate Ability: Seeker Bolt

The reason Ruby is in this tier is that she is quite difficult to master. She fires three light bolts in a horizontal line and her activity ability brings out a three-piece barrier that moves forward.

Vincent

• Active Ability 1: Mater of Disguise
• Active Ability 2: Disguise Core
• Passive Ability: Opportunistic
• Ultimate Ability: Optimal Cloaking

Vincent is a pistol expert in T3 Arena. His active ability allows him to take the form of an opponent while his ultimate ability makes him invisible for a short time.

Zero-Kelvin

• Active Ability 1: Snowball
• Active Ability 2: Fro-yo
• Passive Ability: Icy Healing
• Ultimate Ability 1: Snowballing Effect
• Ultimate Ability 2: Zero Zone

Zero-Kelvin is a tank in the game, carrying a portable blizzard launcher. His first active ability summons a snowball that can block damage and you can make it roll forward with the hockey stick and inflict damage. The second one, Fro-yo, turns him into an invincible snowman temporarily, which restores his health.

His passive ability restores HP while his ultimate ability summons three snowballs that can bounce off and inflict damage multiple times.

C-Tier heroes

Jabali

• Active Ability 1: Energy Barrier
• Active Ability 2: Thunder Impact
• Passive Ability: Electro-Feedback
• Ultimate Ability 1: Arc Storm
• Ultimate Ability 2: Pulsar Response

Jabali is more of a tank in this game as he boasts a massive 7200 HP count along with an active shield that can block any attack from the enemy team. However, this comes at the cost of slowed movement speed. Still, he can still be a threat up-close since his Super-Shocker weapon deals more damage the closer you are to the enemies.

Kazama

• Active Ability 1: Flight Mode
• Active Ability 2: Blasting Flight
• Passive Ability: Munition Pack
• Ultimate Ability 1: Cannonball Dive
• Ultimate Ability 2: Orbital Strike

Kazama’s rocket launcher can explode enemies on impact while also having the ability to hover in the air for a short while. His passive ability helps to restock one round to his weapon upon hitting opponents. That said, as a hero that can fly, Kazama is practically a sitting duck while he’s out in the air, making him an easy target to shoot if you don’t play around cover.

Yaa

• Active Ability 1: Windshift
• Active Ability 2: Counterattack Storm
• Passive Ability: Stormward
• Ultimate Ability 1: Breezeblast
• Ultimate Ability 2: Tempestwalker

Yaa is swift and flows like the wind while shooting down enemies using her wind-energy pistol. Her first active ability helps her to dash forward and escape intense gunfights, while Counterattack Storm generates a shield and the blade launches a counterattack. Her passive ability gives her a temporary shield for three seconds after dashing.

The reason why Yaa is ranked so low is because she’s in a tricky spot. Yaa feels like a weaker version of Aleta, since she only has one dash, unless you manage to secure a kill. Not to mention, her overall damage feels underwhelming.

So, that’s our T3 Arena tier list with all the best characters you should be using right now. Make sure to keep this page bookmarked, as we’ll regularly update it with any meta shifts as they occur.