Top Ranked Avowed Companions: Most Beneficial

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 every Avowed Companion, from least to most helpful.

4. 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, inflict Bleed).
• Heart Seeker: Piercing shot (upgradeable to hit two enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, strike multiple enemies).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, reduce enemy damage).

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

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support-oriented Animancer, prioritizes healing, shielding, and party buffs. While lacking in raw damage, her utility shines in challenging encounters, such as boss fights. She also unlocks late-game areas by powering Essence Generators.

Abilities & Upgrades:

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to increased healing, enemy interrupt/knockback, increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Provides temporary health (upgradeable to increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, immunity to melee attacks).
• Acceleration: Increases ally movement and attack speed (upgradeable to damage reduction, extended duration, ability cooldown reduction).
• Reconstruction: Heals allies with attacks (upgradeable to increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health at max health, revive incapacitated allies on enemy kill).

Giatta synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

2. Kai

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

Abilities & Upgrades:

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss shot (upgradeable to ignite target, increased stun, reduced cooldown).
• Unbending Defense: Health regeneration and damage reduction (upgradeable to increased damage reduction, increased health regeneration, damaging shockwave on expiration).
• Leap of Daring: Stunning area-of-effect attack (upgradeable to increased area of effect, temporary health per enemy hit, bonus attack damage per enemy hit).
• Second Wind: Self-revive (upgradeable to increased health restoration, attack speed burst, ability cooldown reset).

Kai’s abilities are effective against various enemies, offering both single-target power and crowd control. His self-revive further enhances his value. He can also use fire to remove obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, boasts high-damage attacks and exceptional crowd control. She provides a form of "air support" in the Living Lands.

Abilities & Upgrades:

• Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable to larger blast radius, fire accumulation, reduced cooldown).
• Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Homing arcane missiles (upgradeable to increased fire rate, range, shock accumulation).
• Arduos Delay of Motion: Slows enemies (upgradeable to intensified slow, area-of-effect slow, frost accumulation).
• Blast: Area-of-effect attack (upgradeable to explosive damage for breaking blocks/walls, shattering frozen enemies, increased stun, status effect chance).

Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her the top companion choice in Avowed.

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.