On an A-sewers/campaign CC tank the +50 Speed, 20% back-line Control Resist, and 30% Vine-Snare basic are immediately useful, but the real scaling (energy + ATK/Armor per stunned enemy) needs multi-stun states that his weak modes lack.

At cap the per-stunned-enemy ramp becomes +60 Energy and +30% ATK/Armor/Armor-Break, back-line Control Resist hits 60%, and Vine-Snare hits 50% — genuinely good in his sewers/campaign stun niche, but everything is gated on multi-enemy stuns landing.

Muzzle Strike is a strong tank charm in isolation — a 20% skill Silence plus a damage-cap shield (no single direct hit on Benji or his adjacent ally can exceed 70% of Max HP at lv30). The cap is real one-shot protection for a carry slotted next to him. But Benji is graded D in ALL six modes; he has no carry damage and his Bear Mark needs ally crits to do anything. The charm doesn't fix his core problem or open a mode. There IS one niche: at charm-30 his Bear Mark works as a budget Tianlu S1 in endgame 50B+ mech comps — a genuine (if narrow) reason to invest. That niche plus the protection cap keeps it off the floor. Low C.

At cap the Silence rises to 40% and the damage cap tightens to 50% of Max HP — a strong, guaranteed two-hits-to-die protection bubble on Benji and his neighbor that has real anti-burst value in PvP/sewers. But the host remains a D-tier fighter with no offensive contribution, so the protection lands on a body you rarely want to field anyway. The endgame mech Bear-Mark niche is the realistic reason to take him this high, not generic tank survivability. Mid C — a good perk trapped on a weak owner.

On a B-tier anti-carry tank the battle-start stats/energy per enemy Finisher/Mage and the energy-refund + 30% heal on skilling a Finisher/Mage already create a real re-stun matchup engine, plus an on-death team ATK/Armor buff.

At cap he refunds 100 energy and heals 50% Max HP per carry he hits — a self-sustaining stun-lock loop that hard-counters glass-cannon comps — and grants allies +40% ATK/Armor on death, but the entire payoff is conditional on the enemy fielding Finishers/Mages and dead in single-target boss modes.

Gorongo is a legitimate A-tier tank in smash/pvp/hard/sewers/campaign (only C in mech). Primal Overload turns a passive wall into an active engine, but the headline clauses key off Confusion, which his own active only applies at ~20% and which is dead against bosses. At lv30 the third-strike on Silverback Smash is only a 50% chance, the per-Confused-enemy row heal/buff is small (10%), and the pre-battle Gorilla Guard on the back ally lasts just 1 round. Useful on a real PvP/Smash tank but heavily Confusion-gated and win-more. Mid B.

At cap the third round of Silverback Smash becomes guaranteed (100%) — a real flat 50% damage/Confusion-roll increase on his active every cast, independent of conditions — the row heal doubles to 20%, the adjacent-carry buff triples to +30% Skill Damage/Hit Chance, and the back-ally Gorilla Guard lasts 3 rounds. The guaranteed extra attack pass is the standout and is not condition-gated, which carries it to the top of B. Not A: the heal/buff payoffs still need landed Confusion (absent vs bosses) and it never patches his low personal damage.

Sentinel's Stand sits on an elite team tank (S smash/pvp/sewers/campaign) but the charm budget is mostly anti-comeback insurance. Two of four clauses (extra-target on skill) only fire when 'outnumbered' or 'last ally alive' — losing states good comps avoid — and the kill-heal needs a tank to land a Killing Blow. At 30 the one genuinely useful effect (a bonus Boulder Barrier on a neighbor) is a 50% coinflip and the kill-heal is only 20% Max HP / 10% DR. Solid-but-incremental polish on a role he already plays at S.

At 60 the neighbor Boulder Barrier becomes guaranteed — a second roughly-Jasper-HP shield (~6M+ HP) on a carry is a real durability stack — and the kill-heal climbs to 40% Max HP / 30% DR team-wide. The extra-target clauses also go to 100% but stay gated behind outnumbered/last-ally states. This is meaningful added survivability on an already-dominant tank, but it's win-more on his strength rather than a new dimension, so it stays mid-B even at cap.

On the SS-mech / S-everywhere foundational Kodiak tank, the 50% double-pre-attacker strike, per-Block DR stack, and the +20% ATK/Armor/SkillDmg tag-in buff are already meaningful, but the Golden Guardian aura is only 50%/2 rounds at 30.

At cap the pre-attacker strike is guaranteed, tag-in becomes +40% ATK/Armor/SkillDmg, and the Golden Guardian application hits 100% for 4 rounds across Finisher/Mage/Brawler allies — every clause aligns with her two mode-defining mechanics on a top-meta tank.

Lucius is S in all six modes — an always-fielded elite tether tank. Colossal Protector at 30: 50% chance to revive his tethered carry at full HP, +10 Armor and +30 energy/round to that ally, and a 10% (doubled if outnumbered) death-trigger stun on each enemy. The per-round energy feed accelerates his carry's skill cadence (real, repeatable value), and even a 50% full-HP carry revive is a genuine board-swing in attrition. But the headline revive is a coin flip at 30 and the death-stun is low-odds.

At 60 the tethered-carry revive becomes 100% full-HP — genuinely game-state-altering in mech/hard/sewers attrition where Lucius is S-tier — plus +30 Armor / +50 energy/round and a 30% (doubled outnumbered) death-stun. Guaranteed resurrection of your boss-killer on an elite, always-fielded tank is strong additive value. Held at A (not S) because it amplifies a support-enabler role rather than redefining him, and the best clause is tether-gated and only guaranteed at cap.

Mazu is an elite tank (S pvp/sewers/campaign, A smash/hard, C mech), reliably fielded, so the host supports investment. Deepwater Counter stacks onto his block-and-counter loop: a death-cast of his signature Koi Protection (50% at 30), a permanent +3%/counter Attack/Armor/True ramp, and an anti-Crane/Finisher energy-steal + 20% stun. At 30 it's solid but every clause is win-more on an already-tanky body and the values are small.

At 60 the death-cast becomes guaranteed, the ramp grows to +5%/counter (snowballs in long fights), and the energy-steal jumps to 60 with a 60% stun. Meaningfully stronger but still comp-gated (anti-Crane/Finisher), win-more, and it doesn't patch his one soft spot (mech). Stays high-B rather than A because it amplifies an already-secure tank rather than adding a new dimension.

Divine Revival lands on a 3x-SS tank (pvp/sewers/campaign) and patches his one weakness — low personal damage. At end of round 3 he transforms into Dark Raja (+10% Skill Damage/DR, +200% Curse on skills) and has a 50% chance to revive two allies at full HP, stacking on his native Ancient Arts revive for brutal attrition resilience. At 30 the revive is a coinflip and the Dark Raja stats are modest, but the package is fully on-kit and the offense injection is exactly what he needed. Strong additive value on an elite tank.

At 60 the two-ally full-HP revive becomes guaranteed — a fight-warping attrition swing on top of his native team revive — and Dark Raja jumps to +30% Skill Damage/DR with +600% Curse on every skill attack for 3 rounds, finally giving a great tank real recurring offense. The guaranteed double-revive plus the tripled Curse damage is a clear back-loaded breakpoint that meaningfully raises his ceiling. High A; held under S because the transform timing (round 3) and his tank role cap how much the new offense actually swings boss/mech modes.

Fortified Formation patches Sarge's two biggest holes: it gives his taunt a payoff (battle-start +30% DR to the entire back line at lv30) and adds self-sustain (heal 50% Max HP + 30% Skill Damage when a taunted enemy dies). The back-line DR is the genuinely useful piece — a real opening defensive buff for the carries he protects. But it decays 10% per hit (gone after ~3 hits at lv30), the offensive half is dead weight on a 45k-ATK tank, and Sarge is graded D in all six modes (the data literally calls him 'food'). A well-designed charm welded to an unfieldable tank. Bottom of C.

At cap the opening back-line DR rises to 50% (a strong turn-1 team shield that survives ~5 hits before decaying) and the taunt-kill payoff becomes a full-HP heal + 50% Skill Damage. The 50% team DR is a legitimately impactful opening for a defensive comp and is the clear reason to prefer cap. But it still decays, the Skill-Damage scaling is wasted on a no-damage body, and the host is D everywhere with no path to being fielded over real tanks. Low C — back-loaded but trapped on the worst natural elite in the game.

Cellblock Resurgence genuinely transforms Snake's role — after taking 6 hits (naturally guaranteed on a Taunt anchor built to be focused) he becomes Dark Snake: a big self-heal, +10% Attack/Armor/DR, and skills go AoE with a -20% enemy Hit-Chance debuff. But Snake is D in all six modes, so the transform rarely affects an outcome you care about. At 30 the heal is 50% and the stat/debuff values are the weak half, so even the transform is underwhelming.

At 60 the transform is real — 100% self-heal of his huge HP pool, +30% Attack/Armor/DR, AoE skills with a -40% Hit-Chance debuff — and the trigger is reliable on a taunt body. That earns bottom-of-C on charm quality, but with a straight-D host across every mode you almost never field him, so the practical investment value sits at the floor.

Spike is a C/D tank (C in 3 modes, D in 3) with no mode above C — outclassed by Komodo/Lucius for the Mantis frontline slot. Techno Tricera at 30 is well-designed: a burst cap (no direct hit on him or an adjacent ally exceeds 90% Max HP) plus a Techno Spike transform at 6 Stone Skin stacks granting +100% True Damage and +30% Crit/Hit. The transform genuinely turns a debuff-wall into an armor-ignoring threat and patches both his weaknesses. But the L30 burst cap (90%) is nearly useless and the +100% True Damage rides a fighter who's rarely worth fielding.

At 60 the burst cap tightens to a real anti-one-shot floor (50% Max HP) and Techno Spike jumps to +200% True Damage with +50% Crit/Hit — a strong transform that makes him a credible threat once 6 stacks land. Excellent design and a clear improvement, but the host ceiling caps practical value: no mode above C, and the slot is taken by better Mantis tanks. The charm makes a bench tank a better bench tank rather than opening a mode.

Apex Predator is an A-caliber design in isolation — outnumbered DR/Crit/+Energy, skill Torment, and a Killing-Blow AoE -10% Attack/Hit/Crit + 20% stun that suits his block-counter, stun-punish identity. But Baron is C in smash/pvp/sewers/campaign and D in mech/hard, and the charm is triple-gated (be outnumbered, land skills, secure kills) at its weak half. Investment priority follows the fighter: a flashy charm on a never-above-C host caps low. C, not D, because the kill-stun can genuinely flip a scrappy fight.

At 60 it's genuinely scary — guaranteed Torment on skills, 30% DR/Crit + 60 Energy when outnumbered, and a -30% AoE debuff with a 60% AoE stun on a kill. But it never lifts a C-at-best fighter into a mode where you'd actually field him, and the best clauses still need a kill or a losing (outnumbered) board state. High-C: strong perk, wrong owner.

Mechanical Fortitude is one of the few genuinely transformative charms here: polymorphing an enemy converts Bishop into Dark Bishop (full heal/purify, armor-ignore skills, DOT/Paralyze immunity, and permanent stacking +TrueDmg/+DR every round). His own Pecking Order natively casts Polymorph at 6 Eagle's Fury stacks, so the transform is self-enabled. At 30 the charm starts him with only 1 bonus stack (his back-line bonus alone gives +3, so the ramp help is small) and Dark Bishop is 50% armor-ignore with +10%/round stacks, but the snowball-bruiser identity is already live. The capping factor: Bishop's base power is only B (smash/pvp/sewers/campaign), C/D in mech/hard, so the transform raises a mid disruptor rather than an elite carry. Strong additive value held below S by his ceiling.

At 60 the 3 starting Eagle's Fury stacks fully fix his slow ramp (he can reach the Polymorph/transform threshold turn 1), Dark Bishop becomes 100% armor-ignore skills, and the permanent end-of-round stacking jumps to +20% True Damage AND +20% Damage Reduction — a progressively-unkillable true-damage threat. This is the rare charm that addresses every named weakness (slow ramp, fragility, no armor pen) and changes how he plays. Still capped under S because even a transformed Bishop tops out around B in his playable modes; the charm makes a mid fighter much better, not a meta threat.

Velocity Wave is fused to Dax's win condition: every clause keys off his >=100-Energy fork (Storm Strider/Pulse Breaker), so there is zero anti-synergy. On a fighter who is SS in all six modes, that coherence is the highest-priority profile here. At 30 allies start with +10 energy, the per-round procs are 20% (+20 energy or +40 speed), 5% attacks miss him, and a self-revive grants +15% team True Damage. Real, on-kit value across modes — strong additive — but the proc rates are low enough at 30 to keep it just under the cap-level breakpoint.

Dramatic back-load on the best base fighter in the set: allies start with +30 energy, the per-round procs triple to 60% (+60 energy self-feeding his Energy-scaling Board Blitz extra attacks, or +80 speed for the Brawler team), 15% of attacks miss him, and the revive now grants +300 energy (instant recast) plus a permanent +35% team True Damage. This is a build-defining energy/damage economy bolted onto a universal SS carry with perfect synergy and no dead clauses — a top-tier investment. Just short of SS because the value compounds an already-dominant carry rather than redefining a role.

On an SS smash/pvp/hard carry the row-defeat energy and the 30% extra Cinder Barrage attack are real, but a 30% proc is a soft bonus rather than a guaranteed extra pass at this level.

At cap the extra Cinder Barrage attack becomes 100% while above 50% HP — effectively a third skill pass that multiplies his burn, Ring of Fire, stun rolls, and Kodiak +25%ATK/+50Speed team buff on a fighter already SS in three modes.

The 50% double skill attack with +25% True Damage rider and the ally-death snowball (50% heal, +crit, +60 energy) are clean mode-agnostic mechanics — but Hawk is D-tier in ALL six modes and the death trigger rewards exactly the losing game-state PvE wants to avoid.

At cap the double attack is guaranteed with +75% True Damage and the ally-death payoff jumps to full heal + 30%/60% crit + 100 energy — strong on paper, but it gives him no CC/AoE/team utility and amplifies a fighter who never earns a slot.

On a good-not-great A-tier PvE brawler the 50% guaranteed-recast-on-kill, 100% front-line Burn basics, and 10% Molten Fury are decent offensive help, but the best component is a coin flip and gated on securing kills.

At cap every Killing Blow guarantees an immediate re-cast of his 500%x3 skill (a reliable chain-kill snowball) with tripled Molten Fury and 300% front-line Burn — sharpens his three A-grade modes but fixes none of his structural holes (no S mode, no CC).

Locke is SS in PvP/sewers/campaign and S in smash — an elite Crane control fighter whose whole engine is Freeze (more Freeze -> +50 energy/Frozen enemy -> more Hailstorm casts -> +125% damage to Frozen). Glacial Commander adds a 20% basic-attack Freeze that seeds his loop without spending his active, a +200% Frostbite DoT, a team Armor/DR buff on Ice Tomb entry, and +20% Skill Damage per revive. At lv30 the basic-Freeze is only 20% (inconsistent seeding) and the revive stack is small, but the package is fully on-theme and the Frostbite/team-buff are immediately useful. Strong additive value on an elite host.

At cap the basic-attack Freeze doubles to 40% (now reliably self-seeds his energy-and-damage loop), Frostbite doubles to 400% over 4 rounds, the Ice Tomb team buff rises to 25% Armor/DR, and each revive stacks +50% Skill Damage permanently. This tightens the exact loop that makes him SS in PvP and sewers, and improves him as Xeno's Freeze-combo partner. High A. Not S because none of it adds a new axis — it deepens an already-elite control kit rather than raising his ceiling into a new role.

Robotic Renewal is tightly kit-aligned: per-skill +25% True Damage (pierces armor on her 2 priority targets) and a 20% Max HP self-heal turn a durable bruiser into a stickier armor-piercing threat, plus a first-cast row Armor/shield. On a mid fighter (B mech/smash/pvp, A hard/sewers/campaign) this is solid incremental value addressing her two named weaknesses (modest DPS, attrition survival). At 30 the True Damage and heal are modest and it does nothing for her hard 2-target cap, so it's a clean-but-bounded B.

At 60 the per-skill True Damage triples to +75% for 5 rounds and the self-heal to 60% Max HP, making her a near-unkillable armor-piercing priority assassin, with a stronger first-cast row shield (40% Armor / 40% Max HP shield). That's a meaningful damage-and-sustain jump that genuinely improves her in her good modes — high B. But it does NOT remove her 2-target ceiling, so it can't unlock her weak modes (mech/smash/pvp stay B), keeping it solidly incremental rather than transformative.

Twin Takedown is a kill-gated transform: on a Killing Blow Okami gains energy (50 at lv30, ~a partial skill refund) and becomes Twin Okami (+15% Skill Damage/Armor/DR, double-attack when one enemy remains). The Armor/DR half nicely patches his frailty and the energy chains his Werewolf Form, fitting his Last-One-Standing snowball identity. But the host is C/D in every mode — slow to come online, single-target only, no CC/AoE/team utility. The transform is gated on already-winning (a kill) and the lv30 numbers are small. Decent on-kit synergy, weak owner: mid C.

At cap the energy gain triples to 150 (an effectively instant skill reset, letting him chain Werewolf Form) and the transform jumps to +35% Skill Damage/Armor/DR — a notable durability+damage spike that makes his late-fight snowball arrive faster and hit harder. The +150 energy reset is the standout and meaningfully improves his hard-mode/long-fight ceiling. Still C: it is kill-gated win-more, does nothing for his floor (he is C/D in all six modes), and never adds the AoE/CC/immediate-impact he actually lacks.

On a B-mech/hard role-player the battle-start +20% decaying DR and the per-kill package (Magic Shield, 30% SkillDmg, 60 energy, 60% heal) give a real durability floor and kill-chain, plus a 70%-of-Max-HP anti-burst cap.

At cap the opener is +60% DR and the hard cap drops incoming direct hits to 50% Max HP — a genuine new anti-burst layer — with per-kill full heal + 50% SkillDmg + 100 energy, but it amplifies a fighter who tops out at B and adds no AoE/CC/team utility.

Only a 25% chance per block to even trigger Super Saban, and the whole package is double-gated behind blocking (which only fires on basic attacks) on a fighter rated D in all six modes.

At cap the transform reaches 75% per block for +60% ATK/SkillDmg/Armor-Break, 60-energy drain, and 40% heal/round — coherent when awakened, but skill attacks bypass block entirely, it gives the team nothing, and it deepens his already-dead core mechanic.

Talon is S in smash/pvp/sewers/campaign (C mech/hard), and Sacred Rage is welded to his Berserk win-condition: it makes reaching Berserk survivable (in-Berserk revive + anti-Mage heal) and more lethal (extra Berserk attacks that re-apply the buff via kills, a compounding loop), plus a +10% True/DR Brawler aura. At 30 the double-attack is only 50% and the revive is 50% HP, so the loop is real but inconsistent.

Clean back-load that hits his core loop: guaranteed (100%) double-attack in Berserk doubles his kill output and thus how often Berserk re-triggers, the revive becomes 100% HP + 100 Energy, anti-Mage heal scales to 20%/Mage, and the aura to +20% True/DR. Multiplies the exact mechanic that defines his best fights on a four-mode-S host.

Teepo is a clean secondary single-target shredder: S mech (3x650% Poison Combo, back-line ~90% crit), B in 3 modes, C in 2 — a real but narrow host. Ribbit Rampage at 30 is a pure amplifier: skills +20% True Damage, +40% Crit Damage for 3 rounds, and 20% chance for +60 energy after each skill. The +40% Crit Damage pairs perfectly with his ~90% crit chance and True Damage adds armor-piercing burst, sharpening exactly what he does in mech. But at 30 the numbers are modest and the energy proc is a low-odds coin flip — no AoE or control, so it doesn't open his weak multi-target modes.

At 60 +80% Crit Damage (5 rounds) on a 90%-crit body is a substantial multiplier, +40% True Damage piles on armor-ignoring burst across his 3-hit combo, and the energy proc doubles to 40%/+100 for faster recasts. Genuinely makes him a sharper mech/boss damage dealer — a strong amplifier on a useful secondary carry. Held in B (high-B) because it's single-target only and rides a fighter with one S mode and no CC/AoE; it amplifies, never transforms.

Leon is a niche anti-DoT/anti-crit tank: C in 4 modes, D in mech/hard, never above C. Crocodile Crush at 30: 50% to double-cast his skill, skills heal 10% Max HP + 10% DR (3 rounds), and +10% Attack/Crit/Skill Damage per stunned enemy at end of round. The sustain stacks on his already-strong block/DoT-heal kit, and his own Croc Business has a 60% multi-stun to feed the offensive ramp. But at 30 the double-cast is a coin flip, the heal is small, and the ramp needs landed/persistent stuns — making him an oppressive PvP/sewers sustain wall in his niche, no more.

At 60 the double-cast is guaranteed (100%), the per-cast heal triples to 30% Max HP + 20% DR, and the stun-scaling doubles to +20% Attack/Crit/Skill Damage per stunned enemy — turning him into a genuinely oppressive sustain bruiser in PvP/sewers where his anti-DoT Sacred Scales already shines. A strong, well-synergized charm. But the offensive scaling is dead vs CC-immune bosses (his D mech/hard), and a C/D-tier host caps practical investment value at the C/B border. Lands at low-B value but C tier given the host ceiling.

Steel Resolve is a clean defensive patch (50% end-of-round Magic Shield + 10% Crit/Block/DR, +50% True Damage opener) but it lands on a structurally weak Finisher. Cyborg is D mech, C smash/pvp/sewers/campaign, B hard — his core problems are a 2-target cap and zero team utility, and the charm fixes neither. At 30 the shield is a coinflip and the buffs are short (3 rounds), so it's minor situational sustain on a fighter who rarely sees serious play. The +50% True Damage first-skill opener is real but small.

At 60 the shield becomes guaranteed every round with +20% Crit/Block/DR for 5 rounds and the opener jumps to +150% True Damage piercing defenses alongside his native armor-ignore Neutralize Threat. That's a solid, reliable sustain-plus-burst package that meaningfully patches his glaring lack of survivability and gives him a real burst window in his one good mode (hard). The clear 50%->100% shield delta plus 50%->150% True Damage is a genuine back-loaded jump, lifting him from C to a low B — but his 2-target cap and no team utility keep it from going higher.

Fenrus is a 4x-S Mantis cleaner whose value lives in the Executioner chain-kill loop and Praying Protection team shield. Mantis Protocol at 30 is a tidy but additive package: outnumbered 20% heal else +10% Crit Chance/Damage (feeds his kill chain modestly), a +5% Focus-Mark team damage amp, and +100% True Damage vs the last enemy. The last-enemy True Damage overlaps his native Executioner mega-hit (+1500% on the final skill), so it's partly redundant, and +5% team amp is small. Solid polish on a strong fighter, not a new mechanic.

At 60 the numbers grow (60% heal, +20% Crit, +15% Focus-Mark amp, +200% last-enemy True Damage) but the structure is identical and still front-loaded — nothing new comes online at cap. The crit auto-switch compounds his Killing-Blow chain and +15% Focus-Mark is a respectable coordinated-fire amp, lifting it to high-B. Strong host keeps it relevant, but the headline still double-dips on his own execute, capping it short of A.

Otto is an elite PvE finisher (SS mech, S hard, A sewers/campaign, B smash/pvp). Cybernetic Overdrive synergizes tightly with his War Roar bleed engine: a round-end heal of 10% Max HP per Bleeding enemy (and he's bleed-immune), plus a 1-enemy-left transform into Cyber Otto (double-hits his Scent-of-Blood nuke, +25% Crit Dmg, +5% True/round). The heal is modest at 30 and the transform is gated behind a 1v1 state, but mech is the mode that decides rosters — and Otto is SS there — so that single-mode dominance carries the charm to S even before it scales.

Back-loaded payoff: heal triples to 30% Max HP per Bleeding enemy (up to ~150% vs a full bleeding team — strong attrition sustain on a host that reliably stacks bleed), and Cyber Otto scales to +75% Crit Dmg and +15% True/round, doubling his execute nuke. The transform's 1v1 gate and bleed-count dependence are real, but on an SS-mech finisher — and mech is the mode that matters most — that ceiling lands exactly where it counts, so it clears the S bar.

Primm (Jade) is the most fragile fighter in the Mantis roster (2.37M HP) and rated D in all six modes. Veiled Menace at 30: start in Cloak 2 rounds with +20% Attack/Skill Damage/Armor Break, an 80... (40 at L30) energy skill-drain while cloaked, and a 60... (20 at L30) energy death-drain. It's a clean assassin front-load + energy-denial package — the cloak window and self-buff help her open strong, and energy strip has PvP value. But it does nothing for the survivability that defines all six of her D grades; the death-drain even concedes she dies early.

At 60 the package fattens: 4-round Cloak with +60% Attack/Skill Damage/Armor Break (a real opening burst window), an 80-energy cloaked skill-drain, and a 60-energy death-drain on all enemies. Genuinely strong disruption/burst polish — if she saw play she'd be a sharp energy-denial assassin. But she's a straight-D glass cannon outclassed across the board, and the charm fixes none of her HP problem, so realized investment value stays low. The 30->60 gain (longer cloak, bigger buff/drain) is real but lands on a host you rarely field.

Komodo's real value is the mech block-build (S mech as Spekkio-enabler via Bo Fury's 60% Hit/Crit reduction on 3 carries) plus his Throat Punch counter-stun; he's B in the other 5 modes. Reptilian Shock at 30 is coin-flip: skills +20% True Damage, 50% chance to steal 20 energy per target, and basics 50% to stun enemies under 50 energy. At base values the energy-steal->stun lockdown loop is unreliable (two 50% gates) and patches his weak offense only a little. Useful in PvP/club where energy denial matters, but not transformative at this rank.

Strong, genuine back-load. At 60 the coin-flips become guarantees: skills steal 40 energy from all 3 highest-Attack targets (100%), pushing them under 50 energy, which makes his auto-low-HP-targeting basics a guaranteed 2-round stun — a self-fueling energy-denial + hard-CC lockdown that's a real new mechanic, not just numbers. +60% True Damage patches his offense. On a fighter who is S in mech and a solid PvP/club disruptor, this meaningfully raises his ceiling. Held at A (not S) because the lockdown shines in PvP/smash but does little vs single bosses (mech, where stun/energy-denial don't apply).

The opening 1-round Cloak, 50% Curse counter, and a Super-Masamune-on-kill (+20% ATK/DR/Crit, energy/heal while cloaked) bring his cloak-gated kit online and genuinely improve a fighter who is otherwise C/D everywhere.

At cap the opening Cloak is 3 rounds, the counter is guaranteed 750% Curse, and Super Masamune hits +60% stats with a 100-energy/75%-heal-per-round loop — near-unkillable in long fights, but it just deepens a single-target assassin who has no AoE/CC and never sees competitive play.

Jaws of Darkness is a genuinely strong, weakness-patching charm — on a Killing Blow Rex fully heals, gains energy, and becomes Dark Rex (+20% ATK/Skill Damage/Armor Break, skill attacks now hit ALL enemies, 30% Silence on Dark Rex kills). It patches his three named flaws (fragility, no CC, single-lane back-line-only ult). But the host is C in pvp/smash, B in hard/sewers/campaign, and a hard D in mech (bosses are Bleed-immune, negating his entire damage model). The transform is also kill-gated — it rewards already winning and needs ramp time PvP rarely allows. Strong mechanic, mediocre owner: C.

At cap Dark Rex gets +60% ATK/Skill Damage/Armor Break and a 50% AoE Silence on kills, and the heal/energy refund grows — a meaningful snowball that compounds with Sharky Waters' per-kill +35% ATK stacking. The board-wide ult + Silence genuinely improves him in his playable modes (sewers/campaign/smash). But it cannot rescue his D-tier mech relevance and the whole package is conditional on landing the first kill on a fragile fighter who is only B at best anywhere. Top of C, just shy of B.

Rocco is an elite finisher (SS hard, S smash/sewers... actually S sewers/campaign, A mech/smash/pvp) so the host justifies investment. Dune Hunter is heavily conditional and back-loaded to winning states: +25% True Damage only after locking Scorpion Stance vs the last enemy, a 20% in-stance counter-stun, and a 25% revive-stun. At 30 the numbers are the weaker half of every clause, so it reads as a modest closer amplifier rather than a fight-changer.

Big back-loaded delta: the closer bonus triples to +75% True Damage (defense-agnostic execute that complements his armor-ignore identity), the counter becomes 50% for 600% + stun, and his Scorpion-Tail revive becomes a 75% board-wide stun plus permanent +50% Crit Chance/Crit Dmg/True Damage. Real, compounding value on a fielded carry, but every clause is still conditional (last enemy / in stance / revived), keeping it out of S.

Shadow Reckoning is a genuinely good, tightly-synergized finisher charm — +50% True Damage on skills, a Killing-Blow skill-reset chain, Silence on Cursed targets, and a 300% death-Curse AoE. The pieces combine well. But Rosa is rated D across all six modes, so even a strong charm can't lift her into relevance — you'd have to field a bottom-tier fighter to use it. At 30 the True Damage and death-Curse are at half values, dampening even the ceiling.

At 60 the charm is clearly strong on paper — +150% True Damage on skills, the kill-chain reset (which can cascade), 60% Silence on Cursed enemies, and a 900% death-Curse AoE. That quality earns bottom-of-C at cap, but Rosa's straight-D viability is the binding constraint: a scarce charm here is the definition of an inverse trap (great charm, wrong owner).

Scythe is S mech / SS in five other modes — an elite finisher whose Feathered Fury hit-count engine (extra attacks on crit and on kill) is multiplicative. Sky Butcher's headline is +2 guaranteed skill strikes, but at lv30 that only comes online after round 5, so in fast mech/PvP clears it often never triggers. The 10% Silence is negligible and the Bleed/whiff-shield clauses are weak no-synergy filler. What you get reliably at 30 is a modest late-fight strike boost on a top carry. Solid A floor from the host quality, not the charm strength.

At cap the +2 strikes trigger after round 3 (much more reachable in real fights) and Silence rises to 30%. Two extra strikes feed his crit/kill->more-hits->Skullbound-Seal-detonation loop, which is exactly his multiplicative win condition, so this compounds well on an elite finisher. Pushed to the top of A. Stops short of S because two of four clauses (Bleed, whiff-shield) remain dead weight and the strikes still only matter in longer fights, while Chancer has already displaced him as the #1 mech carry.

The single most important mech fighter; even at 20%-per-Finisher the extra Wave Cutter strikes add damage-cap hits to the highest-throughput carry in the game, plus a panic 30% heal.

At cap the extra strike is 50% per Finisher (up to ~150% in a 3-Finisher comp) directly multiplying his 40 damage-cap hits and feeding his permanent crit/ATK snowball, with a 100% full-heal and guaranteed double-attack when outnumbered.

Prehistoric AI lands on a true elite (SS mech/hard/sewers/campaign, S smash/pvp). His kit already guarantees a death->Techno-Spike revive and reliable Dino Orbs, and the charm turns death-with-orbs into an offensive event (Silence + up to 500% AoE at 30), adds anti-Tank [unresolved raw effect: short circuit], a 50% self/row purify on orb summon, and a first-kill team -20% accuracy. Every clause synergizes cleanly with mechanics he already runs. At 30 the values are half-strength (25% Silence, 500% burst, 50% cleanse, -20% accuracy) — strong additive polish on a dominant carry, but it amplifies rather than redefines.

At 60 every hook roughly triples: 75% Silence on death, 1000% AoE with two orbs, 75% [unresolved raw effect: short circuit] on tanks, guaranteed (100%) self/row cleanse on every orb summon, and a -60% first-kill team accuracy debuff. The cleanse going guaranteed and the death-burst doubling are real, repeatable value that compounds a top-tier finisher and adds team-wide CC/utility his raw kit lacks. Stays in A rather than S only because his kit is already complete — this is excellent reinforcement of dominance, not a new ceiling.

Phantom Strike pours its budget into 'when only one enemy remains' — the exact win-more condition Zemus's own Reactive Armor double-attack already keys off. He's an elite boss-killer (SS mech/hard) but the charm's armor-ignore is partly redundant with his +50% Armor Break, the Cursed-enemy ally energy battery needs Curse uptime, and the guaranteed Paralyze cleanse is narrow. At 30 the marquee armor-ignore is 40%, energy gain 20%, cleanse 50% — situational riders that fix none of his real gaps (no AoE/CC/burst). Minor value on a strong fighter.

At 60 the values double (80% armor-ignore and 60% energy on last-enemy skills, +60 energy per Cursed enemy to allies, 100% Paralyze cleanse), which is reliable in his single-boss strongholds. But it remains concentrated on the phase he already wins and adds no new mechanic, so it's win-more polish. The deltas push it to the top of C, not into B — the charm makes an elite boss-killer marginally better at boss-killing rather than expanding his playable space.

Zykan is the strongest host in this set — S in 5 modes (club/pvp/hard/sewers/campaign), A mech, highest power (43761) and a snowball/support engine. Sun Blessing at 30 scales what already wins: +20 starting energy per Finisher ally (in a stacked Finisher lane that's a turn-1 skill, kicking off his Astral-Ring kill-snowball immediately), +10% Attack per Mantis ally, a 25%-from-round-6 extra attack, Magic-Shield-break healing, and +30 Speed to Mantis allies if Ascended. The turn-1 energy is a real tempo breakpoint on a top fighter; the extra-attack clause is weak this early (25% only from round 6).

At 60 the front-load explodes: +60 starting energy per Finisher ally (a stacked lane = ~+300, guaranteeing a round-1 skill to start the snowball), +30% Attack per Mantis ally, a 50%-from-round-2 extra attack (a major uptime jump from 25%-from-round-6), and +100 Speed to Mantis allies. Every clause compounds an SS-in-5-modes carry's existing win-conditions with dramatic cap scaling. Held just under S because it's comp-gated (needs Finisher/Mantis-stacked teams) and adds no new mechanic — it amplifies rather than redefines a kit that's already elite.

Chancer is SS in all six modes — the consensus best mech carry alongside Spekkio and a top arena/campaign carry. Shadow Odds bolts a dice-scaled offensive ramp (+5%xDiceRoll ATK = up to +30% for 3 rounds) plus a 20% Slow, onto his already-dominant multi-hit Dice Storm. The headline for his bread-and-butter (single-target mech burst) is the 10% chance to attack twice when one enemy remains — at lv30 it is too low-odds to materially change his 10B+ damage runs, and the death-trigger Paralyze/Magic Shield procs (10%/20%) are RNG flavor. Real additive value on a build-defining fighter, but at lv30 nearly every effect is low-probability, so it amplifies modestly rather than transforming. Top of A on the strength of the host.

At cap the proc rates jump meaningfully: the double-skill-attack vs a lone enemy goes 10%->30% (directly multiplies his damage-cap mech burst, his single best mode), Slow climbs to 60%, the ATK ramp doubles to +10%xDiceRoll for 5 rounds (up to +60%), and the death Paralyze/Shield go 20%/40%. On the single best generalist carry in the game, a ~30% chance to triple-tap a mech boss is a genuine throughput bump worth chasing. Held just into low S — not SS because it is still RNG-gated and compounds an already-elite kit rather than redefining it.

Glacial Transformation is the right charm for Glacio: at round end, if any enemy is Frozen (his kit guarantees this via two 90%-Freeze vectors — Ice Storm and Icy Touch), he fully heals, gains a Magic Shield, and becomes Super Glacio (+20% Skill Damage/DR, +250% Frostbite on skills at lv30). His sole defining weakness is fragility (lowest max HP in the game), and this hands him exactly the durability he lacks plus an offensive Frostbite rider that stacks on his +700% Freezing Frenzy. But the host is brutal: D in mech/hard/sewers, B in smash/pvp, A only in campaign. The charm makes a fragile combo survivable, but he is still strictly outclassed by Locke who does the freeze role with native durability. Mid B — strong synergy, weak owner.

At cap Super Glacio gets +40% Skill Damage/DR and a massive +750% Frostbite on skills — the heal-and-shield trigger is unchanged (already reliable via his 90% freezes), so the scaling is purely the offensive/defensive numbers tripling. That genuinely makes him a freeze-locking bruiser in the modes he can play (PvP/Smash/campaign), and the +750% Frostbite layered on +700% Freezing Frenzy is real burst. High B. Capped there because the host is D in half the game and Locke remains the better-durability alternative — the charm fixes the symptom (death) without fixing his low base ceiling.

The revive-into-Super-Djinn (full heal, +15% stats, 50% chance for +4 fireballs/skill) is a genuinely transformative two-life damage engine — but Djinn is D-tier in all six modes, hard-walled by Ruby for the Kodiak mage slot, and the charm patches none of his structural gaps.

At cap the revive grants 150 energy (instant recast), +25% stats, and a guaranteed +4 fireballs per skill — roughly doubling post-revive AoE — but a strong mechanic on a fighter who never gets fielded is a low-priority investment by the base-power principle.

Lily is an SS mech/club carry, S elsewhere — an elite host. Savage Petal at 30 already strengthens two axes at once: start with 2 Nectar (faster ramp to her 10-stack Carnivora transform, her one real flaw), +15% Skill Attack/Control Precision to all Mages, +40 energy/round per Vine-Snared enemy, Carnivora gains +50% True Damage and +10% DR, and a +20% row Attack/Skill buff on transform. The energy engine directly fixes her slow ramp and the True Damage rider helps melt high-HP mech bosses. Setup-heavy but every piece is on-kit and meaningful.

Back-loaded scaling that compounds her dominant carry profile: start with 4 Nectar (nearly halves her ramp), +35% Mage aura, +80 energy/round per Vine-Snared enemy, and Carnivora loads +150% True Damage onto her triple-strike (shreds armored bosses) plus a +40% row buff. The ramp fix + a +150% True Damage breakpoint on an SS mech/club carry, plus patching her weak PvP, crosses into S. Held just under SS because it's still setup-dependent (needs Nectar/Carnivora online).

Magus is a mode-polarized utility mage: A in PvP/club (buff-strip + Curse), but D in mech/hard and only B in sewers/campaign — fragile, AoE-only, no single-target. Dark Infusion at 30: skills 20% to apply Dark Corruption (+20% damage from all sources, a team-wide vulnerability aura) and start with +40 energy and +20% Skill Damage. The +40 energy is minor tempo, +20% SD is generic, and the aura is only 20% to land. The vulnerability aura amplifies the whole squad in PvP/smash but does nothing vs unbuffed single bosses (dead in his D modes).

At 60 the energy front-load jumps to +120 (lets him fire Disintegrate turn 1 to strip enemy buffs before they matter) and +60% Skill Damage, and Dark Corruption rises to a 60% application — making the team-wide +20% vulnerability aura reliable. That genuinely amplifies whole-team damage in his good modes (PvP/club) and is a real tempo/buff-strip breakpoint. But the aura is worthless against single bosses, so it's dead weight in mech/hard, keeping it out of A despite the big PvP value.

Majestic Revival is the most role-changing charm among Mogu's weak-host cohort: it adds three things his anti-buff dispel kit lacks — a team +20% backline Skill-Damage amp, 25% AoE Silence, and a 50% full self-revive + 40 team Energy. That genuinely converts a niche counter-pick into a mage-comp force multiplier. But Mogu is C in five modes and D in mech, and at 30 the amp/Silence/revive all sit at their weaker values, so the practical impact is limited. C over D because the kit-completing direction is real.

Strong back-load: backline Skill-Damage amp to +50%, AoE Silence to a near-guaranteed 75%, and a 100% full self-revive + 80 team Energy dump. This is the rare weak-host charm that meaningfully changes his job (support/disruptor + lockdown), so it earns low-B at cap. Capped there — and not higher — because the host tops out at C/D and the charm is weak vs single bosses, so it's never a priority project over the elite Howlers.

Necrotic Withering adds an always-on enemy stat-down rider (-10% ATK/Crit/CritDmg/SkillDmg at 30) and a revive payoff (+60 energy, +50% Skill Damage). But it scales neither of the mechanics that make Necro matter — Dark Corruption (+20% team damage taken) and Curse anti-heal — so it polishes the edges of an S-mech/A-PvE mage. At 30 the debuff is small and the revive bonus is the back half of a once-per-battle event. Minor situational value on a fighter whose real worth lives elsewhere in his kit.

At 60 the rider doubles to -20% across four enemy stats for 5 rounds (a meaningful, always-on team-wide damage/defense reduction) and the revive grants +100 energy (near-instant recast of Dark Mind) plus a permanent +100% Skill Damage. That's a real personal damage spike and a respectable debuff, enough to clear into solid B — but it still leaves his defining Dark Corruption/Curse engine untouched, so it's an additive amplifier, not a ceiling-raiser. The -10%->-20% and +50%->+100% deltas justify the bump from C.

Pyra is an SS-tier carry in smash/pvp/sewers/campaign (S hard, A mech), so any real charm here is a top-priority investment. Ancient Pact adds genuinely new repeatable CC to a kit that previously did energy-drain tempo: 50% Torment on skills front-line, 20% Petrify on basics, and a meaningful per-Mage opener (+20% Crit Dmg / +20 Energy each) that self-feeds Obelisk's Blessing's 100-Energy DR/anti-paralyze state. At 30 the whole package is online at base values and already shifts her from drain-mage to control-mage. Held below S only because the front-line Torment and Petrify are still probabilistic at 30.

Strong, not merely incremental, back-load: front-line Torment becomes guaranteed (100%), energy strip jumps to 60% for 60, Petrify doubles to 40%, and the opener scales to +50% Crit Dmg / +40 Energy per Mage. That converts her into a hard-lockdown control mage whose new CC layer is repeatable and reliable, raising the ceiling of an already-elite host. Lands at low S rather than SS because it amplifies/redirects an SS fighter rather than redefining the game.

An always-fielded S-mech / A-everywhere mage; the emergency Dragon Shell re-arm (35% HP) is real sustain in long PvE and feeds her on-break AoE burn + team energy, but the headline last-enemy execute and Mantis stun are conditional at 20%.

At cap the shield re-arm jumps to 60%/75% HP (strong attrition value that triggers her team-energy break engine), the Mantis stun hits 50%, and the last-enemy execute scales to +1500% with Trigger Happy — a clean force-multiplier on a strong, universally-played carry.

Necropolis Awakening's headline is a chance to double-cast Hand of Anubis — his entire engine (which stacks +90% Skill Damage per use, applies Mark of Anubis for death-trigger heal/energy, and Silences). At 30 that double-cast is only 20%, so the marquee effect is mostly dormant; what's live is a round-2 row revive (+20% Skill Damage, 60 energy) and a +20 energy battery for Mage/Griffin allies. Decent team utility on a good-not-elite mage (A in 4 modes, weak in mech/hard). Solid but the best part hasn't arrived.

Clear back-load: the double-cast triples to 60%, which now reliably doubles his +90% self-stack, Mark applications, and Silence rolls in extended fights, and the row revive jumps to 100 energy / +50% Skill Damage with a +60 energy team battery. The 20%->60% double-cast is a large delta that compounds his whole loop and adds real enabler value to Mage/Griffin comps. Strong additive value on a good carry; held below S because the payoff still needs setup and his floor modes (mech/hard) stay weak.

Toro is a filler/niche utility caster: A in 4 modes (all caveated — low 50k ATK, falls off late) and D in mech/hard. Electric Vigor at 30: +10%/round compounding Attack & Skill Damage (permanent), a Magic Shield whenever he ends a round at 100+ energy (he starts with +80 and gets +200 on first skill, so this is reliable), and a 20% death-stun on all enemies. The ramp directly patches his defining weakness (anemic attack) and the death-stun turns his fragile body into a delayed CC bomb. Good design, but at 30 the ramp is slow and the death-stun is low-odds.

At 60 the per-round ramp triples to +30% Attack/Skill Damage (a serious compounding fix to his ~50k ATK over a long fight) and the death-stun jumps to a near-guaranteed 60% per enemy — a reliable multi-enemy AoE-stun bomb that's a genuine new threat in club/pvp/sewers where he's A. The Magic Shield sustain is steady given his energy generation. Strong on-kit weakness-patching, but it can't lift a filler caster into a core slot (and is dead in his D mech/hard modes), so it stays high-B.

Vex is a mid DoT mage: B in 4 modes, B PvP, C/D in mech/hard. Sanguine Rebirth at 30 is a defensive revive: if he dies in the first 2 rounds he revives, purges, heals, retaliates 200% Bleed/round on his killer, and gains Blood Shield (2-round skill-dodge); plus attacks heal 10% Max HP per Bleeding target. It deepens his already-decent sustain but the revive window is tiny (2 rounds), it adds no burst, and it's useless in mech. Makes him a slightly stickier PvP/attrition anchor at base.

At 60 the revive window stretches to 6 rounds (covers most of a real fight), the killer takes 600% Bleed/round, and lifesteal jumps to 30% Max HP per Bleeding target — turning him into a genuinely sticky PvP/sewers attrition wall. A meaningful improvement, but it only deepens his existing strength (sustain) and fixes none of his real gaps: no burst, dead in mech, and the whole package is conditional on dying early then living in a DoT-heavy fight. High-C on a mid host.

Xeno is S in smash/pvp/campaign, A in hard/sewers, but only B in mech (single-hit ult, power-crept by Chancer). Dark Transformation triggers the first time he drops below 50% from a direct hit: full heal, Magic Shield, and Dark Xeno form (+50% ATK at lv30, 10% per-target Freeze, 30% death-heal). The Freeze clause is the clever part — it self-completes his Silence->Freeze->+500% (No Sound in Space) combo without needing Locke. At lv30 the +50% ATK and 30% death-heal genuinely turn a glass mage into a frontline sustain bruiser, but the 10% Freeze is too thin to reliably fire the combo and the trigger is gated on taking a near-fatal hit. Good PvP-home value; B because it is mode-narrow (does nothing for his dead mech role).

At cap the transform delivers +100% ATK (doubling his damage), the Freeze rises to a usable 30% per target (now actually self-completes his combo most casts), and the death-heal climbs to 50% per death. This is the clearest back-loaded jump in the group: the Freeze going 10%->30% is the difference between a flavor clause and a reliable combo-enabler, and +100% ATK with recurring heals makes frontline PvP/Smash Xeno a real sustain carry. Low A. Held there because it remains gated on a near-death trigger and contributes nothing to mech, his weakest mode.

Concussive Impact adds the two dimensions Face's too-passive kit lacked: a 20% Stun on his AoE active and an energy-battery rider (allies healed by his basic gain 20 Energy and 10% DR). The energy-acceleration is the useful part — it can fund an extra ally cast. But the host is power-crept: C in mech/smash/pvp/hard, B only in sewers/campaign, and community consensus is that Chancer 'completely erased Face from the meta.' At lv30 the Stun is a thin 20% and the energy grant is modest. A reasonable CC-and-tempo patch on a bench support: C.

At cap the Stun doubles to 40% (now an occasionally-relevant AoE control roll) and the heal-rider jumps to +60 Energy and +30% DR — a genuine skill-acceleration and survivability package for healed allies, with real value at his one strong home (high-floor Crane sewers, where his healing/DR already carry). The back-loaded energy grant is the standout. Still C: it elevates a power-crept support who is outclassed by Laguna and Chancer in five of six modes, so the realized investment value stays minor.

Spiritual Surge would be an A-caliber support perk on a fighter who saw play: a team +10% Attack/Crit aura, a 40-Energy battery to the lowest-HP ally, and a self-revive that heals all allies. But Figaro is rated D in all six modes and is explicitly outclassed by Malric in every one. A scarce charm spent here is wasted on a bench unit. At 30 the aura is small (+10%) and the revive heals only 25%, so even the ceiling case is muted. Classic inverse trap.

At 60 the perk is legitimately good — +30% team Attack/Crit/Crit-Dmg aura, an 80-Energy battery, and a self-revive that heals all allies 75% Max HP. That's enough to nudge it from D to the bottom of C in raw quality, but Figaro's straight-D viability means you'd have to field a worse host to use it; investment priority stays near the floor.

Hana is an SS support in 5 of 6 modes; her engine is on-hit volume (Sleep rolls, 50-energy drains, Boombox procs, +200% vs sleeping). Rhythm Roar at 30 adds two extra hits on surviving targets at 50% from round 3 (effectively up to ~doubling skill-hit volume in the back half of fights), a 50% chance for self + ally Sonic Shields, and a per-unique-class team Skill-Damage buff (3% each, ~15% for a 5-class team). Multiplying her proc-heavy skill is exactly the right lever on an elite enabler, but at 30 the extra-hit clause is coin-flip and delayed to round 3.

Clear back-loaded payoff: at 60 the extra-hits become 100% from round 1 (vs 50% from round 3 at L30) — that's a step change, roughly tripling her skill-attack volume from the opening turn, and every hit is another Sleep/drain/Boombox/amp roll. Guaranteed self+ally Sonic Shields and a ~35% team Skill-Damage buff round it out. On an SS-everywhere support that multiplies a control engine from turn 1, this clears the S bar.

Laguna is SS in all six modes — the Crane support backbone whose kit (Bon Voyage buffs/heals, Octo Aid massive ally-death heal, Bubble Mark, Paralyzing Odds CC) already over-sustains and over-buffs her team. Tidal Embrace layers on more of the same: a 20% adjacent-ally heal, a 25% row purify, a 50%-chance death Paralyze on her killer, and a Paralyzed-enemy-scaling team heal. The cleanse and random control are genuinely useful utility, but on a fighter who is already healing and CCing to capacity, the marginal value of yet more sustain is low. The over-credit-good-fighter trap: elite host, redundant charm. Solid B.

At cap the adjacent heal rises to 50%, the row purify to 75% (now near-reliable, a real cleanse tool against debuff-heavy modes), the death Paralyze becomes guaranteed, and the team heal doubles to 20% per Paralyzed enemy. The purify reliability and guaranteed death-control are meaningful adds, lifting her to the top of B. Still capped there: it deepens an already-SS support's existing strengths rather than adding a missing dimension, and her team rarely needs the extra healing.

A useful PvE attrition patch — but at 30 the headline ally revive is only a 50% chance and the Polymorph rider is 20%, so it is inconsistent on a support whose one elite mode (A mech) is about energy denial, not reviving.

At cap the once-per-battle ally revive becomes guaranteed full-HP + Magic Shield + Cloak and Polymorph rises to 40%, a genuine team-fragility safety valve and a soft-CC tool she previously lacked — but it does nothing for mech or PvP.

Malric is an elite, always-fielded Howler support (S smash/pvp/sewers/campaign, A mech/hard), but Spirit Recall is the textbook strong-host-weak-charm case: a heavily-gated neighbor revive (correct row-mate + full energy + 10%), a once-per-battle bonus Hex Shield (25%), and a 5% per-target skill stun. None of these scale his actual win conditions (Hex Shield engine, Crit aura, energy disruption, Death Mark) — his base kit already does all of this far better. At 30 it's near-noise.

At 60 the riders improve (30% neighbor revive, 50% Hex Shield, 15% stun) but remain low-odds and redundant on a kit that already generates Hex Shields and CC. The investment doesn't raise his ceiling; he's S with or without it. Stays C because, despite the premium host, the charm is the weakest in this Howler set relative to what the fighter already provides.

Nano Restoration is a strong-fighter-weak-charm trap. Nyx is SS in 5 modes, but the charm's headline — revive dead row allies after round 2 — is a strictly-weaker clone of her own Razor Revival (revives the WHOLE team after round 1 at 100% HP). The genuinely new effect, 100% armor-ignore, is gated on being outnumbered, a losing state good comps avoid (and at 30 it's only 50%). Self-heal (20% at 20% chance) and kill-Polymorph (20%) are probabilistic flavor she largely already provides. Mostly redundant value on an elite support.

At 60 the numbers climb (100% armor-ignore when outnumbered, 60% self-heal for 45%, 60% kill-Polymorph, row revive at 100% HP/+100 energy) but the structural problem persists: nearly every clause overlaps her own kit or is gated on losing states, and her base kit already does revives and Polymorph better. The deltas are real enough to push toward the top of C, but the charm fails to add a dimension she lacks, so it cannot reach B despite her elite base power. Investment priority stays low.

Capricorn's Shield is a clean, on-theme support amplifier — a team-wide Magic Shield (50% at 30), 25% skill-Petrify that feeds his Healing-Stones AoE-to-heal engine, and a heal-on-block ticker off his 40% block. But Pan is C in smash/pvp and D in the other four modes, explicitly outclassed at the support slot by Malric and Zura. A nice amplifier on a marginal support is still a marginal investment.

At 60 it's notably better — a guaranteed team Magic Shield, 75% AoE Petrify, and a 50% Max HP heal-on-block — and the Petrify-feeding-heal loop is satisfying. But none of it lifts Pan out of his C/D viability or past the supports who already do his job better, so it stays high-C: a slightly better marginal support, not a priority charm.

Serene Silence adds a control axis Tseng's pure-healer kit lacks (board-wide Silence) plus a multi-target Magic Shield wall and a Max-HP-scaled break-heal — clever because it routes around his weak Attack. On a strong support (A in 5 modes, B mech) this is valuable. But at 30 the self-shield is 50%, the ally shields 25%, the Silence only 20%, and break-heal 25% Max HP, so the 'shield wall' and lockdown are unreliable coinflips. Solid additive support value that hasn't yet become oppressive.

Strong back-load: the self-shield becomes guaranteed (100%), ally shields jump to 75% on the two lowest-HP allies, Silence to 40% board-wide, and the break-heal to 75% Max HP per broken shield — a near-guaranteed 3-target shield wall feeding a heavy heal loop, layered on a new Silence dimension. That converts an already-elite enabler into an oppressive control-support. Held below S because the Silence remains RNG and he adds no offense, but the 50/25/20 -> 100/75/40 jump is a clear A-tier breakpoint.

Zura is a strong secondary support (S mech, A everywhere else). Sands of Time piggybacks his existing sub-50% trigger and basic-attack debuff: a Crit/Hit-Chance enemy debuff, a one-time team Energy/Attack/DR + heal on his first drop below 50%, and an ally-death heal. At 30 the values are modest (10% debuff, +20 Energy, 20% heal, 25% death heal), so it's a clean but incremental thickening of what he already does.

Clear back-load: the debuff jumps to -25% Crit/Hit for 5 rounds, the sub-50% package to +60 Energy / +25% Attack & DR / 60% team heal (a real tempo+sustain swing that can fund an extra ally cast), and the death-recovery heal to 75% Max HP. Genuine value on an A/S support, but it deepens his existing strengths rather than transforming him, so low-A.