Best Avowed Companions, Ranked by Helpfulness

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 each companion from least to most helpful.

4. Marius

Early game exploration benefits aside, Marius quickly becomes outmatched. His strengths lie in locating items and plants, but his combat capabilities are underwhelming.

• Blinding Roots: Roots enemies (upgradeable to stun, trap multiple, and inflict Bleed).
• Heart Seeker: Piercing shot that ignores obstacles (upgradeable to hit two enemies, increased damage to low-health enemies, and reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Teleports to an enemy and attacks (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage to low-health enemies, and increased target count).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed Accumulation (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and further reduce damage).

Marius's crowd control and weakening abilities are niche, effective only against specific enemy types and builds. While useful for melee-focused Envoys against certain foes, he lacks the overall power to justify his inclusion for most of the game.

3. Giatta

Giatta is a support-oriented Animancer, excelling in healing, shielding, and buffing the party. Her damage output is low, but her utility is invaluable in challenging situations, particularly boss fights. She can also activate Essence Generators, opening up late-game areas.

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to increased healing, enemy interruption, and increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Provides temporary health to allies (upgradeable to increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, and self-protection).
• Acceleration: Increases ally movement and attack speed (upgradeable to damage reduction, extended duration, and ability cooldown reduction).
• Reconstruction: Attacks partially heal allies (upgradeable to increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health at maximum health, and ally revival on enemy kill).

Giatta synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

2. Kai

Despite being an early recruit, Kai remains consistently useful. A formidable tank, he deals substantial damage with minimal player intervention.

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss attack with high stun and taunt (upgradeable to ignite, increased stun, and reduced cooldown).
• Unbending Defense: Health regeneration and damage reduction (upgradeable to increased damage reduction, increased regeneration, and area-of-effect damage on expiration).
• Leap of Daring: Area-of-effect stun and taunt (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 boost, and ability cooldown reset).

Kai's abilities are versatile, handling both single, high-health targets and crowd control. His self-revival makes him exceptionally reliable. He can also use fire to remove environmental obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, boasts high damage and excellent crowd control, acting as a close equivalent to air support.

• Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable to increased 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 increased slow, area-of-effect slow, and frost accumulation).
• Blast: Area-of-effect damage on hit (upgradeable to explosive damage for breaking obstacles, increased stun, and status effect chance).

Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her the most valuable companion, despite being recruited last.

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.