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 practical advantages, from pathfinding to combat prowess. This guide ranks every Companion from least to most helpful.

4. Marius

Early game utility aside, Marius's effectiveness quickly diminishes. His strengths lie in item and plant discovery during exploration, but his combat capabilities are underwhelming.

• 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 vs. low-health enemies, and reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes an enemy (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low-health enemies, and increased target count).
• Wounding Shots: Attacks inflict Bleed (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and reduce enemy damage).

Marius excels against specific enemy types, particularly when paired with a melee-focused Envoy, but his overall impact is limited for most of the Avowed journey.

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support Animancer, focuses on healing, shielding, and buffing. While not a damage dealer, her utility is invaluable in challenging encounters. Her ability to protect the Envoy and party health is a significant asset, especially during boss fights.

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to increased healing, enemy interrupt/knockback, and increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Grants allies a temporary health shield (upgradeable to increased shield strength, healing on expiration, and self-protection against melee attacks).
• 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 for full-health allies, and ally revival on enemy kill).

Giatta also activates Essence Generators, unlocking late-game areas and loot. She synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

2. Kai

Despite being an early companion, Kai remains consistently helpful. A formidable tank, he delivers significant damage with minimal player intervention.

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss shot 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: 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 boost, and ability cooldown reset).

Kai's abilities are effective against various enemies, offering both single-target and crowd control options. His self-revival makes him a highly efficient and low-maintenance combat partner. He can also use fire to remove obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, boasts high-damage attacks and excellent crowd control. She's the closest thing to air support in the Living Lands.

• 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 burst damage on hit (upgradeable to explosive damage for breaking blocks/walls, shattering frozen enemies, and increased stun/status effect chance).

Yatzli's potent abilities and obstacle-clearing capabilities make her the top choice, even though she's recruited last.

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.