Best heroes Thief in Epic Seven 2024 are: Violet, Arbiter Vildred, Peira, Ran, Haste, Sez, Closer Charles, Remnant Violet, Kayron, Kise, Spirit Eye Celine, Celine, Crescent Moon Rin, Assassin Cidd, Tempest Surin, Blood Blade Karin, Muwi, Baiken, Assassin Coli, Alexa,… These characters are difficult to defeat and have the ability to deal great damage during combat or protect themselves from it entirely with skills like invincibility frames that last a short time.
Top 1: Violet
Remnant Violet is a good all round single target DPS. Think of him as the dark version of Cermia but with more defensive capabilities than offense.
Due to his passive skill 2, which gives him the evasion buff when he moves and when ending his turn, it is encouraged to build him fast to take advantage of it. Evasion allows him to survive, which in turn allows him to unleash his skill 3, which ignores 50% defense on top of a free attack buff. Like Cermia, it is not necessary to bring an attack buffer, which makes them shine in Guild Wars.
Each time he attacks or evades, he gains 1 focus. Upon getting 5 focus, he will automatically use his skill 3 on a random enemy. Having a counter set on him is really good at getting focus stacks, especially against AoE teams. Having Assassin Cartuja with him + ML Dreamblade means he is getting 85% evasion.
He does have his weaknesses, such as dying to attacks when he fails to evade due to low health. He also gets countered by F Kluri or Dizzy S3 and Melissa (with Oath Key) as they are able to strip his evasion buff, rendering him vulnerable.
Top 2: Arbiter Vildred
Arbiter Vildred is now very strong due to the fact that he has a free revive that allows him to put out damage at least once. That means he is strong against squishy PvP cleave teams as he can’t be one shot.
His first skill allows him to decrease combat readiness of 2 enemies, which is nice. Since he always starts with the S3 that can reset when killing something, it resets and is great for farming.
With the new changes, he now hits harder and he is also guaranteed to get an S3 attack in when he dies. If he kills someone, his S3 is reset and he can use it again. Very deadly against teams with low health/defense.
He is also highly versatile and can be used for PvP offense and defense, for fodder farming and pretty much your first choice AoE DPS due to having no element disadvantage. Once you get him and gear him well, he will be a powerhouse for a long time.
Top 3: Peira
Peira is disgustingly strong. Releasing very soon after Conqueror Lilias, Peira is the first unit to follow in the trend of “insanely strong opener” that C.Lilias started – and it’s not hard to see why. She essentially makes Cerise all but useless; doing the job of Restricting, making targets unable to be buffed, and decreasing buff durations by a turn in her s2. However, that’s not all: her second skill grants an extra turn, allowing her to chain it into her s3.
Her s3 is where things start to really get interesting. Thanks to her unique buff of Escort, AoE Attack buff, combining with her rather beefy shield, Peira can not only weaken the enemies while strengthening her allies and making herself into a safety net for them (on top of giving herself Stealth, so single-target enemies can’t attack her).
She makes for a very strong opener in all sorts of PvP, that being Arena, GW and RTA. Of course, though, she really has a high gear requirement, as it’s pretty much necessary for her to go first before anyone else. She’s not the unit for newer players to use.
Top 4: Ran
He also the sort-of-unique debuff, Stigma, on his s3. As of this writing, only he and Melany have this debuff; Stigma decreases the amount of Combat Readiness the target receives by 50%, and also blocks the amount they’re healed by 50%. Overall, Ran is a pretty decent unit for PVP cleave teams, though he isn’t the best in PVE. Surprisingly, though, some people have found a use out of Ran in W13, however there are still much better choices for damage than Ran.
Top 5: Haste
So with the new changes, his kit is actually very useful now. His skill 3, aside from inflicting bleed, can now dispel 2 buffs and potentially defense break enemies. This gives him an incentive to go first so he can strip buffs. He has a good base speed, so he can definitely contest for first move. Due to this, he is not only useful for PvE, he is also usable in PvP.
His skill 2 and 1 remains unchanged and is useful in applying debuffs. He is still strong in Golem hunt and does well in other such as Labyrinth, also Raid and Abyss in certain areas. He has been neglected for too long and has now seen the buff he needs to compete in the end game.
Top 6: Sez
Sez is a good early game farmer until up to about world mode map 3. After that, you will need super good gear to be able to do it with ease. His passive triggers an additional AoE attack, which helps in farming.
Sez’s best skill is his third skill, which is a single target nuke that also deals AoE damage to surrounding enemies if he kills someone. If you soul burn it, the damage is very high. This is where Sez becomes a popular cleave unit in PvP, especially with a mage on the team to carry Tagahel’s Ancient Book (Auxiliary Lots is the best candidate).
With the Wind Rider bug fix, he won’t be able to cleave very tanky compositions well anymore.
Sez does decent in most PvE content, but most don’t use him as much there aside from farming.
Top 7: Closer Charles
It’s been about two weeks since Closer Charles has released, and the consensus is out: his s3 animation is pretty sloppily done, but his skillset by itself is decent. He’s cemented a decent spot in cleave teams, which seems to be getting more and more counters with each new unit. C.Charles isn’t going to be an utter game-breaker such as, say, Rem; however he can be an opener or a turn-2 unit, meaning he’d need some other unit to be an opener.
Like Violet, he can trigger Perception on himself, and also does good things with said Perception. He can also decrease the cooldown of his s3 via killing with his s1 while he has perception, but that is a bit of a difficult condition to trigger.
Top 8: Remnant Violet
Remnant Violet is a good all round single target DPS. Think of him as the dark version of Cermia but with more defensive capabilities than offense.
Due to his passive skill 2, which gives him the evasion buff when he moves and when ending his turn, it is encouraged to build him fast to take advantage of it. Evasion allows him to survive, which in turn allows him to unleash his skill 3, which ignores 50% defense on top of a free attack buff. Like Cermia, it is not necessary to bring an attack buffer, which makes them shine in Guild Wars.
Each time he attacks or evades, he gains 1 focus. Upon getting 5 focus, he will automatically use his skill 3 on a random enemy. Having a counter set on him is really good at getting focus stacks, especially against AoE teams. Having Assassin Cartuja with him + ML Dreamblade means he is getting 85% evasion.
He does have his weaknesses, such as dying to attacks when he fails to evade due to low health. He also gets countered by F Kluri or Dizzy S3 and Melissa (with Oath Key) as they are able to strip his evasion buff, rendering him vulnerable.
Top 9: Kayron
Kayron is a very strong attacker and comes at the expense of low health. However, he has immortality buff when his health gets reduced to 0, which allows him to be built full attack and not worry about dying on the first turn.
If you have a buff on Kayron, his basic attack will become AoE. Some people like to run immunity set on him and he gets an AoE attack right out the gate.
His third skill is a strong single target nuke. He gets free attack buff after using it. Killing any enemy will also extend his buff, which means more survivability.
His immortality buff can no longer be blocked by anti buff debuff.
Top 10: Kise
A great unit that can be used in both PvE and PvP. She is a great unit for Wyvern as her basic skill does bonus damage to barrier. Her second skill deals bonus damage to buffed units. Her third skill can delay skill of enemy and then goes into stealth with barrier.
In PvP, she can be used to deal with units that have very strong 2nd and 3rd skills to stop them from using it. In Abyss, she can delay boss specials that can be deadly.
With the new changes, she can survive a bit better with the barrier from S3. And she punishes enemies that are buff heavy.
Top 11: Spirit Eye Celine
ML Celine offers mostly damage and counter-attacking (along with some self-sustain), and the AoE revive part of her skillset is just a bit of a bonus. Her passive is similar to Tempest Surin’s, in that you can’t just one-shot her with a nuker and be done with it – although, Rimuru’s extra damage mechanic on their S3 can burst through her passive.
Top 12: Celine
Celine is a great offensive and defensive unit that has been given to us by Smilegate. Celine shines in against any team or enemy that uses non attack skill. Her passive cleanses any debuffs and randomly attacks an enemy whenever that happens. That gives her an element of surprise and she can really do some serious damage with good gear.
Her skill 3 now gains barrier and provides her with evasion buff while slicing her enemy into pieces and recovering health. She can soul burn it for even more damage (2.3x multiplier). With an attack buff, she can safely destroy any non fire enemies pretty easily. Her skill 1 also has a damage bonus if she crits. So make sure to get to 100% critical rate if you can.
On defense, especially in PvP, she shines the most in Guild Wars as her passive limits enemy attack units due to a 33% chance to get rocked by her attack (especially with her artifact), making it hard to bring someone like Auxiliary Lots or any buffer.
Her survivability can be an issue if evasion RNG is not on your side. However, she can be built full damage or speed with some damage to surprise opponents. Overall, she is a strong single target damage dealer that can fit into most team compositions. Having immunity set on her helps in PvP to avoid getting stunned/silenced.
Top 13: Crescent Moon Rin
ML Rin will be very strong, especially in this buff meta. With her ability to grant random buffs to herself and also steal enemy buffs and stun a target, your team will become stronger overtime while weakening the enemy at the same time. She does okay in PvE content such as Golem and Azimanak (she can no longer steal Berserk buff).
For PvP, her utility will work really well against buff heavy teams such as Crimson Armin, Rin, Diene or any buffer that can provide a lot of buffs.
She is quite squishy, so she is prone to any strong light attackers that can potentially one shot her.
Top 14: Assassin Cidd
Since he has a kit that can stop/delay a single target by casting their powerful skills by silencing them. He also has a very high base speed, allowing you to get him past 220 speed and be able to go first in PvP.
His basic attack has defense break and when someone dies, he will get an attack buff and increased combat readiness.
His built is all speed and attack with some effectiveness to land his debuffs. 240+ speed is something achievable with end game gear and he can be annoying to deal with in high level PvP. Don’t forget – in RTA, he’ll be extremely annoying, because his S3 will remove 20 Souls from the opponent.
With the attack buff and combat readiness he gets when anybody dies, he actually gets a lot more turns and also deals more damage.
He is very squishy and can be hard countered by fixed damage and multiple AoE attacks.
Top 15: Tempest Surin
ML Surin has a unique passive in her skill 2 that prevents her from getting 1 shot from any burst damage. She can also now cleanse herself off any buffs and gain stealth. She is the upgraded version of fire Chaos Inquisitor. Because of this, she can be built full damage.
Her appeal is her skill 3, which is to apply unable to be buffed debuff + silence against strong meta units that can buff. Her skill 1 can apply 2 stack of bleeds, which isn’t too bad.
Due to the stealth and passive that allows her to survive at least 1 hit, she can be built with a lot of attack, crit rate and crit damage to surprise enemies with big damage, especially in guild wars.
With the new buffs, she is extremely good and can be very hard to kill with bruiser and revive teams since she cannot be one shot.
Top 17: Blood Blade Karin
Bloodblade Karin is a PvP oriented unit, but can also excel in Boss Hunts, particularly Golem. Her basic attack has lifesteal and she can sustain herself at low health. Put on a lifesteal set and she is really self sufficient.
She becomes dangerous at low health, improving her attack, defense and speed at intervals of 75%, 50% and 25%. She does have very low defense, so you will definitely want to get some health or defense to beef her up or she will die easily before you even have a chance to use her s3. However, with her new updates, her Immortality buff can also help to act as a safety net just in case; this, in turn, eases the requirements of bulk needed for your BBK to survive.
In PvP, she can be used as a cleave unit to either clean up or start the battle to weaken enemies. She does require molagora investment to shine though. The buffed Blood Blade Karin is now scary as the damage multipliers are even better now.
Top 18: Muwi
Muwi is a very strong unit, especially for a 3 star. Ever since his release in early January, he’s quickly rocketed to fame for being an easy-to-use unit that meshes so well with the Wyvern Hunts – the first Hunt that every new player should strive to build a team for. Muwi is easily obtainable and very strong, which makes him a perfect choice for anyone looking to break into Wyvern 13.
He has pretty much everything that a player needs for Wyvern – Bleed for multiple debuffs (2+ debuffs on W13 forces the boss to only target the frontline), Combat Readiness increase in an all-Ice team to lower gear requirements, Defense Break in case the boss resists Furious’s debuffs, and Attack Break to lower the boss’s damage. His kit was practically made for Wyvern 13, and it shows.
Top 19: Baiken
Baiken is a hybrid attacker. She has a skill kit that can provide combat readiness push for the team, apply bleeds and also deal some single target damage. She has decent base stats and can be utilised in the following ways:
-Speed utility sub damage dealer and combat readiness pusher for speed PvP team
-Single target nuker in Banshee, Golem and PvP via bleed and detonate
-Single target nuker with high crit rate and crit damage (much like Karin) with bleed debuff as a bonus
Top 20: Assassin Coli
Assassin Coli is great in PvP as she has a very high base speed. Her third skill can stun an enemy and is often used as an opener for speed teams. She usually gets the first turn if you can get her to well over 220+ speed. She gets to pick the most dangerous target and stun them. Any target that dies to her attack will silence nearby enemies.
She then goes into stealth mode + attack buff, provided that she doesn’t get debuffed. Her next attack than can kill a unit, even more so if a teammate lands a defense debuff on the prime target.
You can use her in PvE, but there are better units that fit that role. Utilize her skillset in PvP and gear her with speed, critical damage and attack to kill opponents.
Top 21: Alexa
With the emergence of Wyvern 13, she has become a top candidate as a budget attacker. Pair it with daydream joker and she will do a lot of damage to the boss. She also gets 2 stacks of poison on her skill 2 to help mow down the Wyvern shield. Her basic attack can proc twice if she crits, so having close to 85% crit rate is optimal for her.
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