Avowed Buddies Rated: Which Aid Best?

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 on, Marius' passive skills aid exploration, but he's quickly outmatched. His combat effectiveness is limited. Here's a breakdown of his abilities and upgrades:

• 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 foes, and reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low-health foes, and multiple strikes).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, and further reduce damage).

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

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support Animancer, focuses on healing, shielding, and buffing. While lacking in raw damage, her utility is invaluable. Her protective abilities are crucial during challenging encounters. Her abilities include:

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to increased healing, enemy interruption, and increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Provides temporary health (upgradeable to increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, and protection from melee attacks).
• Acceleration: Increases ally movement and attack speed (upgradeable to damage reduction, extended duration, and ability cooldown reduction).
• Reconstruction: Heals allies with attacks (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. She's a strong choice for Envoys using magic-focused builds.

2. Kai

Kai, an early companion, remains useful throughout. A formidable tank, he deals significant damage with minimal player intervention. His abilities include:

• 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 a damaging shockwave on expiration).
• Leap of Daring: Stunning and taunting area-of-effect attack (upgradeable to increased area, temporary health per hit, and bonus attack damage per hit).
• Second Wind: Self-revival (upgradeable to increased health restoration, attack speed burst, and ability cooldown reset).

Kai's abilities are powerful and versatile, effective against both single targets and groups. His self-revival makes him exceptionally reliable. He can also use fire to clear obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, delivers high damage and excellent crowd control. She's the closest thing to air support in the Living Lands. Her abilities include:

• Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable to increased blast radius, fire accumulation, and reduced cooldown).
• Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Volley of homing 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 chances).

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

Avowed releases on PC and Xbox on February 18.