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Guildrun Tier List

These are the nine builds that clear content right now, taken apart piece by piece: which heroes, at which rank, with which specialization, upgrades and items. Each one comes from the share link published alongside it, so the ranks and item lists are the ones the build actually runs. Open any piece to read what it does.

Updated for patch 0.5.6

Which Guildrun builds are in S tier?

Five builds sit in S tier after the 0.5.6 revision: Stall Tanks, Rush Duelists, Crit Rush Assassins, Stall Aria and Debuff Mages. Four more sit in A, including the two Shard Gen builds that dropped out of S after their payoff relics were nerfed. S tier builds carry 13 relics on average, A tier builds 9.

SS Tier

Stall Tanks

Team of 5 · 13 relics

See all 13 relics

Rush Duelists

Team of 3 · 11 relics

See all 11 relics

Crit Rush Assassins

Team of 3 · 15 relics

See all 15 relics

Stall Aria

Team of 5 · 19 relics

See all 19 relics

AA Tier

Rush Duelists Stack

Team of 5 · 14 relics

See all 14 relics

Rush Shard Gen Duelists

Team of 3 · 16 relics

See all 16 relics

How to use it well

  • Relic counts no longer tell the tiers apart on their own. Rush Shard Gen Duelists runs 16 relics and still sits in A, because what its relics pay out was cut patch after patch. What separates S from A now is whether the build's engine survived the balance chain.
  • Rip still appears in four of the nine builds, but Aria has caught him at the top of the hero count: three builds, all of them S tier. If you are learning the game, Rip teaches you Rush and Aria teaches you Stall.
  • The same hero changes role completely with the specialization. Rip runs The Glutton in three builds and The Brute in another, and it plays differently each time.
  • Both five hero builds in S tier are Stall. Rush stays on three heroes. Pick one direction and commit, because mixing them gets you neither.
  • Items matter less than you think. Debuff Mages climbed into S tier with a single item across the whole team, carried by specializations and relics.

Questions people ask

How is this tier list made?
It reflects the builds that are clearing the hardest content in the current patch. It is an editorial judgement, not a calculation: there is no win rate formula behind it. What is exact is the composition of each build, which was decoded from the published share links.
What is the strongest Guildrun build?
Five builds share S tier after the 0.5.6 revision: Stall Tanks, Rush Duelists, Crit Rush Assassins, Stall Aria and Debuff Mages. Stall Tanks is the most complete of them, with five heroes, two at rank S and 13 relics, and came out of patch 0.5.5 stronger than anything else on the list.
Why are there no B, C or D tiers?
Because nothing sits there worth writing up yet. The demo has been out for a short time and the meta is still narrow. Tiers get added when builds earn them, not to fill out the page.
Should I copy a build exactly?
Use it as a direction, not a shopping list. Guildrun is a roguelike, so you take what the run offers. What transfers is the shape: which heroes, which specialization, and which relic theme to build toward.
How often does this change?
The game patches weekly, and balance changes move builds around. Each page carries the patch it was read from, so you can tell whether what you are looking at is current.

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