Merlin
Merlin heals and adds damage reduction, but her healing scaling trails the stronger healers.
What she does
Ranked for the global build
Why she ranks here
Merlin heals and adds damage reduction, but her healing scaling trails the stronger healers.
Support, Water
B tier in practice
Early fillers
Use them to cover a gap in the first week, then replace them when you can.
When to use her
Use her as an early healer until Medusa, Aether, or Hera is ready.
How to build her
Role-level guidance, not datamined multipliers. The role decides what she needs before any single character quirk does.
Building a Support
Stack healing and energy. She is the reason the team lasts long enough for a carry to finish the fight.
Heals, revives, and adds team-wide defensive or offensive buffs.
What to build first
Damage reduction first. The team survives because of the cut, not the health bar.
Based on the tags above and on her role. This site does not datamine skill multipliers, so read this as a priority order, not a skill tree. · DMG reduction
Phase matchup
Water: Strong against Fire, weak against Earth.
Exposed to: Earth
Should you build her?
Build her to cover a gap this week, then replace her.
0 teams use her, 0 list her as a substitute
Who she wants around her
The teams that use her, the teams that list her as a substitute, and the partners her role needs.
No team on the team page uses her yet
No team on the team page uses her yet. Start from the five-slot frame and put her where her role fits.
Partners her role needs
The strongest characters in the roles her job depends on.
Amaterasu
SSS · Tank, Radiant Star
The strongest tank in the global build. Amaterasu heals herself, revives once, and turns Charm into crowd control plus a damage cut for the whole team.
Athena
SS · Tank, Earth
A tank with shields, 30% damage reduction for the team, and a heal block for enemies. Athena protects and disrupts in the same slot.
Horus
SS · Tank, Wind
Horus is hard to kill and can share damage across the team. Her defensive stats make her one of the most reliable frontliners.
Set
S · Tank, Radiant Star
Set steps in when an ally drops below 50% health and also drains enemy energy and speed.
Who to use instead
The closest swaps in the same role, within one tier step.
Aphrodite
A · Support, Earth
A dedicated healer with 20% attack and 15% defense buffs. She is a clean support option when you do not need purification.
Kappa
C · Support, Earth
Kappa offers area recovery with low healing. Other healers cover the same job with better numbers.
Mina
C · Support, Earth
Mina gives attack and defense buffs, but her healing is too low to keep a team alive.
Every character in her role
The whole role in tier order, so a swap is a comparison instead of a guess.
| Character | Tier | Phase | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medusa | SSS | Radiant Star | Revive / Team DR / Healing |
| Aether | SS | Radiant Star | AOE heal / ATK buff / Energy DR |
| Hera | S | Water | Purify / Buffs / Debuffs |
| Seraph | S | Fire | Burn healer / ATK buff |
| Aphrodite | A | Earth | Healing / ATK buff / DEF buff |
| MerlinThis page | B | Water | Healing / DMG reduction |
| Kappa | C | Earth | AOE recovery |
| Mina | C | Earth | ATK buff / DEF buff |
The phase that beats her
An element matchup decides more fights than a single tier step does.
Exposed to
Earth
Phase matchup
Water: Strong against Fire, weak against Earth.