How to Use the Servant Tier List and Servant Reviews on GamePress's FGO Wiki

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Use the Tier List as a rough sorting tool for "who is generally strong," then use Servant Reviews to understand why a servant sits where it does and whether that reasoning applies to your account. Neither resource tells you what to raise — they tell you what a servant does and how much other players value it. The Tier List is best for narrowing a large roster down to a shortlist; the reviews are best for deciding whether a servant on that shortlist actually fits your teams and the content you play.

What the Tier List Is Actually Ranking

The GamePress FGO wiki hosts a Servant Tier List as one of its core tools, listed alongside the Summon Banner List, Summon Simulator, and the Servant, Materials, Quests, and Craft Essence databases. A tier list of this kind is a consensus snapshot: servants are grouped by how broadly useful and powerful the community considers them, usually weighted toward high-difficulty challenge content and farming efficiency.

What that means in practice:

  • A high tier is a claim about general strength, not about your box. A top-tier servant you can't ascend, skill up, or field with the right supports may underperform a mid-tier servant you already have fully built.
  • Tiers compress a lot of context. A servant can be excellent in one role (single-target boss killing) and mediocre in another (AoE farming). The tier label alone won't tell you which.
  • Tiers move. New servants, new quests, and new support options shift rankings over time. Treat any tier list as dated the moment it's published.

Use the Tier List to answer "is this servant worth a second look?" — not "should I invest in this servant?"

What the Servant Reviews Add

The wiki's Servant Reviews section is where the reasoning lives. Two recurring series are visible in the site's update feed:

  • Rabbit's Reviews — individual servant write-ups (for example, Rabbit's Reviews #458: Daedalus (5★ Berserker)).
  • Rathilal's MMM Archive — a separate review series, with entries tied to specific events and campaigns.

A good servant review typically covers the servant's kit (skills, Noble Phantasm, passives), what role they fill, how they compare to alternatives, and where they struggle. That's the layer the tier list strips out. If the tier list says "strong," the review tells you strong at what, with whom, and against which enemies.

When reading a review, pull out these four things:

  1. Role — is this servant a farmer, a boss killer, a support, or a hybrid?
  2. Dependencies — does the servant need specific supports, Craft Essences, or NP levels to function well?
  3. Trade-offs — what does the servant give up compared to similar options?
  4. Author stance — reviews are written by individuals with their own playstyle and priorities. The site labels them by author (Rabbit, Rathilal), which is a signal that these are opinions, not neutral data.

Combining Both for Your Own Decisions

The two resources work best in sequence:

Step Resource Question it answers
1 Tier List Which servants are broadly considered strong?
2 Servant Reviews Why is this servant rated that way, and does it apply to me?
3 Servant database / Skill Effects pages What are the exact numbers, cooldowns, and effects?
4 Your own roster and goals Can I actually build and field this servant?

The wiki also offers a Servant Skill Effects collection with sortable, filterable effects (NP Gauge Up, Special ATK Up, and similar), filterable by target, Skill/NP, class, and rarity. That's the neutral-data layer — useful when you want to verify a review's claims or compare two servants on a specific effect rather than on overall rating.

A practical example: suppose you're deciding between two Berserkers for a farming setup. The Tier List might rank both similarly. The reviews tell you one needs a specific support to loop reliably while the other works with a wider range of teams. The Skill Effects page confirms the exact NP charge values. Only then do you check whether you own the required support — and that final check is the one that actually decides it.

Limits to Keep in Mind

  • Timeliness. The update feed shows the site is actively maintained (simulator updates, new servant analyses, event walkthroughs), but individual reviews and tier placements reflect the game state at the time of writing. A review from an earlier period may not account for later servants or quest types.
  • Subjectivity. Reviews are authored pieces. Two reviewers can weigh the same kit differently. Cross-reading more than one review, or comparing against the raw skill data, reduces the chance of over-trusting a single opinion.
  • Coverage bias. Not every servant gets a full review. Popular or newly released servants are more likely to have one, so absence of a review isn't a judgment about a servant's quality.
  • Tier lists reward generality. They tend to favor servants that perform well across many situations. If you only care about one specific quest type, a lower-tier specialist may serve you better than a higher-tier generalist.

The short version: let the Tier List tell you where to look, let the reviews tell you what you're looking at, and let your own roster and the content you actually play make the final call.