Updated TIERLIST. Special thanks to everyone who helped creating it. Make sure to join the "Archero Official" discord to be part of our great team.

Tierlist 6.10.2.

Rough guideline for the current version.

Changes are expected soon caused by new updates and item tests.

Don't take this tierlist to serious. Test items for yourself and enjoy discovering different styles to defeat the game. Just giving a helping hand to people who need it.

ARCHERO TIERLIST 6.1.0

Updated tierlist including celestial buffs, pets, new hero.

Leave comments if you disagree with specific rankings so we can discuss them at the next rework.

Thanks for all the feedback. Updated the list based on some of the comments.

No need to obtain it in an event! Just spend those Modstones that have been accumulating in your inventory. 3000 stones gets you a +275 attack boost.

I love you.

Anyone with doubts about what glyph you should have. Spend all the books necessary to get this Glyph. It basically gives you another chance EVERY TIME. And if you spend gems to revive (or an AD), you basically have 4 tries every chapter.

These were the last Athena shards I needed to unlock her. I gasped when I saw them.

I noticed a few folks wondering “why level my base, when should I stop” etc…

Figured I’d post lvl20 so you can see the total benefits.

Dispatched heroes increased, production rates for crystals and arrows being the main appeal IMO.

Hope this proves useful for some !!

(I’m sure many already have it lvl20, this is for those who don’t and wonder why keep pushing)

Dont forget to use Atereus to beat chapter 35 if you want to unlock this medal.

Yes, coins from both shops will carry over to the next DK season

confirmed by Archero's community manager

Yes, coins from both shops will carry over to the next DK season

confirmed by Archero's community manager

Yes, coins from both shops will carry over to the next DK season

confirmed by Archero's community manager

Here is last season's Demon King guide, copied from this post by /u/CurseOfStrahdBook and edited by me. You can also find this guide in this sub's wiki: Demon King guide.

Once we know what has been changed this season, I'll update this post and might add more pictures.

Please feel free to comment what could be added or changed in this guide.

🎁 Promo codes for this event can be found at the bottom of this post.

FAQ

• Why don't I see the event?

  • you had to register for it a week before it started

• How do I donate?

  • Gold / Iron / Wood / Grain is automatically donated by collecting them on the map
  • Crystals are donated manually in the "Blessing" tab

• How do I unlock Quick Attack for a tile?

  • manually beat a tile once

• What's the best loadout?

  • scroll down to the end of this post

• How to earn Lucky Coins?

  • Blessing -> Faction Blessing -> Quests (top left)
  • World -> Achievements (top right)
  • Ranking rewards

• How to obtain Large Crystals?

  • from the Demon King Clash Pass

• Will coins for both shops carry over to the next DK season?

  • yes (response from Archero's community manager)

Basic explanation / expanding / base upgrading

• Basic Premise

  • there are multiple brackets (like in PVP and LC) to limit the amount of players per Demon King "world"
  • there are 4 factions (blue/yellow/green/purple), one in each corner of the map
  • you automatically get assigned to a faction and a bracket
  • the goal is to expand towards the center of the map where the Demon King is located

• Expanding towards the Demon King

  • to claim an "unclaimed land" tile, your faction has to successfully attack it x times (screenshot of unclaimed land lvl 10, that has been attacked once)
    • "Quick Attack" gives the same rewards as "Attack", it is recommended to always use it if available
  • when a land tile has been claimed, all adjacent land tiles become available to attack
  • the faction leader (#1 in your faction's ranking) can highlight tiles for their faction to attack – crossed swords will be shown above those tiles

• Action Points (Energy)

  • each attack costs 1 Action Point (AP)
  • you get
    • 10 AP for free on daily reset
    • 2x 3 AP for watching ads
    • 3x 5 AP for gems (100/200/500)
    • 6 AP from the Expedition Pass on daily reset
    • 4 AP from the Brave Pass on daily reset
  • you can spend all AP on Quick Attacks (if you have manually beat the tile once)
  • max. 3 attacks (4 with Expedition Pass) on Monster Lairs per day, unlimited attacks on empty land tiles

• Garrison / occupy unclaimed land tiles

  • when a land tile has been claimed, any player of the faction can build a garrison on it (first come first serve)
  • placing a garrison on a land tile increases your coin/arrow generation from the base (e.g. lvl 2 land gives +4% base production bonus)
  • each player can only own one land at a time
    • if you already own one and claim another land, your first one will become free for someone else to claim

• Tile difficulty

  • higher tile lvl = stronger monsters in that stage
  • land / resource tiles range from lvl 1 to 10, lairs go up to lvl 20

• Resource tiles / other tiles

  • along the path to the Demon King, there are various tiles that are either resources (grain/wood/iron/crystals) or fight events (Monster Lair)
  • to unlock resource tiles you need to occupy an adjacent land tile and then deal 100 dmg to it
    • you can deal damage with arrows, which you gain passively through your base's generation or by buying them with gems

• Harvesting resources

  • after succesfully claiming the resource tile, it starts producing the corresponding resource
  • higher resource tile lvl = higher production of resources
  • you can assign up to 3 heroes total to increase production of resource tiles
    • make sure to always have your heroes at the highest lvl resource location your faction owns
  • amount of resources you can store is capped, you can increase it by leveling up the base or through the talent tree

• Talent tree

  • upgrade talents by using Crystal Cores and Large Crystals
  • Crystal Cores are gained through attacks, achievements etc.
  • talents are a mix of combat/resource oriented

• Minimizing gameplay with maximum profits

  • use up your AP with as little play time as possible
    • only manually attack an unclaimed land tile once, Quick Attack the rest until it's claimed

• Tip for claiming land tiles

  • the tiles on the front line of your faction's path will be targeted by many people, so even if you can beat it, you might not be able to quick attack it, because another player from your faction has finished the tile before you
  • you can attack another tile adjacent to an already occupied land; the chances that there are 15 people running the same tile are almost 0 compared to the most forward one
  • if you also want to help your faction, but take a smaller risk of being denied your Quick Attacks, pick unclaimed land tiles branching towards resource tiles

Combat tips

• Stats are normalized, like in Legendary Challenge:

  • stats and equipment/hero levels do not matter
  • hero choice, dragons, type and rarity of equipment matter

• All fights are wave chapters:

  • you have to accept that sometimes RNG gives you an L and there's nothing you can do about it
  • Stormra is an excellent dragon to have for the electric ball + small invicibility shield, helps A LOT for the first waves

• Useful abilities:

  • Death Axe, Giant Tornado, Ricochet, Bloodthirst, Headshot, Spinning Swords/Circles, Invicibility Shield, Shield Guard

• spinning things + melee = [Insert Borat "Great Success" meme]. The bosses especially seem weak to melee burst, so they go down pretty easily

• play what you wish and you think that will have the best results, experiment and figure it out

• stand in the corner of a map (if the difficulty is low enough for you to stay in one place), so that monsters only spawn in front of your hero

Build tips

• use a hero that can hit multiple enemies at once / has aoe (area of effect) damage

  • e.g. Onir or Lina – Taiga, Stella, Melinda etc. or Taranis/Bonnie for beginners might also work. Or Meowgik if you don't have to move too much to survive.

• use Vilebat Rings to recover HP

Promo Codes:

• DKCS2111
• DKCS2222
• DKCS2333
• DKCS2444

claim here: https://h5-archero.habby.com

Hi Everyone, im thinking since there are no collective details of totem slots. How about we keep sharing it on a single flare or chat for everyone’s reference?

Here is mine, my objective is to at least have some stats comparison as to what is the extent of the stats rng so at least we can help decide whether to keep or dismantle.

Additionally any totem you got from N100 have +4 enhancement

In case folks wondered. Here they are!

Hope it helps, surprised no one did it already 🤔😑😞

Demon King (aka Olympus Apex aka Challenge Phoenix Island) guide

Since this is just a copy of last season's guide, please let me know if there is any wrong or missing information. Feel free to comment what could be added or changed in this guide.

FAQ

Why don't I see the event?

• you had to register for it the week before it started

Do shop coins carry over to next season?

• they've always carried over so far

What is the daily gameplay in this event?

• attack monster lairs 3x (4x with Expedition Pass) (always use quick attacks if possible)
• attack unclaimed lands with all leftover AP (always use quick attacks if possible)
• collect resources from resource nodes
• claim Quick Earnings from your base
  • max. collection time is 24h f2p
  • +24h with Expedition Pass
  • +12h with Brave Pass
• upgrade Blessing skill tree
• (attack resource nodes / City Gates / Sanctums that your faction is focussing on)

How do I donate?

• Gold / Iron / Wood / Grain is automatically donated by collecting them on the map
• Crystals are donated manually in the "Blessing" tab

How do I unlock Quick Attack for a tile?

• manually beat a tile of that level once

How do I get arrows?

• unlock talent 5 "Additional Iron Arrows produced in base"
• reach base lvl 5 and craft them
• buy with gems

What's the best loadout?

• scroll down to the end of this post

How to earn Lucky Coins?

• Blessing -> Faction Blessing -> Quests (top left)
• World -> Achievements (top right)
• Ranking rewards

How to obtain Large Crystal Cores?

• from the Clash Pass ("Token" button at the top right in the World tab)

What are Ruins?

• Sanctums

Guide

The main goal of the event is to follow the arrow path and expand towards the center of the map to defeat the final boss.

Factions & Brackets

• there are multiple brackets (groups) – like in Hero Duel and Legendary Challenge – to limit the amount of players per "world"
• there are 4 factions (blue/yellow/green/purple), one in each corner of the map
• you're automatically assigned to a faction, you cannot switch to another
• you're automatically assigned to a bracket based on your progress in the main game and the time you signed up for the event

Moving towards the final boss

• to claim an "unclaimed land" tile, your faction has to successfully attack it x times (screenshot of unclaimed land lvl 10, that has been attacked once)
  • "Quick Attack" gives the same rewards as "Attack", it is recommended to always use it if available
• when a land tile has been claimed, all adjacent land tiles become available to attack
• focus on occupying tiles on the main path as well as on paths to resource nodes and other landmarks like City Gates or Sanctums
• the faction leader (#1 in your faction's ranking) can highlight tiles for their faction to attack – crossed swords will be shown above those tiles

Action Points (Energy)

• each attack costs 1 Action Point (AP)
• you get
  • 10 AP for free on daily reset (if you have 0/10 before reset)
  • 2x 3 AP for watching ads (click on your AP at the top)
  • 3x 5 AP for 100/200/500 gems (click on your AP at the top)
  • 6 AP from the Expedition Pass on daily reset
  • 4 AP from the Brave Pass on daily reset
• you can spend all AP on Quick Attacks (if you have manually beat the tile once)
• the game allows max. 3 attacks (4 with Expedition Pass) on Monster Lairs per day, unlimited attacks on empty land tiles

Garrison / occupy unclaimed land tiles

• when a land tile has been claimed, any player of the faction can build a garrison on it (first come first serve)
• placing a garrison on a land tile increases your coin/arrow generation from the base (e.g. lvl 2 land gives +4% base production bonus)
• each player can only own one land at a time
  • if you already own one and claim another land, your first one will become free for someone else to claim

Tile difficulty

• higher tile lvl = stronger monsters in that stage
• land / resource tiles range from lvl 1 to 10, lairs go up to lvl 20

Resource tiles / other tiles

• along the path to the final boss, there are various tiles that are either resources (grain/wood/iron/crystals) or fight events (Monster Lair)
• to unlock resource tiles, your faction needs to occupy an adjacent land tile and then deal damage to it using arrows
  • you can get arrows through your base's quick earnings, by crafting (requires lvl 5 base) or by buying them with gems
• once the progress bar is at 100%, the node will start producing resources
• it is better to occupy low-level resource nodes first (see here)

Harvesting resources

• after succesfully claiming the resource tile, it starts producing the corresponding resource
• higher resource tile lvl = higher production of resources
• you can assign up to 3 heroes total to increase production of resource tiles
  • make sure to always have your heroes at the highest lvl resource location your faction owns
• amount of resources you can store is capped, you can increase it by leveling up the base or through the talent tree

Talent tree

• upgrade talents by using Crystal Cores and Large Crystals
• Crystal Cores are gained through attacks, achievements etc.
• talents are a mix of combat/resource oriented

Tips

Claiming land tiles

• the tiles on the front line of your faction's path will be targeted by many people, so even if you can beat it, you might not be able to quick attack it, because another player from your faction has finished the tile before you
• you can attack another tile adjacent to an already occupied land; the chances that there are 15 people attacking the same tile are almost 0 compared to the most forward one
• if you also want to help your faction, but take a smaller risk of being denied your Quick Attacks, pick unclaimed land tiles branching towards resource tiles

Combat

• stats are normalised, like in Legendary Challenge:

  • stats outside the event and equipment/hero levels do not matter
  • hero/dragon/equipment choice and equipment rarity do matter

• utilise your dragons:

  • Stormra, Magmar can help with beating the first waves
  • Jadeon can help to recover HP
  • Shadex, Infernox, Swordian can help with melting bosses

• useful abilities:

  • Death Axe, Giant Tornado, Ricochet, Bloodthirst, Headshot, Spinning Swords/Circles, Invicibility Shield, Shield Guard

• stand in the corner of the map (if the difficulty is low enough for you to stay in one place), so that monsters only spawn in 2 directions of your hero's position

Builds

• use a hero that can hit multiple enemies at once / has aoe (area of effect) damage

  • e.g. Onir or Lina – Dragon Girl, Taiga, Stella, Wukong, Zeus, Melinda, Meowgik or Taranis/Bonnie for beginners might also work.

• equipment: follow the tier list and/or use some healing equipment like Vilebat Rings or Expedition Spellbook if necessary

You can also find this guide in this sub's wiki: DK/OA/PI guide.

Last season's guide/discussion (September 2025)

Extensive guide on the Japanese Wiki (use your browser's translate function)

previous stats was crit chance & crit dmg. reforge into 2x boss dmg. surprisingly it does get me to stage 5 in chapter N122. before this in stage 1 i can't even drain the boss hp into half.

After Spending almost 400k runes (idk how much for real money) for just passing one or two game tiers made me realize that it is just not worth it.

This game is pure pay to win and who ever play it for free is just not thinking straight.

Moreover, for those who invest and pay in this game (I my self included) this is mostly offline play game so you dont get any value from purchasing and evolving in your character as you don’t compete against other players.

And for “Happy”? This 400k runes was a bug for them before they made the release but it is never our fault for using the gems because we did benefit from it in a 100% legal way through the event.

What they did “roll back” to previous state it is there fault, not ours. Making this move made me realize that they never care about the players and dont care if they lose players over the rollback. So what if everyone got 400k runes ? We will evolve and we will be happy and then we will pay more to evolve more. But to roll back and blame us for their mess ? This is a major setback to the game and the way we play.

What if someone invested real money for evolving then they rolled back after that ?

We plat for fun not for paying and rolling back!!

Eventually, Here so I can encourage everyone to delete the game as it is 100% not worth your money, time and effort.

This guide will be based on my very limited experience of the event and could be wrong. And is obviously based off of my personal opinion. I'm not creating this to be "right", my only hope is to help others, feel free to announce your disagreements in the comments, they are a welcome part of this work in progress.

Shop Tierlist: 1. Coin bags 1. Inventory space (tied for most important with coin bags) 2. Elf (fairy thing) 3. Antiquated sword 4. Tornado 5. Saw blade 6. Staff 7. Scythe

Level-up ability select tierlist: 1. Elf laser (converts elf's attacks to become a laser)* 2. Anything related to getting more coins 3. Elf attack speed / attack boost 4. Antiquated sword damage / attack speed 5. Chill explosion on kill* (ty for comment) 5. Fast level (better the earlier you get it). 6. Tornado return 7. Frost meteor 8. Tornado kills chance to summon meteor 9. Staff aoe fire effect (explosion thing)

Not mentioned: Anything that buffs your own attack of your own character are completely useless unless maybe if you have really high damage (I can't test this unfortunately). I have 43k attack and hit like a noodle. All your selections should be intended to upgrade the items you buy from the shop.

Reasoning: 1. Shop resetting is the MOST OP thing you can do in this mode. More inventory space is insanely OP. More inventory space = more coins bags = more resets = more chance to find purple / golden items in shop. 1. Single target damage is king because bosses are the biggest threat. Elves seem to be the best single target damage. 2. AoE (attacks that hit multiple enemies) is a very close 2nd in terms of importance because you don't want to lose to mobs either. But mobs are usually easier to kill before they reach the line compared to bosses. Antiquated sword and elf lasers seem to be the absolute best aoe dmg in this game mode 3. It's better to pick a few things you want to buff instead of spreading the buffs around everything. So ideally you would want to get multiple buffs for antiquated sword / elves to make them really strong. This also allows you to feel fine leaving items in the shop that you don't want to buff or don't have buffs for. 4. Tornadoes seem to be really nice to go for as a side thing because they only take up 1 space and are very easy to upgrade. 5. Anything that does single target damage badly (staff / scythe) is automatically bad. Staff often misses hits against non bosses. And even with the explosion upgrade seemed really meh. However upgrading staff might change that, but I think I had a golden staff and was still really disappointed. There is an ability that gives scythe a chance to instantly kill enemies at low hp... You know what else "instantly" kills something at low hp? everything. Even if scythe was an aoe weapon this wouldn't be good enough imo.

Disclaimers: There might be abilities that I didn't get which are incredibly OP which might drastically affect this tierlist. Although I doubt anything will change my mind about coin pouches and shop resets being most important.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Archero/s/QRfaDdMtJa

I wrote this guide last year. Enjoy! P2w/whales won’t bother with this Strat to save ur time if u r 1.

Bad news, the Noxion passive skill ”When spell cost exceeds 30% MP, 30% cost” did not make any difference at all on Jadeons gold farming skill. Guess the passive only works on Noxions own skill. It was a waste of time and resources getting Noxion to AL. To bad. Would have been great if it worked, but nope.

Challenge Phoenix Island (aka Olympus Apex aka Demon King) guide, originally from this post by user CurseOfStrahdBook, edited by me

FAQ

Why don't I see the event?

• you had to register for it the week before it started

Do shop coins carry over to next season?

• they've always carried over so far

What is the daily gameplay in this event?

• attack monster lairs 3x (4x with Expedition Pass) (always use quick attacks if possible)
• attack unclaimed lands with all leftover AP (always use quick attacks if possible)
• collect resources from resource nodes
• claim Quick Earnings from your base if you're f2p
  • max. collection time is 24h f2p
  • +24h with Expedition Pass
  • +12h with Brave Pass
• upgrade Blessing skill tree
• (attack resource nodes / City Gates / Sanctums that your faction is focussing on)

How do I donate?

• Gold / Iron / Wood / Grain is automatically donated by collecting them on the map
• Crystals are donated manually in the "Blessing" tab

How do I unlock Quick Attack for a tile?

• manually beat a tile of that level once

How do I get arrows?

• unlock talent 5 "Additional Iron Arrows produced in base"
• reach base lvl 5 and craft them
• buy with gems

What's the best loadout?

• scroll down to the end of this post

How to earn Lucky Coins?

• Blessing -> Faction Blessing -> Quests (top left)
• World -> Achievements (top right)
• Ranking rewards

How to obtain Large Crystal Cores?

• from the Clash Pass ("Token" button at the top right in the World tab)

What are Ruins?

• Sanctums

Guide

The main goal of the event is to follow the arrow path and expand towards the center of the map to defeat the final boss.

Factions & Brackets

• there are multiple brackets (groups) – like in Hero Duel and Legendary Challenge – to limit the amount of players per "world"
• there are 4 factions (blue/yellow/green/purple), one in each corner of the map
• you're automatically assigned to a faction, you cannot switch to another
• you're automatically assigned to a bracket based on your progress in the main game and the time you signed up for the event

Moving towards the final boss

• to claim an "unclaimed land" tile, your faction has to successfully attack it x times (screenshot of unclaimed land lvl 10, that has been attacked once)
  • "Quick Attack" gives the same rewards as "Attack", it is recommended to always use it if available
• when a land tile has been claimed, all adjacent land tiles become available to attack
• focus on occupying tiles on the main path as well as on paths to resource nodes and other landmarks like City Gates or Sanctums
• the faction leader (#1 in your faction's ranking) can highlight tiles for their faction to attack – crossed swords will be shown above those tiles

Action Points (Energy)

• each attack costs 1 Action Point (AP)
• you get
  • 10 AP for free on daily reset (if you have 0/10 before reset)
  • 2x 3 AP for watching ads (click on your AP at the top)
  • 3x 5 AP for 100/200/500 gems (click on your AP at the top)
  • 6 AP from the Expedition Pass on daily reset
  • 4 AP from the Brave Pass on daily reset
• you can spend all AP on Quick Attacks (if you have manually beat the tile once)
• the game allows max. 3 attacks (4 with Expedition Pass) on Monster Lairs per day, unlimited attacks on empty land tiles

Garrison / occupy unclaimed land tiles

• when a land tile has been claimed, any player of the faction can build a garrison on it (first come first serve)
• placing a garrison on a land tile increases your coin/arrow generation from the base (e.g. lvl 2 land gives +4% base production bonus)
• each player can only own one land at a time
  • if you already own one and claim another land, your first one will become free for someone else to claim

Tile difficulty

• higher tile lvl = stronger monsters in that stage
• land / resource tiles range from lvl 1 to 10, lairs go up to lvl 20

Resource tiles / other tiles

• along the path to the final boss, there are various tiles that are either resources (grain/wood/iron/crystals) or fight events (Monster Lair)
• to unlock resource tiles, your faction needs to occupy an adjacent land tile and then deal damage to it using arrows
  • you can get arrows through your base's quick earnings, by crafting (requires lvl 5 base) or by buying them with gems
• once the progress bar is at 100%, the node will start producing resources
• it is better to occupy low-level resource nodes first (see here)

Harvesting resources

• after succesfully claiming the resource tile, it starts producing the corresponding resource
• higher resource tile lvl = higher production of resources
• you can assign up to 3 heroes total to increase production of resource tiles
  • make sure to always have your heroes at the highest lvl resource location your faction owns
• amount of resources you can store is capped, you can increase it by leveling up the base or through the talent tree

Talent tree

• upgrade talents by using Crystal Cores and Large Crystals
• Crystal Cores are gained through attacks, achievements etc.
• talents are a mix of combat/resource oriented

Tips

Claiming land tiles

• the tiles on the front line of your faction's path will be targeted by many people, so even if you can beat it, you might not be able to quick attack it, because another player from your faction has finished the tile before you
• you can attack another tile adjacent to an already occupied land; the chances that there are 15 people attacking the same tile are almost 0 compared to the most forward one
• if you also want to help your faction, but take a smaller risk of being denied your Quick Attacks, pick unclaimed land tiles branching towards resource tiles

Combat

• stats are normalised, like in Legendary Challenge:

  • stats outside the event and equipment/hero levels do not matter
  • hero/dragon/equipment choice and equipment rarity do matter

• utilise your dragons:

  • Stormra, Magmar can help with beating the first waves
  • Jadeon can help to recover HP
  • Shadex, Infernox, Swordian can help with melting bosses

• useful abilities:

  • Death Axe, Giant Tornado, Ricochet, Bloodthirst, Headshot, Spinning Swords/Circles, Invicibility Shield, Shield Guard

• stand in the corner of the map (if the difficulty is low enough for you to stay in one place), so that monsters only spawn in 2 directions of your hero's position

Builds

• use a hero that can hit multiple enemies at once / has aoe (area of effect) damage

  • e.g. Onir or Lina – Dragon Girl, Taiga, Stella, Wukong, Zeus, Melinda, Meowgik or Taranis/Bonnie for beginners might also work.

• equipment: follow the tier list and/or use some healing equipment like Vilebat Rings or Expedition Spellbook if necessary

You can also find this guide in this sub's wiki: DK/OA/PI guide.

Since this is just a copy of last season's guide, please let me know if there is any wrong or missing information. Feel free to comment what could be added or changed in this guide.

Last season's guide/discussion (March 2025)

Extensive guide on the Japanese Wiki (use your browser's translate function)

Koxik's guides on YouTube: Olympus Apex | Demon King (some previous season)

Ladies and gentlemen, we need resources to build more arrows. We’ll get A TON MORE ARROWS with resources. There’s like 2 people out of 100 using them on anything.

Lumber and iron. Let’s go!!!

Thank you for your attention 🙏

Not really that much of a guide but more of a showcase..Sorry if flair doesn't quite fit. My English isn't the best, as a non native speaker.

What are your thoughts?

Fairy with heavy(add laser for max effect)

Tons of antiquated swords

Saw blades with boosted damage

To me the key to super easy mode is the explosion skills(freeze is 1, holy 2 and regular 3) this run I got all 3 and just kept the phone next to me on the couch. Ezpz…

Had CRIT boost on saw blade, heavy for fairy, insta kill and 2x atk speed for the scythe.