A Definitive Guide to the Most Helpful Avowed Companions

Avowed's Companions: A Ranked Guide from Worst to Best

Beyond their narrative roles and dialogue, Avowed's Companions offer significant practical advantages, from pathfinding to combat prowess. This guide ranks every companion, from least to most helpful.

4. Marius

Early game exploration benefits aside, Marius quickly becomes outmatched. His strengths lie in item and plant discovery, but his combat capabilities are underwhelming.

Abilities & Upgrades:

• Blinding Roots: Roots enemies (upgradeable to stun, trap multiple, inflict Bleed).
• Heart Seeker: Piercing shot (upgradeable to hit two enemies, increased damage vs. low health, reduced cooldown).
• Shadow Step: Vanishes and strikes (upgradeable to instantly kill stunned enemies, increased damage vs. low health, strike multiple enemies).
• Wounding Shots: Inflicts Bleed (upgradeable to reduce enemy damage reduction, slow enemies, reduce enemy damage).

Marius excels against specific enemy types (especially with a melee-focused Envoy), but his overall combat contribution is limited for most of the Avowed journey.

3. Giatta

Giatta, a support-oriented Animancer, prioritizes healing, shielding, and party buffs over raw damage. Her protective abilities are invaluable during challenging encounters like boss fights.

Abilities in Avowed:

• Purification: Heals allies (upgradeable to higher healing, enemy interruption, increased ally damage reduction).
• Barrier: Provides temporary health (upgradeable to increased temporary health, healing on barrier expiration, self-protection).
• Acceleration: Boosts ally speed (upgradeable to damage reduction, extended duration, ability cooldown reduction).
• Reconstruction: Heals allies with attacks (upgradeable to increased healing for low-health allies, temporary health for full-health allies, ally revival on enemy kill).

Giatta also activates Essence Generators, unlocking late-game areas. She synergizes exceptionally well with magic-focused Envoy builds.

2. Kai

Despite being an early recruit, Kai remains consistently useful. This tank deals substantial damage with minimal player intervention.

Abilities & Upgrades:

• Fire and Ire: Blunderbuss shot (upgradeable to ignite target, increased stun, reduced cooldown).
• Unbending Defense: Health regeneration and damage reduction (upgradeable to higher damage reduction, increased regeneration, area-of-effect damage).
• Leap of Daring: Stunning area-of-effect attack (upgradeable to increased area, temporary health per hit, bonus attack damage per hit).
• Second Wind: Self-revival (upgradeable to higher health restoration, attack speed boost, ability cooldown reset).

Kai's abilities are effective against various enemies, offering both single-target and crowd control options. His self-revival further enhances his effectiveness. He can also use fire to remove obstacles.

1. Yatzli

Yatzli, a powerful Wizard, boasts high-damage attacks and superior crowd control. She's the closest equivalent to air support in the Living Lands.

Abilities & Upgrades:

• Essence Explosion: Explosive arcane damage (upgradeable to larger blast, fire accumulation, reduced cooldown).
• Minoletta’s Missile Battery: Homing arcane missiles (upgradeable to increased fire rate, range, shock accumulation).
• Arduos Delay of Motion: Slows enemies (upgradeable to increased slow, area-of-effect, frost accumulation).
• Blast: Area-of-effect damage (upgradeable to explosive damage for breaking blocks and walls, shattering frozen enemies, increased stun, status effect chance).

Yatzli's potent abilities, combined with her obstacle-clearing capabilities, make her the top companion choice, despite being recruited last.

Avowed launches on PC and Xbox on February 18.