Chrono Ark: 8 Best Team Compositions

Summary

• Make sure you have a well-balanced team in Chrono Ark to counter weaknesses and amplify strengths for successful exploration.
• Utilize the first-person battle system to strategically control your team's moves and turns in battles for maximum efficiency.
• Experiment with different team combinations and compositions to adapt to the ever-changing challenges in the Twisted World.

In the roguelike exploration offered in Chrono Ark, it's important to have a great team that counters weaknesses and compliments strengths. Like other roguelike RPGs, Chrono Ark's battle system is viewed in first person with moving images representing enemies and cards you have. This is a good way to keep you on track of your turns and moves.

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Your teams consist of four investigators and their units facing off against enemies. Building your deck and training the characters is part of the gameplay to create the best set of investigator teams for exploration in the Twisted World. The roguelike elements also help to make sure your team sets are always in flux for different combinations or level-ups.

8 High Mana Team

Tank

Pheonix

DPS

Azar

Healing

N/A

Support

Helia, Selena

Both Helia and Selena have high magic potential and together can decimate the enemy units in battles against magic-weak enemies. As a powerful DPS fighter, Azar can serve as a fearsome frontline member of the team that carries the attacks while the twins bring in their magical prowess.

Helia uses formidable magic empowered by the Sun to destroy her foes. Meanwhile, Selena utilizes her magic empowered by the moon to heal her allies. Together, they balance each other out and their combined specialization with mana is important not just for themselves, but with any other combination of duo teams.

7 Pain Debuff Team

Tank

Miss Chain

DPS

Ilya

Healing

N/A

Support

Joey, Charon

This setup has these investigators boost each other up while bringing down enemies and debuffing them. Chief in this composition is Charon, who is the best at dealing incredible damage due to stacking these debuffs. Joey can support Charon's skills and doubles down on several debuffs.

Ilya is the best DPS character to use in this composition due to her large damage output, which can counter the other costs to managing her growth and skills. With Joey's moderate skills, and Charon's flexibility, Ilya has the space and possibilities for limitless growth for combat.

6 Expert Runners

Tank

Miss Chain

DPS

Silverstein, Charon

Healing

N/A

Support

Sizz

This composition is great for pursuing tougher difficulties in Chrono Ark. Sizz's support skills involve using her doll Eve to boost the attack strength of anyone who currently 'owns' the doll. Eve can move between each of the characters, making the support roles of Sizz very versatile. This is best for Silverstein and Charon, who can butcher their way through enemies.

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Silverstein is effective at targeting a single enemy and unloading a lot of damage opportunities. Meanwhile, Charon is much more versatile and balances out Silverstein's specialty as a result. Together, they cover the overall types of enemies you're bound to deal with.

5 Self Damage And Healing Maintenance

Tank

Phoenix

DPS

Hein

Healing

Huz

Support

Charon

With Huz and Charon, Hein's self-damaging attacks and abilities can be boosted while ensuring he still heals from the effects. As a healer, Huz can ensure your team can handle risky moves and strategies while restoring health and keeping the enemy weak. Finally, Charon can unleash debuffs and is effective at supporting the team with defense and recovery.

Having Phoenix as the tank to endure both self-inflicted attacks from Hein and attacks from enemies doubles the effectiveness of Hein's abilities and the healing of the team. If you have a good idea of the strengths and weaknesses of the enemies you face, this is a great team-up to use to farm through and increase your levels.

4 The Boss Slayers

Tank

Lian

DPS

Azar, Trisha

Healing

N/A

Support

N/A

Azar and Trisha together can inflict tremendous damage on most bosses throughout the Twisted World. Many of their attacks and skills increase critical hits and can strike multiple times. Lian's defensive abilities also add to the damage potential against bosses and regular enemies due to her ripostes and parry skills.

Boss runs are the best way for level-ups and farming for items. With Azar and Trisha together, you can combine them with other characters that are tanks, healers, or supporters, and together they can increase the overall levels and unlock skills for any investigators you have. This team can work in multiple configurations, with this being a fine example to start with.

3 Stunning Gauntlet

Tank

Narhan

DPS

Ilya, Trisha, Johan

Healing

N/A

Support

N/A

Narhan's abilities can synergize his abilities with high effect for DPS investigators, so they can inflict critical damage often. With Trisha and Johan, enemies would be bombarded with brutal streams of attacks and damage, made even worse due to the increased chances for critical boosts to damage.

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For the best DPS to take advantage of Narhan's synergy, you should use the combined abilities of Ilya for his lightning-fast thunder sword and freezing snow sword, Trisha's default critical hit chances, and Johan's fixed ability for archery, which allows him to deal consistent damage.

2 Lightning Scourge

Tank

Narhan, Ironheart

DPS

Ilya

Healing

N/A

Support

Leryn

This team set-up can send off a powerful stream of elemental attacks, using Ilya's highly flexible DPS skills combined with the defensive strength of Ironheaert and Narhan. Leryn's support also helps in making opportunities for the team to use their best skills to flawlessly wipe out the enemies while no one suffers any grievous injuries.

The main powerhouse of the team is Ilya. His abilities with Raimetsu are the key moves to use for the destructive thunder damage. Because of his strength and application in battle, Ilya is harder to manage compared to other high DPS characters. This is where Ironheart and Narhan can fit in, by balancing out his skillset and shielding him from attacks. Leryn could also increase Ilya's effectiveness while adding to the defenses in the team as well.

1 DPS With Fierce Protection

Tank

Ironheart, Lian

DPS

Johan

Healing

N/A

Support

Pressel

With Iron Heart and Lian keeping enemy attacks at bay with protective barriers and parries, Johan can deliver a constant stream of damage that would devastate the enemy and even defeat bosses with relative effectiveness. With this setup, you wouldn't have to worry about doing a lot of damage either.

To balance your best defense and offensive abilities, Pressel's supportive and healing skills can stabilize the boosts and health spent by the team in battle. Her passive ability, Prophecy, is incredibly effective in multiple builds, but is perfect for this composition.

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