Most Forsaken tier lists are a screenshot of somebody's opinion, and several of the popular ones
still rank Jason — a killer that was redesigned into Slasher a year ago — or mix unreleased names
like The Stalker into the live roster. This one ranks the 20 characters you can
actually play, and shows its working.
Tier list revised:
Killer tier list
Last updated: 2026-08-28
Ranked on the published stat block and the documented strengths and weaknesses of each kit — terror radius, health, sprint speed, number of usable abilities and what the source material says each killer loses to. We do not have match-win data for this game and do not pretend to.
S Tier
Name
Role
Why
John Doe
Zoner / Trapper
The smallest terror radius in the game at 60 studs paired with the widest documented ability list. You get close before anyone hears you, and the trap layer punishes the loop that beats most other killers.
Azure
Zoner
The largest kit on the roster plus a Golem form that rewrites his own stat line mid-round (slower walk, faster sprint, a third of the stamina). Difficulty 5 and 2,000 PP for a reason.
A Tier
Name
Role
Why
Noli
Rushdown / Deception
Two mobility abilities plus a ranged option, and hallucinations that break survivor coordination. The 100-stud terror radius is the price — survivors hear him early, they just cannot predict where he lands.
Nosferatu
All-Rounder / Ambush / Stealth
Bat-form mobility and Cataclysm zoning make him workable in almost any situation. The source material names his weakness plainly: competent Sentinels.
B Tier
Name
Role
Why
Slasher
Rushdown / Stealth
62.5-stud terror radius and 2,000 HP, free from your first match, difficulty 2. Held back by having no ranged option and no burst mobility — he loses to looping and to coordinated teams, which is exactly what the top of the survivor list is built to do.
c00lkidd
Rushdown
The fastest sprint on the roster at 28 and free on first play. Also the lowest killer health at 1,000, so the aggressive line he is built for is the one that gets him stunned out of a chase.
C Tier
Name
Role
Why
Guest 666
Snowball / Attrition
The biggest health pool of any killer at 2,750, and a 112.5-stud terror radius that is nearly double John Doe's. Survivors always know roughly where she is, which is a hard tax on the ambushes the rest of the roster lives on.
1x1x1x1
Zoner
Minion zoning takes setup time that good survivors do not give you, and the payoff needs the Glitched status to land first. Also the one killer whose published health figure we could not verify — see the note on the killers page.
Survivor tier list
Last updated: 2026-08-28
Same method as the killer list: published health and stamina, the documented role, and what each kit is actually for. Survivor value swings hard with whether you are in a coordinated team or a solo queue, so that split is called out per entry.
S Tier
Name
Role
Why
Guest 1337
Sentinel
110 HP, the highest flat health of any survivor, with Block and Charge to eat hits meant for someone else. The catch is that self-sacrifice only scores if a teammate converts it — he is a team pick, not a solo one.
Jane Doe
Sentinel / Support
Digital Footprint reveals where the killer has been, Resonance stacks her Hatchet stun, and Shatterpoint gives her a second damage-reduction layer. She is also the only survivor you earn instead of buy.
Two Time
Sentinel
A second life is worth more in a solo queue than any amount of healing you have to rely on a stranger to deliver. 80 HP means the first life is short.
A Tier
Name
Role
Why
Shedletsky
Sentinel
Free, difficulty 2, 100 HP, with a stun and admin commands. The most forgiving good survivor in the game and the one to learn the role on.
Builderman
Support
Sentries and Dispensers change the geometry of a map rather than the outcome of one chase. 90 HP is the trade. Value scales with round length.
Taph
Support
Tripwire slows and reveals, the Subspace Tripmine disorients and applies Helpless. Difficulty 2 despite doing something complicated — and the mine will disorient you too if you stand in it.
Chance
Sentinel
The only survivor with no fixed health: his passive rolls 70–90 at round start and Reroll can push it anywhere from 55 to 130. Highest ceiling, lowest floor, and the flintlock can explode in your hands.
B Tier
Name
Role
Why
Elliot
Support
Free, difficulty 2, a healer with a frontline streak. 80 HP is thin for someone expected to be near the fight, and Rush Hour leaves you Exhausted when it ends.
Veeronica
Survivalist
Mobility and preparation — SK8 movement plus Broadcast placements. 100 HP and 750 PP, the most expensive survivor, which is a lot to ask before you know if the movement clicks for you.
007n7
Survivalist
Clones and injected decoys are the strongest deception tool on the survivor side, but difficulty 4 means most of that value is theoretical until you have put hours in.
Dusekkar
Support
Difficulty 5, the highest on the survivor roster, for Levitation, a Plasma Beam and a respawn command. Enormous when it lands and dead weight when it does not, on 90 HP.
C Tier
Name
Role
Why
Noob
Survivalist
Not bad — simplest. Three consumables (Bloxy Cola, Slateskin Potion, GhostBurger) instead of a timed ability, which makes Noob the clearest starting point and the lowest ceiling once everyone else has learned their kit.
How this list is built
Four inputs, in this order. Published stats — health, walk and sprint speed,
stamina economy and terror radius, all of which are printed on the killers and survivors pages so you can check the
ranking against the numbers. Kit breadth — how many distinct, usable abilities a
character has, and whether they cover more than one situation. Documented weaknesses
— where the source material names what a character loses to, we take it seriously; that is why
Slasher sits below killers with worse raw stats. The difficulty rating the game
itself assigns, which we read as a ceiling indicator rather than a strength score.
What is deliberately not in here: win rates, pick rates and "the meta". Nobody publishes
match data for this game. A tier list that claims to be built on data it cannot have is guessing
with extra confidence.
What moves a character up or down
Balance patches. The most recent one cut Azure's Blooming Seeker Bulb fire-rate bonus from 1.5x to 1.33x. That is the sort of change that shifts a placement.
Terror radius changes. Slasher's went from 45 to 62.5 studs. It reads like a nerf and plays like one.
Health rebases. Several killers had their health rewritten with the Azure update — Slasher from 1,250 to 2,000, for one.
Map balance. Buffing survivor loops on Familiar Ruins and Bloodfell Manor lowers the value of ambush killers on those maps specifically.