Counter Side Tier List Maker (2026): Ranked Employees + Free Tier List Maker
Counter Side Tier List is a free interactive tier list maker on Tier List Maker. Drag and drop 311 images across 5 ranking tiers (S, A, B, C, D), customize everything, then download or share your ranking — no login and no watermark.
Features of this tier list maker:
- Drag & drop ranking — Drag any image from the pool into a tier and drag between tiers to re-rank; the × on an image inside a tier sends it back to the pool.
- Download Tier List — Save the finished tier list as a PNG image that matches the on-screen design exactly — free, no watermark.
- Share Tier List — Publish the ranking to its own share page with a link, emoji reactions, social buttons and comments.
- ✨ AI Generate from AI — Paste a tier list generated with ChatGPT or any AI assistant and it is built instantly, items pre-placed in their tiers.
- Embed — Copy an iframe snippet and embed the interactive tier list in any website or blog.
- Add images — Upload your own images from your device and rank them alongside the template images.
- Add text — design studio — Create text cards or draw custom items with pen, spray, shapes, emoji stamps, fill bucket, styled text and uploaded images; every object can be moved, resized and rotated.
- Add Tier & tier editing — Add, rename, recolor, reorder or delete tiers to build any ranking scale.
- Reset — Send every image back to the pool and start the ranking over.
- ⛔ Report — Send the site owner a suggestion for new images or changes to this template.
- Fullscreen — Pin the tool to the whole window for distraction-free ranking.
Tiers: S, A, B, C, D
The 311 images in this template: awakened-shin-jia small, eve-meitner small, aditya-surya small, anila small, grande-quiete-ecclesia small, rearmed-chinatsu small, six-wings-swan-claire small, avenger-mordred small, curian small, dorothy small, kostroma-mavka small, lin-xien small, agnes small, ministra small, spencer small, yang-harim small, zodiac-of-redemption-esterosa-de-chevalier small, anapilis small, awakened-joo-shiyoon small, awakened-regina small, awakened-sigma small, black-rose small, breakbeat-alex small, ciel small, free-agent-seo-yoon small, knight-of-the-lake small, kubera-alice-braidwood small, mors small, new-age-naielle-bluesteel small, outlander-rivet small, plaga small, rebecca small, red-witch-felix small, rita-arsenico small, seo-yoon small, sigma small, sky-layfield small, sprouting-star-solovey small, abyssal-ravage-orca small, alaya-zenith-yeonhwa small, andrea-vesca small, treasure-hunter-mi-rinae small, warden small, awakened-hilde small, awakened-lyudmila small, awakened-maria small, awakened-rosaria small, awakened-seo-yoon small, awakened-yoo-mina small, drekavac small, evelyn-keller small, exorcist-lucia-ridge small, frederick-doma small, freyja-hilde small, gods-blade-chifuyu small, griffin-rider-chris small, hyperion small, jack-o small, jin-bora small, katharina small, kestrel-xiao-lin small, lone-lee small, nanahara-chifuyu small, replacer-queen small, shepherd-and-lurcher small, administration-rifleman small, shin-jia small, sword-princess-ais-wallenstein small, volume-up-gaeun small, yamata-no-orochi small, administration-shieldman small, awakened-jake small, awakened-lee-sooyeon small, awakened-noelle-wright small, awakened-ray small, awakened-yuna-springfield small, best-streamer-miya small, carlota small, carmen small, dash small…
I once lost three straight Guild Co-op runs before realizing my one good Defender was getting swarmed while three cheap Strikers stood around doing nothing. That’s usually the moment people start Googling a Counter Side tier list, not out of curiosity, but because something just went wrong and they need to know who’s actually worth deploying.
If that’s where you are, here’s the short version: this page ranks every current Counter Side employee for PvE and PvP separately, explains why the split matters, and gives you a free, no-login tier list maker preloaded with the full roster so you can build your own ranking instead of just trusting someone else’s.
What Is Counter Side, and Why Does Tier Order Matter Here?
Counter Side is a sci-fi gacha RPG, published by Nexon, built around 2D side-scrolling tower defense, closer to Clash Royale than a typical turn-based gacha. You build a deck of eight units, each with its own deploy cost, and send them out to hold or push a lane against enemy waves. Because every unit costs something to deploy and you only get so much deploy cost per fight, a “good” employee isn’t just about raw stats, it’s about whether they earn back what they cost fast enough to matter.
That’s also why a flat, single tier list is misleading here. A unit that dominates a slow PvE dungeon run can be dead weight in ranked PvP, where the enemy is reacting to you in real time and bans exist specifically to keep one or two dominant picks from running the mode.
Counter, Mech, and Soldier: the three factions explained
Employees belong to one of three factions:
- Counter — superhumans with special and ultimate skills, generally the most versatile and highest-impact faction across both PvE and PvP.
- Mech — war machines and vehicles that lean on raw bulk or firepower instead of skills, currently the weakest faction overall but still useful for specific defensive checks.
- Soldier — human infantry units that are individually fragile but strong in numbers, often filling cheap, spammable roles early in a fight.
Roles that matter for team building
Within each faction, employees also have a role that determines how they behave on the field: Striker, Ranger, Defender, Sniper, Supporter, Tower, and Siege. A team with no Defender folds instantly to a rush. A team with no Supporter runs out of sustain in longer fights. Most of the tier placements below assume you’re building around at least one Defender and one Supporter, then filling in Strikers, Rangers, and Snipers around them.
Try the Interactive Counter Side Tier List Maker (No Sign-Up Needed)
Instead of taking one writer’s word for it, you can rank the roster yourself using our Counter Side tier list template, which comes preloaded with every current playable employee already added and ready to drag into tiers. No uploading images, no account, nothing to install.
How to use this template
Open the template and you’ll see the full employee roster sitting along the bottom, ready to be dragged straight into whichever tier row you drop them on. If you disagree with where Yang Harim or Sigma landed in this article, just move her. Want to rank by role instead of overall power, say all your Supporters against each other, or split PvE from PvP the way this article does? Rename the tier rows to whatever labels make sense to you, add or remove rows entirely, and set custom colors so your S-tier actually looks distinct from your C-tier at a glance. When you’re happy with it, download it as an image or grab a shareable link, both work without creating an account.
Counter Side Tier List: PvE (Ranked)
This ranking focuses on late-game PvE content: Story chapter 7+, Consortium Coalition Battle, Dimension Trimming, higher Dive floors, and Danger Close, where sustained damage and survivability matter more than a single flashy opener.
| Tier | Employees | Why they’re ranked here |
|---|---|---|
| SSS | Awakened Seo Yoon, Eve Meitner, Full Bloom Moon Chinatsu, Swan Claire, Great Silence Ecclesia | Best-in-class damage or team-wide utility that’s hard to replace with anything else in the current roster |
| SS | Yang Harim, Sigma, Anila, Dorothy, Curian, Awakened Sigma | Provide either near-mandatory support (haste, healing, barriers) or a passive that reshapes how your whole team trades damage |
| S | Sky Layfield, Awakened Regina, Rebecca, Sword Princess Ais Wallenstein, Black Rose | Strong standalone performers that carry most PvE content without needing a specific team around them |
| A | Nanahara Chifuyu, Jack-O, Andrea Vesca, Awakened Hilde, Katharina | Solid picks that need slightly more team support to hit their ceiling |
| B | Karin Wong, Hilde, Terminator, Lucrecia, Roy Burnett | Usable but outclassed by cheaper or more efficient alternatives in the same role |
Counter Side Tier List: PvP (Ranked)
PvP shifts the priorities. Ban rate matters because the strongest units get banned before a match starts, so a unit’s “true” PvP value includes how often it survives the ban phase, not just how strong it is when it’s on the field.
| Tier | Employees | Why they’re ranked here |
|---|---|---|
| SSS | Gaeun, Evelyn Keller, Nanahara Chifuyu, Awakened Hilde | Frequently banned in ranked play, strong enough on their own to warp team compositions around them |
| SS | Yang Harim, Eins & Zwei, Kyle Wong, Claudia Nelson | Near-universal picks whenever the SSS options are banned, still capable of winning games on their own |
| S | Swan Claire, Awakened Yoo Mina, Avenger Mordred, Ais Wallenstein | Strong secondary picks once the top bans are gone, still highly deck-defining |
| A | Woodpecker, Minha, Kiera Bonny, Terminator | Reliable role-fillers, particularly good at countering specific archetypes rather than winning every matchup |
| B | Karin Wong, Overflow, Mors, Glitch | Playable in lower ranks or specific counter-matchups, but rarely a first pick |
Best Characters to Reroll For
How rerolling works in Counter Side
Counter Side doesn’t reset after the tutorial the way most gacha games do. Instead, you use the selective recruitment banner to unlock your first set of employees, and you get 30 rerolls to try pulling from that banner before you have to commit. You can only keep results from one of those 30 attempts, so it’s worth being deliberate about what you’re actually rerolling for.
Which S-tier picks to reroll for first
If you’re rerolling, aim for Gaeun, Evelyn Keller, or Yang Harim first. All three show up in the SSS or SS tier in both the PvE and PvP tables above, which means whichever one you land, you’re not building around a unit that only works in half the game’s content. Eve Meitner is a strong second choice if your first few rerolls come up empty, since she’s SSS in PvE and still a reasonable pickup even for players focused mainly on story progress and dungeons.
How to Customize Your Counter Side Tier List
The template above isn’t locked to the rankings in this article. You can reshape it entirely:
- Add or remove tiers if you want more granularity than S/A/B, or want to collapse everything into just “Use” and “Skip.”
- Rename any tier so it reflects your own labels, like “Guild Co-op Core” or “PvP Bans Only” instead of generic letters.
- Set a custom background and text color per tier so your ranking is legible at a glance, not just alphabetically ordered.
- Add your own items with the Create button, which opens a lightweight editor with a pen tool, shapes, an eraser, undo and redo, and a text tool with bold, italic, and alignment options, so you can draw your own notes directly onto a character’s portrait or add a unit that’s missing.
- Reorder tiers by dragging them, or reset the whole board if you want to start over from scratch.
If you rank other gacha games too, the same editor works for any of them, browse the full library of tier list templates to find one for your other favorites.
Share Your Tier List or Compare With Friends
Once your ranking is done, download it as an image to post straight into your guild’s Discord, or generate a shareable link instead. The link page includes its own download button and social share buttons for platforms like X, Facebook, Reddit, and WhatsApp, so settling a “who’s actually better” argument with a friend takes one click, not a screenshot and a paragraph of explanation. Other viewers on that shared link can also drop emoji reactions or leave comments directly on your tier list, and if you run a Counter Side blog or fan site, the embed code lets you drop the interactive version straight into a post instead of a flat screenshot.
Building a Full Roster Quickly? Use AI to Import a Template
Counter Side’s roster runs well past 200 employees once you count awakened and rearmed variants, and manually uploading that many images to rank them yourself would take longer than the ranking itself. Instead, copy the prompt provided on the tier list maker homepage, paste it into any AI tool you already use, and tell it what you want ranked, for example “all current Counter Side SSR employees.” The AI returns a block of code, which you import back into the tier list maker, and it automatically builds a template with the relevant employees already added and ready to sort.
Full-Screen Mode for Group Ranking Sessions
Every tier list template includes a full-screen button. It’s a small thing until you’re trying to make a guild-wide decision on a shared call or projecting the board for a small screen, at which point expanding it to fill the whole display makes it actually usable for a group instead of squinting at a browser tab.
Something Missing or Out of Date? Report It
Counter Side gets a new employee roughly every month or two, and balance patches shift PvP tier placement regularly. If you notice a newly released character missing from the preloaded template, or think a placement is outdated after a patch, use the report option on the template to flag it. It takes a few seconds and helps keep the roster accurate for the next person searching the same thing you were.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the best character in Counter Side right now? As of this update, Gaeun and Evelyn Keller sit at the top of both the PvE and PvP rankings, making them the safest picks if you can only build around one or two employees.
Is the Counter Side PvE tier list different from the PvP tier list? Yes. PvE rewards sustained damage and survivability in longer fights, while PvP rewards units that hold up against ban phases and react well to a live opponent, which is why several employees land in different tiers depending on the mode.
How often is this tier list updated? This page is reviewed against new character releases and major balance patches, roughly in line with Counter Side’s own update cadence of a new employee every month or two.
Do I need an account to make a Counter Side tier list? No. Creating, editing, downloading, sharing, reacting to, commenting on, and embedding a tier list all work without signing up for anything.
How does rerolling work in Counter Side? You use the selective recruitment banner and get 30 reroll attempts before committing to one final set of starting employees, unlike most gacha games that reset after the tutorial.
About This Guide
This tier list is an independent resource created by Tier List Maker and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Nexon or the official Counter Side game. Character names, factions, and mechanics referenced here belong to their respective publisher. Rankings reflect a combination of publicly available player consensus and general performance patterns, and are meant as a starting point, not a substitute for your own experience with your account’s specific roster.
The Bottom Line
There’s no single “correct” Counter Side tier list, because PvE and PvP reward different things, and your own roster, playstyle, and current content push will always matter more than a stranger’s rankings. Use the tables above as a starting reference, reroll toward Gaeun, Evelyn Keller, or Yang Harim if you’re just starting out, and then build your own version with the free Counter Side tier list maker so the ranking actually reflects the team you’re playing, not just the one everyone else agrees on.
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