Make no mistake, if players have a favorite character inEvil Dead: The Game, they should probably stick with it. Of course, they’ll need to adjust to the needs of the team on occasion, but generally speaking, every survivor is capable, on some level, of fulfilling the roles they are assigned.
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However, they are all quite different, and in these differences emerge some strengths and weaknesses. On occasion, the strengths are powerful enough to make up for any weaknesses. For other survivors, their weaknesses are so glaring that they can single-handedly be the reason the team goes down in any givenEvil Dead: The Gamematch.
Updated on December 4th, 2022 by Hodey Johns:This list needed to be updated for two major reasons. Unlike some live service games that get a tweak here or there, this game has had some movies overhauled entirely. Some characters play dramatically better or worse than before as a result. Also, two new survivors, Lia and David Allen, have entered the fray with some DLC and needed to be ranked as well. Team compositions and personal experience may make players feel differently about where the survivors rank on this list. but looking at some game statistics, it’s clear that some survivors have a tendency to land at the top of the charts while others are struggling to find a win at all.
Effect
Thunder Thrust
When activated, this explosive special move damages all enemies in the surrounding area.
Partially reduces your fear levels with each enemy you kill.
Weapon Master: Lumberjack Axe
The lumberjack axe has a faster attack speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
Scotty is just horribly optimized and evenideal warrior skillscan’t save him. He’s incentivized to use heavy attacks, making him more vulnerable to damage from nearby deadites. This is only negative if he uses a lumberjack axe, but that’s not the right weapon to be used with predominantly heavy attacks. Taking more damage and doing less damage not only makes him a bad warrior but also makes him the worst survivor around.
Beacon of Hope
Reduces fear for you and any teammates within the flame’s aura. Evil units within the aura require an increased amount of infernal energy to possess.
Shemp’s Pop
When David drinks a Shemp’s, he and all nearby survivors take less damage for a limited time.
Weapon Master: Nail Gun
The nail gun has a faster reload speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
Boosted Beacon
Increases the range of Beacon of Hope’s aura and the infernal energy cost to maintain possession within the aura. Attacking a possessed evil unit within the aura reduces the demon’s infernal energy.
A support hero with no extra healing capabilities is a tough sell. Players may want toreplay this horror game again, but if they want to support, try a different survivor. David Allen is good against fear-based assailants, but that’s usually a role that the leaders do better in.
When playing against an inexperienced demon user, David can potentially have some success if the user doesn’t know that David is good against possessed units. But an experienced gamer knows they can just switch tactics. Without a valid healer, the damage dealt will be all the more powerful against David’s squad.
Slipshot
When activated, you dodge without using stamina and your ranged attacks cause bleeding damage to your target for a short period.
Weapon Master: Meat Hammer
The meat hammer has a faster attack speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
Countershot
Your next ranged attack after a successful dodge inflicts bleeding damage on your target for a short time.
Battle Frenzy
Your melee damage increases the longer you are in sustained combat.
Here is Kelly, a hunter, who is incentivized to do melee damage and rotate it with her ranged capabilities. Excusing the fact that she’s not taking advantage of her class bonuses by doing this, she also needs way more help than this to be an effective melee combatant. Withthe right hunter skills, she can become competent in melee combat, especially in longer fights, but she still won’t be as good as an average warrior, plus she’s taking up the hunter spot on the team, crippling their badly-needed ranged capabilities.
Exorcist
Activating this ability exorcises the demon from any possessed survivor or basic unit. If used on a possessed or elite boss unit, the ability drains some infernal energy from the demon.
Start the match with the double-barrel.
Weapon Master: Double Barrel
The double-barrel has a faster attack speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
If it weren’t for his active ability, Ash Williams (Evil Dead 2) would likely be at the bottom of this list. The active ability can knock enemy demons out of their possessions quicker by draining their infernal energy, but the team would probably prefer raw damage from their hunter. And, bad news, he’s not good on that front. He’s essentially locked into using a double-barrel, which is not anywhere close to as good as the standard shotgun.
Uncontrollable
When activated, Mia cannot be possessed but fear level increases and cannot be decreased. However, when the ability deactivates, her fear level drops according to how many evil units she killed while it was active.
Fear Leads To Anger
When Mia’s fear level reaches a specific threshold, her damage potential increases as her fear level rises. The more scared she is, the more damage she deals.
Blood Rain
A percentage of Mia’s heavy attack damage is converted to prolonged bleeding damage.
Weapon Master: Machete
The machete has a faster attack speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
When it comes togreat games with a B-Movie setting, this one is there and new DLC character Mia Allen contributes to the theme. However, she’s got some large drawbacks. She’s incentivized to get her fear meter high. To avoid getting possessed, she requires an active ability to stop it. But the kicker is that she’ll be almost assuredly possessed afterward unless she killed loads of enemies during the sequence. That means, on a good team, the hunter will outkill her and get her possessed unless they back off on damage.
Gift From El Brujo Especial
Activate this skill to begin creating an amulet and then drop it to the ground on completion.
Infernal Camouflage
Demons are no longer able to detect you using Demon Vision. When using an amulet, nearby survivors go undetected by the Demon Vision for a limited time.
Legacy Of El Brujo
Begin the match with an additional amulet. Also increases the maximum amount of amulets you can carry. When Pablo uses an amulet, nearby survivors recover part of their shield bar.
Shamanic Protection
Your shield bar will gradually recover over time until you have at least one full bar.
Pablo is the lowest of the support heroes due to his over-reliance on amulet healing. The others have massive healing on shorter cooldowns while Pablo is stuck giving out amulets on massive two-minute cooldowns. It’s better than no support hero and he’s definitely more of a difference-maker than the survivors lower down on this list, but everybody on the team will be wishing the player using him had selected a better option.
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Pablo has been slightly buffed but it’s hard to tell; he’s gained powers that transfer to his team when he uses the amulet himself. But that’s part of the issue, he has to be the one using the amulets and not the teammate who might be in need.
The Lord’s Wrath
When activated, this ability increases the damage inflicted by your melee attacks and those of your nearby teammates, in addition to reducing fear levels; if Lord Arthur has a sword, he inflicts extra damage.
Weapon Master: Melee Attacks
You and all teammates within the aura’s radius deal increased damage with melee attacks; start the match with a sword.
Weapon Master: Sword
The sword has a faster attack speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
Fuel The Fire
If you perform a finisher while The Lord’s Wrath is active, the ability lasts longer.
Overall, Lord Arthur is a good friend if the team is full of melee combatants. He’s a leader who boosts this damage.Optimize the leader skillsand he’ll be alright so long as the rest of the team understands they need to drop any expectations for their ranged attackers.
Lord Arthur has risen on this list since the game’s release; his skills now increase all melee damage instead of just heavy attacks. However, he’s still somewhat capped by his effectiveness with exclusively melee weapons and, specifically, a sword.
Wiseman’s Potion
When activated, this ability will grant you health regeneration, fear reduction, increased damage dealing, and reduction of damage received.
Shield Blast
Each time your shield loses a bar, it triggers an explosion, damaging nearby enemies.
Finish Strong
After Ash kills an enemy with a finisher he recovers part of his shield bar.
Weapon Master: Chainsaw
The chainsaw has a faster attack speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
When it comes to solo play, Ash Williams (Army Of Darkness) would find himself much higher on this list. He’s got some built-in healing and support, buying himself some freedom from the reliance on support characters. He does need to get lucky and find some amulets for a sustained run and pray for a good chainsaw, but with a solid team around him, he’ll do fine up front.
Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts
When activated, this skill increases ranged damage from Annie and any teammates who are near her.
Howitzer
You and all teammates within this aura’s effect radius deal more damage with ranged weapons.
Haymaker
Attacks by you and your teammates within this aura’s effect radius cause more damage to the balance bar of basic evil units.
Slugger
Attacks by you and your teammates within this aura’s effect radius cause more damage to the balance bar of elite and boss evil units.
Leaders act as secondary support and damage survivors and Annie plays the part well. She’s strictly all about ranged damage, so teams will need to coordinate, but when they do, they’ll be glad that she makes it worth the coordination. She’s not entirely useless for melee attackers, who will be happy to use their finishers more often when she’s in the squad.
Ammo For Days
When activated, this ability allows you to temporarily fire your ranged weapons without expending any ammunition.
Start the match with a pistol.
Weapon Master: Pistol
The pistol has a faster reload speed and deals increased health, balance bar, and dismemberment damage.
Accuracy Counts
Damage dealt by your ranged weapons increases with each consecutive hit.
Despite a heavy reliance on pistols, Amanda finds herself in an above-average position on this list. She can shoot for a brief time without using ammunition, a handy tool when supplies run low in longer battles. She really shines against boss summons as her consecutive hits increase her damage. A marksman who never misses will find her damage threshold is non-existent, they just have to be careful not to lose the buff with a miss.
