Sword of Convallaria Best Teams

SoC teams are five units plus positioning, and you adapt to the map. This is the reliable core: a carry, a support, a tank, an amp, and a flex. The 2026 meta rewards piercing damage and debuffing over pure AoE.

• Positioning is half the game — keep squishy Destroyers and Watchers out of Watcher-archer line of sight, and huddle units that share co-attack / co-defense buffs (SP Inanna's aura).
• Piercing damage cuts through the stacked shields the newest content throws at you — a piercing carry (Rogneda, Afra, Kvare) or an amp that adds piercing vulnerability (Kvare's Nightmare Puppet) matters.
• SP Rawiyah is the best auto-play carry — she saves the most time on daily grinds.
• SP Inanna's Act Again loop is the single strongest support engine — she effectively gives you an extra unit.
• For expert / hard modes, an unkillable tank (SP Alexei) frees every other unit to act without babysitting.

Flex / subs: Camelot or Lukamar as an AoE / element core if you don't have the newest carries · Credenza / Cocoa for extra AoE healing + dispel · Kianshir for meat-shield summons + buffs · Any collab unit (Geralt, Triss, Falin, Senshi) — they're all solid

The hardest recurring PvE — enemies with high stats, stacked shields and heavy debuffs. The current Lucian-arc squad the community runs for exactly this content leans on piercing damage, an unkillable tank and a mobile enabler, and floors still reward a diverse roster since requirements rotate.

• This is the squad the community is currently running for Lucian-arc endgame content — an unkillable tank plus a piercing-focused core, with a mobile enabler covering the dispel/utility gap.
• Read the floor before you start — bring the immunities it checks (there's no penalty for scouting).
• Because floors rotate their requirements, a wide, invested roster beats a narrow one — Heshan/Taair (dispel), Rogneda/Afra/Kvare (piercing) and Camelot (Shield Break) are all solid substitutes if you don't have the squad above yet.
• This is a good place to run your best Astral weapons (see the Gear tier list guide) — the difficulty rewards the extra stats.

Flex / subs: Clara for team shielding on burst-damage floors · Yserinde for the piercing-damage aura across the whole team · Credenza to reduce the carry's cooldowns · Nydia / Finn — units that bring a second body double your action economy

SoC PvP is asynchronous — you set a defence and the AI plays it, and you attack others' defences. It rewards units that act out of turn (alerts, counters, strike-back), disruption, and burst that removes a threat before it moves.

• On defence, the AI plays your team, so favour units that are strong on auto (SP Rawiyah) and passive value (counters, alerts, auras) over units that need a precise manual combo.
• On offence you play manually — front a tank, bait the enemy defence into committing, then burst the unit that threatens you most.
• Speed and turn order decide fights — a faster team that acts first often wins the opening exchange outright.
• The current meta favours piercing damage and out-of-turn attacks; light-of-purge-all-evil / Hunter's Intuition-type gear amplifies that (see the Gear guide).

Flex / subs: Shahnaz for raw opening burst against squishier defences · Clara for a shield wall that stalls aggressive attackers · Credenza / Yennefer for utility and repositioning · Any unit you've invested heavily in — investment matters more in PvP than the exact pick

The staple free-to-play core the community actually recommends new accounts build toward: two fixed roles you can get for free, plus flexible slots for whatever your early pulls give you. SoC is generous with pulls and the story clears fine on this core alone — go deep on it before spreading thin.

• There's no one-size-fits-all team in SoC — adjust the flex slot to the map: bring more Defenders against an all-Seeker enemy team (and vice versa), more knockback units on maps with pits or hazards, more ranged units where explosive barrels are in play.
• Do the story and the tutorial modes first — they hand out a large pull stockpile, and the Anecdote side-stories give more.
• Redeem the codes (see the Codes page) before you spend — they're Hope Luxite (pull currency).
• Don't reroll obsessively — the selector plus the anniversary generosity means most accounts end up fine. If you do target one unit, aim for a support (they never fall off) over a specific DPS.
• Learn one map at a time — SoC rewards planning the whole turn (movement, height, facing) rather than stat-checking. Retry is free.
• Save your weapon / Astral resources for the units in the Tier List's S and A bands — don't invest in early filler.

Flex / subs: Any Legendary you pull — high rarity beats holding a lower one · The free story units are serviceable stopgaps for any empty slot · A collab unit (Geralt, Triss, Falin, Senshi) if one is on the current banner — they're all strong