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The best Survivor and Demon characters in Evil Dead: The Game and their abilities

Key art from Evil Dead: The Game, showing Kelly, Ash, Scotty, and Lord Arthur against a sinister forest background. Henrietta and several other Deadites leer at them from the background.

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The best Survivor characters in Evil Dead: The Game

There are 13 Survivor characters to choose from in Evil Dead: The Game, because of course there are; and unless the developers choose to draw in characters fom the reboot movie and its upcoming sequel, they’re close to already maxed out on canonical heroes. So there’s a good chance that this golden number will remain as the amount of options you’ll have for quite some time.

As you can probably see from the tier list, some classes have emerged as preferable to others at launch: melee-oriented Warriors tend to be superior to ranged Hunters due to the likelihood that you’ll end up in close-combat at several points during a match; while Leaders, despite their name, often provide more useful and enduring benefits to their teams than Support characters (the latter are an extremely mixed bag).

SS Tier Survivors

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Ash Williams (Army of Darkness) selected by a Survivor player.

Ash Williams (Army of Darkness)

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Lord Arthur

To unlock Lord Arthur, you must complete Mission 5 (“Homecoming King”) in single player.

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S Tier Survivors

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Annie Knowby selected by a Survivor player.

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Ash Williams (Ash vs Evil Dead)

To unlock Ash Williams (Ash vs Evil Dead), you must complete Mission 1 (“If You Love Someone, Set Them Free… With A Chainsaw”) in single player.

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Ash Williams (Ash vs Evil Dead)is a tricky one to classify, because his abilities are evenly split between being some of the best in the game (El Jefe and El Jefe Grande) and, frankly, nothing special at all (Shut Up And Blow Up andOld Friend). His excellent team buffs alone are well worth bringing him along for, however, even if his chainsaw special weapon is more iconic than it is likely to turn the tide in the Survivors' favour during a match.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Ash Williams (The Evil Dead) selected by a Survivor player.

Ash Williams (The Evil Dead)

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I’m a sucker for a solid mixed-support type character, andAsh Williams (The Evil Dead)ticks… maybe not all the boxes, or else he’d be in the SS Tier, but many of them. One of the most difficult features of the game at launch is how bloody quickly the Fear metre builds up, so the fact that the youngest incarnation of our hero can negate that makes him an extremely useful teammate. Add in the fact that he doubles up as a healer and you’ve got a great support character; although unfortunately he’s got no defenses beyond the basics, so the other three members of his team will want to keep close for his benefit as well as theirs.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Cheryl Williams selected by a Survivor player.

Cheryl Williams

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A Tier Survivors

Amanda Fisher

To unlock Amanda Fisher, you must complete Mission 3 (“Kill ‘Em All”) in single player.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Henry the Red selected by a Survivor player.

Henry the Red

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Like Ash Williams (Army of Darkness),Henry the Redis a classic tank unit. In fact, he might well have made it higher than the A Tier if it weren’t for the unfortunate comparison with the aforementioned Ash, who is pretty unanimously considered the best Survivor in the game. As it is, though, Henry the Red can withstand just about anything the Demon throws at him, meaning that he’s perfectly positioned to make a brave last stand for the Survivor team, and can often end up being the one who pulls the match back from the brink; although unfortunately, there’s not much he can do to keep that from happening in the first place.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Kelly Maxwell selected by a Survivor player.

Kelly Maxwell

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I really struggled with where to placeKelly Maxwellon this tier list; in the end, I could only place her in the middle tier, because depending on your play style she could be anything from the best to the worst choice of character. Kelly’s kit favours a strongly mixed combat approach: she’s a Hunter character with access to that class’s ranged skill tree, but her unqiue skills support a mix of ranged and melee attacks. Does this make her unfocused and underpowered compared to true specialist units, or the most versatile fighter in the entire game? It really is a matter of perspective. For what it’s worth, I think Kelly makes a good choice if you’re teaming up with players you haven’t partied up with before, because she can take care of herself pretty effectively if your teammates run off and leave you. At the same time, with the right equipment she’s one of the few characters who can be equally useful throughout all stages of the match.

B Tier Survivors

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Ash Williams (Evil Dead 2) selected by a Survivor player.

Ash Williams (Evil Dead 2)

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Ash Williams (Evil Dead 2)begins the game with a duo of very useful, if highly situational, unique support skills. Unfortunately, he’s not the Support Ash unit, but the Hunter Ash unit. As you level him up, the rest of his kit focuses on a shotgun specialism that (like everything else he does) is useful in the right context, but doesn’t feel particularly outstanding. To be fair to this Ash, I think it’s quite reasonable to wish you could switch out your team’s Hunter for a second Support character, in which case he’s an ideal choice. But actually used as a Hunter he’s not on Amanda’s level, and he can’t match Kelly’s versatility either.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Ed Getley selected by a Survivor player.

Ed Getley

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The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with Scotty selected by a Survivor player.

Scotty

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C Tier Survivors

Pablo Simon Bolivar

To unlock Pablo Simon Bolivar, you must complete Mission 4 (“It’s Not Gonna Let Us Go!") in single player.

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Oh, Pablo, buddy, I am so sorry; this game did you real dirty. It saddens me not a little thatPablo Simon Bolivaris one of the hardest locked characters to add to your roster, only to discover once he’s there that he’s basically a stealth character and (outside of the solo mission you play to unlock him), this is not exactly a stealth game. There are nobadsurvivors to play as in Evil Dead: The Game, but Pablo requires extensive support from his teammates to make the most of him, which isn’t ideal in a character who’s meant to be providing support. If you want an endless supply of amulets to buff your shields, his unique skills are undeniably invaluable, but since all he can really do is buff shields and hide from the Demon, there’s a hard limit to his utility on a team.

The best Demon characters in Evil Dead: The Game

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with the Warlord selected by a Demon player.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with the Necromancer selected by a Demon player.

The player selection screen from Evil Dead: The Game, with the Puppeteer selected by a Demon player.

That’s all we have on Evil Dead: The Game for now, but if I get my way I’m going to keep tier listing Bruce Campbells until retirement, so check back in soon for more on this game from Rock Paper Shotgun! Meantime, we’ve noticed a lot of fans of Evil Dead: The Game seem to be fond ofVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhuntas well; so, if that’s you, why not check out ourBloodhunt best archetypes tier listwhile you’re here?