Introduction

In Eiyuden Chronicle, support characters play a crucial role in enhancing your team’s effectiveness, survivability, and efficiency. This guide will go through the top 5 support characters based on their utility in hard mode, their unique abilities, and their impact on overall gameplay.

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Honorable Mention: Jean Quiz

• Effect: Doubles the money you get after battles.
• Why Not Top 5: This character is completely useless in hard mode with no money drops. However, in normal mode, he can help significantly in acquiring funds for upgrades.

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Top 5 Support Characters

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#5 – Ulin: The Experience Booster

• Effect: Doubles the experience earned at the end of combat.
• When to Use:
  • Ideal for quickly leveling up low-level characters to catch up with your main team.
  • Best used when facing high-level enemies to maximize XP gain.
• Key Strategy: Allows you to “leapfrog” characters in levels by doubling XP gain, potentially getting a character from level 70 to 99 rapidly if used correctly.

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#4 – Douglas: The Consistent Buffer

• Effect: Inspiring Speech that increases all allies’ attack and action speed.
• Why It’s Good:
  • Reliable trigger rate compared to other RNG-based support abilities.
  • Consistently buffs the party during boss fights, making it easier to deal with tougher enemies.

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#3 – Cassandra: The Ultimate Healer

• Effect: Allows you to restore health between battles by returning to base.
• Strengths:
  • Reduces item and MP consumption for healing.
  • Extremely useful in long dungeons or sequences without a chance to rest.
• Why Not #1:
  • Less effective in isolated, unavoidable combat situations where returning to base isn’t an option.

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#2 – Rohan: The Reviver (Heroes Trial Exclusive)

• Effect: Restores 20% HP at the end of each combat and revives dead characters with 20% HP.
• Why It’s OP:
  • The only support character that can revive allies passively between battles.
  • Essential for surviving prolonged sequences in the Heroes Trial, especially on hard mode.
• When to Use:
  • Exclusively powerful in Heroes Trial and other multi-battle gauntlets.
  • Not recommended for regular exploration or boss fights outside these scenarios.

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#1 – Eiru: The Speed Demon

• Effect: Doubles movement speed.
• Why It’s the Best:
  • Vastly improves quality of life by reducing travel time and making exploration faster.
  • Indirectly increases gold and XP per hour by letting you engage in battles faster.
• Hidden Power:
  • Speeds up trade routes, making them more profitable.
  • Essential for efficient farming and recruiting characters spread across large maps.

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Conclusion

• Best for Power: Rohan in Heroes Trial.
• Best for Quality of Life: Eiru for double movement speed.
• Best for Leveling: Ulin for experience boost.
• Overall MVP: Eiru due to the immense QoL and efficiency boost.

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