Arknights Endfield Tier List: Who to Pull in Version 1.6

Updated 2026-10-19: Rebuilt for version 1.6 (Sanctuary of Ink): Si and Argent Flow added, every rank re-checked against two current tier lists, and the Steam release corrected to October 14, 2026 (not August).

How we ranked them

We set two very different lists side by side: Game8's 1.6 tier list, where editors rank by combat strength and team value, and endfield.gg's tier list, which grades operators by how often they show up in players' best endgame boss clears. S means both lists put an operator in their top two tiers, A means one of them does, B is the solid middle, and C is the rest.

The pick-rate data has limits worth knowing up front: it measures who players own and bring, not who wins, and it comes from PC players running a combat-log overlay, mostly on the Chinese server and far more invested than a typical account. Treat it as "what the whales actually field," a useful check on editorial hype. Our Palworld best pals picks lean on data the same way, and our Mewgenics class tier list flags where community votes split.

Arknights Endfield tier list for version 1.6

Unmarked operators are 6-star. Pick rates cover best clears between September 4 and October 18, 2026; Si launched October 15, so the pick-rate data hasn't caught up with her yet.

Tier lists rarely say who you can pull right now. The 6-star pool on Si's current banner is Si, Typhoeus, Liino and five operators who sit on every banner (Ember, Lifeng, Ardelia, Last Rite and Pogranichnik). Tangtang joins on her October 29 rerun. Everyone else waits for a rerun, so "pull" below means "when they're on a banner."

S tier: who we'd pull first

Arcane is still the safest 6-star in the game, because she's two operators in one. Her INT Form is a damage dealer; her WILL Form turns her into an Arts support with crowd control and debuffs. Four of every five best endgame clears bring her. One r/Endfield player summed her up as "big damage with INT mode, also really great support with WILL mode, can work in EVERY arts team." The catch for new players is availability, covered in the steps below.

Si is the pull of the patch, with a condition. She buffs Heat and Cryo damage (Amp) and can cut one ally's combo skill cooldown, which smooths out awkward rotations. Game8 debuted her at SS but notes she's limited to Heat and Cryo teams. If you run Laevatain, Tangtang, Last Rite or Yvonne, pull; if your best team is Physical or Electric, skip her. One player put it plainly: she "Supports my Leava and Tangtang MDPS teams."

The official combat demo runs 51 seconds. At 0:22 her basic attack chain (Artistic Urge) ends in a Finisher at 0:26; at 0:30 the battle skill, Brushwork Realm, splashes ink across a snowy courtyard of stone pillars; the combo skill, Fully Envisioned, lands at 0:38; and the ultimate, No One Spoils the Fun, kicks in at 0:42 with a golden ink dragon and a close-up of Si raising an ink-marked glove.

Screenshot: official Si combat demo at 0:48 (GRYPHLINE)

Liino is the operator the editors undersell. Game8 has her at S+, yet she shows up in nearly three of every five best clears, more than any support. She's a low-maintenance flex slot: little SP, an ATK buff and healing. Missed her August banner? Si's banner is your last scheduled chance; she isn't in the November 5 pool.

Gilberta brings crowd control plus Arts Susceptibility and anchors hybrid teams with Rossi. Pull her when she's back if you play Arts or hybrid; she's the support that makes Rossi work.

Zhuang Fangyi is the Electric hypercarry: she needs Electric Infliction from teammates and eats SP. Pull her if you're ready to build a full Electric team around her; skip her as a first 6-star.

Perlica is the reason not to panic about pulls. She's free after the prologue, Game8 has her at SS, and a third of best clears still field her. Her combo skill forces Electrification on demand, which Game8 says fits plenty of Arts teams and easily triggers Gilberta's combo skill. Never bench her for a shiny 5-star.

Typhoeus is the S we'd think twice about. She's in half of the best clears, but she can't apply her own Nature Infliction, so she leans on Arcane. Game8 calls her "incredibly clunky" without Arcane and not a must-have even with her, since INT Arcane can be the Nature carry herself. Pull only if you own Arcane and want a second Nature damage dealer.

Xaihi is the budget pick: a 5-star Cryo support that both lists rate highly. She's useless outside Cryo, so pair her with Si and Last Rite or don't build her.

Image: "Back to the North" preview trailer thumbnail (GRYPHLINE)

A tier: strong, but pick by team

One list rates these higher than the other. Pull them for a team you already play, not for the letter.

• Tangtang: crowd control whose ultimate immobilizes everything in its area. Her rerun runs October 29 to November 19, so Cryo players can take Si now and Tangtang later.
• Camille: the core Vanguard for Heat teams, stacking Link buffs on your carry. Pull if you play Laevatain; skip otherwise.
• Rossi: Physical damage that fits almost any account, at her best next to Gilberta. Our pick for a Physical main.
• Mi Fu: Game8 calls her easy to use, with unmatched burst damage, yet few endgame players field her. She's strong but fussy about Vulnerable stacks; we'd take Rossi first.
• Ardelia: free from the 14-day beginner sign-in and a fine flex support. As one player noted, "ardelia can hop in many teams same as gilberta." Liino does the same job for less SP.
• Chen Qianyu: a free 5-star that applies Vulnerable for Physical teams. Build her before spending on Lifeng.
• Pogranichnik, Laevatain, Avywenna: team-specific pieces (SP for Physical, AoE for Heat, damage for Electric). Pull only for the team that needs them.

Image: "Under My Breath" music video thumbnail (GRYPHLINE)

B and C tiers: fillers, not targets

B tier operators fill a slot well. The free Endministrator belongs here: a 6-star Physical Guard you start with (male or female, swappable every 24 hours), worth using until Rossi or Mi Fu arrives. C tier is for completing a team you can't otherwise field; don't spend a pull chasing any of them. Smaller rosters run into the same pick-by-team question, as our Sunderfolk class tier list and Rune Dice class rankings show.

Argent Flow, a 6-star Electric Guard, arrives on a dedicated banner on November 5. Nobody has graded Argent Flow in real play yet; we'd wait for a couple of weeks of endgame data before saving for it.

GODEEPER: Team synergy over raw power, in a very different game. LegionBound Tier List: All Classes Ranked →

Step-by-step: building around elemental synergy, not just tier rank

1. Check your current squad's element coverage before chasing a top-tier pull. Endfield's combat rewards elemental reactions between operators, so a squad missing an element gains more from filling that gap than from another damage dealer.
2. Build the free core first. Perlica, Chen Qianyu, Ardelia and the Endministrator cost nothing and three of them rank A or better here.
3. Don't plan around Arcane yet if you're new. She isn't in the 6-star pool of Si's banner or the November 5 banner, and rate-up operators never join Basic Headhunting, so a new account waits for a rerun like Tangtang's. Si is the best build you can start from today's banner if you lean Heat or Cryo.
4. Check the rate-up before you spend. Si's Rejuvenation banner runs until November 5 at 11:59 server time, Tangtang's rerun overlaps it from October 29, and Argent Flow takes over on November 5. Every Chartered banner hands out a free 10-pull after your first 30 pulls, so don't drop a banner just short of that.

If you top up with real money, the in-game shop isn't the only route: third-party top-up sites such as VGTopup sell game credit too. Either way, budget it for the banner you actually want, not the one that happens to be running.

GODEEPER: Building around an engine instead of chasing single power picks works the same way in deckbuilders. Prime Monster Deck Tier List: 6 Build Types Ranked →

Mistakes we'd avoid

• Pulling Typhoeus without Arcane. She can't apply Nature herself; Arcane is her reliable 6-star source of it, and Purrchena is the cheaper one.
• Ignoring the new combo skill priority setting. Version 1.6 lets you order combo skills on the Team screen and adds two more team slots. Set the order once per team so combos that trigger together fire the way you planned.

For more roster reading, our Aniimo beginner guide and Aniimo launch rundown cover another free-to-play creature collector, and our Dark Scrolls hero rankings split picks for solo and co-op the way Endfield's split by element.

How we checked this

On October 19, 2026 we read the official operator page, the Sanctuary of Ink update notes and banner notices, the Steam store page (the game launched there on October 14 and sits at Very Positive), Game8's October 15 tier list and endfield.gg's pick-rate tier list, and three r/Endfield threads. We stepped through the official Si combat demo frame by frame for the timestamps above. We haven't played these operators ourselves, so every rank here comes from those two lists plus the official kit notes.

Related Reading

• Sunderfolk Class Tier List: All 7 Heroes Ranked 2026: a much smaller roster where the party still matters more than any one pick.
• LegionBound Tier List: All Classes Ranked: class synergy outweighing individual tier placement.
• Aniimo Release Date: Free Creature-Catcher Is Live: another free-to-play collector, and what it costs to play.

References

• Arknights: Endfield official site and official operator list
• Sanctuary of Ink version update notes (GRYPHLINE, October 15, 2026)
• Rejuvenation Chartered Headhunting (Si's banner)
• Arknights: Endfield on Steam: free-to-play, released on Steam October 14, 2026
• Operator Combat Demo: Si (official Arknights: Endfield channel)
• Game8: Arknights Endfield tier list for 1.6
• endfield.gg: endgame pick-rate tier list
• GRYPHLINE / Arknights Endfield on X