Dead Cells Tier List: Ultimate Ranking [V3.2]

We Will Be Ranking Every Single, Weapon, Shield, And Ability In The Game

Dead Cells is a roguelike video game which is published and developed by Motion Twin. And our Dead Cells Tier List will be ranking all Skills, Mutations, Shields, and Weapons used in the game by the player character.

The article and its components are all ranked into five different tiers from the best to worst. Everything is ranked according to our research, gameplay, and experiences of the game to which the audience may not agree because ranking is very subjective and can vary from person to person. 


Key Points

  • There are a total of 126 entries on our list.
  • Each one is ranked on its damage, effect, cooldown, and a multitude of other factors.
  • In the highest tiers, you will find entries like Magnetic Grenade,  Aura of laceration, Death Orb, and Cluster Bomb.
  • Among the lowest tiers, you will find the likes of Rampart, Old Wooden Shield, and Greed Shield.

Summary

We will quickly list all of the entries in our article in a short table.

S RankA RankB RankC RankD Rank
Magnetic Grenade Fire Grenade Toxic cloud Meat Grinder Infantry Grenade
Aura of laceration Ice GrenadeBear Trap Ivy Grenade Vampirism
Death Orb Flashbang Corrupted Power Oil Grenade Night Light
Cluster Bomb Biter SwarmPhaser Ceiling Turret Kill Rhythm
Soldier’s Resistance Ripper Horizontal Turret Tonic Armadillopack
Berserker Ranger’s Gear Barbed Tips No Mercy Acceptance
Vengeance Porcupack Point Blank Instinct of the Master of Arms Masochist
Melee Blind Faith Networking Spite Disengagement
Open Wounds Counterattack Crow’s Foot Frostbite Spartan Sandals
Recovery What Doesn’t Kill Me Necromancy Heart of Ice torch
Emergency Triage Dead Inside Extended Healing Wrenching Whip Bloodsword
Velocity Alienation Gastronomy Balanced Blade Ice Shards
Frenzy Nutcracker Acrobatipack Shrapnel Axes Hokuto’s Bow
Parting Gift Rhythm n’ Bouzouki Vorpan fire blast Throwing Knife
Tranquility Spite Sword Symmetrical Lance Hemorrhage Alchemic Carbine
Giantkiller War Spear Frantic Sword Pyrotechnics Firebrands
Scythe Claws Valmont’s Whip Crowbar Sonic Carbine Force Shield
Flint Spiked Boots Meat Skewer Bow and Endless Quiver Parry Shield
Heavy Crossbow Assassin’s Dagger Broadsword Frontline Shield
Barrel Launcher Impale Flawless Ice Shield
Rampart Repeater Crossbow Rapier Thunder Shield
Old Wooden Shield Blowgun(TBS) Hayabusa Gauntlets
Greed Shield Lightning Bolt Twin Daggers
Marksman’s Bow Sadist’s Stiletto
Cudgel Oiled Sword
Assault Shield Tentacle
Blood Thirsty Shield Flashing Fans
Swift Sword
Nerves of Steel
Explosive Crossbow
Infantry Bow
The Boy’s Ax
Quick Bow
Electric Whip
Punishment
Spiked Shield
Knockback Shield

Learn more about each entry below.

Dead Cells Skills List

Dead Cells Skills Tier List
Skills.

There is a variety of skills in the game which play an important role and when used correctly by the players can save their lives. They usually help a player in the offensive gameplay rather than specific attacks.

The Dead Cells Skills tier list ranks all the skills in the game according to how helpful can they be for a character in different tiers.

S Tier

All the skills which are considered to be the best are ranked in the S Tier. These skills are fabulous and help the player to stand out against enemies by giving them a tough time. The S Tier skills include.

Name Where To Get? Description
Magnetic Grenade Grenadier’s Drop It allows the player character to do a blast attack then pull the enemies towards the blast while doing rapid attacks at a large area.
Aura of laceration By completing five daily runs It allows the player character to continuously deal with the enemy damage in a specific area around them for five seconds.
Death Orb Meat Grinder’s Drop It allows the player character to fire a slow orb that deals with attack and anything it passes through unless it hits a wall.
Cluster Bomb Slasher’s Drop It allows the player character to kill many enemies by burst damage as a result of a cluster that is unfocused.

A Tier

The skills ranked in the A Tier are considered to be overall good and can do a lot of damage to the enemies in different ways. The A Tier skills include.

Name Where To Get? Description
Fire Grenade Grenadier’s Drop It allows the player character to damage and even burns enemies.
Ice Grenade None It allows the player’s character to damage freeze the enemy characters.
Flashbang None It allows the player character to damage and stuns enemies.
Biter Swarm Ugly Worm’s Drop It allows the player’s character to bring biters in the battle who distract and attack enemies.

B Tier

All the skills ranked in the B Tier are considered to be above average with decent damage to the enemies but not as much as the S and A Tier skills. The B Tier skills include.

Name Where To Get? Description
Toxic cloud Zombies Drop in the Graveyard It allows the player’s character to make a cloud around them that functions to deal with the damage over time.
Bear Trap None It allows the player character to trap the enemies in a blast attack by immobilizing them and dealing with the damage.
Corrupted Power Defender’s Drop It allows the player character to increase the damage of their weapons, lasts eight seconds, and increases the damage the player takes by 30%
Phaser Drop It allows the player character to teleport them behind a close-range enemy and increases the damage of the player’s next attack by 150%
Horizontal Turret Zombie’s Drop It allows the player character to deploy a turret that damages the close-range enemies who are horizontal to the turret which keeps attacking the enemies until they are dead.

C Tier

All the skills ranked in the C Tier are considered to be average and should be used if the high tier skills are not unlocked by the player yet. The C Tier skills include.

Name Where To Get? Description
Meat Grinder Phazer’s Drop It allows the player character to deploy blades where it lands and kills the enemies that walk or fly on top of them.
Ivy Grenade Timer door in transition after the Black Bridge within 10 minutes and 30 seconds Immobilizes enemies caught in the blast while dealing damage over time.
Oil Grenade Running Zombies drop It allows the player character to damage the oiled enemies that are caught in the blast attack.
Ceiling Turret Thornie’s Drop It allows the player character to damage enemies from the ceiling where they can be attached.
Tonic Watcher Drop It heals the player makes the player character invulnerable for ten seconds.

D Tier

All the skills ranked in the D Tier are considered weak and are very basic as compared to other tier skills. These skills should only be used to learn the basic mechanism. The D Tier skills include.

Name Where To Get? Description
Infantry Grenade None It allows the player character to damage enemies.
Vampirism Dropped by inquisitors It allows the player character to heal a huge amount of health points on every melee hit while active and lasts six seconds.
Night Light None It allows the player character to have a blue lamp in front of them and has a long cooldown.

Dead Cells Mutations List

Dead Cells Mutations Tier List
Mutations.

Mutations allow the player character to enhance their abilities in different ways. Mutations can be unlocked by spending cells but first, the players need to collect the blueprints for them and bring them to the Collector. There is a total of forty-nine mutations ranked in the Dead Cells Mutations tier list.

The mutation list ranks all forty-nine mutations in five different tiers from best to worst.

S Tier

The best mutations among all are ranked in the S Tier based on how they enhance the abilities of the player characters. The S Tier includes the following mutations.

Mutation Names Types
Soldier’s Resistance Survival
Berserker Survival
Vengeance Brutality
Melee Brutality
Open Wounds Brutality
Recovery Colorless
Emergency Triage Colorless
Velocity Colorless
Frenzy Brutality
Parting Gift Tactics
Tranquility Tactics

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A Tier

The mutations ranked in the A Tier are considered to be quite good but not as amazing as the mutations ranked in the S Tier. The A Tier mutations include the following.

Mutation Names Types
Ripper Tactics
Ranger’s Gear Tactics
Porcupack Brutality
Blind Faith Survival
Counterattack Survival
What Doesn’t Kill Me Survival
Dead Inside Colorless
Alienation Colorless

B Tier

The mutations ranked in the B Tier are considered to be above average but not as amazing as the mutations ranked in the S and A-Tier. The B Tier mutations include the following.

Mutation Names Types
Barbed Tips Tactics
Point Blank Tactics
Networking Tactics
Crow’s Foot Tactics
Necromancy Survival
Extended Healing Survival
Gastronomy Survival
Acrobatipack Tactics

C Tier

The mutations ranked in the C Tier are considered to be average and are decently enhance the abilities of the player’s character. The C Tier mutations include the following.

Mutation Names Types
No Mercy Colorless
Instinct of the Master of Arms Colorless
Spite Survival
Frostbite Survival
Heart of Ice Survival

D Tier

The mutations ranked in the D Tier are considered to be basic and should be only used at the initial stages by the new players who do not have the high-tier mutations unlocked. The C Tier mutations include the following.

Mutation Names Types
Kill Rhythm Survival
Armadillopack Survival
Acceptance Colorless
Masochist Colorless
Disengagement Colorless

Dead Cells Weapon List

Dead Cells Weapon Tier List
Weapons.

The weapons used in Dead Cells include Melee and Ranged weapons and are mostly the main source of the player character to do damage to the enemies. These weapons can be used without any limitations, unlike skills. The Melee weapons allow the player character to damage multiple enemies at a single time if they are within the range of the player character and have their combos.

To initiate the melee combo the player characters have to perform jumps and rolls as each melee weapon has its skill. The ranged weapons can do ranged damage to the enemies and generally the ranged weapons can only target a single enemy unless it is not an explosion.

The Dead Cells Weapon tier list ranks all the weapons in the game from best to worst in different tiers for the players to choose the best weapon for themselves.

S Tier

The S Tier ranks all those melees and ranged weapons that are considered to be the best in the game due to the damage they do to the enemies.

Weapon Name Weapon Type Unique DPS Base
Giantkiller Melee 465 Critical DPS
Scythe Claws Melee 430 Critical DPS
Flint Melee 400 Critical DPS
Heavy Crossbow Range 560 Critical DPS
Barrel Launcher Range 514 Critical DPS

A Tier

The A Tier ranks all the weapons which are considered to be the all-rounders in the game and allows the player character to do a lot of damage to the enemies.

Weapon Name Weapon Type Unique DPS base
Nutcracker Melee 386 critical DPS
Rhythm n’ Bouzouki Melee 378 critical DPS
Spite Sword Melee 347 critical DPS
War Spear Melee 306 critical DPS
Valmont’s Whip Melee 305 critical DPS
Spiked Boots Melee 303 critical DPS
Assassin’s Dagger Melee 300 critical DPS
Impale Melee 300 critical DPS
Repeater Crossbow Range 404 Critical DPS
Blowgun(TBS) Range 343 Critical DPS
Lightning Bolt Range 331 Critical DPS
Marksman’s Bow Range 327 Critical DPS

B Tier

The B Tier includes all those weapons which considered to be above average and can do decent damage to the enemies. These weapons are not as good as the S and A Tier weapons but still are considered to be good picks.

Weapon Name Weapon Type Unique DPS base
Vorpan Melee 289 critical DPS
Symmetrical Lance Melee 288 critical DPS
Frantic Sword Melee 285 critical DPS
Crowbar Melee 284 critical DPS
Meat Skewer Melee 281 critical DPS
Broadsword Melee 273 critical DPS
Flawless Melee 270 critical DPS
Rapier Melee 268 critical DPS
Hayabusa Gauntlets Melee 243 critical DPS
Twin Daggers Melee 238 critical DPS
Sadist’s Stiletto Melee 235 critical DPS
Oiled Sword Melee 224 critical DPS
Tentacle Melee 219 critical DPS
Flashing Fans Melee 217 critical DPS
Swift Sword Melee 208 critical DPS
Nerves of Steel Range 267 critical DPS
Explosive Crossbow Range 243 critical DPS
Infantry Bow Range 217 critical DPS
The Boy’s Ax Range 214 max DPS
Quick Bow Range 203 critical DPS
Electric Whip Range 201 critical DPS

C Tier

The weapons included in the C Tier are considered to be average due to the damage they do to the enemies. These weapons should be avoided if high-tier weapons are available. The C Tier weapons include

Weapon Name Weapon Type Unique DPS base
Wrenching Whip Melee 187 critical DPS
Balanced Blade  Melee  185 critical DPS
Shrapnel Axes Melee 130 bonus damage
fire blast Range 196 critical DPS
Hemorrhage Range 187 critical DPS
Pyrotechnics Range 185 critical DPS
Sonic Carbine Range 167 critical DPS
Bow and Endless Quiver Range 133 critical DPS

D Tier

The weapons included in the D Tier  are basic and do low damage to the enemies. These weapons can help the players to learn the basic mechanism of how weapons work in the game. The D Tier weapons include.

Weapon Name Weapon Type Unique DPS Base
Spartan Sandals Melee 90 bonus damage
torch Melee 15 burning DPS
Bloodsword Melee 5 bleeding DPS
Ice Shards Range 87 critical DPS
Hokuto’s Bow Range 75 DPS bonuses
Throwing Knife Range 22 bleeding DPS
Alchemic Carbine Range 20 Poison DPS
Firebrands Range 19 burning DPS

Dead Cells Shield List

Dead Cells Shield Tier List
Shields.

The enemy attacks done on the player’s character are absorbed by shields in the game. At times a shield can absorb up to seventy-five percent of the damage done to the player by the enemy and can also be used by the player’s characters to deal with melee attacks. But some attacks do not activate the force field around the player character.

Dead Cells Shield tier list ranks all the shields from the best to worst in different tiers in the game based on the damage a shield can absorb and the block damage it does on an attack. The shields are ranked as follows.

S Tier

The shields ranked in the S tier are considered to be the best among all and allow the players to absorb more damage without having to worry about the health points of their characters. The S Tier shields include.

Shield Name Location Description
Rampart Shieldbearers It allows the player character to absorb more damage and creates a force field for 2 seconds.
Old Wooden Shield Unlocked It allows the player character to absorb half of the damage done to the player. Players can try tapping it to absorb all the damage
Greed Shield Unlocked It allows the player character to knock out the teeth of enemies and also transforms arrows into gold

A Tier

The shields ranked in the A Tier of the shield tier are also overall good but still not effective in protecting the player as the S Tier shields. The shields ranked in the A Tier are.

Shield Name Location Description
Cudgel Unlocked This shield allows the player character to stun the enemies the stunning power of the shield can last longer if this shield is implemented correctly.
Assault Shield Promenade of the Condenmed: Timed Door It allows the player character to block the attacks of the enemies while moving forward and can absorb up to seventy-five percent of the damage.
Blood Thirsty Shield The drops from Shieldbearer It allows the player character to inflict bleeding on the enemies for three seconds. The effect of this shield is successful on nearby enemies.

B Tier

The shields ranked in the B Tier are considered to be above average and are helpful for the players in protecting their characters from enemy attacks up to a certain extent. These shields include the following.

Shield Name Location Description
Punishment Requires the bell key to the puzzle door in the clock tower
This shield allows the player to block out enemy attacks inflicting damage to close enemies. This shield also allows the player character to do Critical Damage to the enemies.
Spiked Shield Drops from Cleavers This shield allows the player character to inflict major damage on the enemies that are blocked.
Knockback Shield Drops from Catchers This shield allows the player character to do block attacks on enemies to knock them which gives them eighty-plus damage if they hit a wall.

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C Tier

The shields ranked in the C Tier are considered to be average and are not as strong as the shields in the S and A Tiers. These shields can be used to protect the player’s character in situational uses and in absorbing a little damage done by the enemies.

Shield Name Location Description
Frontline Shield A secret area in Ancient Sewers This shield allows the player character to do twice as much damage on an attack to the enemy for six seconds
Ice Shield Drops from Shieldbearers This shield allows the player character to freeze every enemy nearby and can absorb up to seventy-five percent of the damage done to the player character.
Thunder Shield Drops from Defenders This shield allows the player to inflict an electric attack in front of the enemies for eight seconds and can also be used again to stun all enemies.

D Tier

The shields ranked in the D Tier are considered to be the weakest among all shields. These shields should only be used by the players to understand the concept of shields and how the players can benefit from them. The shields ranked in this tier are basic and absorb even less damage than the C Tier shields. These include the following.

Shield Name Location Description
Force Shield Drops from Festering Zombies This shield allows the player character to generate a force field when held up which regenerates slowly shield is not activated.
Parry Shield A secret area in Stilt Village This shield cannot be held up and allows the player to return the blocked grenades and attacks with extra power.

Dead Cells Version V3.2 Patch Notes

The current article was made while keeping the most recent patch in mind. It introduces the following changes.

Removed some mutations from Boss Rush.

  • Gastronomy
  • Alienation
  • Get Rich Quick
  • Midas Blood
  • Acceptance
  • Increased Boss Rush weapon level by +1.

Verdict

That concludes our Dead Cells Item tier list, which includes the ranking of all skills, mutations, shields, and weapons used by the player’s character in the game from best to worst in five different tiers. The list is purely based on our opinion and research about the game and its items with which the audience may not agree.

Ranking of anything is it games, items, or any other category can be very subjective and vary from person to person. Hopefully, our article will help players to choose the best item for them and give information to the new players.