Survivor.io is a super fun zombie-hunting game. It has a simple gameplay style; however, game mechanics include certain skills that can help you smash the zombie.
There are several different skills available in the game, and then there are their evolutions too. For a new player, it can be quite confusing to pick skills. Well, worry not because we have created this Survivor.io skill tier list, which will guide you to pick out the best skills in the game.
Survivor.io skills tier list
S Tier
These are overpowered and must-pick skills in the game right now. They will surely give you an edge in the battle.
1. Forcefield (active)
Forcefield generates a laser shield around you, and it deals damage to any enemy that touches it. It’s one of the best defensive skills in the game since it can protect you in a circular area when a mass zombie attack comes in.
2. Guardian (active)
Guardian works similarly to the Forceshield. Upon activation of this skill, two discs start circling around you, slicing through zombies. When it reaches the max tier, it can have up to six discs circling at high speed, which makes it a powerful defensive skill that also does lots of damage at the same time.
3. Molotov (active)
Molotov is an AOE skill in Survivor.IO, and it’s very effective. It creates a burning area on the map that can deal damage to any enemy that steps into it. It will be very powerful since the start of the game; however, it becomes absolutely destructive once it reaches the max tier. The best part is that, when the Molotov skill reaches max tier, it creates a sort of ring of fire around you, preventing any zombie from reaching you.
4. Modular Mine (active)
You won’t have this skill at the beginning. It will only be unlocked after your character level increases. Modular mine is extremely good for crowd control, and it can have multiple evolves, making it one of the best skills in the game.
5. Energy Cube (passive)
Energy cube can reduce attack cooldown by 8% and reach all the way to 40% when maxed. So, you can attack almost 2x faster, which is no joke at all. This is one of the must-pick skills.
6. He Fuel (passive)
He Fuel can increase ammo size and all weapon sizes up to 50%, meaning your RPG rockets, Drill Shot, Brick, and other projectiles will be 0.5x bigger than the original size. Not just that, skills like Forcefield and Guardian will create a bigger protection area for you. This will be extremely useful when a huge number of zombies start to swarm you.
7. Hi-Power Bullet (passive)
Hi-power bullet increases all attacks by 50%. This is pretty much self-explanatory; not picking a 50% attack boost is a no-brainer.
A Tier
Really good skills that work well for most parts
1. Drill Shot (active)
Drill Shot launches a rotating drill at enemies, which bounces around a couple of times and pierces through everything that comes in its path. It isn’t very powerful at the start, but at max tier, it becomes quite lethal after getting a speed boost and a number of drills increased. It works really well in small maps since it can quickly bounce around the map.
2. Durian (active)
If you already don’t know, Durain is a fruit with a spikey exterior. This is a sort of funny skill. Durain bounces around the map and hits zombies with the spikes along the way. It works in a similar way to a drill shot only difference is that it only fires one Durain. As part of the level process, it gains size and damage boost.
3. Lighting Emitter (active)
Lighting Emitter strikes enemies with lightning bolts. The damage output is really great and scales up nicely when more lightning bolts are added with upgrades. The only problem is the randomness of the damaged area. You will always need to be on the lookout for its target area.
4. Soccer Ball (active)
The soccer ball works just as durian and Drill shots. Instead of Spikey Fruit and Drill, here the soccer ball bounces around the map. As upgrades, it gains more ball, speed, and damage. Just like the other two skills, this is also good for closed maps with small boundaries.
5. Ammo Thruster (passive)
Ammo Thruster increases bullet speed by 50%, which means your weapon shots will reach faster toward enemies. It’s a good pick, especially for skills like Drill Shot.
6. EXO Bracer (passive)
Exo Bracer increases the Effect over time duration by 50%. It can be really useful for skills like Molotov, which does damage over time.
B Tier
Average skills might be good in the early game and work in some particular maps.
1. Laser Launcher (active)
Laser Launcher fires a laser in a vertical crisscross pattern. It looks really cool. However, damage output isn’t really that great; it may work well on vertical maps, but otherwise not a good option to pick.
2. RPG (active)
This kill launches an RPG and does AOE damage upon impact. It’s a very fun skill to play with; however, damage doesn’t really scale that well with upgrades.
3. Type-A Drone (active)
A missile-firing drone gets summoned near you. It continuously fires missiles on a small target area. This target area keeps moving in a circular motion. You need to quickly upgrade this skill to get an advantage; otherwise, a small target area of this skill will make your gameplay much more difficult.
4. Type-B Drone (active)
A Type-B drone is pretty much the same as a Type-A drone. The only difference is the reduced number of missiles with more damage and a shorter cooldown.
6. Fitness Guide (passive)
Fitness Guide can double your HP. It’s not really that good of a skill because you will need more damage to survive, not more HP.
7. Energy Drink (passive)
Energy drink restores 5% HP every 5 seconds. Sounds really good, but it isn’t because when the mass number of zombies starts swarming, 5s will feel very long to you.
8. Koga Ninja Scroll (passive)
Do you know those little green and blue dots that provide exp for leveling up? Koga Ninja scroll gives a 50% exp boost. You can pick it very early in the match to level up in no time and acquire EVO skills quickly. However, this skill isn’t required at all because zombies drop tons of exp dots anyway.
9. Sports Shoes (passive)
Sports shoes can boost movement speed by up to 50%. It may help a little bit at the start of the game to pick up experience points. But as the match progresses, you won’t be moving too much. Excessive speed also makes it harder to control the character. Unfortunately, this skill is required for powerful evolution skills, such as the quantum ball. So you might have to pick it just for that.
C Tier
You can probably avoid these skills; they won’t be much of help for you.
1. Brick (active)
As the name suggests, it throws bricks above you. It’s a really bad skill. There isn’t enough damage, even after the upgrade, and evolution isn’t top-notch either.
2. Boomerang (active)
Same as brick skill, throws boomerangs that come back to the starting position, hitting enemies in between. This skill doesn’t scale that well with upgrades, and the evolution skill is absolutely terrible.
3. Oil Bond (active)
Oil Bond increases the amount of gold you gather by 40%. It’s required to evolve Molotov skill; otherwise, it’s useless, as it doesn’t really help with the gameplay.
4. Hi-Power Magnet (passive)
Generally, you have to walk up to the exp points and items to pick them up, but the Hi-Power Magnet can pull them near you. It doesn’t help much because you can easily pick up exp points without it, and the Evolution skill is also not good.
5. Ronin Oyori (passive)
Ronin Oyori reduces damage taken by 50%. This is the most useless skill in the game because why would you want to take damage in the first place? Your primary goal is not to touch zombies!
Survivor.io Best Evolution skills
You can get powerful evolution skills by combining two skills. Below, you will find the Best Evo skills to use in Survivor.io
S Tier
1. Destroyer
Type-A and Type-B drones may not be top-tier skills, but when they come together and become destroyers, they simply destroy everything. One of the most powerful skills in the game right now, and you must pick.
2. Divine Destroyer
You can further enhance Destroyer by combining it with medi-drone. It will create a dip healing zone for you.
3. Quantum ball
When you combine a soccer ball with sports shoe skills, it will evolve into a Quantum Ball. Very powerful skill, especially on small maps. Several quantum ball travels really fast around the map, dealing a huge amount of damage to zombies.
4. Supercell
You can get the SuperCell EVO skill by combining a lightning emitter with an Energy Cube. Lighting the emitter itself is a decent skill, but when it turns into a supercell, it becomes thundering destruction. Supercell constantly showers enemies with higher damage, powerful lightning bolts.
A Tier
1. 1-Ton Iron
1-Ton Iron can be acquired by combining a brick and a Fitness guide. It replaces bricks with 8 heavy dumbbells that shoot out in all directions around you. These dumbbells do plenty of damage; however, the skill cycle is on the slower side.
2. Defender
Defender is a combination of Guardian and Exo-Bracer skills. It deals continuous damage with rotating circular blades. The damage output is quite powerful; however, the range is a little shorter than some other powerful evo skills.
3. Fuel Barrel
You can evolve Molotov by fusing it with an oil bond. Fuel barrels create an even more powerful and bigger ring of fire around you. The only problem with this skill is the requirement of the Oil Bond skill.
4. Whistling Arrow
Drill shot and Ammo thruster will give Whistling Arrow an evolution. It does lots of damage on a small map, continuously piercing through enemies. The range of skill is really good, which can give you breathing room in intense situations.
B Tier
1. Caltrops
When Durian combines with a HE Fuel, it evolves into the Caltrops skill. Basically, pointy fruit turns into a spiky iron ball. Just like Durian, it’s an average skill for small maps.
2. Deathray
The death ray is created by the Laser launcher and the Energy cube. The basic cross-cross laser now launches in a circular area. It’s not that bad, but there is a better option available. You can use a lighting emitter with an Energy cube to get a supercell, which is far better than a Death ray.
3. Magnetic Rebounder
Magneto Rebounder skill is a combination of Boomerang and Hi-power magnet. Honestly, they look very cool. However, the damage isn’t good at all, and Hi-power magnet is a complete waste of a skill slot.
4. Sharkmaw Gun
RPG missiles turn into sort of Nuke missiles with shark camo when fused with He Fuel. Damage is quite good; however, without range ability, it doesn’t help much. On top of that, it only clears one side, while most skills will clear zombies from all sides
5. Thunderbolt Bomb
This is a relatively new skill, so many people wonder how you can get Thunderbolt Bomb in survivor.io. Well, it can be obtained by combining a lightning emitter with a modular mine. It’s a decent skill for controlling the field for a while, but it has the same randomness problem. You won’t know where exactly the skill will land
6. Inferno Bomb
The Inferno Bomb is the same as a Molotov; it creates a burning zone after the explosion. You can get it by mixing Modular Mine and Molotov. It’s really more effective than the Molotov, and explosions are very slow too.
C Tier
1. Force Barrier
There isn’t much of a difference between a regular force field and a pressure force field. You will only get a little healing as part of evolution, and as mentioned before, healing isn’t that good of an option in the game. On top of that, the energy drinks also use up your valuable skill slot.
Survivor.io Best special Evo skills
Survivor io also has some special skills that are available for specific characters or weapons. Below you will find the best special skills to use in the game, along with the ones that you need to avoid.
S Tier
Survivor Instinct
This skill is exclusive to the king character; it’s one of the best special skills, especially for critical damage.
Sunfire Palm
Just like the Survivor Instinct, Sunfire Palm is also a great skill for crit damage. You will need to play with the Master Yang character to get this skill.
A Tier
Moonhalo Slash
This works in the same way as the katana and Lightchaser weapon skills, which deal slash damage near you. However, you will Tsukiyomi character to use this skill. Fully evolved Moonhalso Slash deals 360-degree slash damage around you, and it can be really effective when a massive wave of enemies comes along.
Lunar Frost and Lunar Eternity
Lunar Frost and Lunar Eternity are two other variants of the Moonhalo Slash, and they are also available with Tsukiyomi only. Both skills work in the same way as the Moonhalo Slash, with the difference that Lunar Frost slows down enemies that are hit by the skill, while Lunar Eternity deals more damage.
B Tier
Holo Projection
You get Holo Projection skills by combining Yelena’s basic skill, an Automatic Pistol, with Sports shoes. It deals a good amount of damage, but you need to pick up sports shoes to get the skill, which is kinda of a letdown.
Drillmaster’s Fury
You get this skill when playing with Wesson. Combining his exclusive EM Grenade skill with the Hi-Power Bullet skill gives you Drillmaster’s Fury. It generates an EM field that blocks enemy attacks, which can be good for defense against projectiles.
Hydro-Dynamic Spatula
Hydro-Dynamic Spatula is an exclusive skill for SpongeBob SquarePants. You can upgrade his primary weapon skill to get this skill. It targets nearby enemies automatically, not exactly a top-tier weapon, but it’s quite fun to play with.
Listening Bug
Listening Bug is the passive skill of the Worm character. It increases range and deals 50% more damage. It’s a great skill for use; however, you won’t have a choice to use another skill in its place, as it’s a passive skill and will be picked by default.
Clarinet
You can use this skill when playing with Squidward’s character. His primary weapon will upgrade into the Clarinet skill, which deals AOE damage. The damage output is decent, and there are AOE skills that can do much more damage than this skill.
Final Words
That’s it for the Survivor.io skill tier list. We hope it helped you find the best skills in the game. You can also share your opinions about different skills in the comments. We will take them into account while updating the tier list.
