D&D 5E Zard's S Tier Archetypes

[Zardnaar]

I got the tier ranking system via video games and the Dungeon Dudes youtube channel used it to rate the archetypes.

 

[ccs]

Or if you play a video game that has a "shifting meta" (MOBAs, fighting games, some MMOs, etc.), then you've probably seen it.

I fall into @Charlaquin's camp of "How have you missed that?", .

Easy, I'm not a video gamer or into anima/manga.
Its slang from something that does not apply to my interests.

That said, I'm very good at discerning what people are talking about.
Still never understood why S was the chosen letter/term though. But that's not really info I need to follow a conversation, just trivia.

 

[Zardnaar]

Just watched this.


Went up a few hours ago.

Dungeon Dudes ranking the Rogues.

AT S tier
thief/assassin B.

I don't always agree with them but they're spot on today.

They rate classes a bit higher due to mid levels. Much like myself they don't care to much about epic level stuff.

I focus more on level 1-7, 8-10 a bit and don't care about 11+ that much and the epic levels not at all.

Online 70% of games are level 1-7, only 10% play 11+ and epic levels are something like 1% iirc.

I suspect online play mirrors real life imho of course.

 

[Zardnaar]

Anyone remember a few years back I said smart rogues dual wield, and ranged combat is for suckers?

Tasha's fixed that and buffs the rogue and helps out arcane trickster a lot.

 

[Krachek]

S Tier is a party that work together when needed.
S tier that play it solo, won’t survive better than a party of snowflake that work togheter.

 

[Charlaquin]

Still never understood why S was the chosen letter/term though. But that's not really info I need to follow a conversation, just trivia.

Nobody knows for sure. You can trace it back to the grading system in Japanese schools, which use A-E letter grades, but also have an S grade, instead of A+. Why they use S as the highest ranking is unclear, (much like it’s unclear why American schools skip over E, going from D to F), but it has been suggested that it might stand for “Super,” which in Japan carries a connotation similar to “Ultimate” in native English-speaking countries.

 

[ccs]

Nobody knows for sure. You can trace it back to the grading system in Japanese schools, which use A-E letter grades, but also have an S grade, instead of A+. Why they use S as the highest ranking is unclear, (much like it’s unclear why American schools skip over E, going from D to F), but it has been suggested that it might stand for “Super,” which in Japan carries a connotation similar to “Ultimate” in native English-speaking countries.

It's not a mystery. F is an abbreviation for FAILURE.

 

[Charlaquin]

It's not a mystery. F is an abbreviation for FAILURE.

Right, much like S is probably an abbreviation of Super, or Special, or Superlative, or Spectacular, or Something. It’s just not entirely clear what it stands for, given that it’s a Roman letter being used in a Japanese context.

 

[Dax Doomslayer]

I always thought that "S" was "Superior" but I'm not really up on these things...

 

[Zardnaar]

It's not a mystery. F is an abbreviation for FAILURE.

The skipping E part is the thing.