In Idle Heroes, assembling a formidable team is crucial for excelling in both Player vs. Environment (PvE) and Player vs. Player (PvP) modes. The game’s extensive roster offers heroes with unique abilities tailored to different combat scenarios. While building teams for different game modes, a lot of factors need to be taken in consideration and emphasized. The base rarity of the hero always determines their core strength. Next, the type of heroes also determines their place in the team. Lastly, the core abilities of the heroes is the major factor that determines their rankings in our list. With all that said, take a look at our extensive list for the best heroes to use in Idle Heroes! Got questions about guilds, gaming, or our product? Join our Discord for discussions and support!

Idle Heroes – Best Heroes for PvE Content

For the majority of the players, PvE content will be the toughest challenges they will ever face. As you climb the higher levels of campaign mode, the enemies HP pools, attack, and defense massively increase to the point wherein normal DPS heroes cannot effectively take out a squad of heroes. This is where DoT-based heroes shine! Let’s take a look at all the heroes in this section:

Norton Haig: Norton Haig was recently released and is part of the Fortress faction. His ability to consistently land stuns on waves of enemies makes him a great crowd-controller for PvE content. The active skill also helps him with self sustainability on top of inflicting HP-based damage to all enemies.

Ithaqua: Ithaqua is one of the best poisoners in the game, period. Her ability to constantly dish out poison debuffs on multiple enemies, regardless of her turn, makes her an excellent unit to bring in PvE dungeons such as Aspen.

Heart Watcher: Heart Watcher has played an important role in dealing with PvE challenges due to her ability to label enemies and enhance the amount of damage they receive. She has the ability to significantly improve the team’s total damage output, making her a valuable tool in long-term engagements.

Eloise: Eloise is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, non-transcendent heroes in the game, frequently recommended as a core component of a strong team due to her exceptional stats, survivability, and powerful abilities, making her an excellent choice to build around early in the game for the majority of players.

Aida: Aida is often found as the core healer/sub-DPS in many PvE-oriented teams. She excels at dealing damage to enemies without even touching them, thanks to her Balance Mark and passive ability. She deals damage based on enemy MAX HP, making her an excellent choice to use in higher level dungeons where DoT effects are dominant due to large HP pools of enemies.

Valkyrie: The burn queen Valkyrie should never sit out on a list made for PvE heroes. Who initially looked as a dull new hero is now well regarded as one of the best DoT (Damage over time) heroes in the game. Her ability to constantly inflict Burns makes her an exceptional hero to use in majority of the dungeons.

Tix: Tix is well-known for his ability to deal massive damage, particularly to bosses, and drain the energy of his opponents. Because of his capacity to deplete enemy energy, battles may last longer, and opposing powers may not function.

Idle Heroes – Best Heroes for PvP Content

PvP content in Idle Heroes is more geared towards beating the enemy’s line-up. It tends to be a more pay-to-win set of game modes, and we need to include transcendent heroes in the mix if we are going to be honest. Let’s take a look at all the heroes in this section:

Great Sage – Wukong: The mighty Wukong has added a lot of twists to the regular PvP meta. This hero is so broken, that he can deal significant HP-based AOE damage, reduce enemy damage reduction, reduce enemy armor, grant all allies a massive shield, gains immunity to petrification, stuns, and more. 

Star Swordsman – Mockman: One of the originally broken heroes, the legendary Mockman is still alive and kicking in the 2025 meta. The star-studded warrior has 2 forms star-ascending energy and star-descending energy, wherein the former deals enemy-HP based damage to frontline targets and the latter deals massive damage to back-line enemies. Additionally, he can boost his own damage and stats, thanks to his passive skill. 

Bloodtide Queen – Aranea: Aranea is a solid damage dealer cum supporter that can heal HP for allies, increase their crit damage, and boost their crit rate. Additionally, she can deal massive AOE damage to backline enemies, on top of inflicting the Black Kindling effect to them. Hitting enemies inflicted with this effect will trigger an additional effect that burns 2 random enemies. Further, when an enemy with this effect die, it is shifted to 2 other enemies, while granting HP to Aranea.

Star Alchemist – Holmes Young: The transcendent version of Holmes Young is an absolute menace on the battlefield. He can terrorize his foes by continuously inflicting Poison debuffs, increasing DoT damage, and dealing massive AOE damage to all enemies. He also has a unique effect called Perceptual Disorder that forces an enemy hero to attack their own ally and inflict Poison. 

Garuda: Garuda is useful in both PvP and PvE due to her burst damage and ability to attack many targets at once. She could quickly neutralize significant threats in PvP and tip the balance of power in her team’s favor.

Sword Flash – Xia: The transcendent version of Xia remains to be one of the best damage dealers in the game. Her active ability can pierce through the target’s armor, ignoring defense, and dealing heavy damage to all enemies. At full stacks, this attack targets all enemies and restores 30% of the damage dealt as HP. 

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