Our Halls of Torment ability tier list ranks all abilities and traits from best to worst in the action-packed roguelite.
So you’ve just started playing Halls of Torment and aren’t sure which abilities are good? Well, you’re in luck, as that’s exactly what our Halls of Torment ability tier list is here to help with. In this very guide, we rank all of the abilities from S tier to D tier, with S being best and D being worst. We’ll also include a description of the tiers so you know what they actually mean.
Halls of Torment is a survival roguelite that takes inspiration from Vampire Survivors. There’s a whole range of unlockables within the game, such as new classes, traits, abilities, and more. Battle against hordes of enemies as you explore and experiment with a wide variety of play styles. After defeating waves of opponents, you’ll come face to face with powerful bosses – each becoming stronger the more you progress. The game itself features a fantastic pre-rendered style, similar to titles from the late 90s – what’s not to love?
You can learn more about it on the game’s offical Steam page. We also recommend checking out our Halls of Torment class tier list, Type Soul clan tier list, and Tales of Yokai tier list.
Before we move onto the tier list proper, here’s a description of how our tiering system works so that you can make sense of it.
Here’s a brief explanation of each of our tiers:
God tier abilities.
Solid abilities that aren’t quite as effective as S tiers.
These abilities start strong but fade later on. Don’t be ashamed to use them, but do swap them out as you unlock S and A tiers.
In certain game modes, or at the beginning, abilities in this tier can excel. Mostly, they’re useless though.
Never use D tiers unless you can’t avoid it. They’re awful at all game modes, and at all phases of the game.
Still unsure about our tier list? Got questions about Halls of Torment in general? Hopefully our tier list can help!
We should probably have answered this question at the beginning, eh? A tier list is, quite simply, a list of all of the characters – or abilities in this case – in a specific game ranked from best to worst. In our case, S is the best characters with D being the worst, and A, B, and C filling the gaps.
The purpose of a tier list is to help you determine which characters to use at all stages of the game. We try and make our tier list as useful as possible by explaining our tier system.
For example, there are instances where certain characters are excellent during the beginning of a game, but fade later on. Or, they could be good at a certain game mode. We’ll always try and make this clear.
We used a number of different sources when selecting our Halls of Torment ability tier list, but, primarily, we judge based on our personal experience with the game. As a result, it is bound to be quite a subjective list, but there’s no getting around that.
To determine the rankings, we both experiment with the abilities in the game (if unlocked), as well as theory-craft based on skill descriptions and raw statistics. That’s why you’ll see our tier list change so much when a game first launches, as we’re in the testing phase.
It’s also worth noting that we do scour communities, like Reddit, for community feedback. If the general consensus is that a specific ability is strong or weak, we will reflect that in our tier list. That way, it’s got a certain degree of objectivity.
We’ll wrap this section up by reminding you that tier lists are subjective by nature. Your experience may vary completely to ours, so take it with a pinch of salt.
You can expect to see an update to our Halls of Torment ability tier list whenever a new ability is introduced. It might take us a while to test the ability for ourselves though, so expect a brief delay.
We also update the list whenever a big balance patch hits, as this will throw the meta out the window. Again, there may be a brief delay as we experiment with the changes and update our rankings.
