ALLfiring Companion Guide: Role Priorities and Upgrade Order

To get the most value out of companions in ALLfiring, invest first in universal utility types—specifically companions that apply damage vulnerability or deploy automated threshold shields—before building niche elemental pets. Follow a strict progression order for your primary companion: level its base stats to the first promotion cap, unlock skill breakthroughs to boost active percentage values, and consolidate duplicate shards into that single unit rather than spreading them across multiple companions.

Companion Roles and Priority Tiers

Companions in ALLfiring fall into three broad investment categories based on team flexibility and how their skills scale into late-game challenges such as Mirror Anomaly trials.

Universal Companions (Top Priority)

Universal companions provide team-wide combat value without requiring specific elemental triggers or restrictive positioning. Offensive units in this tier apply multiplicative debuffs, such as direct armor shred or damage vulnerability windows. Synchronizing these vulnerability windows with the burst rotations of hyper-carries like Ilscha or Rozeul maximizes phase burst damage and helps bypass dangerous boss phases. Defensive options automatically generate barriers based on incoming damage, preventing glass-cannon carries from being eliminated by burst attacks in high-tier content.

Elemental Specialists (Secondary Priority)

Elemental companions boost specific status triggers, such as freeze, burn, or shock. In an aligned team—such as a cryogenic build extending freeze duration and gaining bonus critical strike chance against immobilized targets—these pets can match or exceed universal companions. However, their bonuses deactivate entirely if placed into unmatched elemental squads, making them poor early investments until your primary elemental team is fully formed.

Budget Progression Companions (Early Game Only)

Early-game companions provide flat stat boosts, baseline health regeneration, or basic single-target stuns. While helpful for early campaign clearing and learning enemy telegraphs, their flat numbers do not keep pace with endgame enemy health pools and boss damage scaling. Avoid spending high-tier breakthrough catalysts on these units once you reach mid-game milestones.

Matching Companions to Operative Playstyles

Equip companions that address the mechanical weaknesses of your lead operative:

• Burst-Oriented Marksmen: Pair high-fire-rate and sniper units with companions that immobilize targets or apply long-range vulnerability debuffs to secure clean headshot windows without forcing repositioning.
• Frontline Melee Operatives: Pair close-quarters fighters with shield wardens. Threshold barriers absorb stray hits from elite swarms, allowing continuous attack strings without interruption.
• Skill-Spam Operatives: Pair cooldown-dependent units with energy-catalyst companions to eliminate dead time between ability rotations and maintain steady damage against shielded targets.

Always time your primary operative's burst abilities to trigger immediately after your companion's active debuff animation begins. Activating debuffs while your operative is reloading or waiting on cooldowns wastes the vulnerability window.

Companion Upgrade Order

Companion enhancement materials are limited. Focus resources entirely on your primary universal companion across three sequential milestones before upgrading secondary elemental options:

1. Base Leveling to Cap: Level your primary companion's base stats until reaching the first major promotion cap. Base levels provide direct shared stats that boost your active squad's overall combat rating.
2. Skill Level Breakthroughs: When the base level hits an advancement gate, switch resources to skill breakthroughs. This increases the percentage values and active durations of vulnerability debuffs and protective barriers.
3. Duplicate Promotions: Channel duplicate shards into your main universal companion. A fully promoted universal companion delivers higher total stat contributions and active uptime than spreading duplicate shards across multiple elemental pets. Conserve summon currencies and upgrade catalysts until you can clear these major breakthrough thresholds.