Grand Summoners Tier List (Global, November 2026)
SS on the Advisor Team's Global list: Okarun, Ultimate Paladin Roy, Saitama the Hero, Houka Inumuta. Plus where a second major list disagrees.
On the Grand Summoners Official Discord Advisor Team’s list, hosted at GS Companion and read on November 6, 2026, four units hold SS: Okarun, Ultimate Paladin Roy, Saitama the Hero and Houka Inumuta. That list covers Global (EN) units only, runs SS down to F, and reflects high-end content rather than story clears. If you’re early and just want a team that finishes chapters, almost anything in A or above will do it. The tiers matter when stage mechanics start punishing bad arts generation and missing breaks.
Key takeaways
What this Grand Summoners tier list is based on
Two things decide whether a ranking is useful here: which version it covers, and when it was written. This one is Global (EN) only. Grand Summoners runs a separate Japanese version with its own unit pool and release order, and JP-only units do not exist on your Global account, so any list mixing the two is useless for planning summons.
For the primary list we’re using the Advisor Team ranking published on GS Companion, which credits the Grand Summoners Official Discord Advisor Team for the tiers and grandsummoners.info for the underlying unit data. It uses fourteen tiers, SS through F, and the only methodology note on the page is that stage mechanics and team composition decide when a unit is actually worth bringing. There’s no visible last-updated stamp, which is a real limitation and the reason we date our read rather than the list.
Where that matters, we check it against gacha.gg’s Grand Summoners list, which does carry a date. It was rebuilt on November 5, 2026, covers 337 units, and takes the median placement of four separate community lists so no single source can move a unit by itself. Different method, different answer, as you’ll see.
The top tiers, November 2026
Rankings below are the Advisor Team’s opinion, not measured win rates, so every list you find is judgement.
| Tier | Units | What the tier means |
|---|---|---|
| SS | Okarun, Ultimate Paladin Roy, Saitama the Hero, Houka Inumuta | Four units only. Slot-defining for the hardest stages. |
| S+ | Beta, Sayaka Miki, Saito Hajime, Touma Kamijo, Shadow, Summer Miyu, Igris | Build around these if you pulled one. No SS needed. |
| S | Shirou Emiya, Summer Luvia & Rin, Accelerator, Last Miracle Isliid, Mikoto Misaka, Kenshin Himura, Arthur Pencilgon, Godspeed Crusader Platina, Summer Chloe, Frieren | Clears everything current with the right equips. |
| A+ | Chloe, Momon, Heroic Spirit Emiya, Natasha: Spiritia 05, Demon Lord Samurai Rimuru, War Hero Fen, Cha Hae-In, Isliid, Human Pinnacle, Index, Halloween Forte, Summer Lotte & Valerie, Demon Lord Rimuru, Stark, Madoka Kaname | Strong, often the better pick for a specific mechanic. |
Tiers per the Grand Summoners Official Discord Advisor Team via GS Companion, read November 6, 2026. Tiers A through F continue below SS to F and are far larger.
Worth knowing about the shape of the list: SS holds four units and S+ holds seven, while the lower tiers hold dozens apiece and F alone runs well past a hundred names. Most of the roster is not competing for your endgame slots.
Two lists, two answers
Here’s the part most tier list pages skip. Compare the Advisor Team’s top tiers against gacha.gg’s S tier from November 5, 2026, and the agreement is thin.
Roughly six names sit in both top groups, and the lists actively contradict each other elsewhere. Okarun is SS for the Advisor Team and A on gacha.gg. Accelerator is S for the Advisor Team and B on gacha.gg. gacha.gg’s S tier also rates base-roster units like Berwick, Thetis, Norn and Orvell far higher than the Advisor Team does.
Neither is lying. They’re measuring different things. The Advisor Team is a small group rating high-end play, where one missing break or arts-generation gap fails a stage. gacha.gg takes the median of four general-audience lists, which smooths toward units that are good across the whole game. Pick the one that matches how you actually play, and don’t blend them. A merged list has no method behind it.
Why the Global meta is collab-heavy
Look at the SS and S+ rows again and almost every name is a crossover face: Saitama, Okarun, Shadow, Mikoto Misaka, Frieren and company all sit on the Advisor Team list we read. Treat that as evidence the Global top end is collab-driven, not as a full banner calendar. Collab units return on their own schedules, and we are not guessing the next one.
Two practical consequences. First, a top-tier roster is partly a function of when you played, since collab units return on their own schedule and we’re not going to guess one. Second, any tier list you read is a snapshot of a banner cycle. Check the date before you spend crystals on it, and if the page has no date, treat its top tier as a direction rather than a shopping list.
Equips move units more than tiers do
A tier assumes a reasonable build. The community newbie guide for the game makes the point plainly: equips are account-based, so the best setup differs per player, and teams want burst-arts equips, arts-generation equips and defensive or damage-resistance equips matched to the boss you’re fighting. True Equips are usually best in slot for the unit they belong to, but which one you want still depends on the unit.
Farmable equips from Giant Bosses, Side Stories and Luck Units stay usable for a long time. The gap between an S unit on farmed gear and the same unit fully kitted is often wider than the gap between two adjacent tiers.
Which modes does the tier even apply to?
Grand Summoners has a lot of separate content, and tier placement is weighted toward the hard end of it. Main Story and Main Story Challenge, Side Stories, Giant Bosses, Summoners’ Road, Elemental Ruins, Dungeon of Trials, Crest Palace, Assault Events, Arena, Multiplayer and the Trial and Ultra Trial stages all ask for different things. Trial and Ultra Trial stages hand out free 5-star and limit-break units, so they’re worth attempting even with a mid-tier team.
If you only care about finishing the story, ignore the tier list entirely. It starts mattering at Ultra Trial and the harder Assault and boss content, where a stage’s gimmick decides which of your S units is actually correct. The Advisor Team also publishes a separate nuking list that ranks arts nukers, equip nukers and nuke supports on an Apex to Niche scale, which is the more useful page when you’re building a burst team specifically.
Our take: use the Advisor Team list to decide what to chase and gacha.gg to sanity-check it, then let your equips decide the final team. If you like comparing how different gacha games sort their rosters, our Epic Seven tier list, AFK Arena tier list, Cookie Run Kingdom tier list and Anime Expeditions tier list use the same dated approach.
Common questions
Is the Grand Summoners tier list the same for Global and JP?
No. Global and Japan run separate unit pools and release schedules, so JP units often do not exist on Global accounts yet. Every tier placement on this page is Global (EN) only. Check which version a list covers before you plan summons around it.
Who are the best units in Grand Summoners right now?
The Advisor Team’s SS tier holds Okarun, Ultimate Paladin Roy, Saitama the Hero and Houka Inumuta, read on November 6, 2026. S+ adds Beta, Sayaka Miki, Saito Hajime, Touma Kamijo, Shadow, Summer Miyu and Igris. That’s opinion, not measured data.
Should I reroll for an SS unit?
Not necessarily. SS holds only four units, so the odds of landing one specifically are poor. Collab banners guarantee a 5-star Legend on the first roll and hand out free Crossover Summon Tickets, which makes starting during a crossover the more reliable opening.
Why do two tier lists rank the same unit differently?
Methodology. The Advisor Team rates units for high-end stage mechanics. gacha.gg takes the median of four general community lists and rebuilds weekly. A unit that shines only in specific boss fights ranks high on one and mid on the other.
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