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Cookie Run: Kingdom Tier List: A Complete Ranked List of Cookies

Welcome to our comprehensive Cookie Run: Kingdom cookie tier list! While all cookies are loveable and worth collecting, not all of them are particularly useful in combat. Similar to gacha games such as Azur Lane, Arknights, and this game’s daddy Cookie Run: Ovenbreak, certain cookies are more effective than others.

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Unfortunately, the actual tiers of Epic, Rare and Common only give a vague idea of how effective a cookie is, usually only of their raw stats. Some Epics are pretty bad. Some Rares are strong enough to beat certain Epics. Even some of the Commons manage to grab onto a weird niche past the early game. And of course, some cookies are absolutely busted.

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This tier list assumes you’ve been playing Cookie Run: Kingdom for a bit of time. If you’re a new player, head over to our Cookie Run: Kingdom beginner’s guide and give it a read. You may also want to check out our squad composition guide, as it uncovers some powerful team builds in the game. In case you are looking for some advice regarding progression, kingdom management, combat, and related topics, then we suggest you read our dedicated article!

COOKIE RUN: KINGDOM TIER LIST

X TIER – GOURMET

X1
White Lily Cookie
Crème Brulée Cookie
Linzer Cookie
Mercurial Knight Cookie
Golden Cheese Cookie
Crimson Coral Cookie
Sea Fairy Cookie
Rockstar Cookie
Tarte Tatin Cookie
Pitaya Dragon Cookie
Stardust Cookie
Moonlight Cookie
Milky Way Cookie

Hollyberry Cookie
Financier Cookie
Pure Vanilla Cookie
Prophet Cookie
Carol Cookie
Sherbet Cookie
Schwarzwalder
Captain Caviar Cookie
Black Pearl Cookie
Cream Unicorn Cookie
Eclair Cookie
Dark Cacao Cookie

X2
Elder Faerie Cookie
Silverbell Cookie
Rebel Cookie
Burnt Cheese Cookie
Prune Juice Cookie
Blueberry Pie Cookie
Espresso Cookie
Caramel Arrow Cookie
Wildberry Cookie
Clotted Cream Cookie
Vampire Cookie
Crunchy Chip Cookie
Frost Queen Cookie
Cream Puff Cookie

This is the meta squad. They’re absolute monsters in PVP while still being very reliable in PVE, at all stages of the game. They’ll flatten the majority of the World Map. You’ll see them everywhere in the Arena. You’ll lose your temper fighting them together. If you have them the only thing stopping you from rolling all over PVE is your sense of timing and if you forgot to feed them their Star Jellies. Being core cookies, you use them to fill up at least three slots once you get them, with AOE damage cookies, in particular, being used depending on which one you own and have invested in.

X1

White Lily Cookie

ANCIENT, BOMBER, MID, Damage Over Time, Disabler, Healing, Debuff Dispel, Passive Debuff Resist, The Endgame Is Coming

PVP/PVE Support, Disabler, Debuffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Solid Almonds, Searing Raspberries

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For a walking barrage of story spoilers, White Lily Cookie is a powerful multipurpose cookie, able to deal damage starting at 22.5% of the target’s max HP without a cap as is the usual for these types of attacks, though the added damage she does with every bugg she has DOES have a cap of 500% of her ATK. She can also heal allies and disable enemies all at once.

She can deal damage based on how many buffs she has on herself along with causing a damage-over-time debuff to foes while rendering them immobile with vines. She also makes enemies take 25% extra DMG and slows their MOV SPD down by 80% when they get out of the vines while damaging them once more.

She buffs any ally suffering from a Debuff, with that buff dispelling all debuffs when it hits enough stacks. She also buffs everyone’s DMG Resist by 30%, almost like a decent set of Almonds. She also has a passive Debuff Resist of 30%. The only thing she cannot do is tank blows, and even then that 30% DMG and Debuff Resist helps with that!

Crème Brulee Cookie

EPIC, RANGER, Rear, Attacker, Hit Shield Buster, High Damage, High-Speed Tempo

PVE Hit Shield Buster, Boss Buster, Attacker, Excels vs Avatar of Destiny, PVP Sniper

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Crème Brulé Cookie is a highly powerful attacker who excels at sniping hard targets like bosses to pieces. His skill comes with a pile of buffs for the team, the potent Accelerando buff for himself, and most importantly, a mix of many, many hits and no debuffs at all for the enemy. That last part sounds bad until you realize the Avatar of Destiny doesn’t put up with debuffers and slaps them and anyone within the same postcode as them into outer space in a fit of rage.

Accelerando allows him to ignore Damage Resist by 30% if the Accelerando is stacked at max, and more stacks means he shoots more projectiles with every one of his basic attacks. This lets him utterly obliterate Hit Shields, making him a potent choice against M Cursor (A particularly nasty boss that does not give two hoots about your front liners’ existence), and that’s assuming he even lets M Cursor put up its shield since Brulé hits so hard!

He also buffs the team’s ATK Speed by 20% and makes their ATK SPD 35% resistant to debuffs, along with an Additional DMG buff based on his ATK SPD boost rate, which also scales with his ATK stat. Definitely a top choice in any PVE team. As for PVP, he will snipe whoever has the highest ATK in the enemy team provided he isn’t nuked first himself, so it’s a question of who is the quicker draw.

Linzer Cookie

EPIC, SUPPORT, Mid, Attacker, Attacker-Supporter, High Stakes High Tension Writing

PVE Damage-Buffer, DEF Reduction, DMG Resist Ignorance

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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A powerful offensive support cookie that lets other Cookies deal eye-watering amounts of damage; Linzer Cookie softens up foes so everyone else can turn them into soup. She gains stacks rather than attacking, much like Onion Cookie, except she can usually hit max stacks before throwing out her skill even when equipped with Swift Chocolates and a maxed-out Clock.

Her skill increases the whole team’s CRIT% and deals AOE damage around her direct target, the enemy with the highest ATK. To that target, she calls them sus and makes that target take 10% more damage from all damage types to a total of 80% when her skill is activated with max stacks.

For each stack, she also reduces their ATK by 5% and reduces their defense by 35% up to a total of twice. She excels against bosses while still being useful for fighting crowds, but sadly as she inflicts a debuff, she cannot go with Crème Brulé against the Avatar of Destiny since she will just get nuked out of Earthbread and thrown all the way to plain old Earth.

Mercurial Knight Cookie

EPIC, CHARGE, Front, AOE Attack, Damage Over Time, DMG Resist Booster, Rapid Attack, Blender Blades

PVE/PVP Attacker, PVE Light Tank, Picky with Teammates

Toppings: Searing Raspberries are practical, but Bouncy Caramels are hilarious

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Mercurial Knight Cookie is a terror of raw ATK SPD. His skill turns his basic attacks into AOE strikes with a damage-over-time effect, which deals extra damage based on how much max HP the target has if said target is a Cookie. His damage-over time can stack up to 20 times, which can add up to a lot since he attacks alarmingly fast and can very easily stack the poison to the entire enemy team.

On top of dealing the initial damage with every blow! Debuffs also annoy him, giving him Amalgamation stacks for every debuff he suffers along with 1 stack per second passively, and 60 stacks will immediately dispel all debuffs on him and boost his own ATK by 30%, ATK SPD by 50%, and Max HP by 25% for 20 seconds, which explains his insane ATK SPD.  

He also gets a big buff when paired with Silverbell Cookie, increasing both their HP by 30% and ATK SPD by 50%, turning Mercurial Knight’s already comically rapid attacks into an absolute paper shredder. Give him Raspberries so those blows actually do something, along with Librarian’s Robes. He’s already a walking chainsaw, might as well give his blades more horsepower!

Golden Cheese Cookie

ANCIENT, RANGED, MID, Area Attack, Defensive Shield, Self-Revive, No Wonder She’s Cheese

Attacker, Nuker, Last Second Clutch

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Solid Almonds

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Golden Cheese Cookie’s release form is far, far different from how she works in the game’s intro. She is a devastating attacker with a single self-revive that can be interrupted, but provides protection for the rest of the team.

If Golden Cheese is downed, she covers herself in a shield-generating sarcophagus for some time, providing protection for her team until she revives for another go at it, throwing her skill out immediately upon being kicked awake. If her sarcophagus is broken before she gets back up though (Fat chance with how tough it is!) her revive will be interrupted and she’s not getting back up.

As for her skill, it’s a hard-hitting area strike that works best vs crowds, since her attack throws out an extra strike every time she kills something, and she throws out 8 spears if she’s facing a minimum of 5 targets. She’s also dangerous in PVP as she throws out an extra powerful attack specifically against whoever on the enemy team has the highest ATK stat.

She works well with her release-mate Burnt Cheese Cookie, since Golden Cheese makes enemies take more damage from Earth-type damage, which only she and other Golden Cheese Kingdom cookies can inflict. In short, she hits very, very hard and comes back for more after taking a beating.

Crimson Coral Cookie

SUPER EPIC, DEFENSE, FRONT, Tank, Shields Attackers, AOE Damage, Water Type Damage, The Entire Frontline

PVP Tank, Loner Tank, Water Attack Booster

Toppings: Swift Chocolates with DMG Resist substats, or Solid Almonds

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Ever wanted to cram your team full of attackers? Or do you want a needless amount of healers for some reason or other? Out of space because you always seem to need 2 tanks or your team collapses into itself? Have no fear, Crimson Coral is here! Specifically built to be a solo tank, Crimson Coral Cookie gives everyone the Coral Armor buff when deployed without any other Front cookies, which reflects 30% of incoming damage, provides 30% DMG resist, and gives a 15% boost to Max HP and Water Type Damage to the whole team.

Paired with the likes of a Jammed-up Sea Fairy and Black Pearl Cookie, she and Sea Fairy together can render Black Pearl incredibly dangerous with a 45% total Water damage boost if Sea Fairy is the squad leader.  She also starts with a 15-second 15% HP shield when deployed alone in the front line. She also makes herself resistant to DEF Reduction debuffs by 35%, gives herself another 25% DMG Resist for 12 seconds, 30% CRIT DMG Resist for the same period, and gives herself a stack of Curse Protection, blocking one instance of the Curse debuff.

She’s currently used in the top ranks of PVP in the Pure Vanilla server thanks to her toughness and ability to throw back enemy attacks while leaving a space open for another offensive cookie.

Sea Fairy Cookie

BOMBER, LEGENDARY, MID, AOE Attack, Stun, Water Damage, Crystal Jam, Water DMG Booster, She  Puts The Salt in Saltwater

PVE/PVP AOE Nuker

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Solid Almonds

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An old Legendary cookie, Sea Fairy’s first appearance had her take the meta by storm for a very long time, though she was eventually supplanted by ever more destructive Epics and Legendaries as the updates went by.

Her skill is simple: She aims for 5 targets and wrecks them with pillars of seawater, dealing immense damage and stunning them. She hit hard back then and she still hit hard enough for long enough that even as she was overshadowed, she still remained a threat to overconfident players in PVP and consistently remained useful for PVE. She recently got a big upgrade though: Crystal Jams!

The Crystal Jam is just a Magic Candy but for Legendaries, giving a unique attack effect and in addition, adding a Team Leader buff and extra boosts once she gets past 5 stars and reaches Ascension 1. The special skill upgrade from the Crystal Jam allows Sea Fairy to launch a huge tidal wave at the enemy every few skill launches, dealing severe damage even compared to her already alarming attack.

Her Team Leader Buff takes the cake though: A 35% boost to Water-type DMG for all cookies in her team. This includes herself, thus making her hit harder once again. She still has a giant ton of competition in PVP, but it ooks like Sea Fairy’s back in action.

Rockstar Cookie

EPIC, HEALER, MIDDLE, Crit Chance Booster, Healing-over-Time Curse Protection

General Purpose Healer, Crit Booster

Toppings: Swift Chocolates with CRIT% Substats

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The developers are going hard into making Crit-based builds more effective and dangerous. Rockstar Cookie is proof of that, making their debut from Ovenbreak into Kingdom as a crit-boosting team healer.

Rockstar’s song can transfer his own topping-based crit boosts to the rest of the team, though this caps out at 35% added CRIT% so Juicy Apple Jellies are overkill for that, with the goal being 5% Crit substats on whatever set you give him. This works well with his release mate, Shining Glitter Cookie, who is highly reliant on critical hits.

Rockstar also allows other Cookies to heal every time they inflict Critical Hits, on top of his healing over time ability, and his 10-second Encore performance healing which occurs after he gets all his HP kicked out of him. Not only can he keep the team alive, his buffs might as well cram a Crit topping set on top of everyone else’s toppings!

Tarte Tatin Cookie

RANGED, REAR, EPIC, Skill Spammer, Fire Attack, Damage Over Time, Flakkin’ For Drachens!

PVE Boss Buster, PVP Anti-Attacker, ATK-SPD Reliant

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Bouncy Caramels

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Tarte Tatin Cookie’s an old lady with quick-loading hands and a very, very big gun. While her bazooka may imply she’s all about big damage on a single hit, her skill says otherwise: Not only does she have a short 12-second base skill cooldown, but her basic attacks also shave a whole 1.2 seconds off her cooldown every shot!

This means Bouncy Caramels are as good for her as Swift Chocolates, and she can really cut her cooldown by equipping both any Jelly Watch and the Librarian’s Robes. Then you give her some cookie buddies who can buff ATK SPD, and you have an incredibly deadly core for a speed comp.

As for her skill, it looks complicated, but the gist is that she targets middle Cookies (usually the enemy spellcaster nuker like Espresso or Moonlight), does extra damage against bosses, sets things on fire, and can get buffs from the likes of Capsaicin Cookie. Basically she just repeatedly batters important targets pretty hard with her spicy hot bazooka!

Pitaya Dragon Cookie

DRAGON, CHARGE, FRONT, Attacker, AOE Attack, Healing Reduction, Greenish Red Problem

PVE/PVP Damage Dealer, High Sustainability, Anti-Healing

TOPPINGS: Searing Raspberries

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The first DRAGON tier cookie released for Kingdom but a fairly old hand back in Ovenbreak, old players have probably met and been frustrated by Pitaya Dragon Cookie’s appearance as the Greenish Red Dragon when Chapter 12 was first released. It took them a while, but now he’s playable in Kingdom!

Pitaya Dragon Cookie’s skill involves heal-reducing sword beams followed by a fiery laser breath attack that reduces DMG Resist and ATK power. Every 3 uses, the skill is enhanced, with the basic fire beam changing into an even bigger fire beam that transforms Pitaya into the Greenish Red Dragon and reduces enemy resistance to Fire attacks.

Of note is Pitaya’s ATK stat, which is markedly higher compared to other Charge Cookies, even that of Capsaicin which is notable for being a dangerous front damage dealer. Dragon Cookies also gain a measure of Damage Resistance if their ATK stat is boosted, so Raspberries will do double duty for their firepower and toughness.

Stardust Cookie

SUPER EPIC, MID, AMBUSH, Buff-Counter, Debuff Amplifier, Attacker, AOE Disabler, Orbital Bombardment Cookie

PVP Anti-Attacker

Toppings: Searing Raspberries/ Swift Chocolates/ Solid Almonds (Crit% substats heavily preferred)

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An anti-attacker cookie par excellence, Stardust Cookie is a giant headache to deal with in PVP. He can mark an enemy with the highest ATK stat for an intergalactic beatdown, with his Sign of the Stars debuff preventing buffs for 20 seconds and reducing their ATK by a painful 30%, and cutting down the healing they receive by 40%. He’ll then make like an asteroid and land face-first into the target, dealing damage in an area around them.

If you’re rich enough for it, invest in some Crit% substats for your toppings, because if his crash attack crits, it inflicts Sleep on anyone it hits. You can theoretically get rid of Sign of the Stars by calling in Herb Cookie to clean it out, but it’s risky: The ATK reduction, debuff amplification, and other nasty stuff get removed, but the one who got cleaned will Sleep and explode along with anyone near them!

This firepower also makes Stardust a good PVE pick since they can blunt dangerous enemies with that bevy of chunky stat reductions, and he’ll help heavily in Master Mode missions against heal-spamming timer-wasting jerks like those hideously overfed Golden Jelly Worms.

Moonlight Cookie

LEGENDARY, MID, MAGIC, Sleep, Attacker, It’s Bedtime Forever

Anti-Armor Attacker

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Solid Almonds

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Moonlight Cookie is a particularly dangerous opponent in PVP, especially against the long-standing Solid Almond meta. The stars she dumps all over the cookies can ignore a chunky 40% of DMG Resist. Her attack is also quite strong vs cookies: While she uses 255% of her ATK stat vs non-cookies compared to just 125% vs cookies, she also deals 3% True Damage against only cookies, which goes through not just DMG Resist, but also through DEF.

She can also slow down enemy attacks by making them Drowsy, and inflicts 2 seconds of Sleep to anyone who gets too Drowsy, indicated by a purple bar under their HP bars. While she isn’t immune to Sleep, she can heal herself after waking up, unlike other Cookies affected by the debuff. Quite a lot of her attack does some form of percentage damage as opposed to relying on her ATK stat when pointed at Cookies, so getting her cooldown cut might be a better choice compared to raising her ATK with Raspberries, though both are viable.

As a side note, Moonlight’s skill acts more like that of an Ambush Cookie rather than a typical Magic Cookie, sending her into the air to avoid incoming attacks.

Milky Way Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Defensive Buffer, Multihit Attack, Multitrack Drifting Through Your Dreams

General Purpose Defensive Buffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Solid Almonds

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Milky Way Cookie has a thing for vehicular cookieslaugther. She jumps onto her train and gives the team 40% DMG Resist and cuts stuns they take in half, then proceeds to run enemies over with the Sugarcloud Express for 12 hits for around 100% of her ATK per hit.

She also pops a shield for everyone after pancaking the enemy with her train. She and Moonlight Cookie are both immune to Chapter 15-16’s Beckoning Dreams sleeping effect specifically, but not to the Sleep debuff itself, which may be cast directly by enemies or Moonlight Cookie.

Milky Way is meant primarily to be a defensive buffer, but their attack can help others hit pretty hard since her skill can reduce DEF with every hit, and the DEF reduction becomes 3 time stronger against bosses. Pairing her with Purple Yam if he’s got his Magic Candy can result in laughably small damage numbers coming from the enemy.

Hollyberry Cookie

ANCIENT, FRONT, DEFENSE, Damage Focus, Anti-Crit, Infrequent Stun, Big Mama Hollyberry’s Endless Drinking Party

General Purpose Heavy Tank, PVP Anti-Nuker

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Hollyberry Cookie got another huge buff! Not only does she still do her old job of focusing 20% of all damage the team takes onto herself, she now makes herself and her allies more resistant to Crits. She also takes any Crits she suffers and turns them into a Max HP-increasing Seed of Life, which if she stacks enough, powers up the next instance of her skill by allowing it to Stun on impact for 2 seconds.

Paired with other defensive cookies like Financier or Milky Way, she can stuff a nuker team’s one-shotty spell barrage (One example being any teams with Almond Cookie) and allow the squishier units on your team to fire back at those wimpy soft-dough nerds who likely aren’t able to take return-fire. This old lady’s still got it.

Financier Cookie

DEFENDER, EPIC, Front, AOE Attack, Secondary Healing, Heavy Tank, MAGIC CANDY, DMG Resist Buffer

PVE/PVP Heavy Tank, Sub-Healer, Attacker-Protector

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Financier Cookie stubbornly refuses to let go of her spot in X-tier, as just as she started falling off she got an amazing Magic Candy which lets her and her team take rather nasty blows from PVE enemies and come out still alive. She still has the old effect of her skill: Healing and 20% DMG resist for herself and whoever has the highest ATK stat, unless Clotted Cream is in the team whereupon he takes priority and boosts the skill further.

She also gives an HP Shield to both, a special one that throws 50% of the damage it takes back to the enemy. Her Magic Candy though is so buttery it’ll make your arteries nice and defensible with a thick layer of cholesterol. She gives an additional 30% DMG Resist to herself and the highest ATK cookie on the team, while healing the whole team by around 18% of her DEF, and gives the rest of the team 15% DMG Resist for 15 seconds, which stacks once to a total of 30%.

This essentially turns her into a walking pile of Almonds for the rest of the team, and if your team starts suddenly dying from raw enemy firepower, Financier is a good choice to bring so your attacker lasts long enough to nuke the other guys. At level 10, her Candy boosts Light Damage by 20%, so she can turn Crème Brulé into a horrible autocannon of death.

Pure Vanilla Cookie

ANCIENT, REAR, HEALER, Shields, Team Burst Heal, Heal Over Time, Injury Alleviation, The Bigger Custard

General Purpose Healer, Effective VS Chapters 13-14

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Pure Vanilla Cookie was already one of the stronger healers in the game even after he was getting a bit long in the tooth, being a simple but effective mix of shields and loads of healing. He recently got a buff for the 2nd Anniversary which allows him to keep up with the more recent Healers and Supports who tend to have special effects and disables beyond a good ol’ reliable but rather un-flashy shield.

He still has his characteristic big fat heal with big fat shield, but now he has some counters against a lot of the things which previously made his life more difficult as time passed: He can now heal 50% Injury Damage, making him a highly effective choice in the brutal 13th and 14th chapters of the main Story mode and against his buddy and fellow grandpa Dark Cacao Cookie.

And should his team suffer anything that renders them incapable of taking shields or the shields get dispelled by anything other than damage from attacks, his spell will heal them over time instead by 1% based on their max HP if they’re cookies, and by 35% of his ATK every second for 7 seconds if they’re friendly summoned mooks. Oh and he amplifies buffs too. Looks like the old man’s back in the groove!

Prophet Cookie

EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, Random Attacker, Buff Amplifier, Healer, Apocalyptic Predictions

PVE/PVP Multipurpose Cookie, Needs Topping Investment

Toppings: Swift Chocos, Solid Almonds, or Searing Raspberries with CRIT% Substats at 10.7%, 10.8%, or 10.9% total, or mixed with Juicy Apple Jellies as necessary to reach desired skill lock result

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Out of the box, Prophet Cookie is a pretty bad choice all-in-all: They copy 7 other cookies at random, namely Mala Sauce, Squid Ink, Mango, Dark Choco, Sea Fairy, and Frost Queen. Every time they fire their skill, it’s a roll of the dice whether you get what you want, with the only reliable thing being his rather average healing ability and his power to amplify buffs and debuffs for friends and foes respectively. This makes them a novelty in PVP at best, and a liability in PVE at worst, since you can’t make a strategy around his unpredictable skill. At least, until you invest in his toppings!

If you give him a topping set that breaches the 10% CRIT% threshold though, through substats or the use of Juicy Apple Jellies, the randomness goes away and suddenly he’s one of the best cookies in the game for his pure tactical flexibility. At 10%, his prophecy attack is locked to a single type of cookie’s skill based on the decimal percentage coming after the 10%.

According to tests done by players: At 10-10.1, he’s Mala Sauce, at 10.2-3 he’s Squid Ink, at 10.4-5% he’s Mango, at 10.6-7% he uses Dark Choco’s skill, at 10.8% he uses Sea Fairy’s stun nuke, and at 10.9% he copies Frost Queen’s icy wave of death. Prophet Cookie is most effective for late-game players who can afford multiple topping sets with crit substats, and they can either pick one cookie they want to copy and have a Swift Choco, Almond or Raspberry set that each reaches 10% plus a certain decimal point based on who they want to copy, or they can have 3 of the same topping set with different CRIT% decimals so they can have him stand in for 3 cookies as the situation demands.

Usually, you’ll want either a .7, .8, or .9 decimal since those let him copy the 3 strongest cookies in his roster. Need to kill a boss? Get a 10.7% so you can have Dark Choco’s triple lightning DEF buster. Have Ice Queen, Sherbet, and Pinecone all on the same team? Toss in a 10.9% CRIT% Prophet Cookie for extra Freeze and Frost. If you’re not sure what to do, set him to 10.8% CRIT% for Sea Fairy’s water bomb, since it’s hard to go wrong with damage and stun.

Note these skills aren’t as strong as the originals, but it’s more than good enough. Oh and only the decimals matter, it can be a 15.7% CRIT% stat and it’s still gonna be Dark Choco all day every day as long as it’s 10% or better.

Carol Cookie

EPIC, REAR, HEALER, Increased Healing As Team Collapses, Burst Damage

Clutch Healer, Damage Supplement

Toppings: Swift Chocolates or Solid Almonds

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A powerful clutch healer, Carol Cookie is much like Tea Knight: someone you deploy either in PVP or if you’re way past caring about getting 3 stars in a PVE mission and just want to get unstuck.

As a healer though, they’re much better at clutching PVE runs gone wrong: Carol Cookie has a fairly standard healing and buff skill that boosts Crit Chance and Crit Damage… At least if everyone is alive. If she’s only got one teammate left, she cuts both her own and her final teammate’s cooldown by 2.5 seconds and her healing becomes stronger the fewer teammates she has.

On top of this, she starts doing damage with her skill if she only has one teammate left to heal, the only Healer cookie to do so, though at 180% of her ATK it isn’t much. Instead, the real damage comes from both their massively cut cooldowns. Carol Cookie herself can easily cut her cooldown to 3 seconds with the Jelly Watch once her song turns red, even before you give her a full Swift Choco build, which has the potential to bring it down to 2 seconds.

Sherbet Cookie

SUPER EPIC, MID, RANGED Damage Dealer, Freeze, Cotton’s Guardian Angel

General Purpose Damage Dealer, Hard To Snipe, Enables Frost Queen

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Searing Raspberries, or Solid Almonds

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Sherbet Cookie is one of the tougher damage-dealing cookies in the game for one simple reason: 50% of any excess healing he receives gets converted to Shields, capped at 30% of his own Max HP. This works great with any healer, especially since healing over time still applies even to full HP cookies as indicated by the constant HP ticks they get even when topped up. This especially pairs well with his release buddy, Carol Cookie, who is a powerful healer in their own right and can keep both his HP and shields topped up.

And on top of this, he’s a Mid cookie, so he can’t be sniped by the likes of Vampire Cookie unless the one behind him is a Safeguarded cookie like the BTS crew or Candy Diver Cookie, or if they’re dead. That’s before you even get to his rather nasty offensive powers, which are enough to turn his skill description into a wall of text.

He can nullify 30% of a Cookie’s debuff resist, letting both Sherbet and Frost Queen tag-team them with Freeze, which Sherbet cannot guarantee but inflicts at an 8% chance which goes up by 2% for every stack of Frost debuff the targets currently suffers.

Frost itself reduces ATK SPD by 5% and increases thaw damage by 50% up to 350% while increasing damage vs Cookies by 49.2% and anything else by 15% per shard. He fires a total of 15 shards split between how many targets are in the field, making him deadlier the fewer enemies are on the field. Overall, he just hits hard while being decently hard to kill compared to other damage dealers.

Schwarzwalder

EPIC, CHARGE, FRONT, AOE Autoattack, Chance of Stun on Autoattack, AOE Damage, Hammer Time

PVE Stun Spammer, Rapid Attack

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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It looks like Wildberry Cookie has some competition for his job. Schwarzwalder is a pretty deadly cookie. No wait, they’re a cake, definitely a cake. They’re a rather powerful cake for both PVE and PVP, having a 50% chance to stun on their rather nasty auto attack, which isn’t just AOE, but also swings pretty rapidly thanks to their skill.

Of course, being released right next to the BTS Cookies and their stun-negating shenanigans dampens this big chunky Black Forest cake’s thunder somewhat in PVP, but otherwise, you can rely on them to shut down enemies, especially if you have the Librarian’s Robe treasure equipped. Schwarzwalder’s skill raises their own ATK SPD by 35%, ATK by 15%, and DMG Resist by 30%, while slamming their big hammer into the enemy’s face.

Said hammer slam also reduces enemy ATK by 5.5% and makes them take an extra 200% ATK damage on top of the initial 400+% damage when hit by the skill slam, and this debuff can stack thrice and last for 40 whole seconds. Rapid attack or not though, don’t use them on the Avatar of Destiny: Sure Schwarzwalder can bash the gravestone barricades to pieces rather quickly, but they’ll get your team killed since the Avatar gets really angry and nukes your team every time they suffer a debuff, like the million Stuns Schwarzwalder will try to give them.

Captain Caviar Cookie

EPIC, Bomber, Mid, DEF Reduction, AOE Attack, Slow Animation, Magic Candy, Torpedoes Away

PVP/PVE Debuffer/AOE Damage

Toppings: Solid Almonds, Swift Chocolates

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Captain Caviar Cookie is a newer, more destructive alternative to Dark Choco Cookie when it comes to bossbusting. They have the same job: Lower the enemy’s defense so your real boss sniper, usually Vampire Cookie, can blow a huge chunk off the boss’ HP bar in one skill attack.

While Dark Choco Cookie will last longer since he’s a bulky Front cookie, Captain Caviar more than makes up for his squishiness with a superior damage reduction (A 40+% DEF reduction that can stack once for a total of 80+% against enemies of any size, vs Dark Choco’s 20×3=60% that only happens if the target is big enough to eat his entire skill) mixed with actual damage ability thanks to his far and away higher ATK stat as a Bomber cookie.

That being said, Caviar’s skill requires better timing from the player, as while his skill has a decent 15-second base cooldown, the actual animation for his skill is very slow compared to Dark Choco Cookie’s lightning attack. You must wait for the torpedoes his submarine fires to impact before using the Slingshot and calling Vampire in to finish the job.

For the specific situation of fighting the Red Velvet Dragon guild boss, you’re usually better off using Dark Choco in the lower levels since Captain Caviar at a low star level is squishy enough to get nuked by his own skill because of the Dragon’s DMG reflection, but the rest of the team might last longer. But at higher levels, when the Dragon is overbaking your whole team in a few seconds anyway, Captain Caviar is the better choice since you’ll only get one or two skill barrages out even with Dark Choco. You’ll want those few barrages to hit as hard as they can before your cookies wind up the dragon’s entree.

He recently got a Magic Candy that allows his torpedoes to aim for specific targets and increases their AOE by making a line of explosions pointed forward from the detonation site. This line of explosions imporves his ability to destroy Hit Shields against particularly large targets like Bosses, which is great but not enough to launch him up a tier as he’s already rather high anyway.

Black Pearl Cookie

AMBUSH, LEGENDARY, MID, AOE Attack, Vortex, Water Damage, Crystal Jam, DMG Resist Penetration, Get Flushed

PVP/PVE AOE Attacker, Long Avoidance

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocolates, Solid Almonds

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A Legendary who was pretty devastating in their appearance much like Sea Fairy but didn’t last nearly as long on the damage dealer throne, Black Pearl Cookie still stayed relatively effective in PVE even though the likes of Moonlight and Stardust Cookie kicked her off quickly.

Black Pearl’s skill is similar to Espresso Cookie’s, a powerful vortex attack that sucks enemies into its center. While Espresso’s suction is much stronger, Black Pearl deals more damage and avoids damage herself while performing her skill. This inflicts the [Terror of the Sea] debuff. Powerful, but not quite on the same level as the notoriously lethal Sleep debuff.

Black Pearl recently got a buff in the form of the Crystal Jam though: This lets her do a more powerful version of her skill on a slower cooldown than her normal skill, throwing out a more powerful and more damaging vortex complete with a tornado of Duskgloom seawater. Watch out for her especially if she’s paired with Sea Fairy acting as her squad leader: Sea Fairy’s boost to Water Damage works really well with Black Pearl flushing everyone down the toilet.

Cream Unicorn Cookie

EPIC, REAR, HEALER, Team Healer, Silence, Damage Reduction, Slow Cooldown, Magic Candy, Friend To All Children?

General Purpose Healer/Buffer

Toppings: Solid Almonds or Swift Chocolates

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A powerful healer who appeared in all top PVP teams in the Pure Vanilla Server the millisecond they were released, Cream Unicorn Cookie is a powerful healer, but not because of their healing. Their heal is weird: Cream Unicorn’s skill heals 1.2% of their ATK for every 1% of HP a Cookie has lost, plus an initial 60%+. It’s pretty darn strong when used after the Cookies have suffered heavy damage, but Cream Unicorn’s heal applies at the end of their skill animation rather than immediately upon casting, making it slow enough to occasionally get someone crumbled. And that’s not even taking their awful 17-second base cooldown into account.

Their real strength though: Not only can they Silence the enemy with their skill, but they can also give a stacking DMG Reduction buff to your team, starting at 5%, and stacking thrice to 15% total. Oh, and Silence was recently buffed to be a full immobilizer and able to halt skill cooldowns, like a more advanced Stun.

Cream Unicorn works well in most teams, thanks to DMG Reduction being a pretty strong need in most situations, especially in PVP since his heal is more useful when the team is recovering from a high-damage attack. You’ll notice this most when you pair Cream Unicorn with other cookies who have damage mitigation abilities like Hollyberry and a candied Purple Yam, though again, they’ll work in any well-put-together squad, and they find a lot of use with Financier Cookie to protect the squad damage dealer thoroughly.

He recently got a new Magic Candy which allows him to deal Fire damage, essentially making him double as an AOE attacker. This also adds to his healing as he can heal an extra 40% of the damage he inflicts, capping at 200% of his ATK. Still not big enough to bump him up the list.

Eclair Cookie

EPIC, “SUPPORT”, MID, ATK Target Priority, DMG Booster, Puts Heroes In Obituaries

PVP Anti-Attacker, PVE General Damage Dealer, Anti-Boss Support, Force Multiplier, Anti-Spellcaster

Toppings: Searing Raspberries/ Swift Chocolates

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Broken, cheese, unfair, pure evil, there are many words to describe this unassuming historian. Imagine Raspberry Cookie in her boss fight form (if you haven’t made it there yet, she loves one-shotting your damage dealer), except squishy and playable.

This should give you an idea of how nuts Eclair Cookie is. They have the perfect mix of a statline with near- Magic cookie level ATK, target priority based on whoever in the enemy team has the highest ATK, and a frightfully high damage percentage on their skill (At max, they hit roughly 800% in a single hefty blow, against 3 high-ATK targets), and a stackable debuff that makes their victim take even more damage from everyone else if they didn’t already die from the first hit.

Deploy Eclair Cookie if you want to neutralize an enemy team’s damage ability. While this complete nerd can go toe to toe with the likes of Sea Fairy or Frost Queen after a few debuff stacks, pairing one of them with him will truly let you see his absolute murdertastic insanity. On top of this, they’re easy to deploy with other damage dealers since they count as a Support, and won’t fight the other damage dealers over their Ambush, Ranged, and Magic powders. Must be the shield they give on kill.

As for PVE, they would work best in chapters 9 and 12, where dangerous mid-targeting spellcasters exist, and for boss fights, in general, since they will let your designated bossbuster (along with your entire team) do loads of extra damage. Searing Raspberries work fine on Eclair, though Swift Chocolates will help him assist other damage dealers handily.

Dark Cacao Cookie

ANCIENT, CHARGER, FRONT, AOE Debuff Barrage, Extremely Large Hitbox Basic Attack, Max HP Reduction, Passively Debuff Resistant, Worst Dad Award

PVE General Purpose Debuffer, PVP Healer-Denial And AOE Damage

Toppings: Almonds, Swift Chocos to quickly stack Injury

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A poorly-advised king, a terrible dad (Though granted, his son isn’t any better at being a son), and a great Front Cookie. Don’t be fooled by their similar AOE and good looks: Dark Cacao Cookie fills a more generalist role compared to his son, Dark Choco Cookie.

They both have a DEF Reduction on their skill, but Dark Choco’s is far more powerful: The son deals 20% DEF Reduction up to three times depending on the target’s hitbox size for a total of 60% maximum, while the dad deals 15% once, on the second hit of his skill. This makes Dark Choco more suited to busting large bosses compared to his dad.

Dark Cacao makes up for this by dumping a whole load of other debuffs on his victim: He can reduce the enemy’s max HP temporarily with the Injury debuff, making enemy healers less effective: They won’t be able to heal the victims to full no matter how hard they try for the duration, making them more vulnerable to follow-up attacks from the likes of Sea Fairy.

The Injury debuff can also stack up to 25% of the enemy’s max HP, and can’t be dispelled unless the skill doing so specifically mentions it, so Herb isn’t going to solve it either. He also has Twizzly’s Zap debuff on his skill’s first hit, instantly disabling shields from the likes of Eclair, Pure Vanilla, and Custard Cookie III while causing damage over time. Dark Cacao also reduces enemy ATK by 10.8%.

On top of all this, his painfully slow yet hard-hitting basic sword attack has an absolutely bonkers cleave area, which can hit all 5 cookies on the enemy team. Ironically, Dark Cacao’s reliance on a wide range of debuffs compared to a single powerful one like his son’s or Eclair’s makes him suffer in his own release chapter, Chapter 13 Snow On The Black Gates (All enemies are 40% more debuff resistant there), though he’s still great everywhere else. Dark Cacao Cookie pairs well with Affogato Cookie in combat, which is probably why he listens to Affogato’s poisonous advice.

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Elder Faerie Cookie

SUPER EPIC, DEFENSE, FRONT, AOE Attack, Taunt, Inflicts Injury, DMG Resist Buff, HP-based Damage, Requires Very Specific Team, Peanut Loving Old Man

PVP/PVE Defensive Cookie, Anti-Healing, Taunter

Toppings: Solid Almonds, Healthy Peanuts

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A seemingly meh unit who becomes comically busted when given a certain team, Elder Faerie Cookie is a very odd cookie who provides a once-stacking 15% DMG RESIST buffs for 2 high ATK teammates (with one slot being taken by White Lily Cookie whenever she is available) plus another for every HP boost his Beascuit gives, for a total of 5, the entire team.

If he gets a debuff, he can get another 20% DMG Resist, which also stacks up to twice, which means he can take rather serious hits. Which is good since he has a taunt and WILL wind up taking a lot of hits. He got bullied early in his release getting thrown into outer space by angering everyone on the enemy team, but players found he works so well with his Silver Kingdom buddies (Mercurial Knight, Silverbell, and White Lily Cookie) that his team starts flattening everyone else like a massive rolling pin of death.

Probably because darn near everyone from the Silver Kingdom update stacks Damage Resist like a bunch of tooth-obliterating hardtack biscuits from the Age of Sail. Since his skill damage is boosted by max HP instead of ATK, he’s probably the one guy in the entire game as of his release who could make use of Healthy Peanuts and still be up here in this tier.

And no, getting an Injury cookie to deal with him might not be as effective as one thinks, since in the team he works in, Mercurial Knight is the main damage dealer and not Old Man Fairly Odd Biscuit.

Silverbell Cookie

EPIC, SUPPORT, REAR, DMG Resist Buff, Stun, AOE Damage, Shiny Shots

PVE/PVP Disabler, Rapid Attacker, Healer, Picky With Teammates

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Less alarming than Mercurial Knight Cookie but still pretty nasty when paired with him, Silverbell Cookie is a support cookie with an oddly powerful basic attack. His skill lets him heal teammates, with extra healing for anyone who has buffs, which he contributes to since he also gives them up to 3 stacks of a 7.5% DMG Resist buff, for a total of 22.5% max. He also shoots the enemy, hurting them and giving them a debuff that eventually stuns targets and hits them with splash damage. With Mercurial Knight Cookie, he gets 30% extra HP and 50% extra ATK SPD, turning Silverbell into the world’s kindest machinegun nest.

Rebel Cookie

EPIC, AMBUSH, Front, DEF Reduction, Damage Vulnerability, HP Shields, Summoner, Older Than He Looks

PVE/PVP Offensive Support, Tanky Summons

Toppings: Solid Almonds, Swift Chocolates

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Rebel Cookie is a cookie focused on making enemies more vulnerable to damage. His skill renders all enemies vulnerable to all damage types while cutting their DEF, and provides an HP Shield based on the damage he’s inflicted and a 15% CRIT% boost (which can stack once for a total of 30%) to allies. After this, he summons a pair of clones that can tank 10 blows of any strength. His DEF reduction also comes with another debuff which makes enemies take more damage, on top of the all-damage vulnerability.

Rebel Cookie is likely the current strongest summoner in the game, though that’s not a surprise since he’s the newest to be released… In Cookie Run Kingdom. In the Cookie Run franchise itself, Rebel’s actually an absolute relic, having been released in 2013! For comparison, Ninja Cookie was from 2016.

Burnt Cheese Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Buffs, Attacker Support, AOE Attack, Earth Element, Stun, Fast Cooldown, Quickmelt Cheese

Golden Cheese Cookie’s Escort, PVP/PVE Buffer, Berserker

Solid Almonds

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A decent enough cookie for the current era when deployed normally, Burnt Cheese Cookie suddenly becomes a terror when deployed with Golden Cheese Cookie, as a lot of his more powerful abilities are tied to her being on the field.

While his ATK stat is roughly on par with Defense Cookies (And is therefore miserable), his skill’s damage percentages are very high, with an AOE strike that can touch around the 700% mark in his 70s. He also protects whoever on your team has the highest ATK stat, taking half the damage they suffer and making them immune to debuffs for 12 seconds when Burnt Cheese uses his skill.

If Golden Cheese is deployed with Burnt Cheese, two things happen: Both of them get a 30% Damage Reduction buff, and if Golden Cheese is put in her sarcophagus, Burnt Cheese gets really angry, raising his ATK Speed by 30% and his ATK stat by 130% while Golden Cheese takes her nap. A very good choice, but without Golden Cheese he won’t be knocking Pitaya off his spot as the most busted Front cookie in the game so far.

Prune Juice Cookie

EPIC, MID, BOMBER, Summoner, AOE Poison Damage, Potions! Potions For Sale!

PVE Heavy Summoner, PVE Anti-Boss DPS, Debuff Enabler

Toppings: Swift Chocolate

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The potion-obsessed and positively pragmatic Prune Juice Cookie is a fairly standard poison Bomber turned up to eleven and with a nasty trick up his sleeve.. His basic attack is a potion bottle with AOE and a Poison effect, dealing damage over time for 10 seconds in an area. Their skill throws out a huge bottle of poison to hit a wider area.

This is where things get funny: Not only does the poison hit more often with the skill over the 10 seconds it takes effect, but it also comes with a Sticky Goo debuff that shields other debuffs once from dispels for 15 seconds. Worst of all, from the bottle’s spillage comes Prune Jellies, a special sort of summon that takes damage based on the number of hits taken much like a Hit Shield.

As such, Prune Jellies are very strong against single-hit nukers and slow, high-damage attackers like Captain Caviar Cookie and Schwarzwalder, but get badly dented against the likes of Espresso and Milky Way Cookie and their rapid multi-hit skills. Sounds like not much in PVP, but in PVE most of the truly nasty bosses use hard-hitting single blows, so these Prune Jellies are quite tough there.

Prune Jellies can’t be healed or shielded as a balance against their extreme toughness, and occasionally release Prune Gas that deals Poison damage on top of the poison they are already inflicting upon their targets, and the poison Prune Juice Cookie himself is shoving down everyone’s throats. They might work well with the likes of Affogato Cookie and Poison Mushroom Cookie to deal with enemies who rely on damage reflection and counter-attacks. They’ll be very useful in boss fights since their poison can stack and burn through HP like crazy without triggering any counterattacks.

Blueberry Pie Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, Self-heal, Self-Buff, Attacker, Kill-Followup, QUIET! THIS IS A LIBRARY!

General Purpose Attacker

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocolates, Solid Almonds

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Blueberry Pie Cookie does not appreciate disrespect in her library, and her kit is built around kicking other Cookies out of it should they ever make noise. Her skill pulls a ton of stuff out of her book: Blueberry Pie Cookie summons a nasty spirit from her book that hits enemies and inflicts the Greed of the Tome debuff while giving her a measure of Damage Resist, and healing her based on her thick Magic Cookie ATK stat.

She gets a Greed stack every time she hits a Cookie with her book’s debuff, or every time an enemy, Cookie or not, gets crumbled while under the effect of the debuff. When she accumulates 7 Greed stacks, she throws another attack at the enemy, dealing 0.95% True Damage based on the enemy’s HP on top of the attack’s normal damage (87.3% at skill level 1) up to 6 times and raising her own already impressive ATK stat by 25%. Read her books quietly, or else!

Espresso Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, AOE Damage Dealer, Late-game AOE Stun, Late-game Extra Damage vs Stun Resistant Targets, Has Magic Candy, Death By Overcaffeination

PVP/PVE AOE Damage, Pull-to-Center helps Sorbet Shark and other small AOE attackers

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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The first attack cookie to become meta during the game’s release, Espresso Cookie was still fairly effective in PVE as long as there was some way to reduce enemy defense on his team or treasure set. But his domination of PVP was long past with the likes of Sea Fairy, Frost Queen, Clotted Cream, Eclair, and Caramel Arrow taking his spot. Not anymore!

He’s set to come back in force with his new Magic Candy, which puts him on par with the likes of Sea Fairy damage-wise while offering more utility and pairing better with other attackers who have tighter AOEs, like say Sorbet Shark.

As usual, Espresso’s vortex will do damage while pulling enemies together, followed by an explosion. With his Magic Candy though, a few things get added: First, the vortex can now pull interrupt-resistant cookies like Caramel Arrow during her skill, Madeleine during his skill, and anyone else dumb enough to think he’s all washed up. Second, the explosion now has a small stun which can interrupt skill casting. Third, good ol’ fashioned extra damage, this time with 3% True Damage vs cookies along with a more generic damage boost.

Now you would think he’s not as strong against stun-resistant foes such as bosses, but he has a final, hilarious trick up his sleeve: If his enemy is stun resistant, the explosion deals an extra 300+% damage to the target! This makes a candied Espresso a useful option even against bosses since bosses are, without exception, stun-resistant and will wind up taking extra damage for it.

Caramel Arrow Cookie

EPIC, RANGER, FRONT, Damage Dealer, HP-Percentage Damage, Multiple Target Attack, Damage Stacker, Debuff Immunity, Boba Tea Based Bow Of Boom

PVE Anti-Cookie, PVP Heavy Damage

Toppings: Bouncy Caramels for Arrow Mark stacking, or Searing Raspberries to take advantage of her good ATK stat, a mixture could be viable

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Caramel Arrow is the first to blatantly break the rule of “damage dealers out back, not in front”, though one could argue the more recent Charge Cookies were practically just skimming the edge of that rule. You’d think this makes her pretty worthless, because how the heck is a Ranger gonna do damage if they’re in front, and therefore, die in two seconds?

Thankfully, her stat line is more akin to a highly offensive Charge cookie (Abnormally high ATK compared to a Charge cookie, good but not particularly impressive HP, and passable defense), allowing her to last unusually long considering her actual cookie type. Her skill is what makes her truly shine: She jumps to the rear like Madeleine except she doesn’t lie about her actual job, and starts hammering the enemy with arrows. Each shot can stack an Arrow Mark (a fancy name for “sticky bomb”) on the target, which detonates after she stops firing.

After she stops shooting, she dashes at the enemy, dealing some initial damage with some extra based on the target’s HP. The dash’s percentage damage is higher than Sorbet’s (max around 38% compared to Sorbet’s 30%, at least when used against Cookies), but doesn’t count as true damage, and therefore can be reduced by DEF and Damage Resist. Her skill also renders herself immune to debuffs for a solid 8 seconds, allowing her to assassinate the likes of Frost Queen, and maintain consistent damage even after Sea Fairy drops a tsunami on her.

Best of all, her skill comes with a natural 10-second cooldown, in a game where 15 seconds is considered good or at least average. You’ll want to put her in a speed comp (Lilac Cookie’s machinegun squad, either with or taking the slot of Pastry Cookie) as the majority of her damage comes from her arrow spam and subsequent Arrow Mark stacks, though she is definitely powerful enough to strengthen a mainline general-purpose team.

Wildberry Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, DEFENSE, Berserker, Heavy Tank, Knockback Spammer, Magic Candy, Team HP Shield, Naggingberry Cookie

PVE Tank, PVP Anti-Speed/Anti-Summoner Damage Dealer/Tank Team Enabler

Toppings: Solid Almonds (Wildberry’s damage depends on him taking loads of hits)

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Hollyberry’s unwanted babysitter, Wildberry Cookie, is a rather dangerous warrior seemingly built to fight against the current PVP meta teams in action at the moment. Despite their skill’s complicated description, the way it works in practice is simple: While it’s active, the more hits Wildberry takes for his team, the harder his final punch hits.

His final punch goes up by an extra 35.3% of his ATK for every hit he suffers, maxing out at a truly bonkers 30 hits for an extra 1059% damage, but with the usual enemy team, he’ll stack about 15 before the big punch if his enemy is equal with him. This is on top of a 1.3-second stun. The common enemy teams nowadays usually involve Caramel Arrow Cookie, a cookie whose skill lets her fire off lots of hard-hitting arrows, and Cotton Cookie, a summoner whose sheep rapidly attack the enemy front cookies.

Do the math, and Wildberry Cookie’s attack power goes from not bad (At lv60 without toppings, they reach 23k ATK, with the standard for Defense Epics before them being around 15-20k tops) to giving true damage dealers a run for their money, while he maintains his bulky Defense Cookie statline. The best part, being in front lets him easily avoid cookies that would theoretically be his weakness: high damage single hit cookies like Vampire or Red Velvet, who target the rear!

While his release mate Clotted Cream Cookie seems to counter him specifically, Wildberry’s existence along with Caramel Arrow’s DPS, Madeleine’s AOE spamming, and Dark Cacao’s insane cleaving swing and debuff barrage means there are now enough high-tier offensively-oriented front cookies to make a bulky 4-front 1-support team viable. Which is way more than just one tank to snipe away for the Republic’s Consul.

While Schwarzwalder took Wildberry’s Stun Spam Championship Crown with their AOE hammer stun barrage, Wildberry instead just got a Magic Candy that gives his entire team an HP shield and a harder-hitting final blow. Every 10 levels, the Magic Candy also increases the team’s CRIT Resist. Wildberry’s not going up one more tier with this, but he’s always been a pretty reliable choice anyway.

Clotted Cream Cookie

SUPER EPIC, MID, MAGIC, Disabler, AOE Damage, Front Sniper, 2% Connivingness

PVE Damage Dealer, PVP Super Disabler, Tankbuster

Toppings: Searing Raspberries or Swift Chocolates

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The writer was about to tier Clotted Cream down since he wasn’t as strong as the writer initially thought, but then he got buffed fast enough to keep him up here. The connivingly calculating Consul of the Creme Republic Clotted Cream Cookie is an incredibly powerful disabler, the first of the Super Epic tier, basically an in-between for Epics and Ancients/Legendaries.

Having similar power to the latter but not fitting in either Ancient or Legendary thematically due to being a modern cookie, as opposed to the heroes of old (Ancient) or beings of myth (Legendaries), they’re certainly worth the new tier.

Clotted Cream has an unstoppable disable, ignoring interrupt-proofing from the likes of stun-immunity buffer cookies like Cocoa, or even ones that ignore all disables like Caramel Arrow during her skill. This isn’t even to mention their devastating AOE damage, and the even more horrific single-target damage they do to whoever they happened to disable, prioritizing the nearest enemy Cookie.

They do 89.9% DMG based on the victim’s max HP (which can be reduced by the enemy’s defense) and another 20% of fixed damage based on the same, not caring about defense, though it doesn’t go past a total of 300,000 damage, similar to Sorbet Shark. 

If it isn’t a cookie though, it only does 1.9% total HP damage. Then the cage itself does 189% of the Consul’s ATK, while the AOE attack does a total of 308.5% of his ATK. Overall, a giant threat to his release mate and any other front cookie who happens to get within his skill’s sights. Resist the urge to punch his smug suspicious politician face and put him in your team!

Vampire Cookie

EPIC, REAR, AMBUSH, Single Target Rear Damage, One Bite Bat

PVP Anti-Healer, PVE Anti-Boss, Anti-Spellcaster, Weak vs Mookspam, Weak in Earlygame, Strong in Lategame, Has Magic Candy

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Vampire Cookie had been slipping from the PVP meta since new teams have made it harder to knock healers and rear Cookies out in one or two skill barrages but has so far maintained usefulness for sniping dangerous rear liners and beating bosses down in PVE. That state of affairs will pretty much still be the case as long as he’s below level 50.

Come level 50 though (TRUE level 50, not lv50 by placing him as an Apprentice in the Hall of Ancient Heroes), and he’ll have access to a giant power boost thanks to the new update, which gives him a craftable Magic Candy, ala Ovenbreak! This Magic Candy not only boosts his skill’s raw damage power but also turns his basic attack into an AOE lifesteal which can hit 3 targets at once.

On top of this, it makes the next skill attack that hits the target he bit automatically crit, and said bite can inflict a damage-over-time Bleeding debuff! Also, if the candy reaches lv10, it revives him when he gets crumbled, with his skill ready to go for another bite. Having him team up with the likes of Affogato, Shroomie, Eclair, Dark Choco, Pomegranate, or any mix of them that includes Pomegranate is typically the best way to expire a large Boss’ existence license thanks to all that damage over time shenanigans, and specifically Vamp’s oversharpened teeth.

And yes, with his candy, he’s pretty much back to his usual job in PVP, bullying backliners. He does have a weakness in PVP: Caramel Arrow and Herb Cookie together on the same team. Caramel Arrow hops to the back and takes the hit for Herb, and her front cookie stats make her tough enough to “only” get half her HP blown off most of the time. Herb then patches up the Bleeding and the Vampiric Bite debuff that causes guaranteed skill crits. Vampire is still a highly specialized cookie who works best in boss fights and sniping PVE sorcerer-types, it’s just that now he’s better at his job. Not bad for a lazy drunk!

Crunchy Chip Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Berserker, Debuffer, Summoner, Velvet’s Fellow Dog Appreciator

PVP/PVE Frontline DPS, Summoner Team Anchor

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Crunchy Chip Cookie continues Caramel Arrow’s current trend of offensively powerful front cookies, this time as a summoner. The Cream Wolf he rides on has a separate HP count and is there without needing the use of any skills, and if Crunchy Chip dies before the Wolf, the Wolf gets incredibly angry and continues to fight with added buffs. Crunchy Chip himself benefits from summoner buffs like the Seamstress’ Pincushion treasure, but only by 25% compared to his Wolves.

That doesn’t sound like much until you remember Pumpkin Pie, the Seamstress’ Pincushion, and Cotton Cookie all exist and can be used at the same time: Crunchy Chip makes an excellent anchor front for Summoner spam, taking a ton of buffs from three sources at once, not counting what he’ll also likely get from the OP Scroll, Pomegranate Cookie, or whatever other buffs might get dumped onto him.

His Cream Wolf, which fights separately as his mount, doesn’t need to be summoned and comes with their own auto-attack (Chip throws claw blades at range, and Cream Wolf bites at melee). Said Cream Wolf also gets the full buffs rather than just 25%, turning them into the world’s most adorable cakemower. As for their actual skill, Crunchy Chip Cookie calls upon smaller Cream Wolves to crowd the enemy and eat their faces faster, adding to the hilarity.

Frost Queen Cookie

Frost Queen Cookie

LEGENDARY, MIDDLE, MAGIC, AOE Ice Damage, AOE Disabler, Crystal Jam, Ice Damage Setup, An Even Colder Shoulder

PVE Mass Disabler, Attacker, Still No Good Vs Bosses

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocolate

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While it seems every update tries to bring Frost Queen Cookie pain, she’s doing her best to make sure she throws some pain back! Her basic skill remains the same: A freeze attack that deals damage when her targets thaw out, with Freeze-resistant enemies taking less damage, reducing their ATK SPD by 10% and taking extra Freeze Damage for 20 seconds.

Her Crystal Jam gives this ice some spice, giving it a 10-hit effect for extra damage, freezes the target for yet more damage, and any enemies immune to freeze get Chilled and eventually get Frozen anyway! Hill wrecks enemy DEF by 65% and MOV SPD by 50%, for 15 seconds. At level 10, the Jam gives the thawing effect AOE damage at 354% of her ATK, at 20 enemies take extra Ice damage and suffer -12.5% Debuff Resist if she freezes them, and at 30 she ignores 40% of enemy DMG Resist.

If she’s made Team Leader, all Ice-type damage on your team is boosted by 31% along with normal Ice attacks getting a 35% chance to freeze Frosted targets, and all thaw damage gets based on 115% of Frost Queen’s rather high ATK stat, making her Jam more for direct damage than easy team-building, unlike Black Pearl’s.

Her Jam’s ability to freeze what are usually Freeze-immune targets given enough time makes her much more useful in PVE now than before, where she had areas such as Chapters 13 and 14 where she was rendered completely useless until now. Especially since unlike Black Pearl and Sea Fairy, Frost Queen’s Jam effect has no separate cooldown! Just remember that her freeze-immunity buster does NOT work on large bosses like the Cake Witch, since they’re immune to Chilled too.

Cream Puff Cookie

EPIC, MID, SUPPORT, Buffer, Crit-based Attack, AOE, Healing, Little Baby Dragonslayer

PVE Multipurpose Support

Toppings: Juicy Apple Jellies, Swift Chocolates with heavy CRIT% substats

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Cream Puff Cookie got a buff, which is good for her and utterly bad for your Jellybean reserves. She now has access to a Magic Candy! Her spell is still the usual Jellius Extremus, where the spell is unable to crit normally and instead allows her to cast a more powerful overall spell if it was supposed to crit. It also still has a ludicrous damage percentage of roughly 1000% based on skill level if it does the more powerful version of the spell, and roughly 500% if it does the normal spell.

The Magic Candy turns it into a more effective support spell: The Candy allows it to buff the team’s ATK stat by half of her own total CRIT% stat, and casting the more powerful version of her spell gives Cream Buff a Cream Buff, a stackable buff that boosts her spell’s damage while giving her 18% damage resist. Raising the candy to levels which are increments of 10 also allows the spell to boost her own CRIT% further, making her more easily follow up normal casts with successful casts.

S TIER – SPECIALIST

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Matcha Cookie
Fettuccine Cookie
Frilled Jellyfish Cookie
Peppermint Cookie
Black Lemonade Cookie
Parfait Cookie
Shining Glitter Cookie
Snapdragon Cookie
Royal Margarine Cookie
Kouign-Amann Cookie
Capsaicin Cookie
Space Doughnut
Licorice Cookie
BTS Cookies, All of Them!
Rye Cookie
Oyster Cookie
Latte Cookie
Pomegranate Cookie
Cocoa Cookie

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Cotton Cookie
Pinecone Cookie
Sorbet Shark Cookie
Black Raisin Cookie
Tea Knight Cookie
Strawberry Crepe Cookie
Pumpkin Pie Cookie
Herb Cookie
Almond Cookie
Poison Mushroom Cookie
Milk Cookie
Moon Rabbit Cookie
Twizzly Gummy Cookie
Affogato Cookie
Red Velvet Cookie
Lilac Cookie
Raspberry Cookie

S3
Olive Cookie
Dark Choco Cookie
Madeleine Cookie
Purple Yam Cookie
Mango Cookie
Mint Choco Cookie
Sonic Cookie
Kumiho Cookie
Pastry Cookie
Squid Ink Cookie
Macaron Cookie
Werewolf Cookie

If the Gourmet tier forms the core of your team, then the Specialist tier determines what specific tactic you are going for. Mixing these guys in with the core Gourmet tier cookies in such a way as to either defeat a certain enemy map composition or hostile PVP team is often key to victory.

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Matcha Cookie

MAGIC, MID, EPIC, Poison, AOE Damage, Debuff Counter, Debuff Amplifier

PVE Poison Enabler

Toppings: Searing Raspberries (Cooldown Substats to get past the 10-second Debuff Amplification timer)

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Matcha Cookie doesn’t take insults well, which translates to her occasionally going completely off the rails every time someone gives her a Debuff of any kind. She throws exploding, poisonously foul-tasting Tea Seeds that poison her targets amplifies debuffs for 10 seconds, and increases the duration of any Poison debuff they suffer for 15 seconds by 40%. She has a 10 percent probability of using her Matcha Malice attack, with 2% added for every debuff she suffers from.

Matcha Malice causes enemies to suffer a far more powerful Poison debuff (256.5 base Poison damage every 10th of a second as opposed to her usual  45.4% damage every second!) for 5 seconds, 10 seconds of Silence, 5 seconds of Shackle as if taping their mouths shut wasn’t enough, and 523.4% damage worth of getting exploded all over the place at the end.

She is generally useful in PVE to wipe crowds across the floor with other Poison attackers, but unlike most Poison users is a fairly risky choice against the Red Velvet Dragon: She might explode herself with Matcha Malice thanks to the Dragon’s counterattack!

Fettuccine Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, DEFENSE, Clutch Mechanic, Self-Healer, Debuffer, Earth Damage, Taunt, Cold Pasta Cookie

PVE Heavy Tank, Skill Spammer

Toppings: Solid Almonds (Cooldown substats), Swift Chocolates

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A rather complex front cookie and the third with a proper taunt, Fettuccine Cookie’s stale spaghetti programming provides both offense and defense from her pasta tape drives. Fettuccine Cookie’s skill involves an attack followed by a self-heal, a boost to Earth damage for her Golden Cheese Kingdom release-mates, a ton of defensive buffs for herself, and she releases an aura that heals teammates whenever 3 enemies caught in the said aura are crumbled.

Said aura also reduces enemy ATK by 15%. Her skill is also pretty spammy with a 12-second base cooldown, and powerful with its alarmingly high 600+% Earth ATK percentage, essentially screaming at Devsisters to give Red Velvet Cookie a much-needed buff. Even knocking her out isn’t enough to keep her down: When her HP is depleted, she gets back up, becomes immortal for 5 seconds, gets increased DMG RESIST the lower her HP gets, and releases a nastier aura that now also cuts enemy ATK SPD down by 20%, on top of the other things it does.

That being said, getting back up while your dough is in pieces has its drawbacks: Her own ATK SPD is cut down to 50%, and her own max HP is cut down to 30%. A useful defensive cookie for most PVE scenarios, but her reliance on a taunt rather than a team-wide defensive buff makes her a tad less useful in PVP, where everyone worth bringing has an AOE attack.

Frilled Jellyfish Cookie

EPIC, MID, SUPPORT, Water Damage, Severe ATK Speed Reduction, Shield Disable, Snare, Post-Crumble Healing, Frilled Jellyfish Cookie

PVE Damage Dealer, Disabler

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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A very odd support, Frilled Jellyfish Cookie throws a pile of debuffs at the enemy while dealing damage to them and powering up other Water-type attackers on your team. She can Ensnare 5 enemies for 2.6 seconds, and she deals damage over time while they’re tied up both from Zap and her roughly 300% DMG per half-second Sea Foam attack.

She also cuts down the enemy’s ATK speed by a whopping 99% for a not-so-whopping 0.7 seconds. While she is using her skill, she also digs into the ground, with her little impromptu hidey hole giving her 42.5% DMG Resist. If she’s downed, she dissipates into several little jellyfish that heal the team for 11.6% of her ATK stat every second until the battle ends.

Use her for her offensive ability, and not as a proper healer since not only is she pretty weak at healing, she also needs to go belly-up to heal!

Peppermint Cookie

SUPPORT, EPIC, REAR, Burst Heal, HP Shields, Debuff Resist Boost, AOE Attack, Water Damage, Listen To The Ocean’s Song

General Purpose Defensive Support, Light Attack

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocolates, Solid Almonds

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A decent all-around support, Peppermint Cookie is pretty simple compared to some of the cookies released before. Peppermint’s skill is a heal followed by an AOE wave attack followed by another heal that takes its power based on the damage dealt by the wave attack and an HP Shield.

It also provides 35% Debuff Resist and 14.5% DMG Resist. Peppermint’s stats are a bit lackluster as expected of most Support cookies, but Sea Fairy’s Crystal Jam can boost the little guy’s attack pretty heavily, and both were released at the same time.

Black Lemonade Cookie

EPIC, BOMBER, MID, Attacker, Debuffer, Damage over Time, Powerful Basic Attack, Thundering Lemony Fresh Riffs

PVP Anti-Tank, Shield Buster, Crit Reliant, Multi-Target Attacker

Toppings: Swift Chocolates with CRIT% Substats

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Black Lemonade’s skill is quite a mouthful to read out loud, but it comes down to this: Damage, damage, and more damage, and also electricity. She prioritizes the two enemy targets, Cookies first, with the highest HP to hit with an electrical guitar solo which can inflict Zap to get rid of shields.

The direct damage from the song consists of not just her ATK stat, but also a percentage of the target’s Max HP, making it hit harder against tougher foes. She can reduce DEF by 25% once, which is nothing compared to the kind of DEF reduction even older cookies like Dark Choco, Milky Way, and Captain Caviar can do but Black Lemonade does it with more damage backing it up.

She reduces enemy ATK by 13.5%. Her basic attacks are also powered up after she rocks out, dealing extra damage based on the enemy’s Max HP, which also chains up to 5 times vs other enemies. She also gets her attacks boosted whenever she crits twice or if a teammate’s Zap attack ticks on one of her listeners.

In short, she forces the enemy to do the funny zappy dance either to her music or by sticking her electric guitar’s lemon battery into their faces. While it isn’t necessary to give her Juicy Apple Jellies, she can do well with her release mate Rockstar Cookie, who can power up her crits and allow her to trigger the damage boost she gets from hitting crits twice.

Parfait Cookie

EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, Defense Buff, Debuff Resistance, Magic Candy, Shield Overheal, Debuff Immunity, Just Take Life One Scoop At A Time

General Purpose Healer, Debuff  Prevention, Shield Generator

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Parfait Cookie’s a support? She’s the one that needs emotional support with a storyline like that! Parfait Cookie is a relatively old cookie, with a fairly simple skill compared to a lot of newer cookies: She heals the team over time, giving a 10% DEF buff and a 50% boost to everyone’s Debuff Resist.

She also becomes uninterruptible while singing her skill out. Again, simple! At least until you take her new Magic Candy into account. This Magic Candy gives this skill a powerful boost: For herself and the allied Cookie with the strongest ATK, the Debuff Resist turns into straight-up Debuff Immunity, ensuring that nothing stops that Cookie’s skill from coming out short of getting crumbled by raw damage.

On top of this, any healing she does that goes past a Cookie’s max HP turns into Shields, maxing out at 18% of the target’s Max HP. 18% doesn’t sound like much, but it’s an 18% that will consistently keep popping out as soon as it depletes while her skill is active since she heals over time rather than in one big burst like Pure Vanilla does. The downside of her magic candy? Unlike most other Candies which are crafted with Jellybeans, Parfait’s is crafted with Milk, which is a ton harder to come by.

Shining Glitter Cookie

SUPER EPIC, MAGIC, MIDDLE, Support Attacker, Crit Reliant, Crit Stopper

PVE/PVP Shield Buster, AOE Damage Dealer, Defensive Buffer

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Shining Glitter Cookie’s rocking out from Ovenbreak to Kingdom with a song that deals both damage and provides general support. Once Shining Glitter starts singing, she clears any debuffs she’s under, gives the team a Crit DMG Resist buff of 17.5% for 10 seconds and herself 35% for the same duration, and hits the enemy with light but rapid damage.

Every time she crits, she Zaps the enemy, killing any HP Shields they might have and dealing more damage on top of whatever she’s tossing out. Killing Shields seems to be a strength she has since she can also swiftly deplete Hit Shields and Hit HP with her skill’s rapid damage.  She’s squishy enough to absolutely need Solid Almonds, at least later on, even with her CRIT%-focused skill.

Snapdragon Cookie

SUPPORT, REAR, DRAGON, Safeguarded, Healer, Dragon HP Booster, General Buffer, Healing Over Time, Good Luck Getting Through All These Buffs

PVE Wide-Range Buffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Snapdragon Cookie’s one of a few Safeguarded cookies, including BTS Cookies and Candy Diver Cookie. This means they are immune to all attacks, but will run away if the rest of the team is down, essentially meaning your team only has 4 out of 5 cookies worth of total HP. They release a very wide distribution of defensive buffs and one tiny offensive buff: Snapdragon Cookie can cut Stun durations by 65%, gives 35% Debuff Resist, an extra 15% DMG Resist, and a small 7% ATK Boost for 10 seconds, with a 7-second heal-over-time effect and a 13.5% HP Shield for 5 seconds, all with their skill unleveled.

They also boost the max HP of any DRAGON cookies on your team by 15%. The DMG Resist and the mixed Stun and Debuff Duration can be useful, though the ATK Boost might as well be an afterthought. Use them as a defensive support and a healer for PVE, since later missions enjoy piling debuffs on your team, not to mention many of the newer cookies rely on debuffs to do damage.

The only non-crossover character so far to be a SPECIAL tier cookie, this might mean they are only available temporarily, which paired with how hard they are to get and how tough they will be to Ascend may knock them down a peg.

Royal Margarine Cookie

EPIC, MID, AMBUSH, Poison, Debuff Amplifier, ATK Stat Target Priority, Wyverns Count As Dragons

PVE/PVP Poison Enabler, Offensive Support

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocolates

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Royal Margarine Cookie and his Buttercream Dragon make up an odd supportive Ambush unit that works well with the likes of other Poison units like Prune Juice Cookie. When firing off their skill, Royal Margarine jumps on his Buttercream Dragon, who then bombards the 3 highest ATK enemies on the screen.

The dragon follows up with a dive attack, dealing extra damage based on how many various damage-over-time effects the enemy is currently suffering. This maxes out at 350% damage with a level 1 skill, and getting that max is pretty easy if you time it with Prune Juice Cookies’ skill, which can dump a whopping 20+ stacks of poison on a target.

On top of this, Royal Margarine and Buttercream can amplify Debuffs by 25%. You might see them get paired with both Poison and Fire cookies in PVP and PVE since while Buttercream and Margarine use Poison damage themselves, there is nothing in their skill specifying that their teammates need Poison Damage too, only periodic damage effects.

Kouign-Amann Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, “DEFENSE”, Offensive Buffer, High Damage Front, The Biggest of All Swords In The Game

PVE/PVP ATK Speed Buffer, Attacker Front

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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The majestically fabulous Kouign-Amann Cookie is a frightfully effective front cookie, having Defense Cookie stats but a skill that lets her attacks hit as if she were a Charge Cookie and sometimes even out-damage certain attack Cookies depending on some fairly specific situations. Her skill powers up her own attacks along with anyone else on the team who deals Light-type damage, widening her swings and speeding everyone’s attacks up while making them resistant to ATK SPD debuffs.

Once her power-up ends, she drops her giant sword on the enemy, damaging them in a rather wide line. Generally an effective choice, but she has a lot of front slot competition from her almost-release mate Capsaicin Cookie for damage, and some older cookies like the now stun-capable and still highly defensive Hollyberry, the stun-spamming Wildberry, and the ever-reliable and far more defensively-oriented Financier Cookie for utility, though she fills a nice spot between Capsaicin and the pile of Defense Cookies mentioned.

While Kouign-Amann has beefy Defense Cookie stats, her skill lacks any serious defensive utility even when compared to some ostensibly offensive Charge Cookies like Milky Way or Purple Yam, so she needs Solid Almonds more than other Defense Cookies do.

Capsaicin Cookie

SUPER EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Buffer, Fire Damage, Counters Disablers, THE VOLCANIC HEAT OF SPICY PASSION

PVP Buffer, PVP Damage Over Time

Toppings: Solid Almonds, Swift Chocolates

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Capsaicin Cookie is a pretty tough Front attacker, transforming into a more powerful form when using his skill. He gains the ability to not just burn enemies with his attacks, but also make them vulnerable to other Cookies who use fire-based attacks like Mala Sauce and Chili Pepper Cookie. The fire vulnerability Magma debuff is quite powerful, increasing damage taken from Fire attacks by 20% up to 3 times for a total of 60%.

The skill’s final strike also deals an extra 2% damage for every stack of Magma on the target. He also becomes resistant to interrupting effects while transformed. In fact, resistance to interrupts is one of Capsaicin’s main schticks: If he gets stunned, netted, or generally becomes unable to move for any reason during a battle, he becomes Immortal, and cures himself of debuffs while making himself immune to immobilization.

Space Doughnut

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, AOE Disabler, Debuff Amplifier, Damage Dealer, Doughnut! But In Space!

PVE Swarm Buster, PVP Debuffer

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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The loveable, adorable, and highly edible alien Space Doughnut is one of the more offensively-oriented front units in the game and specializes in PVE against mook swarms. Space Doughnut can fire a beam that turns non-Cookie targets into little donuts, while also lowering their defense by 40%, dealing extra damage if their defense is already lowered, and amplifying any debuffs that hit them. If enough enemies get turned into donuts, Space Doughnut will roll over the enemy to stun and damage them.

As donuts, the enemies can’t do much, so Space Doughnut can effectively shut mook swarms down provided they aren’t in chapters 11, 12, and 14 where Cookie-type enemies abound. They also work very well against the Living Abyss guild boss, as their ability to mess up common mooks en masse allows the team to do grievous damage since attacking the little baby licorice goopers also hurts the Living Abyss itself.

As a mostly offensive Front cookie who lacks defensive self-buffs unlike say Schwarzwalder or Milky Way, Space Doughnut needs Solid Almonds a lot more than either of those two. Since Space Doughnut can’t turn Cookies into donuts, they’re markedly less effective in PVP, though they work well with their release mate Stardust Cookie and Moonlight Cookie since they can make the rather nasty Sleep debuff more effective.

Licorice Cookie

EPIC, Magic, Mid, Summoner, Defensive Buff, Poison, Self-Shielder, Has Magic Candy, Notice Me Dark Enchantress Cookie!

PVE Defensive Summoner, PVP Anti-Tank

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Licorice is doing his best to impress Dark Enchantress Cookie with his recent buff and new Magic Candy, which apparently turns him into… Well, he’s trying to do everything at once with his skill! He can buff DEF, put up a shield for himself, summon mooks, reduces healing and enemy DEF, and inflict silence and poison.

While his skill’s raw damage stats say PVE (His mooks deal an extra 15% damage to Cookies, but 150% extra damage to non-Cookies, both based on the enemy’s max HP), his mooks’ ability to repeatedly silence enemy Cookie tanks lets him find a spot in PVP to make life difficult for the likes of Financier Cookie and anyone they’re trying to protect.

On top of the DEF buff his skill already comes with, his Candy also gives him an HP shield, making him harder to snipe. Not to mention the main reason to bring Summoners is usually to prevent damage from reaching your Cookies while still dealing damage of your own. Even the way he’s upped his offensive game is in support of your team doing the real crumbling.

BTS Cookies, All of Them!

RM Cookie, SUGA Cookie, Jimin Cookie, Jin Cookie, j-hope Cookie, V Cookie, Jung Kook Cookie

SPECIAL, HEALER [listed as BTS], REAR, Safeguarded, Healing Over Time, Debuff-Counter, Stun Immunity, No Powders Needed, Permission To Dance… Through Stuns

PVE/PVP Total Stun Shutdown, Can be used even when underleveled

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Avoid Defensive Toppings Entirely

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Raise your ARMY Bombs, it’s BTS! The BTS Cookies’, ability and stat-wise, are all the same as each other. They are all healer cookies that provide a shield if the team suffers too many debuffs, are Safeguarded and therefore unkillable like Candy Diver Cookie, have utterly terrible (but not terrible enough as we’ll see later) 19-second base skill cooldowns, and provide stun immunity for 10 seconds.

The mix of 10-second stun immunity and Safeguarding are of particular note: A max-level Jelly Watch treasure and full Swift Chocolate topping build give them a 10-second skill cooldown, allowing them to refresh the team’s Stun immunity immediately. With Safeguarding, this stun-proofing becomes nigh impossible to disrupt.

This makes them extremely good for the entirety of Chapters 11-12, where stun-spamming Cutpurses abound, and makes them a viable option against the Red Velvet Dragon since its stuns will now be unable to mess up your attacks. This also makes them strong against stun-heavy PVP teams, like Gingerscam comps, Wildberry Cookie, older teams still using Sea Fairy, newer teams using candied Espressos (though note that Espresso deals more damage vs stun immune enemies) and they counter Schwarzwalder, their skull-bashing stun-barraging release mate.

They can still be countered by non-stun disablers like Frost Queen, Clotted Cream, and Kumiho Cookie, along with the Mountain Ents in Chapter 13 and Ginkgoblin Hunters from Chapter 3, so keep an eye out for them. The fact that they work well even when not maxed out is a good thing especially for them though: You’ve only got 3 months to send at least one of them to max star level and ascensions, before the BTS Braver Together event ends!

Rye Cookie

EPIC, REAR, RANGE, Single Target DPS, Prioritizes Low Max HP Targets, Has Magic Candy, Big Wholegrain On Her Hip

PVP/PVE Single Target Attack, ATK SPD Buffer

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Rye Cookie, one of the old release cookies, hasn’t been in the meta for a while now, being a victim of power creep accumulated over time. Rye’s skill has her barrage an enemy (prioritizing Cookie enemies) with bullets, and this update gave that base ability a buff: She is now resistant to interrupts while firing her bullet barrage. Her Magic Candy also mitigates that power creep partly, giving her a superior normal attack that can inflict the Burn debuff at a 50% chance.

It’s when her Candy hits level 10 when things get extra spicy for her, as it also allows her to buff the entire team’s ATK SPD by 20%, then 22.5% at level 20, then 25% at level 30. Pair this with her base skill targeting squishy cookies with low max HP first for a barrage of bullets allows her to double as a damage dealer and support. She might go well with a Speed Comp.

Oyster Cookie

SUPER EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, Strong Summons, Slow Cooldown, Requires Heavy Investment in Topping Substats

PVP Heavy Summoner, Newbie-Unfriendly

Recommended Toppings: Swift Chocolates+Solid Almonds mix

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Oyster Cookie is a weird summoner seemingly built to take advantage of the first PVP casting barrage, and one that is most definitely not friendly to new players. Her cooldown is an abysmal 17 seconds, and worst of all, it cannot be boosted by any cooldown buffs such as the Jelly Clock or Swift Chocolates. Sounds bad, but it is still useful to give her Cooldown toppings: Every 18% cooldown boost she gets lets her summon one more Creme Republic soldier, one of the more powerful summoned units in the game since they come with a knockback-resisting HP shield and hit hard, to a max of 4.

On top of this, cooldown boosts also add to the individual soldiers’ stats, making their weapons more deadly and their dough tougher. Here comes the “not friendly to new players” part: Getting enough cooldown to get 4 soldiers is incredibly difficult even with a maxed-out Jelly Watch, so she’ll be underwhelming in the hands of a new player, who can probably only muster about 2 soldiers or so at such a state.

A more realistic goal even for veteran players is to simply use the Jelly Watch treasure and then give her only enough Swift Chocolate toppings to summon 3 soldiers tops. The rest of her toppings? Solid Almonds so she can live longer, perhaps long enough to summon another squad. Her sheer newbie-torturing cooldown greed bumps Oyster Cookie down a tier, though if you’ve been playing a while, you’ve got a far better chance of using her, and she is genuinely strong.

As for counters against her, Dark Cacao Cookie and Twizzly Gummy Cookie can immediately disable Creme Republic soldier shields, and since they count as Cookies, Sorbet Shark and their own Consul Clotted Cream Cookie can deal extra damage against them. To be fair though, you’d probably prefer your Sorbet Shark and Clotted Cream to hit the actual enemy team instead.

As usual with any summoner, they do well in a summoner team with Cotton and Pumpkin Pie, though in a modern summon team she’ll likely play second fiddle to Crunchy Chip Cookie. Nothing wrong with putting both of them on the same team!

Latte Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, AOE Attacker, Debuffer, Poison Enabler, Smooth and Sweet

PVP AOE Skill Delay

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Searing Raspberries

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Latte Cookie’s new Magic Candy is a bit weird, almost as if it was made specifically with Prune Juice Cookie in mind. Latte Cookie is a fairly standard area attacker similar to the likes of Espresso Cookie. They drop a Latte glyph on the enemy’s feet, dealing damage over time to anyone standing on it while silencing them to delay their skill cooldowns. It deals more damage the closer the target is to its center.

The Magic Candy is where things get odd: It makes enemies more susceptible to debuffs, and the first hit the enemy takes after the debuff is applied also deals extra damage. On top of this, any Poisoned enemies hit by this also get an extra Reduced Healing debuff. Allies also get extra Debuff Resist for themselves.

Not enough to bump her up a tier since you’ll likely use Prune Juice Cookie to defend a much stronger attacker than Latte (Say, Espresso, or Moonlight) with their beefy summon, or against foes where Latte might severely injure herself through enemy reflects, which kinda renders Latte’s Poison buffing a bit moot a lot of the time. That being said, she’s already fairly high up anyway.

Pomegranate Cookie

EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, AOE Heal-over-time, Team Buffer, Shroomy’s Babysitter

PVP ATK Buffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates to maintain ATK Buff

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Pomegranate Cookie isn’t a particularly good healer. For one thing, she’s one of the older Supports, so instead of healing other cookies in her idle time, she wastes time attacking the enemy with her fairly poor ATK stat. Her actual skill doesn’t heal all that much either.

Nobody uses her for her healing though. The devs, rather than buffing her to be more in line with the newer supports with their stronger healing and direct attack abilities, decided to double down on Pomegranate’s old strength: They buffed her ATK boost from 20% to 30%. A big enough buff for her to claw her way back up to the Specialist tier.

Sadly, she still can’t quite get her old Queen of Supports crown off Eclair’s head, who won’t let go of such a precious historical relic any time soon. She’s practically an extra Old Pilgrim’s Scroll if she can maintain that buff consistently, so top her with some Swift Chocos and pair her with a good nuker, Caramel Arrow, or Eclair. Better yet, group her with all three!

Cocoa Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, “DEFENSE”, Healer, Multi-Heal Basic Attack, AOE Attack, Team Heal, Team Stun Immunity, CHOCOLATE? CHOCLATE! CHOCOLAAAAAATE!

PVP Anti-Sea Fairy, PVP/PVE Anti-Stun Healing, Useful in Chapter 11 and Chapter 12

Toppings: Swift Chocolates for PVP vs Sea Fairy, Solid Almonds or Swift Chocolates for PVE

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The game says she’s a Defense cookie, but the best analogy for Cocoa Cookie is a chocolate-fueled marshmallow-armored ambulance. Her skill heals the entire team for roughly 50% of her ATK (depending on skill level) while dealing damage to the enemy and pushing them back. Her basic attack also heals 3 cookies at once but does no damage. Compare this to actually dedicated healers, who tend to have more powerful healing skills but whose basic “attacks” only heal one target at a time.

On top of this, she has the bulky stats of a Defense cookie, so she’ll be able to take AOE strikes more readily than true healers. Not to mention staying in front means Vampire Cookie, Red Velvet, and Adventurer Cookie can’t immediately snipe her out of the fight, as they do with most true healers who hang out back. Of course, being in front means she takes the brunt of the enemy’s basic attacks, so it’s a tradeoff. Finally, activating their skill gives the team 8 solid seconds of Stun immunity. You read that right: Immunity, not resistance!

A Swift Choco-boosted Cocoa is Sea Fairy’s bane, though Frost Queen Cookie can still dunk her into a snowy grave, and Kumiho Cookie can still flirt with her, especially if you don’t pair her with Parfait Cookie. If you’re not planning to use them solely to humiliate Sea Fairy and GingerBrave-Almond-Stun teams, Almonds (The topping, not the Cookie!) are also a good choice. While you will never use her as a lone dedicated healer, pairing her with a real healer, one of the newer supports like Cotton and Parfait, or even both a healer and support will give your team a completely deranged amount of general healing-based bulkiness.

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Cotton Cookie

EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, Summoner, Summon ATK Buffer, Heal Over Time, Area Stun, Not Cotton Candy

Found on most top PVP or stun-heavy comps, PVP/PVE Summoner/Healer/Stun

Toppings: Swift Chocolates for stun and Sheep spam

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Now, this is how you bake an aggressive healer. The warm-hearted yet inedible Cotton Cookie has more in common with Licorice Cookie than other Supports, considering her skill is an AOE stun attack that summons a mob of adorable sheep to act as cannon fodder. But this time, it comes with a heal-over-time.

While her healing takes a while just like with most Support Cookies, her sheep protect the front and make sure your cookies get the most out of it safely. On top of this, they buff other Summons’ attack power by 75%, making them pair with Licorice, Snow Sugar, and Pumpkin Pie very well. As with any summoner, give her Swift Chocos so she can keep the sheep marching forward and her healing running constantly.

Pinecone Cookie

EPIC, BOMBER, FRONT, Stun Barrager, AOE Attacker, Off-Tank, Pancake No They Are Not An Acorn Stay Away

PVP Sherbet Partner Stun Spammer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Searing Raspberries, Solid Almonds

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One of the most irritating cookies you’ll ever face in PVP. Pinecone Cookie summons a Tree Golem to ride on, then starts tossing exploding pinecones all over the enemy’s face. This is already a pain in the butt to deal with on its own, but if you pair them with Sherbet or Frost Queen, the bombs gain the ability to stun for 0.3 seconds when hitting Frosted targets.

That doesn’t sound like much, but Pinecone’s throwing those bombs as a basic attack while the Tree Golem is out, and the stuns will happily interrupt any skills trying to get out as if you were dealing with Cutpurses from Chapters 11 and 12 in Story Mode.

Oh, and Pinecone prioritizes your high ATK cookies as targets. If you’re fighting this guy, bringing a BTS Cookie is darn near mandatory to deal with their constant stun spam! Think of them as the Summoner comp equivalent of Schwarzwalder, but with nastier DPS and the ability to specifically target enemy attack Cookies.

His new Magic Candy allows him to be markedly tougher while riding the Tree Golem, getting a 15% DMG resist and 20% DEF buff,  along with 35% resistance to ATK SPD Debuffs and a 30% HP Shield. Now this doesn’t sound like much, because at this rate it isn’t, though at level 10 the real bonus comes out: a big fat 40% ATK SPD boost, maxing out at 50% at Candy level 30. Still not enough to get him up a tier, but you’ll fell it when it’s used on you.

Sorbet Shark Cookie

EPIC, MID, AMBUSH, Anti-Tank, OOOoooOOOOoooOO

PVP-Anti-Front Attack, PVE Strong vs Cookie Enemies

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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An adorably tiny deck-swabbing shark who can only make bubble noises and rip tanks open with their cute little jaws. Sorbet Shark Cookie’s skill comes in two hits: The first hit deals normal damage to the two enemies closest to the front. The second blow hits with a linear AOE, causing either normal damage to normal foes, or true damage to Cookies. This true damage is a percentage based on the victim’s max HP, though it cannot exceed 300000 damage in one hit.

This means they’re useful for removing an enemy’s front line and leaving the enemy’s mid exposed, since the more HP the target has, the more damage the skill deals, and it only gets nastier the more Ambush powder you feed them. When paired with Red Velvet, they can also delete Healers with jaw-dropping efficiency, as Healer cookies often have fairly high HP numbers and Red Velvet pulls them to the front where they’ll take the brunt of the damage.

They’re another PVP hazard much like Sea Fairy, though if you’re using them in PVE, you better make sure to turn off Auto and wait until you see the whites of the enemy’s eyes before popping their attack off. Add to that their Ambush Cookie stat line (Ambushers often have really high ATK) and they’re one of the worst tiny terrors you’ll find in the Arena. Licorice Cookie may be used to blunt their front-targeting attacks, but even then it’s a gamble. As usual, give ’em a set of Raspberries for sharper teeth.

Black Raisin Cookie

EPIC, MID, AMBUSH, Attacker, AOE Attack, Multihit Attack, You Get A Free Bird YEAH

PVE Attacker, Hit Shield Buster

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocolates

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Black Raisin Cookie is incredibly old, as she came out with the first Ancient released, Pure Vanilla Cookie. She hasn’t been high in the meta for a while now, though when she was released she was a real terror when paired with Almond Cookie.

Her skill is simple: She hits in an area, focused on the enemy midline, several times. Now, she has a Magic Candy, and this makes her skill fit better with the last batch of cookies released, that bunch of crit rockers that came out with Rockstar Cookie: With her magic candy, not only does her skill hit more often, it also triggers more powerful blows should it crit.

She can also make debuffs nastier for her targets, and once her candy is past level 10, she gets a similar effect to Eclair Cookie’s skill, increasing the damage taken by enemies she hits. Still not enough to put her back in PVP since Moonlight and Stardust Cookie have the attacker slots locked down hard at the moment, but it should make her more useful in PVE.

Tea Knight Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Light Tank, Revenge Mechanic, Buffer,  Insignia Of The Indomitable Knights Treasure Mandatory, Magic Candy, Heal-On-Kill, Local Old Man Too Angry To Die

PVP Revenge Attack, Anti-Stun Spam, Anti-Cheese, Super Mayhem Specialized, PVE Last Resort Mission De-clogger, Cookie Alliance Force Multiplier

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Tea Knight Cookie is one of the weirdest, hardest-to-use cookies in the game, but not necessarily weaker for it. Tea Knight’s skill has a very high damage percentage and hits a single target while buffing the Crit of 2 of your crit-reliant cookies, and the ATK of 2 of your ATK-reliant cookies by a small amount. He has a higher-than-normal ATK stat for a Charge cookie, so this does a surprising amount of damage.

His basic attack has an AOE, and ties in very well with his mechanic: Every time a cookie on your team dies, he gets a huge buff to his ATK and ATK SPD, about 50% and 20% for each stat respectively. This stacks up to four times, and the fourth stack gives 100% extra ATK and 150% ATK SPD, for a total of 250% and 210% respectively.

On top of this, he becomes immune to all interrupts on the 4th stack, and neither a basic stun, Frost Queen’s refrigerator, or even one of Kumiho’s air-kisses will stop his vengeance-fueled, manly-tears-inducing berserker rampage. Naturally, if you plan to use Tea Knight in normal PVE, it’s because you’re stuck on a level and don’t mind getting only 1 star just to roll past it with his death-powered buffs. He’s much more useful in modes like PVP and especially the Super Mayhem (whenever THAT returns, it’s gone at the moment of this writing) and Cookie Alliance modes, where casualties are sky-high and you may be expected to roll in with a weaker team.

He requires a lot of investment though. The Insignia of The Indomitable Knights treasure, which renders the last cookie alive invincible for 6 seconds after hitting 0 HP, is practically mandatory for teams relying on him, and he might suffer early on without it. Once he has that treasure though, you can put him in a team full of Commons, and he’ll absolutely rip the other team to pieces for bullying his babies. As usual with most Front cookies, give him Solid Almonds so he survives long enough to get very, very angry. Poor Tea Knight will feel miserable for failing to protect his friends, but you’ll laugh over the enemy’s crumbled cookie corpses.

His new Magic Candy allows him to deal True Damage based on his target’s HP every time one of his teammates dies, and allows him to heal himself upon crumbling a target. Not enough to raise him up a tier, but certainly enough to make one more wary of fighting him.

Strawberry Crepe Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, DEFENSE, AOE Knockback, Mid-Buffer, Adorable Lil’ Psycho

PVP Tank, Weaker in PVE except vs Mid-Targeting Enemies

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Strawberry Crepe Cookie has a very protective and friendly skill considering their rather cheerfully cold-hearted personality. Their ability involves slamming a pair of giant robotic waffle fists into the enemy, dealing AOE knockback, and giving a chunky 50% defense buff to the two squishiest cookies in your team. This usually means they buff your midline damage dealers, such as Espresso and Latte. This makes Strawberry Crepe Cookie a very strong option in PVP since Espresso usually needs protection the most.

They’re down here instead of up in Gourmet since Dark Choco is useful in both PVP and PVE,  while Strawberry Crepe is rather bleh in PVE unless you’re in a map full of AOE spamming enemies (Bring Strawberry Crepe to World 9 if you have them though: Lots of angry ice cream cone cannons that shoot your midline Cookies full of holes there) who ignore your front cookies.

Pumpkin Pie Cookie

EPIC, MIDDLE, MAGIC, Summoner, AOE Damage, Summon Buff, Anti-Heal, Cheese Pie Cookie

PVP Summon Tank (Found on ost top PVP teams), PVE Distraction vs Raspberry Cookie Boss

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you took Snow Sugar’s tanky Ice King summon and gave it the kind of bravery Licorice’s mooks have? Sprinkle some extra pain on that formula and here’s your answer! Pumpkin Pie’s summon, Giant Pompon, is an oversized pumpkin-bunny-doll monstrosity with a 3-target basic attack, and decent tank stats (They get roughly 3 times the HP of Pumpkin Pie Cookie, but Pumpkin Pie being a Magic cookie means that’s 3 times something squishy) and the heart to go in front and take hits.

And instead of a rather weedy ATK SPD debuff, they deal out a painful 70% reduction to healing for 3 seconds, for every blow they deal out. Pompon also increases ATK SPD for all of your other summons in the field. This makes Pumpkin Pie pair well with Licorice and his mooks, though she doesn’t need Licorice to cause an aneurysm.

Take note that she’s strongest in PVP: She loses quite a bit of her utility in PVE since NPC enemies rarely have healers, so it’s a choice between Licorice and his 20% DEF buff or Pompon’s attack power and bulk… Or you can get them both. Give her Swift Chocos to make Pumpkin Pie summon Pompon faster since she has a painful 18-second cooldown.  

Just keep in mind that if you plan to use Pompon as bait against Raspberry Cookie’s boss fight, that got patched out. The Raspberry Cookie boss prioritizes cookies over summoned mooks.

Herb Cookie

EPIC, REAR, HEALER, AOE Healer and Debuff Cleaner, Hoo Hoo Boy

PVP/PVE Healer/Anti-Debuff

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Herb Cookie is the definition of boring yet practical. He’s a healer, he heals the party. No ifs, or buts. He doesn’t waste time attacking the enemy like another certain cookie in the bottom tier with a similar skill as him. His skill is instant AOE healing followed by area heal over time and debuff cleaning.

It scales with his ATK, so it may seem lackluster until you start feeding him Searing Raspberries, then suddenly it outclasses Custard Cookie III’s picky healing. Easy to understand, easy to use, and highly effective. Just watch out for PVP teams with Vampire Cookie in them. If you don’t have Pure Vanilla, Herb will do the job just fine. While Pure Vanilla is definitely better in PVE, they’re both good in PVP because your team doesn’t move away from Herb’s healing zone.

Almond Cookie

EPIC, SUPPORT, REAR, Damage Distribution

PVP Extreme-Damage Quick-Dying Comp Enabler (With Sea Fairy, Gingerbrave, many Stun Cookies, great for normal Arena but poor for Super Mayhem unless it only has one team left to fight)

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Finally, an offensive Support Cookie who isn’t hampered by their miserable ATK stat! Detective Almond Cookie has a rather unique skill. He’ll throw out magical almond handcuffs which tie several foes to a single enemy who happens to have the lowest max HP in the group. If the single enemy everyone is tied to takes hits, a substantial portion  (70% at skill level 1!) of the damage they took gets spread to everyone else who is chained. It makes sense that he pairs well with Rye since they are both law enforcers.

Almond shackles a target, then Rye fills them (and everyone else because of the damage distribution mechanic) with wholegrain caliber bullets. You could also try pairing him with Vampire Cookie or Adventurer Cookie if you’re really good (or extremely lucky) at timing and directing knockback. You could send the handcuff center target to the back of the line and nuke a good chunk of the enemy formation.

We moved Almond up a tier thanks to the addition of many options that work well with his skill, such as Black Raisin, Sea Fairy, and Eclair, who all have a tendency to hit the enemy’s midline, which is Almond’s usual target.

Poison Mushroom Cookie

EPIC, MID, BOMBER, AOE Poison Damage, Heal-Reduction Debuff, Bonus Damage vs Monsters and Bosses, Eat The Shroomy

PVE AOE Anti-Monster, Anti-Boss, Heal-Reduction

Toppings: Searing Raspberries or Swift Chocolates

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Little Shroomy here was recently reworked from a general-purpose poisoner to a PVE- specialized cookie. Not only have their general overall stats been slightly buffed, their skill now does an extra 80% damage vs monster-type enemies (ie, anything that isn’t a cookie, so they might have a few problems in chapters 11-12 where most of the enemies are NPC cookies) and a whopping extra 120% damage against bosses, making them likely to make a comeback against the Guild Boss. They also have a bigger AOE than they used to, meaning they’re your go-to for killing swarms of mooks.

As for PVP, well, you’ll probably just bring them along if you don’t have any other AOE damage dealers around, or as a heal-denier, since their poison now weakens enemy healing by 15%. Note that this is all on top of their initial 127% (when at skill level 1) damage and their 25% poison damage per second for 10 seconds.

Milk Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, DEFENSE, Taunter, Heavy Tank, Has Magic Candy, Discord Server Child Friendly Language Enforcer

PVP/PVE Tank

Toppings: Solid Almonds in general, or Swift Chocolates with DMG Resist substats if paired with Cream Unicorn Cookie

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Milk Cookie was one of the first meta cookies at the start of the game thanks to their toughness and Taunt ability, but he got left in the dust faster than the others in his group once new cookies started being introduced.

His Magic Candy doubles down on his ability to survive: He now heals back 30+% of whatever damage he took while his skill was active, and clears out any debuffs he may have suffered after his taunt duration ends. This allows Milk to distract dangerous snipers like the recently candied Vampire and Rye cookies, and pairs him well with Tea Knight, whose entire schtick is murdering the enemy team after dying last.

This used to be harder than it looks since Tea Knight’s front positioning and less-than-impressive defensive stats (for a Front Cookie anyway) usually got him killed first unless paired with weak cookies, but Milk lets Tea Knight bring a stronger group with him.

With a Magic Candy at level 10, his basic attacks start to hit harder, and on top of that extra damage, his basic attack starts dealing 1% true damage vs Cookies, bypassing all defenses. This can rack up faster than expected when paired with a candied Rye Cookie, whose Magic Candy can boost attack speed. All this is on top of his old DMG Resist buff on cast, and another buff to Taunts in general: They can no longer be dispelled!

Moon Rabbit Cookie

DEFENSE, FRONT, Heal On Kill, AOE Damage, GIMME YOUW WICE CAKEF

PVP Heal and Win Secure (Occasionally found in top PVP teams), PVE Strong in Chapter 11-12

Toppings: Solid Almonds or Swift Chocolates

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An adorably fat cookie with a thing for rice cakes, Moon Rabbit Cookie’s skill transforms her into an equally adorable yet unfathomably fatter rabbit, who slams into the enemy. This attack deals AOE damage and marks targets. Targets marked by Moon Rabbit’s skill heal the party when killed within 10 seconds, and the heal is 10 times stronger when a cookie is marked as opposed to normal PVE enemies. It might be better to bring a dedicated healer in most PVE situations.

That being said, she’s an excellent way to snowball in PVP when used as a secondary healer. Her presence means your HP tops up when you get a kill, practically kicking the enemy while they’re down. If she pops her skill then Vampire murders the enemy healer within the 10-second timer, you just made it impossible for the enemy to recover, even if your own team was badly dinged up by the enemy’s efforts beforehand. Her heal on a cookie kill is worth 253% of her ATK stat, more than twice that of even Pure Vanilla, though with extra steps needed.

She’s also hilariously busted in Chapter 12, where you have a lot of non-playable NPC cookies as enemies. Yes, the devs remembered that little detail, as the cookie kill heal counts toward unplayable cookie NPC foes like those jerkwad assassins and meddlers in Chapter 12.

Twizzly Gummy Cookie

EPIC, REAR, RANGED, Shield-Destroyer, AOE Damage, Debuffer, Rapid Fire, Crit Focus, Walking Electrical Hazard

PVP Crit Comp Core (with Mala Sauce and Sparkling Cookie), PVP/PVE Crit-based Damage Dealer

Toppings: Juicy Apple Jellies

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The electrically psychotic Twizzly Gummy Cookie is a counter to Pure Vanilla, as her Twizzly Beam can temporarily disrupt shields. This makes her very dangerous to such teams, and even if the enemy team lacks Pure Vanilla, she can still do heavy damage if you run a Crit build (Use Juice Apple Jelly toppings) rather than the typical ATK build.

She could work well with Vampire Cookie for Pure Vanilla-busting. Pray for their cooldowns to line up, with Twizzly zapping Vanilla’s shield off followed by Vampire giving him a big ol’ bite to the head. She also increases her own critical hit damage when doing this, so Mala Sauce might help her well with that since Mala significantly improves Crit Chance with their skill.

On top of all this, her auto-attack fires 4 shot bursts, again working well with anything that gives her a better crit chance, though it generally has fairly poor total damage if it fails to crit. That being said, Herb Cookie can clean out her Zap debuff, and Parfait Cookie can prevent it entirely with a sprinkle of luck. Pair her with Sparkling Cookie or Mala Sauce Cookie to make the most of her skill, as she does little damage when she doesn’t crit.

Affogato Cookie

EPIC, BOMBER, MID, Debuff Amplifier, AOE Poison, Heavy Single Target Poison, Single Target Buff-Dispel, ATK-based Target Priority, Royal Ice-Cream Headache

PVP Sniper-Enabler, PVE Anti-Gunline, Anti-Boss, Debuff Enabler, Damage Reflection Avoidance

Toppings: Swift Chocos to maintain debuff amplifier, Searing Raspberries for better poison damage

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Licorice’s cowardice without his loyalty, Pomegrenate’s silver-tongued evil, and Poison Mushroom’s… Poison, but better, at least compared to Shroomy’s initial iteration. The back-stabbing buttkisser Affogato Cookie is a very good companion to the likes of Eclair and Frost Queen, or anyone else reliant on debuffs. In PVP or PVE, Affogato and Eclair together enable each other.

Affogato’s ability heavily amplifies debuffs (By 30%!) taken by a single high-ATK target (Usually a boss or enemy rear liner in PVE, or the enemy main damage dealer in PVP), which means Eclair can completely ruin them with his own debuff and attack while increasing Affogato’s poison effectiveness.

On top of this, any enemy too close to the one Affogato put a curse on suffers poison damage. Much like Frost Queen, his poison hits for one final blow once it is dispelled. Affogato Cookie also prevents his main target from getting any buffs for 10 seconds, so Pure Vanilla can’t shield them from the incoming attack either! Just watch out for enemy teams with Herb Cookie in them. 

Ironically, Affogato suffers in the chapter he released with, Chapter 13 Snow On The Black Wall, since all the enemies there have a 40% debuff resist aura. Though his debuff amplification ability can partially negate this for himself and other debuff users in your team, at least against important targets, so bring him if you have no choice but to use debuff spammers there.

Affogato also finds use against enemies that reflect damage like the Cursed Shields in Chapter 14 or the Red Velvet Dragon: Poison doesn’t count as a reflectable attack, so Affogato can avoid getting absolutely annihilated by their own attack, unlike say Espresso who nukes himself against such foes.

Red Velvet Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Rear-Target Pull and Burst, Heavy Stun, Light/Medium Tank, Cake Hound Baker Supreme

PVP Anti-Healer, PVE Anti-Spellcaster, Weak vs Large Mobs

Toppings: Solid Almonds for DMG Resist, Searing Raspberries for Damage, or Swift Chocolates to mitigate long Cooldown

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Red Velvet Cookie, gameplay-wise, is either Vampire Cookie’s best friend or worst enemy depending on how you use them, and whether or not they’re teammates or opponents. They do a similar job, killing a single target from the enemy’s rear. Whereas Vampire Cookie usually kills them outright, Red Velvet Cookie yoinks the victim out front while stunning them for an agonizing 5 seconds, making them much more vulnerable. Their whopping 800%+ skill damage modifier mixed with their Front cookie statline allows them to do double duty as a tank and single target marksman.

Charge cookies tend to have higher ATK than Supports (though not as high as Magic cookies), so they don’t suffer as badly as the likes of Onion. A good combo is either Vamp and Red, or Red and Pastry. Vamp can hit the healer first while Red Velvet deals the finishing blow, or Red Velvet can yank someone important into Pastry Cookie’s crossbow.

Red Velvet shines in achievement-hunting team comps, especially missions which require you to only use 3 cookies at a time since they fill two roles in one cookie. You can give Red Velvet some Almonds or Walnuts to make them tougher, or Raspberries to make the most out of their skill, which hits much harder than what most Front cookies have.

Lilac Cookie

EPIC, MID, SUPPORT, Normal Attack Buff, Yogurt’s Minder

PVP/PVE ATK Speed Comp Enabler

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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The flower-scented Lilac Cookie is a weird one. Their skill buffs the team’s normal attack damage based on whatever attack speed buffs they get from outside sources, with a .4% increase in normal attack damage for every 1% of extra attack speed. This makes their skill generally useless unless you have an extremely specific team setup. You’ll need Mint Choco Cookie and the Librarian’s Enchanted Robes treasure to make anything out of Lilac’s skill.

They also pair very well with Pastry Cookie’s self-buff skill but poorly with most other damage cookies, who rely on directly damaging skills to do the majority of their damage. It doesn’t help that the actual damaging part of their skill is hampered by their Support statline and lackluster percentage modifier.

If you’ve got all that, then great! If you don’t have any of them though, Lilac will have to stay in town, especially since Pomegranate Cookie exists and does the same job for a much wider variety of setups.

Raspberry Cookie

FRONT, EPIC, CHARGER, Single Target DPS, ATK-Based Targeting, Glory To House Raspberry!

PVP Anti-Damage Dealer, PVE ATK-dampener, Sniper and Bait

Toppings: Searing Raspberries or Swift Chocos for DPS, or Solid Almonds for tanking, Almond plus one type of offensive topping mix viable, Searing Raspberries for PVE bait duty

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Not to be confused with Ovenbreak’s Raspberry Mousse Cookie, Raspberry Cookie was released along with Hollyberry. Let’s get one thing straight: Raspberry makes a very poor tank. She has the bulky statline of a front cookie, but you’ll be using her similarly to Vampire Cookie or Red Velvet: To snipe targets you really hate. Raspberry excels in PVP since her targeting priority is based on ATK. She bullies whoever has the highest ATK stat on the enemy team, usually someone like the dreaded Sea Fairy Cookie or their rear sniper like Vampire.

She’ll rarely target herself in mirror matches since she has a Front cookie statline. Deleting your enemy’s primary damage dealer early might as well be a guaranteed victory, perhaps even more so than deleting their healer early. On the other hand, she’s not the best for PVE unless it’s a boss fight. In PVE, Vampire and Red Velvet are easier to predict and use, though Raspberry will still rip bosses in half as they do. Bring her for guild raids and PVP, and feed her some Searing Raspberries for maximum laughs. The only reason she isn’t Gourmet tier is her unpredictable aim and weakness to massive crowds in general PVE.

As a note, she can be useful as a tank specifically in chapter 13 and in her own boss fight due to a quirk with her stats: Raspberry Cookie’s ATK stat is high enough that with a full Searing Raspberry topping build, she can beat the ATK stats of certain damage dealer cookies (In particular, Sorbet Shark, Eclair and Affogato) provided those attack cookies are running Swift Chocolate builds instead, and are around an equal level and stars.

This makes her draw aggro from dangerous enemies who target whoever has the highest ATK on your team, like Chapter 13’s Mountain Ents, or herself in her boss battle. Paired with her Charge Cookie HP and DEF stats, she can keep your damage dealers alive long enough to do their jobs, provided she has a good healer or two looking out for her. Even though her tanking ability is below that of other Front cookies, it’s certainly better than what those squishy nerds she’s protecting have, and having your damage dealer die first is usually a loss waiting to happen.

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Olive Cookie

EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, Attacker, Fire/Earth Attack, Debuffer, Probably Eclair’s Cousin

PVE General Offensive Support

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Olive Cookie is another oddly simple new release along with Mozzarella Cookie. Her skill has a chance to either pull out an Earth element attack, a non-elemental attack with multiple hits and the shield-killing Zap debuff, or a Fire element attack with damage over time and cause the enemy to take an extra 45.5% damage from your team’s attacks and get stunned for 2 seconds at a 50% chance.

As a side note, her basic olive grenade attack has AOE, more like a Bomber cookie than a Support cookie. This allows her to be useable for multiple offensive support tasks, but many cookies can do each of those tasks better.

Schwarzwalder is the king of stun spammers, Black Lemonade Cookie is the safest HP shield-killer, Eclair Cookie not only increases damage enemies take but inflicts a lot of it too, and if you want something set on fire, Pitaya, Capsaicin, and Tarte Tatin Cookie can’t be topped. This is because it’s entirely possible to get the wrong set of bats for a wave, like say getting fire bats for a shielded enemy.

Dark Choco Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, AOE Debuffer, Medium Tank, A Dark Shower Curtain Of Death

PVE Triple Stack Debuff Hits vs Very Large Bosses and Guild Boss

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Cool black armor, amazing silky hair, and an imposing figure aren’t Dark Choco Cookie’s only good points. While his damage potential is nothing impressive on its own, that 20% DEF Down debuff his skill inflicts to a whole crowd is serious stuff. He often finds use in PVE.

Give him some Solid Almonds or Hard Walnuts to keep him tough. Further research done by the lovely players in the Cookie Run Discord server has determined that his skill can hit very large targets three times, stacking the DEF Down debuff on the unfortunate victim thrice.

This means that despite being an AOE cookie, they’re still a very good choice for certain boss fights. Unfortunately his role as a boss-softening DEF wrecker’s been usurped by the likes of Milky Way and Captain Caviar Cookie, who can deal similar DEF reduction percentages without needing a large target.

Madeleine Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, “DEFENSE”, AOE Attacker. ATK SPD Reliant, Magic Candy, Cape Physics Manipulation Professional

PVE/PVP AOE Attacker

Toppings: Solid Almonds, Searing Raspberries

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Madeleine Cookie’s spent his history hopping in and out of the meta, with his effectiveness usually hinging on the usefulness of an ATK SPD-based team at any moment. His skill is still the same: He hops to mid like a coward and starts slashing at the air, throwing sword waves in a wide area and cleaning himself of debuffs and making himself immune to them for a while.

This on its own isn’t much, but it pairs well with ATK SPD boosts and can become alarmingly lethal if he starts swinging rapidly enough. He came with two buffs in this update: The existence of Kouign-Amann Cookie, who buffs both ATK SPD and Light Damage which Madeleine can now do, and Madeleine’s new, fancy Magic Candy.

This Magic Candy lets Madeleine not only deal Light Damage but also throw an attack that deals True Damage based on 3% of his chunky max HP instead of his relatively miserable Defense Cookie ATK stat on top of all the sword swings. Now might be a good time to use him again, especially with Kouign-Amann Cookie!

Purple Yam Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, AOE Damage and Knockback, Lategame Heavy Tank, Has Magic Candy, Spin 2 Win

PVE AOE Knockback, Extreme Candy-based Tankiness

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Purple Yam, being the weakest of the cookies to get a Magic Candy, also got a general stat buff on top of it. He’s now got an extra 40+% ATK and got bulkier in general, and that’s before he even gets his Magic Candy. His Magic Candy makes his skill hit harder, still not on par with true attack cookies or even modern front fighters like Dark Cacao or Wildberry, but you’ll definitely notice the boost.

The two things that make his candy special though: His cooldown gets cut by several seconds, allowing him to spam the skill absolutely incessantly, and it gives him a whopping 40+% Damage Resistance buff while spinning, which means giving him Solid Almonds makes him shrug off attacks that would leave other Front Cookies hanging on for dear life.

Overall, he’s a much better choice now than he was before, but he’s still not someone you’ll pick over Wildberry or Dark Cacao Cookie, at least for PVP. For PVE though, he’ll work well with Summoners, since he’ll cram the enemy team into a tight formation and put all of them within eating range of all your summons.

Mango Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, AOE Damage, Team ATK Buff, Magic Candy, Be Glad That’s Mango Juice

PVP/PVE AOE/ATK Buffer

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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A cookie that, while rather weak when alone, is great when paired with other cookies like him. Mango Cookie is an AOE damage cookie who trades raw killing power for a fast cooldown and a team-wide ATK buff. This makes them a more aggressive alternative to Pomegranate Cookie, who has a stronger buff but has a heal that basically does diddly.

While Mango’s AOE attack does only roughly 50% damage per hit, it is backed up by Mango’s Magic statline, which has high ATK. Give them some Raspberries since their cooldown is good enough not to need Swift Chocos, then pair them with a dedicated damage dealer like Espresso or Latte.

Mango’s new Magic Candy allows him to hit harder and protect himself, adding an HP shield for himself, extra damage for the wave, and a 60% chance to generate a bigger Great Wave that hits even harder. Not quite enough to knock Mango up a tier because of all the competition he’s got, but keep it in mind.

Mint Choco Cookie

REAR, SUPPORT, AOE Healer, Team Buffer, A Sweet Violinist

PVP/PVE ATK SPD Comp Healer(with Lilac Cookie)

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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A support who fires at the enemy as opposed to being a dedicated healer. Unlike Rye’s greedy ATK Speed buff, Mint Choco Cookie’s team-wide ATK Speed buff actually has a noticeable effect. It causes the squad healer to heal faster, and several cookies attacking more rapidly is much more powerful than just one cookie doing it. While Mint Choco Cookie is normally overshadowed by Pomegranate in any other team comp, putting him, Pastry and Lilac together turn the three of them into a deadly machinegun team, with Mint Choco and Lilac being Pastry’s ammo loaders.

Deploying this guy instead of another damage dealer might not be wise, and deploying him instead of a dedicated healer is a terrible idea. Deploying him WITH a dedicated healer isn’t so bad though. Give him Swift Chocolates to keep that buff going and Pastry’s ammo flowing.

Sonic Cookie

SPECIAL, AMBUSH, MID, ATK Speed Buffer, AOE Damage, Gotta Go Fast

PVP/PVE ATK Speed Comp AOE Damage (with Lilac)

Toppings: Swift Chocos or Searing Raspberries

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So Sega had its anniversary, and Cookie Run Kingdom celebrated by having Sonic and Tails in the game. Sonic Cookie is an ambush cookie that works well in Lilac’s machinegun team. His attack is an AOE strike with him pinballing all over the enemy while giving your whole team a 15% ATK SPD buff. More damage for Lilac to send Pastry’s way! He could be considered a more aggressive option compared to Mint Choco for that spot. As usual, Raspberries or Swift Chocos since you either want the damage to go up or spam the skill for constant ATK SPD buffs, which also makes the damage go up anyway.

Kumiho Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGER, Disabler, Defense Reduction, AOE Attack, Super Form, Foxy Marshmallow

PVP/PVE Disabler, Defense Reduction, Charm Ignores Cocoa Cookie’s Stun Immunity

Toppings: Solid Almonds or Searing Raspberries

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Kumiho Cookie got a rather hefty buff! Not quite enough to kick Dark Choco Cookie off his throne, but she’s clearly gunning for it really hard. Technically, Kumiho Cookie, on top of her ability to flirt with and Charm enemies (which is functionally the same as Stunning them, except Stun immunity doesn’t stop it), can now reduce enemy DEF by 20%, same as Dark Choco Cookie. Except Dark Choco Cookie’s black lightning can hit large targets (usually bosses) three times, stacking the debuff thrice compared to Kumiho’s single stack.

Not to mention most bosses are immune to disabling debuffs like Charm, Stun and Freeze anyway. This is clearly a sizeable improvement though, and against mobs of mooks, they’re roughly on par with each other. While Dark Choco hits in a larger area and for more initial damage, Kumiho can interrupt the enemy with her skill.

On top of this, this tiny marshmallow fox transforms into her Cookie form for a short time, roughly doubling her basic attack’s strength on top of making it hit multiple enemies at a time. Either get her Almonds, or a set of Raspberries to make the most of her post-transform muti-target spirit ball attacks, if you’re rich enough to sub-stat for DMG Resist.

Pastry Cookie

EPIC, REAR, RANGED, Near-Target DPS, LET THE PURGATION BEGIN!

PVP/PVE ATK Speed Comp Damage Dealer (with Lilac Cookie)

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Pastry Cookie is about as plain and simple a DPS Cookie as you can get. No special target priorities to worry about, they only care about killing whatever filthy, disgusting, cake-loving heretic is immediately in front of them. Their ability involves ramping up their basic attack’s fire rate while shooting an extra light arrow after every normal shot. Unfortunately, their lack of a targeting priority more advanced than “Shoot whoever’s in front” means they tend not to aim for damage dealers and healers, which you normally need dead first.

Also, AOE cookies like Latte, Espresso, and Black Raisin tend to be better for overall DPS. All that said, deploying her with Mint Choco, Lilac, and the Librarian’s Enchanted Robes turns her little holy crossbow into a sanctified Gatling cannon. They also pair extremely well with Red Velvet Cookie, who can yank high-value targets right into Pastry’s firing line. Ironic since they utterly despise each other. If you plan on using them, give them Raspberries to make them rip up enemy fronts faster so they can get to the juicier targets behind them.

Squid Ink Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, AOE Attacker, DEF Reduction, Has Magic Candy, Still Crying After A Buff

PVE Crowd Clearing

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Searing Raspberries, Solid Almonds

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It seems that a lot of cookies as of this writing want to kick Dark Choco Cookie off his DEF Reduction throne. Squid Ink Cookie is about as basic as an AOE attacker as one can get without their Magic Candy: They slap enemies in an area, dealing damage.

No stuns, no frills, just damage. This update changes things for Squid Ink with the introduction of their Magic Candy, which allows them to reduce enemy DEF by 20% with a boosted AOE basic attack, while hitting harder (Especially against non-Cookie targets) and throwing out an extra 3 slaps for a total of 10 hits. They also deal more damage specifically to targets suffering from DEF Reduction, an extra 15-37.5%.

They also make themself tankier if their candy is level 10 and above: Their slaps can give a 1-1.2% DMG Reduction boost for 6 seconds which can stack up to 60 times based on how many targets are hit.

Unfortunately, they’re not kicking either Dark Choco or Captain Caviar Cookie off the top spot as DEF-reducing boss-killers: Squid Ink Cookie’s DEF Reduction debuff doesn’t work on bosses! This buff puts ol’ Squib closer in line to other Espresso-likes, bumping them up a tier, though not much higher.

Macaron Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, Healer, Buffer, Multihit AOE Attack, Weak vs Cookies, Marching To Their Own Tune

PVE Avatar of Destiny Tombstone Shredder, Hit-shield Breaker, Offensive Stat Buffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Macaron Cookie is generally considered a bad choice in PVP since she deals less damage against cookies, and she will likely also suffer in chapters 11-12 since those have tons of Cookie NPCs as foes. For other PVE areas though, she can be quite useful thanks to her healing over time and Parade Stack ability, which increases the healing she does for every 3 hits her skill can do, though there are still superior choices for general use.

There is one particular task she utterly, hilariously demolishes: Fighting the Avatar of Destiny guild boss. Her skill will do 20 hits over 5 seconds, in an area. This means she can easily shred the tombstone barricade the Avatar sends out when paired with Cherry Blossom Cookie, allowing your other cookies to get in its face and do some real damage much faster.

Her own damage potential is poor, but you can perhaps ditch Pomegranate with Macaron for the Avatar fights since Macaron also does healing and ATK buffs on top of a Crit Buff, while Pomegranate is unable to wreck Tombstones and does almost nothing in terms of actual damage to the boss. Macaron’s buffs also last long enough that giving her Swift Chocolates and using the Jelly Clock treasure lets her keep the buff active forever as long as she doesn’t eat a stun or any other disabler. 

On top of this, Macaron’s skill improves the team’s ATK and CRIT%. Treat her the same way you would one of the post-Cotton era Support Cookies, except you feed her Magic powder instead of Support powder.

Werewolf Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, DPS, Stun Spam, AOE Attack, Has Magic Candy, Wanted Friends, Got A Buff Instead

PVE/PVP Stun Spammer, Injury Spammer and Enabler

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Werewolf Cookie got one heck of an HP-wrecking magic candy, albeit one that is fairly experimental with its stat distribution since a part of it takes its damage from his HP. Werewolf’s skill without the magic candy allows his werewolf form’s rapid-fire double strikes to have a 20% chance to stun, though Schwarzwalder and Wildberry Cookie are still way better at stun spamming with their higher stun chances and specifically Schwarzwalder’s AOE basic attacks.

Their Magic Candy though is very powerful, as allows them to inflict not just Injury, but another debuff that lets them increase the maximum cap of Injury to 40%. This lets Werewolf sync well with Dark Cacao and a candied Espresso, who can make use of the debuff to reduce the enemy’s MAX HP to the point that the enemy healers suffer greatly from being unable to do their jobs.

He also gets a last-hit in his skill that has damage based not on his fairly poor Front cookie attack stat, but instead on his superior Max HP stat, though at a fairly poor percentage (When compared to single-hit attacks that use the ATK stat anyway) only hitting 70%+ worth of his Max HP even at the highest candy levels.

All in all, he’s still not the tip of the top cream of the crop meta, but he is far better than his old self and all that Injury spam can do a real number on his enemies. It might be schadenfreude to pair him with Schwarzwalder and Wildberry Cookie so they can constantly stunlock whoever gets in clobbering range of them, though such a team is of debatable effectiveness when compared to pairing him with Dark Cacao and Espresso to cut the enemy team’s max HP nearly in half.

As a side note, he is also harder to interrupt thanks to the Magic Candy making him heavier, and therefore more resistant to Knockback and Flying.

A TIER – FLAVORFUL

Mozzarella Cookie
Icicle Yeti Cookie
Blackberry Cookie
Candy Diver Cookie
Cherry Blossom Cookie
Mala Sauce Cookie
Custard Cookie III
Princess Cookie
Tiger Lily Cookie
Sparkling Cookie
Cherry Cookie
Avocado Cookie
Adventurer Cookie
Fig Cookie

While not as powerful as the Gourmet or Specialist tier, these cookies are pretty strong in their own right. These guys are definitely good cookies, just overshadowed. They don’t like that though! Some of them can be used as earlier versions of the cookies above them. Thankfully this being the widest tier means you’re spoiled for choice.

Mozzarella Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, Debuffer, Earth Buffer, Periodic Damage, CURRENTLY BUGGED, Long Cheese

PVE Debuffer, Hit Shield Buster

Toppings: Solid Almonds (Cooldown substats), Swift Chocolates

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Mozzarella Cookie is a fairly simple cookie especially considering most modern cookies are often given an alarming wall of text for their skill description. Instead, Mozzarella carries a heavy slowdown both to MOV SPD and ATK SPD for enemies stuck in her puddle of mozzarella, which also deals Earth-type damage. She also boosts the earth-type damage of other cookies, mostly her release mates from the Golden Cheese Kingdom. Easy to understand, and effective… Assuming it hits.

As of this writing, the skill is bugged in such a way that Mozzarella will launch it too far, often hitting behind non-stationary or sufficiently small targets if you didn’t bring knockback cookies. Of course, if the target is big enough, she’ll be effective: Her skill, while having a fairly small attack percentage with an initial hit percentage of about 300% and incoming hits a measly 3-4%, hits a whopping 40 times!

Use her on some bosses who happen to be too fat to move forward, and once they fix this bug, use her on anyone silly enough to pull out a Hit Shield. The developers have not fixed her aim even after multiple updates, so we moved her down here since her attack is highly unreliable thanks to her poor grasp of physics.

Icicle Yeti Cookie

SPECIAL, FRONT, HEALING, Tank, Freeze Resistance, Counterattack

PVE Frost Counter

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Frost Queen can’t catch a break, can she? She gets her Crystal Jam only to see a cookie that wants to counter her attack! Icicle Yeti Cookie is an odd Front Healer whose skill involves turning into a yeti to block enemy attacks with an ice shield, buffing allied DMG Resist and Amplify Buff by 15%, cutting Freeze damage and duration by 70% for 10 seconds, and absorbing 30% of any damage their buddies take.

Afterward, 5% of the damage they receive gets tossed back at the enemy as Ice-type damage. Overall, a very niche cookie that suffers whenever it’s warm outside. As a side note, this cookie heals Ice-type cookies more than others.

Blackberry Cookie

RARE, REAR, MAGIC, AOE Damage Over Time, Squad Buffer,  Adventurer Cookie’s Minder

PVE AOE Damage, PVE Twizzly Crit Enabler

Toppings: Searing Raspberries for general use, Swift Chocolates when with Twizzly Gummy Cookie

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We had unfortunately underestimated Onion Cookie’s de-facto mom. Blackberry Cookie is one of the better Rares in the game, though overshadowed by the absolute mess of Epic damage dealers available. She summons a crowd of ghosts to shred the enemy team with many, many hits, and while this happens everyone’s crit chance goes up by 10% for 6 seconds. Simple, but her being a Rare gives her a small but unique advantage over other damage dealers: You probably have her lying around at 5 stars, or even ready for Ascension 5!

A well-fed Blackberry with proper support from other cookies like Eclair and Dark Choco can fill in for an Epic damage dealer well enough to fight the final boss of chapter 12, a very tough nut to crack.

Of course, if you have Eclair or Dark Choco, then you must have incredibly bad luck or poor mileage spending habits (Unless you spent ALL of it on Treasure Tickets and absolutely none on Soulstones, which is fair, you gotta get that Old Pilgrim’s Scroll after all!) to have only Blackberry as your main dedicated damage dealer by the end of Chapter 12. She can also go with crit-reliant cookies like Twizzly or Cream Puff thanks to her crit-based buff.

Blackberry’s stint as the only rare S-tier cookie was nice while it lasted, too bad Macaron Cookie marched her and Pomegranate out of everyone’s Avatar of Destiny teams!

Candy Diver Cookie

EPIC, REAR, SUPPORT, Unkillable, Untargetable, Healer, Randomized Buffs, Too Dead to Kill

PVP Rear Attack Blocker, PVP/PVE Team Healer, Generalist Buffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates, Sweet Candy, DO NOT use defensive toppings

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Candy Diver Cookie is a very odd support for one reason: They are completely immune to all damage! You’d think this makes them completely busted, but they pretty much count as a dead cookie taking up a slot. This means if they’re the only one left on the team, you lose anyway, and they cannot be deployed alone.

After all, they really are nothing but ancient haunted cookie dust swirling around old soda water in a diving suit. Also, Vampire Cookie’s smart enough not to break their fangs on an armored diving suit rated for the Duskgloom Sea, so they and other rear-attack cookies won’t ever target Candy Diver Cookie. No blocking the rear with an immortal cookie here!

As for their actual skill, they heal for 43.5% of their ATK, while giving another buff based on what relic they scoop up while their skill is active: A Siren Statue makes buffs received by the team (Amplify Buff) 15% stronger for 10 seconds, a Pirate Sword increases ATK by 10% for 10 seconds, and an Anchor increases DEF by 15% for 10 seconds.

A higher Amplify Buff stat for Candy Diver increases their chance of finding the last, most powerful relic on the list: The Black Pearl Shell, which provides healing over time for 7 seconds, Amplify Buff 15%, and 25% extra ATK for 10 seconds.

They also have a good passive: Their basic attacks increase the damage taken by an enemy by 5% (Can stack twice) for 10 seconds, while at the same time reducing the target’s defense by 7.5% (Also stacks twice) for the same amount of time. Quite good in maps and situations where healers are often targeted down, but they’re a rather inconsistent choice with their randomized buffs.

Cherry Blossom Cookie

EPIC, REAR, AMBUSH, AOE Attack, Stacking ATK Buff, Anti-Monster, Polite Outside, Cherry Cookie Inside

PVE AOE Attacker/ Buffer, PVP Anti-Summoner

Toopings: Swift Chocos For Buff Maintenance,  Searing Raspberries for Damage

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Oddly enough, Cherry Blossom Cookie has less in common with her sister Cherry Cookie and is closer to an upgraded and specialized Pancake Cookie in terms of how she works. Her skill has her fly into the air to avoid enemy attacks, and carpet bomb the field with exploding cherry blossoms, like how Pancake bombards the field with Acorn Jellies.

They even both give buffs, but Cherry Blossom’s is generally better if there are a lot of enemies in the field: Pancake gives an ATK Speed buff, while Cherry Blossom gives a 2.5% ATK buff that stacks up to 10 times for a max of 25%, depending on how many enemies she hits with her bombing raid. This makes her specifically specialized for PVE against large crowds of mooks.

Unfortunately, she is so heavily specialized for that that it causes her problems fighting anything else: Her skill does less and less damage to a target if it is hit multiple times, meaning it’s weak against bosses and elite mooks. Large enemy crowds become less prevalent past Chapter 10 in favor of a few high-quality heavies every wave, so she suffers late in PVE.

And for PVP, you can either get a better damage dealer like Caramel Arrow, Sorbet Shark, or any of the Legendary attackers or get Pomegranate Cookie for a guaranteed 30% ATK buff instead of a 25% ATK buff that takes two skill barrages to fully pull off. You could perhaps use her against enemy Summoners in PVP, though if you already have a good, well-fed damage dealer on your team then just stick with them instead.

All that said, she thankfully has a high ATK stat inherent in Ambush cookies, avoids attacks with her skill, and covers a wide area. All that still keeps Cherry Blossom Cookie a good choice, just one with extremely heavy competition. Nowadays she finds use with Blackberry Cookie against the Avatar of Destiny guild boss, as both of them together can make short work of the Avatar’s gravestone blockade. Unlike Blackberry though, this wasn’t enough to raise Cherry Blossom’s tier, since Blackberry’s attack doesn’t weaken with subsequent hits.

Mala Sauce Cookie

EPIC, FRONT, CHARGE, Crit Buffer, Debuffer, Damage Over Time, AOE Damage, Has Magic Candy, Extra Spicy

PVP/PVE Crit Comp (with Twizzly Gummy Cookie)

Toppings: Solid Almonds or Swift Chocolates

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Mala Sauce Cookie got her new magic candy, and it seems she might become good friends with the recently buffed Chili Pepper Cookie. Her job is much the same: Set things on fire and increase the team’s CRIT%. Her Magic Candy improves her CRIT% buff from 20% to 25% while also increasing the amount of fire-based Damage-over-time she inflicts on the enemy.

Capsaicin’s existence is also an indirect buff for her since Cap’s a rather powerful front cookie that works well with Mala Sauce thanks to their fire damage-based skills complimenting each other, in particular Capsaicin’s ability to buff fire in general.

That being said, Mala still has extremely stiff competition as a Charge cookie (Capsaicin and Milky Way will fight her for Charge Powders if you have them!) and for Candy investment, and isn’t on the top priority of picks for PVP or PVE. The Magic Candy wasn’t enough to kick her up a tier, and said candy was released at an extremely inopportune time.

Custard Cookie III

RARE, REAR, HEALER, Double Target Healer, Miniature Vanilla King

Early- Late Midgame PVE Healer/Shield

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Quite possibly the longest-lasting cookie in the starter squad. While he’s pickier with his healing than Herb Cookie, he heals more HP per target with his skill (though comparing regular heals, Herb is still stronger) and puts a short-duration shield on top of said heal.

He’s also good at picking his heal targets. He picks the two most likely to end up dead, often saving their butts in a clutch situation. Timing that shielding well can mean the difference between a total party kill, and a desperate victory. Overall, an adorably annoying cookie willing to work towards his self-proclaimed title. Give him some Searing Raspberries to make his healing stronger.

Princess Cookie

RARE, FRONT, CHARGE, AOE Debuffer, Medium Tank, Dark Choco But Cute

Early-Late Midgame PVE Frontliner, Queen Of Rares

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Let’s face it, she’s a discount version of Dark Choco Cookie. While Princess Cookie’s skill technically does more straight damage than Dark Choco’s, it has a weaker DEF Down debuff of 15% compared to Dark Choco’s 20%. That said, being a mini Dark Choco is a good thing!

You’ll usually have Princess Cookie instead of Dark Choco because of the Gacha’s rather iffy rates. She’ll last you long into the game, and the only one that can truly replace her is Dark Choco. Says a lot about how strong she is. Perhaps give her some Solid Almonds, or Searing Raspberries to take advantage of her skill’s higher damage power. Overall, a good cookie, just overshadowed by her Epic-tier edgy counterpart.

Tiger Lily Cookie

EPIC, REAR, RANGE, AOE Stun, Maker Of Funny Faces

PVP/PVE Stunner, Normally found in PVP Stun-spam Comps

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Tiger Lily Cookie is an odd mix. She’s a rear ranger, but her skill is an AOE stun that sends her toward the enemy while increasing her attack speed. Crowd disablers used to be quite rare in her release, but are now more common, though ironically the roster of cookies has widened so much that Tiger Lily stayed in the same spot on this list the whole time. A lot more courageous than another cookie I’ll be listing down later. Give her some Swift Chocolates so you can stun the enemy more reliably.

Sparkling Cookie

EPIC, REAR, HEALER, Double Target Healer, Team Buffer, Vampire Cookie’s “Juice” Supplier

PVP/PVE Crit Comp Healer (With Twizzly Gummy Cookie)

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Sparkling Cookie could be seen as a more offense-oriented version of Custard Cookie III. He has the same double-target heal but ditches the two-target shield for an all-team critical hit chance increase. While he’s an Epic and Custard’s only a Rare, neither is a true replacement for the other.

It all depends on whether you want child-friendly defensive shields or more violent booze-powered critical hits in your team. If Custard’s for ending a fight safely, Sparkling is for ending a fight quickly. Both of them are pretty good.

Cherry Cookie

RARE, REAR, BOMBER, AOE Stun, Atomic Prankster

PVE Stunner, Sometimes used in PVP Stun Comps

Toppings: Searing Raspberries for damage, or Swift Chocolates for maintaining Stun

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Cherry Cookie is good fun! There are few things simpler or more effective than tossing a gigantic bomb at the enemy. Her giant bomb has a 2-second stun, not quite as powerful as Tiger Lily’s 3-second stun. But the bomb itself still does good damage, and Cherry Cookie arguably has the better basic attack.

Being a Bomber instead of a Ranger, her basic attacks do splash damage. Great for cleaning frontline crowds in PVE. Give her a ton of Raspberries to take advantage of both her big bomb and her little bombs.

Avocado Cookie

RARE, FRONT, DEFENSE, Single Target Buff, Heavy Tank, AOE Pushback, Pun-Happy Blacksmith

PVE ATK Buffer

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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A very strong cookie with more application in the PVE late game than in the early game. You’d think that giving a 30% ATK Buff only to whoever has the highest ATK stat automatically makes her inferior to Pomegranate Cookie giving a 30% ATK buff to everyone in the team. You would be right unless you’re a time traveler playing an older version of the game with Pomegranate’s buff only going up to 20%, though being a tanky Defense cookie instead of a squishy Support somewhat makes up for it.

She makes a good partner to AOE nukers like Espresso. She’ll also last longer than supports against AOE-happy enemy formations, because of her fairly beefy stats. As for the actual damage of her skill though, it’s nothing to take note of. Give her some Walnuts or Almonds to help her keep the squishy mids alive.

Adventurer Cookie

RARE, REAR, AMBUSH, Single Target Rear Heavy Damage, Single Target Stun, Edible Indiana Jones

Midgame-to-Late Midgame PVE Anti-Spellcaster, Weak vs Mookspam

Toppings: Searing RaspberrIes

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Adventurer Cookie works very similarly to Vampire Cookie except trading some of the damage for a stun. Pretty good, but why would you want to stun an enemy when you can kill them outright? Because sometimes, you just can’t kill them outright! Might as well keep the target from murdering your party for a couple of seconds.

It might be a good idea to pair Adventurer and Vampire Cookie together to tag team a boss, but they’ll be fighting over the Ambush powder needed for their skills. Cram this guy full of Searing Raspberries. Use him like Vampire Cookie, but time the attack to interrupt the target if you need to.

Fig Cookie

EPIC, MIDDLE, SUPPORT, AOE Debuffer, Doot Doot

PVE ATK Debuffer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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Fig Cookie is similar to Onion Cookie in purpose, except they gave up all pretense of being a damage dealer to focus on their debuff game. Their AOE attack predictably does very little damage but slaps a big ugly 20% ATK reduction on whatever it hits. You can also keep this debuff up more reliably than with Onion Cookie, since not only does Fig Cookie have the faster cooldown, but they also don’t need to wait for Fear Stacks to make the most of their skill.

You could perhaps bring them in PVE to dull the teeth of particularly deadly monster encounters, but it might still be more reliable to kill the enemy faster with more damage dealers anyway. If you plan on using them, feed them some Swift Chocolates to keep that debuff going.

B TIER – SWEET

Tails Cookie
Carrot Cookie
Chili Pepper Cookie
Onion Cookie
Devil Cookie

These guys aren’t bad, but they’re not awesome either. Some might be otherwise powerful cookies with a rather blatant flaw. Others are just rather boring, but fairly practical. They make good space fillers for roles you need but lack. Like if you need a tank but don’t have Princess, Avocado, Dark Choco, or Milk.

Tails Cookie

SPECIAL, AMBUSH, MID, DEF Buffer, AOE Damage, Adorable Airborne Airbro

PVE AOE Damage and Buffer

Toppings: Searing Raspberries or Swift Chocolates

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Tails suffers a bit more than his blue bro. He’s got the same skill but with a DEF buff at 15% instead of Sonic’s ATK SPD buff. Honestly, a good cookie, though Licorice outclasses him big time. Licorice, while doing less damage with his lightning strike, comes with a 20% DEF buff AND mooks. If you want a damage dealer, get an Espressolike, and if you want a DEF buffer, get Licorice. If you want BOTH AOE damage and a DEF buffer, get Licorice anyway! To add insult to injury, Licorice is available for mileage since he’s an old cookie. Get Tails some Raspberries to make the most of his damage if you want to use him.

Carrot Cookie

RARE, REAR, SUPPORT, Area Heal, Area Buff, Light AOE Damage, Biggest Carrot Award Winner

Early-Midgame PVE Offensive Healer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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The hard-working Carrot Cookie is a pretty weird Support cookie. Her support skill damages the enemy and heals your team. It also comes with a decent DEF buff. She feels like a strange buffer version of a Magic cookie rather than a Support cookie. Either way, not bad, very simple, and quite adorable too.

Chili Pepper Cookie

EPIC, MID, AMBUSH, Rear-line AOE Damage, Sticky Fingers

PVE Early to Midgame Anti-Gunline Damage

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Juicy Apple Jellies

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Early on, Chili Pepper Cookie is a pretty good rear-line killer. Her skill is made to cut down neat rear gun lines, which are common in early levels. She also works quite well with the other starter cookies. Later on, though, she starts to suffer as enemy rear formations start getting messy and uneven. Often, her skill will only hit one or two targets if the enemy hasn’t been pushed into each other.

All in all, she’s in an awkward spot. She’s an area damage cookie with small AOE and a backline assassin with insufficient killing power against late-game heavy spellcasters. If you do plan on using her, give her Searing Raspberries and send her in after your front liners have hammered the enemy formation into a tight blob.

She recently got a buff that lets her boost her Crit Damage with her CRIT% stat, getting an extra 2% Crit Damage for every 1% CRIT% she gets from any source, whether that be Treasures, Cookies’ buffs, or Toppings and substats. This makes her skill more powerful as it ends in a guaranteed crit. Unfortunately, the relatively weak base percentages of her skill means she’s not going up a tier until some even more drastic reworks happen.

Onion Cookie

RARE, MID, SUPPORT, Screen-Wide Damage and Debuffer, Do Not Bully

PVE Slow Nuker/Debuffer, Useless in PVP Because of Mandatory Auto

Toppings: Searing Raspberries, Swift Chocos are pointless because her Fear stacks won’t be maxxed by the time the cooldown is done anyway

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Putting Onion Cookie into the battlefield is a war crime. This poor little crying baby does not even have a basic attack. Instead, she has a skill that does damage and reduces enemy ATK by 10%. The skill also has a stacking mechanic. It gains up to roughly 700% damage power the more she gets scared, usually by new enemy waves or enemy strikes. Anything to reduce the ATK of the enemy is always useful.

Unfortunately, her skill, while powerful, takes a lot of time to collect stacks. The spammy AI also makes her useless in PVP. It also isn’t helped by her Support statline giving her inferior ATK. Give her some Searing Raspberries if you want her to fight and deploy her against the final wave. You monster.

Devil Cookie

RARE, MIDDLE, MAGIC, AOE Debuffer, Angel Cookie’s Unwilling Best Friend

PVE Early to Midgame AOE Damage

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Devil Cookie had the misfortune of being released after the likes of Latte Cookie, considering Devil has a similar but honestly inferior skill. They summon a rune on the ground, dealing AOE damage over time and inflicting ATK Speed Down and Movement Speed Down. Sadly, nobody cares about Movement Speed, and ATK Speed only really works with high percentages or stacking. ATK Speed Down doesn’t actually slow down skill cooldowns, which is the primary source of damage in the game, and there are far better ways to stop enemies from moving than a Movement Speed reduction.

Like you know, blasting them into crumbs! That being said, if the gacha’s been unkind to you and you lack the high-tier AOE damage dealers, Devil Cookie might be a good choice. Cram them with Raspberries to make their attack hit harder and take advantage of their Magic statline since the debuffs they give out aren’t particularly noteworthy.

C TIER – FRESH

GingerBrave
Snow Sugar Cookie
Angel Cookie
Gumball Cookie
Pancake Cookie

Rather lackluster cookies that nonetheless find some use in battle. Many of these cookies are weak late-game but strong early-game. Some also find some weird niche in the meta to take advantage of. That being said, there are certainly better choices around.

GingerBrave

COMMON, FRONT, CHARGE, AOE Knockback, Everyone’s First Cookie

PVP Rapid Interruptor, Newbie-Bait (Usually part of Extreme Damage No Survivability Almond-reliant Stun teams, often called GingerScam teams)

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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How did a Common, and the starter cookie at that, end up all the way up here? GingerBrave’s skill has an absurd 8-second cooldown, compared to everyone else’s 10-20 seconds. The AOE is just perfectly sized to only hit the two enemy front cookies in PVP. The knockback is so powerful it’ll toss the victims right into the rear, leaving their mid-cookies wide open! This hilariously plays into the PVP meta.

Normally, you can set up a weak defense party to attract weaker players into fighting you. Then you wreck them in the Defense tab later for Arena shop medals. They get medals for beating your defense team too, so no foul. Here, you instead bait weaker players into attacking what LOOKS like a weak party (a very eye-catching leveled and 5-starred GingerBrave backed up by vastly more dangerous cookies, often hidden), only for them to get sent back into the Oven!

The popular team for this is GingerBrave with Almond Cookie, Black Raisin, or if you’re really lucky, Sea Fairy Cookie with two other cookies who can stun. GingerBrave slams into the front to expose the enemy midline, Almond and the damage dealer pair up to wreck the enemy team, and the stun cookies prevent them from fighting back. This has low survivability if the enemy somehow resists the stun and fights back, but if the stun works your cookies can destroy the heavily injured enemy with impunity.

Snow Sugar Cookie

EPIC, MID, MAGIC, Sumonner, AOE Debuffer, If Only The Snow King Were In Front

PVP Vampire/Red Velvet Cookie Distraction, AOE Attacker

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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The loveable Snow Sugar Cookie sadly suffers from Strong Early, Weak Later syndrome as with many other cookies. They summon a large monster called the Snow King. The Snow King’s basic attack is a low-damage AOE breath that gives every one it hits an ATK Slow debuff. An enemy Herb Cookie isn’t able to clean it out either, as the Snow King will simply reapply it. Decent early on, she can turn some PVP matches around against incomplete meta teams.

Unfortunately, the poor damage the Snow King does and the later enemies’ higher raw damage makes Snow Sugar Cookie suffer. ATK Slow doesn’t matter if you’re worried about high-damage attacks with a low fire rate. The Snow King also stays in the rear instead of moving forward, wasting the Snow King’s rather high HP. If you’ve been using them, you might have to replace them with another damage dealer or support. They had a recent buff, but it isn’t enough to move them up a tier.

Angel Cookie

COMMON, REAR, HEALER, AOE Heal, Flight Incapable

PVE Early-Midgame AOE Healer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates or Searing Raspberries

angel cookie cookie run kingdom

Another rather strong common. This is the closest thing to a Discount Herb Cookie you can get (albeit a much weaker one vs the milder gap between Princess and Dark Choco), and as long as you keep their star level up, they can keep up with your team.

Now, why isn’t this cookie a tier higher then? Because Custard Cookie III exists and you get him at the start of the game. Custard’s ability to save team members that need healing the most is more reliable than Angel Cookie’s weaker area heal, which doesn’t have enough kick.

Gumball Cookie

RARE, REAR, BOMBER, AOE Slow, Artistic Artillery

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Thank goodness his skill description is contradicted by his skill’s stat tooltip. A 20% ATK Slow is certainly much better than a pointless Movement Slow! Just like Snow Sugar, ATK Slow becomes rather bland later on, but at least Gumball Cookie’s a Bomber too. This means his basic attack has AOE. Give him some Raspberries to strengthen his firepower if you want to use him.

Pancake Cookie

RARE, REAR, AMBUSH, Light AOE Damage, Squad Buffer, Give Acorn Jelly

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This little flying chubster is another weird one that doesn’t exactly fit his classification. An Ambush cookie with the wide AOE of a Magic Cookie, lackluster damage, but also a 20% ATK Speed buff for the whole party. Pancake Cookie is less a rear-line killer and more an offensive Support without a heal. Since he uses different powders than Support cookies, it might be safe to pair him with Mint Choco to power up Rye Cookie.

At that point though, getting a more traditional Ambush cookie might be a better idea. All in all, neither amazing nor terrible. Give him some Swift Chocolates or Raspberries so he can do the buff, or for his skill to do more useful damage. Too bad Acorn Jellies aren’t a topping.

D TIER – KINDA BLAND

Knight Cookie
Strawberry Cookie
Beet Cookie

These unfortunate cookies need some additional love from the developers. You won’t find them often in PVP other than as a revenge bait defense team, spot fillers, or because they look cool. As for PVE, they’re useable but there are much better cookies around. If the Gacha’s been mean though, you might as well learn to use them until you get some better Cookies.

Knight Cookie

RARE, FRONT, DEFENSE, Taunt, Medium Tank, LEEROY JENKINS!

PVE Early to Midgame Tank

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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Knight Cookie seriously needs some form of defensive buff. He’s like Milk Cookie except he can’t take the heat after making the enemy lose their tempers. He’s useful in the early to mid-game to draw fire, but in later levels, the enemy will outright obliterate him for taunting.

He’s also fairly useless in PVP. Once you’re past chapter 4, you might need to find him a bulkier or harder-hitting replacement. If you absolutely have no choice but to use him, fill him with Almonds so he lasts longer.

Strawberry Cookie

COMMON, FRONT, DEFENSE, AOE Pushback, Spin 2 Win Lite

PVE Earlygame Knockback

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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The shy and adorable Strawberry Cookie is one of the weaker Starter Cookies. Her description as a Defense isn’t entirely accurate, as she has more in common with Purple Yam Cookie, an Epic-tier Charge cookie with a bad temper.

Her skill is a long-duration AOE spin attack that pushes the enemy back as she goes. Nothing special, nothing terrible. Unlike Gingerbrave though, she isn’t weird enough to exploit the meta. Replace her with a stronger Front cookie when you can, and be nice to her in the castle.

Beet Cookie

COMMON, REAR, RANGED, Single Target Damage, Aim For The Injured!

PVE Earlygame Precision Attack

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Beet Cookie could have so much potential if it weren’t for their Common statline. She aims her skill at whoever has the least HP. Such a skill on a stronger cookie would make them a dangerous opponent who can immediately negate a PVP team’s damage capability since most damage dealers have low HP but hide in Mid away from the likes of Vampire Cookie.

Unfortunately, they’re a Common cookie, and other focus-target cookies like Rye, Vampire, and Adventurer blow them out of the soda pond. If you absolutely want to use Beet Cookie, give her Raspberries like any other damage dealer.

F TIER – SALTY

Muscle Cookie
Wizard Cookie
Clover Cookie
Ninja Cookie
Alchemist Cookie

These cookies can’t even be used to replace the starter squad. Their ability is often pointless or so weak as to be forgettable. It ain’t their fault though, so be nice to them. Most of the cookies that deserve a sentence to the Sugar Quarry are in the higher tiers anyway!

Muscle Cookie

COMMON, FRONT, CHARGE, AOE Pushback, Don’t Skip Leg Day

Earlygame PVE AOE Knockback

Toppings: Solid Almonds

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His skill doesn’t hit hard (80% damage with a Shock debuff vs GingerBrave’s straight-up 120% or so damage). The knockback on his skill isn’t strong enough to immediately toss enemies into their own rear gun line, so he doesn’t pair very well with Chili Pepper Cookie in the starter squad. Both Gingerbrave and Strawberry Cookie are better at cramming the enemy into a tight blob. Put the big guy in the Sugar Quarry or the Lumberjack Lodge so he can spend the day exercising. He doesn’t actually mind!

Wizard Cookie

COMMON, MID, MAGIC, AOE Damage, Ice Cream Shortstop

Earlygame PVE AOE Attack

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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The loveably nerdy Wizard Cookie is in the starter squad, but it’s rather easy to forget he’s in your team. Chili Pepper and GingerBrave’s early-game combo often kill a wave before you think of using Wizard Cookie.

By the time you start seeing the weird uneven gun lines and deep, narrow formations that give Chili Pepper so much trouble, you probably already have a replacement for Wizard Cookie. Have the little guy water some plants in your kingdom once you get a new AOE damage unit. It should give him some time to study the magic he loves so much.

Clover Cookie

RARE, REAR, SUPPORT, AOE Debuff Cleaner and Healer, The Happy Bard

PVE Earlygame Healer

Toppings: Swift Chocolates

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This guy is Herb Cookie but terrible. While having a very similar skill to Herb Cookie (an area heal over time that cleans debuffs, but lacking the initial stronger heal), he is a Support. That means he wastes time shooting at the enemy instead of healing your cookies.

Unlike most Supports though, he doesn’t give your cookies any real buffs! Just keep Custard Cookie III in your backline and get a real support cookie instead. Have this guy tell tales of your main team back home, he’ll be happier that way.

Ninja Cookie

REAR, AMBUSH, AOE Damage, Silent But Not Particuarly Deadly

Earlygame PVE AOE Damage

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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Ninja Cookie is another one immediately rendered obsolete by Starter Squad, particularly Chili Pepper Cookie. His skill is a small AOE attack with moderate damage. Being an Ambush cookie means they’ll be fighting Chili Pepper over Ambush powder, so you might as well keep Wizard Cookie on your team if you found Ninja Cookie in the gacha. Pull a Karate Kid on him and trick him into doing chores in the name of training!

Alchemist Cookie

RARE, MID, BOMBER, AOE Poison Damage, Vampire Cookie’s Designated Driver

Earlygame AOE Damage

Toppings: Searing Raspberries

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The ever-busy nerd Alchemist Cookie is a rather confusing cookie to use. She has an AOE poison bomb that supposedly gets stronger with every use, reaching its peak after three uses.

Unfortunately, even at its strongest it’s pretty weak and has a small AOE. It makes her basic attack’s poison more powerful too though, but at that point, you probably want a better damage dealer. Give her a nice lab to work on at home. Preferably far away from Wizard Cookie. Those two hate each other!

And this ends our comprehensive tier list for Cookie Run: Kingdom! If you guys have any tips on how to use these cookies more effectively, or opinions on whether or not a cookie should be higher or lower on the chart, don’t forget to leave us a message in the comment section below! Stay civil though, leave the battles in the Arena!

Electric Logan

Thursday 29th of February 2024

New update: Can we add Elder Guardian Cookie to X-tier? When he's paired with WL, MK, & Silverbell, he really turns to a crunching super-titan. Also, Matcha had to be at least S-tier since her poison spamming is best applied on normal levels

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Tuesday 13th of February 2024

2024 February 13 Update:

White Lily Cookie, Crème Brulée, Linzer Cookie, Mercurial Knight Cookie, Silverbell Cookie and Rebel Cookie have been added to the tier list.

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Sunday 3rd of December 2023

2023 December 3 Update:

Icicle Yeti Cookie has been added to the tier list.

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Sunday 19th of November 2023

2023 November 19 Update:

Fettuccine Cookie, Mozzarella Cookie and Olive Cookie have been added to the tier list.

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Saturday 29th of July 2023

2023 July 29 Update:

The tier list has been updated with Black Lemonade Cookie.

Parfait Cookie was bumped up a tier thanks to her relatively powerful new Magic Candy. Sorbet Shark and Black Raisin were bumped down because of power creep and the sheer number of high tier attack cookies outclassing them at the moment.