Reverse: 1999 Best Characters to Reroll

Similar to other gacha games, rerolling in Reverse: 1999 gives players a chance to obtain powerful starter units without being at the mercy of the gacha system's RNG before binding their accounts and committing their game progress. In this article, we will discuss the various starter characters that you should consider getting when rerolling.

If you need detailed instructions on how to reroll, please check out our Reroll Guide.

Gacha Banners

The game features limited and permanent banners. For new players, there's a limited starter banner called "The First Drop of Rain" where players can get a random guaranteed 6-star character in 30 summons. The three featured characters (Regulus, Lilya, and Eternity) have a boosted chance to be obtained and all of them are considered high-tier units so getting any of them is already considered a good roll attempt.

“Amid the Water” is Reverse: 1999's standard banner where most of the regular (non-limited) characters are found. The limited characters are then eventually added to this standard pool of characters after a few patches later. Unfortunately, pulling on this banner means having a lower-rate of getting a specific character you really want since their drop rates are distributed to more possible characters that you can get. We will briefly discuss each of the "must-have" and "highly-recommended" characters in each banner since they will be your reroll targets.

We will have dedicated build pages for these highly-recommended characters so check them out if you can.

The First Drop of Rain Characters

As mentioned before, all of the featured characters in this banner are worth getting if you manage to get one of them, it's entirely up to your personal preference if you want to keep the character or reroll again.

Regulus

Tag(s): DPS, Support

Afflatus: Star

Damage Type: Mental

Regulus is a highly versatile character that thrives within a wide variety of team compositions, with exceptional compatibility with crit-oriented squads. As a crit-focused damage dealer, Regulus gets a +50% boost to her crit rate through her passive by not acting in a single round. Players can then use this time to combine cards in preparation for Regulus' powerful ultimate or burst.

One of her skills doesn't deal that much damage but can easily reduce 2 Moxies off enemies upon landing a crit, delaying their chance to activate their devastating ultimates even against enemies with immunity to crowd control. Aside from that, she can also deal considerable Mental damage to all enemies while giving all her allies the "Riot and Roll" status for 1 round, which enables them to dodge any non-Ultimate attacks. This is particularly useful late game as enemies tend to launch consecutive attacks frequently.

Eternity

Tag(s):Nasty Wound, DPS

Afflatus: Mineral

Damage Type: Reality

Eternity has an interesting kit, giving her the ability to deal high damage while possessing remarkable self-sustaining capabilities. Her Insight I (first uncap) gives her immunity to Bleed, Corrode, and Poison status effects. This passive ability also gives her the ability to gain DMG and DMG Heal buffs, stackable up to five times. While she can sustain herself, you'll still need to have a dedicated healer in a normal party that she'll be part of to ensure that her HP is reasonably maintained and unlock her full potential. Regardless, she's a solid starter pick that will remain relevantly useful until late game.

Lilya

Tag(s):Burst DMG, DPS

Afflatus:Star

Damage Type:Reality

Lilya is a dedicated and straightforward DPS character. All her skills are geared towards dealing damage. However, she's currently the character with the potential to deal the highest single-target damage in the game. She's crit-oriented and even capable of reaching 100% crit rate with the right set up and conditions. The main downside however is that she's not a very effective early game and you'll need to spend a lot of resources on her growth before she becomes the crit monster that she is. Aside from that, she also needs a team composition built around to make her fully shine, which can be quite challenging for new players.

Amid the Water

In this standard banner, you have the chance to get all characters included in the game at launch (and eventually from previous banners as the game gets new patches and characters. You may refer to the rate details below.) You have a chance to get one of the eleven 6-star characters at an equal summoning rate of 1.5%, or one of the eleven 5-star units with the summoning rate of 8.5%. Of course, there are really noteworthy 6-star and 5-star units that are worth owning so if manage to get one of our recommendations below, you can keep the account (or reroll, according to your preferred character).

An-an Lee

Tag(s):Control, Support, DPS

Afflatus: Plant

Damage Type: Reality

An-an Lee is a very versatile character and is capable of providing valuable utility to any team composition, thanks to her buffs and ability to self-upgrade her incantation levels. Her ultimate damages all enemies while giving her a status which automatically upgrades one of her Incantations at the start of the rounds, lasting two rounds. She can also buff her allies via one of her Incantations (skill), increasing their DMG Dealt and lowering DMG Taken, which is universally useful against any game mode.

She also has very useful passives. At Insight I, she will also automatically switch between two states; one state gives her a DMG reduction buff that can't be dispelled while the other state provides her DMG Bonus and Penetration rate buffs that cannot be dispelled, while also automatically upgrades her right-most incantation at the start of the round.

Balloon Party

Tag(s):DEF, Heal

Afflatus: Mineral

Damage Type: Reality

Balloon Party is one of the desirable support units in the game, capable of providing clutch healing, damage reduction to the party, and automatic counterattacks by simply applying buffs. She relies on two status effects exclusive to her:

Balloon of Innocence: DMG reduction

Party Balloon: When the unit with status gets hit, Genesis DMG is dealt to the attacker as a counterattack.

Her ultimate deals Reality damage to all enemies while applying 1 stack of Balloon of Innocence and Party Balloon to her allies, while also healing an ally with the lowest HP. Her normal attack incantation gains a Penetration buff as long as she has BoI or PB buffs active on her. Her healing incantation (Coughing Weirdo) provides mass healing to all allies. However, once this incantation reaches up LV2, all allies will also gain the Party Balloon buff (auto-counter)

Once she gets Insight I, she starts the round with 1 Party Balloon stack and once she reaches Insigt III, this Party Balloon effect becomes permanent for the entire battle. She provides that much utility and boost to your team that she doesn't really need Portrays (duplicates) to be useful.

Bkornblume

Tag(s):Debuff, Burst DMG, Control

Afflatus: Plant

Damage Type: Reality

Don't be fooled with the lack of the DPS tag for Bkornblume's profile. She's a support unit that can actually function as a sub DPS while providing utility for the entire team. Her ultimate can Seal opponents (prevents them from activating their own ultimates) or if the target is immune to the Seal debuff, lowers their Moxie (ultimate charge) instead. On top of that, one of her incantations can debuff all enemies on the field, lowering their Reality DEF and increases their DMG Taken. This makes Bkornblume the best debuffer in teams that rely on dishing out Reality DMG.

Charlie

Tag(s):Dispeller, DPS

Afflatus: Star

Damage Type: Mental

Charlie is a reliable DPS carry in the early and late game modes. Her ultimate damages all enemies while dispelling certain buffs or statuses from all enemies. Both of her other attacks deal bonus damage as long as Charlie has buffs or when her HP is below 50%. Charlie's Portrays (bonus passives) straight up improves the damage of all her skills. Since she is a 5-star character, she has a higher summoning rate and you'll have a better chance of getting her duplicates to activate her Portrays

Centurion

Tag(s):Burst DMG, DPS

Afflatus: Beast

Damage Type: Reality

Centurion is currently the best DPS and strongest damage dealer in the game, focusing on either raw Ultimate DPS or skill DPS. One of her skills can deal damage to two enemies while boosting her Moxie (ultimate charge). Her other skill gets bonus reality damage based on her current Moxie amount. Finally, her ultimate deals Reality DMG to all enemies while applying a stack of Weakness debuff on them.

Her Insight levels will just make her even better. I1 (Insight 1) increases her damage for every Moxie owned, I2 increases her Crit Rate upon entering a battle, and I3 boosts her HP after losing her Moxie. Her Portrays (passives) will further improve the raw damage and DMG bonuses of her skills, making her even more potent.

As soon as you see her in your rolls, consider keeping that account since she's a game changer and will carry your progress from early to late game.