Venture AOT Skill Tier List

This skill tier list is for Venture AOT only. It ranks unlocks against a doubling point cost, a physics ODM kit, and Freeplay titan work. It does not rank Revolution families. Read unlock skills for the purchase order, then come back here when you have points burning a hole in the menu.

Ranks assume you can already reel. If you cannot, no skill is S-tier. Go to how to swing.

S — buy this first

Gas Burst. Mandatory first unlock. Converts leftover tank into a second angle, a grab escape, or a height save. Creators filming a wipe still rush it before any slash. It does not refill canisters; it spends them well. Pair with gas management.

Nothing else belongs in S until Burst is owned. Putting a damage skill here would ignore the cost curve.

A — second cheap slot

Survival / extra mobility. If testers ship a reel assist, a short i-frame, or a second burst-style tool, it lives here. The job is “I missed, I still get a nape.” Name it only when the patch notes do. Until then, treat the second slot as whatever stops your most common death.

If you die to grabs, A-tier is escape. If you die to empty tanks, A-tier is still mobility, not damage. If you die to missed boxes, A-tier is practice, not a purchase — see how to kill titans.

B — after the double

Nape-assist slashes that shorten a clean cut. Worth it only when you already land blinds. Buying these as unlock three because a montage looked loud is how you stall. After prices double, B-tier is “nice,” not “needed.”

Squad tools (marks, blinds that help teammates) rise toward A in squad play and fall toward C in solo Freeplay. Rank them by your server, not by a clip.

C — vanity and copium

Flashy spins, wide slashes, and anything that looks like Levi before you can pendulum. They eat the doubled cost and still miss. They also teach bad timing: you press the skill instead of waiting for the neck. Keep them off the bar until the trainee sequence is boring.

Unranked / not in this game

Ackerman teleports, Order: Rage, shifter regen, thunder spear mastery, family passives. If a chart includes those names, it is a different Roblox title. Do not spend points you do not have on buttons you do not own.

Cost curve overlay

Unlock #	Cost behavior	What to buy
1	Listed price	Gas Burst
2	Listed price	Survival / mobility
3+	Doubles each time	Only a skill with a one-sentence job

A C-tier skill at slot one is a bigger mistake than a B-tier skill at slot four. Order beats rank.

Patch modifiers

• More gas in tests: Burst looks slightly less godlike; still S because angles matter more than fuel.
• Non-gas swing tests: mobility skills that only exist to recoup reel cost drop a half rank; Burst stays because of grabs.
• Wipes: everyone is a trainee again. The list does not change. Your menu does. See closed testing.

How to argue with this list

Bring a death log, not a clip. “I killed a titan with X” is not a rank. “X saved me from empty-tank deaths for a week” is a rank. We will move rows when updates change the tank or the solver. Until then, Burst remains the only S that does not need a debate.

For a full loadout example, open skill builds. For movement habits that outrank any button, open the movement tier list.