Traits are one of the most important upgrades you can get in Defend Ur Base With Anime. A powerful trait can turn an average unit into a boss-killing machine by increasing damage, improving critical hits, reducing cooldowns, or even generating extra cash during battles.
Since Trait Shards can be difficult to farm, choosing the right trait is important. Spending shards on weak traits can slow down your progress, especially once you reach harder stages and endgame content. To help you decide which traits are worth keeping, this guide ranks every trait in Defend Ur Base With Anime from S Tier to C Tier.
What Do the Trait Tiers Mean?
Each tier is based on overall usefulness, damage output, utility, and performance in both early and late-game content.
S Tier
These are the strongest traits in the game. They provide massive damage boosts along with multiple bonus effects such as cooldown reduction, critical hit improvements, range increases, and extra income. If you roll one of these, keep it.
A Tier
Excellent traits that can carry units through most content. While they may lack the overwhelming power of S Tier options, they still offer strong bonuses and remain valuable for many team setups.
B Tier
Decent traits for newer players and mid-game progression. They provide useful benefits but are eventually replaced by stronger traits as you obtain more Trait Shards.
C Tier
The weakest traits available. Their bonuses are small and quickly become outdated. Most players should reroll these as soon as possible.
S Tier Traits
Corrupted (Secret)
Corrupted is currently the strongest trait in Defend Ur Base With Anime. It grants an enormous 500% damage increase while also providing critical chance, critical damage, range, cooldown reduction, and additional cash generation. No other trait offers this many benefits at once.
Best For:
- Farming
- Boss fights
- Endless waves
- Endgame content
Celestial (Mythic)
Celestial is considered the best Mythic trait in the game. It offers a huge damage increase while also boosting critical stats, attack range, and cooldown speed. It works well on nearly every DPS unit.
Best For:
- All game modes
- General DPS units
- Late-game progression
Void Emperor (Mythic)
Void Emperor combines strong damage bonuses with critical hit improvements, cooldown reduction, and extra range. It performs especially well against tanky enemies and bosses.
Best For:
- Boss stages
- High DPS units
- Late-game teams
Divine Eye (Mythic)
Divine Eye focuses heavily on critical damage. The combination of high crit chance, powerful crit multipliers, and increased range allows units to deal huge burst damage.
Best For:
- Boss killers
- Critical-focused units
- Burst damage builds
A Tier Traits
Soul Reaper (Mythic)
Soul Reaper offers a balanced package of damage, critical bonuses, cooldown reduction, and range improvements. While it cannot compete with S Tier traits in raw damage, it remains a powerful choice.
King’s Fortune (Mythic)
King’s Fortune is a great farming trait thanks to its extra cash generation and damage boost. However, its combat performance is lower than most S Tier traits.
Beast Fang (Legendary)
Beast Fang increases both damage and critical stats, making it a reliable option for most offensive units.
Sixth Eye (Legendary)
This trait provides a huge range increase that helps short-range units attack enemies earlier. The downside is the lack of direct damage boosts.
Quick Step III (Epic)
Quick Step III focuses entirely on cooldown reduction. It works best on units with naturally long attack cooldowns.
B Tier Traits
Battle Spirit III (Epic)
A simple damage increase that works well during early and mid-game progression. It lacks any additional bonuses, making it easier to replace later.
Star Bloom (Legendary)
Star Bloom provides additional income along with a small damage increase. It is useful for farming but less effective in difficult combat stages.
Golden Aura (Legendary)
Golden Aura is purely a money-making trait. While the extra income helps progression, it does not improve combat performance.
War Giant (Legendary)
War Giant grants extra damage but also increases cooldowns. Because of this drawback, the actual DPS gain is lower than it appears.
Quick Step II (Rare)
A decent cooldown reduction trait for newer players. It can make slow units attack more frequently until stronger traits become available.
Battle Spirit II (Rare)
Provides a small damage boost and serves as a temporary option during the early game.
Far Sight III (Epic)
Far Sight III increases attack range significantly, making it useful on units with poor range. However, it offers no damage improvements.
C Tier Traits
Quick Step I (Common)
The cooldown reduction is too small to make a noticeable difference in most situations.
Battle Spirit I (Common)
Provides a minor damage increase that quickly becomes irrelevant after the first few stages.
Far Sight II (Rare)
A small range boost that is completely overshadowed by Far Sight III.
Far Sight I (Common)
The weakest range trait in the game. Most players should reroll it immediately.
How to Reroll Traits
To reroll traits, visit the Trait Machine located on the left side of the main map near the Sell Shop. Interact with it to open the trait menu, choose a unit, and spend Trait Shards for a random roll. Every reroll gives you a chance to obtain a better trait, so saving Trait Shards for your strongest units is usually the best strategy. Players who do not want to farm shards can also purchase them with Robux.
- 1 Trait Shard 9 Robux
- 10 Trait Shards 79 Robux
- 25 Trait Shards 199 Robux
- 100 Trait Shards 799 Robux
Traits can dramatically increase the strength of your units in Defend Ur Base With Anime, making them one of the most valuable progression systems in the game. If you’re aiming for the best possible performance, Corrupted, Celestial, Void Emperor, and Divine Eye should be your top priorities. These traits offer massive damage boosts and powerful secondary effects that remain useful throughout the entire game.
For players who are still progressing, A Tier traits such as Soul Reaper and King’s Fortune are excellent alternatives and can easily carry you through most content. Meanwhile, lower-tier traits should only be used temporarily until you have enough Trait Shards to reroll for something stronger. By focusing your resources wisely, you’ll build a much stronger team and clear difficult stages far more efficiently.