This guide breaks down every ball and evolution in Ball x Pit, ranking them by how well they perform in real runs — not just on paper. It’s written to be practical and easy to use while you’re building or upgrading during a run.
I’ve kept the core insights from the original evaluator — which balls truly carry, which are traps, and which only shine with perfect synergy — and refined them into a clear, reliable reference. Every pick is judged by its damage, crowd control, survivability, and upgrade synergy, with extra weight given to how consistently it helps you clear waves and survive late stages.
You’ll also find short personal notes and synergy tips, showing what to pair together for real results, like how Holy Laser + Wraith can carry entire maps or how Magma becomes unstoppable with AoE upgrades.
If you’re tired of wasting runs on flashy but unreliable evolutions, this tier list will help you focus on what actually wins games — the balls that keep you alive, clear fast, and scale hard.
How this tier list works (methodology)
Practical output over novelty: I ranked balls by how reliably they contribute to surviving and clearing waves. A ball that’s situational but can win a run if everything lines up scored lower than a ball that consistently clears rooms.
Costs considered: Evolved balls require significant investment. I penalize evolutions that cost a lot but rarely justify the sacrifice.
Utility + damage + synergy: I weighed raw damage, crowd control, sustain, and how often a ball improves when fused with typical trinkets/upgrades.
Personal bias: I lean toward run-survivability and consistent crowd-clear options over gimmicky boss-only tools. If you prefer niche builds (e.g., bleed stacking or life-steal), I note that below.
S Tier — Run-winning, reliably dominant
These are the balls I prioritize when I see them. They clear crowds, scale well with upgrades, and rarely make you regret investing.
Magma — Insane crowd clear. Spawns multiple magma projectiles that push through and chip everything down; pairs well with area-upgrades. If I see Magma early, I build around it.
Holy Laser — Hits essentially every enemy and combos with almost anything; becomes unstoppable with elemental or damage-up trinkets. Great fusion target.
Sandstorm — Blinds enemies and deals steady aoe damage. The blind utility is undervalued: it gives windows to reposition and chip damage safely. Top-tier when you need consistent survivability.
If you get Holy Laser + Wraith or Holy Laser + Magma, expect the run to snowball.
A Tier — Strong picks that frequently carry
Dependable, often excellent when paired properly.
Iron Ball — Massive base damage; benefits from bounce-speed trinkets. It doesn’t combine into everything, but its raw output is brutal.
Magma (if not fully evolved) — Still great even before max evolution.
Mosquito (King / Swarm) — High potential: spawns autonomous attackers that steal health on kill. Situational but excellent for sustain-focused builds.
Wraith — Great life steal and attack-reduction utility. Not as flashy as magma, but excellent paired with trinkets that reward healed HP.
Blizzard / Glacier — Strong freezing control; Glacier is a little behind Blizzard in pure value for cost, but both are great for stalling heavy waves.
Sandstorm (if not max) — Even the base version offers valuable blind + aoe.
Wraith + Holy Laser or Wraith + Icicle upgrade makes excellent control-sustain hybrids.
B Tier — Quite solid; require some setup or have trade-offs
Good choices, though they often need one or two supporting upgrades or specific playstyles.
Assassin — High single-target damage and useful ricochet behavior; needs trinkets or specific play to shine.
Fireball / Inferno — Good aoe but inferior to top-tier freeze/fire combos. Still great for consistent damage.
Frost/Freeze hybrids (Frostflame, etc.) — Decent generalists; they lose some power from splitting roles but aren’t bad.
Lightning / Lightning Rod — Useful for spread damage and multi-target bursts; rod versions can create chain damage fields.
Spider / Broodmother — Can be effective if you can push effects to the backline; more situational than others.
Holy Laser (borderline A/S depending on build) — If you don’t support it, it’s merely good; with support it’s S.
If you like fast, aggressive play, Iron Ball + Lightning upgrades gives satisfying burst windows.
C Tier
These balls can work if your run naturally supports them, but often they’re mediocre investments.
Leech — Bleed-oriented; requires synergies like Vampire Lord to become meaningful. On its own it’s too slow.
Noxious / Poison — Poison deals small damage over time and costs a lot to stack; usually outperformed by bleed or freeze options.
Freeze Ray / Rays — They hit lines or columns but demand a ton of upgrades to match other aoe options.
Egg Sack (base) — Splits into weak mini-balls; okay early but underwhelming without evolution.
Virus — Interesting spread mechanic, decent vs clustered mobs but poor vs bosses.
Vampire / Vampire Lord — Heavily dependent on bleed stacks; excellent in theory but hard to reliably exploit.
Try Leech/Vampire only if you find both early and get bleed-support trinkets quickly — otherwise skip.
D Tier
These are lackluster except in very niche scenarios.
Broodmother (lower evolutions) — Too dependent on getting to the backline or on other synergies.
Glacier (if heavily invested in other directions) — Useful freeze, but often outclassed by Blizzard or Wraith combos.
Wind / Ghost (base) — Utility is okay but damage and consistency lag.
F Tier
These can actively ruin runs because they demand time and resources but don’t provide commensurate payoff.
Bomb — Massive downtime between throws; explosion mechanics and long cooldowns make it a liability.
Hemorrhage — High bleed stacks but extremely narrow utility and poor crowd impact. It’s effectively a boss-only tool and often punishes your progression.
Shotgun / Baby-ball mechanics — Many baby-ball evolutions die on impact and don’t do sustained damage; expensive and underperforming.
Certain pod-based evolved balls that produce only low-damage offshoots — Costly evolutions that produce weak outputs.
If you find one of these, don’t funnel resources unless you are deliberately building a gimmick run.
Notable synergies & combos (practical recipes)
Holy Laser + Wraith — Map-level freezing + life-steal = control + sustain. Very safe.
Magma + Earthquake-style knock/aoe trinkets — Turns Magma into a consistent room clearer.
Wraith + Healing-on-kill trinket — Amplifies the life-steal into a meaningful regen loop.
Leech + Vampire Lord — Bleed-to-heal loop — powerful but fragile and hard to assemble early.
Iron Ball + Bounce Speed (rubber band) — Raw DPS machine; great early-mid spikes.
Sandstorm + AoE Damage Multipliers — Blind keeps enemies from attacking while you melt them.
If I had to give one short piece of advice: treat Ball x Pit like a risk-management game. The best runs are the ones that combine reliable map-clear (Holy Laser, Magma, Iron Ball) with a single supporting niche (Wraith for sustain, Sandstorm for blind control). Don’t chase flavor evolutions unless you’ve already secured a stable core — the game punishes overcommitment.