Best character to choose in Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary banner

Like every year, Kuro Games offers a Special Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary banner to celebrate the game's ongoing festivities. The banner or Special Research lets you pick older units at a 100% rate-up and can be quite beneficial if you're a newbie in Punishing Gray Raven. But if you aren't careful, you might end up choosing someone who won't be quite helpful while fighting the hordes of corrupted and hetero creatures.

This article will go over the best choices from the Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary banner that you can select.

Note: This articles based on the author's opinion.

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Top S-rank units to get from Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary Banner

The character pool for the ongoing Special Research banner has almost all of the S-Rank constructs till Alpha: Crimson Weave. The recent constructs, No 21: Feral and Alisa: Echo are unfortunately not included in this banner. But you can get only one S-Rank from this banner. So be very careful before using your Black Cards/ Research Tickets on this ongoing Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary patch's special banner.

Here are the best picks for the Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary banner:

Top priority

The Special Banner page (Image via Kuro Games)

Damage is the name of the game, so go for any Gen 2 attacker unit you might miss. The following S-rank attacker constructs are the best picks to obtain from the banner.

• Alpha: Crimson Weave - Best Lightning attacker in the game currently and bound to receive Leap upgrades in the future.
• Bianca: Stigmata - Currently, the strongest Physical attacker, and like Crimson Weave, she will get Leap upgrades, making her even stronger.
• Lee: Hyperreal - Will be a viable choice for a Fire DPS till Lucia's new frame replaces him in one year.

Worth picking up

Liv: Emprya is one of the must-pick choices from the Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary banner (Image via Kuro Games)

While the Gen 2 attackers are the creme de la creme of the game right now, the following characters can be a worthy choice if you decide to pull in the Punishing Gray Raven 3rd Anniversary banner.

• Rosetta: Rigor - Will remain the game's strongest Physical tank till the S-Rank frame for Hanying comes in about one year.
• Vera: Garnet - The go-to tank for the Lightning team for the foreseeable future.
• Liv: Emprya - The strongest Fire support character and a must-pick for any content if you do not have access to other Amplifiers.
• Karenina: Scire - Currently, the best Dark tank and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
• Chrome: Glory - The meta and the only S-Rank Ice tank in the game and will be viable till Wanshi: Lucid Dreamer debuts.
• Lucia: Plume - Will be viable as an Ice DPS till Qu: Shukra rolls out in a few months.

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We have excluded characters who don't perform well in the meta, can be obtained for free, have been powercrept, or are about to be replaced by a newer unit. We advise that you don't pull for these constructs and save your precious Black Cards and Research Tickets for future characters.