All Playable Characters in The First Descendant, explored

The First Descendant does not have the broader class customization approach of MMORPGs. Instead, its titular Descendants are similar to Warframes - they all sport their unique set of Skills (abilities). Customization comes down to how you bolster them through skill modifiers via Modules, but the skills are what give them their distinct playstyle, which you have to adapt to.

The Descendants still more or less align towards one or two archetypal MMO roles - DPS, support, control, or tank. In this article, we have gathered all the playable characters available in The First Descendant right now, so that you can look at their skillset at a glimpse.

The First Descendant: All Descendants and their Skills

The Character classes in TFD (Image via Nexon)

Ajax, The Liberated Guardian

Role: Tank

Description: Ajax is the tank of the team and can use various void-themed attacks and skills to distort the enemies and help the team break into enemy lines. This Descendant is the most reminiscent of Rhino from Warframe.

Skills:

Event Horizon: Accumulates Void Energy as the battle rages on.
Expulsion: Delivers a forceful blow that knocks back nearby adversaries. (Enhanced version expands the knockback range and reinforces Max Shield)
Hypercube: Manifests a dome-shaped barrier. Its durability scales with Ajax's HP and DEF.
Orbit Barrier: Generates a frontal shield before Ajax. Its resilience increases relative to his HP and DEF.
Void Walk: Launches himself into the air, slamming down to stun nearby foes upon landing.

Blair, Deadly Cook

Role: DoT

Description: The Pyromancer is all about burning your enemies to a crisp. Blair is one of the best damage dealers in the game. This is the generic fire-mage character in The First Descendant.

Skills:

Blaze up: Belches forth flames that scathe nearby enemies and births a Stove.
Burn Taste: Spews a stream of flames forward, continuously damaging and igniting foes. ◦
Deadly Cuisine: Hurls a massive fireball that fragments into smaller explosive rounds. The blasts inflict Burn and leave Stoves in their wake.
Extinguish: Reabsorbs the Stoves littering the battlefield, replenishing Mana. As Stoves are reclaimed, DEF temporarily rises.
Pitmaster: Amplifies Critical Hit Damage against burning adversaries. More Stoves increase his Critical Hit Chance.

Bunny, The Speedster

Role: Nuker

Description: Bunny is a living dynamo, harnessing kinetic energy through ceaseless motion to unleash devastating electrified strikes. Ever the jovial speedster, this is the de-facto poster-girl character of The First Descendant

Skills:

Light Speeding: Enhances sprint velocity and the rate of Electricity accumulation.
Lightning Emission: Her movements scathe nearby foes with electrifying damage and the Electrocute effect.
Maximum Power: Discharges a bolt of electricity forward, its damage scaling with charge duration.
Rabbit Foot: Builds up an electrostatic charge through movement. After a double jump, she shocks nearby enemies upon landing.
Thrill Bomb: Calls forth an Electro Orb that assails nearby adversaries with the Electrocute status.

Freyna, Dominator of Venom

Role: DoT

Description: She is the poisoner. With her toxins, she can do gradual damage. This venom-dispensing character is the favoured DPS character for many First Descendant players.

Skills:

Decomposed Poison: Unleashes poison to form a toxic Swamp. Foes entering are continually harmed and afflicted with Poisoned Footprints.
Defense Mechanism: Drastically fortifies DEF. Attacks have a chance to curse enemies with Room 0 Trauma.
Toxic Trauma: Flings poison at the target, damaging them and inflicting Room 0 Trauma on nearby foes.
Unauthorized Bullet: Augmented damage against enemies poisoned by Freyna's abilities.
Venomous Baptism: Switches to the deadly Deadroom weapon. Any struck by it suffer Room 0 Trauma.

Each character serves a different role (Image via Nexon)

Gley, Hope Seeker

Role: DPS

Description: Embracing unrestrained risk, the more she expends her HP, the mightier her attacks become. The de-facto blood-mage character in The First Descendant.

Skills:

Frenzied: Consumes her own HP to enter a Berserk state that increases ranged weapon ATK and Penetration.
Increased Sensory: Generates a zone with unique properties. In Berserk mode, it negates bullet consumption. In Normal mode, it restores HP within.
Life Siphon: Harms nearby enemies while replenishing HP. In Berserk mode, damage amplifies. In Normal mode, it briefly reduces incoming damage.
Massacre: Her weapon transforms into the vicious Nosferatu. In Berserk mode, skill damage rises. In Normal mode, struck foes are stunned.
Thirst: Fallen enemies leave behind Life Spheres that restore HP and grant stacks of Power of Life.

Jayber, The Genius Engineer

Role: Utility

Description: He exerts command over the battlefield through deployable turrets whose capabilities intensify when tactically enhanced. This is The First Descendant's version of the Engineer character in Risk of Rain 2.

Skills:

Assault Turret: Deploys an offensive turret to engage the enemy. When enhanced, it extends its attack radius.
Medical Turret: Summons a support turret that heals allies and distracts foes. The enhanced version replenishes Mana.
Multi-Purpose Gun: Switches to a multipurpose firearm. If struck by it, turrets enter an enhanced state.
Reactivate: Recalls all active turrets while unleashing a powerful strike on nearby enemies. Afterward, turrets respawn in their enhanced forms during Overhaul mode.
Turret Sync: Increases ATK while both offensive and support turrets are deployed.

Kyle, The Controller

Role: Tank

Description: As an unflinching vanguard, Kyle manipulates powerful magnetic fields to absorb and redirect hostile ordnance. The magneto archetype of The First Descnedant, Kyle is arguably the best tank available in the game.

Skills:

Experienced Technician: Generates Magnetic Force through skills. When his Shield breaks, it restores both Shield and Magnetic Force.
Magnetic Bulwark: Projects a frontal Barrier that defends against enemy attacks.
Magnetism Spurt: When damaged, Magnetic Force depletes instead of HP or Shields. After a delay, it detonates to unleash explosive force.
Repulsion Dash: Charges forcefully into enemies, dealing damage upon impact. ◦
Superconductivity Thrusters: Allows Kyle to take flight. Upon landing, it creates an explosive area of effect around the impact zone.

Lepic, The Final Grenadier

Role: Nuker

Description: Lepic's sophisticated prosthetic limb and arsenal of explosives allow him to dominate the battlefield through sheer destructive force. One of the starter characters in The First Descendant, Lepic fits the unassuming commando archetype the most.

Skills:

Close Call: Gives a chance to survive what would otherwise be a fatal attack.
Grenade: Lobs an explosive grenade toward the enemy. (Overclock adds a Burn effect)
Overclock: Temporarily increases all skill damage and applies Burn to Grenade and Overkill.
Overkill: Fires a devastatingly powerful explosive shell that lingers to continuously damage the area. (Overclock adds Burn)
Traction Grenade: Unleashes a grenade that violently pulls in enemies within range.

Dominate the game with your favorite class (Image via Nexon)

Sharen, The Assassin in Shadows

Role: Close Range

Description: The cybernetic overhaul from a past incident has transformed her into a nightmarishly efficient assassin. The one and only camouflage spy character in The First Descendant, Sharen is very similar to Zer0 from Borderlands 2.

Skills:

Active Camouflage: Conceals Sharen from enemy perception. Attacking or using skills ends the effect prematurely, entering Ambush mode to boost her next attack's damage.
Assassinator: Increases damage against enemies not currently targeting Sharen.
Cutoff Beam: Slashes enemies with an electrified blade, shocking them with the Electrocute effect.
Flash Shortsword: Hurls a volley of explosive knives at targeted enemies, detonating to deal damage and Electrocute.
Impact Rounds: Launches compact explosives from her arm, stunning those caught in the blasts.

Valby, The Shape of Water

Role: Nuker, Utility

Description: One of the most popular characters in The First Descendant, Valby commands extreme hydraulic pressures far exceeding the lethality of any ballistic projectile.

Skills:

Bubble Bullet: Bounces a water sphere that creates small damaging puddles where it lands and under Valby's feet. Enemies in puddles take damage over time and are inflicted with Laundry.
Laundry: Valby liquefies, becoming unable to leave watery surfaces but gaining increased Movement Speed and DEF. Moving leaves a trail of damaging water that inflicts Laundry.
Laundry Bomb: Equips a launcher that fires Laundry Bombs - these pull in and continuously damage Laundry-afflicted foes.
Plop Plop: Forms a wide damaging puddle, allowing Valby to submerge and reemerge elsewhere within it while afflicting enemies with Laundry.
Passive, Water Intake: Reduces Mana consumption of skills when standing in water.

Viessa, The Cold-Blooded Hunter

Role: Debuffer

Description: Viessa wields unnatural mastery over atmospheric moisture, freezing it into deadly shards and permafrost that immobilize those caught in her icy wake. The Chill-inducing ice-mage character in The First Descendant.

Skills

Cold Snap: Conjures an explosive frozen tempest that damages and afflicts enemies with Ice Shackle.
Frost Road: Increases Movement Speed and Shield while leaving behind Ice Sheets that Shackle foes pass over them.
Frost Shards: fires an explosive ice projectile that damages all the enemies around the target.
Ice Sphere: Lowers the temperature in the surrounding area
Ice Wave: Release an icy attack in the area in front of her in an arc pattern.

Esiemo, The Explosive Master

Role: Nuker, Tank

Description: The gruff gunpowder-toting demolitionist character in The First Descendant. Eseimo's mojo is to charge headlong into battle, weakening his enemies before he detotnates them with well-timed explosives.

Passive: Adventitious Habit. When his shields fully deplete, Esiemo drops a bomblet on the ground to damage enemies surrounding him. 30 second cooldown between uses.

Skills:

Time Bomb: Throw a quartet of sticky bombs on the ground, one by one, and then...
Blast: ...Detonante them, dealing damage in an area.
Guided Landmine: Finds its way to the first enemy in an area, and explodes to deal high damage.
Arche Explosion: Esiemo charges up a bull-rush and sprints into enemies, dealing Fire damage, stripping them of their buffs, and gaining defensive stat boosts.

Enzo, The Best Quartermaster

Role: Support, Utility

Description: The moniker of 'the Best Quarter' fits Enzo well - as he can give you everything you need against overwhelming odds. As the firepower increases for the battle, so do the spoils. Enzo is currently the only loot-boosting character in The First Descendant.

Passive: Fire Supporter. Passively increases the ammunition pool of his squad, and grants greater rewards when Enzo successfully decrypts an Encrypted Vault.

Skills:

Start Supply: Spawn ammunition to fuel the fight ahead for all your allies.
Explosive Drone: Strike the targeted enemy cluster for a chunk of Non-Attribute damage.
Enhance Combat Suit: Spawn a support unit that attaches to Enzo and grants him additional Shield Recovery Speed.
Perfect Support: A Supply Ship comes to your aid, firing at enemies ahead, granting you five instances of Supply Ammunition, and goes out in a blaze of glory by firing a missile when it expires.

Yujin, The Gruff Medic

Role: Healer

Description: Yujin is the designated healer character in The First Descendant. If all you need in your team comp is some sustain through heavy fire, Yujin's bedside manner is unbeatable.

Passive: Stop Overreacting. Enzo rescues downed allies much faster, and grants them 'Additional Prescription'. The HP pool of the ally doubles for 10 seconds afterwards.

Skills:

Solidarity Healing: Summon a healing drone that attaches to allies. After it's gone, the lingering warmth galvanized the ally, granting them increased weapon damage and skill damage.
Restructure Serum: Cast the 'Allergy' debuff on targeted enemies. Shooting them heals your allies, and allies who kill them gain another bout of healing.
Stimulant Spray: Grant 'Stimulation' to allies, reducing all incoming damage on them. As the buff ends, allies regain health based on how many times they were hit.
Hyperreactive Healing Ground: Casts a rejuvenating dome, healing all allies within, and dispelling debuffs. Once it goes away, allies also gain 'Hyper Activity', which increases weapon damage and skill damage.

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Edited by Ritoban "Veloxi" Paul