Building the right team in Arknights: Endfield matters far more than just owning strong characters. Endgame content is less about raw stats and more about how well your operators interact through inflictions, combo skills, SP flow, and survivability.
This guide breaks down the best-performing team compositions in the current V1.0 meta, covering early-game, free-to-play setups, and optimized elemental teams that excel in Algorithmic Memories and other high-difficulty content.
These teams are based on practical performance, consistency, and how forgiving they are during real gameplay, not just theorycrafting.
General Team-Building
A strong Endfield team usually follows three rules:
- One clear carry that converts inflictions into damage
- Reliable SP generation to maintain skill uptime
- At least one enabler or amplifier that boosts damage through debuffs, links, or susceptibilities
Pure damage without support collapses quickly in harder content, while overly defensive teams struggle to meet damage checks.
Best Arknights Endfield Free-to-Play (F2P) Base Team
Recommended Team
- Endministrator – Main DPS
- Chen Qianyu – Sub DPS / Vulnerable Applier
- Perlica – Support / Infliction Enabler
- Akekuri – SP Battery
This is the strongest and most reliable early-game and F2P-friendly team available.
Endministrator functions as a straightforward Physical carry, while Chen Qianyu applies consistent Vulnerable stacks that dramatically improve team damage. Perlica enables elemental interactions and smooths out rotations, and Akekuri keeps SP flowing thanks to frequent stagger triggers.
If you pulled Arclight, she can replace Akekuri for better long-term scaling, but Akekuri remains perfectly serviceable early on.
Do not overinvest heavily here except into Endministrator. This team exists to carry you until higher-rarity units become available.
Best Heat Team (Highest Raw DPS)
Recommended Team
- Laevatain – Main DPS
- Wulfgard – Heat Enabler
- Akekuri – SP Battery
- Ardelia – Sustain / Corrosion Support
This is currently the strongest Heat-based team in the game.
Laevatain’s damage skyrockets when properly fed Heat inflictions. Wulfgard ensures near-constant Heat application, while Akekuri stabilizes skill rotations. Ardelia rounds out the comp with healing and Corrosion, which is critical for triggering Laevatain’s combo interactions.
If you want more damage and are confident in execution, Ardelia can be swapped for Gilberta, but you lose a significant amount of safety.
This team deletes bosses but requires decent mechanical familiarity.
Best Cryo Team (High DPS + Control)
Recommended Team
- Yvonne – Main DPS
- Xaihi – Cryo Enabler / Solidification
- Fluorite – Damage Amplifier
- Gilberta – Buffs & Sustain
This composition is terrifying once it comes online.
Yvonne becomes absurdly strong as soon as she consistently receives Solidification from Xaihi. Fluorite pushes the team further by triggering bonus Nature explosions whenever Cryo or Nature stacks reach critical thresholds.
Gilberta keeps the team stable with healing and buffs, making this one of the most complete Cryo teams available.
High damage, strong control, and surprisingly safe once mastered.
Best Electric Team
Recommended Team
- Avywenna – Main DPS
- Arclight – Electric Damage Amplifier
- Perlica – Infliction Enabler
- Ardelia – Sustain
This is the best Electric composition currently available.
Avywenna outputs unmatched Electric damage, but she requires precision and good positioning. Arclight massively boosts Electric damage through her passive scaling, while Perlica ensures Electric inflictions are constantly available to fuel combos.
Ardelia is mandatory here for survivability, as Electric teams tend to play aggressively.
This team has a learning curve, but once mastered, it clears content extremely fast.
Best Physical Team (Combo-Oriented)
Recommended Team
- Endministrator – Main DPS
- Pogranichnik – SP Generator
- Lifeng – Physical Enabler
- Ember – Shielding & Knockdown
This Physical team focuses on combo chaining and control.
Pogranichnik supplies SP while contributing respectable damage. Lifeng enables Attack Link and Physical susceptibility, and Ember provides shields, healing, and Knock Down, which allows Endministrator to unleash extended combo chains.
The downside is availability. Most of these units are harder to obtain, so this is more of a mid-to-late game transition team rather than an early goal.
Last Rite Cryo Hyper Carry Team
Recommended Team
- Last Rite – Main DPS
- Xaihi – Cryo Enabler
- Ardelia – Amplifier & Sustain
- Perlica – Additional Damage Scaling
If you missed Yvonne but pulled Last Rite, you’re still in great shape.
Last Rite thrives on heavy Cryo application. Xaihi feeds Cryo stacks, Ardelia amplifies damage through debuffs, and Perlica adds extra scaling through Electrification interactions.
This team is slightly less explosive than Yvonne’s comp but more stable and easier to pilot in longer fights.
Pogranichnik Crowd Control Team
Recommended Team
- Pogranichnik – Main DPS / SP Core
- Lifeng – Enabler
- Chen Qianyu – Crowd Control & Vulnerable
- Ardelia – Sustain & Corrosion
This composition turns Pogranichnik into a control-heavy damage dealer.
Chen and Lifeng stack crowd control effects to keep enemies locked down while constantly feeding combo opportunities. Ardelia’s Corrosion further increases damage taken, allowing Pogranichnik to punch above his weight.
This team excels in stages where enemy control matters more than raw burst.
