Games like Evil Dead: The Game pride themselves on balance. In this instance, they do a great job as the best teams likely have one support, one hunter, one warrior, and one leader. But if there had to be one, single best class, that's strongly leaning toward the support class at this stage.
Barring a massive patch for Evil Dead: The Game, supports have become critical to any mission's success. It's unreasonable to expect to take no damage and these long matches somehow have very scarce healing. Any support hero can help out with this, but some are just a cut above the rest.
3 Pablo Simon Bolivar
Ability | Effect |
Gift From El Brujo Especial | Activate this skill to begin creating an amulet and then drop it to the ground on completion. |
Infernal Camouflage | Demons are no longer able to detect you using Demon Vision. |
Legacy Of El Brujo | Begin the match with an additional amulet. |
Shamanic Protection | Your shield bar will gradually recover over time until you have at least one full bar. |
When players come together from across platforms, they can generally come to a consensus that Pablo needs a serious buff before he's on the level of the other support survivors. Of his four abilities, three of them only benefit himself, not the team.
The one exception is his ability to make more amulets which is reasonably helpful, but it's on a preposterous two-minute cooldown timer. The other two support options can provide more overall healing on shorter cooldowns. Shields are grand and all, but Pablo does do enough for them to make them account for his lack of healing.
2 Cheryl Williams
Ability | Effect |
Healing Touch | Activate this ability to create a healing zone for you and your teammates. |
Cola Coaster | Carry more Shemp's Cola and start the match with an extra one in your inventory. |
Contact Courage | Drinking a Shemp's Cola partially reduces your fear and the fear of nearby teammates. |
Contact Healing | When you drink a Shemp's Cola, nearby teammates will also gain health. |
Cheryl is the most typical healer of the support survivors, sharing her healing through Shemp's Colas. Since she shares the benefits, friends that play together should make sure she gets first dibs on any Shemp's Colas found lying around.
The Healing Touch zone is absolutely overpowered, usually topping off an entire team's health and negating the work that opponent deadites have done trying to whittle down the health bars of the survivors. The only thing that keeps her from topping the list is her reliance on Shemp's Cola; when they run out on a run with bad luck on drops, only one of her abilities works.
1 Ash Williams (The Evil Dead)
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Ability | Effect |
Reassuring Presence | When activated, this ability reduces fear levels for you and nearby teammates. |
Alternative Healing | Successful heavy melee attacks partially restore health for you and nearby teammates. |
Marked Target: Damage | Headshots will mark the target; a follow up shot from a teammate will deal additional damage. |
Marked Target: Healing | Headshots will mark the target; a follow up shot from a teammate will restore a percentage of the damage back to them as health. |
The active ability for Ash essentially eliminates fear as a viable asset for the enemy. With a cooldown of only a minute, Ash should use this ability every time and keep everyone's fear bars empty. Only a teammate trying to max out their fear bar will have any success and, even then, they'll have to run far away to make that happen.
Lifesteal is something that feels excessively powerful in the gaming world and it hasn't changed with this addition. Ash can use heavy attacks to heal his team or fire off a headshot to heal his team. Without any cooldowns on his three healing abilities, human opponents will often give up the instant they see a support Ash.
Evil Dead: The Game was released on May 13th, 2022, and is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.