The gacha game genre is one of the most popular in the mobile gaming space, with dozens of games with gacha elements being released on a regular basis. Monumental successes such as Marvel Snap and Genshin Impact are taking the gaming world by storm as millions of players flock to collect the plethora of beautiful characters and units on offer.
Arknights has been one of the most successful gacha games on the market ever since its release five years ago. It's a tactical tower defense game in which players must assemble a team of operators to take on waves of enemy characters. A good medic is the lifeblood of any team and a must-have for those hoping to make it past the first wave. The best medics Arknights are therefore highly desirable.
7 Lumen
Lumen is a medic with the wide range archetype. Lumen's character model is a slender young man with blue and black hair and pointed ears wearing a black and blue robe and a white feathered blouse. Lumen is not an easily obtained operator, as he is of six-star rarity. However, this rarity reflects how valuable he is on the battlefield.
Lumen excels at ranged healing but shines as he can provide a series of resistances to his team. Lumen can heal multiple targets at once and cleanse allies affected by status effects. Unfortunately, Lumen has long charge times that can sometimes work against the player.
6 Silence
Silence is a five-star operator modeled as a young girl with glasses. She has brown hair and feathered ears similar to an owl and wears an oversized cloak. Silence is a ranged medic who can utilize several skills and traits to provide steady healing regardless of position.
However, silence's most valuable skill is her ability to place drones on the battlefield which will provide AOE healing to nearby allies. While these drones do cost deployment points to utilize, they are still incredibly helpful in increasing a character's survivability.
5 Mulberry
Mulberry is another five-star operator whose model is a timid young girl wearing a white dress and a feathered black cloak shaped like a pair of wings. She wields a large polearm and possesses the ranged medic archetype. Mulberry is an excellent medic for taking on missions with elemental hazards and bosses that trigger elemental effects.
Mulberry can heal both HP and elemental damage while providing an attack speed boost at the same time. Mulberry does suffer from high skill point cost and longer cooldown, but what hinders her the most is doing less healing than other mages without the wandering medic archetype.
4 Honeyberry
Honeyberry is a five-star medic also possessing the wandering medic archetype. Honeyberry's model is that of a young girl with gray hair, fox ears, and a tail, wearing a white dress and black coat. Honeyberry has a wide range for her attacks and heals, able to heal multiple targets of elemental damage at once.
While Honeyberry's shining achievement is her range, she is also the lowest-cost operator of medic archetypes. Unfortunately, players will probably end up having to pair Honeyberry with a secondary medic due to her low continuous healing.
3 Kal'tsit
Kal'tsit is a ranged medic with the support archetype. She is a rare six-star operator and will not be easy to obtain. Kal'Tsit has a mature female model with white hair and fox ears, wearing an olive gown and white trench coat. Kal'tsit is a very useful unit that has low skill point cost and quick redeploy capability.
In addition, Kal'tsit also summons a familiar that can deal heavy damage on the battlefield. Kal'tsit' can easily sustain her team with her large heal range, but she costs extra deployment points for her summon. Kal'tsit has seen an increase in popularity after her appearance in the Arknights: Prelude to Dawn anime series.
2 Shining
Shining is a six-star support medic with powerful buff skills and great sustain heals, making her a great addition to any team. Shining predominately provides steady healing for allies in range but can also provide a powerful defense boost to multiple allies.
Shining can boost ally defense numbers even higher by combining her skill activations. In addition, Shining can place a two-second shield on allies that may need extra protection when facing down powerful bosses or mobs of enemies.
1 Nightingale
Nightingale is arguably the best healer in Arknights, with major points for the number of targets she can heal on top of having the AOE healer archetype. Nightingale's model is a young girl with extremely long blonde hair wearing a white dress and wielding a staff.
Nightingale is great for tanky team compositions as she can sustain up to three targets at once thanks to her trait. Nightingale can also improve ally resistance, which will ultimately increase their survivability immensely.
Arknights is available on mobile devices.