ARKNIGHTS: ENDFIELD CONTINGENCY CONTRACT OPERATOR TIER LIST
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Contingency Contract: Re-Ignition Experimental Operation is live from June 19 to July 16, 2026, and it changes which operators matter. The mode lets you stack optional Test Criteria (risk modifiers that buff enemies or weaken your squad) for a higher total risk score, and the criteria specifically punish skill spam, combo and battle-skill reliance, healing, and crowd control. That reshuffles the roster: this is not the same ranking as our general character tier list, which answers "who do I pull". This page answers a narrower question, "who beats the Contingency Contract risk board", and the two lists diverge hard.
Every operator here is scored against all 41 Test Criteria using the same engine that powers the Contingency Contract Modifier Dashboard. The headline number is free risk points: the total in-game risk value of every criterion an operator's kit neutralizes or turns to its advantage. A unit that ignores a big chunk of the board lets you stack those points for free, which is exactly what you want when Risk 20 already caps every reward and the rest is a survivability and damage check. For the mode's mechanics, the reward cap, and 69 community sharing codes, start at the Contingency Contract hub.
Quick Answer: Best Operators for Contingency Contract
The best Contingency Contract operators are Laevatain, Zhuang Fangyi, Tangtang, Yvonne, Mi Fu, and Wulfgard. They neutralize the most Test Criteria or carry the highest-risk brackets outright. Estella is the easiest Risk 40 enabler thanks to her cryo-immunity talent, and off-meta picks like Catcher and solo carries like Ardelia clear high risk on their own. You do not need meta DPS: Risk 20 caps every reward.
Read the rankings as bands. The Contingency Contract tier is the ranking, and the free risk points column is the objective signal behind it: how many risk modifiers each kit neutralizes. Where a unit scores high on the metric but still lands a tier lower (Fluorite is the clearest case), the reasoning is in the band notes below.
Full Operator Ranking by CC Tier
All 27 current operators, ranked by their Contingency Contract tier from SS down to C, and ordered within each tier by free risk points. The Criteria Neutralized column counts how many of the 41 Test Criteria each kit shrugs off or exploits, and Free Risk Pts sums their in-game risk value. The Gen. Tier column is each operator's placement on the general tier list, so you can see at a glance how different the Contingency Contract meta is: several general C and B tier operators climb well above general S tier picks here.
The divergence between the last two columns is the whole point. Durability, a strong SP economy, and reaction damage that scales off enemy HP neutralize more of this board than raw single-target ceiling does, so the Contingency Contract order is genuinely its own ranking rather than a reskin of the general list.
The Tier Bands
Below, each band groups the operators by their Contingency Contract tier and explains the picks, with a per-operator card showing the exact Test Criteria that kit is favoured by. Within each band, operators are ordered by free risk points.
SS Tier: Defines CC Clears
These six operators define how Contingency Contract is cleared right now. Most of them also top the free risk points column outright, because the punishing Test Criteria cluster around the same handful of kits. If you own any of them, they belong on your board.
SS Tier for Contingency Contract
Defines CC clears: neutralizes the most punishing criteria or carries the highest-risk brackets outright
Favoured by 14 criteria
Vitality · Sustained AoE Combustion keeps ticking across waves, melting the inflated HP pools over time.
Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
Battle Chill · Rarely casts battle skills, so it avoids the self-applied Solidification.
Encasement · Deals damage without piling on the stacks that would shield the enemy.
Heat Loss · Light on combo-skill usage, dodging the self-applied Solidification.
Overclock · Damage leans on ultimate/basic attacks, so the combo and battle-skill nerf barely lands.
Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
Restraint · Deals damage without applying the inflictions that trigger the penalty.
Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
Thermolysis · Heat skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 14 criteria
- Encasement · Deals damage without piling on the stacks that would shield the enemy.
- Restraint · Deals damage without applying the inflictions that trigger the penalty.
- Battle Chill · Rarely casts battle skills, so it avoids the self-applied Solidification.
Effect Barrier · Does not depend on rapidly re-applying inflictions.
Electrolysis · Electric skills cleanse the forced Solidification.- Heat Loss · Light on combo-skill usage, dodging the self-applied Solidification.
- Overclock · Damage leans on ultimate/basic attacks, so the combo and battle-skill nerf barely lands.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
- Rush · Continuous Thunder Strikes are sustained ticks, not one big hit, so they slip under the per-instant burst cap.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Favoured by 11 criteria
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 11 criteria
- Vitality · Consuming Solidification delivers a burst spike sized for high-HP single targets.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 11 criteria
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Rush · Cloudtrapper's pull yanks the sped-up enemies into one cluster, cancelling their mobility advantage.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Bent Edges · Damage comes from skills and basics rather than repeated ultimates.- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.- Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Favoured by 9 criteria
- Vitality · Stacked Combustion shreds inflated boss HP pools, since reaction damage scales with the enemy health bar.
- Tremor · Combustion is off-skill reaction damage, so it rides the +100% bonus rather than eating the battle-skill nerf.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Thermolysis · Heat skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
Wulfgard is the clearest editorial call in this tier. His Combustion is reaction damage that scales off the enemy health bar and rides the off-skill damage bonus, so it shrugs off the battle-skill and combo nerfs that wreck most carries and grinds through the Vitality (enemy +HP) criteria that gate the highest brackets. Laevatain, Zhuang Fangyi, Tangtang, Yvonne, and Mi Fu round out the tier as the carries and controllers the most free risk points pile onto.
S Tier: Core CC Picks
S tier is where Contingency Contract gets practical: each pick is the best answer to a specific Test Criteria problem. Estella sits here despite a modest free risk points score, because her cryo-immunity talent is the single mechanic behind the easiest documented Risk 40 clear. As the controlled operator she defuses the cryo-on-skill criteria that punish high risk, a qualitative superpower the raw criteria count cannot fully price in.
S Tier for Contingency Contract
Core CC picks: each one solves a specific Test Criteria problem better than anything else
Favoured by 10 criteria
- Electrolysis · Her Electric skills cleanse the forced Solidification while she keeps stacking Forced Electrification.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Favoured by 10 criteria
- Weaken · His SP management keeps the team's rotations and ultimates flowing despite the flat attribute cut.
- Battle Chill · Rarely casts battle skills, so it avoids the self-applied Solidification.
- Electrolysis · Electric skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Encasement · Deals damage without piling on the stacks that would shield the enemy.
- Heat Loss · Light on combo-skill usage, dodging the self-applied Solidification.
- Overclock · Damage leans on ultimate/basic attacks, so the combo and battle-skill nerf barely lands.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Restraint · Deals damage without applying the inflictions that trigger the penalty.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Favoured by 9 criteria
Withering · She compresses team healing into one slot, so the squad stays topped up without the between-wave Healing Masses.- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Whittle Down · Avoids or absorbs incoming damage, limiting the Max HP erosion.
Favoured by 11 criteria
- Time Limit · His team-wide Haste buff speeds up the whole squad, clawing back the shortened timer.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Effect Barrier · Does not depend on rapidly re-applying inflictions.
- Encasement · Deals damage without piling on the stacks that would shield the enemy.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
- Restraint · Deals damage without applying the inflictions that trigger the penalty.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Favoured by 9 criteria
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Withering · Her built-in healing keeps a low-spec squad alive even with no Healing Masses between waves.
Biolysis · Nature skills cleanse the forced Solidification.- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Favoured by 7 criteria
- Poor Basics · Damage is routed through his high ultimate multipliers, so the basic-attack nerf barely touches him.
- Battle Chill · Rarely casts battle skills, so it avoids the self-applied Solidification.
- Encasement · Deals damage without piling on the stacks that would shield the enemy.
- Heat Loss · Light on combo-skill usage, dodging the self-applied Solidification.
- Overclock · Damage leans on ultimate/basic attacks, so the combo and battle-skill nerf barely lands.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Restraint · Deals damage without applying the inflictions that trigger the penalty.
Favoured by 6 criteria
- Heat Loss · Cryo specialist: the self-applied Cryo Infliction and Solidification feed her kit instead of freezing her out.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Battle Chill · Cryo specialist: the self-applied Cryo Infliction and Solidification feed her kit instead of freezing her out.
- Bent Edges · Damage comes from skills and basics rather than repeated ultimates.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Favoured by 5 criteria
- Rush · Best-in-class grouping drags the sped-up swarm together before it can scatter.
- Biolysis · Nature skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Rossi's team-wide Haste claws back the Time Limit criterion, Xaihi compresses team healing into one slot so Withering (no heals between waves) barely lands, and Perlica with Arclight keeps the electric reaction core firing through the skill nerfs. Read the free risk points column to see which of these solve the criteria you actually plan to stack.
A Tier: Strong Situational
A tier is strong but conditional. Fluorite is the headline example of why this page shows the raw metric and the editorial tier side by side: she posts one of the highest free risk points totals on the board, because her combo skills sit on a 40 second cooldown and sidestep the combo-cost criteria entirely, yet her general kit lacks a team core and her rotation is sluggish, so she lands in A rather than near the top. Treat the metric as a signal, not a verdict.
A Tier for Contingency Contract
Strong situational: excellent against the right criteria board, skippable against the wrong one
Favoured by 11 criteria
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Bent Edges · Damage comes from skills and basics rather than repeated ultimates.
- Biolysis · Nature skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Heat Loss · Her combo skills sit on a 40s cooldown, so she almost never casts them and dodges the self-applied Cryo.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Favoured by 8 criteria
- Battle Chill · He force-converts Cryo Infliction into Solidification, so the self-applied Cryo becomes usable resource rather than a hindrance.
- Heat Loss · He force-converts Cryo Infliction into Solidification, so the self-applied Cryo becomes usable resource rather than a hindrance.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 8 criteria
- Vitality · He generates and consumes his own Vulnerability for Crush burst, chunking high-HP targets without outside setup.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 8 criteria
- Thrill · His reliable shields wall off the amplified enemy damage for the squad.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Whittle Down · Avoids or absorbs incoming damage, limiting the Max HP erosion.
- Withering · Brings its own sustain, so losing between-wave healing barely matters.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
Favoured by 8 criteria
- Decapitate · His shields and sustain trivialise survival, so the doubled damage on the active operator is a non-issue.
- Thrill · Tanky, ranged or well-healed, so the enemy damage spike is survivable.
- Withering · Brings its own sustain, so losing between-wave healing barely matters.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Whittle Down · Avoids or absorbs incoming damage, limiting the Max HP erosion.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Thermolysis · Heat skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
Favoured by 7 criteria
- Bent Edges · Her infinite combo chains carry the damage, so capping repeated ultimates barely dents her.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Electrolysis · Electric skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Favoured by 7 criteria
- Vitality · A dedicated boss killer whose stacked Cryo burst multipliers are built to chunk inflated single-target HP.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Regeneration · Bursts targets down rather than leaning on crowd control that now heals them.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 7 criteria
- Vitality · Breach is a separate damage multiplier from susceptibility, so it tears extra chunks out of inflated boss HP.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Catcher and Ember turn survival criteria into non-issues with shields and sustain, Pogranichnik and Last Rite punch through inflated boss HP, and Da Pan and Alesh slot into specific cores. Every pick here is excellent against the right board and skippable against the wrong one.
B Tier: Niche
B tier operators answer a narrow slice of the criteria board. Endministrator is fully self-contained, so the Partition criterion (no operator switching) costs him nothing. Snowshine actively wants the enemy damage buff, since it feeds her counterattacks rather than threatening her.
B Tier for Contingency Contract
Niche: a real answer to a narrow slice of the board, outclassed elsewhere
Favoured by 7 criteria
- Partition · A self-contained burst DPS with no support needs, so being locked to one operator costs him nothing.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Synced Growth · Wins through raw damage instead of healing, which would also heal the enemy.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
Favoured by 7 criteria
- Thrill · Buffed enemy damage just feeds her reactive counter-attacks, turning the penalty into fuel.
- Decapitate · Durable or ranged, so the extra damage on the active operator stays manageable.
- Whittle Down · Avoids or absorbs incoming damage, limiting the Max HP erosion.
- Withering · Brings its own sustain, so losing between-wave healing barely matters.
- Hypoxia · Ranged or durable, so losing dodge and stamina hurts far less.
- Toxic Residue · Ranged or self-sustaining, so the lingering toxin patches do little.
- Partition · Self-sufficient carry that does not need to swap operators mid-fight.
Favoured by 6 criteria
- Vitality · Covers two multiplier types (Susceptibility and Amp) on one target, amplifying the squad damage against fat boss HP.
- Electrolysis · Electric skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Rush · Sustained/AoE damage works around the burst cap; grouping reins in the faster enemies.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
Bring these when their specific criterion is on your board, and reach for an A-tier pick the rest of the time.
C Tier: Lower Priority
C tier is lower priority for Contingency Contract specifically. Neither pick is unusable, they simply neutralize fewer criteria than the options above for the same slot.
C Tier for Contingency Contract
Lower priority for CC: usable, but other picks neutralize more of the board
Favoured by 5 criteria
- Rush · His Ultimate groups the accelerated enemies, reining in their doubled movement speed.
- Physicolysis · Physical skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Poor Basics · Damage is skill and ultimate based, not reliant on basic attacks.
- Tremor · Reaction/infliction damage gets boosted while battle-skill reliance is penalised.
- Vitality · Sustained or amplified damage chews through the inflated HP pools.
Favoured by 4 criteria
- Vitality · His Link buff is a major damage multiplier, helping the squad burn through inflated HP bars.
- Weaken · Team buffs and a strong economy help offset the flat stat reduction.
- Thermolysis · Heat skills cleanse the forced Solidification.
- Time Limit · Fast killer that beats the shortened timer rather than ramping up slowly.
Treat this tier as a reference for completionists mapping a full roster, not a build target for the event window.
Methodology: How the Ranking Is Built
This tier list is built in two layers. The first is data. Every one of the 27 operators is scored against all 41 Contingency Contract Test Criteria using our Contract Fit engine. A criterion counts in an operator's favour when their kit sidesteps or exploits the penalty: an ultimate-scaling carry barely feels the combo and battle-skill nerfs, a ranged or tanky unit shrugs off the dodge and survival criteria, a non-infliction burst unit ignores the criteria that punish stacking inflictions, and reaction damage that scales off enemy HP rides the criteria that inflate boss health. We total the in-game risk value of every criterion a kit neutralizes (using each criterion group's highest tier) to get the free risk points figure, which orders operators within each tier.
The second layer is editorial judgement. A pure criteria count overrates units that dodge many modifiers but cannot actually carry a clear, so the final tier bands weigh real damage and clear power on top of the metric. That is why Fluorite, despite one of the highest raw scores, sits in A rather than near the top: her long combo cooldown dodges the combo-cost criteria but leaves her without a usable team core. It is also why Estella and Wulfgard sit above their raw scores: Estella's cryo immunity is the single mechanic behind the easiest Risk 40 clear, and Wulfgard's Combustion ignores the key skill nerfs while scaling off boss HP. Showing both the metric and the tier side by side keeps the unique data visible while staying honest about how the mode actually plays.
Two structural reminders that shape every placement. Risk 20 caps every reward in the shop, so for most players this is a question of clearing a survivable Risk 20 board, not maxing the bragging-rights number. And the optimal pick always depends on the exact criteria you stack: this page ranks operators across the whole board, but the Modifier Dashboard tells you which operators each individual criterion favours. Rankings move as the meta settles and as new operators enter our engine.
Where to Go Next
Pair this ranking with the rest of the Contingency Contract cluster. The Contingency Contract hub has the reward cap, the Risk 40 strategy, and community sharing codes by risk bracket. The Modifier Dashboard breaks down every Test Criterion and the operators it favours, so you can build around your own board. For day-one team archetypes, read the day 1 teams and risks guide and the reaction team comps. And for the wider meta, the general character tier list ranks every operator for standard content rather than Contingency Contract.
Frequently Asked Questions
That is the full Contingency Contract operator ranking: all 27 current operators scored against the Test Criteria board, with the metric and the editorial tier shown side by side. It updates as the meta settles and as new operators like Camille enter the engine. For everything else about the mode, the Contingency Contract hub is the place to start.
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