History YMMV / ZanZarahTheHiddenPortal

** F-Tier (a.k.a. the Trash-Tier): Nature and Chaos. Despite being one of the StarterMon, Nature fairies have terrible elemental matchups, only beating Psi, while getting dominated by S- and A-tiers. And Chaos easily has the [[TierInducedScrappy most useless fairies overall]], whose only redeeming grace is their ability to, under very specific circumstances, sub in for the Dark ones.

** A-Tier: The Dark fairies sit here, being ''almost'' as powerful as their Light counterparts, but not to reaching the S-tier in sheer versatility.
** B-Tier: Energy, Stone, and Psi. While Energy fairies are good all-rounders, Psi and Stone get this high primarily thanks to their ability to counter the S-tiers: both of them in Psi's case, and only Ice in the case of Stone.[[note]]Otherwise, Psi would sit closer to the D-tier and Stone, all the way in the trash-tier.[[/note]] For the record, the most (game-theoretically) powerful party consists of a Light, an Ice, a Dark, an Energy, and a Psi fairy.
** C-Tier: Metal fairies sit at the farthest frontier of viability, countering Light, but losing out to Ice. On average, starting at this tier, including any fairies here and below in your party is likely to lower its overall effectiveness.

** F-Tier (a.k.a. the Trash-Tier): Nature and Chaos. Despite being one of the StarterMon, Nature fairies have terrible elemental matchups, only beating Psi, while getting dominated by S- and A-tiers, while Chaos easily has the [[TierInducedScrappy most useless fairies overall]], whose only redeeming grace is their ability to, under very specific circumstances, sub in for the Dark ones.

* CharacterTiers: Because of how the ElementalRockPaperScissors works in the game, some elements have inherent game-theoretical advantage in most matchups[[note]]specifically, five-vs-five battles with no duplicate elements within the same team[[/note]], giving rise to certain tiers:

* CharacterTiers: Due to the way ElementalRockPaperScissors works in the game, Psi, Ice, Light, and Dark faeries are inherently the most powerful combatants, so at least three of them are more-or-less {{Required Party Member}}s by the endgame (most likely Light, as you'll mostly be fighting Dark and Chaos fairies); whereas Nature, Stone, and Chaos tend to become [[TierInducedScrappy Tier-Induced Scrappies]] because they are mostly one-trick ponies with lots of easily exploitable weaknesses.[[note]]Specifically, a party of Light, Dark, Ice, Psi, and Energy can be shown to be the only combination that fully offsets the inherent elemental weaknesses of its individual members with others' strengths, while also putting considerable heat on ''all'' elements, particularly those not included.[[/note]]

* CharacterTiers: Due to the way ElementalRockPaperScissors works in the game, Psi, Ice, Light, and Dark faeries are inherently the most powerful combatants, so at least three of them are more-or-less {{Required Party Member}}s by the endgame (most likely Light, as you'll mostly be fighting Dark and Chaos fairies); whereas Nature, Stone, and Chaos tend to become [[TierInducedScrappy Tier-Induced Scrappies]] because they are mostly one-trick ponies with lots of easily exploitable weaknesses.

* DisappointingLastLevel: The game's main appeal are the colorful and extremely varied locales and character designs, yet its final stages consist of mostly black-and-brown dungeons populated mostly by the very limited selection of Dark and Chaos fairies, as well as a BossRush of one Dark Elf after the other.

* CharacterTiers: Due to the way ElementalRockPaperScissors works in the game, Psi, Ice, Light, and Dark faeries are inherently the most powerful combatants, so at least three of them are more-or-less {{Required Party Member}}s by the endgame (most likely Light, as you'll mostly be fighting Dark and Chaos fairies).