Pokémon Survivor Burst Tier List Hub

This is an early-meta hub for Pokémon Survivor Burst, not a Nintendo ranking and not ClessioTV’s hidden internal list. The game is a free single-player bullet heaven with an online leaderboard. Version 4.5 reworked active abilities, added Endless, and opened regional evolution forks. Sample size is days, not seasons. Anyone posting a polished S-through-F grid of all 31+ Pokémon as if it were official is filling gaps with taste. This page ranks jobs, cites public Classic evidence where it exists, and sends you to best builds and build synergies for the actual kit work.

If you still need a first Pokémon, that is the starter guide, not a tier argument. If you still need the roster to exist, that is unlock challenges.

What we can actually see

The public Classic board is the only large, filterable score sample. Top ranks are almost all Mudkip. Novoxy is on level 331 with about 6.5 million points. Jordan is on 262. The names under them keep repeating the same Water starter. That is the strongest evidence this wiki will print, and it still has caveats:

• Players copy what already sits at the top, so Mudkip’s lead feeds itself.
• Version 4.5 reworked Pokémon active abilities. A pre-4.5 clip is not a 4.5 proof.
• Leaderboard filters exist for Pokémon, score, and level. A species can look “bad” because nobody serious has submitted it yet.
• Rush, Tower, and Endless are different pressure cookers. Classic score dominance does not automatically mean Tower dominance.
• Regional forks (Gallade, Hisuian Typhlosion, Alolan Raichu) are new in 4.5. They have almost no public score history.

Read the board as a Classic score snapshot, then ask what job you actually have tonight.

Jobs, not a fake 31-row table

S-tier for Classic score pushing — Mudkip. Published card: Water, 112 HP, 2.32 Speed, Water Pulse, Damp Recovery. Bouncing water shots cover lanes. Eight percent HP recovery keeps long attempts alive. Until another species farms the top of the public board, Mudkip is the score specialist. That is kit design plus evidence, not a personality contest.

Unlock hunters — whatever challenge you still owe. Sableye and Dratini are confirmed playable and had public unlock drama (bugfix in 2.5, rework in 3.0). They are not ranked here as score gods because this wiki does not have a published stat card or a stack of top-10 Classic runs to quote. If a challenge requires them, they are “S” for that evening and “unranked” for score pushing.

Mode specialists — species you have actually cleared into Rush or Tower. Mode unlocks are per Pokémon. A Mudkip Classic monster that has never touched Rush is not a Rush pick. Tower in 3.0/4.0 grew exclusive temporary bonuses, extra fragments, and a difficulty rework. Endless in 4.5 added a specialized shop and a new currency. Rank a Pokémon inside the mode you will play, or you are ranking a fantasy.

Regional forks — too new to slot. Kirlia → Gallade, Quilava → Hisuian Typhlosion, and Pikachu → Alolan Raichu exist under specific unpublished requirements. They change a run’s endpoint. They do not yet have a public score sample this hub will pretend is a tier.

Everyone else — unranked on purpose. Jumpluff is in the game (sprite fix in 3.0). Generation 4 species arrived in 4.0. The rest of the 31+ grid is real and playable once unlocked. This hub will not invent HP, Speed, or letter grades for portraits that lack a cited card or a cited board filter. Use the Pokémon hub to pick them, not a fan table.

How to use the board without getting owned by it

Filter by Pokémon before you filter by ego. If Mudkip’s top ten is a wall of 200+ levels and another species’ top run is a short clear, you are looking at playtime, not always at a weak kit. Sort by level and by score; they answer different questions. Level says “this body lived.” Score says “this body printed.” A high level with a modest score can still be the right farm Pokémon for fragments and Star Pieces.

Do not ban a species from your week because a streamer called it D-tier. Ban (the in-run system from version 2.0) is for level-up offers, not for the roster. If you want to spend a week off Mudkip, spend it on unlocks and Shop Core permanents, then come back and see whether the Classic wall has moved. The roadmap and patch notes will move this hub faster than any letter grade we could paint today.

How this list will change

The next honest update is not “we ranked 30 more names.” It is one of these events: a non-Mudkip Classic run sitting in the visible top cluster, a published stat card for another starter-like pick, a 4.x patch that nerfs bouncing projectiles or percent heal, or a regional fork showing up on the filtered board. Until then, treat Mudkip as the Classic score default, treat challenges as the real roster ladder, and build on the best builds page instead of arguing about unpublished letter grades. When Generation 5 and 6 poll winners land, they start at unranked. Earn the letter with a board filter, not with a vibe.