Choose your favorite Pick role tier list
Rank the job, not a fake global S-tier that ignores the header.
This list ranks roles that show up on priced boards, using the official Animal Draft as the teaching set: Lion $8, Dog $5, Shark $4, Eagle $3. It is not a Pokédex. Deep family pages: pets, food, superheroes, movies. Wallet: how to bid. Sentence: how to win.
S — Glue (Dog $5 / Eagle $3 energy)
Glue finishes a sentence. Cheap unique beats a second roar. If you only remember one rank, remember glue. The draft budget tool exists to keep this slot alive.
A — Apex (Lion $8 energy)
One apex per board. Two apexes is bankruptcy. Open mid when you can; slam apex only when the header screams for it.
B — Wildcard (Shark $4 energy)
Different biome, different genre, different texture. Wildcard wins mirrors. See play with friends when both of you learned the same YouTube board.
C — Trap (anything that duplicates vibe)
Second Lion-like pick. Last-dollar pride. A dessert when you already have three desserts. Traps feel like value and lose the compare.
Unranked until a header says so
Do not import a superhero into a pet round. Do not import a chair into a pick slot — chair tiers are furniture. Passes are time: gamepass value. Codes will not rewrite roles until they exist: codes. Scripts that auto-pick S-tier are fiction plus bans: script safety. After patches, reread patch notes if prices move. Hub siblings: tier list hub. Table intro: getting started. Official art still teaches 8+5+4+3 = 20. That equation is the whole meta until Burnt Pancake prints another board.
Practice one session of glue-first on pets, then copy the habit into food and movies. The header changes. The roles do not.
How this list refuses a fake Pokédex
We will not publish a hundred invented animal names with made-up dollars. Official art already did the honest work: four prices that sum to twenty. Everything else is a job title. If Burnt Pancake later prints a food board, glue is still S and a second pizza is still C. If they print a hero board, the icon is A and the duplicate flying brick is C. Re-read this page after patch notes only if prices reprint. Until then, drill the jobs on food, superheroes, and movies without waiting for a catalog. The picks overview is the map of families. This page is the rank of jobs. Keep them separate so a new player does not think Lion is S on a dessert header. That confusion is how First Win slips. Bookmark how to bid beside this list and you will stop treating every expensive chip as a religion.
Roles travel, names do not
Apex, glue, wildcard, trap work on every header. Lion $8 is apex only on animal-style boards. Copying that spend into movies is how you lose a tentpole round. Pair this rank page with pets, food, superheroes, and movies — one family per session. Wallet: how to bid. Sentence: how to win. Chairs do not rank here: chair tiers.
Trap is a vibe duplicate, not a cheap name
If two chips feel like the same roar, the second is a trap even at $3. Rank that feeling per header, not as a global blacklist. Glue is the unsexy $4–$5 that lets leftover exist. Wildcard is the one sentence-changer you can still afford. Write those three jobs on the draft budget tool before you sit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about drafts, chairs, and codes.
Is Lion always S?
Lion is apex, not glue. Two apexes lose. See pets.
Should I copy the official Animal Draft exactly?
It is a teaching spend, not a secret combo. Build a sentence — how to win.
Where is the full item list?
Not published. We rank roles until Burnt Pancake ships a catalog. Picks hub.