Team Building

A Silver Palace team is four characters, one of whom is on the field at a time. That single fact is what makes team building a real decision rather than a list of the four strongest units: three of your four are contributing through their buffs, their Tactical Assault and the Reactor Attribute they bring, not through their own damage.

This guide is a framework, not a ranked list. The game has not launched, no damage numbers are public, and balance moved noticeably between the two closed betas. What follows is what the game data actually establishes, with the numbers attached, so you can make your own call rather than trust somebody else's tier order.

Quick Answer

Build around three things. Pick a damage dealer. Add at least one of the five characters who buff the team from their base kit rather than from unlocked Psyches. Share a Reactor Attribute across as many of the four as you can, because one Motive and five Implement sets pay out only to teammates who match. Then accept that the Power budget lets you fully catalyse exactly two Reactors, and decide which two.

The Partners screen, where a team is assembled. The attribute filter sits top left, and each character carries their own level and role icons. Official Dichotomy beta footage.

The five Combat Styles, and what the roster actually has

Combat Style is the role filter shown on the character Details screen. The descriptions below are the in-game text.

The distribution is the useful part. Survival & Healing has exactly two characters in the whole roster, Gratia and Firtho, so if you decide a fight needs sustain there is no third option and no substitute from another role. Combat Support is the deepest bench at five. For which character sits where, see the Combat Styles guide and the roster.

Base-kit support versus Psyche-gated support

Every one of the fifteen characters has at least one effect that buffs the whole team. That sounds like it makes the choice free, and it does not, because most of those effects are locked behind Psyches, the duplicate-gated upgrade track.

Only five characters buff the team from their base kit, meaning from a Skill, Passive or Ultimate you have the moment you own them:

The other ten reach the team only through Psyches. Cynthia II and Grimm are both tagged Combat Support but have nothing team-wide until you invest, which is worth knowing before you build a team around the role label alone.

The 40-second window is the whole rotation

Across the roster there are 31 distinct team-wide effects. 22 of them last exactly 40 seconds, and the single most common trigger is the Ultimate, at 11 of the 31. A handful of examples, all verbatim:

• Argos after his Ultimate, all characters gain 15% Glacies DMG for 40s.
• Gratia after her Ultimate, all characters gain 20% ATK for 40s.
• Red Rose after her Ultimate, all characters ignore 20% of enemies' DEF for 40s.
• Gucia after her Ultimate, all characters gain 42% Amplitude Multiplier for 40s.
• Firtho after her Ultimate, all characters gain 15% Radiatio DMG for 40s.

That shared 40-second duration is a design decision, not a coincidence. The buffs are meant to be stacked inside one window rather than maintained separately: open with your supports' Ultimates, then spend the window on your damage dealer. It also explains why Ultimate Charge Efficiency shows up everywhere in support gear, including a flat 25% on four of the attribute-sharing Implement sets below. Charging Ultimates faster is what shortens the gap between windows.

The Power budget caps you at two Reactors

This is the constraint that shapes teams more than any other, and it is easy to miss because it is explained in a tutorial rather than on a character screen.

Each character can equip up to three Catalysts to their Reactor. The first costs 1 Power, the second 2, the third 4. So one fully catalysed Reactor costs 7.

The team shares a single Power limit, which rises with your Crisis Level to 3, then 7, then 14.

At the cap of 14, that is exactly two fully catalysed Reactors. A four-character team can never have more than two members running a complete Catalyst loadout, so the other two are on partial Reactors or none at all. Choosing which two get the investment is the actual team-building decision, and it usually means your on-field damage dealer plus whichever support's buffs you are building the window around.

Attribute is not a constraint here, only availability is: a Catalyst of a given attribute can go on any character as long as somebody on the team carries a Reactor of that attribute, and Omni Catalysts have no restriction at all. The Catalyst database has all 17 with their costs, and the Equipment guide covers the wider gear picture.

Sharing a Reactor Attribute

There is no elemental reaction system in Silver Palace, and no attribute counters another, so there is no defensive reason to spread your team across attributes. There is a substantial offensive reason to concentrate it.

One Motive and five Implement sets pay out only to teammates who share the holder's Reactor Attribute, ranging from a flat 8% DMG to 50% CRIT DMG. On top of that, a team committed to one attribute fills a single Resonance meter quickly rather than two slowly, and a filled meter is what triggers the payoff effects that several kits hang their own bonuses on. The Resonance guide lists all six bonuses and the effects that fire off a trigger.

The practical read: attribute alignment is a damage multiplier you get for free by choosing who to field, and the only cost is flexibility.

What this guide will not tell you

It will not give you named team comps or rank them, because that would not be honest yet. Ranking teams requires damage numbers the game has not published, against content that is not released, at a balance point that has already shifted once between betas. Any list of "best comps" for Silver Palace today is somebody's guess presented as data.

What is above is what the game data establishes, and it is enough to build with. When numbers exist, this page will get them.