Hero Tier List 2026 – Best Heroes & Best Team

Looking for a Bounty Bash tier list? This guide explains the best heroes, best ships, best team and crew setups, so you climb up in the leaderboards and win your tournaments.

⚓ If you searched “Bounty Bash best heroes”…

You install Bounty Bash, clear a few islands, and suddenly you’re on Google typing:

• Bounty bash best heroes
  
• Bounty Bash best team
  
• bounty bash best ship
  
• bounty bash tier list

This guide is written precisely for you.

We curated an unofficial tier list focused on the early–mid game, built for practical use and curated by six players.

🎯 What this tier list can – and can’t – do for you

This guide gives you:

• A safe direction for your watermelons, ships, and team slots.
• A shortcut through the trial-and-error of “is this hero actually worth it?”.
• A shared language with other players when you talk about “best team”, “best ship”, or “tier list”.
  

What it can’t do:

• Play around your exact gear rolls, luck, and playtime.
• Predict every future balance patch. The meta will shift, and when it does, we’ll adjust.

Use this tier list as a compass, not a script: if something clearly works better for your account, lean into it.

⚓ New World Heroes Tier List

The race to Island 60 is fierce! Decisions matter. And in any game, information is power. We recommend investing all your watermelons (food EXP) in the heroes listed below.

• SS-Tier: Pawsitive

• One of the most substantial DPS in the game. At 13 stars, she can carry your team damage-wise.
  

• S: Mechamog - Herbacan - Bricolo

• Join a guild and request Bricolo medals to evolve him.
  

• A: Bonny - Prince - Poolkeen

Summon heroes and go for that level 7 banner. 

Once it's level 7, you have a 0.5% chance to summon Legendary heroes from the free/ad summons + Sea Legends Event.

⚓ Overall Heroes Tier List

Idle games are a marathon, not a sprint. For a long-term view, we curated this Overall Tier List.

🧱 How this Bounty Bash tier list is structured

To keep it readable and useful:

• Think of this tier list as a guide for safe investments.
• SS-tier (focus and max first) and S-tier (very strong, fills key roles).
• In a specific tier, a hero's position matters, from left (stronger carry) to right (weaker).
• Focus is on mid-game: New World (sub Island 60) is considered early game; 60-90 mid-game.

⚓ How to build a strong and balanced team

All your heroes contribute to the total crew stats. You need a team with good firepower that can also sustain and survive a few hits.

1. Main DPS: Pawsitive
2. HP: Bricolo - Poolkeen (use the one with the highest HP).
3. 2nd DPS: Bonny - Squigly (pick the highest ATK).
4. Support: Mechamog
5. Support: Herbacan - Montacos
6. 6th (Legendary Ship): Bricolo - Korbolt - Catastrophe - Bonny - Squigly

⛵ Putting it all together – your upgrade map

If you only remember a few things from this Bounty Bash tier list, make them these:

• Watermelons (EXP):
  • Rush Pawsitive to the top.
  • Then invest in Mechamog / Herbacan / Bricolo as your core supporting cast.
  • Lock in your six-hero core. Stop working on side projects for a few days and focus on this main squad.
    

• Teams & crew:
  
  • Build around the template: Main DPS (Pawsitive) + HP frontliner (Bricolo/Poolkeen) + 2nd DPS (Bonny/Squigly) + 2 supports (Mechamog + Herbacan/Montacos) + 6th Legendary Ship slot.
  • Don’t spread EXP across ten heroes “just in case”. A focused crew beats a bloated roster every time.
    

• Ships:
  • Follow the ship milestones (Crimson Gold 20 → Slasher 60 + Master → Gearcutter 20 → Gearcutter 45).

This alone is enough to separate you from most players in New World and mid-game.

The race to Island 60 and beyond is not about who plays the most, but about who invests the smartest.

Screenshot your team once you hit your next milestone (Island 60, first Legendary Ship, tournament win) and share it with us in Discord!

https://discord.gg/bountybash