Is Goliath really the best giant in March of Giants?

Community reports from high-level play consistently place him at S+ because of his soldier scaling and lane pressure. That said, he's far less dominant against giants with fast wave clear, so his value depends on the enemy draft.

Does this March of Giants tier list apply to solo queue and coordinated play?

Mostly, yes — lane pressure matters in both. Utility giants climb a tier or two in premade groups where teammates can cover their weak early game, and drop in uncoordinated lobbies.

What's the fastest way to beat a top-tier lane bully?

Swap lanes with a teammate who has wave clear, freeze the wave near your tower, and force the bully to overextend. If no swap is available, farm safely and convert your lane into objective pressure elsewhere.

How often should this ranking be updated?

Whenever a balance patch lands. Early in a game's lifespan, small number changes can move a giant an entire tier, so verify your build against the current patch before locking in your main.

March of Giants Tier List: Best Giants Ranked for Every Lane

Picking the wrong giant in March of Giants can lose you a lane before the first Battlework goes up. This March of Giants tier list ranks the commanders that actually carry 4v4 matches, based on Closed Alpha playtests and ongoing community reports. If you only have time for one section, skip straight to the S-tier breakdown — those are the giants players complain about most.

The short version: lane dominance matters far more than most newcomers expect. In a four-player team, one giant losing a solo lane snowballs into lost outposts, free enemy rotations, and a hopeless objective game. That’s why every ranking below is weighted toward early-game pressure first, scaling second.

What Is March of Giants?

March of Giants is the March of Giants Team’s take on the MOBA, built around four-player teams, towering commanders, and RTS-style army control. Instead of managing just one hero, you also micro the soldiers at your feet and construct deployable Battleworks such as bunkers and trenches. The art direction leans on World War I imagery, while the scale feels closer to a kaiju film.

The game was revealed in late August 2025 and ran its first Closed Alpha the following September, limited to North America and English. The development team includes veterans of Rainbow Six Siege, and the preview impressions from Mobalytics’ March of Giants Closed Alpha hands-on highlight strong art direction and radio-chatter audio, while noting that soldier control takes practice and that laning can grind into stalemates.

Detail	Info
Developer	the March of Giants Team
Genre	4v4 MOBA with RTS elements
Team size	4 giants per side
Signature mechanic	Battleworks (bunkers, trenches, structures)
Roster style	Olympian-style gods to massive kaiju monsters
First Closed Alpha	September 2025, North America and English
Access method	Steam playtest request

Those stalemates are exactly what separates a top-tier giant from a mediocre one. If your pick can’t force a lane to break, someone on the enemy team will do it for you.

How We Built This March of Giants Tier List

No official balance data or win rates have been published, so this ranking leans on three things: documented high-level gameplay, community-reported matchups, and how well each pick performs when laning actually matters. Player experience carries the most weight, because a giant that stomps in a low-pressure lobby often falls apart against opponents who punish mistakes.

Criteria	Weight	Why It Matters
Lane pressure	35%	Losing lane means losing outposts and map control
Wave clear	25%	Soldiers decide fights; clear speed decides lanes
Teamfight impact	20%	Stuns, AoE, and sustain swing 4v4 clashes
Scaling	15%	Some giants only come online after two or three items
Ease of execution	5%	A simple kit that always works beats a complex one that doesn’t

One important caveat: a giant’s tier shifts depending on the lobby. Community reports describe a real skill gap effect — when opponents punish you in lane, only the strongest lane bullies stay reliable. When nobody punishes you, almost anything can reach full items and feel broken.

The March of Giants Tier List: Full Rankings

Only two giants have been called out repeatedly as outliers, so those carry named placements. Everything else is grouped by archetype, which is how most players will actually evaluate their own roster during a Closed Alpha or early access period.

Tier	Giant / Archetype	Why It Lands Here	Confidence
S+	Goliath	Soldier-scaling lane bully; snowballs any lane without instant wave clear	High
S+	Victoria	Tanky, permanent stun pressure, top damage on her team, clears creeps	High
S	Wave-clear specialists	Deleting a soldier wave in one ability neutralizes Goliath’s win condition	Medium
A	Ranged poke giants	Strong in range-vs-range lanes, but no answer to a 300-soldier push	Medium
B	Melee bruisers	Get bullied by ranged pressure and need help to survive laning	Medium
C	Utility / setup giants	Great in coordinated play, punished in solo laning	Low

Why Goliath Sits at the Top

Goliath’s entire identity is army scaling. The more his soldiers attack, the more soldiers he can command, which turns a won trade into an unanswerable push. Community footage from high-level play shows this clearly: opponents who cannot instantly clear a wave watch their HP bar evaporate, and the pressure never stops.

The counterplay is narrow. If you can’t erase soldiers in one or two abilities, you either swap lanes with a teammate who can, or you farm under tower and accept a gold deficit.

Why Victoria Is the Other Outlier

Victoria combines three things that shouldn’t coexist: tankiness, a near-permanent stun lock, and enough damage to top her team’s charts. She also clears creep waves quickly, which means she counters the exact strategy Goliath relies on. Player experience describes her as one of the strongest picks in the game for those reasons.

By the Numbers

Stat	Reported Value	Context
Damage dealt by one player	52,000+	More than all four enemy players combined
Teammate damage	~10,000 or less	Three teammates in the same match
Soldier count, easy	55	Achievable early with a scaling item
Soldier count, hard	300	Late-game ceiling for soldier builds
Ultimate cooldown	~50 seconds	Before cooldown reduction
Ability cooldown after CDR	10–13 seconds	Can drain mana fast

Items That Change a Giant’s Tier

Build order often matters more than the pick itself. Based on player testing, three item categories consistently move a giant up a tier, and two more are strong situational answers.

Item / Effect	Best On	What It Does	Priority
Soldier Rally	Goliath, soldier builds	Scales army size with every soldier attack	First item
Cooldown reduction (on taking damage)	Ability-spam giants	Shrinks a 50s ultimate and 10–13s abilities	Second item
Mana regeneration	Any CDR-stacking build	Keeps you casting after CDR drains your pool	Third item
Crisis Navigator	Immobile giants vs. stun comps	Counters point-and-click lockdown	Situational
Charge-heals-soldiers	Charging bruisers	Converts charge abilities into self-sustain	Situational

The trap is stacking cooldown reduction without mana. Player experience is blunt about this: abilities come back so fast that your mana bar disappears, and a giant with no mana is just a large minion. Grab the mana item before you commit to a fourth cooldown source.

Lane Matchups and Counterplay

Your Pick	Into Goliath	Best Approach
Fast wave clear	Favorable	Delete soldiers instantly; never trade giant-on-giant
Ranged poke, no wave clear	Unfavorable	Freeze near tower, request a lane swap
Melee bruiser	Very unfavorable	Farm safely, rotate for outposts instead
Tanky stun giant	Even	Hold your stun for his charge, then trade

Three practical counterplay rules stand out:

Swap lanes freely. If a teammate has wave clear, trading lanes is the single most efficient fix.
Never fight in a soldier wave. Fighting inside his army means fighting his damage, his sustain, and his scaling at once.
Watch the siege dozer. Securing one flips a stalled lane into a structure kill, and losing one hands the enemy free tempo.

Tips for Climbing With This Tier List

Draft wave clear first. In a four-player team, at least one pick must be able to erase soldiers. Everything else is negotiable.
Prioritize lane phase over late game. Player reports consistently show that lane pressure decides matches, while greedy full-item builds only work against opponents who don’t punish.
Roam with the tunnel system. Rotating through tunnels creates numbers advantages faster than walking lane-to-lane.
Track your damage versus your team’s. If you’re doing four times your teammates’ damage, the problem isn’t your build — it’s map pressure.
Recheck this list each patch. Balance for a young title moves quickly, and today’s S+ can become tomorrow’s A-tier.

Treat this March of Giants tier list as a decision-making framework rather than a fixed chart. The giants at the top win because they control the lane, and the lane controls the map.

For a wider view, our Goliath-style builds hub, heroes ranked, items guide round out the picture from different angles.