Treasures |
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This Treasures Tier List is the Cookie Run: Kingdom Wiki's unofficial ranking of the Treasures seen in-game based on their utility and effectiveness.
Key[]
| Tiers | |
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| S | The cream of the crop, Treasures in this tier are the most effective, powerful, and valuable out of all the tiers, often being highly versatile as well. |
| A | A-tier Treasures are highly useful in their own right, and tend to complement S-tier Treasures. |
| B | B-tier Treasures tend to be useful in specific circumstances, and are not considered versatile. |
| C | C-tier Treasures can substitute for missing stronger Treasures, but fail to excel in the long run. |
| D | D-tier Treasures have rare instances of usefulness, but, generally speaking, they are not worth pursuing. |
| $ | $-tier Treasures should be avoided entirely when one seeks victory in battles, as their only purpose is to generate Coins. |
Tier List[]
 World Exploration
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Explanations[]
S Tier[]
Old Pilgrim's Scroll is the most essential Epic Treasure in the game, granting a powerful ATK boost to all Cookies on a team. Giving a buff similar to a full 5x M Searing Raspberry set when maxed out, the increase in ATK can mean the difference between victory and defeat in almost any case, as every Cookie's Skill possesses an ATK scaling. Scroll Treasures are useful in almost every situation, and should be any player's go-to choice.
- Dream Conductor's Whistle is an incredible all-in-one Treasure that passively grants a fair amount of CRIT% to all Cookies regardless of its level. It also passively grants the two Cookies with the highest amount of ATK even more ATK and DMG Resist, making any pair of damage dealers even more dangerous and durable. If those Cookies are defeated, the rest of the team is healed by 30% of their Max HP, granting the team the health boost they may need to overcome remaining enemies. Some Arena teams will even run without a Scroll Treasure if they only have two powerful Cookies in it that need the ATK boost.
- Sleepyhead's Jelly Watch is an upgrade over its famous Common Variant by a slim margin, as it grants an extra +5% ATK on top of the bonus Cooldown. Because this Treasure gives the same maximum Cooldown at Lv. 12 as the Squishy Jelly Watch, a player should always opt for whichever of their Watch Treasures grants more Cooldown, especially when many game modes value Skills recharging in time over incremental damage boosts. Although Sleepyhead's Jelly Watch is more difficult to max out due to its Epic rarity, it's guaranteed to be a priority for any players seeking to reach the very top of the ranks, although starting players should probably focus on other useful Epic Treasures first instead of one with an easy-to-acquire Common Variant.
- Squishy Jelly Watch is the easiest essential Treasure to max, being a Common Treasure. Cooldown reduction allows Cookies to use their Skills more often, and most game modes past the early game are balanced around its presence. Although it doesn't affect initial Cooldowns, it's still especially essential in Kingdom Arena, where a Skill recharging before an opponent's Skill does can mean the difference between victory and defeat. Players should expect to use this Treasure throughout the entirety of their time with Kingdom, until they max Sleepyhead's Jelly Watch.
- Sugar Swan's Shining Feather revives a single Cookie while resetting their Skill's Cooldown; at maximum level, it can revive a Cookie at full health. This only works once per battle, and thus may not be as useful in World Exploration stages where one's Cookie team needs to stay alive the entire way, unless a team only has to deal with an enemy wave or boss KO'ing a Cookie once before it can defeat that enemy. Its greater value lies in Kingdom Arena, where bringing one's softest Cookie back with a ready-to-cast Skill can turn the tables on the enemy team.
- Explorer's Monocle is the younger counterpart to Bookseller's Monocle, purifying all dispellable debuffs from the team and healing them. While it doesn't restore more HP as it levels up, its charging time and Cooldown are much shorter, and it'll also grant DEF Up and Debuff Resist for a short duration too. Since it's acquired from the Treasure Gacha instead of the Guild Gacha, it can be considered more accessible and forgiving than its older counterpart for newer players, as its Cooldown allows it to be used more regularly in any kind of battle.
- Librarian's Enchanted Robes, which improves the ATK SPD of the two Cookies with the most bonus ATK SPD, has extremely-effective utility in attack-speed and combo compositions. It allows Cookies to wield high ATK SPD without having to invest too much of their Topping and Beascuit bonuses into the stat, and can even greatly improve Cookies that scale with ATK SPD such as Crème Brûlée Cookie. Outside of those situations, it's a good alternative to the Old Pilgrim's Scroll for progressing Cookie teams, and its buff targets can be easily chosen via Toppings.
- Grim-looking Scythe increases a Cookie team's damage output by raising their CRIT chance. While it's not necessarily reliable in that regard since it increase CRIT% instead of damage, that higher chance percentage can allow a team to "cheat" through fights it otherwise wouldn't have the damage or healing numbers to push through. Although it has to compete against the Epic Dream Conductor's Whistle, its higher overall values allow Cookies with less CRIT% in their Toppings to land critical hits more easily.
- Mysterious Jewelry Box is a high-impact Epic Treasure that specializes in disrupting enemy teams. When activated, it deals strong area damage based on your team’s highest ATK stat, and stuns enemies for a short time. What sets this Treasure apart is its powerful debuffs enemy Cookies hit by it take more damage, deal less damage, and lose crit chance—all effects that cannot be removed. These debuffs last long enough to swing the flow of battle, especially in PvP. While more situational than general-purpose Treasures like the Scroll, the Jewelry Box is a game-changer in control-heavy teams or comps focused on burst damage. When timed right, it can cripple the enemy front and backline alike, giving your team the upper hand.
A Tier[]
- Vial of Raging Dunes grants the team ATK and CRIT Resist, the ATK being only about half the amount that Old Pilgrim's Scroll can grant. However, if any Cookie on the team revives - whether through Sugar Swan's Shining Feather or a Skill that grants Revive - then the Treasure will grant twice the stats instead, while also hitting enemies with damage and ATK Down! This Treasure specifically thrives in Kingdom Arena where teams are more like to use revival effects and encounter enemy CRITs, but it can also serve as a substitute for Old Pilgrim's Scroll if a beginning player draws it first.
- Hollyberrian Royal Necklace grants a team free HP Shields every time it activates, as well as increased DMG Resist and precious Curse Protection. It grants a little more shield on each activation too, making it more effective as a battle go on. These shields can help protect a team against big teamwide attacks more often than other protective Treasures, and can especially help keep a team alive in Kingdom Arena.
- Thunder God's Paper Charm is an Epic variant of Priestess Cookie's Paper Charm, removing buffs from enemies and deals a percent of the team's total ATK as Electricity-type damage. While it's functionally the same in terms of dispelling buffs, as they have the exact same charge time and Cooldown, Thunder God's Paper Charm deals more damage than Priestess Cookie's Paper Charm regardless of the level of either Treasure. This highlights its purpose in the Kingdom Arena, where it can be used to further open up enemy teams to get burst down in one Skill combo by removing their buffs and dealing more damage. While it may be more efficient to prioritize leveling up other Epic Treasures first due to the stats they provide and the existence of another Paper Charm Treasure that's Rare, there's little reason to not prefer using a variant that deals more damage, especially if enemies are vulnerable to Electricity-type damage.
- Priestess Cookie's Paper Charm removes buffs from enemies and deals a percent of the team's total ATK. While most enemies in World Exploration aren't reliant on buffs, reducing the need for this Treasure, one might occasionally find themselves against an insurmountable boss that can only be defeated if their buffs could be removed. In Kingdom Arena, it can be very effective against compositions that rely on buffs for their defenses, making them easier to defeat than they would be otherwise. It's much weaker damage-wise than its Epic variant Thunder God's Paper Charm, but serves the same purpose in simply dispelling enemy buffs.
- Disciple's Magic Scroll is a Rare Variant version of the Old Pilgrim's Scroll, meaning that although it's weaker, it's also much easier to bring up to max level. It can grant up to +45% ATK to a team's Cookies at Lv. 12, which grants more ATK than the Epic Variant until the latter reaches Lv. 7; it also provides a neat +30% DEF, buffing a team's survivability. A Scroll of any variant tends to be more valuable to a team than most other Treasures, given the ATK boost it provides, so a player should have no doubts about running this Treasure if their Old Pilgrim's Scroll is either absent or weaker.
- Durianeer's Squeaky Flamingo Tube increases the maximum HP of the two Cookies with the highest HP, allowing bulky Front Cookies to live even longer. It can help when trying to 3-star World Exploration stages by allowing Front Cookies to absorb more damage, but it won't replace having adequate healing. When paired with Cookies whose damage values scale with their HP such as Wildberry Cookie, it can enable a surprising amount of damage to be dealt.
- Cape of the Vanquisher is very good when used with Wind Archer Cookie. It gives a smaller amount of ATK SPD than Librarian's Enchanted Robes does, but gives it to all Cookies on the team instead of only two of them. To Wind-type Cookies, it gives extra ATK SPD and DMG Resist, as well as an HP Shield at the start of the battle. This Treasure has more value the more Wind-type Cookies there are on the team, especially if those Cookies want to attack as fast as possible.
- Insignia of the Indomitable Knights is mandatory for teams that use Tea Knight Cookie, healing all Cookies by a percentage of their max HP whenever an ally is defeated, while also granting the final survivor a short period of invincibility before they can be defeated themselves.. Tea Knight Cookie's Battlemaster can be optimized using this treasure, allowing him to tear down almost any team by himself after his teammates fall. Other teams can also use this treasure simply to counter one-shot compositions in Kingdom Arena, assuming they're tanky enough to counterattack. However, it's a far poorer choice for World Exploration, as it requires Cookies to be defeated to have any effect.
B Tier[]
- Grim-looking Electrifying Scythe raises the CRIT% of Cookies much higher than its Rare variant Grim-looking Scythe can... but only if those Cookies deal any Electricity-type damage. This makes it useless to a vast majority of Cookies, and can even be difficult to justify if a team only has one Electricity-type Cookie. But if a team's damage dealers are all Electric-types that can make use of the massive CRIT% boost the treasure provides, then this Treasure might just be the perfect complement to them.
- Bookseller's Monocle can help a Cookie team get through a level where enemies can inflict a potentially-lethal debuff on one's Cookie, or break them from a long stun, all the while healing the entire team. Because of its lengthy Cooldown, it's best to activate it when it can have the most effect. In Kingdom Arena, the cleanse can be essential for dealing with long-term debuffs such as Weakness or Frost, although the lengthy Cooldown makes it less useful than its newer variant.
- Gatekeeper Ghost's Horn increases Cookie DEF, allowing them to survive more attacks. It greatly improves the sturdiness of one's Front Cookies, while also keeping Middle and Rear Cookies from being too quickly defeated by stray shots and area-of-effect abilities. This Treasure can help pad out any team's Treasures until other Epic Treasures are unlocked.
- Pilgrim's Slingshot reduces a large percentage of the target's DEF for a short while, making backline or high-health targets such as bosses significantly more manageable. It's a required tool against enemies such as the Red Velvet Dragon in Guild Battle, or other boss enemies that can be reliably targeted by this Skill. In Kingdom Arena, it can be harder to focus damage on the afflicted Cookie, though some one-shot comps may manage to make it work.
- Bear Jelly's Lollipop best benefits Cookie teams progressing through World Exploration, as timing it with the strongest Cookie's Skill will deal incredible damage to any wave of enemies. Because auto-battle uses its immediate Cooldown, it's less reliable in Kingdom Arena, but it can also make a team's strongest Cookie even more dangerous in the first few seconds of a battle. Teams that use it in Kingdom Arena will have to time the chosen Cookie's Skill with the Treasure's Cooldown to make good use of it.
- Seamstress's Pin Cushion buffs both the ATK and duration of summoned creatures. Combined with the Old Pilgrim's Scroll, this Treasure can improve a summoned creature's Attack by over 60%, which can really boost the damage output of summoner Cookies. It goes without saying that only summoner Cookies can make use of this Treasure.
- Twinkling Starlight Crown is an improvement compared to Divine Honey Cream Crown, boosting the CRIT DMG and CRIT% of the Cookie's with the highest ATK for the whole battle instead of only when the Cookie uses its Skill. While its CRIT DMG and CRIT% buffs are higher than the original's at early levels, it gives the same CRIT DMG and less CRIT% at max level. Its one saving grace is that it doesn't have to be activated to be used, but it still relies on its target getting critical hits with their Skill to be effective at all.
- Divine Honey Cream Crown is very similar to the Bear Jelly's Lollipop, but instead of granting bonus ATK on the spot, it grants a buff that boosts CRIT DMG along with CRIT% once the Cookie uses their Skill. Similarly, it's more helpful in World Exploration, as it has a short Cooldown to match most Cookies' Skills, but can work in Kingdom Arena to boost a high-damage Cookie's potential. However, the Treasure essentially has no value if its chosen Cookie fails to CRIT.
- The Order's Sacred Fork lets all Cookies deal increased on each Regular Attack or Skill-enhanced attack by granting them Extra DMG per attack, with even more damage dealt to bosses. This is potentially useful against bosses, but ultimately fails to outscale other strategies as it requires a high amount of ATK SPD to really make the most out of it. It's often better to run Librarian's Enchanted Robes by itself instead of trying to cram The Order's Sacred Fork in with Old Pilgrim's Scroll and lose out on a third, more essential Treasure. It still has uses as a Guild Battle substitute for other Treasures, if a player lacks those options.
C Tier[]
- Blind Healer's Staff gives an additional means of healing, granting a heal-over-time on one's lowest Health Cookie based on the team's ATK. While it may seem like an alternative source of healing, it's not an actual substitute for a Healing Cookie due to its Cooldown, and it doesn't always target the Cookie that the player may want to heal first, such as a Front Cookie. It's best used in levels where most enemies are likely to focus down the same squishy target, thus making them the best recipient for the Staff.
- Miraculous Natural Remedy is a possible substitute for teams that use Tea Knight Cookie, providing both heals and purifying effects exclusively to the Cookie with the highest Health. This treasure can also be used in Story Mode if your team has only one tank, as it improves their survivability by targeting them exclusively.
- Echo of the Hurricane's Song is a powerful one-hit treasure that can deal the most damage out of any other options, especially when combined with DEF reduction abilities. However, it has a lengthy minute-long Cooldown, and so typically does nothing else as soon as it's spent. It's best used in battles expected to end quickly, such as in short Tower of Sweet Chaos trays or alongside one-shot compositions.
- Milk Tribe's Frozen Torch works similarly to the Elder Pilgrim's Torch in that it deals damage in a circular area in front of the team. Instead of leaving a burning patch on the ground, this particular Treasure inflicts both Freeze and Frost in one icy blast, dealing damage both during the Freeze and once the enemies thaw. While potentially powerful in teams that rely on inflicting Freeze, especially since its Frost stack increases Freeze damage by 100% instead of 50%, it's ultimately a poor replacement for other more well-rounded Treasures that can keep those Cookies alive.
- Elder Pilgrim's Torch grants another means of inflicting additional damage, doing so in a small area. This can be somewhat useful in clearing Stages faster if one lacks the damage, but relies on enemies being within the given area to have an effect. It can be more effective in modes where enemies do not move around as much (such as Kingdom Arena or Guild Battle) - however, it's outclassed by many other Treasures in terms of damage potential. While it inflicts a debuff that increases Fire damage received, it only improves such damage by 35% at best.
- Blossoming Acorn Bomb can be quite an interesting tool for World Exploration, as it can instantly transform 2 random enemies into Acorns for 2 seconds, stopping them and reducing their DEF. Due to its random selection process, it can be quite unreliable when against large waves with either a single dangerous enemy or too many of them. In Kingdom Arena, it may even target Cookies resistant to interrupting effects, only to have no effect on them. It's also unable to target bosses, making it nigh-useless in Guild Battle and most boss stages, unless one intends to clear the non-boss enemies first instead.
- Sacred Pomegranate Branch shields every Cookie on the team based on their Max HP. It can help a team survive Kingdom Arena teams reliant on either bursting or crippling the enemy in the first Skill rotation, but it isn't reliable in that regard, and has a long Cooldown as well.
D Tier[]
- Miraculous Ghost Ice Cream reduces the armor of the 3 nearest enemies, allowing Cookies to whittle down a frontline more quickly. It can mildly substitute for the Pilgrim's Slingshot against bosses, although it inflicts less DEF Down, and is less reliable against bosses that can summon numerous enemies to take the blow for them.
- Ice-cold Energy Drink's functions as a quicker version of Blind Healer's Staff, immediately healing your lowest-health Cookie and padding them out with some extra Max HP and knockback resistance. The healing isn't particularly impressive however, capping out at 30% Max HP, and becomes even less impressive the less Max HP the targeted Cookie has to begin with, meaning that it's less effective on Cookies with lower Max HP. Blind Healer's Staff is not only more reliable, but isn't limited by seasonal availability.
- Acorn Snowball With a Tiny Cookie's primary purpose is to shrink the Cookie with the lowest current HP and give them a funny squeaky voice when they use their Skills. It also grants them DMG Resist and CRIT Resist on a low Cooldown, but otherwise it's not an ideal means of protecting your Cookies at all, as it only protects one Cookie. Even if one feels that they require it over Blind Healer's Staff, its limited availability makes it very difficult to level up.
- Jelly Worm's Sticky Goo can briefly protect the most vulnerable Cookie on the team with Invulnerable. While it could help that Cookie survive a lethal attack, its minute-long Cooldown means that a Cookie team should be able to defeat their enemies after surviving a deadly hit before it can come around again.
$ Tier[]
- Ginkgoblin's Trophy Safe and Cheesebird's Coin Purse are only used for increasing the amount of Coins gained in battle, and do not improve Cookies in any way. Additionally, the amount of Coins they grant pale in comparison to other more reliable sources of income, such as the Tree of Wishes. It's recommended to only use them on auto-battling teams that can clear Stages without the need for other Treasures, such as when farming Soulstones in Dark Mode.
