Pandemic Roles - Tier List & Versus
(2008–2015)
Published
This list has 22 characters from Pandemic Roles.
Pandemic Roles - Official Tier
Editorial placements for Pandemic Roles, with the reasoning behind each list.
Every Role Ranked
Pandemic is a game about the team you assemble, and some specialists do far more heavy lifting than others. This board mixes all twenty-two roles from the base game with the ones added in On the Brink, In the Lab and State of Emergency, judging them on how much they change a normal table: the cure race, the outbreaks and the turns where everything is about to fall apart.
Medic
Scientist
Researcher
Dispatcher
Quarantine Specialist
Operations Expert
Generalist
Containment Specialist
Epidemiologist
Field Operative
Local Liaison
First Responder
Archivist
Contingency Planner
Troubleshooter
Pilot
Virologist
Colonel
Pharmacist
Field Director
Gene Splicer
Veterinarian
Best Roles for New Players
The first games of Pandemic are about learning the rhythm: gather cards, share knowledge, cure fast and keep the board calm. Some roles teach that rhythm with a simple, always-useful power, while others ask for careful timing or for rules that only exist in one expansion. This board lists the roles that make a first campaign smoother for new players.
Medic
Researcher
Scientist
Dispatcher
Quarantine Specialist
Generalist
Operations Expert
Containment Specialist
Local Liaison
Archivist
Contingency Planner
Pilot
Cure Hunters
Finding four cures before the player deck runs out is the win condition that matters, so any role that bends the card economy toward research is worth its seat. This board ranks the specialists built for the cure race, from the classic Scientist and Researcher to the lab-focused characters added in On the Brink and In the Lab.
Scientist
Researcher
Epidemiologist
Field Operative
Virologist
Field Director
Pilot
Local Liaison
Archivist
Containment Specialist
Outbreak Control
Outbreaks end more games than missed cures. This board ranks the roles that keep cubes off the map and hold the world together: the classic Medic and Quarantine Specialist, the containment and military specialists from the expansions, and the movement pieces that let a team react before a chain reaction starts.
Medic
Quarantine Specialist
Containment Specialist
Dispatcher
Operations Expert
Colonel
Generalist
First Responder
Troubleshooter
Pharmacist
Local Liaison
Expansion Roles Ranked
Fifteen roles arrived after the base game: six in On the Brink, four in In the Lab and five in State of Emergency. Some became instant staples, while others only make sense inside the specific challenge they were designed for. This board ranks that expansion roster on its own, for tables that have already moved past the original seven.
Epidemiologist
Field Operative
Containment Specialist
Local Liaison
First Responder
Virologist
Generalist
Colonel
Archivist
Troubleshooter
Pilot
Pharmacist
Field Director
Gene Splicer
Veterinarian
Want to rank them yourself? Open the Tier Maker tab.
Pandemic Roles - Tier Maker
Characters (22)
Pandemic Roles - Blind Rank
The next character from Pandemic Roles is drawn for you, so you never pick who comes next. Top 5 holds one per slot. The Tier List works like the regular board, with several characters in each row.
Pandemic Roles - Versus
Run a fast elimination tournament for Pandemic Roles and keep choosing winners until only one character remains.
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Pandemic Roles - Bracket
Build a championship bracket for Pandemic Roles. Drag the seeds, or fill them at random. Click a fighter to send them through, or roll the match.
Click a character to advance, or roll the match. An empty slot sends the other fighter through.
Available
Pandemic Roles - Guess Photo
Test how well you know Pandemic Roles by identifying each character from the image alone before your score and lives run out.
Pandemic Roles - Guess Who
Play with another person who should open the same page. Press the button to reveal a secret character, then eliminate suspects until only the correct one remains.
Pandemic Roles - ⚙ Setting
Click characters to disable them from all game modes on this page.
