Evergreen sustain (Sugar Swan revive core)
Treasures: Dream Conductor's Whistle, Mysterious Jewelry Box, Old Pilgrim's Scroll
The consensus ladder core this season: layered sustain with Sugar Swan revives grinding down burst teams.
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Cookie Run: Kingdom
Cookie Run: Kingdom Tier List — July 2026
The best cookies for Arena, PvE, and every guild boss — cross-referenced from six independent sources so no single site's opinion decides a tier.
Last updated
July 2026 edition
SS Tier — Meta-defining
Run these if you have them. They shape the current Arena meta and clear PvE content fastest.
AA Tier — Strong picks
Excellent cookies that anchor specific teams and modes without defining the whole meta.
BB Tier — Situational
Useful in the right team or mode; multi-source data on these is thinner.
Disputed & too new to rank
Where our sources genuinely disagree, we say so instead of picking a side.
- Litmus Cookie — Released June 2026 — one source puts it top-20, others haven't ranked it yet.
- Mold Dough Cookie — Genuinely disputed: S to B depending on the source. Its PvP-immortality niche polarizes rankings.
- Black Pearl Cookie — Arena placement disputed (S+ to C across sources); around A in PvE.
- Croissant Cookie — June 2026 release; S vs B across sources, no consensus yet.
- Grapefruit Cookie — S (PvE) by two sources vs B by another — disputed.
- Rockstar Cookie — Weakly attested (two overlapping sources), missing from others.
- Okchun Cookie — Newer epic trending around A in PvE, but the data is thin and non-independent.
Arena meta comps — July 2026
Current ladder cores. Build any of them slot-by-slot in the Arena team builder.
Timekeeper rewind variant
Treasures: Dream Conductor's Whistle, Old Pilgrim's Scroll, Squishy Jelly Watch
Swaps Eternal Sugar for Timekeeper — her rewind punishes teams that commit their burst early.
Ananas anti-heal burst
The post-July-2 counter to sustain mirrors: Povidone-Iodine strips healing while Ananas Dragon bursts shielded targets. Days old — unproven at top ladder.
Silent Salt lockdownSingle source
Treasures: Dream Conductor's Whistle, Mysterious Jewelry Box, Old Pilgrim's Scroll
Single-source and pre-Timekeeper — flex Venom Dough or White Lily (Dawnbringer) into the last slots.
Guild boss picks
Per-boss cookie pools with one example lineup — assemble and share full teams in the Guild Boss builder.
Red Velvet Dragon
The dragon reflects burst damage — indirect and damage-over-time effects win. Poison stacking with defense shred is the established approach.
Avatar of Destiny
Crème Brûlée is the designed counter, amplified by ATK SPD support. Debuffs are punished by Destiny Reversal, and HP Shields are mandatory to survive Destiny's Doom.
Living Abyss
Damage flows through the Licorice Ooze adds — wide AoE plus chained incapacitation (Weakness stacks) clears highest.
Machine-God of the Eternal Void
Debuff-immune but weak to Water — the Seltzer Stinging Fizz + Menthol Gas Explosion combo is the centerpiece of every top clear.
How this list is made
A cookie is placed in a tier only when independent sources agree within one tier band for the listed mode. 'Early placement' marks cookies attested by fewer than three sources — usually brand-new releases with no ladder evidence yet. Base and awakened Ancients are ranked as their awakened forms where sources did not distinguish. Arena and PvE placements are tracked separately: a cookie shown with only one mode badge is only top-tier in that mode.
Sources for this edition
Changelog
- 2026-07-06 — First edition — cross-referenced from six sources; Ananas Dragon Cookie added as an early Arena placement (two sources, released July 2).