Best Support Cookies in Cookie Run: Kingdom, Ranked

Updated 14 October 2026: This guide has been rewritten. An earlier version ranked Cotton first for a team ATK buff she does not have, and misdescribed most of the other Supports' skills along the way; everything below is checked against the game data.

Cotton's skill text in the game says her lantern grants "ATK +75%." cookierun.wiki's transcription flags that line as inaccurate: the buff goes to allied summoned creatures, such as her own sheep, and none of your Cookies get it. Build a Support ranking on the tooltip and you get the old version of this page. Build it on the full kits and the picture changes. The strongest Supports raise your damage and keep the team standing in the same cast, and the debuffers live or die on one detail: three of the four Guild Battle bosses refuse most debuffs.

This ranking covers all 36 Support Cookies on the global server. Kit numbers are cookierun.wiki's max-level Global values as of October 14, 2026. Where I cross-checked kits against the Fandom wiki the mechanics match, though Fandom shows a few lower percentages that look like an older skill-level cap. The newest Support is Pulpo Cookie (v7.8, August 26, 2026), and Devsisters' September 23 and October 7 update notices added no new ones.

What counts as a Support Cookie

Support is one of the eight battle roles every Cookie is sorted into: Defense, Charge, Ambush, Magic, Bomber, Ranged, Healing and Support. cookierun.wiki's role page sums Support up as "Use status effects for a diverse range of abilities," with moderate HP, moderate ATK and low DEF. Supports can sit in any row: Jagae, Millennial Tree and Pulpo are Front, nine are Middle and the other 24 are Rear. There is also a special ninth role, BTS. Per cookierun.wiki, the Team Setup filter listed BTS Cookies under Support, but they do not count toward Support conditions.

Plenty of Cookies do support-flavoured work without the tag. Frost Queen freezes enemies but is a Magic Cookie. Sea Fairy is a Bomber, and her ally buffs come only from her Crystal Jam. Dark Enchantress is Magic. Cream Unicorn and Pure Vanilla are Healing. None of them is ranked here.

cookierun.wiki's Support category holds 38 pages; the other two, Moonstone and Zhen Huan, exist only on the Chinese server. No Support has a Crystal Jam, none can Awaken, and seven have a Magic Candy: Cream Puff, Frilled Jellyfish, Mint Choco, Parfait, Peppermint, Pomegranate and Silverbell. Cotton is not one of them.

How this ranking works

Every placement weighs four things, in this order:

• Reach. A buff on the whole team beats one locked to an element or a partner, which beats one on a single Cookie.
• Conditions. Works in any lineup beats needing a Poison core, a Water core, a named partner or no Defense Cookie.
• Coverage. A cast that raises your damage and keeps the team alive beats one that does only one of those.
• Whether it lands. Buffs and heals go on your own Cookies, so a boss's debuff immunity can't stop them. Debuffs can be stopped: three of the four Guild Battle bosses refuse most of them (details below).

The tiers:

• S, fits almost any team: whole-team damage and survival in one cast.
• A, strong with one catch: a lineup condition, a single job, or a single target.
• B, situational: tied to an element or partner, or a smaller version of what an A-tier does.
• C, early-game or filler: little for your team, or outclassed by a Cookie doing the same job better.

I assume max skill level and Magic Candy unlocked where one exists, with one exception (Pomegranate, below). What I don't assume is a damage formula, because Devsisters doesn't publish one. cookierun.wiki says DEF reduces damage "by a flat amount" and caps damage-taken increases at 500%, but I found no public source that says exactly how an ATK buff, a DEF cut, a DMG-taken debuff and DMG Resist combine. So nothing below claims a +30% ATK buff is worth some exact amount of DEF shred.

For an outside view, the tables also show where Pocket Gamer's Cookie Run Kingdom tier list (by Mihail Katsoris, updated October 6, 2026 for v7.9.101) places each Support. That list ranks every Cookie from S+ to F, not just Supports. It leaves Sugarfly out of its PvP table, labels Pulpo's portrait "Puplo," and lists Cotton twice in PvP (S+ and C), so only her PvE placement is quoted here. Where my tier and theirs are more than a step apart, I say why; their D, E and F grades all sit below my C floor.

The Support tier list at a glance

S is all buff packages because the rubric rewards one cast that does both jobs. If your team already has a Healing Cookie and you need a specific answer, such as a cleanse or a boss DEF cut, the A tier is where you shop.

Team buff packages: damage and survival in one cast

Why these five are S. Each one hands the whole team a damage buff and a survival buff in the same cast. Star Coral is the one I rate above Pocket Gamer (A in both modes): her buffs and shield last 12 seconds on a 14-second cooldown with no condition attached, and on kit text alone I can't find the catch. Her build guide covers the Cooldown setup.

Millennial Tree looks conditional, since Nature's Protection switches off if you field a Defense Cookie, but he fills that slot himself: he Taunts and wears a shield worth 100% of his Max HP. Bring Cookies of four or more elements and he adds Elemental Force: DMG +15% for most Cookies, and a stronger version for his Guardians of Nature (Sea Fairy, Stormbringer, Frost Queen, Wind Archer, Fire Spirit, Moonlight, Nether Queen and himself). Nether Queen joined that list in v7.7 on July 29, 2026.

Cream Puff is S with her Magic Candy and A without it. Her base skill is her own damage plus a heal; Extra Cream is what turns her into a team buffer, and it scales off her pre-battle CRIT%. With the candy at level 30 she needs 38% CRIT% to reach the +37.5% cap, so a low-CRIT build leaves most of it on the table. The Cream Puff build guide has the breakpoints. Devsisters also raised her base HP by about 6.7% in v7.6 (July 2, 2026).

Pomegranate's Magic Candy is a trade, not an upgrade. Her base +30% is the biggest unconditional percentage ATK buff any Support's base skill gives the whole team, per cookierun.wiki's ATK page (Lime gives more, but only with Orange and the rest of the Citrus Squad on the team). Unlock Pomegranate Gem Magic and that buff is replaced: Dark Enchantress gets ATK +15% and CRIT% +15%, while every other ally gets ATK +5% and CRIT% +8% alongside DEF −30% and DMG taken +10%. That's a Dark Enchantress-team tool. She sits in A rather than S because her survival half is a five-second heal-over-time for most of the team. Pocket Gamer has her at B in PvE and C in PvP; I rate a +30% whole-team ATK buff higher than that. Her v7.1 rework (February 11, 2026) gave the buff its current 10-second duration, which refreshes on every cast.

Sustain and anti-debuff Supports

Cotton, corrected. Cotton is a healer-summoner, and the +75% ATK in her kit goes to allied summoned creatures while her lantern is lit. Each sheep has 124.5% of her ATK, 157.8% of her DEF and 111.4% of her HP, and new sheep replace old ones. They have dealt Grass damage since v6.9 (September 24, 2025); nothing in her kit changed in 2026.

That's a solid kit, and Pocket Gamer rates her S+ in PvE. She sits in A here because nothing in it raises your Cookies' damage, and Peach Blossom's heal is the same size per second with DMG Resist and Debuff Resist on top. Cotton's real selling points are the Stuns and soulstones you can farm from story stages (Dark Mode 8-12 and 18-3, Master Mode 4-16). ATK still matters on her, since it scales her heal and her sheep; the Cotton build guide covers toppings.

Resist, cleanse or immunity. Three different answers to an enemy that leans on debuffs:

• Debuff Resist stops debuffs landing some of the time: Parfait +50%, Snapdragon +35%, Peppermint +35%, Peach Blossom +30%. Snapdragon also cuts Stun duration by 65%, and Star Coral (above) grants outright Stun immunity.
• Cleanse removes them after they land. Clover's skill purifies every debuff from your allies; Peppermint's Magic Candy removes Burn only, including undispellable Burn.
• Immunity blocks them outright: Parfait's Magic Candy makes her and your highest-ATK Cookie immune to debuffs for 4 seconds.

Parfait has the largest Debuff Resist number in this group, and Devsisters' in-game tips recommend her on four Decadent Choco Tower trays (2, 3, 6 and 37), more than any other Support, per cookierun.wiki's transcription. Pocket Gamer puts her S+ in PvP. She's A here only because her kit is sustain and nothing else. Snapdragon is the same story with a shield and a small ATK buff attached; see the Snapdragon build.

Peach Blossom is Pocket Gamer's S+ in PvE, and he has the strongest case in this group for S: a team heal, DMG Resist +30%, Debuff Resist +30% and an enemy ATK SPD cut on a 12-second cooldown. He stays in A because his only damage boost, ATK +35%, goes just to allies afflicted with Apathy, and allies standing too far from where his fruit lands don't get Heavenly Fruit.

Caramel Choux has no debuff and no interrupt. Her value is the Amplify Buff and DMG Resist on the Cookies she heals, plus Friendly Helper's flat stats. A flat +6,500 ATK is a bigger share of a low ATK stat than a high one, so her headline buff counts for less as your roster levels up, and that's why she's B.

Clover is Rare, and Pocket Gamer has him at D in PvE and E in PvP. I keep him at B because a full team cleanse is a real counter-pick that no other Support's base skill provides, and his soulstones drop in Dark Mode 8-9, 13-9 and 15-3.

Enemy debuffers: DEF down and damage taken up

Two kinds of debuff live in this group. DEF reduction (Black Sapphire, Pom-pom Dough, Linzer at full stacks) lowers the stat cookierun.wiki says cuts damage by a flat amount. DMG-taken debuffs (Eclair's and Olive's Weakness, Jagae's Pearl Shard, Linzer's Suspect) raise the damage the target takes directly. Linzer, Black Sapphire and Pom-pom Dough stack a damage-taken effect of some kind on top of their DEF cut.

Eclair is a DMG-taken debuffer, not a DEF shredder. His Weakness stacks to +100% damage taken. In Arena his targeting lands it on the enemy's biggest hitters; against a single boss it all lands on one target, if the boss accepts debuffs at all. His soulstones are farmable (Dark Mode 14-27, Master Mode 4-26).

Linzer is the boss specialist. She builds Deduction stacks instead of regular attacks, and at seven stacks Suspect is a +80% DMG-taken debuff with DEF −35% on top. cookierun.wiki notes both debuffs "can be applied to ANY boss regardless of their immunity to debuffs." That line is why she's the debuffer I'd build first for Guild Battle. One caveat: the Avatar of Destiny punishes debuff attempts (see the Guild Battle section below), and I couldn't confirm whether Suspect sets that off. Pocket Gamer has her S in PvE and B in PvP, which fits a debuff that only ever hits one target.

Black Sapphire is A overall and S inside a Poison core. With no other Poison-type Cookies his DEF cut is just −20%; it takes three more Poison-type teammates (four Poison Cookies in all) to reach the −80% cap. His +35% Poison-type damage buff can't be dispelled while he lives, and he forms the Deceitful Trio with Candy Apple and Shadow Milk. The Black Sapphire build guide has the toppings.

Pom-pom Dough (released February 11, 2026) brings the biggest DEF cut among Supports that doesn't depend on your lineup: −50% for 15 seconds, per cookierun.wiki's DEF page. Since February 25, 2026, all her damage except Poison is indirect.

Olive does nothing for your team, which is why Pocket Gamer has her at D. I keep her at B for two reasons: a 45.5% all-type Weakness and a coin-flip 2-second Stun in one cast, and Burn, one of only three debuffs the Living Abyss accepts. There's no "energy" mechanic anywhere in her kit.

Dark Enchantress isn't a Support (she's a Magic Cookie), but she comes up in Support talk. Her own DEF effect is Tendrils of Chaos, DEF −10% for 10 seconds on targets her skill hits, the same status Pom-pom Dough and Pomegranate's Magic Candy apply. Her build guide covers the rest of her kit.

Element and team specialists

Mint Choco, corrected. His base skill has no ATK buff, and his Magic Candy's ATK buff reaches Wind-type Cookies only. The candy's Mint Cyclone also knocks enemies Flying, and Flying targets take +20% Wind-type damage and lose 15% ATK, but only targets vulnerable to movement-impairing effects get those debuffs. On a Wind team that's a lot. Outside one he's an ATK SPD buffer with a heal, which is why he's B; Pocket Gamer has him lower still, at C and D. His soulstones are farmable (Dark Mode 4-28 and 8-27, Master Mode 4-8).

Frilled Jellyfish is the one specialist in A because her Shackles hit up to five enemies whatever your lineup; only the damage payoff wants Water-type Cookies. Pulpo, the newest Support, is the mirror image for Darkness teams: a 60% Darkness-type DMG-taken debuff that does nothing for the rest of your damage. Pocket Gamer puts her one step higher, at A in both modes. Seltzer sits at B because Stinging Fizz needs Menthol on the team, though Pocket Gamer has her at S in PvE.

Guild Battle: which bosses accept debuffs

Guild Battle rotates four bosses, one out at a time, in 60-second fights. Their debuff rules, from each boss's cookierun.wiki page, should decide your Support slot before any tier letter does.

The Avatar of Destiny's rule covers more than the obvious debuffers. On the wiki's wording, any debuff attempt counts, and that includes Cotton's sheep Stun, Peach Blossom's ATK SPD cut, Millennial Tree's Equilibrium and the Endless Flow debuff that Peppermint's wave applies on hit. Red Velvet Dragon is the opposite case: per the wiki it needs DEF reduction before your damage is worthwhile, and it takes most debuffs. Our Guild Battle teams guide has full comps for all four bosses, including the Black Sapphire and Pomegranate Red Velvet Dragon shell and the Seltzer and Menthol Machine-God team, and the Guild Battle guide covers how the mode works.

Best Support by mode

Kingdom Arena has no boss immunities: it's your Cookies against theirs, so your debuffs and theirs are both in play. The Supports in Pocket Gamer's PvP S+ row are Parfait, Snapdragon, Marshmallow Bunny, Cotton and Millennial Tree, a group that leans on sustain and debuff resistance rather than raw damage buffs. The kits back that up: Parfait's +50% Debuff Resist and 4-second immunity, Snapdragon's −65% Stun duration, Star Coral's Stun immunity and Clover's cleanse are the tools that keep your carry casting. Among the debuffers, Eclair's targeting is built for Arena: his Weakness goes on the three highest-ATK enemy Cookies. The Arena meta team and the Kingdom Arena guide have full lineups.

Cake Tower. Devsisters' in-game tray tips for Decadent Choco Tower, as cookierun.wiki transcribes them, recommend Parfait on 4 trays, Cream Ferret on 3, and Cotton, Cream Puff and Frilled Jellyfish on 2 each, with several more Supports picked once. The wiki warns those tips may be inaccurate or outdated. The Supports in Pocket Gamer's PvE S+ row are Cream Puff, Peach Blossom, Marshmallow Bunny, Cotton and Millennial Tree. The Decadent Choco Tower walkthrough goes tray by tray.

F2P and Magic Candy priorities

Millennial Tree is the only Legendary Support, but Epic doesn't mean free. These are the S- and A-tier Supports, plus three B-tier ones, whose soulstones cookierun.wiki lists a story-stage, shop or Guild Gacha source for:

Cream Ferret's and Snapdragon's soulstones are earned in the Pavilion of Promise, and the C-tier Almond, Candy Diver, Carrot, Fig, Lilac and Onion also drop in Dark Mode. cookierun.wiki lists no source for the other S- and A-tier Supports (Marshmallow Bunny, Star Coral, Peach Blossom, Silverbell, Linzer, Black Sapphire, Pom-pom Dough and Jagae), nor for Caramel Choux, Olive, Pulpo or Croissant.

Where I'd spend, starting from nothing:

1. Cotton and Parfait first. Both drop from story stages, and they solve different problems: Cotton heals and Stuns, Parfait stops debuffs. Pomegranate drops early in Dark Mode too, and her +30% team ATK is worth farming alongside them.
2. Cream Puff through the Guild Gacha. She's the S-tier you can work toward without spending Crystals: Guild Gacha pulls cost Heroic Torches, which come mainly from Guild Battle. Her Extra Cream adds the biggest whole-team buff of the seven Support Magic Candies.
3. Millennial Tree from the Guild Honor Shop. He's the only Legendary Support, and the S tier's build-around, so he's worth saving for.
4. Eclair for Red Velvet Dragon, which accepts most debuffs. His Weakness works in any lineup, where Frilled Jellyfish's damage payoff wants Water-type Cookies.

On Magic Candy: Cream Puff's adds team ATK, Parfait's adds debuff immunity, and Frilled Jellyfish's, Mint Choco's and Silverbell's pay off mostly for Water, Wind and Grass teams. Peppermint's is a Burn answer, and Pomegranate's is a Dark Enchantress tool. The Magic Candy priority guide orders candies by Devsisters' Cake Tower recommendations, where Frilled Jellyfish, Pomegranate and Peppermint each have their Magic Candy shown on a late Decadent Choco tray's recommended team. Once your Supports are sorted, check the rest of the team against the DPS tier list, the healer tier list and the master CRK tier list.

Quick Action Checklist

• Building one Support for everything? Cream Ferret or Star Coral: whole-team damage and survival buffs, no partner needed.
• Own Millennial Tree? Drop your Defense Cookie. His Nature's Protection only switches on without one.
• Running Cream Puff? Unlock her Magic Candy and build CRIT%. She needs 38% to cap the +37.5% team ATK with the candy at level 30.
• Pomegranate without Dark Enchantress? Keep her base +30% team ATK. Her Magic Candy puts DEF −30% on your other Cookies.
• Red Velvet Dragon? Bring DEF reduction: Black Sapphire with Poison teammates, Pom-pom Dough or Linzer.
• Avatar of Destiny? Leave the debuffers home. Every debuff attempt feeds its Destiny Reversal.
• Arena opponent built on Stuns and debuffs? Parfait, Snapdragon or Star Coral, or Clover for a full cleanse.
• Building Cotton for her +75% ATK? It only reaches summoned creatures. Build her for her heal and her sheep.