Building strong teams in Saint Seiya EX is not just about picking high-rarity or top tier Saints, it’s about pairing units whose roles, bonuses, and skills complement each other. As the game gets harder, the right lineup can make the difference between getting stuck and pushing ahead, especially when you start facing enemies with strong control, burst damage, or heavy sustain. In this guide, we’ll recommend a few of the best performing teams right now, along with a breakdown of their individual functions and why these lineups work so well together.

Each team section below can serve as foundations that you can feel free to adjust depending on what Saints you already have or unlock later. The Bonus System in Saint Seiya EX also helps point you toward compatible pairings, but these curated examples can give you a strong starting point.

Evil Saga Control Team

A high-control, high-survivability lineup built around locking down enemies while slowly dismantling them.

Recommended Team Members:

• Embodiment of Evil Saga
• Pope Ares
• Pisces Aphrodite
• Gemini Saga
• Aquarius Camus

This team excels at keeping enemies pinned down with a constant rotation of stuns, freezes, and crowd-control effects. Evil Saga works as the primary disruptor, using his mixed physical and mental damage to remain effective against any target type. Gemini Saga adds even more stuns, while Pisces Aphrodite applies poison for steady damage over time, reinforcing the stalling style this lineup is built around. Aquarius Camus freezes and slows enemies, helping extend combo windows, and Pope Ares contributes by banishing threats, forcing them to attack their own allies, or summoning extra bodies to take pressure off your front row.

Together, these Saints create a suffocating environment for the enemy team. Most battles become a race where you steadily whittle down enemies while preventing them from ever stabilizing. This is a premium lineup, but for players with access to these Saints, it’s easily one of the safest and most consistent builds in the game.

Scorpio Milo Hyper Carry Team

A powerful “protect the carry” lineup that focuses on maximizing Scorpio Milo’s damage output.

Recommended Team Members

• Scorpio Milo
• Aquarius Camus
• Aries Mu
• Leo Aiolia
• Taurus Aldebaran

This team revolves around keeping Scorpio Milo safe in the back row while enabling him to continuously apply huge amounts of mental damage. His Crimson Scar effects make enemies more vulnerable, and his attack speed-based scaling synergizes well with Aquarius Camus, who shares a bonus that increases both Saints’ attack and skill speed. Aries Mu supplies shields, cleanses, and additional attack-speed reduction to help control enemy DPS, while Leo Aiolia contributes secondary damage and crowd control from the front row.

Taurus Aldebaran functions as a dedicated tank, knocking enemies away and protecting the team’s core damage dealers. With all of these defensive and supportive abilities combined, Scorpio Milo can fire off skills at a rapid pace and maintain stable output throughout the fight. Players missing certain Saints can adapt the structure easily—any strong tank or support with speed control or reliable crowd control can substitute while preserving the core concept.

Poison & Burn Damage Over Time Team (F2P-Friendly)

A low-investment composition built around stacking poison and burn to melt enemies over time.

Recommended Team Members

• Pisces Aphrodite
• Phoenix Ikki
• Black Phoenix
• Guilty
• Perseus Algol

This lineup is perfect for players who want a strong team early on without relying on multiple SSRs. Pisces Aphrodite is the only SSR here, and his poison damage ignores defense, making him the natural centerpiece for this build. His poison stacks scale well into the late game and provide steady, guaranteed damage. Phoenix Ikki and Black Phoenix reinforce this playstyle by applying burn, offering more damage-over-time effects, and generating burst pressure against weakened enemies.

Guilty joins the trio with more burn application and self-sustain, offering surprising durability for an SR unit. Perseus Algol rounds out the lineup as a reliable frontline presence, using petrification to lock down enemies long enough for the poison and burn effects to work. This team is extremely accessible, very beginner-friendly, and remains effective even when you begin tackling more demanding content.

High-Frequency Control Team

A premium team that uses layered freezing, stuns, and manipulation effects to suppress the enemy lineup.

Recommended Team Members

• Aquarius Camus
• Gemini Saga
• Pope Ares
• Embodiment of Evil Saga
• Pisces Aphrodite

While similar in concept to the Evil Saga Control Team, this lineup puts more emphasis on cycling crowd-control effects as frequently as possible. Aquarius Camus provides freeze and attack-speed reduction, while Gemini Saga maintains an almost constant supply of stuns thanks to his fast rotation of ultimate and cycle skills. Pope Ares adds dimensional banish, mind control, and bonus summon pressure, while Evil Saga strengthens control duration and supplements the CC chain with knockbacks.

Pisces Aphrodite ties everything together with poison for constant chip damage. Since enemies are frequently unable to act, his poison stings repeatedly over time and scales extremely well during prolonged fights. This team is highly effective in stages where enemy burst damage is problematic, because the strategy revolves around never allowing them to fire key skills in the first place.

SR Assassin / Stealth Team

A risky but high-reward setup centered around burst damage, stealth effects, and the disruption of back-line enemies.

Recommended Team Members

• Crow Jamian
• Sagitta Ptolemy
• Hound Asterion
• Perseus Algol
• Cetus Moses

This team leverages stealth, invincibility windows, and clone-based disruption to overwhelm enemies who lack strong AoE skills. Jamian leads with strong lifesteal and invincibility during his ultimate, while Ptolemy becomes untargetable and greatly increases his damage for short bursts. Hound Asterion pressures enemies with clones that deal damage and lower mental defense, accelerating your team’s burst potential.

Perseus Algol supports with petrification, helping freeze enemies in place so your assassins can punish them freely, while Cetus Moses protects the team with knockbacks and frontline disruption. This team requires careful timing and can be countered by strong AoE or chain-control enemies, but in the right matchups, it delivers fast kills and constant pressure.

Whether you prefer sustained damage, crowd-control loops, or explosive assassin-style gameplay, the teams above give you a strong foundation for clearing both the story content and harder battles in Saint Seiya EX. Each lineup focuses on synergy: mixing debuffs, bonuses, and complementary roles to ensure your Saints deliver their full potential.

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