Police Chief Hero Guide: Best Upgrades & Squads

Most Chiefs waste half their early-game fragments on units that fall off a cliff by day three. When you are managing a city plagued by gangs and trying to scrape together enough stamina for rallies, resource management is everything. Add in the hard rule that you cannot stack duplicate hero types in a single squad, and winging your roster is a fast track to getting stuck.

For both rookie and advanced Chiefs, this guide cuts through the noise to show you who to prioritize, how to run your economy, and how to build squads that actually win.

Understanding Hero Types

Before dumping fragments and EXP manuals into random characters, you need to understand the core combat classes. Teams require a strategic mix of distinct roles to function properly under deployment limits:

• Riders: The heavy hitters and elite rally leaders. They anchor your offensive pushes and pack incredible team-wide damage mitigation or demolition buffs.

• Marksmen: Versatile backline units capable of crowd control, counterattack survival, and boosting your economy by reducing construction costs.
• Guards: Your frontline wall. They soak damage, weaken enemy attacks, and protect fragile backline carries.

 

Hero Upgrading Priority

Spreading your resources too thin is the fastest way to stall your progress. Focus your early-to-mid game upgrade priorities on these standout picks across each class.

Rider Priority

• Dual Gun - Scarlett: A free-to-play powerhouse. Because her fragments drop from multiple sources, she is remarkably easy to max out. Her deployment skill, Shadow Step, drastically reduces incoming damage for all allies and remains active during rallies, making her an S-tier rally leader.

• Velocity Vixen: Another fantastic rally leader. She features a great area-of-effect patrol skill (Alternating Burst) and a deployment skill (Armed to the Teeth) that supercharges squad demolition. Prioritize her when running land-hero rallies.

Marksman Priority

• Tech - Tony: An absolute must-have for early progression. His patrol skill X Marks the Spot deals a clean 2-second stun, while Protection Protocol beefs up your defense when your health drops low. Best of all, his deployment skill Streamlined Logistics cuts construction resource costs and speeds up building upgrades, saving you days of timer wait times.

• Ranger Rix: You can farm a massive amount of Rix fragments through Wild West events. His skills lower energy consumption and boost offense deployment speed. Note that Rix shines when attacking and seizing facilities, though he isn't recommended for general rallies.

Guard Priority

• Aegis - Leon: Your go-to cost-effective Guard. He slots easily into both patrols and deployments, using Shield of Justice to mitigate squad damage and Get Punch to debuff enemy attack power.

• Titan Andre & Enforcer Brooke: These high-tier Guards pack incredible scaling, but their fragments are tougher to secure. Andre pieces drop from Chief Almighty ranking rewards and VIP packs, while Brooke is tied to first-purchase rewards and VIP packs. If you are investing heavily, Andre is top-tier for heavy damage output, while Brooke is a stellar alternative if your budget allows.

 

Specialized & Utility Heroes Masterclass

Combat isn't everything when you're managing a sprawling district. To truly outpace the competition, you need to master your non-combat and utility assets:

Backline Support: Chef - Gary

• Role & Value: Gary is a phenomenal backline utility pick and a budget-friendly dream for players who lack heavy-gacha meta carries.
• Skill Synergy: His patrol skill, BBQ Banquet, pulls double duty by restoring your entire squad's health while simultaneously buffing their attack power. This fusion of healing sustain and offensive momentum gives your frontline tanks the extra breathing room they need to secure victories.

Economic Engines: The Development Specialists

• The Cast: Doc Zoc, Ammo Alvin, Cash Money Cassie, and Gas Gus form your core economic task force.
• Focus on Deployment: Ignore their raw combat stats. Your main goal with these four is to aggressively enhance their deployment skills. These specialized skills directly amplify resource yields and slash collection times across the map.
• Pro Tip on Squad Swapping: Never bring your development specialists into high-end PvP skirmishes or major rally fights, as their combat scaling falls short. Instead, build a dedicated gathering preset: make it a daily habit to swap to your development crew right before sending troops out to harvest resource nodes, and switch back to your combat roster for defense and raiding.

 

Recommended Patrol Squad Layouts

Putting the pieces together, here are the optimal formations depending on your progression stage:

Newbie Squad

• Front Row: Aegis - Leon, Velocity Vixen
• Back Row: Dual Gun - Scarlett, Tech - Tony, Chef - Gary
• Why it works: Highly accessible, easy to build, and provides fantastic baseline sustain and control for rookie Chiefs.

Advanced Squad

• Front Row: Titan Andre + Aegis - Leon (Swap Leon for Enforcer Brooke if you want maximum firepower)
• Back Row: Dual Gun - Scarlett, Tech - Tony, Chef - Gary
• Why it works: Andre brings massive front-row burst damage, scaling your squad into an absolute powerhouse for late-game skirmishes.

 

Conclusion

In strategy games like this, resources are always tight, and every move dictates how far you'll actually go. Instead of blindly chasing hard-to-reach limited characters, focus your efforts on maxing out your core roster—like Scarlett and Tony—first.

Building a top-tier squad takes patience. Save your EXP manuals early, master that squad-swapping routine for resource gathering, and you'll stay miles ahead of the competition. Good luck out there, Chief—build smart, and take back the city!