Top tier
Being among the three highest-tier vehicles in the battle, where your armor holds and your gun works on everything.
Also known as downtier, downtiered, top of the list.
The usual template puts three vehicles per side at the top tier. Those three meet opponents one and two tiers below them: their armor stops shells that would go through anything else in the queue, and their guns penetrate everywhere.
Top tier is also a responsibility. A team whose three strongest vehicles hide behind the rest loses battles it had already won on paper, which is why the phrase is usually said as a reproach.
Related terms
Battle tierThe tier bracket a battle is fought at, which is what decides who a vehicle meets rather than its own tier alone.MatchmakingThe system that builds the two teams of a random battle, balancing them by battle tier, vehicle class and platoons rather than by player skill.Bottom tierBeing two tiers below the top of the battle, which is where seven of every fifteen vehicles start.TierA vehicle's rank from I to X, which sets its power level, its battle tier spread and everything about its economy.