Pre-Promoted

Pre-Promoted is a term used when you get a character who is already in a second tier or third tier class (such as Paladins, Heroes, and Snipers.) Pre-Promoted characters often tend to be looked down upon because in most cases, outside of the fact that they are already pre-promoted, their stats are mediocre and with promotion it becomes harder to level them up, so they tend to deteriorate in value after you start manually promoting characters which often out do them.