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Agreed. Ryoma's all about meditation and having all the chill but in actuality he does it because he's reckless as fuck and knows it. It's sort of overlooked that he is actually very similar to present Takumi (as stated in Takumi/Kagero). Anway, as a character I like Support!Xander (great distinction on Thane's part) but as a unit I prefer Ryoma as he's much less maintenance.

Keaton. His pair up bonuses are so much better as is Velouria compared to Selkie.

I was a fairly well known PSN Jin player back in the Calamity Trigger/Continuum Shift days. I played Continuum Shift II for a while and loved the Jin buffs but took a hiatus after that. I wasn't around at all for Continuum Shift Extend but decided to buy an import for Chrono Phantasma for kicks to see if I could get back into it. I messed around for a while then just dropped the series after that since I couldn't put in the time I used to have. The plot got way too out of control and I just lost interest. Doesn't help that I was going hard in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 for that whole stretch either and became a pretty well known PSN Chie player in P4 Arena around its release time as well (I was SS ranked in like... a week?). When I say well known, I meant in the dust loop community when I was active. I miss my fighting game days.

Without bending over backwards BR: Either one works. Master of Arms is very good for her and Swordmaster makes her better at her niche. Marrying Silas for Great Knight is also good. RV: Swordmaster speed is good here as an ending class, but I love sending her through Fighter!Hero via Keaton marriage from around level 8 to level 14 (switching back for swordfaire). Hero Growths are more or less the best in the game and it does everything for her.

tfw almost no on mentions Midir. He has good combat with Jamke's bow.

+Str/-Mag Ninja is my go to for basically everything, but I also like +Str Wyvern Lord. I haven't done it yet, but +Mag/-Lck Dank Mage sounds so cool.

It is only for the JP N3DS? I have a regular JP 3DS XL and I'm interested. However, playing it without an emulator's speed up option is a terrifying thought, despite it being my fav game.

With something like an S rank wyvern Lord MU marriage yeah he'd stomp pretty hard.

Master Ninja is my everything.

Only one I played was Ys 7 for the PSP and I loved it.

Super Robot Wars: Moon Dwellers. Not everyone is broken, but there are so many really good units that you have all at once that it feels balanced.

Rinka is not bad. She just needs some love. HP is not a concern; if an enemy has 20 Atk and she has like 15 Def and 30 HP, it still takes 6 rounds of combat for said enemy to down her.

hahaha just when I thought this game had a solid release date.

Sakura is a surprisingly good character. She's obviously timid and frail, but she has a lot of determination despite that. In many ways, she is very similar to Hinoka except Hinoka actually trained while she stayed a healer. Pit is by far my favorite kid. His best parent comes super early with a fast support and gives him ridiculous (and I do mean ridiculous) growths. Draco Zerker innately is just nuts. As a character, he's literally Pit and Pit is my favorite Nintendo character so that is not even bad. He's just a good kid with good luck.

Her base speed is acceptable in Conquest because she has all the availability in the world to get out of it. In Revelation, having like 5 base speed in C14 is absolutely no bueno when enemies promote en masse in like 3 chapters

I plan my strategies around getting hurt, so having a healer is kinda too important. Of course, Elise can't be everywhere, so I tend to do most of the map relying on vulneraries anyway.

I can distinguish it, but the line is blurred because some units are considered good due to massive assumed favoritism in the first place. There's a difference between inherently overpowered like LaS Palla and units we make overpowered like PoR Marcia.

I loathe Peri. Her gimmick is not cute or quirky. She's an awful human being, but the game expects me to take her seriously. Even worse, she makes Xander look like a damn fool. Like, how dare he say don't trust Hans but then go on to have a psychopath as the retainer for the future king of nohr. What's worse, he apparently wanted to marry her?? Just... no. Midori is very cute.

Itsuki should always go Conquerer at some point because Wyrmicide is amazing. Healing isn't necessary unless you are going through the arena, as items in this game are pretty ridiculous.

Leo is more or less the most well written and enjoyable character across all 3 routes. Great design. Great unit. AMAZING voice actor. I enjoy hearing him in both Eng and JP equally well, which is amazing since his JP voice is kinda legendary. And can we talk about his crit dialogue? "I will ERASE you!"

I actually prefer English Niles, I just like the voice more in JP. Eng Niles is a lot more subtle and low key about his inappropriate remarks. Unless those fan translations were off, I prefer Niles/Elise in English to the JP support.

Revelation Corrin is basically Robin tbh. Anyway, I guess I like their sword?

Only talking about characters I care about. Niles: Fucking incredible character and unit. His VA does an incredible job portraying him as a delinquent and a troll, but Koyasu took this character to all the right places. While most of Koyasu's roles are "that sounds like Dio!", JP Niles really invokes a Koyasu villain with his sadistic performance that really made you doubt if this guy was on our team. Enough gushing about the voice. He also has some of the strongest supports in the whole game. I didn't think I'd end up liking him as much as I did. As a unit, he's a 9 mov Swiss army knife. Lockpicking, capturing, surprisingly good combat due to high mt weapon type and high speed, better range control than most units due to the 1 range bow that doubles. He's just so dang flexible and I love that. Kagero: She's so goddamn attractive it's nuts. Her character falls sort of flat though but a Ninja with a sense of duty is too inoffensive for me to be that bothered anyway. At least they somewhat tried to give her a weird art quirk and her friendship with Orochi (best friends, even!) is as unexpected as it is exclusive legitimately sweet since there aren't many female-female friendships that don't involve a guy. Getting captured in literally all 3 routes isn't a good look though. She's kinda ridiculous in both playable routes as a unit. 70% Str and 1-2 range tells the whole story.

At the start of C6 now. Just beat the second round of old school characters. Yashiro is busted Tsubasa is bad Touma is amazing Mamori is alright Ellie is pretty good Kiria is too slow Itsuki is really good I need more master seals

Hinoka is a well written character held back by her backstory ultimately dooming her to be a codependent child for the avatar's wish fulfillment and how poorly she is implemented into the plot. Tsubaki reminds me of Innes. I like his kind of perfectionism; the kind he works his ass off for.