Best
Clanne. He doesn't ohko anything, but he doubles everything and as a result either orkos everything or does significant chip damage to everything. His mixed offenses works in his favor since no one regardless of their defensive stats is safe from him lmao.
Alcryst. His performance went from okay to funny after he promotes... Luna is one hell of drug.
Worst
Ettie. Not rly surprising bc early game archers but she was squishy on recruitment and I find her damage falls of very quickly, so much so that by the time Alcryst joins she couldn't ohko any of the pegasus in the map :')
Jean. Never been a massive fan of villager characters but Jean was just a bad time for me. Tbf I probably got *very* rng screwed (three +1 lvl ups in a row) but yeah..... He comes in a class w good utility which is good in that his first few levels aren't that bad since he can gain exp via staff instead of punching a dragon or smth equally insane, but it rly hurt him in the long run imo since for me he had trouble phasing into a front liner.
Most Disappointing
Alfred. This one stings in particular since I wanted him to work so bad... Heck I had him deployed for probably way longer than I should've considering he was almost dead weight in most of those maps. As a character he's grown on me so I still want to build him at some point, but I've given up in my current playthrough.