LexMex

Lyn isn’t exactly promoting early either, plus she has competed with either Eliwood/Hector, both who benefit much more from promoting since unlike her, they actually have good promotions. The next heaven seal is gonna come with very few chapters left, even Nino is around for a chapter extra. Even if you want to promote her that’s really gonna hurt your funds rank, those heaven seals aren’t exactly cheap

Implying bows are any good in fe7 yea she’s doubling but if she’s only weakening enemies you’d be better off deploying someone better at actually being able to kill then her. Roy isn’t killing anything anytime soon either but he’s not wasting a deployment slot. Aka Lyn is better off on the bench. Roy at least has some early game kill feeding utility then he becomes useless till he promotes. That’s a lot better then being practically useless from ch15-endgame (yea Lyn mode she’s actually good but that mode is a joke) When a unit is better off on the bench that really says something about how bad they are. If Roy wasn’t force deployed he’d be on the bench too but you’re stuck with him and can at least make some use out of him. I just want to make it clear I’m not trying to say Roy is even remotely good because he’s not. He and Lyn are easily the two worst lords in the series

When Roy finally promotes being swordlicked isn’t a point against him since he gets one of the most broken weapons in the series which has 1-2 range. Even if you do get Lyn some levels in her mode she still sucks compared to the majority of the cast. The fast and accurate niche Lyn fills doesn’t mean too much when she still can’t kill without relying on a crit and I know Roy isn’t ORKOing much of anything either but Lyn isn’t with shittier enemies. That’s pretty rough. as for Lyn taking someone’s spot, say you have 12 deployment slots aside from whichever lord is the main one. Who would you rather bring along? An extra healer, extra mount/flier, a mediocre combat unit or a lord who’s got sub par combat and causes a game over when she dies? Personally I’d bench lyn anyday for that

That’s an odd way of spelling Lyn. Here’s why I think he’s better: He’s forced deployed. It sounds counter productive since he sucks himself, but if you want to use Lyn (a sub par sword licked unit that doesn’t promote till late) you have to miss out on the possible utility another unit could have brought to the table. Fe7 enemies are largely shit and she still can’t ORKO many of them. Even when she finally does promo it’s expensive and underwhelming. No swordmaster crit bonus and she gets bows of all the weapon types.