1. No one in their right mind would waste 50 turns having Marcus/Zealot absorb Reygans' lance blows
2. And no one is fielding Bors the fail armor knight with his bad move in Ch. 8 either
3. She can already use steel. (needs to be 16/0 just to do one damage to him with it remember?) And we only have 2 Silver lances at that point, the one Marcus came with, and another that's a spoil from one of the early chapters. 40 uses is not enough to get her to level 20
Like seriously, this is literally worse than the argument someone gave me on gamefaqs once, saying that Amelia was better than Ewan, because she can chuck Javelins at a lancereaver Merc behind a door for good exp.
Sophia can just putz around taking random potshots with flux, if she misses? no biggie. If she hits? good because she can actually put a dent in something, unlike Wendy; She doesn't have bad move, unlike Wendy; She doesn't require us to waste 2 deployment slots on bad units, unlike Wendy. Then she can hit level 10 promote and staff bot, eclipse walls or Nosferatu something. Wendy cannot do that, she still has bad move and questionable offense after promotion!