Caliban of Sycorax Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Miss me? Rules (Borrowed from whomever made them first with modifications) - Ratings to be assumed from when a unit is first available. - Votes need some explanation regarding their gameplay performance to be counted (unless they fall into the general parameters of the average rating, but reasoning is still strongly encouraged on those even if you just wanna quote people) — incredibly low scores or high scores without proper justification will not be counted. Don't put in some random text thinking it'd count as justification. Put in at least a little thought and give REAL reasoning. - Numbers for votes, please - not something like "Sigurd/10", etc. - Personality / Appearance may be taken into account, but only +/- 1 point at the most. - Votes out of 10, or something proportional to it, please! - Make votes easily visible, please and thank you! - Every ranking phase will end on the next day at approximately 10:00 PM (or 22:00), EST. -Second Generation Note: Assume that Substitutes are done on a Subs-only run. Any "not ________" will not be accepted. Units and Ranking (Least to Greatest): First Generation Diadora: 1.19 Ardan: 1.39 Tiltyu: 2.00 Briggid: 3.71 Claude: 4.42 Azel: 4.63 Jamka: 5.25 Midir: 5.47 Dew: 5.68 Holyn: 5.90 Lachesis: 6.13 Noish: 6.15 Alec: 6.17 Beowulf: 6.40 Aideen: 6.57 Ayra: 6.79 Levin: 7.87 Fin (First Generation): 7.88 Fury: 8.25 Cuan: 8.41 Lex: 8.83 Ethlin: 9.15 Sylvia: 9.50 Sigurd: 9.96 Second Generation Roddlevan: 3.33 Radney: 3.44 Dimna: 4.89 Mana: 4.98 Tristan: 5.00 Skasaher: 6.00 Lakche: 6.35 Lester: 6.59 Lana: 8.24 Delmud: 8.45 Oifaye: 8.58 Celice: 9.54 DAY 37: JULIA ___ Oh, Julia. You have access to the two best spells in the game, Resire and Narga. You're the reason defeating Julius is a cakewalk. You can promote unlike your useless mother. But, goddamn it. You start with absolutely nothing, need to hide behind everyone until Celice conquers somewhere, and then you have to slowly tank your way to a decent level because, oh, YOU FUCKIN' DISAPPEAR. Not to mention YOU'RE NOT ON A HORSE Staff utility is ok. Especially when we only have L/Mana at this point. She's essential for early clears of F, as she can solo the Dark Warlords and Julius at a decent level, which is highly possible. 7/10, I used a -1 bias here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 You have access to the two best spells in the game, Resire and Narga. Did you forget Holsety? Staffbot that can fight. Helpful in final. No horse. Disappears. Eh, 7/10. I like Julia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 I didn't forget Holsety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) ... How is Resire better than Holsety? No, really. There's a 16 mt, 40 hit, 29 AS difference and one of them boosts continue and critical activation rates. How is HP steal>that? Edited March 27, 2012 by ♈Aradia Megido Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Resiretanking is actually more worth it than you're seeming to make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Horace Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) I think Holsety is way cooler but that's unrelated Julia is pretty cool, she heals well, and can dish out some solid damage. She also has access to all staves except Reserve, rescue and Valkyrie, which is awesome as well. she still has massive movement issues, though 7/10 Edited March 27, 2012 by General Horace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Resiretanking is actually more worth it than you're seeming to make it. By no means is Resiretanking an invalid strategy, but I think calling it better than Holsety is completely ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biabarr Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 7/10-.5= 6.5/10 Take Diadora, give her actual availability, good tomes, and better growths. Narga and resire make her good for combat (and the battle with Yurius oh so much faster), and she can use almost every staff. However, she some problems. First, she comes with no items at all; true she gets resire and restore quickly after, but you still need to keep protecting her until she does. Secondly, no horse and very minimal 5 movement, which is always fun when Aless, Leaf, Celice, and the Leg-ring dancer are running fast ahead . Third, SHE DISAPPEARS! At least she gets more screen time than her mother but still it is annoying that she leaves for 1.75 chapters. Also, the fact that she doesn't seem interested in anyone but her brother kinda annoys me a bit, which I think I will take -.5 a bias point for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renall Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Well, she sure as hell beats her mom on every category that matters. The main thing holding her back - literally - is her low movement, and the fact that you might have to slow down your warp speed Celicestomp a little to make sure she gets Resire so she can fight well. Has poor SPD and DEF but holy crap that RES and MAG growth. Resire-tanking makes up a bit for her durability, but she needs to survive to counterattack. Great staffbot too. Yeah, she disappears, but then she's back with Narga. And Narga's pretty badass. Granted, usually everyone but Julius is dead by that point, but she does stomp him at least. 6.5/10. I'd rate her much lower if you get Aura or nothing in ch6, but why would you do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Purple_Knight Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 8/10 resire tanking Is awesome she's a great staff user but she leaves in the middle of the game , has an extremely bad start and pisd poor movement . plus 1 bias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Who needs HP steal when you don't get hit Though man, Resiretanking on C7 DMs is pretty fucking great. Anyway, has access to Resire and Narga. Can staff. Can actually fucking promote this time. And she makes Yurius into mush very easily. That's worth something. Resire makes her Arena bouts easier too, much better than Aura at any case. Shitty move so obligatory -3, and I'll cancel out her shitty def deductions with Resire and Narga so 7/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Starwind Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Um, I'm not sure. She's always handy and can heal. I guess she has narga but only at the end and even then I don't really use it. She's alright. 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shin Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Always good to have aboard, her move really hampers her performance but her Resire tanking comes in handy a lot. Also makes Julius a joke. 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekkah Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I love it when you heal something with Lana and she gets an HP level-up, then you heal it with Julia and she gets 20 EXP and an HP level-up, and then you heal that with Lana again... But yeah, pretty good. 7.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 JULIA IS BEST UNIT Her only downsides are footsie, dropping for C10 and most of F, and something of an accuracy problem with Resire. Yeah, not hitting occasionally is really a problem when you're 2HKOd at existent hit rates. Still, sticks and good offense and good Arena potential (except lol swordmasters), plus having essentially sole claim on everything she needs (resire) plus bias I'll go with 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zak Something Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) I give her an 8/10, since she's necessary to finish the final chapter in a timely manner. Edited March 27, 2012 by Crashman_Alpha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renall Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 "Essentially" sole claim on Resire? Who else can use it? Leaf and Sety don't have an A in Light. She ain't worried about fighting nobody for her weapon, and she and Lana/Mana can share staves amicably. Plus Julia could snag a couple status staves or something if she has any spare arena cash since at least unlike Lana she can do the arena to repair them a time or two. Nice to have against Team Ishtor or something, and exp for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightBow Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) I don't think it's such a problem that she doesn't have Rezire from the get go. Since Lena is the only other healer she should have enough to contribute until then. Being able to use Rezire is awesome and all, particularly with high magic. I mean you heal yourself while enemies die, that's pretty neat however I found her ability to use Rezire to be rather lacking. She misses a lot. It helps that you can give her an Skill Ring early but it is still rather lackluster. Plus, she has Pursuit and Continue which always seemed to activate surprisingly often to me. She promotes into a Sage, a class that's pretty damn awesome. Great caps and therefore great promotion gains, particular for stats she is mostly lacking. But sadly that's probably around the time where she gets kidnapped, along with all the stuff she was carrying which is not nice. I mean she could carry a few valuable staffs. That would suck at that point in the game. She makes up for it by curbstomping her brother in the final chapter which would otherwise be quite tedious. 7.5/10 -1 Bias for getting kidnapped by Manfroy. She is probably a Sage by that point and he can just snatch her away? That's pretty silly. Man, I think I really voted Lena to high. Even though I never use her like that, Julia can use staffs just as well as Lena with the additional option of using some of the most powerful magic in the game. And nobody but her can even wield it. I need to be consistent with my previous votes though and so I have to rank her higher then Lena. Edited March 27, 2012 by BrightBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) Resiretanking is actually more worth it than you're seeming to make it. it's actually not worth that much past like chapter 7 in chapter 6 you don't get resire until the map is 80% over anyway chapter 7 has some use but you don't want her tanking too many enemies because she has ~70ish hit getting 2HKO'd in my experience (which means that if she misses she dies). Enemies had some ~70 hit too so don't count on her dodging either. chapter 8 is finished much too quickly for her to really have an impact chapter 9 she's either too durable to really need the resire to tank or the enemies ORKO her anyway chapter 10 she doesn't exist lolfinal Holsety at least has the advantage of standing on a road to bring hitrates up from 0 to like 5% (so enemies actually attack without the slightest chance of actually winning) Now... Yuria is amazing, despite my tirade. Her invaluable utility in healing tristan/dimna/base level janne being a glass cannon that repairs itself makes light work of some tough spots (I found her invaluable against Ishtore before we figured out how to trivialize everything with Celice's Light/Hero Sword antics). And then she disappears in chapter 10 and re-appears to smite yurius with a dragon Then again playing on super-turbo kind of removes any need for her at all but she still promotes by healing tristan/dimna/base level janne in the base and is still pretty okay. 7/10 Edited March 27, 2012 by Camtech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 "Essentially" sole claim on Resire? Who else can use it? Leaf and Sety don't have an A in Light. She ain't worried about fighting nobody for her weapon, and she and Lana/Mana can share staves amicably. Plus Julia could snag a couple status staves or something if she has any spare arena cash since at least unlike Lana she can do the arena to repair them a time or two. Nice to have against Team Ishtor or something, and exp for her. Resire's free for her, yes. I said she had essentially free claim on "everything she needs" which I elaborated as Resire. I left it at that because there are other things Julia wants like the Skill Ring (she'd really want that tbh) or even the Elite Ring. Also I wrote it at something early, so nyeh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slootwindow Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 There is no strong reason to get Resire. The only chapter it can do anything on is 7 during a section where Celice is wasting turns catching up from Yied and you are just killing as much stuff as you can before it gets seize-vanished. She can only be in position to use it for a turn or two even then. She's mostly a 5-move B-staffer when you also have a much better one loaded down with ideal staffs. Near-irrelevant in 6, makes moderate contributions healing in 7, and is then one of several options to be your Warp-er until she vanishes. Then she gets magic radiation sickness from being Returned Warped Rescued Danced Rescued over a couple of turns after the re-recruit in Epi to splat Julius. It's notable that she is a bit more important in all-subs because Mana is terrible and cannot fully heal badly wounded characters in 6 or 7 and Julia can buy the bugged Hawk Lightning tome at the start of 8 (which gives her the money to upgrade to a fresh staff and pass the old Relive to Mana). 5+2 points for killing the final boss = 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Existent Member Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 She's better than her mother. She has good growths, skills, and she can promote to Sage. However, she starts with nothing. but receives Relive from L/Mana. and Narga tome at the final chapter. 6.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 5+2 points for killing the final boss = 7/10 I'm tempted to question this, but because I'm assuming this isn't bias, I'll allow it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slootwindow Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I'm tempted to question this, but because I'm assuming this isn't bias, I'll allow it. Yeah, it's not intended as bias. I just don't quite know how to score such a unique thing so I wanted to offset it from her "everything else" score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esaka Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Resire Tanking and Stavebot. But really, that move. Bleh 6.5/10 +1 for hot incest action Edited March 28, 2012 by 3-13Archer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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