Mekkah vs Tino

[Mekkah]

Carried over from FEF.

Both Dozla and Ewan are near the bottom of every tier list. You wouldn't use either of them as a serious combat unit. Rather, you would look at what else they bring to the team regardless of their stats.

One of those things is supports. Supports with units you're actually going to be using.

Dozla:

L'Arachel - Sucks.

Rennac - Sucks.

Myrrh - She's not good, and it only helps for 50 attacks or less late in the game, and it's not like this support helps her at all with her problems: low HP, low base AS and bow weak.

Ewan - If they would be played at the same time, maybe. But both of them suck, so this is not likely at all. This debate doesn't make it more likely, since it's about "which of the two is better/more helpful". So no.

Garcia - Sucks. Low AS means not doubling, means half as much damage as he could have done (Dozla suffers from the same fate). Even if you were to argue he was in play, he supports _four_ people with equal or better bonuses with much better joining time. If Garcia is in play, it's likely because he fills up gaps that one of those people has.

So Dozla is going supportless.

Ewan:

Tethys - Amazing unit. Dancers are pretty much always going to be used. She doesn't get as much out of bonuses as combat units, but she still wants them. She is a primary target for long-range assaults (due to low HP/Def) and the first PC enemies attack when given the choice (again due to low HP/Def, plus not being able to counter). This is her second fastest support, after Gerik, so Ewan gets B Tethys, or A Tethys if Gerik isn't in play.

Saleh - Great unit. Low-resource dude. Can use both Light and Anima and S-rank them with ease, and he shares the Sacred Twins of those schools with like one other unit max. 1-2 range, staves and Res-hitting make him a fine contender. However, he doesn't have much in the way of supports...Myrrh has been outlined as a poor support before, and Eirika is likely to be full with Seth/Tana/Forde, and Gerik only goes up to B (since he wants A Tethys), or Gerik goes with Joshua since it offers the same bonuses. Joshua is 10 points slower, but he's with Gerik for more than 4 turns before Saleh arrives, obviously. So Saleh is pining for an A with Ewan.

Dozla - Outlined above.

Amelia - Sucks.

Ross - Not that great either and has other options.

So Ewan is providing A Saleh/B Tethys. Those units are likely to be in play, and they were unlikely to receive bonuses otherwise.

What else does Dozla bring to ze table? Not much, just a combat failure. Ewan, however, has staves. Staves increase other unit's durability. Useful.

Ewan may also be able to provide you with Summons. Since you're obviously not using Knoll, this is an unique thing that only Ewan can provide. Summons allow you to bait in dangerous enemies (like Stone Gorgons) with 0 risk. They also extend Ewan's own attacking range - Ewan can move 6 spaces, Summon one space before him, then that Phantom can attack an enemy that's 5 spaces away from that. 12 attacking range? Leet.

Staves and Summons also draw from a seperate EXP pool, whereas Dozla can only gain EXP from fighting enemies (which anyone can do, so he's taking EXP away from others).

If you do want to get into combat, that doesn't help Dozla. There is nothing to be done about his suck. He doesn't really grow throughout the game, like Ewan - rather, he becomes relatively worse, as others gain level-ups faster, kill more (thanks to doubling) and get promo bonuses and supports, neither of which Dozla gets. Sure, Ewan requires severe handholding, but only for two chapers, and the former only is to give him 9 kills (which caps him out for trainee stage). Then next two chapters he builds up some more suck and promotes at 15/0 or something. Giving Dozla the same treatment, he would probably gain four levels or so.

25 Dozla

Iron Axe: 26.0 atk, 10.6 AS, 102.1 hit, 21.0 crit - - 26.4 avo, 46.4 hp, 12.2 def, 7.0 res, 5.2 critavo

Steel Axe: 29.0 atk, 10.6 AS, 92.1 hit

Hand Axe: 25.0 atk, 10.6 AS, 87.1 hit

10/15/1 Ewan (Mage -> Sage) B Tethys, B Saleh

Fire: 21.9 atk, 14.7 AS, 141.3 hit, 25.6 crit - - 50.4 avo, 31.0 hp, 9.3 def, 18.8 res, 21.0 critavo

Thunder: 23.9 atk, 14.7 AS, 131.3 hit, 30.6 crit - 50.4 avo

Elfire: 26.9 atk, 11.7 AS, 136.3 hit, 25.6 crit - - 44.4 avo

Offensively, Ewan has more AS, more hit _and_ more crit than lolBerserker Dozla. The only win Dozla can pull is in raw Atk, but even that is lol. Elfire Ewan beats Iron Axe Dozla by .9 Atk, and if Dozla tries to be cocky and uses Steel, he rapes his Hit even further. Like, against a 17 Avo Fighter, he would have 87% hit, which means he can miss. Against a 24 avo Merc, which he gets WTD against, he would have 73% real. Missing is bad. Doing 0 damage at an unexpected moment sux.

Similiary, Ewan has 1-2 range, which means he can counter Archers, Mages, etc. Dozla can immitate with Hand Axe, but that costs him his Atk win, and rapes his Hit even further, so no thanks. And Ewan can increase his AS by going to Fire/Thunder to DA more, which offsets Dozla´s Atk win if Ewan does that.

Oh, did I mention Ewan hits on Res while Dozla hits on Def? Def-res gaps for some classes: Mercs 3-4, Myrms 1, Fighters 2-3, Brigands 2, Cavaliers 6-7, Rangers 3-5, Berserkers 5, Paladins 2, Wyverns _9_. Pegasi have a reversed gap of 2-3, but Ewan one-rounds those anyway. Same for Mages/Shamans, except against those, Ewan leads in Res, so he wins by even more.

Defensively, Dozla wins 15.4 HP/2.9 Def, while Ewan has 11.8 Res, 15.8 critavo and the kicker: 24 more avo, pretty much twice as much as Dozla´s. Then, Ewan once again has 1-2 range, which means he is targetted less by ranged stuffs, doesn´t have to be as near a group of enemies to attack, can be positioned on terrain more easily, doesn´t take a counter on player phase, etcetera. Does Ewan win yet? No? Well, it also takes only 12 Skl to have 1% crit on Dozla, whereas nothing can crit Ewan. Rangers have 14, Paladins 12, Myrms and Mercs 14-15...Mages don´t have enough, but the base Crt of a Thunder tome is enough to negate Dozla´s natural critavo, so they will still have 4 Crt.

Not much changes after this point (presumably Scorched Sand). Dozla gets S axes for 5 Hit/Crt, but quickly Ewan gets S anima too. Ewan finishes his Saleh support, maybe gets D staves, catches up and surpasses Dozla in level (higher natural gain, doesn´t miss, staves, counters more often on enemy phase)...so that´s not helping. Ewan competes with only two people for Excalibur, one being Lute (who may not be in play) and Saleh (who can use Ivaldi). Everyone and their mom can go for Garm thanks to Devil Axe existing and Steel Axe being E-level, even if they didn´t weild axes from the start, though Duessel does exist.

Soz:

- Ewan provides Tethys and Saleh with supports they want. Dozla provides no one with a support they want.

- Ewan can use staves.

- Ewan brings Summons.

- Ewan wins combat for 15-20 + Final.

- Dozla wins combat for 13 and 14.

[Tino]

hai2u

watch me phail

Both Dozla and Ewan are near the bottom of every tier list. You wouldn't use either of them as a serious combat unit. Rather, you would look at what else they bring to the team regardless of their stats.

I look at that in a different way.

You only have one spot left on your team, and neither Dozla nor Ewan is currently in it. Who do you pick?

Garcia - Sucks. Low AS means not doubling, means half as much damage as he could have done (Dozla suffers from the same fate). Even if you were to argue he was in play, he supports _four_ people with equal or better bonuses with much better joining time. If Garcia is in play, it's likely because he fills up gaps that one of those people has.

Wut?

Ross fails even harder than Garcia, so he's not going to be played. Seth has Eirika, Franz and possibly even Cormag. Neimi and Gilliam suck balls as well. And even if Garcia would get a Ross support, then there's still room for that B Dozla.

Dozla can get an A or B support with Garcia.

Saleh - Great unit. Low-resource dude. Can use both Light and Anima and S-rank them with ease, and he shares the Sacred Twins of those schools with like one other unit max. 1-2 range, staves and Res-hitting make him a fine contender. However, he doesn't have much in the way of supports...Myrrh has been outlined as a poor support before, and Eirika is likely to be full with Seth/Tana/Forde, and Gerik only goes up to B (since he wants A Tethys), or Gerik goes with Joshua since it offers the same bonuses. Joshua is 10 points slower, but he's with Gerik for more than 4 turns before Saleh arrives, obviously. So Saleh is pining for an A with Ewan.

This only happens 50% of the time, though, since Ephraim Route Saleh is a massive failure, and he's only decent on Eirika Route.

The B Tethys is fine, but he'll get the Saleh support only 50% of the time. In other words, he doesn't always benefit Saleh, and Saleh also doesn't always benefit Ewan.

What else does Dozla bring to ze table? Not much, just a combat failure. Ewan, however, has staves. Staves increase other unit's durability. Useful.

Granted, staves are incredibly useful. However, Ewan won't be able to benefit your team with his epic healing capabilities until perhaps the last two chapters. Those are arguably the easiest chapters in the game since all those monsters have pretty lollable hit, which means there isn't going to be much to heal, either.

Ewan may also be able to provide you with Summons. Since you're obviously not using Knoll, this is an unique thing that only Ewan can provide. Summons allow you to bait in dangerous enemies (like Stone Gorgons) with 0 risk. They also extend Ewan's own attacking range - Ewan can move 6 spaces, Summon one space before him, then that Phantom can attack an enemy that's 5 spaces away from that. 12 attacking range? Leet.

Again, this will be only in the last chapters. Also, Ewan gains 10 exp from summoning, while he would've gained, like, 12 exp from just hitting something. Killing would get him ~45 exp or something.

That's assuming a level 1 promoted Ewan vs. a level 6 promoted enemy.

Attacking > Summoning and letting the phantom take exp away from your team.

If you do want to get into combat, that doesn't help Dozla. There is nothing to be done about his suck. He doesn't really grow throughout the game, like Ewan - rather, he becomes relatively worse, as others gain level-ups faster, kill more (thanks to doubling) and get promo bonuses and supports, neither of which Dozla gets. Sure, Ewan requires severe handholding, but only for two chapers, and the former only is to give him 9 kills (which caps him out for trainee stage). Then next two chapters he builds up some more suck and promotes at 15/0 or something. Giving Dozla the same treatment, he would probably gain four levels or so.

Sure. Dozla is a pretty good unit upon joining, though. Also, he requires no effort to get that good. Ewan requires a lot of effort to become a sucky unit. Granted, Dozla also fails when it comes to combat, but at least he has a period of being good, while Ewan has not.

25 Dozla

Iron Axe: 26.0 atk, 10.6 AS, 102.1 hit, 21.0 crit - - 26.4 avo, 46.4 hp, 12.2 def, 7.0 res, 5.2 critavo

Steel Axe: 29.0 atk, 10.6 AS, 92.1 hit

Hand Axe: 25.0 atk, 10.6 AS, 87.1 hit

10/15/1 Ewan (Mage -> Sage) B Tethys, B Saleh

Fire: 21.9 atk, 14.7 AS, 141.3 hit, 25.6 crit - - 50.4 avo, 31.0 hp, 9.3 def, 18.8 res, 21.0 critavo

Thunder: 23.9 atk, 14.7 AS, 131.3 hit, 30.6 crit - 50.4 avo

Elfire: 26.9 atk, 11.7 AS, 136.3 hit, 25.6 crit - - 44.4 avo

Nice. Indeed, Ewan >>> Dozla in the last chapters, but you completely neglected the earlier chapters.

21 Iron Axe Dozla

43 HP, 24 Atk, 99 Hit, 20 Crit, 9 AS, 22 Avo, 11 Def, 6 Res, 4 Cavo

1/0/0 Fire Ewan

15 HP, 8 Atk, 96 Hit, 1 Crit, 5 AS, 15 Avo, 0 Def, 3 Res, 5 Cavo

Dozla almost triples Ewan's lollable HP, triples Ewan's atk, nearly doubles his AS, has 11 more Def and doubles his Res. What does Ewan have? One Cavo. Lol.

Dozla is easily superior upon joining. Ewan get's one-rounded by everything. Care to explain how you're going to give him those 9 kills you mentioned earlier without having him die? It'll take him two chapters to cap his level, which means he'll promote at chapter 14.

23 Iron Axe Dozla, C Garcia

45 HP, 25 Atk, 103 Hit, 26 Crit, 10 AS, 30 Avo, 12 Def, 7 Res, 7 CAvo

10/1/0 Thunder Mage Ewan, C Tethys/C Saleh

20 HP, 17 Atk, 106 Hit, 18 Crit, 10 AS, 31 Avo, 3 Def, 9 Res, 11 Cavo

lol

Dozla still has more than double Ewan's HP, has four times as much Def and has 8 more Atk, as well as 8~13 more Crit, which become 38~43 with a Killer Axe.

That >>> 3 Hit, 1 Avo, 2 Res and 4 Cavo

And that's something else. Dozla has access to killer weapons, brave weapons and slayer weapons (Hammer, Halberd, Swordreaver, Swordslayer). All Ewan has is 1~2 range, which Dozla can obtain as well.

Similiary, Ewan has 1-2 range, which means he can counter Archers, Mages, etc. Dozla can immitate with Hand Axe, but that costs him his Atk win, and rapes his Hit even further, so no thanks. And Ewan can increase his AS by going to Fire/Thunder to DA more, which offsets Dozla´s Atk win if Ewan does that.

Most things you face have either lances or axes, against which Dozla is still pretty good when it comes to Hit. Against the fairly uncommon swords, he indeed sucks. But then, Ewan's Hit sucks as well (in his early chapters, at least), especially against the pretty common dark magic users (gorgons, mogalls, druids: he fails against them).

Oh, did I mention Ewan hits on Res while Dozla hits on Def? Def-res gaps for some classes: Mercs 3-4, Myrms 1, Fighters 2-3, Brigands 2, Cavaliers 6-7, Rangers 3-5, Berserkers 5, Paladins 2, Wyverns _9_. Pegasi have a reversed gap of 2-3, but Ewan one-rounds those anyway. Same for Mages/Shamans, except against those, Ewan leads in Res, so he wins by even more.

23 Iron Axe Dozla, C Garcia

45 HP, 25 Atk, 103 Hit, 26 Crit, 10 AS, 30 Avo, 12 Def, 7 Res, 7 CAvo

10/1/0 Thunder Mage Ewan, C Tethys/C Saleh

20 HP, 17 Atk, 106 Hit, 18 Crit, 10 AS, 31 Avo, 3 Def, 9 Res, 11 Cavo

Weapon triangle has been taken into consideration here.

Dozla has a 3-4 Dmg lead against mercenaries.

Dozla has a 6 Dmg lead against myrmidons.

Dozla has a 5-6 Dmg lead against fighters.

Dozla has a 6 Dmg lead against brigands.

Dozla has a 2-3 Dmg lead against lance cavaliers.

Dozla has a 0-1 Dmg lead against sword cavaliers.

Dozla has a 2-4 Dmg lead against sword rangers.

Dozla has a 3-5 Dmg lead against bow rangers.

Dozla has a 3 Dmg lead against berserkers.

Dozla has a 7 Dmg lead against lance paladins.

Dozla has a 5 Dmg lead against sword paladins.

Neither Dozla nor Ewan has a Dmg lead against wyverns.

Dozla has a 9-10 Dmg lead against pegasi.

Dozla has a Dmg lead against mages and shamans as well.

Dozla always wins Dmg, or ties against a few. Aight.

Defensively, Dozla wins 15.4 HP/2.9 Def, while Ewan has 11.8 Res, 15.8 critavo and the kicker: 24 more avo, pretty much twice as much as Dozla´s. Then, Ewan once again has 1-2 range, which means he is targetted less by ranged stuffs, doesn´t have to be as near a group of enemies to attack, can be positioned on terrain more easily, doesn´t take a counter on player phase, etcetera. Does Ewan win yet? No? Well, it also takes only 12 Skl to have 1% crit on Dozla, whereas nothing can crit Ewan. Rangers have 14, Paladins 12, Myrms and Mercs 14-15...Mages don´t have enough, but the base Crt of a Thunder tome is enough to negate Dozla´s natural critavo, so they will still have 4 Crt.

Good, that's endgame again.

23 Iron Axe Dozla, C Garcia

45 HP, 25 Atk, 103 Hit, 26 Crit, 10 AS, 30 Avo, 12 Def, 7 Res, 7 CAvo

10/1/0 Thunder Mage Ewan, C Tethys/C Saleh

20 HP, 17 Atk, 106 Hit, 18 Crit, 10 AS, 31 Avo, 3 Def, 9 Res, 11 Cavo

Dozla has 25 HP and 9 Def. That >>>>>>> 1 Avo and 2 Res and 4 Cavo

Also, endgame mages usually wield Elfire anyway, which means they don't have that small Crit boost. And B Garcia gives just the extra Cavo Dozla needs, so he doesn't get crit'd anyway.

- Ewan provides Tethys and Saleh with supports they want. Dozla provides no one with a support they want.

The former, yes. The latter, only 50% of the time.

Dozla x Garcia is guaranteed.

- Ewan can use staves.

Yeah, so late that it doesn't matter much anyway. All he'll be able to use is Heal if he goes the dark magic route, and mend (12 exp) if he goes the anima magic route. In other words, him drawing from his own exp pool doesn't matter a lot, since he benefits a lot more from cexp. Sure, he might take 50 exp away from the team, but somebody has to get it, so Ewan is just as good a candidate as any other character. In fact, Ewan benefits a lot more from cexp than staff exp.

- Ewan brings Summons.

And yet in your comparison, he was a sage. He's not going to summon a lot if he's a sage -_-

- Ewan wins combat for 15-20 + Final.

- Dozla wins combat for 13 and 14.

Er... try Ewan for 17/18-20 + Final and Dozla for 13-16/17.

[Mekkah]

I look at that in a different way.

You only have one spot left on your team, and neither Dozla nor Ewan is currently in it. Who do you pick?

Preferably the one that helps my team the most. And since their combat is bad overall, the emphasis is probably going to be on stuff that does not require combat.

Wut?

Ross fails even harder than Garcia, so he's not going to be played. Seth has Eirika, Franz and possibly even Cormag. Neimi and Gilliam suck balls as well. And even if Garcia would get a Ross support, then there's still room for that B Dozla.

Dozla can get an A or B support with Garcia.

This [saleh support] only happens 50% of the time, though, since Ephraim Route Saleh is a massive failure, and he's only decent on Eirika Route.

The B Tethys is fine, but he'll get the Saleh support only 50% of the time. In other words, he doesn't always benefit Saleh, and Saleh also doesn't always benefit Ewan.

If Ross fails "even harder", that implies Garcia also fails, which means he won't be in play (the reasoning why Garcia from my first post went uncountered...). Either Garcia has a shot at being in play, and then Ross has one for the same reason, as the only difference between them would be Garcia's level lead vs Ross' much higer EXP gains.

If Garcia is not supporting Seth, Neimi or Gilliam, then he is running around supportless until he gets his slow support with Dozla. So not only am I fielding a unit that sucks at doubling (and therefore at killing), but he's also not giving any support bonuses when doing it.

Plus, the cumulative chance of less than 2 of Garcia's support partners being in play when Garcia himself is in play is obviously rather small.

Basically, Dozla needs to defy logic to guarantee a Garcia support. A lolable B at that. I'll be nice and assume that he gets B Garcia as often as Ewan gets A Saleh when you go Ephraim route. No matter how you twist it, both are rarely happening.

So on Ephraim route, either Ewan gets full supports while Dozla gets just B Garcia, or Ewan gets just Tethys and Dozla gets none. And on Eirika route, Dozla just gets pwnt.

Granted, staves are incredibly useful. However, Ewan won't be able to benefit your team with his epic healing capabilities until perhaps the last two chapters. Those are arguably the easiest chapters in the game since all those monsters have pretty lollable hit, which means there isn't going to be much to heal, either

nonono. Ewan promotes to normal tier after Ch12, then promotes to second tier at the end of Ch14. Yes, 7.5 levels in two chapters. If that seems too much to you, remember that Ewan gains 73 EXP for killing generic enemies, 100 for promoted enemies, and that everyone else has hit promotion by now, which means they gain about as much by weakening enemies as by killing (neither is much...like 8 EXP for a L1 promoted unit for killing a 14 enemy). He promotes at around the same levels as the generic enemy units are (13-15), at which point he gains 30 EXP, so about 54 EXP on average. So he only needs 30 generic enemy kills nobody cares about.

I gave Dozla the same amount of kills to be fair, but he's gaining shit EXP, so it's not helping him much, and allowing other units to take them doesn't help much either, since none of them gain a lot of it either.

Long story short, Ewan can heal(/summon) from Ch15 on. Your comparisons are based off that Ewan promotes at like Ch18 or something, which is ridiculous.

Attacking > Summoning and letting the phantom take exp away from your team.

You can direct Summons so that they don't kill. Their main use is luring and dying, which doesn't cost EXP at all. They only have 1HP and terrible Avo, and they can't one round for shit even if the enemy does miss.

Also, Ewan gains 10 exp from summoning, while he would've gained, like, 12 exp from just hitting something. Killing would get him ~45 exp or something.

If it's more beneficial for Ewan to kill something, sure. However, sometimes you will have 2 PCs leftover, Ewan one of them, and only one enemy in their range. In such a case, Ewan can Summon, and the other can kill. Efficiency++

Sure. Dozla is a pretty good unit upon joining, though. Also, he requires no effort to get that good. Ewan requires a lot of effort to become a sucky unit. Granted, Dozla also fails when it comes to combat, but at least he has a period of being good, while Ewan has not.

Nonono, Ewan is quite decent after promotion. Dozla is the one who never has a period of awesomeness. Even if they were relatively the same during their good periods, Ewan has more chapters of being good.

Taking some decent but non-godly unit like Kyle, for example, with half assed supports:

17/0 Kyle - A Forde

15.5 atk, 11.4 AS, 39.6 hit, 11.9 crit - - 38.0 avo, 34.3 hp, 12.8 def, 4.2 res, 23.2 critavo

20/1 Dozla

16.0 atk, 9.0 AS, 23.8 hit, 5.3 crit - - 22.0 avo, 43.0 hp, 11.0 def, 6.0 res, 4.0 critavo

Kyle is winning everything but a bit of Atk, 2 res and ~9 hp. But if he's with Ephraim, for example:

17/0 Kyle - A Forde, B Ephraim

16.5 atk, 11.4 AS, 49.6 hit, 16.9 crit - - 48.0 avo, 34.3 hp, 13.8 def, 5.2 res, 28.2 critavo

He now wins Atk, has double Dozla's Avo, and Dozla's measly Res lead has shrunk to less than a point.

Then Kyle would promote...

20/1 Kyle

18.0 atk, 14.6 AS, 29.4 hit, 6.0 crit - - 38.0 avo, 39.9 hp, 14.5 def, 4.8 res, 8.8 critavo

20/4 Dozla

17.5 atk, 10.2 AS, 26.2 hit, 5.8 crit - - 25.3 avo, 45.5 hp, 11.9 def, 6.8 res, 4.9 critavo

And he trashes Dozla in everything but HP (5.6) and Res (2) without supports at all, even giving Dozla the same amount of levels as Kyle, despite Dozla being promoted.

So even a bleh unit is crushing Dozla badly when being generous to Dozla.

How does Ewan compare to this Kyle, then?

10/15/1 Sage Ewan

13.9 atk, 14.7 AS, 31.4 hit, 5.7 crit - - 45.4 avo, 31.0 hp, 7.3 def, 16.8 res, 16.0 critavo

20/1 Kyle

18.0 atk, 14.6 AS, 29.4 hit, 6.0 crit - - 38.0 avo, 39.9 hp, 14.5 def, 4.8 res, 8.8 critavo

4 Atk, 9 HP and 7.2 def vs 7.4 avo, 12 res, 1~2 range, hitting on res and staves? You can argue Kyle is winning, but he's definitely not crushing Ewan.

"but kyle level lead"

Knight Crests are scarce, so he will probably have to wait until the end of Ch14 to promote anyway. Even if you give him his 2-3 level lead or something, Ewan catches up quickly through staves and now higher natural gains that it comes down to about the same.

lol dozla vs ewan before Ch15

The samples I used were from Ch15, Scorched Sand. As I said, that's the chapter where Ewan gets to fight promoted, so your analysis doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Before that, yeah, Dozla wins, I already conceded those. The point is obviously that Ewan _can_ become good, and he only needs ~2-3 chapters of suck, whereas Dozla joins as pretty bad and only becomes worse.

And that's something else. Dozla has access to killer weapons, brave weapons and slayer weapons (Hammer, Halberd, Swordreaver, Swordslayer). All Ewan has is 1~2 range, which Dozla can obtain as well.

lol Brave in plural. There is only one Brave Axe, and it's only available after killing the Hero that drops it in Ch17. And Dozla isn't taking on that group of Heroes by himself, so he's probably off trying to kill other things, so he may not even have it during that chapter. And it'll break after ~15 rounds of doubling. Obviously being good without that exclusive weapon > being good only with it. And if Dozla has B Garcia, he has to share that thing with him, and if you're going Ephraim route, Duessel might also want it.

Hand Axe/Tomahawk makes him phail accuracy and atk power, and there's only one Tomahawk with 15 uses.

Killer, yeah, he has that, but he only gets one shot at enemies to crit with it anyway, and they cannot be bought until Ch17.

For Slayer, it helps him against the specific enemy targets, but it makes him fail on enemy phases against others. He can Hammer those Generals in Ch19, but then those Swordmasters laugh even harder at him. He could use a Swordslayer killing those Swordmasters, but then all of those lance users have double WTA over him and kill him in like 2-3 hits with >90% real. And again, those weapons are limited.

Most things you face have either lances or axes, against which Dozla is still pretty good when it comes to Hit. Against the fairly uncommon swords, he indeed sucks. But then, Ewan's Hit sucks as well (in his early chapters, at least), especially against the pretty common dark magic users (gorgons, mogalls, druids: he fails against them).

This ain't FE7, the enemy weapon triangle is fairly evenly represented.

Ewan's accuracy is top notch with anima, and still lots better than Dozla if he chooses to go for Dark, tyvm.

Gorgons don't appear until Ch18, by which time Ewan can use Light if he's a Sage, and Dark if he's Summoner/Druid. And even if he's a Mage Knight, he can rape Gorgons with Excalibur before they float into his range. I'll say for now that Ewan does not have accuracy issues at this point, but if you wish to challenge that, I'll provide some numbers in my last post. Note that Ewan gets 25 hit from supports, too (for comparison, Dozla gains 0, or 5 with B Garcia)

Druids do not appear until Ch14 Eph, and there's none on Eirika route, so you'll have to wait until Ch16 to face them. Again, Ewan is promoted here, so no hit issues at all.

Mogalls have almost negative evade. They are in his joining chapters, but even there, Ewan can hit them. Taking Mogalls from Ch18 and assuming they're the same in Ch12 (I'm so nice):

Mogalls(All LvL 16, 4 Con)

1-25/10/7/9/6/3/9(Evil Eye)

2-26/10/6/8/6/4/9(Evil Eye)

3-25/11/7/7/5/5/9(Evil Eye)

Average-25.3/10.3/6.7/8.0/5.7/4.0/9.0

Evil Eye Stats:

7 Mt/85 Hit/6 Wt/0 Crit/1-2 Rng

We see here that the fastest one has 9 Spd, but they all lose 2 AS, so 7 Spd, so that makes 20 avo overall, 35 with WTA. Fire has 90 hit, and Ewan comes with 2 Skl/5 Luk, for 96 base hit overall. Still 61% displayed hit, or ~70% real. 70% real at base level against overleveled Mogalls? Add his 105% hit growth, and he really doesn't give a damn.

In fact, Ewan's 96 base hit is only slightly less than Dozla's 99 base hit with Iron Axe. And Dozla only has 85% hit growth.

All he'll be able to use is Heal if he goes the dark magic route, and mend (12 exp) if he goes the anima magic route. In other words, him drawing from his own exp pool doesn't matter a lot, since he benefits a lot more from cexp. Sure, he might take 50 exp away from the team, but somebody has to get it, so Ewan is just as good a candidate as any other character. In fact, Ewan benefits a lot more from cexp than staff exp.

Sure, he'll take CEXP if you'd prefer. That only helps my side more. However, if there's a surplus of PCs, he can allow other PCs to take the kill, while he heals someone for his own EXP. Dozla, in such a situation, cannot grow.

And yet in your comparison, he was a sage. He's not going to summon a lot if he's a sage

The fact that he has the option of becoming a Summoner is plenty. Not a lot changes if he goes Summoner for the battle stats, since Thunder has as much Mt as Flux, and he gains even more power that way with the same amount of AS. Also, that way, he gets to peer into his own exclusive pool of Dark tomes, such as Nosferatu.

Dozla, however, does not have any choice on this matter.

Soz, changes from last time:

- Ewan still pwns the support department. On Dozla's best case, Eph route, he has A/B when Dozla has B, or just A if Dozla has none. On Eirika route, it's all vs none.

- Ewan still has staves and may have Summons.

- Ewan wins combat for 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and final. Dozla wins combat for 12, 13 and 14. In addition, Dozla gets owned by some random unit like Kyle when he joins already, and gets trashed more and more as the game goes on. Ewan is on par with Kyle when Ch15 comes, and it stays that way for the rest of the game.