I'll buy most powerful melee character - when he can hit anything - but I always bring everyone out for a share of the AP in battle, so he got moved along just as much as everyone elese - yeah, he started out about 8 sphere levels behind by not being around for the fin/scales fight on the boat, but that catches up relatively quickly, and he was the first to reach the end of an area without cutting around half of it. At the same time, the rest of my offense was magical with Flare or -ga series spells, doing twice as much damage per turn (or four times once I opened Doublecast), while Tidus played status blaster and Rikku stole. With his lousy initial magic stat, its not like he'd be doing much better if I tried to make him one of the casters at that stage, and his grid already has the highest concentration of +4 STR nodes so adding the one won from the plot blitz tournement wouldn't help him much.
Perhaps if I didn't juggle the growth of the other characters around, so they al went through their crappy early grids, he'd rule, but in the bigger pond created by pulling people quickly to the late areas vis Teleport Spheres his performance is no more engaging than his attitude, and since HIS GRID is the best physical combat section on the stock layout, there's not a lot of incentive for me to try a non-magic assault setup. I'd actually prefer to have him as the one to pathbreak out to the end of Lulu's section and be teleport beacon and keep Wakka in his normal area then break into the end of Aurons, since Wakka is far more likely to hit what he attacks, but Wakka also becomes Underwater Spell Boy and second theif.
(Hmm - Yuna through part of Auron's grid as well... it would make her more capable for the Bevelle dungeons, at least... it would mean allocating her two teleports, though, which is another whole Blitz league season and ~80-90 more monster fights on the Mi'ihen oldroad before moving on to Mushroom Rock... Depends how sick of Blitz I am after the other seven seasons and two tournements, I guess.)
- CD
Edit: Oh, for party duties -
Random monsters: before Spherimorph, it doesn't matter who's out, just that Yuna goes last after everyone else has done something to actually kill the beastie with a summon. Afterward, with the magic mojo in place and Wakka jumped over to Rikku to be a second thief, Tidus goes first to slowga/hastega, Rikku and Wakka are out to be hasted and steal, and the other's switch out in Tidus's spot, Auron doing a little damage or stadning there like a meat shield, then Kimahri, Lulu and Yuna take out the trash when their pockets are empty. You can see which slot is least valuable, here.
Average Boss: As for random monsters, except that with only one opponent I don't always get to the end of the character roster after Auron wastes a turn.
Serious boss: Lulu and Yuna are out to be hasted with Tidus, Yuna is switched back out of harm's way for Kimahri to Overdirve, Lulu Flare Fury or ______ga Fury, Tidus either slows the boss or hastes Kimahri, who then switches for Auron to overdirve, Lulu switches out with Rikku or Wakka to overdirve, Auron with the other, Tidus overdrives, Yuna out to throw the summons' overdrives, and if it's still alive after that Kimahri and Lulu join her to cast at it.
Really tough bosses like the Arena creations get the summons first, and Yuna and whoever else I've gotten down into her area to learn Life are never both out at the same time, since one hit from them will always kill someone until having spent considerable time after getting the airship uberizing. (Yes, I beat the arena bosses for the available areas BEFORE Prunelesca and getting the airship. It took about three or four tries each and running sall the casters comletely out of MP, but I did do it. Cursing Auron all the while for missing so often and only doing 6000-7000 damage on his turns, too, even when the others WERE out of magic and he was the only one still doing four digits...)That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Perhaps if I didn't juggle the growth of the other characters around, so they al went through their crappy early grids, he'd rule, but in the bigger pond created by pulling people quickly to the late areas vis Teleport Spheres his performance is no more engaging than his attitude, and since HIS GRID is the best physical combat section on the stock layout, there's not a lot of incentive for me to try a non-magic assault setup. I'd actually prefer to have him as the one to pathbreak out to the end of Lulu's section and be teleport beacon and keep Wakka in his normal area then break into the end of Aurons, since Wakka is far more likely to hit what he attacks, but Wakka also becomes Underwater Spell Boy and second theif.
(Hmm - Yuna through part of Auron's grid as well... it would make her more capable for the Bevelle dungeons, at least... it would mean allocating her two teleports, though, which is another whole Blitz league season and ~80-90 more monster fights on the Mi'ihen oldroad before moving on to Mushroom Rock... Depends how sick of Blitz I am after the other seven seasons and two tournements, I guess.)
- CD
Edit: Oh, for party duties -
Random monsters: before Spherimorph, it doesn't matter who's out, just that Yuna goes last after everyone else has done something to actually kill the beastie with a summon. Afterward, with the magic mojo in place and Wakka jumped over to Rikku to be a second thief, Tidus goes first to slowga/hastega, Rikku and Wakka are out to be hasted and steal, and the other's switch out in Tidus's spot, Auron doing a little damage or stadning there like a meat shield, then Kimahri, Lulu and Yuna take out the trash when their pockets are empty. You can see which slot is least valuable, here.
Average Boss: As for random monsters, except that with only one opponent I don't always get to the end of the character roster after Auron wastes a turn.
Serious boss: Lulu and Yuna are out to be hasted with Tidus, Yuna is switched back out of harm's way for Kimahri to Overdirve, Lulu Flare Fury or ______ga Fury, Tidus either slows the boss or hastes Kimahri, who then switches for Auron to overdirve, Lulu switches out with Rikku or Wakka to overdirve, Auron with the other, Tidus overdrives, Yuna out to throw the summons' overdrives, and if it's still alive after that Kimahri and Lulu join her to cast at it.
Really tough bosses like the Arena creations get the summons first, and Yuna and whoever else I've gotten down into her area to learn Life are never both out at the same time, since one hit from them will always kill someone until having spent considerable time after getting the airship uberizing. (Yes, I beat the arena bosses for the available areas BEFORE Prunelesca and getting the airship. It took about three or four tries each and running sall the casters comletely out of MP, but I did do it. Cursing Auron all the while for missing so often and only doing 6000-7000 damage on his turns, too, even when the others WERE out of magic and he was the only one still doing four digits...)That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows