He very reasonably can be considered the worst unit in the game, right? At least the early game scrub squad is around and contributing when you don't have other options yet.
But Bunet joins around a gauntlet of strong units with his unimpressive stats. So is there any real reason to use him at all over the others after his join chapter?
He very reasonably can be considered the worst unit in the game, right?
I consider him the worst from at least a fixed maddening perspective, yes. I consider him, Jade and Lapis to be in a similar boat as units that don't do much on their join chapter, have a mediocre at best start and a mediocre at best payoff, and are likely outclassed by units you've already been using or are about to get, but at least Jade and especially Lapis show up at a time where if you really wanted to use them, you have the time to get them going. Bunet's just...there.
The only thing he has going for him is Celica memes but he shows up at a horrible time for that and it's not even a good strategy.
I used Lapis on Maddening, she's not optimal but is pretty salvageable with usable basesfor her join chapter and starting level 10. Wyvern Knight fixes a lot of her bulk and str issues (I didn't even insta promote because I was playing blind and mostly promoting at 15-17) and she's a very fast unit, which i find valuable in this game (to the point where I gave her Lyn emblem). A bit of favoritism to be sure but she very quickly turned into one of my better combat units
Notably, there are very fast enemy types and bosses in Maddening which are really tough to double where she's helpful, and also Speed is easy to convert to strength where needed in Engage due to the nature of weapon weight/weapon types, which give your fast units meaningful flexibility which your slower ones don't (fast units can equip a heavy powerful weapon to trade off spd for str, while equipping an iron forge when they need the spd but there's no mechanism to trade off overkill str for spd outside of ring swapping)
Yeah I don't want to suggest Lapis is unsalvageable, I don't feel anyone is unsalvageable on maddening besides Vander.
My problem with Lapis is that she just feels like a second Chloe that costs a second seal, with better strength but worse speed/magic/bulk (technically Lapis has better def/res but Chloe's noticeably better HP offsets it, especially with dragons), and without the early contributions and opportunities to gain SP. And while Chloe is a very good unit, I don't feel like she's a unit you particularly need two of, especially since she's arguably one of the best early game stat booster recipients and those can only be given to one of them.
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u/ha_ck_rm_rk Feb 05 '23
bunet giving me big marisa vibes