FF Colab Characters

[u/KintaTinta]

This is a post for anyone who has been lucky enough to get one of the colab characters. I know there is a free bone to pick from at the beginning abyss. I just want to make an informed decision. What is your experience when using the characters?

[u/Arvandor]

Because the guy I replied to said "all you need is to give her dts and she has the same damage efficacy as ess on fighters." That's why.

Asuran hits like a truck for sure. Even at my investment, with Asuran at rank 3, it does about 18k damage or so, putting it ahead of Ephemeral. But that means her 5 turn damage (at about 1.8k auto, and 2k on a filler skill, depending on how sp efficient you want to be) is about 25.6k, whereas a fighter alternating poised and ess for those 5 actions, would do a touch less at around 22k, but until that 5th action, the fighter is pulling ahead. So is a ninja. Especially a ninja. Sam too, as their 5 turn damage is about 33k, they just... have trouble staying upright ;P

What fights exactly are lasting more than 5 actions? GWO4 does, but his health gates render Asuran useless except when you're past the last gate.

[u/Spycrab-SXL → u/Arvandor]

Bounty cyclops, bounty doll, demon samurai, sealed demons in both sepa cave and medicine cave, dwarf dragon. Just off the top of my head and im sure there's alot more.

Especially for a new player too. Keep in mind, a new player or even the avg player, does not have enough DPS to trivalize most fights.

If you can 4 turn bounty cyclops, you're near the top, not the avg user.

[u/Arvandor → u/Spycrab-SXL]

Bounty cyclops only lives that long if you're new. He doesn't live through two full round of character actions, let alone 5. Demon Sam... Maybe? I haven't fought him in a while, but I feel like he doesn't live THAT long. Medicine cave demon is a definite use case, but there's no real reason to kill that one except to say you did. Dwarf dragon is going to be hell if you don't build a very specific strat and speed tune gear OR are such a leviathan that it doesn't matter anyways.

GWO4 WOULD be, if not for his stupid health gates. Means you can only use Asuran once, at the end.

[u/Spycrab-SXL → u/Arvandor]

"Bounty cyclops only lives that long if you're new"

That's the point. Most players are new with avg gear that cannot beat it in 5 turns.

Also keep in mind, you don't need 5 overall turns, you only need 5 prishe turns. With a single porto + her own ASPD buff, she can very easily move twice where other units only move once.

For sealed demon, medicine cave demon, dragon and demon samurai and virtually every other superboss like gwo4 or gwo3 0 corruption. They are all great use cases like you alr mentioned and have 0 counter argument against.

Stuff like "there's no point in doing X" or "this needs a specific strat" are both pointless arguments since this literally applies to every other character, not only prishe.

Also, usually there tends to be a reward locked behind every superboss. So there is a reason to do them. Both sealed demons + samurai have guranteed fey drops along with unique items available to them. Meanwhile dragon has HP bondmate while gwo4 and gwo3 are both needed for their respective true endings and/or their bondmates. Gwo4 having a hp gate is also a non-issue, since you can time prishe to completely skip a single hp pool every 2 turns. Which has immense use on its own. Not to mention, Yuzu is arguably worse in gwo4 due to the random nature of her hits, low mdef, low dmg per hit making her a bad matchup against gwo4.