Talk:Ice Fortress Oulu/@comment-118.136.177.121-20150404012125/@comment-25209037-20150406172003

Oulu's greatest flaw is that it offers no BC/BB manipulation capabilities. Darv and Shera offers BC when they use their BB/SBB, while Narza offers stat ailment nullification as well as BB gauge fill when attacked. Also do keep in mind that although Oulu's SBB is very powerful, you actually probably won't be using it most of the time since the 50% damage reduction component is the most important part, so you'll probably just use his regular BB most of the time since it charges much more quickly. Also, its REC sucks. This is probably one of the few instances where Anima is not the best typing.

However, what I really like about Oulu is using him as a leader. 20% boost to HP and DEF of all units and small chance of mitigating incoming damage is very valuable to enemies that attacks multiple times per turn which gives the 10% to reduce 20% of damage a higher chance of procing per attack. Since the release of Luka, Oulu has frequently been my lead with Lily Matah/Fei friends in my retrials of 003, 004, X1 and X2. Giving him Urias and Miroku Pearl ensures that I pretty much have its SBB up every turn.