Talk:Radiant Guardian Shera/@comment-3089385-20170226004503/@comment-30054866-20170318154258

@Mysteriax

If you need a thunder mitigator who doesn't really have buffs which clash with others, why not get Auric Echo Eleanor? She's one of the few units who get elemental damage reduction, and she can provide a 50% mitigation, which can be extended for two turns. Her LS also provides 100% boost to defense and a 50% boost to HP, as well as a 15% damage mitigation from Fire, Water, Earth, and Thunder types.

Admittedly, Shera is also a good and solid unit in her own right, and has unique buffs like guard amplification, spark damage reduction, and 50% mitigation that can be extended. However, units like Magress, who admittedly provides a lower defense boost (150% instead of 160%) and doesn't provide buffs like BC/turn, can be used in place of her, as he also provides a 10% guard amplification, as well as 2 turn mitigation via sp. There's also the fact that she's not that stellar a leader, in my opinion, when there are units who can provide 50% parameter boosts, or units who can provide more reliable LS mitigation, such as Knight of Holy Light Ark. However, she does provide more BC Efficiacy and BB requirement reductions than other units in their leader skills.

Now, Avant may seem like a bad unit, but he shines as a leader, as it turns him into a massive damage dealer. His LS provides three damage-oriented buffs: 200% boost to BBAtk, 100% boost to Spark damage, and 150% boost to critical damage. He's not a glass cannon, either, and is amazing in things like Frontier Hunter. However, for him to be properly used, he needs a unit who can provide crit and attack boosting buffs, and can't really stand as a mere sub-unit. In essence, he's not a unit you'd like unless you're wanting to OTK some quests or get top scores in Frontier Hunter, so your deduction of him not being a good unit in your opinion still stands.

If you're looking for a good fire unit, you could get try Supreme Chol Arus. He's a unit who can constantly spam an OD gauge boost, thanks to his "fill own BB gauge to max" skill. This also makes him a pretty decent nuker, thanks to it being paired with his "8% boost to damage per 1% hp remaining" and "boost own spark damage by 50%" buffs.