Talk:Dark Demigod Ardin/@comment-24506549-20150425232140/@comment-26336535-20150514221535

I never said that Meiko and Kaito are unusable, just that the squads you have to use with them are pretty restrictive. As an older player, I can tell you that I only had one mitigator, Narza, who was also my status nullifier. I didn't even have a cleanser, and I had one (good) healer, Elimo until about level 150. Then, most of my units in the elements other than Thunder, Water, and Earth were pretty bad (then a sudden influx of decent summons appeared), so I was pretty much unable to use any of my friends who would lead Meiko or Kaito. The fact that the F2P life doesn't offer many gems after high levels didn't help either.

My argument was (I probably worded it poorly) that you pretty much need specific units to fulfill certain roles if you have 6 Element Leads until newer units are released in different elements that can also fill that role, and then you also can't Dual Lead (I don't do it myself, but apparently it's a popular tactic). Then if you had my problem with one mitigator, you pretty much lose variety in your squad, and then you can't use any friends that share the element of that one unit.

I'll give an example of a monologue from me struggling to form a squad to try out using my friends Kaito today:

I can't lead Tridon here, I guess I'll use Zergel

Wait no, then I can't use Ardin! I'll just switch him out for Maxwell.

I can keep Rin here... wait Shera has to go. To Narza!

Wait but Maxwell is light too. Ok, put Eze in place of Maxwell... wait there's Rin

Atro is light too! Why is life hard. Ok... Zelnite! That works.

Now for a fire unit *looks through list of fire units*

(sees 5* Freya and unlevelled 7* Vargas) *sighs* (glances over Fiora without realizing it)

I guess Oracle Luther then ;-;

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And thus the worst squad was made.

This is basically why I prefer LS like Alpha's and Tridon's, but still, if I happen to be able to use a 6 element friend, I would do it because it's generally stronger than the other ones.