Thread:DeathByStaccato/@comment-27740154-20161120031700/@comment-27076522-20161120040606

Hm. Well, I do think either could be good - Melord has a better conversion than all your units, and his buffs would help you.

However, Azurai is also wonderful, especially for his LS, and his Tri-Stats + BB ATK buffs to go along with it...

I'm inclined to say Melord here? For a team of Ark lead, Krantz, Melord, Lauda, Elza and Azurai friend, perhaps. This covers all the stats, ATK>DEF, healing, mitigation, L/D elements, BC/HC droprate, Spark BC, BB mod, BB on hit, instafill, 10% flat miti on LS + 20% conditional miti on LS, etc.

Really, the benefits of getting Azurai are being able to use him as a sub. If you don't plan on doing a decent amount of colo, and you don't need him to increase your FH scores, I would pick Melord. There's a lot of Azurai friends, and his place in hard content is usually the leader spot, but there's very few Melord friends.

I might write a bit more later, since you don't have to pick right now, but generally I'd advise Melord here, since he makes your teambuilding easier and is generally better than Alice?

Make sure you don't take the DEF buff option, btw. Azurai provides that. Just go with an ATK down on BB based build.