Talk:Lasswell (Omni)/@comment-30587243-20161124123355

people are kinda put off about his atk buff on water types only (as a waste of buff slots) but honestly, look at his current skillset: how will you use him anyway? only two. as a nuker (on par with lauda or rize) or as a colo unit.

The actual deal breaker here is unnoticed by many: his ES, more notably, the 50% atk buff for water types.

Notice that word, It's plural "types" would mean this is not a self buff. As it was worded after the def ignore buff, it is not an on-cast buff. IT'S PASSIVE AND WILL APPLY TO ALL YOUR WATER TYPE UNITS IN THE SQUAD REGARDLESS IF LASWELL IS LEAD OR NOT. It will work the same way as with Astall's ES (which mind you is an underused type of ES)

So what does it mean?

Let's start with the basic, It means Laswell will ALWAYS have a 50atk self buff. Which is messed up as he can earn another 30 if equipped with an offense type sphere (not to mention 30 to his other stats). Many Offense type spheres have an attack buff on their own, let's use as example, Blight's Misfortune to add 150 attack. If we were to build a nuker, then we could be using amenuheko as his stat type sphere, and that easily brings him to some whopping atk values.

Second, that 50% attack boost works on all water units you currentlly have. Melord as your crit rate, and on-cast crit damage buffer would love this.

Third, when used as an arena/colo unit, that 50atk buff can mean life or death for the first phase. and what type is one of the still, important colo unit we have since 1st generation omni? Water. water selena who til this day rocks colo like a boss. I could already envision laswell and two or three selenas with a mizerka. Heck if you have two laswells, that 50atk buff would stack