User blog comment:Mich, Michele & Kuhla/Future Units Preview/@comment-10373903-20150814070345/@comment-10373903-20150816023651

Reason why Ragzaberam looks meh?

His LS isn't so useful. There are tons of units that has the same HP and ATK buff and that tiny DEF ignore won't help much. Also, there are other leaders that boost damage reduced while guarding and does a better job at making your units more tanky. His ES' extra damage to units with status ailments are barely significant and the DEF ignore buff is nothing new. 30% chance to reduce ATK and DEF by 30% for 1 turn is nothing new as well. In fact, there are units that do better than that. And keep in mind that the DEF debuff is useless when you have DEF ignore. And injury is only useful when the bosses are susceptible to it and there are hardly any bosses that are susceptible to injury. Also, how many times have you seen your opponents spark?

As for why Reeze doesn't seem great?

Her LS is already outclassed by Deimos who fills your BB gauge more when attacked and also negates status ailments. It even boosts HP by 40%. Even Griel will be a better lead than Reeze. Her ES makes her a status negator, nothing new. There are tons of other units who do that. Her BB has a nice paralysis and sick effect as well as giving your units a paralysis and sick effect to attacks. Bosses are rarely susceptible to paralysis and what are you going to do with a sick boss? Barely a difference. So the BB is rather mediocre. Her SBB comes with a large selfish boost to own ATK, DEF and REC. It looks great but it's a selfish buff, only affects itself. That selfish buff brings no utility to the team at all. Her DEF boost is just a little extra. Seeing that it's a DEF boost relative to REC, it should stack with other DEF buffs so it's not bad. Her SBB cleans and negates status ailments as well. However, those buffs are nothing new. With a 500% modifier on her SBB, the damage she deals isn't a big deal compared to some other units as well. Reeze certainly isn't a bad unit but it most likely isn't the best.

Shera is a great unit.

Shera is outclassed by Krantz/Grantz in many cases such as trials and raid but Shera excels at FH, probably an even better unit than Krantz/Grantz in such cases. Even as a 6* she was already considered a pretty good unit for FH. Her measly 50% ATK boost jumped to a humongous 130% ATK boost. It's 10% short of the highest ATK boost (excluding Ultor's mega 1 turn ATK boost) but it's a great addition. It even has a nice 7 BC fill per turn which is the highest in the game so far, only tied with Alyut and Lineth. And that's not where Shera is the greatest at. Shera's strong point is that amazing hit count. As 6* it was already loved for its high hit count until it got outclassed by new 7* mitigators but it still was used in many cases due to its high hit count which meant more sparks. And now Shera got a 7* which had 4 more hits than its 6* form and filled its weakness of its low ATK boost and rather low stats compared to 7*s. The great 30 hit SBB makes her really great for sparking and it's currently the mitigator with the highest hit count. That 30DC will help alot as well.