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Onimmusha wrote: DeathByStaccato wrote:

Avant is a good UBB nuker in FH. Everywhere else he is not compared to other units, and he provides very little in the way of useful buffs. Yep, that's true, at least in FH there is no other unit that I know that have higher Ubb damage compared to him. He is still very much viable and valuable to catch up HR quicker to get Tilith.

I never use avant in any place besides FH and raid so I don't really know about him in anywhere else...

So if stat on paper (or on stat screen) didn't mean anything then what matters though? Spheres? BB/SBB/UBB effect? If Avant's atk stat didnt really contribute to his high damage then what does?

ATK stat matters to an extent, but some of the best pure nukers (I'll use Rize as an example) don't need ridiculously high ATK to break the cap.

Avant's UBB being high-damaging is mostly due to the unresistance of CRIT and the fact that CRIT is probably the best form of pure damage. That's why CRIT is resisted in almost all content, it'd be OP (see: Zebra/Maxwell era for an example of CRIT being OP)

So naturally in unresisted content the high CRIT means Avant deals a tonne of damage - and his UBB also brings the whole HP-scaling thing. Which just makes it even more monstrous.

For most nukers, you get the best value out of either ATK and Spark spheres (for guard frontier set-ups or UBB set-ups) or Spark/CRIT spheres (for auto frontier mostly)

Of course, ATK does matter - to an extent. You can't use it to judge how well of a nuker a unit will be; you need to factor in BB modifiers, spark, CRIT (if relevant), etc. These will usually matter a lot more than plain ATK buffs.