User blog comment:Nyonne/"UTILITY" and "DIVERSITY"/@comment-26336535-20160101001810

Legendary question? It's more infamous at this point.

Foreword: Any comparisons I make between units are made for the sake of an example. If you want to argue with me, do it somewhere else.

I agree with you for the most part. (Almost) all units are good (stares at fodder), and people inexplicably dislike units that are either outclassed by or ouclass certain units. Those units serve their own uses, and except for a few rare cases, no units are true direct upgrades of each other. But some points you make seem to need a bit more elaboration, and I disagree with some others.

Some units can fit into more than two categories very well. Tridon is a DEF buffer, Pseudo-Healer, Pseudo-Mitigator, BB Buffer, and HoT buffer. Shera is a Mitigator, Spark Blanket, ATK buffer, and BB buffer. Charla (who you kind of miscategorized) is a Healer, Crit Buffer, Spark Buffer, and BB Buffer. That's just starting off a list. You need to look closely at the uses of a unit that are overshadowed by its main use.

New batches don't "upgrade the previous batch." They are better versions of older batches; nothing happens to the older batch when a newer one is released, it stays the same. That is what outclassing is, or power-creep. However, people misunderstand what it means when a unit is outclassed. It usually means they have a better version of another skill. However, the other skills of the outclassed unit can serve other purposes. For example, Gazia outclasses Avant in terms of BB modifier, but Avant is a much better lead for Damage squads. Zedus is outclassed by Avant in terms of their LS, but they can be used together with Zedus as a sub unit for excellent synergy.

I like your diversity section though. It puts some of my ideas into words, so I'm going to add to it: I hate when people say things like "Avant is better than Zedus" or "Ciara blows Quaid out of the water." Get that tunnel vision looked at. You can't compare units based on a single skill alone (assuming they have multiple skills). Ciara might have more skills than Quaid, and they share that elemental changing, but you have to look at other things besides the amount of buffs. Ciara requires a large number of BB support units or a BB support friend in order to maintain BB momentum as a lead. Quaid might have slightly lower damage from his LS, but he can apply it to Dark and Light units where Ciara can only buff the normal elements. Quaid can also offer BB momentum as a lead, so he can take any friend without fear of losing damage or BB utility. Quaid has ridiculous survivability and ATK thanks to his ES (basically he's a semi tanky nuker), but Ciara can give ATK buffs and DEF ignore (though those two buffs are given by many other units, especially ATK buffs, and DEF ignore isn't usually useful). They both do elemental changing, so if you have both and happen to want those elements, you need to see what else you need.

Anyone who brings their salty rear and lead skull to this blog to refute it needs to see that statement:

"EVERY. UNIT. IS. GREAT. If you know how to utilize them, even units with similar skills. "

While not all of the units are great (some are just mediocre), you can still use them. If you can't use the unit well in some dungeon, it means you don't have enough skill for that dungeon. But that's not something bad, and the units you used were almost definitely not bad. Tons of people don't know how to use their units/put a good squad together, and so they go get help from somewhere. Don't say a unit is bad just from looking at it or from using it improperly. Use that unit or see that unit used correctly, and then say whether or not that unit is bad.