Talk:Lid (Omni)/@comment-29807989-20161125175046/@comment-26336535-20161127164529

It's an old mechanic that's used once in a while to force units to be glass cannons, giving a high-risk, high-reward scenario. While you can consider the downsides with conversions, old units had this kind of thing as well. Farlon and Logan's 6* forms are prime examples of this. Since conversions didn't exist back then, the only real downside was that they were ridiculously squishy if you were spamming SBB.

Though I guess in the current meta, conversions would be the bigger downside.