ITT: Characters or weapons/etc that you used even though they were clearly sub-optimal.
ITT: Characters or weapons/etc that you used even though they were clearly sub-optimal.
ITT: Characters or weapons/etc that you used even though they were clearly sub-optimal.
Whatever equipment makes my character look cool
This basically isn't a thing until the sixth generation, and even then it's mostly just weapons that are visible.
Big sword. All strength. Glass cannon. Don't care if mages are stronger. Don't care about diminishing returns
idiots, do you even Breath of Fire 3?
>get the speed formation from some master
>put Rei in front row
>????
>PROFIT!
Rei was just a badass even without that because he used knives and knives are cool.
Not only that, Weretiger was just free and consistent high damage output, and the berserk part only really comes out in a handful of boss fights.
Why did you respond to me
>second best character in the game and only because Ryu's gene system puts him multiple tiers above everyone else
>sub-optimal
OP are you an idiot
I always put as many female characters as possible in my party when I play a jarpig.
I finished parasite eve using the standard weapons with little effort
I do this a lot but the ones that immediately come to mind:
Mog, since as a kid I thought the dances were cool
Red XIII
Huge assortment of pokemon
Rolling with all bangaa in FFTA
>Mog, since as a kid I thought the dances were cool
Mog's actually really good as long as you know how to kit him properly. His Dances kick ass in the WoB but fall off hard in the WoR, but at that point, you can turn him into a near-invincible tank with good damage output. A better example would be Cyan, who is clearly one of the worst characters, though the game is easy enough that it doesn't really matter unless you're moronic.
In Final Fantasy Tactics I always have a generic female character in my final party. She won't have exclusive skills, but I like having her around.
Last time I finished Valkyrie Profile I used Nanami, Badrach and Jayle. They are not that good according to Gamefaqs and Badrach in particular has very weak attacks, but they are the characters I wanted to use because of their designs, backstories, weapons...
This might go in the opposite direction. Glenn is widely considered the strongest character in Chrono Cross after Serge, but I have never used him because he just looks so boring...
Jrpgs are not that hard and part of the fun is making parties with characters that you like, so I don't tend to minmax. I'll always include at least one cute girl and characters that I find cool or likeable.
Rei is su optimal? With the onion and ryu he was a great party member.
Momo was also useful.
The weakest characters were Garr and Nina.
She couldn't hit the side of a barn with her nose up against it and someone else aiming the cannon for her.
A master who raises her aiming skills solves the problem.
One only master does that and she only adds +5% to make it 75% which is still garbage. Momo is best apprenticed to make her a support mage, Emitai works for that.
Momo with Shadowwalk is deadly. Can't miss when the bazooka is right on top of you.
>Give her the accuracy accessory
>Give her dual (and later, triple) strike
There, fixed, Ryu can use the pure damage skills and dragon out in lieu of multistrike. Not like it even fricking matters anyway, BOFIII is like half a narrative and 80% of its runtime is running back and forth through the same zero encounter areas.
I like not playing as Crono, Ayla or (speed-tabbed) Robo in Chrono Trigger. Makes the game more interesting when you don't use the powerhouses. Marle in particular is the weakest character in the game with one VERY specific use-case (Haste) but if you play the crusty ROMhack that lets you swap out Crono as early as Robo, game is less "Sword!Goku goes on time adventures with D-Fighters" and more "some random bimbo barely holds it together and relies on the super power of teamwork to not get buttraped through time." I love it.
On that note, Marle should've been the main character since she's the driving force that sets the party's main goal, you play the game and it's like "here's the strongest historical figure of each time period."
I hold the same opinion about Bravely Default. Edea is 100% the main character.
You'll get a giggle out of this.
both shit ideas, stfu morons neither of those should have been mc
Someone has a waifu. Lucca's still superior
Playing it for the first time now. Marle and Ayla party since Marle is basically Bulma, so just feels like I should keep her and Ayla is my favorite. Would have switched marle for frog otherwise.
>OP doesn't know
I always like to have a cute girl in my Yu-Gi-Oh decks, even if they don't "do" anything. It's fun when they pop up from time to time and every once in a long while they'll beat the odds and save the day.
I've ran dozens of different girls over my many playthroughs. Most often I use Curran because she's excellent against stall decks and having an out to those feels great.
I believe the absolute weakest I've ever played with is Harpie Girl, long before modern support. In one game I managed to get into a situation where my opponent and I both had no field and no hand. He was down to 500 LP and I heart-of-the-cards'd Harpie Girl.
In my years with the series I've won hundreds of duels and before I'm done with it I'll have won thousands. I don't think I'll ever forget that one.
>Tactics Ogre
I dismiss all my starting generics and hire one or two with very defined roles that I use in every battle over uniques unless it's mandatory to deploy them.
>FFT
I keep Boko around, even if that means doing Sunny-Side Ups with the eggs it shits out every day.
>SMT games.
I haven't played many, but I try to stick with the first demon I can convince as long as I can, even if it means benching it.
Not retro, but i it was nice to have that initial Pixie in Strange Journey working as a cleric with Amrita and Mediarama for most of my game, despite being harder and harder to level her up.
>Unreal/UT '99
The Bio Rifle is my second favorite gun after the Flak Gun (pbuh), despite being so situational.
>Saga Frontier
I like Mutant/Monster characters, even if the rest are miles better when it comes to training and using them. Coon's scenario is not my favorite but I always try to get it to come along with my party.
if naruto was a digimon
megaman 2, i generally do not abuse the metal blade (obviously i use it on all the robot masters)
its not because it makes it too easy, i just dont like the sound effect
Too cool-looking to unequip.
OP’s an enormous frickin’ homosexual.
in what way is a weretiger that gets 3 extra turns per round suboptimal?
You can't say he didn't look interesting.
He was so god damn useless what were they thinking?
He's good, my last playthrough I went with Zidane/Freya/Amarant/Quina for the hell of it and actually had a good time. The problem with Amarant is that it takes too long for him to become really good, i'm talking quite late in the game. Some of his skills are decent, but you still have to buy shit for his Throw ability until you get his better skills later on.
If there's a cute e-girl, you better believe she's staying in the party.
Richter in Rondo
Maria makes the game "too" easy and her subweapons aren't fun to use
>I liked playing on normal difficulty more than on easy
That's not what sub-optimal means
I used this guy to steal shit, I don't care how "optimal" it was I just want to see every item the enemies hold.
In Tekken 2 I often played with Yoshimitsu because I found him really cool, even though I would get better results with Paul Phoenix or Marshall Law.
Always with me from the beginning to the end
Any reason why? Do you just like rats?
Post the screenshot.
Me but with bug pokemon.
I beat every pokémon game with at least 1 bug in my party no matter what.
Me too, bug is my favorite along with rock. Catching and training bugs really feels like the core experience of the games.
Thankfully bug Pokemon have been getting better and better despite the inherent flaws of the type.
They really peaked in gen 7.
This but with Marowak.
There's better Ground-Type options but I always have a spot in my party for that belly-potted dwarf.
Neimi from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Her growths are actually pretty good and unlike the other early archers from GBA games she has a pretty good promotion option (Ranger). However, her bases are so garbage and archer's such a bad class it's just not optimal to train her if you're going for any kind of quick or efficient playthrough. Her promotion doesn't even give her a D rank in swords, so she's stuck with iron weapons for a while.
the summons in FFVIII
they look cool and I don't mind sitting through the animations (because they look cool)
Most people don't seem to like her or think she's useless but I keep her on my team because she's cute and crossbows are cool.
Haste is nice, but it's noticeable how she doesn't have a single worthwhile double tech. Aside from Ice Water in Magus's Castle.
Yeah, you heard me.
I heard you, but I don't understand you. Aren't his techs some of the strongest in the game?
Let's put it this way: he's the fastest and easiest character to bring up to his peak potential, but said peak is not as high as others'. Come late game, his whole deal basically becomes spamming Bum Rush and occasionally Air Blade and that's it. His downside is that he has few good equipment options. His weapons are nothing special, and his armors straight-up suck and grant him few immunities (unless you give him the Paladin Shield) or stat bonuses. As for the damage output, yes, it's very good, but with some work, other characters eclipse him, and that's without Ultima.
Again, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he sucks. He's simply suboptimal IF you know what you're doing with the other characters, and to be frank, FF6 is so easy that it hardly matters and you're free to go "bum rush go brrrrrrr" 'till your eyes fall out and beat everything.
These guys can have style and be fun to play.
These are the two most annoying frickers in the series to fight. They should be erased from existence. I can't believe both these buttholes got a base roster spot in SF6. Just another of hundreds of reasons why that game is ass.