timestamps: 7: 1:02 6: 5:11 5: 8:49 (spoilers) 4: 10:38 3: 14:24 2: 18:15 1: 22:23 So what's the verdict? Am I dumb and is your favorite character actually the best?

"All Monado Enchant does is allow normal weapons to affect Mechon and adds a tiny damage bonus" "Yup" "Everyone in the party has Machina weapons, which can damage Mechon without using Enchant" "Yup" "So using Enchant offers very little advantage whatsoever and is a clear waste of the Talent Gauge" "Makes sense to me" "Use Monado Armor" "YOU'RE NOT INVINCIBLE"

The right tier list S+: Heropon Riki S: Bird Lady Melly A: Sidekicks F: Smelly Orluga reyn

i still think Dickson, Mumkhar, and Alvis are better. Being indestructible and beating Avalanche Abassay at lv1 without topple can't be underestimate

I like how Enel calls Break+Topple+Daze a Driver Combo even when talking about the first game

Skipping to the end of the video so i can see sharla at number 1

Enel: puts Riki 2nd last "Enel you're embarrassing Riki"

Dunban has a good ai until he uses Blossom Dance on an enemy one auto attack away from death

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Tier list version: S: Everyone except Sharla A: B: Sharla

Such a shame for Sharla. I actually like her as a character; her heat-to-hearts with Reyn make me smile, what can I say. If cooldown released all that built-up heat in a strong blaze attack she would be way cooler and I think much more viable. I never finished the game on Wii, I think in part because I stuck with Shulk, Reyn & Sharla as I couldn't see how to cope without a dedicated healer. It turns out you absolutely can after about the point you get Riki. Mix it up people, the game is so much more enjoyable once you start experimenting and relinquish control of Shulk once in a while. I found way more success and fun playing as Dunban, Reyn, or Melia.

Reyn to the rest of the party: What a bunch of jokers

You really wanna know how to make Sharla even worse? Link Glorious future to her. As soon as you get a vision, she does what she always does: cool down in the middle of a dangerous moment

Hi folks, just here to give you your daily reminder that Poppi QT Pi can do over 200 million damage in a single special hit with the damage cap removed

To emphasize how bad Shulk's AI is, I was fighting a Mechon UM that has a spike and the other two characters had Machina weapons equipped. The first thing Shulk does is use Monado Enchant instead of Monado Purge and my team ends up losing the fight despite being 10 levels higher than the UM.

Alright, Sharla time. Both times I've played through this game Sharla has been absolutely essential throughout the early and midgame. Shulk, Reyn, and Sharla make a great chain attack party for most midgame unique monsters if you give her headshot and headshaker. In each chain attack you can break with Shulk, topple with Reyn, then combo 3 daze arts, use Shulk's talent art, then sword drive or something similar, and then headshot. Sometimes headshot even inflicts instant death which is quite nice, but it also deals really nice damage throughout the midgame. In my first playthrough when I didn't fully grasp the game mechanics, I never would have beaten the final fight with Metal Face because everyone just killed me so fast. I tried using Riki as a healer first, but his healing was never enough. Sharla was exactly what I needed to survive long enough to beat that fight. I get that she isn't great in the endgame, but I can't emphasize enough how crucial of a crutch she is to new players who aren't running optimal builds. I imagine the majority of new players will keep using her because in many JRPGs you always have a healer. It just feels wrong that she gets so much hate when I can't imagine beating this game blind without her.

“Melia is definitely really nice” Ouch even Enel friendzones best girl.

Just casually soloing Final Marcus with a level 1 Reyn in the background...

I think it demonstrates how well balanced the characters are that even the bottom tier characters on this list are relatively useable. Only character I really wish Monolith Soft had changed was Sharla, she completely just gets the short end of the stick

Dunno, I think Mumkhar should be no.1

I'm late to this party but I'm pretty sure the reason your Reyn guide has low views it's because even a beginner like me can easily see his viability. The tools he has available are very straightforward and it makes him easy to use effectively even if you don't understand the ins and outs. Tank? Burst damage? Topple lock? Or a mix. Great character for sure

The best part about not putting melia on the bottom 3 is that this gives us an opportunity to stick a middle finger to ign’s review on how melia is one of the weaker characters, and thus deserves a much lower score >:)

I swear Melias AI has been majorly improved in DE because for me she seems to use her force topple quite often and never holds on to elementals. Like she plays really good on the AI in my playthrough.

How to fix sharla: cool off talent art now has the same effect as her aura drive boost. Drive boost art replaced with a red art that inflicts a debuff. I’d use her then.

I find it interesting that Reyn is basically good in the same way that QTpi is, and shares a similar party role: the meat tank that a lot of players ditch in favor of the blink tank for being less resource-intensive, but comes to be the strongest party member through having extreme burst damage and unmatched skill at Topple locking.

Man I haven't watched yet but I guessed for fun. Looks like I only messed up one placement: 7: Sharla 6: Riki 5: Seven 4: Melia 3: Shulk 2: Dunban 1: Reyn I've been trying to level up everyone else's affinity through sidequests, combat related to sidequests or random shit (along the way to completing said horrifying amount of sidequests) so I've only controlled Shulk maybe like an hour out of the last 25 hours of gameplay. Forgot how much shit he can do when he's not controlled by a janky AI lmaooo

It’s reyn time

I pretty much expected Sharla at low tier but I think it really says something when the lowest tier character can take out a superboss pretty easily.

The heropon may be number 6 on the list, but he will always be number 1 in our hearts.

Sharla would actually be much more useful if you could just use cool off in a chain attack. It would help with the multiplier and she could cool the rifle off without taking the risk of being vulnerable while the opponent is attacking

Reyn is also my favorite. He's just so reliable with his insanely powerful arts, his aggro raising abilities, his topple to daze combo, and his great defense and HP stats. Also, I just love his personality, character arc, and implied relationship with Sharla.

I think Dunban having the input prompt Talent Art (Blossom Dance) felt really unique pre-XC2. But wish in XC2 the driver and blade would shout a mantra like Dunban, at least at III or IV.

Glorious Future Sharla must be 0th place.

Poppi QTPi, and she’s not even in the game. All jokes aside, my favorite character to control is Dunban. I guess I just never really utilized Reyn well enough

Rex now is is now without a doubt a possibilty for smash lets go!

70% aren't subscribed, ummm why aren't you? Enel is the best.

Giving my man Reyn the spotlight he deserves! He's very underrated in my opinion. Fiora is surprisingly low. I've seen people claim that she's the best character in the game, so it's interesting to see her in the bottom half of the list. Melia right in the middle is great in my opinion. If AI Melia was as good as Player Melia she would be best character no questions asked, but since her AI is worse than Sharla's Talent Art, I think her placement is good. I've noticed that you mainly talk in the context of time attack and superbosses, which is fine, since those are by far the most difficult in the game and as such differences in character performance become more noticeable. Reyn specifically becomes a god in time attack, as you said. If we're looking at the entire game the list probably wouldn't change that much. Sharla would still be bottom tier, Fiora would still be bottom half since she isn't around for half of the game and Shulk would be above Reyn since player controlled Shulk is just necessary during early- to midgame Mechon and Telethia fights (which there are a lot of). Overall, great list, wouldn't change anything to be honest.

w00t! Agreed! Reyn time! One thing players need to realize is that endgame optimization revolves around taking out monsters as fast as possible. This allows them to attack less and prevent them from putting you in a bad position. If the monsters get momentum, you'll be forced to use heals, forced to get close to allies to wake them up or encourage them, etc. What Reyn provides is a very potent burst damage which gets you closer to the fast kill goal.Most bosses just fall to this one combo alone. I like running Back Attack Plus on him as that makes his burst damage even more disgusting. At the start of battle, using berserker let's other party members go in and take initial aggro, which allows Reyn to go backside and follow with the Magnum Charge to Sword Drive combo. If the AI somehow managed to inflict any physical defense down debuff along with Dundun's Peerless, it's glorious to see Reyn's burst damage number. From there he usually takes aggro and makes Back Attack Plus useless, but the monster should either be down or close to it at that point that it doesnt matter that much anymore. :)

I absolutely have an amazing time using any party members.... Except from Sharla. Seriously, the only "complain" I have with this game is that the party members are so fun to use and watch, but I have to pick only 3 every time. My battle preparation screens take so much time. XD

ive had some incredible experience with the ai in de, far more than others report. ive seen reyn (on ai) consistently berserk, magnum charge, sword drive, or melia on ai set up for devastating chain attacks, or just wreck final marcus' shit solo shulks pretty bad though. like absolutely atrocious

Something to note, DoTs will have their timer reset if the enemy is hit with the same type of DoT art. As such, Melia and Riki have a very strong Synergy, where Melia unloads high damage dots, and Riki sustains them until she can reapply. Riki's AI will usually do this by mistake consistently since it spams his ether arts

Sharla: F tier in terms of fun(my opinion) Broken rifle challenge: S tier meme

My tier list: S+: Every Party member except Sharla (including temporary party members) F: Sharla

When Enel spoils the party member in Melia's bit

To compensate for Dumban's HP I remember one character (Sharla or Melia I think) has a passive that you can share that restores some HP whenever you crit. Used with his 100% crit art this actually gives him the fastest self-healing ability in the game.

I never properly appreciated Reyn as a fighter during my initial Wii playthrough (in which I was pretty dang bad at the combat in general), and only really got a hang of him when I played Future Connected and Nene became my go-to party leader. Now I really get why you have him as #1! I'm really, really enjoying your content, Enel, and am definitely gonna check out your in-depth character videos to get an even better idea how to use everyone!

Just watching out for new people avoiding spoilers. The 7th party member is spoiled when enel goes through the menu in the sharla section of the video at 3:55.

You say that shulk doesn't have access to any auras but, according to the help thing that tells you about status effects, clicking on his talent art gives him an aura called "monado activated" which is the thing that lets him monado arts. Idk if this works with aura boosting skills or if there is any relevant aura skill but it's just something I noticed while playing.

Also; technically when you activate the Monado and open up the Monado Arts pallete, it does count as an aura. Basically useless Aura, but still an Aura.

Damn Juju is so bad he isn’t even on the list

I love how I dodged using reyn as much as possible during during my playthrough and would never give up on using sharla, even during the post-game:)

Reyn can do WHAT? Honestly this is my favorite game of all time, but I haven’t dabbled in the “make your characters busted” aspect of it, so this is all very new to me! Now I want to find auto-attack break things to solo as Reyn now 😂

Nice video. Tier lists are always going to be subjective. For myself I would place Melia and Shulk equal first place for DE because they are the most intricate characters to play in the main game (others can be well enough controlled by the AI), and they are also the main characters of the new Future Connected story. Not mentioned in the video, but Melia is very viable for endgame in a more topple-team setup for the Superbosses with more defensive gear/gem setup and her Spear Break/Starlight Kick arts (which work very efficiently at level 12) in addition to DoTs.

In my playthrough, I thought for sure Melia was the best character in the game just because arts were the only ones that could actually hit the lv.90+ enemies during endgame; she's also by far the best character in chain attacks. I wasn't aware of night vision gems so I thought everyone else, especially Reyn, just weren't as good.

Reyn is #1 because Enel mostly cares about optimized speed cheese kills. Nothing wrong with that when you can beat the game with any character, but Shulk/Dunban/Melia/Riki come in handy more to me when it comes to getting through mandatory boss fights with the least amount of trouble and general flexibility. But all of the characters outside of Sharla are at least good if not great and have their uses. And offensive Reyn is a build everyone should at least mess around with a little bit and clearing out trash mobs with him is always fun.

You are my goto guy when it comes to this series my man.

Fun fact: Sharla is S tier in a "No damaging combat arts" run. I also am a Masochist, unrelated.

"You have 5 seconds to pause the video without being spoiled" *5 second ad starts* Me: suspicious

10:50 "mage princess"?? Where'd you get that from? Everybody knows she's "one of the weaker characters"

Changes I would make to characters Talent Art (only some) Give changable Talent Art Reyn: give him the ability to change Mad Taunt for Magnum Charge for Talent Art Riki: Yoink! being separated in 1 that steals items only or stats only, only for comodity Sharla: this is the big one, before the talent art I would change Head Shaker for a red art that of used on the back can inflict confuse, now, 1st Talent Art would be a more straightforward form of it, before you fill it your Heal Arts are stronger and lower Attack Arts, once filled your Attack Arts have increased attack (no automatic cooldown) and lower Heal Arts, but it inflicts %damage to Sharla to use them, starting with 1% and up to 5%, the fill rate of the Talent Gauge is normal, using Cool Off is like normal and when filled can be used in Chain Attacks 2nd variation, the Talent Gauge fills slower, as if a Heat Sink gem with 25% was equipped, Art scaling is minimal, no automatic use and Cool Off time is standard regardless of fill rate (10 seconds, 5 with Ultimate Sniper) when using Cool Off the effect depends on fill rate and arts equipped, not full, creates an AoE heal effect similar in range to Melias Summon Orb Status Up effects ticking the heal every 2 seconds, not an Aura, healing for a % of Sharlas max hp to herself and allies in range, amount healed and aditional effects depend on number of Blue and Orange arts equipped, each art equipped increases by 2% starting at 10%, with 3 arts equipped it purges debuffs, with 5 it stops buffs time from running thus increasing the length of auras and buffs, when the Talent Gauge is full it then releases a a hits for Ether Electric Damage that inflicts Blaze (and electric burn, and those exisit), scaling of arts is each Red, Pink and Purple Art in a spiking formula, 1 adds 1.05x to damage, 2 adds 1.2x to damage, 3 adds 1.5x to damage, 4 adds 2x to damage and 5 adds 3x to damage, aditional effect are at 3 arts remove buffs from enemies, 5 lengthens the duration of all debuffs For the rest I find they are ok as is, but I would change something about Monado Arts, more specifically with each change of the Monado increase the effects of them a little Enchant and Buster 2, adds aditional damage to all enemy types except Telethia, Gigants and God, and 3 adds aditional damage to all The Attack Monado Arts that change the color of the blade giving Shulk an Aura too Change Shield to be like Speed but at 2 they become AoE and 3 adding a buff, Speed giving Haste 15% and Shield damage immunity for around Sharlas Shield Bullet at lv 6 for non Talent Arts, Armor would always start at 2 so no need to speak of it, but its buff at 3 is status immunity but not debuff clear Now for the ones that attack and change the color Purge at 2 giving the aura to inflict Agility Down 15% with each attack (not only auto attacks) and a Haste 20%, and 3 becoming a Line attack so it can be somewhat of an AoE Cyclone giving Aura to Inflict Ether Defense Down 25% and 3 increasing topple time Eater not inflicting Bleed but stealing the buffs for Shulk and 3 giving an Aura to inflict Bleed on attacks with 20 seconds time (Back Slash)

When I look at characters 7-2: "What a bunch of jokers!"

Wait... how do you even go without Healing? I’ve been trying to figure that out and I have no idea how that works.

You forgot what, in *my* opinion at least, may be Riki's *greatest* advantage: HE IS LOOT GOD. Seriously; you want to farm loot? Use Riki; ALWAYS use Riki.

Wait you forgot Fiora, the legendary Homs

It sucks about seven because I love healers in video games and tend to play them. I'm playing XC:DE right now and right at the snow mountains. I've mostly used Sharla the whole time and have fun with her, even though her cool off mechanic is annoying.

I really liked playing as Melia a lot this past playthrough. I like the fact that Starlight Kick can topple the enemy without breaking them first, it really speeds things up if you open with it. My go-to team was Melia, Reyn, and Dunban, and I found it to be pretty fun.

It’s a really strong party of characters cos even though Sharla is obviously the worst she’s still a really great healer for most of the game and if you play it safe she’s an anchor on most teams alongside a character to draw aggro and one to deal the damage

My takeaway from this video is that Shulk and Fiora are the best characters because they can equip the Junknado and Meyneth's Monado respectively in normal battles.

I played the original back in 2013, and people on forums were saying that Reyn was the worst, but I actually couldn't beat the final boss until I swapped out for Reyn. I believe I had Shulk, Reyn, and the medic.

For Sharla's talent art, Enel makes it clear that it would be nearly impossible to let anyone die. It might not have been necessary as there are other ways to gimp her healing abilities, but they just went with the cooldown talent art. They couldve just increased the cooldowns of her skills more, so they can give her a more useful talent art instead. At the very least anything that does something good in a chain attack to contribute to dealing damage and increasing chain attack multiplier. Maybe something like "Talent Art: Pinpoint Weakness - makes sharla immobile and unable to act for a few seconds but great increases team's critical hit chance and critical attack damage for the duration. Or as a single turn action in a chain attack that provides the same buffs until the chain attack ends so she can join and benefit from her buffs just until the end of that chain attack." This can gimp her healing, allow her to deal damage through other active party members, and gives her a decent reason to participate in chain attacks. Just a thought that i think would be cool to share.

I really apreciate the Tierlist, but aviablitity matters aswell imo. If we look at the list from a pure lategame perspective it does makes sense. But Shulk just becomes extremely good in the lategame, where he get´s all his cool stuff, but is @Riki´s Tier at best before he get´s his fancy stuff. And Sharla for example allowed me to challenge the Mechon-Fortress Monsters, way before I could with other combs by the time I hit sword valley. Overall a Tierlist or a Ranking in a game with very specialized characters, is kinda meh, but I see how it translates into good content for your channel and thats important aswell

I generally think melia is on the lower end just because she needs to be played in order to get anything good out of them, and is far less flexible with who you run with her. She’s really strong in your hands, but so’s shulk in your hands. And so’s Reyn. And their Ai functions so you can still rely on them on as partners where as melia at best is good for chain attacks. Buts so’s Reyn dunban and shulk. She can easily destroy anything and she’s super great, but everyone can destroy stuff in this game so jumping through more hoops for a similar reward just makes her less significant in my opinion. She’s also kinda meh against normal enemies as she’s all about set up and takes longer than characters like Reyn for getting through enemies.

Love this guides. Finally someone who knows what he is talking about. Mild criticism: You should try not to repeat yourself too often. You are extremely knowledgeable about this game and how to play but it feels like you missing the structure to keep these short and informative. Not that I don't like elaborate explanations tho.

Reyn missing Wild Down in the B Roll for Dunban hurt my soul...

I thought for sure Seven would be no.1 Cycling chain attacks is not to be underestimated

But what about Duncan ? Rain and Sarla ? Is Rocki better than Mehlia ? IGN needs answers !

Tempest kick will turn dunban around so you can hit with thunder.

So, it's a bit weird but it is worth noting; Shulk actually does have an aura, albeit not a very useful one. Activate Monado counts as an aura, and while active does grant all the benefits of one, such as Aura Heal gems. Just be thankful he can't link the skill that gives party gauge on activating an aura from Dunban, or oh man, you would be able to just activate and deactivate monado until you had a full gauge. I'm almost certain this is the reason he doesn't have a hexagon slot for Dunban in the first place. He CAN, however, take melia's aggro reduction while an aura is active, which really only lets him auto attack for less aggro, but it is something if you're waiting for a cooldown I guess. Still not worth taking, but just worth noting that it does in fact function that way.

Agree with some of these, disagree with others, but to be fair, my criteria is also different. I did my first playthrough of XC1 Definitive Edition recently, and played through everything intentionally underleveled, at least 6 below any enemy I fought (and many times even lower). So my list is which characters I generally found the most useful getting through the game as a first-time player on expert mode. With that in mind, my ranking is: 1. Reyn 2. Riki 3. Shulk 4. Fiora 5. Melia 6. Sharla 7. Dunban The main thing you have to watch out for in Expert mode is 1) Actually being able to hit the enemy, and 2) Not getting one-shot. So it's basically a necessity to have Night Vision gems equipped and fight any difficult fight at night. You also need need characters who won't get one-shot, hence why having Reyn or Riki on your team is absolutely critical in certain fights. Of the two, I find Reyn to be more reliable at drawing aggro and not dying. Dunban is at the bottom because high Agility doesn't do much against higher-level enemies who get massive bonuses to hit, and his health is way too low to be a reliable tank; pretty much any big attack will KO him (also, maybe I'm being a little bit of a contrarian since a lot of people place him as their #1 pick... he might deserve to be placed over Sharla at least). I wrote a thread about my thoughts tinyurl.com/3ytxf2s6. Obviously I don't have the kind of experience in the game Enel has, and my criteria is different than his (he's focused on endgame performance), but I thought it might be interesting to compare opinions.

Fun fact: Sharla is the only (permanent) party member in the game who doesn't have an art that inflicts Topple. Shulk has Monado Cyclone, Reyn has Wild Down, Dunban has Steel Strike AND Demon Slayer, Melia has Starlight Kick, Riki has Roly-Poly, and Seven has Final Cross.

I know its been 12 years since the original came out or 10 when this vid was released, but I still find it funny how the 7th party member is still considered a spoiler when Smash Bros 4 has been spoiling who it is since day 1.

My Teir list based on use described by somone who has never played the series S- cool monado boy, badass disabled man A - cool knife girl, cute furball B- young highness D- Gun girl F - Annoying big man

Yeah I haven't even tried controlling Reyn when I first played this game so I had no idea about Magnum Charge > Sword Drive. Used it once on some random UM and was like: O___O HALF HEALTH, GONE I guess it's true what they say, once Reyn time, always Reyn time.

So I know you put in timestamps for the party member number 7, but in your footage of Sharla you show the parry screen with all the characters lol.

3:59 fun fact: Sharla's the only party member who doesn't have a Topple art. Shulk has Monado Cyclone, Reyn has Wild Down, Dunban has Steel Strike & Demon Slayer, Melia has Starlight Kick, Riki has Roly-Poly, and Seven has Final Cross.

Not only is #1 the best fighter, but also just the best character in general. Great job on this list

I don't know where you got the idea that Riki is bad late game I kept him in my party all the way to the end and he was a lifesaver numerous times for me. All of his abilites are super helpful and he's a debuffer which I love to use in rpg's.

It sounds like: S Reyn > Shulk > Dunban A Melia > Seven B Riki D Sharla Would you agree @Enel?

Despite Sharla being not useful in the endgame, she helped me out during the final boss thanks to the amount of healing my team was getting.

I wonder who's the worst omg!

I love how when talking about Reyn he´s just topple loking Marcus

Thanks again Enel, always love your insight and knowledge. Your passion for the game shows in all of your videos.

used a lvl 1 Reyn to beat a lvl 100 enemy, lawd

Would Melly work if she had heavy/medium armour?

Your guides are absolute top tier mate. Subscribed

I'd love a video where you mention what we should do before starting "New Game +" :3

Awesome video, seems pretty right, in terms of lategame power where damage is king, but I love your disclaimer about every character being useful. My personal tier list, based on character build diversity, not power : 7. Shulk. No Art variation, and Monado Arts are designed to be effective answers to everything the game throws at you. The only challenge is constant positioning during battles, which is interesting, but gets a bit old after a while. 6. Reyn. Reyn does physical damage, and he does it well, but it's all he does. He has 1 Ether attack, Aura Bust, which is super situational during most of the game, and can only use it in chain attacks in the endgame, when auras last long enough for him to always have one active. Also, his Talent Art is for tanking, and that's it. Yes it can be used to power Magnum Charge, but when left to the IA, you always have to assume that he'll get the aggro at one point or another in the fight, even whitout an aggro aura, and his best aura IS an aggro aura. 5. Melia. The thing with Melia is that once you've set her with two-three Summons, Summon Copy, Reflection, one of the two Burst finisher, you can either run the forced Topple combo, meh control Arts, or her healing Art, so, she's kinda rigid to build. Also, I hate Shadow Stitch with a passion, why does it have such a long CD for such a situational effect? Why? (edit : often, just running in circle will achieve the same result and no cost you a frigging Art slot. Worst Art in the game, grmbl!) 4. Dunban. You'll always, alway slot Gale Slash, since it's the beginning of so many of Dunban's Combo. Also, its cooldown is noticeable, and slows his flow, which can be pretty annoying. Finally, while Blossom Dance is super stylish and lots of damage, it takes a loooong time, meaning you can't react in a clutch during it outside of chain attacks. Still, he gets higher than Melia because of the Tempest Kick + Thunder ether combo, wich is hilariously strong on ennemies not immune to Daze. 3. Sharla. I love building Sharla, because I always try to bring just the right amount of healing. It's pretty easy to bring all the heals and be super safe, but what's interesting is bringing as much offense as you can while still being an effective healer. That being said, she has some really, really bad Arts (Talent Arts aside), especially Metal Blast : very high cooldown for unimpressive damage and Break of all effects, which make it very clunky colour-wise, and an aoe that's pretty much impossible to aim in the middle of a battle. Ok, it's good against birds, yay. 2. Riki. While Riki has a ton of versatility, the thing that bugs me is that you will always bring Happy Happy and You Can Do It, because it would be really dumb not to, they're amazing Arts that are useful no matter what you want Riki to do. But as a result, I often see myself only choosing 6 other Arts instead of pondering each slots. But aside from that, ton of fun to spec, since he can go tank, ether damage, physical damage, or clunky hybrid with Say Sorry, and these play quite differently. 1. Seven. The only character where I feel all the Arts are interesting and balanced, none is an auto-slot, and even her Talent Art has situational variations. Yes, some of her CD are super long, but with her, you'll get so many chain attacks you will be able to use her cool toys (and those of your other party members) very often. In fact, I'd go as far as saying she makes every character's gameplay that much more fluid and interesting, and yes, she doesn't link that well because she can't equip Shulk's star skills, but having good timing solves that, and I prefer more chain attacks to endless chain attacks anyway (even if the later is more powerful, whitout doubts). Awesome character overall.

My tier prediction before watching lul: 7. Sharla 6. Riki 5. Reyn 4. Shulk 3. 7th (Chain Attack Generation) 2. Dunban (Physical Damage) 1. Melia (Ether Damage)

well i would order them in tiers: S: rayn / dunban (lategame) / melia (lategame) / Shulk A: 7 / Dunban (midgame) B: melia (midgame)/riki C: sharla maybe you can show off some alternativ sets like healing melia? :3

I get told all the time by friends that Reyn is unfun to play. I disagreed but it's entirely because they see him as a Mad Taunt bot. Getting Dunban really reinforces a new player that aggro is based on how much damage is dealt and whether or not there is an "aggro lock" effect going on or not. Mad Taunt is the safety net, not the goal. So Reyn allows you to use high damage arts without caring about positioning, having too much aggro on you, or waiting for some other AI to take the aggro. We're all playing and enjoying the remake, since a bunch of us enjoyed the original. Though they don't care about superbosses or challenge mode, I'm hoping sending them enough of you videos gets them into it. Personally, even as a "veteran" I really enjoy these. I never knew about DPS Sharla (yes she's bad but it's a cool flex). Or how good Peerless and Dive Sobat were (I totally misread the arts) I thought Peerless only boosted Dunban's Strength and thought BOTH effects needed Bone Upper to work. Keep it up man!