I'd love to hear what parties you guys are using, and why you think they're really buff. Also, if you have guide ideas for me to create, let me know! I'm always up to taking requests.

I feel like you should have started by talking about the characters and how they tie in in the story. Basically by having one character as your main and his correct story partner as companion 1 you get a lot of extra story scenes. Duran and Angela have a lot of story together and even a slightly romantic scene on post game, I haven't played yet but I know Kevin and Charlotte have extra scenes and Hawkeye and Riesz. Going all male or female has a few extra lines but it's very minor stuff, not like full character interactions. IMHO your first team should be made with this in mind so you get extra content.

But wait, isn’t Angela literally broken? Her spells cut through almost anything. Her HP is a bit low, but if you play smart it’s not too hard to dodge most attacks.

I enjoyed this a lot. I started out with my original party consisting of Duran, Angela, and Kevin. I made Kevin the healer of the team based on his class switch. Duran is my tank who can also act as another support by giving the team saber powers. Angela is a deadly mage where I focus most of her magic to hit multiple enemies!

Good content honestly. What I like is that you take into consideration the new abilities exclusive to the remake and don't simply rehash what we already knew about the original SNES game.

I played through it 3 times (all in hard mode) and my final play-through was definitely the most “broken”. Duran as a liege, healing and provoking the damage, and set to support only. I mostly let the AI just control him, and ordered him to use stat items. Then I had Angela as a grand diviner...saved a chunk of her stat upgrades until she reached that class, and then dumped them all into intelligence and spirit. She trivializes every random fight for the rest of the game, and never runs out of mp. And then I had Kevin in his dark-dark class (forget the name). He can upgrade everyone’s critical chance (including Angela’s spells)...His crit will also debuff defense. so yeah...rotating between him and Angela is just so cheap You could go elderfrei with Duran for maximum power and utility, but it’s not even necessary since Angela and Kevin basically wipe the floor with everything in seconds. That’s why I let his AI do what it does best for the mid-game...just draw the enemies to chase it around and waste time, and auto-heal so I don’t have to bother. Pulls the Aggro away from Kevin and Angela so they can be almost completely uninterrupted

Going off the idea that two characters from the same storyline have special interactions, here are the parties I've used (I've gotten the gold trophy on Trials and have played the SNES version many, many times). Angela/ Duran: Duran (Liege for the healing, and to lessen his role as a damage dealer so you can focus on Angela, also sabers useless for Angela), Angela (Class choice is personal preference), Riesz/ Hawkeye (also preference, I like Riesz as Star Lancer the best). I really don't like having Angela and Duran together (they don't support one another at all and split the party focus to both magic and physical damage) but for the sake of story interactions this is the best I could come up with. The strategy is Duran heals and provides physical damage when needed, Riesz/ Hawkeye stat up the team or debuff the enemy, and Angela bombs the shit out of everyone. Edit/ Forgot to add that Duran can tank with Provoke and draw attention away from Angela, letting her cast without being molested...as much. Angela can also learn a skill to make her less likely to target. Charlotte/ Kevin: Kevin (Dark for that raw, nasty damage), Charlotte (High Cleric makes her last boss easy, Necromancer makes everything easy), Riesz (Starlancer). Stat Up the team, Stat Down the enemy with Dark Curse or sabers if High Cleric, unleash Kevin. Riesz/ Hawkeye: Riesz (again Star Lancer... you can tell I like Star Lancer ALOT), Hawkeye (Nightblade, I've never found multitarget jutsus useful, also his Level 3 class attack is badass), any Damage Dealer (Duran, Kevin, Angela... Liege Duran or Warrior Monk Kevin if you need a healer, although this team doesn't really need it). Same basic stratagy as the Charlotte and Kevin team, stat up, stat down, unleash the pain.

Basically Kevin kills everything, and all you need to do is have someone to buff his damage further :3 Reiz is good partner for him. Rest is just whatever since Crit Kevin can already decrease enemy defense himself already so debuff is meh and status doesn't work on boss.

My favorite party had always been Hawkeye - nightblade Kevin - God hand(thibk its called warrior monk in the remake) Reisz - Star lancer Such a strong team. Just use poto oils till kevin gets his party wide heal.

Great guide man! My wife has never played an RPG before and I've never played this particular one so your video was great!

I personally believe a party of Paladin, Ninja Master, and Starlancer sounds like a really good party setup

My current first party is Hawkeye, Kevin, and Reisz. And honestly, I think I'm gonna enjoy it!

I ran star lancer, nightblade, and divine fist. Great damage, buffs and debuffs, and emergency heals and quite a bit of good CS spread

Kevin, Hawkeye, Angela has been my party and I'm level 30. I've been obileratating everything. Good video

Riesz, Angela and Duran is the best party

First playthrough of the game I did Kevin, Hawkeye, and Charlotte: Enlightened for Kevin for self sustaining damage, Hawkeye was a Rogue for decent offense and ranged trap attacks, and Charlotte was a High Cleric for healing and elemental saber buffs (she also WRECKS enemies in the final dungeon of hers and Kevin's story as a HC). Now on my playthrough for Duran/Angela's story, and using him as a Paladin for healing and Light saber, Angela as an Archmage for AoE crowd-clearing, and Riesz as either a Vanadis or Starlancer for buffs; this team is essentially a "holy-focus" team and does well against most bosses and the final boss, but sees it's finest hour at the Dark Benevodon boss fight. Still haven't figured out who I'll use for Hawkeye and Riesz's story yet; open to suggestions.

Awesome video! Very informative

I am still on my first run in Trials of Mana. I had Hawkeye go the ninja master route which is very powerful. Duran went the Leige route. The heals from him saved my party a couple times. Angela went the Grand Diviner route. Angela is Angela. She is the glass cannon.

it sounds like you're talking at x0.75 speed lol

One truly NON-divisive reccomendation of mine is if your kinda struggling, pick the healer, Charlotte....idk how much different the 2020 remake is, but she ALWAYS made my life easier in the 2D SNES game. Whoever else u want is up to you, but if you don’t pick Kevin or Duran and go light, you’ll probably regret not picking Charlotte for healing

I used Angela as my main character, and made her a Grand Diviner. Reisz was Star Lancer and Charlotte was Necromancer. Let's just say that other than the Crimson Wizard fight, every god beast and even the final boss, the dragon lord, all died within 30 seconds with this party. Angela is a pretty disgusting character, and is way better than in the original. This party basically has it all: Massive magical damage synergy for all team members (seraph, elemental and doppleganger spells, necro summons), Multi-target stat buffs, Dark Curse to stat down bosses, multi-target healing, etc. Angela will never run out of MP and will basically clear entire packs of enemies with 1 spell cast with buffs in place. Even though Grand Diviner is not the boss specialist, between Dark Curse and the stat-ups, bosses still die within 30 seconds anyway. Who needs melee characters lol.

Good video. Very informative. Ty.

Thank you for the tips

I just started and I went with Duran, Charolette, and Reize. Dps/tank, healer, and ranged

I played the original Seiken D3. And my first playthrough was Hawkeye, Angela and Kevin. (my original party) but seeing how they made Duran a massive tank with his "Provoke Skill" that pretty much opens up a whole lot of rotation on him. You can never go wrong with Duran on your party it just depends on what role you want to give him.

I picked Duran because he so main character-ish made him the tank/healer. Angela next because her story's connected and I wanted to mess with elemental effectiveness. Kevin cause kevin seemed like he'd be friends with Duran.

I'm looking to pick up this game, so my team will probably by Duran, Angela, and Kevin.

What suggestions do you have on classes for Kevin, Angela and Charlotte team?

My team: Duran (Swordmaster) for party elemental sword Riesz (Starlancer) for party buff Kevin or Hawkeye depending on what you want with their classes.

I went Angela (dps) , Duran (tank) , Charlotte (heals) in the demo but not sure where to go T2/3.

I'm new to the game and so far, I'm wanting to go dark Kevin for damage, light Duran for tanky healing and light Angela. Is this a decent combo? Also wondering what stats I should focus more on for each of them. Please help me and thank you if you do 🙏

I’ll try this another time thanks. So far my party is Angela, reisz, and Hawkeye. And I think the synergy is pretty good

Sleepy voice head Azz. Good video 😂🔥

Charlotte is healer, buffer or debuffer

I want start with Duran and Angela since I wanted to see they're shared cutscenes. But I don't know who should be the third member of the group. Any suggestions?

Kevin/Fatal Fist - Riesz/Starlancer - Hawkeye/Ninja Master - you have Hawkeye to debuff, Riesz to buff, and Kevin to deal massive damage. Using this build on my expert playthrough and it is amazing.

I went with the old school rpg build daran as the tank Kevin Big Dick DPS and Charlett as healer/ weapon element buffs

All of this matters only after new game plus on highest difficulty. It really doesn't matter who you pick on lower difficulty as the game is very easy, and all you gotta do when you are struggling is just level up

I love all six characters but mt absolute favorite is Angela, she is a grower not a shower however. I went Grand Divina with her and she is able to do massive AoE damage kill everyone in seconds and then get back ALL her mp at the battles end. I brought Duran and Hawkeye as my melee damage dealers. Im excited to try the other three how though as Ive played through the fan translation with the same party years ago so it will be new for me.

I felt like I walked into an old arcade hearing marvel vs cap on 2 all over again

I used Kevin, Charlotte and Angela for my group. Kevin for his amazing melee damage, Angela for spamming of spells and lots of bosses have damages to elements so nice bonus there. Charlotte might hang around a bit for most fights but hey killed the post game boss on hard at 1 min and 15 seconds. That's not even being max level or ng+ stats. As long as the dps don't die you can burn through anything.

Just picked this game up on my PS5. Before watching this video I choose Hawkeye, Angela, and Charlotte. After watching I think I am going to stick with them! next playthrough will be Durand, Kevin, Hawkeye for sure!

I'm getting this game for my birthday in a few days, I really like Hawkeye, Duran, and Reiz the best would they make a good team?

I have been using Kevin Angela and Reiza. Angela as a magus is super strong for damage. She hits as hard as Kevin full bursting.

i was thinking of kevin(dark dark) duran(for sabers, forgot whichof the dark) and reisz(starlancer) (buffs) as myteam. sicne i read healign tiems are so common and reisz stillg ets a buff on using themto make them storgner. duran helps with all ele,mental with sabers and kevin is well kevin)

My inicial party was on demo and i choose for myself the ones i like and think was equilibrated...Angela,Hawkeye and Charlotte. Any inicial party is perfect with Charlotte,but for second and third playthrough is useless with a lot of healing itens, high lvl,good equips and a vast knowledge of the game. I always like fast chars for inicial play in Rpgs because is better with comum enemies and fast looters,but in this game is all about CS if u control this u kill everything very fast...but if u wanna get things a little bit slow and more fun the best party for me was: Kevin - Fast and strong hitter,with extra luck and at Night Time he is better than Hawkeye and Duran Angela - Massive damage and better fitted for later with better Chains Riesz - Perfect in all party,also in the beggining but better for later too...The Summons is what makes her special,i really like her

Duran (Liege) Angela (Magus) Riesz (Fenrir Knight) or Starlancer, either works. Liege for tanking, healing and MGC Boost All If you take Fenrir Knight for Riesz you have the stat downs and still pop scales for stat buffs but Starlancer also has MGC Boost all and gives higher stat up bonuses than items do. Both become support for Angela who more or less becomes the destroyer of worlds and is, in my opinion, the strongest character in the remake verison of this game.

My team was Angela as Rune Master Kevin as War Monk And Riesz and Star Lancer I am very, very happy with what I chose. Angela got Annihilate and Stone Cloud which can utterly dominated every mob in the game, even in postgame, and her level 3 spell hit bosses really hard. Dark Force/Dark Force+ was really solid too for AOE. Kevin was easily my mvp. Even as Warrior Monk, his damage was stupidly high and Spin Kick is really good even in Postgame, not bad for a level 2 tech. And when the party had low hp? No problem, just Multiheal! Leaf Saber was also a great way to keep everybody's mp high. Riesz's combat was nuts in early game due to her level 1 tech having great range, but in the Benevodons arc she was mostly a buffer. And thanks to her multitarget buffs, the final boss did very bad damage to my party, even to Angela. All of this was in a HM run with very minimal/next to non existant grinding, I had to farm only to get the special seeds and more durability against the megaboss

one of the teams that always work for me was kevin/reiz/charlotte. with the starlancer/necromancer/fatal fist combo. This even was my favorite combo to play with in original seiken dentsesu 3 for SNES. Of course in trials of mana u dont need a healer as was in the previous games, so u can change charlotte for hawkeye, and make him ninja master of nightblade.

I think a guide for final fantasy 8 would be pretty helpful. It seems there's a learning curve to the leveling system and all that what-nots. I stopped playing it after getting frustrated and then I couldn't navigate the map or find the next place I was suppose to go.

I should play this game just to say I've played a character with my name lol this is thorough, and these guides are a real time saver. I wish more gaming channels explained things in this way

My first party was D/D on Hawkeye, Riesz and Angela. I'm a degenerate though. It played alright. Hawkeye and Riesz buff and Debuff while Angela uses spells. Looking back I could've gotten Lifesteal Saber coins and gotten Hawkeye's CS boosts earlier to spam his AoE CAs. Riesz is just perfect as she is and was my poto oil user since heals scale off spirit. But man all those passive stats though.

In the original Trials of Mana, I used Kevin (Monk), Hawkeye (Ninja) and Angela (area based spells), Kevin was the melee healer, Hawk was the jack of all trades and Angela was my mage ranged/area attacks.. In the remake I'm using the opposite, Duran, Charlotte and Riesz with plans to make Duran the gladiator, Char with sword buffs and I haven't decided with Riesz yet.. Do I weaken enemies or make my team stronger? No wrong answer I guess..

Playback speed 1.5 - you're welcome

Let me ask this Hawkeye also is or has a higher chance of finding rare items and seeds now granted if I had him as a 2nd or 3rd party member would that still apply.

Edelfrei, Starlancer, and Necromancer works wonders on bosses

I like the all girl party tbh.

My first team (which was a hard mode playthrough) was Duran as a Duelist (a class that buffs damage from taking damage and dealing self damage), Riesz as a Starlancer (a class that aoe buffs), and Charlotte as a Sage (a class that aoe heals up to 130% to avoid 1 shots and has all the elemental sword buff but not the light and dark swords) Supposedly Duelist is the second highest physical damage in the game but I can't believe Kevin can out buff the buffs I'm seeing. 10% at the start 30% from 15 normal attacks Increased attack for defeating an enemy (not sure what percent) 30% for using a power attack taking 5% dmg 40% for using a power attack taking 5% dmg (I've been told these stack cause the damage defiantly doubles) 30% attack for "accumulating" 60% damage 30% attack and defense for "accumulating" 60% damage Adding all that up it's 160% attack not including the 10% at the start to warm you up and the Adrenaline buff which I can't find the percentage. Also don't know if there's a time limit on these buffs or if they just build up over a single battle and reset at the end.

Star Lancer is Key. I never played a team without her. Especially SNES version.

I need to say that going a party of Star Lancer, Nomad and Warrior Monk is surprisingly good. I know you should go Ninja Master on Hawkeye in this situation but having Nomads buffs and counters is just really good. And they don't double up. I dunno it just made sense to me.

Way back in the day I used to go with Duelist Wanderer/Nomad Magus But in the remake it's basically Angela erasing bosses with ancient curse while the other two just screw around. The wanderer used to be such an OP class in seikendensetsu, but in trials of mana the nomad is a bit underwhelming.

My favorite build so far is the MMO meta style. Tanky Liege Duran, Mr. No fucks Kevin as Enlighten using the CS build to nuke trash mobs and well lovely angela sitting on engima firing her 50 caliber in the background known as magic. People say this set up lacks synergy but for some odd reason the entire game barely survives past 20 seconds and boss battles yes a few of the benevodons couldn't see past 20 to 30 seconds. What I love about this game is you can express your type of play through 6 (three at a time) characters in a million different ways.

Well I balanced my points for Angela, seems you forgot that spells spread to every power up to training points, like stamina grant you diamond area damage, attack grant fire area damage etc, also its only three classes

For a first playthrough, I would suggest picking whoever appeals to you AFTER you have a good sense of their capabilities. Like that, you can manage your expectations and adjust your play style accordingly. If you want to do New Game Plus, pick the others you didn't pick. Before starting New Game Plus, unlock as many Chain Abilities as possible and save up as many seeds as possible so that you can use them for the new team (who starts at level 1).

I ran Liege Duran, Grand Diviner Angela and Fenrir Knight Riesz. That party is disgustingly broken. Duran heals and pulls aggro, Riesz MT debuffs and Angela clears the screen with AoE level 2 spells. Add critical hit boosting Abilities and Grand Diviner’s MP recovery and the game itself gets reduced to nothing.

I'm getting the game soon, and would really like a team with Angela and Riesz. Can anyone recommend a third member for a party to compliment them?

I played through my first go with Duran, Riesz, and Angela. The thing is, Angela is by far the most OP, degenerate broken character in the game. I beat the notorious black rabbits first play through level 65 by just spamming ancient with all the wound magic skills equipped. The only damage I took was from this skill. She murders all in her path and breaks the game. My second play through I actually chose not to use her so I can have a bit of a challenge. But yeah, she finished monsters off before the battle even really began. So Duran tank, Reisz support, and Angela just kills everything period.

First time I played this game many years ago I chose Reiz Angela Charlotte Reiz will tank Angela will Dps Charlotte will heal

i went dark reisz, light charlotte, dark duran

Fatal Fist/Edelgard/Ninja Master did wonders with the DPS.

Cool but if we're honest it simply doesn't matter. Even on hard the game is very easy and can be finished with any comp no problem. It might be an idea to look at it as "Which party comps are the most fun"

Duran Light/Light (Sabers), Riesz Light/Dark (Buffs), and Kevin Dark/Dark (One Punch Man) Comfy party with Duran to tank and heal, Riesz for stat ups and Kevin to punch the crap out of everything. Kevin with the appropriate saber at night deals ludicrous damage, even comparable to Angela imo.

Strongest team back then still works in this day's remake. Talking about my main team, any combination of fatal fist/ninja master/starlancer. Buff + debuff + criticals from kevin = dead Bosses

Its angela duran charlotte Angela clear up the mob, duran tank with provoke, charlotte can heal or do backups. Its by default the real beginner team composition

I personally believe any build is good as I beat the game with all options of classes , there's no strong/weak as you can't loose in this game simply you revive and go from moment you died .

Set video playback speed to 1.25 and you are golden

Ok... My first pick was Duran (tank and healling), Kevin (his damage is massive), and Angela for the OP spells in the later game. And Angela... Her outfits... Jesus... 😍😍😍 I'll probably replay this game tons of times. The reason? Classes abillities. They are so freaking cool. And I have to say that Hawk is by far my favourite character. His techs of spliting himself are amazing. In the original game (snes) he was always my first choice.

Just one correction coming from me for this video.. Angela doesnt have the worst physical dmg output, as ridiculous as it sounds.. As a GD to mystic queen, she have passive that increases her dmg output vs non-boss or bosses, combined with pinpoint II-III and crit dmg up, she can still reach 1k-ish dmg.. but thats not what shes for anyways and reclaim is useless for her This is why i want to discuss things XD

With Light Light Duran ( paladin ) you get a sword Holy Buff

My first team is Duran, Angela and Hawkeye

Secret of Mana trio like team : 1:Duran , 2:Angela , 3:Charlotte

Kevin is pretty OP

The only problem i see with tring to plan out a team...is actually getting a ??? Seed that gives you the class you want. That whole random aspect of getting your 3rd class is pretty wack. I was forced into paladin because wasnt getting the other class for duran. What makes it worse, was that i go two of the paladin class items........

imo hawk belongs on evey rteam he is so vesitle and his luck is fantastic, plus now hat crits arn't bugged he can crit faily often and all his jobs can be usefull on any team, but maybe i just like him and like ninjas, so maybe thats my bias coming through

Party comp doesn't matter as long as u got at least 1 caster for either dps or cc. The game is fun and fair even on hardest difficulty. U could beat the game with a pure melee group no support skills. Just stock up on items.

Angela is kind of indispensable. At least if you want an easy Magic damage

Just wanted 2 be the first person to like and comment!

The 3 he recommended for new players are the 3 I didn't use lol

i use always 3 girls... Riez is best debuff+meele dmg, charlotte is a heal decurse bot and Angela is THE range mage dps.. my first playthrouh in trials was all 3 boys.. but that was horrible.. 70% of the game is micromanaging the heal items.. and on expert or higher is that not more possible.

Since healing skills aren't important in this game I'd swap out Charlotte for Reisz (Light for Buffs) and then do Hawkeye (Dark for Debuffs +Drop Bonus) and either Kevin (Dark) or Duran (Dark) for some all out damage. Kevin is the strongest physical damage dealer but Duran with the ability to cast Sabers and deal decent damage as well. I'd say Duran has a better attack set as he can dash through enemies for some easy multi-target damage ( Circle Circle Triangle), where as with Kevin you're just going to be mashing buttons and face tanking while dishing out huge damage. Don't play Angela, unless you enjoy the mindlessly numb easy mode she unlocks in the late game. ( If you want more of a challenge play the game on a fresh file with the comp suggested above WITHOUT using any Cactus buffs, just ignore them, and make it so your party AI can't use abilities on their own in the strategy tab. No link skills carried over, no EXP buff, no bonus stats, no Healers. It's all just entirely unnecessary and takes away from the game in my opinion )

I went with Nightblade, Fatal Fist and High Cleric, it's pretty strong, I use ninjutsu debuffs and whale on bosses with Kevin, you can't die with Charlotte in your party lol. Again there is no best build, you can take something stupid and make it op (also game is kinda easy on hard mode)

Here's a shorter answer - anything with Angela in it

Ok but what is the worst team build?

The perfect "training wheels" build I managed to discover on my second play through of the game was: Kevin - Fatal Fist Charlotte - Sage Riesz - Starlancer When Riesz buffs Kevin at night, it completely wrecks bosses, even before class 3. There aren't too many bosses that give them trouble that Charlotte cannot keep up with healing.

Been watching several videos for this game since I am thinking of making a new one since I am a little unhappy of the choices I made. Still going to start with Kevin as the main character/party member since his story seems the most interesting to me and still a pretty solid character. Having Hawkeye would be an excellent companion with his supportive abilities. Charlette, not sure. Think I can look past her voice. Not sure of a replacement. Thinking of saving Angela as a Main character in another playthrough since I kind of like her. Duran...maybe save him for Angela playthrough. Continuing replacements for new first playthrough, that leaves Reisz, but don't like the idea of having two support/weak/jack of all trade characters, unless I can balance it out, mostly with later abilities. That would kind of force Kevin to be a healer. Then again it seems you can get a good amount of money and healing items in the game, so it might not matter. May need to check guides again for suggestions. As for 2nd/another playthrough, it will be Angela (main), Duran and either Charlette or Reisz, depending on first new playthrough. Also if anyone has good suggestions of good/best party storywise, let me know. Doubt there is one, better off with being lucky with fanfictions...

Duran. Kevin. Riesz. Everyone dead

This guy clearly never played with Warlock Charlie

A lot of people diss charlotte because of her voice, but necromancer is a really powerful class. She is not even a bad attacker anymore. Angela is busted. There is no other way to say this. I think it's very possible she's the best character in the whole game. She pumps out thousands of damages and never runs out of mp. I don't know how many melee character could possibly out perform her.

kevin/Angela/Riesz i love this team but finish game to FAST

I love Angela but she make the game easy, her magic is too destructive...I play Duran (Berserker), Reiz (Metiorite) and Angela (Speelbinder)