Games where your starter team comp is the best team comp throughout the entire game

I used Sharla cause she's hot but you don't really need her. Shulk, Dunban, and riki/fiora/sharla is what I used

every fire emblem game ever

Dunban's a better tank and Sharla kills chain attacks

>he fell for the level 1 archer meme

I unironically was rooting for Melia, but when Melia gets hardcore cucked I got a raging erection, knowing her suffering will last her whole life watching shulk plow a half-robot fiora into his golden years; in a singular moment melia's hopes and dreams were stolen away and it was beautiful

and then i got xc2 and literally watching nia get the same treatment has forever solidified a pre-order from me on any xenoblade game as i am confident the devs literally have a hardcore fetishistic obsession with cucking the predictable love interest

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What's a good XC1 party by the way? Back then I used Sharla since I usually go with the usual attacker-tank-healer team, but I feel her spot was wasted, and I'd like to try something else once XC1DE is out. How do I heal my characters efficiently without her in the team?

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I really really hope you mean banter wise or something and not combat wise.

You put Riki in your team and never worry about healing anyone.

Riki Dunban and Melia.

Melia for buffs and support, Riki for heals and tank, Dunban for being a human nuke who cannot be touched because he's naked.

sharla is literally newbie bait, she actually is a detriment and shuts down your combos very reliably

unfortunately the 'best' combos literally break the combat/render the entire game mindlessly trivial, so i dont suggest using them; you can achieve 100% topple uptime with a few combos, i believe shulk/dunban/riki is one of the more popular ones

i didn't like the combat being 100% non-threatening so i usually piddled around with riki/melia/fiora, shulk/fiora/melia, etc.

anything works, but sharla literally hurts your composition, and the 'power comps' break the game entirely to the point of rendering every fight moot and silly

DPS is king in XC1. Shulk, Riki, and Dunban is a classic set up because you can make Dunban just dodge shit, get Shulk to light heal, and Riki to be an all-rounder. It's been many years but I also remember there being passive skills that you can link together in the skill charts that heal. Fiora is also busted if you know what you're doing.

>cucking the predictable love interest
What? Fiora and Pyra is the predictable love interest. It's obvious from the second they're introduced that they'll get together.

>Sharla
>Reyn
>best comp
Fucking lol, controlling Melia and letting Shulk and Dunban do their shit is the best. I bet you think Seven is good too.

The best healing strategy is not healing at all. Full offense teams are quite viable, Shulk will keep the team alive with Monado Arts.

>wanted to switch up party members in XBC
>playing Shulk without Reyn felt hollow
>playing without either felt worse
>Shulk/Reyn can't survive without healing
>can't stand Riki

I must redeem myself with DE still not using Riki but I'm at a loss.

disagree, fiora is soft-balled in at the start sure but dies straight away as a tragedy foil, melia is the obvious choice in the exact same way as nia is, fiora/pyra are narratively untouchable as dead and not even a sapient organism/not even a relatable character for the protagonist, where nia's reveal as also being a blade is paired up with her delicious abandonment and forever loneliness

use fiora for a sec and you'll probably never stop, fiora literally blows everything up in half a sec, but if the enemy has even tiny spike damage she commits INSTANT sudoku

I generally switched around the party a lot in XB1 and had a lot of fun, but I never put Sharla back in after I got Dunban. Is there any comp where she's good?

>HD shiny and chrome posterior incoming
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I wish they would add an extra scene where the party returns to colony 9 with robutt Fiora and she gets all sorts of reactions from the people there.

>>can't stand Riki

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>Pyra is the predictable love interest.
It's a weird case because Nia appears to be closer to Rex in age and she's introduced first. Nia and Rex also have a moment alone together where they warm up to each other before finding Pyra. It feels like Pyra cucked Nia out of her love interest position with her big titties.

Similar question but what are some rpgs where the female party members are overall stronger than the male ones? 13 is the only FF I can think of where that's the case.

I have no idea how people are playing the middle game without Sharla because UMs on your level with aoe undodgeable physical or ether arts will still blow up the party really hard.
I guess I should look it up some day.

Then again I have some sort of mental block against enjoying "infinite combo damage, the enemy does fucking nothing" combat

That's literally the worst possible team in the game.

It's the baby mode for casuals who don't understand the combat system, where everything takes twice as long to kill.

>Melia for buffs and support, Riki for heals and tank, Dunban for being a human nuke who cannot be touched because he's naked.
Damn, what are the chances they actally fix the party AI and make Melia a useful party member that you don't have to control?

Never got far enough to use her, stopped at Sword Valley. But I tried Melia/Shulk/Reyn, and I barely survived normal field enemies in the Nopon forest levels below me.

>letting the AI control Melia
NEVER DO THIS
AI Melia is fucking dumb as shit

Reyn has weird surviving power with the tank squad. Somehow both him and Dunban can just keep themselves alive through sheer willpower because Last Stand/Jaws of Death

Ether comp of Melia/Riki/Sharla
You use it to abuse Ether hit rates against enemies that are 15 levels higher than you, but rarely 20 because they might hit Riki hard despite his huge HP

I dunno. I always found Riki to be good enough when I needed healing

I really wish Sharla was more useful. I like her mechanics, she just lags behind the other characters in practicality.
Huh. Bet she'll be cute in the UDRR.

>not full ungabunga shulk/dunban/fiora

FF7

Bad bait, and I'll tell you why.
>Crono
All around, not bad at magic but is a great physical attacker.
>Marle
Great healer and her magic stat is pretty great, good to have in the party once in a while.
>Lucca
Fire element. Her ultimate weapon kinda sucks. Only good for Antipode Bombs.
>Frog
Better attack stat than Crono, able to heal. Plus he has X Slash.
>Robo
Not weak to an element due to being a robot. Gets a lot of different element attacks.
>Ayla
Ayla strong, Ayla kick ass. Charm good to get items, helpful lots.
>Magus
Honestly a better Robo. Gets a lot of elemental magic plus he comes with Schala's(?) amulet.
Everyone is helpful at some point. The only one that kinda sucks is Lucca.

>keeping sharla in your party past getting your 4th party member
you're like those people that ago on tv and are like "but I WANTED to cut my legs off and become a gimp, I actually PREFER being crippled"

Excellent bait, Sharla sucks

All she needs (at least for me) is a faster auto attack, a talent art that isn't shit, and maybe more space for arts than everyone else. Maybe make that last one a skill on her skill tree.

doesnt lucca and magnus have a great team magic?

My favorite thing to do with Robo is give him the arm that crits for 9999, ignoring defense.

You can use it to defeat the shells on Lavos Spawns, leaving just their heads.

>the true final boss is the little drone
based

>get crits heal
>win game with no effort
huh whodve thoight

>bad bait
>it works

Couldn’t be too bad then

Dragon Quest 3
Solo.
Best team, ever!