ITT: Useless party members

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Alright, feel free to start

this, she's extremely useful against maybe the most challenging boss in the game

>Oh cool an old samurai
>He's a mage who never unsheathes his sword
>Literally forces himself into your party

>The best caster in the game with the second most flexible skill set.
>useless

I will admit that the CPU had no clue what to do with her, though. You have to play her yourself, but fortunately the game lets you do that.

Most useless in Xeno1 sadly was sniper butt, sadly.

Why hello there, nice JRPG setup you got there, do you mind if I tag along and by tag along I mean become a essential party member despite being worthless?
No?
Wonderful I knew you wanted me all along

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Sharla was the best healer by far. I wouldn't say any party members were explicitly useless in Xenoblade, but there were definitely some that were more limited in utility than others. I mean, this is a game with Riki, who could literally fulfill any party role and reached max HP like halfway through the game.

>sinper butt

The game really liked showing off Sharla's ass. Even in heavy armor it's hanging out.

the fuck?

He's like the first multi pilot Super you get and like the only non batttleship unit with FIVE pilots until the end of the game

Sadly

>don't mind me, I'm going to be an inferior clone of a character who just left the party
>worse skills
>worse personality
>worse reason for betraying the party
>worse unique ability

>t.moron who didn't use her at all

>Best mage all the way until Renne in 3rd
>Super long range impede craft
>Useless

I suppose "useless" is the wrong phrasing, you are right. That being said, she was still the least useful as you didn't need a dedicated healer in that game to succeed at all really. That and her weapon artes beyond that weren't fantastic.

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Reyn is worse. He gets obsoleted by Dunban pretty much right out the gate as a tank, and his DPS build needs to be controlled by you to be any good. At least his Topple and Daze moves are near-instant.

If you wanted to make anti-bird thread then just say so.

>Sharla was the best healer by far.

yes, she was. too bad dedicated healing was completely unnecessary to be successful.

Why would you copy Ice and then cast it twice? Doesn't that overwrite the DoT?

Kevin is far better in SC

Supposedly her ai was fixed in the 3DS version, she seemed to be a lot more competent there
And her tits. Which have dedicated jiggle bones. Only Vanea has better tits than Sharla. SPOILER didn't even get jiggle even though she is pretty stacked as well. (then again SPOILER is a robot)

AI controlled Melia is pretty useless, but the same goes for AI Shulk. Player controlled Melia is a beast with duel burst and support potential

Yeah that image is lame. Summon bolt, summon copy, summon earth, release earth, summon ice, release ice. There, now chill and poison will fuck the enemy sideways. She out dps-s fiora and dunban

You get fucked in the ass by Unique Monsters aggroing onto you if you do that. I usually summon earth -> summon copy and then start spamming other summons vs bosses unless they're Ether based

Only because of Grail Sphere.

Poison and chill damage don't aggro you though. It does damage over time. There's no big initial damage

Kevin is a better support mage (higher def and the best S-craft in the game). This is why he outclasses Kloe so hard. If you want a powerful caster, you choose Olivier.

>I didn't do the sidequest

The true useless party member of Xenoblade

The only thing that made Kratos good was he was an off healer so it took the pressure off Raine to constantly heal you for being a shit player.

Does she get cucked or something?
I always see her posted when a certain goblin related media is mentioned

That's some bullshit. Riki maxed out HP super early, and his abilities let him play any role you could need. His only limitation was that a lot of his stuff was tied to the Hype Meter or whatever they called that.

Riki is good in combat and the based old man of the group.

>tons of HP
>deals colossal amounts of damage with DoTs
>great cleave potential
>tanks like a fucking champ
>useless
Come the fuck on my dude

Lorithia right

What game

>literally fits in any team composition
>great heals
>tons of damage over time
>AoE is best in the party except against Mechon
>can tank Ether-based enemies
Riki is both the most fun and best party member in Xenoblade. He can literally do anything.

Vanea has extreme jiggle you retard

She's not in the party yet when you fight Xord though

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Lulu is far worse, but sadly, yes. Auron is among the three useless members.

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He was referring to Seven who I think we should refer to by name because the game is like 400 years old.

Never has a character been this cucked.

He's great for normal play but if you're maxing stats then yeah.

tbf she doesn't have much jiggle at the start of the game either

Lulu has a multi hitting overdrive so no Auron is the worst party member in the game.

woah i forgot about this guy

The dog or Ken.

>Does she get cucked or something?
oh dude you have no idea
it went from "this is kinda funny" to "i feel bad for her" at least in my case

All of them

Do you need a party member to fuck your wife too?

Useless in the NES version and slightly less useless in the DS/mobile version. Outclassed by everyone else in the party.

>Clair is an existing character, and is Nel's best friend
>lol instead of having Clair join your party let's have her dad who didn't exist until now join you

worst limit breaks along with cait sith. this makes them the most useless

>Does she get cucked
She needs to have stood a chance in the first place for that to happen

She might have stood a chance if Fiora stayed dead. Once Shulk "the tinker" saw that his waifu was a cyborg it was all over, though.

Xenoblade doesn't have any useless party members

He does has that overflow glitch going for him.

>using them for limit breaks
Vincent and Cait Sith are your dedicated mages once Aerith dies.

Google says Star Ocean 3, can't be sure

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That's a weird way to spell Bulma, Android 18 and Chi chi

Not entirely useless, but definitely the weakest

Bianca's Blazemost and a few other spells were actually pretty useful, she could have a bit more HP though.

Nera is a shit wife and Bianca is generic

Deborah is best waifu

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Even if you disregard how powerful and cheesy traps are, he's the only full thief in the game.

A point could be made towards Tomi's usefulness if you were a wizard and didn't want to waste a spell breaking a door or chest, but without items being broken there's no reason to take him, especially when you could have someone stronger.
Also sneak attacks don't do shit to anyone that matters.

Exactly, he is JUST a thief. Even if he didn't steal your shit and try to kill you it is a waste of a slot compared to a dual or multi.

She's less useful than directly controlling Shulk who is just as strong.

Okay, there are a few exceptions.

That's not Kimahri.

Bianca is the least useless because thanks to Horii's bias she's the only one who can at least equip the King Metal Shield. They're all trash units with poor stats, garbage equipment that start 20 points underleveled anyway. No reason to use them over a monster.

Kid, Glenn and Guile are the only good ones.

It gets better. Adray wasn't even in the original version of SO3, the one that originally came out in Japan. For the western release, we got an enhanced version of the game with some new features, and Adray's inclusion was one of them.

They went out of their way to add him into the game and force him onto you.

she does have a huge MP pool, like 4 times the MP Messala has. And since spell damage doesn't depend on stats or equipment, she pulls her weight in the endgame just fine.

>Shit you'll never EVER do
>He has that going for him

lolno

Did people shitposting not played Xenoblade or did they just play it wrong?

>hey our game needs a buff warrior
>okay but make his speed near zero
>oh and he's too tanky, give him less HP when he joins than 10 years old MC has
>oh and give him a GARBAGE skillset with magic of all things despite the fact he's never going to be a caster
>oh and make Rei a permanent party member who is not only the fastest character, but has weretiger transformations giving him crazy damage and steal on top of that
>oh and give a buff character a fucking bazooka so she can dish out as much damage too, despite having actually good stats and skill set

Garbage