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FIVE?!?!?! h4x. Well, I'll stick with Muarim, then.

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Anyway, let's see how good Rolf is with his bow.
13 atk, 6 AS
That would be about right for chapter 1 as that's about what Oscar has then. Unfortunately, for ch 9, it's massive suck.

How's he doing on defense?
18 hp, 6 def, 2 res, 16 avo, 6 AS.
That's worse than people on chapter 1. So you know it sucks hard for ch 9. Anything with 15 atk or 11 mag atk can kill him in 2, and his avoid is suck as well. And that 6 AS means anything with 10 AS or more can double him. Massive suck again.

He looks pretty sucky.

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~5 combat chapters later, on ch 16, Muarim joins. How does he fare?
Offense, demi:
29 atk, 17 AS
h4x. That's as good as Kieran about 4 chapters later (since 17 has multiple parts), a few levels after he takes a jump up with promotion. Oscar, who I compared Rolf to, doesn't get that much atk until...sometime later. Whenever he reaches 20/6. ...ch 20 or something.
Offense, full:
32 atk, 18 AS
lol, even moar h4x

Defense, demi:
45 hp, 14 def, 7 res, 45 avo
h4x again. very high hp + high def. Again, that's about as good as Kieran about 4 chapters later. That's unsupported Kieran, though. Supported Kieran will have a nice avoid lead in the upper teens or so.
Defense, full:
45 hp, 15 def, 8 res, 47 avo
Not a huge improvement, but still better.

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Now, about those supports, not that they make any difference. Just that this is too short for a first post, I think. Maybe. Well, even if it's not, whatever.

Rolf's affinity is wind. Hit and avoid. Not the best. Not many want hit.
All of Rolf's supporters either have multiple better options or suck.
-Rhys... is Rhys. And he kinda sucks. lol, AS
-Shinon is an inferior version of Rolf. And he REALLY sucks.
-Marcia is good, but she doesn't want to support Rolf. She has Kieran, who gives the same bonuses but is mounted like Marcia and so can stay with her better, and Tanith, who is a flier like Marcia and so can go with her everywhere. And Tanith has that smexy earth affinity. Kerian and Tanith both want those supports as well. And the support wouldn't work well anyway. Rolf is on foot, and Marcia has more move and can fly.
-Mist is good, but she has like 4 others she would rather support. Mordecai gives her awesome water-water full atk full def bonuses, Jill gives full def plus some avoid, Boyd gives full atk, and Titania gives full def.
-Tauroneo comes later, so he can't help much anyway.

Muarim's affinity is thunder. Defense and avoid. Quite defensive.
-Zihark wants this support as he becomes an avoid tank with it.
-Largo's durability is pretty meh, so he wants this support for the nice durability boost it gives.

Muarim's supports are more helpful despite his list being shorter.

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Now for something else.
Rolf has 6 -> 7 move. Muarim has 9 move. Muarim is significantly more mobile.
Rolf has 4 -> 5 bld. Muarim has 44. Rolf can hardly shove anyone, and he can't rescue anyone ever. Muarim can even shove mounted units, and he can rescue nearly any non-mounted unit aside from like transformed Giffca or Mordecai.
Rolf attacks at 2 range. Muarim attacks at 1 range. Rolf doesn't take counterattacks as often, so it helps his durability slightly (very slightly. Attacks on enemy phase are what you need to be worrying about, not on player phase when you're the one in control.), but he can almost never do any counterattacking. Muarim is much much better at counterattacking.