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C475_1337	Nov 8 2007, 04:39 PM
One serious d00d Posts: 1,863 Group: FEFFer Member #902 Joined: August 26, 2006	Serra vs Lowen, go Serra has three important advantages over Lowen from the get-go: She can heal. She doesn’t use up anyone else’s Exp. She boosts the Exp rank itself. Lowen has one important advantage over Serra from the get-go: He can attack. Considering that you have only one other potential healer for a long time, but a wide range of other possible attackers (many of whom are better at attacking than Lowen is), I’d argue already that Serra’s healing makes a bigger difference than Lowen’s attacking. Both are useful; you have only one of the first but atleast half a dozen of the second; which do you want more of? Clearly the first. And again, Lowen’s attacking isn’t even as useful as most units’, due to his bad offensive stats. But then on top of that, Serra also doesn’t use up Exp; if Lowen is replaced with Serra, Lowen’s kills go to other units, increasing other people’s levels. Plus, Serra is much better for the Exp rank than Lowen, because any Exp she gets is more than the usual amount. Lowen's Exp, meanwhile, simply goes to other units if he is removed. And then later on, Serra gains the ability to attack, so eventually Lowen doesn’t even have that. Looking pretty good for Serra at the moment. Now, before promotion, straight statistical comparisons are effectively useless, as the two do totally different things. So we’d have to look at post-promotion stats. Speaking of promotion, Serra will be doing that first; she and Lowen both join in the same chapter, but Serra’s had time in LHM. She has 7 chapters in LHM, so give her an average of .7 levels per chapter and she gains 4.9, making her LvL 6. But wait, we still have to do some Nils abuse to get 19xx. Nils has 5 chapters he can be used in, so give him .7 per chapter as well, and he’s at 4.5. That means he needs about 25 turns to get 250 Exp and reach LvL 7. 25 turns of Lundgren abuse for Serra is 275 Exp, or 2.75 more levels. Overall, she gains 7.65. LvL 8 upon rejoining, soon to hit 9. Lowen, meanwhile, joins at a mere LvL 2. Therefore we have Serra promoting when Lowen is about at LvL 13 (starts out at roughly LvL 9 vs LvL 2, 7 level gap). However, Serra’s growth rate actually increases after she promotes, because now she adds combat Exp on top of her Staff Exp, and also has a combat Exp bonus to help her with that. So in the time that it took Lowen to gain 7 more levels and promote, we’ll say Serra gained 9 levels, since she’s growing faster. It’s also safe to assume Serra receives a Body Ring; no other character benefits from it as much as she does, as no other character is weighed down by literally every weapon in their inventory. And the end result is: 21 Lowen 41.2 Hp 13.4 Str 11.4 Skl 13.4 Spd 12.0 Luck 16.2 Def 6.4 Res 12 Con Vs 30 Serra 34.0 Hp 17.0 Mag 15.4 Skl 20.2 Spd 22.8 Luck 8.2 Def 22.4 Res 7 Con As for supports, we’ll be generous and hand Lowen A Rebecca/B Eliwood. Rebecca’s use is highly questionable, but it can be assumed for the moment. In return, Serra can take B Hector/B Oswin. Yes, the supports are slow, but by this point they can easily be finished. One might argue that they’d take each other over Serra, but I’d disagree; both have high Atk and overkill Def. They only really need more AS and more Move in order to improve much, as they have plenty of Atk/Def already; unfortunately, supports offer neither AS nor Move. Therefore, Hector and Oswin don’t really care who they support, as it will make little difference in their performance anyway. Serra, on the other hand, can make very good use of the Def and Avo bonuses. So our final stats look like this: Lowen: 18.4 Atk, 13.4 AS—41.2 Hp, 17.2 Def, 63.8 Avo, 7.4 Res Serra: 18.0 Atk, 20.2 AS—34.0 Hp, 12.2 Def, 83.2 Avo, 26.4 Res Serra cleans house pretty thoroughly. 7 more AS and roughly the same Atk; 19 Res is perfectly arguable against 5 Def (physical enemies are more common, but Serra’s Res lead is nearly 4 times as large as Lowen’s Def lead); ~20 Avo, however, crushes 7 Hp easily. Constant 1-2 range helps Serra as well. This situation doesn’t improve much for Lowen, so w/e. Serra can start using Warp and possibly even increase the level gap. Serra’s now beating Lowen at attacking and defending and providing Exp rank boosting and staff utility on top of that. Speaking of staff utility, Serra also has even more of that after she promotes. The aforementioned Warp Staff is quite helpful, Rescue/Sleep/Silence are also available, her healing becomes even better as she now has Physic available, and she can also use Barrier/Restore to help against enemy magic units (these can be very important in chapters like CoD). Anyway, point is, Serra r winrar.
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