Favorite top 3 Saga Frontier Character?

[kimtekz]

mine is

Red
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[Auspice]

Silence is cool but not getting Mesarthim is pretty uncool. Since you can get Mesarthim in any story where you can get Silence, I basically never used him. If they make him scare her from joining the party, I imagine the trend of not getting Silence will continue for me. Mesarthim's too good not to use. I suppose if you're not planning on getting TimeLord and you don't have any other means of getting her (like Nusakan or Asellus), using Silence might be reasonable.

My favorite characters are Asellus, Liza, and Rouge, because busted characters are the best.

[SkyeSage]

yeah but he has the cute little butterfly wings and they go flap

[⭕TheSodaman]

I had no idea about a tier list or ... any such during the Playstation era (I apologize for practically bumping all these threads).

Annie, if I recall, green shorts, blonde hair, ended up in most my parties and ended up with swords. I guess cause she was easy to recruit.

Gen, also sword. Also seemed relatively easy to recruit.

And Lute, due to easy access, also using a sword, but sometimes martial arts. Not that I liked him.

And Rouge I think ended up on the team pretty often too.

And then the protagonist. I wasn't too adventurous with the mystics, robots, monsters, guns, or usually not even magic... I am realizing I lead relatively boring playthroughs.

So... Annie, Gen, and Rouge. Just cause they were in nearly every party I could think of IF they were available for that character. Although Fuse usually snuck his way in there, but I just saw him as a gun and fist guy and didn't explore that too much.

[Auspice]

The issue with any kind of "tier list" is that it varies somewhat between what is good for normal battles and what is good for bosses. The most broken stuff in the game (OverDrive abuse, DSC) are not really suited to normal battles for various reasons (OverDrive takes a few turns to break out of stasis, DSC is expensive, etc).

In normal encounters, group attacks like MegaWindBlast, 2GaleSlash and Haze-to-Wheel are best but they also limit your ability to maximize learning skills and stat growths. There are also very good attacks with ground or sonic property that don't work on some enemies.

The end result is that most of the time, you use "decent" attacks and rotate team members to recover WP/JP/LP.

That said, here's a rough idea of what is good about human characters:

Annie: She's bad with both swords and fighting, but she's fine with guns or magic (like all humans) so while she's the worst human in the game she's ok otherwise

Asellus: She is best with swords but she could merely be considered slightly above average with them. She shares a talent list with both Mei-ling and Emelia, so much of the things that apply to her apply to them as well. She lacks two-sword skill, but has decent endgame talents like Rosario and Haze-to-Wheel. Her mystic transformation lets her cap her stats and turns her into a god if set up right. The only human with Mystic gift, but it's not a big game-changer.

Emelia: Same as Asellus without MysticalChange. In her own game, godly since she's also Liza and Liza is a monster.

Mei-ling: Same as Asellus without MysticalChange. Fairly good gun/magic skill though, among the best -- but remember that all characters can get all gun skills and magic spells they obtain the gift for, and Mei starts with no gifts so you have to get them first.

Blouge: Somewhat anemic at martial skills, either worst or second-worst in the game after Annie, but has Realm gift so he'll always be useful since Realm magic is great. Their gun/spell learning is so high that they can learn spells and gun skills generally 2-3 tiers earlier than other characters. In other words, if you're building Blue or Rouge to be a fighter, you're wrong, use guns instead. Obviously, the twins are identical.

Hamilton: As her initial skillset suggests, she's more oriented towards swords. Not as good as Emi/Asel/Mei with a similar skillset. Comparable to Red but with a slightly better skillset. In other words, sort of ok without any uniqueness.

Fei-on: The second-best martial artist in the game but there's a huge distance between him and Liza. Honestly, Fei-on is closer to Lute than he is to Liza. Still strong, as fighters go. Somewhat one-trick since he's terrible with swords, like rivalling Annie levels of bad.

Fuse: An absolute god. Better with swords than fighting in the long run and starts with the Mind gift so you don't have to wait for him to get it. Mostly hampered by the quest to get him, it's hard enough that you won't get him without needing to grind him quite a bit. Obviously in his own game, simply *being Fuse* at the start will be a big advantage. He's a super strong character and good at everything.

Lute: An average character until the endgame where he reveals that he was holding back the whole time with talent for 3 of the best fighting skills plus GoldHand, one of the best combo linkers. Barely acceptable with swords, but worse than any decent sword character. His lack of midgame is a pretty big worry, but like all humans you can always learn guns or magic or both.

Roufas: He's extremely strong, somewhat like Fuse but not quite as strong overall. His lack of Deflect talent is a bit head-scratching, so he may be better as a fighter, since he gets all major essential skills there. The second-best gun/magic character after the twins. Overall pretty excellent.

Doll: She's not really good at anything. Her best non-magic/gun niche is fighting, but she just barely checks the boxes there with SwayBack, Corkscrew, and GoldHand but is missing tons of other skills. Pretty much worse than Roufas in every way and is only better than Lute in her gun/magic learning. Overall meh, but she's human and available early for the one character who can get her (plus whenever she's available in Fuse's game)

Red: Basically Emel/Asel/Mei in terms of his sword skill but without the lucrative endgame Haze-to-Wheel. Much better at fighting, but it falls apart a bit in endgame with only SkyTwister. Pretty gimp without Alkaiser skills, I honestly think Lute is a better character.

Liza: Far and away the best fighting character, but on top of that she has some usable sword skills too. What the hell, Liza?

Gen: Basically every sword talent in the game. Also respectable fighting. In other words, an absolute terror.

[sanjuro21]

Asellus, Gen, and Madame Starcia (you know, the one who reads coffee stains).

[Xalderin]

Blue- 1st
Asellus - 2nd
Red - 3rd

Rogue is a hard 4th fav. If I was able to choose a fourth.

I always thought Blue was one of the best characters, and he's campaign was pretty cool, imo. But that might also be because Blue becomes SUPER op. lmao. XD

[Auspice]

Blue only becomes super OP because you win the duel. If you lose intentionally, you get to play as Rouge, which is obviously superior.

Blue is kind of a scumbag who has no moral qualms about killing Kylin, who creates an isolated space to protect and nurture abandoned children. He outright refuses to help Red when the Cygnus is under attack, and is in general kind of an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to everyone he meets.

Rouge on the other hand is a stoic but kindhearted guy who helps basically everyone.

[DDreamsGames]

1) ZOZMA
2) TimeLord
3) Asellus

Mystics <3

[Skip Sandwich]

Asellus is No. 1 because the video game world needs more gender-nonconforming sword-wielding lesbians
No. 2 is Emilla because I think her whole cosplay gimmick is actually pretty neat given her background and her whole scenario has this low-key Kill Bill vibe that I dig.
No. 3 is Red purely because his theme song is FIRE. Did you know there is a version with LYRICS?

https://managarmr.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/tatakae-alkaiser/

[Even I fall I lose everything in my life…
I will never ever accept defeat!]
[In this world…
You must believe in the “tomorrow”…]
[You must never lose it! The Energy of Hope!!]

[Let me explain! The hotblooded Red Okonogi is now a Warrior of Santuario.
With the powers granted to him by Alkarl, he transforms into the Warrior of Justice – ALKAISER!]
[UOOOOO!! HENSHIN! ALKAISER—-!!!!]

[Auspice]

Even though she's kind of a lesbian, Asellus isn't exactly a lesbian. She's a straight girl who was given Orlouge's blood, and Orlouge loves the womens so she has unnatural attaction to them. If she gets the human ending, she has a husband and children when she passes away. In the mystic ending, she's full lesbian, so in the half-mystic ending she's... bisexual? maybe?

[SkyeSage]

Origineel geplaatst door Auspice:

Even though she's kind of a lesbian, Asellus isn't exactly a lesbian. She's a straight girl who was given Orlouge's blood, and Orlouge loves the womens so she has unnatural attaction to them. If she gets the human ending, she has a husband and children when she passes away. In the mystic ending, she's full lesbian, so in the half-mystic ending she's... bisexual? maybe?

She was never straight. She died because she was checking out a girl. White Rose and Asellus are most definitely a couple. Gina has a crush on Asellus.

[Shotgun Solutions]

Origineel geplaatst door Straw:

Origineel geplaatst door Auspice:

Even though she's kind of a lesbian, Asellus isn't exactly a lesbian. She's a straight girl who was given Orlouge's blood, and Orlouge loves the womens so she has unnatural attaction to them. If she gets the human ending, she has a husband and children when she passes away. In the mystic ending, she's full lesbian, so in the half-mystic ending she's... bisexual? maybe?

She was never straight. She died because she was checking out a girl. White Rose and Asellus are most definitely a couple. Gina has a crush on Asellus.

Say what you will the dude is right about the endings. Sorry if that upsets you.

[SkyeSage]

Origineel geplaatst door Shotgun Solutions:

Origineel geplaatst door Straw:

She was never straight. She died because she was checking out a girl. White Rose and Asellus are most definitely a couple. Gina has a crush on Asellus.

Say what you will the dude is right about the endings. Sorry if that upsets you.

where in there did i say anything about the endings

[Auspice]

Nowhere in any lore info, nor in the game is it stated that Asellus died while checking out a girl.

She is on her way to school, gets hit by Truck-kun and gets transported to another world with fantastic powers.

[SkyeSage]

Origineel geplaatst door Auspice:

Nowhere in any lore info, nor in the game is it stated that Asellus died while checking out a girl.

She is on her way to school, gets hit by Truck-kun and gets transported to another world with fantastic powers.

it's stated in material from Essence of SaGa Frontier: https://essenceofsaga.wordpress.com/home/book-index/material-room/