Best party?

[SenMithrarin85]

Is there one in terms of damage output or is it just down to personal taste? Just got the 5th member and curious for some input.

[DeusEx Machina]

From what i know about Tales games it's all about preferences and persenal taste. Just use the characters you like the most. You should atleast do this for the 1st playthrough. Most ppl use the 1st playtrough to enjoy the game, and the next playthroughs to do everything to get all the achievements.

[Shiko]

It's really going to depend on who has the needed skillset to deal with whatever you're currently facing.
Like, Velvet is the biggest damage dealer for sure, but if the enemies has high defence and her hidden artes are a bad match with the resistances she's not going to do much.

Same with Magilou, it really doesn't matter if she can deal any damage, that spell absorber is the only thing that's gonna keep you alive against some enemies.

[Elza 💜]

I prefer Velvet, Rokurou (deals the most damage), Eizen, Magilou when Eizen dies switch Rokurou with Eleanor for revive and switch back

[iemander]

I usually go for a rather defensive party with Eleanor, Magilou, Velvet and Laphicet. I switch Eleanor with Rogurou depending on the needs.

[ICStars77]

Originally posted by Shiko:

It's really going to depend on who has the needed skillset to deal with whatever you're currently facing.
Like, Velvet is the biggest damage dealer for sure, but if the enemies has high defence and her hidden artes are a bad match with the resistances she's not going to do much.

Same with Magilou, it really doesn't matter if she can deal any damage, that spell absorber is the only thing that's gonna keep you alive against some enemies.

I've found that Rokurou does quite a bit more damage against single-target fights (assuming both can target weaknesses), especially with his break soul increasing stun chance. But I agree it is situational - I usually use velvet/rokurou and almost always have eleanor benched, but switch it up sometimes.

[salatrin]

The best party damagewise would be Velvet and "insert any 3 characters here"

But seriously, its all personal preference really, especially since at some point in the game you learn switch blasts which at the cost of 1 BG allows you to switch out a character for any of the sub characters at any time.

The one thing i will note though is if you facing a group of casters or a boss caster, you'll definately want everyones favorite witch, the mighty and awesome Magilou in the party as her Break soul eats casters for dinner (literally, as she eats/absorbs their spells then unleashes a super spell back at them)

Originally posted by -Aria-:

personal preference

although, in my playthrough Eizen was the only character with a resurect spell if that matters to you!?!?!?

Eleanor also learns a resurrect spell called life at level 40 which revives, heals and cures all stat reductions in a small area

[Covalent]

In every battle or strategy RPG, the balance party must have close combat+mid range+long range. In my opinion for berseria, Rokurou is specialist for one target close combat and Velvet can rush and berserk every combos. Velvet+Rokurou is best tandem for close combat, for mid-range with close attack support is either Eleanor or Eizen, prefer Eleanor for support-striker, the last is long range attack+support, either Laphicet or Magilou, if more offensive, I will choose Magilou, but for more balance, I choose Laphicet.
Party composition may be conditional in the battle or personal preference, but I found my best clock defeating boss/dire foe when my party is Velvet+Rokurou+Eleanor+Laphicet

[salatrin]

Originally posted by Reason:

In every battle or strategy RPG, the balance party must have close combat+mid range+long range. In my opinion for berseria, Rokurou is specialist for one target close combat and Velvet can rush and berserk every combo. Velvet+Rokurou is best tandem for close combat, for mid-range with close attack support is either Eleanor or Eizen, prefer Eleinor for support-striker, the last is long range, either Laphicet or Magilou, if more offensive, I will choose Magilou, but for more balance, I choose Laphicet.

I wouldnt exactly call someone whose comboes take him all over the battlefield, a one target close combat specialist :P

But yes you definately would want a mix but with the party switch system, you can always mix back and forth depending on the situation, so if you say have Magi in and Laphi on the bench, and your team starts to take a beating, you can switch the 2 so Laphi can start to heal etc.

Me personally, my main party of choice is Eleanor, Velvet, Laphi and Magi with me controlling either Velvet or Eleanor depending on my mood(cept boss fights where i mostly control Velvet if things start to get hairy)
Velvet and Eleanor are both decent close range attackers, Laphi and Mag, are both long range casters. Both Laphi and Eleanor can heal plus Eleanor also has some decent mid range artes as well. Magi eats any and all casters for lunch and dinner etc but constantly switch in and out Eizen and Roku depending on situation.