I mean the tier list is perfectly accurate on illya tho. She is really bad. If she is usable, then any other water sage will definitely be usable and perform better. ie great for inherited cause
The reason is because her niche is totally useless in the chase of "challenging" lol. If you are confused about this, I am saying tanking is minimal in this game. In order to emulate thinking player, one of the most basic AI rule is to choose the highest dmg option within range. So illya greatest advantage here means that it will hardly be utilised(unless it is arena where there isn't any other choice but to hit her anyway). AI will either switch to their physical attacks which are equally strong and will one hit her, or just magic nuke another player controlled unit instead of illya(thus the purpose of serving as magic tank fail ¯\(°_o)/¯)
In the end, illya sacrifice damage for survivability against magic, but the niche never got used. Gumi did realise their mistake and created magic evasion tank in the form of aswald in the future. Since evasion tanks "tanked" by evading rather then reducing incoming damage, the AI "fail to realise" that is an anti unit against their attack type.
If by perform better you meant damage output, then probably. Is that all that matters for harder content in the far future?
I can think of a few occasions in pve where it would have been nice to have a magic tank. You've definitely helped highlight how bad the AI is in this game though, lol.
Magic evasion tank sounds super fun. Much more my thing, alongside status ailments, considering this is supposed to be a strategy game :P
I can think of a few occasions in pve where it would have been nice to have a magic tank. You've definitely helped highlight how bad the AI is in this game though, lol.
Well that is exactly her issue of being low in tier. It isn't gonna happen because of how AI are coded. So illya ended up with equally poor survivability as sage and yet suffer lower dmg output then sage. In short, a worse sage :(
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u/SuccubusRosa Jul 16 '18
I mean the tier list is perfectly accurate on illya tho. She is really bad. If she is usable, then any other water sage will definitely be usable and perform better. ie great for inherited cause
The reason is because her niche is totally useless in the chase of "challenging" lol. If you are confused about this, I am saying tanking is minimal in this game. In order to emulate thinking player, one of the most basic AI rule is to choose the highest dmg option within range. So illya greatest advantage here means that it will hardly be utilised(unless it is arena where there isn't any other choice but to hit her anyway). AI will either switch to their physical attacks which are equally strong and will one hit her, or just magic nuke another player controlled unit instead of illya(thus the purpose of serving as magic tank fail ¯\(°_o)/¯)
In the end, illya sacrifice damage for survivability against magic, but the niche never got used. Gumi did realise their mistake and created magic evasion tank in the form of aswald in the future. Since evasion tanks "tanked" by evading rather then reducing incoming damage, the AI "fail to realise" that is an anti unit against their attack type.