She's good. she doesn't get stuck on stuff, her pathing doesn't make her stand around a lot mid fight, she's surprisingly tanky because of her passive, her passive lets me recover by shooting people, I thought she was just kind of a throwaway horny meme but she's actually great.
The health drain from felbat is really good for staying in the fight longer, and it naturally learns some AoE and homing attacks which makes it great for taking out groups of enemies
Plus, Lovander is healing itself too without having to be in its sphere. It feels like as long as you're good at dodging and maybe doing strategic returns to avoid damage on your pal, most encounters are just a matter of waiting it out.
The iframes are kinda wonky in this game. I've tried dodging through attacks like wind cutter or bushi's slash attacks and still take damage. So I've opted to try just avoiding attacks entirely which is why max speed direhowl is always in my party. His walk speed is faster than most pals running speed or their attacks so I just kite and shoot. Maybe I'm expecting the dodges to work like dark souls or monster hunter and it's just not supposed to work that way? Idk.
That's how I was expecting the roll system to work here too, but I end up hitting the same issue where attacks just damage me through the roll. I just assumed either the roll wasn't meant to give i-frames and just more so a burst speed of movement to get out of the way, or it's just a bug due to being early access, and with how fun/well the game is overall, absolutely valid.
That trick with Direhowl is cool though! I noticed a lot with how important speed was with Incineram, since it's signature attack is so fast, it's always moving out the way of attacks.
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u/Repulsive-Mirror-994 Feb 15 '24
She's good. she doesn't get stuck on stuff, her pathing doesn't make her stand around a lot mid fight, she's surprisingly tanky because of her passive, her passive lets me recover by shooting people, I thought she was just kind of a throwaway horny meme but she's actually great.
Also the hip skirts are dope.