Suikoden V underrated/overrated characters

[hoonn]

I think Faylen is underrated. Sure, she's not the best long-range character in the game but my Faylen deals 1000 dmg and often 2000 because of her criticals.

Zerase is a little overrated.. but she's unstoppable if you give her a magic absorb rune. I stopped using her because she took the challenge out of the boss battles. ;b

[mumbay]

What is Chain magic i never heard of it.

[Himuro]

Chain magic is the skill in sorcery formation. It lets you do the same magic attack consecutively after the first attack, and it doesn't use up any extra mp.

I would like to say that I just got Nikea. Goddamn. Not only is she hot, but she's strong too!

This game has so many great characters I don't know who to use :(
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[melange]

I second the Faylen comment. She was a mainstay of my party through most of my 1st playthrough and dealt oodles of damage (Double-edge + Drain runes) Not to mention that her blade boomerang looks damn cool. She was replaced in my 2nd playthrough cos I wanted to try out Cathari.
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Anyone else notice that Lyon's weapon = overglorified switchblade?

[fuji]

[Alarice]

[Swordsman from Kanakan]

For me. . .
Underrated - Belcoot!!!(He has that insane Falcon Rune!)
Eresh/Levi(They are strong Mages!)
Overrated - Zerase. . .? A little. . .
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[Archy]

Belcoot isn't underrated. In fact, he's actually great, and one of the best characters in the game. Same with Levi and Eresh.

I second the Shigure comment, as well. He's such a uberly quick character who often gets some good number of hits.

As for underrated? Why haven't I seen the name Killey around here?

Killey, in my opinion, is part-Zerase, part-Cathari. He has good speed, a great attack damage, and a very useful Rune. I've noticed that, Killey will do EQUAL damage with a Lvl. 4 Rage spell with Star Rune lvl. 4 Spell. Final Flame has 200 more damage than Meteor Shower, but it becomes even because, well, it's Zerase.

Also, while Killey may not have the best defense around, he is great, even with only the Rage Rune. He also tends to hit criticals, like two out of every three times.

That is why I believe that Killey > Zerase.
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[Thief]

Belcoot is good, but it was definitely not because of his Falcon Rune. Compared to Kika's, his rune was downgraded pretty badly.

[Buff]

[tenton]

[Jossef]

[Acheron]

Over-Rated: Everyone's raving about Viki and I never used her. She's probably a good character but I go with who I think looks cool. Anyone can generally be good in battle in some role, least that's my thought. I didn't use Belcoot particularly either.

My party normally have Levi or Zerase waiting in the wings to add magic when I needed it but I liked having the Island Trio, Prince(duh), Bodygaurd(Miakis or Lyon) and another character like Georg or someone I was leveling.

Under-Rated: Goesch! I really liked using Goesh in my game. Again, I use characters based on their character design and make them useful in battle and Goesch can be made into quite the little tank. Not like Georg but he did decent damage and was very in dealing with random encounters against groups of enemys.

Logg was a lot of fun to use in combat. He didn't have the best accuracy ever but when he was in the lvl50's or so he had something like 430 Strength. I don't remember exactley but during the plot developing stages of the game before you get your permenant residence, Logg was always in my party, often with Lun for their Unite which wasn't too bad. It made sure that Logg hit when he attacked since Unites don't miss.

Alhazred was a decent mage for me but I kind of pushed him asside since i had that covered by Zerase and to a lesser extent Levi. He had the aptitude to use the Condemnation Rune though which is surprising and I liked to use him since his weapon was books. "Knowledge is power!" I would say before he attacked my enemies, watching them writhe in agony. Dramatics aside I liked using him because he was unique and was good for what I was using him for at the time.

The Dragonhorse Cavalry seems underratted to me because no one's mentioned them. They deserve mention because they give you two strong characters with each paring. To make them really good you attach a balance orb to the Dragonhorses and that stops them from the status they get after their Unite with their riders. It meant I could do my unit every turn with them and really hammer it into my enemies. I enjoyed it since for a while I didn't think there was any getting around the fact that they would become unbalanced. Cool though.

The Island Trio(Bernadette, Yahr, Nellis) has been mentioned very little, too little. I tried to have them with me at all times when I was fighting. They looked cool so they got in but it was really great to have two characters that could hold down the back line in Bernadette and Nellis, both with Magic Drain and various other high level runes. Yahr made a good point man when I needed one but I found the best use for them was in the Crane Wing formation where you have two spread far apart in the first row (Georg and Yahr), two medium distance apart in the middle row (Prine and Lyon) and two standing side by side in the center of the back row (Bernadette and Nellis). It was a great formation for me and was cool that it didn't hurt me really to put it this way unlike other formations where your defense shoots real down just so you can use the special attack. I donno, Island Trio was good.

I'll try out new characters when I get to the point in my second playthrough. I'm looking forward to it.

[Swordsman from Kanakan]

:mrgreen: Hehe!
Peace!
I thought only few people use him. . .
Thanks for using the "Swordsman from Kanakan"
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[luc skywalker]

I just want to ask everybody, Where is that Big Hole that is supposed to be the hiding place of Levi?