It’s been less than 24 hours but I really want to write this, so I’m going to write it. This too, will be based on the context of Misery Mode.
Aigo is first introduced giving Ellerie some quests to gather documents in exchange for combat tomes. Aigo later joins you as a Gold Knight with all 3 melee weapon types at A rank and his highest non-HP stat being magic. Weird statline, right?
Then you get to his skill.
Between that and Canto+, he can chip and set up kills for the rest of your team. Misery enemies can get quite bulky and outside of your strongest combatants, most units will struggle to ORKO without braves, especially since enemies tend to be pretty fast.
Now, going back to Aigo’s weird statline for a second–he has high mag. Then look at this weapon:
While he’s still unlikely to ORKO with this–and honestly, often you don’t want to, for reasons I’ll get into later, but he can also spread free 33% hp damage on to enemies around whoever he targets. This means player units then only need to do 34% of a enemy’s maxHP on their own to secure kills.
Here’s some enemy stats from E-B2. This is endgame because I dont have earlier saves to look at, but enemies have hit pretty high speed tiers for a while now.
With 59 HP, this is a certified chonker.
this guy may only have 8 def, but he has a whooping 71HP and cannot be crit. He would not be the target of flame sword itself here, but taking 33% spread damage off flame sword means he’ll take 23 dmg for free.
56HP, also a chonker.
This guy has 65 HP and 171 crit and also cannot be crit.
Anyway you get the point. Aigo spreading flame sword AoE makes securing these kills so much easier, and that’s already really cool by itself, but there’s even more to it.
This weapon.
In theory, being able to self-refresh is good on ellerie, because she can move after her refreshing everyone else. In practice, it does shit for damage.
Until Aigo shows up and he chips down an enemy, cantos to a good position, and she’s doing 48 damage with this thing and she can refresh a bunch of people and also move up to use rescue staff, or kill another guy, or, you get the point. The possibilities are endless. Aigo brings out a lot of the cocaine-type plays CC is known for to mid-lategame misery mode.
Also he just wants everyone to have free knowledge and that’s awesome. Truly, the Aigoat.