Originally Posted by Saertis

That's if you consider only 3 target aoe girls and single target ones. But there're also 2 target aoe skills. That way it can happen that single target girl attack enemy hit by both 3 and 2 target aoe girls instead of go for that one who wasn't hit by later type of aoe skills. That's definitely not beneficial.

It makes no difference in that scenario though, if they aren't capable of killing. If you reverse the orders of attacks without changing the targets, the single target will hit the one enemy and then the AoE girls will double up on it and the end result is the same.

A scenario where it does help to have a single target go before the 2 target is this: let's say you have Orchid and Edelweiss vs 3 pests, two strong and one weak. Your Orchid can kill the weak pest without Edelweiss's help but neither of them can take down the strong pest in one turn, even if they both attack it, and Edelweiss can't kill the weak pest on her own. So the optimal targeting is Orchid vs the weak pest, and Edelweiss vs the two strong ones.

If Orchid goes first, the probability you will get optimal targeting is 1/3 (Orchid picks the right target) * 1 (if Orchid picked the right target, killing it, Edelweiss will always AoE the other two)

If Edelweiss goes first, the probability you get optimal targeting is 1/3 (Edelweiss picks the two strong pests) * 1/3 (Orchid picks the weak pest) = 1/9.

So in that very specific example Orchid before Edelweiss gives you better results. In general though I would recommend AoE first as others have said.

Originally Posted by Miu

It makes no difference in that scenario though, if they aren't capable of killing.

Originally Posted by fluffs

If you have it in the opposite order, single-target skills can finish off one of the enemies, halving the damage your aoe spells do.

Since he/she didn't mention that about aoe grils I always considered that single target can finish by herself while aoe can't.

Originally Posted by Miu

So in that very specific example Orchid before Edelweiss gives you better results. In general though I would recommend AoE first as others have said.

After MiqDoloran's post I realized that I though earlier of one scenario (all enemies are equally strong) while that isn't always true. After all I said:

Originally Posted by Saertis

But it doesn't mean aoe girls should be always first since it depends on situation squad'll be in.

Now after this discussion I agree that mostly it's better to have aoe first but I don't think it shouldn't be mentioned that there're situations where it isn't true.

Well, I think it's best to have the "Hit ALL enemies" skills first because there is literally no benefit to reducing the number of enemies before these fire off. After that though, the "hit 2 enemies" skills occasionally will be worse if they go before single target, like in that specific example given by Miu, but generally speaking having the single target girls last is most frequently optimal because for many pests it doesn't matter, but when you come to boss + adds, it's MUCH better if the single target girl is left with no option but to hit the boss lol.

Me, I need to rework my helper squad a tad, I think, since I'm mixing in Toad Lily. I have BB -> Anemone -> Flowering Peach -> Cyrtanthus -> Cepha atm, which leaves me with Hit All -> Hit Random -> Single x3, but Toad Lily is Hit All, so she'll go after BB and before Anemone.