Originally Posted by
IvanLedah21
Basically this. If you don't already know certain girls' images and know those girls have certain useful abilities (Edelweiss, Toad Lily, Chocolate Cosmos even, etc.) then you're going to end up picking based on three factors:
Speed
Total Power
Rainbows
Personally, I don't even care about the stats too much because my own squads are strong enough to clear all current content. So I pick based on Speed alone, really (helps with certain maps to have an extra 650+ speed squad, I have a 630ish and a 700+ but the other two squads are like 470 and 540). However, if I'm running one of the pest-heavy maps like 12-5, I tend to focus on the presence of the Edelweiss/TL combo just because it's useful (even though I once had my Squad 1 reach the boss of 12-5 at about 15% HP each due to small pests and they still killed it without casualties cuz they're all evolved 50+ rainbows it still helps)