Originally Posted by Eab1990

To add, for later maps, you're not going to be taking out bosses in one turn, so it's more important to minimize/heal damage instead (by my understanding, anyway).

Of course, skill boost is still the most important ability, which is why Cymbidium is regarded as the best gold in the game, and other golds like Justicia, Geranium, Cyrtanthus, Apple, and later certain bloomed girls like Sakura/Mei/Daisy/Nerine are highly valued.

As far as minimizing damage goes, on the current ultimate event maps where Pest damage seems to be quite high, the most effective ability that I've seen (only from helper squads, I don't have any of these girls myself) is the enemy attack reduction - Bride Oncidium and Cherry in particular.

The usefulness of skill boost is why I'm still dithering over plunking down some money for Apple, even though I have Lycoris and several other magic golds (Setaria, Evening Primrose, German Iris, Moonvine and Tachibana) and I don't find Apple's art all that appealing.