Originally Posted by MachThreeSlug

She has both dodge and counter when bloomed. Counter lets her deal damage when hit based off of her defence stat and dodge let's her avoid being hit. Give her taunt and you have one of the best defensive units in the game.

Exactly this. Put defensive equipment on her (the Sandersonia set is pretty good, the "Drop of Sunshine" set is the best until we get EX equipment), ampy her (focus on hp/def first), add Taunt and Saffron becomes a beastly tank whose job is to be the first one on the squad to die, but not before wrecking enemies with counter-attacks (counters trigger when she dodges too).

Speaking of equipment, she's the only unit I can think of whom I would actually not recommend equipping any whaleship gear on since the defensive values aren't great.