Originally Posted by Ampchan

Not to downplay a counter squad, but placing taunt on Saffron is like the equivalent of a counter squad. That is until she dies which if you have a rainbow team with significant defense buffing is practically never.

This is not even close to being true, When boss pests attack with their 3-4 hit AoE they take the same number of counter hits from a counter squad while with only saff they take just one. That can be the difference between 1 rounding the boss or not.