Originally Posted by
Slashley
Yes, yes it does. But just like Light Nike herself won't do any damage outside of Light teams, Thunder Aphrodite herself won't do any damage outside of Thunder builds.
Thunder Aphrodite's Vigor buff will still hand out 35% outside of Thunder, yes. Her heals and Barrier will perform just as well in other teams as well. But not only is she weak to Wind, her uptime on her buff is fairly poor. If she had 100% uptime, then she'd be a 9% damage increase off-element. Is that worth it? Yeah, sure. Heals + damage output, sounds good. But, because it's not 100% uptime, she ends up being ~7% damage decrease. Again, you can use her Vigor buff for your high damage turns, so you might end up at +-0% loss/gain from her (much like how off-element SR Beelz is). That is, if you can guarantee to be at 100% HP for those big damage turns.
tl;dr; CAN you use Thunder Aphrodite off-element? Yes, yes you can. She's nothing special, but if you don't have a healer in that element, AND you can ensure that you'll stay at 100% HP, AND you're not against Wind, you won't lose any damage output from using her. That makes her better to use than off-element Sol for some content (Sol heals for far more, but you'll take a big hit to your damage output).
Similarly, Light Nike's team-wide damage output drops from 46% to 24% when she's off-element. Because losing 1/5th of your team is THAT big of a deal. However, the 4 on-element Hime will still deal 46% extra damage each - thus easily outperforming the loss of the fifth party member (unless you hit damage cap) - and you'll do 24% extra damage overall. Thus, once Light Nike is at full speed, she's literally an extra P2W Eidolon for any element. Which brings us to this:And you see, this is how OP she is. We're talking about OFF-ELEMENT here. Most of my arguments have been for OFF-ELEMENT. Why? Because when it comes to Light teams, nothing even comes close to Light Nike's potential. Of course, again, there's the catch. Light Nike needs time to wind up. If the content doesn't allow this, then it is meaningless. Thus:As I said, this is a fair argument. But, just because it is a fair argument, doesn't mean that you should brush off a Hime whose potential is equal to finding Belial, Rudra, Kirin, Anubis and... Hanuman (since Hraes' OP on-use won't be a fair comparison) in a single pull. Not to mention something far, far stronger than Managarmr. This potential might only apply to a magical fantasy land that doesn't exist, but one day, it might. As such... again, don't undersell one the most powerful Hime the game has to date.Also limited, but fair enough. If you're going to run double healers though, why not bring Diancecht? Well, she is released months later than Thunder Aphrodite, but still.Ouch. That's quite nasty. That means that Light Nike truly is utterly crippled by content which Dispels.