Thread: Competition: Propose the best realistic team

Originally Posted by VortexMagus

Amon has a really strong single target damage spell, and an area protection from debuff ability which is really good, but her third skill (self-boost in burst gauge) is mediocre because usually you're going to hold burst guage until everyone is ready to burst, so something that only boosts Amon's burst gauge really doesn't help anything.

...[Gabriel has] an ability that speeds up the burst gauge of everybody in your team.

Amon's ability is more likely to be useful than Gabriel's. Amon's boosts her Burst Gauge by 15. Since the characters in the lead positions are usually your bottlenecks for Full Bursts, put her in second position and you'll be able to Full Burst more often, especially if your soul is Arthur. Gabriel's boosts the Burst Gauge gain for the entire group by 1.5 per hit for 2 turns (so 3-9, but usually 3-4.5). That's less likely to actually shave a turn off your Burst cycle; it relies on the bottleneck character getting hit for a certain range of damage. Not to mention that spamming a move that may have no effect wastes time on your debuff timers, whereas Amon's move can be used on demand when it's sure to make a difference.