Much as I loath to make a thread about only this, but... Awakening opinions?

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I was talking about her sheer stats during skill usage , and was saying how LEANNE has literally the same defense....while also having generally better stats then marrible without skill usage.

That's not completely off-base, but unfortunately a lot of Maribel's "Black Tier" stats are allocated to her offense and aren't terribly representative of the kind of stats people really look for in a tank. Beating Mari out in defense is impressive but not quite enough to make people overlook a silver tier hp total. Leeanne is as good of a low rarity unit as you could ever hope for but looking at high health off-tank classes is definitely an intriguing alternative when you've already got a black healer up and running to help support it.