Quote Originally Posted by kayfabe View Post
There's really no great mystery to using Despara. She's longer range than Shiho at max affection, cheap enough to be deployed as "I have no idea what I'm doing but some of these things are red..." filler and 90 of her first 116 seconds on the field can be spent with her skill up. In a very real sense it's more practical to think of her as a 1.1k+ magic damage unit who occasionally does 615 damage than vice versa. She isn't game breaking so much as she's just really practical because you can seriously just activate her skill every time it comes back online and stuff is in range. She's certainly no comparison to pre-SAW Shiho, a unit who's pretty low impact as a witch and spends more time recharging her skill than healing and so is thus more of a panic button on blind runs than a primary healing option.
A difference of 10 range. wao it's fucking nothing etc.

On the contrary, Shiho being a panic healer (usually if I drop Aria and I immediately see shit she can't tank alone without support) has helped given me leeway for where I can place my other two healers later in the map. Meanwhile, a witch in the wrong place is... well, not helping.