One of the most broken thing about Orlandu is that not only is he terribly OP, he comes already equipped to butcher any enemy and he is not even a missable character that requires an effort to obtain.
Ikr? He gets every knight skill, one of the best knight swords in the game, comes packing a Power Wrist. Really, the hardest thing about him is getting the JP you need to get all his skills. Which doesnt take long i might add.
I was enough of a scrub at Tactics back in the day that Orlandu was like a shining savior sent from the heavens to help me finish the game. Dude was packin' heat.
I knew Citan of Xenogears would be there, and not just because he’s in the thumbnail. He’s so fast and strong that he owns battles. Put three speed plus accessories on him and he’ll get like six turns before the enemy gets one turn. Plus, he’s written so well that his personality really amplifies how incredible of a story Xenogears is.
So far my favourite character plot-wise in the entire game, wich is saying a lot since the Xenogears does an amazing work with almost every single character
@@smokeldogg I second that, that game changed my life for the better when I needed it the most, teaching me how can I choose my on fate and be prepared for it to be hard, but worth it. I wish so much it could be remastered for the future generations to learn all the wisdom inside it
El Pretender I think a remaster to tighten things up would be great. I do not however want a full remake like FF7 got. The new game is good, but its so different from the original that I worry a Xenogears remake would not be beneficial.
Orlandu is just obscene. I thought the PSP port would address this madness in some way, but nope. Orlandu is still out there, doing twice Agrias and Meliadoul's damage for no reason at all. And it is glorious.
@@Cressx they were originally planned to be elemental but that changed in development. They dont have a default element anymore. It takes all of 10 seconds to confirm this
Plus don't forget once his magic is up- he becomes a beast of a healer, leaving Marle redundant (apart from water spells and haste). Robo has it all, damage/heals/coverage. One of my favs in the party.
@@marlonrando7022 Robo's Beast Toss double tech with Ayla also does more individual damage than a lot of triple techs. Plus Crono and Ayla's Falcon Hit is a very cheap way to often clear the whole screen without taking a hit. Far and away the best party.
Robo is like hogh risk high gain type, while his phys atk and def are high he is mediocre in speed and low of mag def. after you invest some tabs and after robo meeting with atropos this character is a beast
Robo is great, but I preferred to use Frog. He can heal while still dealing strong physical and magic damage. Lightning Rod and Red Needle are very powerful and pairing him with Marle allows them to use a team full heal. He lands crits with pretty much every normal attack too and is decently bulky. Giving him the Guardian helm reduces the damage he takes significantly.
For Rei: Early in the game you can use the skill 'influence' from Boss Goblins and if you use it, Rei in his waretiger form will attack whomever you choose with it. GG
@ً The number 1 in this top10. Orlandu, aka Thunder God Cid. His only "weakness" is that you only get him at the last chapter of FF Tactics. Once available for your use, he can decimate the battlefield alone, or with friends if he's feeling generous. 😁
Raquel also has access to moonlight which gives her 25FP and you can giver her accessories to increase her Reflex stat (Which her ultimate weapon does also). Robo can easily make Marle redundant with easy access to party wide healing spells. Orlandu is a good example of a "Win the game" Button that's given to you for free.
Playing WA4 with the data transfer from Alter Code F, Raquel had an unstoppable godsword from the get-go. It was pretty close to Orlandu-levels of brokenness.
@@nightsong81 probably because he'd pick them back up and say he wasn't a god or deity. But a man. But you can call him daddy because he takes care of everything 😂
One note on Annie: the stat gains are totally random. I know this because I save scummed my level ups and my whole team was over the top powerful. Citan was god-like, then he got his sword....
I dunno. Ultima+Quick+Ultima+Ultima+Ultima+Ultima was pretty strong. Chainsaw’s Chance to insta KO was unreliable. However, Genji Glove + Offering + Ultima Weapon x 2 did break the game. Guess who can pull off this combo? That’s right, Edgar (and Terra and Locke and Celes).
Ikr? They even reworked Machinist in FFXIV to have Edgar's Auto crossbow, drill, bio blaster and air anchor. Reassembled + Drill is easily the hardest hitting combo of all the ranged non-magical DPS.
BoF 3 was like _THE_ JRPG of my childhood, and I almost never used Rei in my final party. I always wanted to use Peco and Garr or Momo lol. Loved having Peco paired with Fahl as a master and power leveled, then put in the front of the triangle formation because he got super tanky and counterattacked every time. Good times.
One note on Rei: In Breath of Fire III, have Ryu learn Influence from a monster as soon as possible. You can have a character use Influence on Rei after transforming him to target enemies thus negating the Weretiger berserker mode. I usually have the Influence spell on Peco and place him in the front to take advantage of his high Reprisal rate.
As an honorable mention you could probably name all the support characters in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. At pretty much every point in the game it feels like the MC is the addition while whoever you have this points carries you through the game up until the point you get White and later Flare, but to pick only one: Phoebe. At first she has some nice spells and is good with her bow and later in the game she gets another great spell and that seals the deal for me.
There's one later map right near the end of the game, where you can end the whole battle with one single move. It's against one of those "knights", though this one is a mage. If you place Orlandu in exactly the correct square, he will go first, and Orlandu can reach the boss with his swordskills. Break the Mage's Armor for an instant KO and battle win. AFAIK, it's the only battle in the whole game, and Orlandu is the only character in the whole game, who is capable of winning a battle with 1 single move. _And it always works!_
@@procow2274 Maybe with overlevelling or stuff like that... but the combination of Excalibur having auto-haste (which means he always goes first), and enough movement to reach the boss, and the fact that excalibur does enough damage that the armor breaking skill of his will do enough to kill the guy instantly, he's certainly the easiest way to accomplish that becuase he's capable of doing that right out of the box with no grinding necessary other than to unlock the skill.
I knew Orlandu was going to be number one, somehow. He's really one of the most famous examples that everybody tends to reference when it comes to overpowered characters. Another overpowered character would be Peter from Shining Force 2, who is so broken that he can steamroll the entire opposition single-handed. He also never needs to be revived after battles due to being a phoenix, has the ability to fly and crosses the map in no time. He can even take a hit or two and keep on coming. The one thing is that you don't actually get to control him when you first meet up. So he'll wreck the other side's armies if you leave him to it, outside of a few special exceptions. There are other powerful characters you get later on in the game, although these require some investment. But when it comes to being your most useful ally, Peter usually stands well above the others, and you barely have to do anything for him along the way. His promoted form is also adorable.
I was the complete opposite as a kid. I'd take full advantage of the most broken mechanics in games I played. For instance, I used the mush badge in Mario and Luigi superstar saga and hoard as many mushrooms as possible, only using nuts to heal. I specifically looked up the most broken strategies for every game I played.
When I saw the title of the video I immediately thought of Cid/Orlandu from FFT. Glad to see that he's #1 on the list because he is an absolute unstoppable destructive force in the game. He does break the game since he can do any number of high powered, instantaneous, ranged AOE attacks to massacre any chance of difficulty. I appreciate that David said that he prefers to use the generics in FFT because with few exceptions the unique characters are mostly overpowered and mitigate any tactical challenge that a game with the word "tactics" in the title would have had. Not that anybody cares, but my second playthrough I used only Ramza and generics and it was harder yet more satisfying to complete. I thought I was pretty hardcore until I learned that there are people that have soloed the game with Ramza.
There are people who solo the game with just Ramza using skills from only one class and include level limits. Its probably my favorite game and I hope they release it on switch with some added difficulty options.
@@SmallBallPoker yeah you are right about the petrify chance, think it had regen too. I remember getting the 2nd excalibur and using it with the teleport move skill, super strong. I remember having Ramza as a squire with the move and speed bonus as well as the samurai 2 handed boost, he would hit for 600+ it was insane. I havent played FFT in 10 years, this chat is making me want to go fire it up =]
Chaos blade's higher damage is largely irrelevant. Dead vs super dead doesn't really change anything compared to auto-haste. The only character that greatly benefits is Agrias.
Before there was Orlandu in FFT, there was Haborym in Tactics Ogre. A blind dual wielding swordmaster with ridiculous accuracy. But what really makes him good is that he comes with the Petrify spell. Petrify's success rate is based on accuracy, and Haborym can use it to wipe out whole groups of enemies in a single shot. The computer almost never cures petrification, so they're as good as dead.
I knew Raquel would be here she was basically the only one really getting kills when I played because she hit's like a truck and and move and attack and man it's crazy.
I'd nominate Siegfried from infinite undiscovery. When you first get him, although its for a short while he can practically solo the game for you. When you get him later, he's basically another player character and will probably be the first of your party members you can upgrade to be able to solo the postgame dungeon.
Matthew Surefire I always thought of Agrias as the “early game strong “ character who can carry you through the difficult moments of the game’s beginning, when the rest of your party is kinda weak
@@Tengokuchi Lightning Stab is one of her skills. And far and away both her and Orlandu's best overall skill. AoE, Silence, huge range, extremely high damage, no charge time, no mana cost. That skill is just busted. Well, compared to a normal party busted. Not like 5 Calculators CT/Prime Number/Holy busted.
Agrias is strong but not op, her Base Attack is low and she is stat-wise decent, she has only a move rate of 3, she is kind balanced compared to Orlandu
Something to note about Orlandu for those who don’t know, or forgot, he comes equipped with Excalibur which gives perma-Haste. A really strong status buff in FFT. He’s getting extra turns, doing crazy damage and one of his sword skills can be guaranteed to drain a ton of HP to keep him trucking along. He’s a true game-changer. Great list. I got a kick out of the fact you went out of your way in multiple games to keep the difficulty ramped up.
I would add Millenia from Grandia 2 to my list. I can see why the game creators only let you use her at certain parts of the game because she's definitely strong, especially when you equip her with Valmar's Eye, she can make any boss a cake walk when she's in your party. She has great offensive stats and decent defense too.
Damn, no Seth from Sacred Stones. The objective best unit in the game with his insane base stats on top of being a Paladin (One of the best classes in the game), AND he joins your party in Chapter 1.
Not only that but his Growth are also really good. He joins good, levels good, and stays good. The only other unit that can is Sigurd but he falls off real hard after chapter 5.
I was just about to type this. Seth is a monster. He legit can solo the game. But I also didn't expect him to put a Jagen on the list seeing as he said they were all bad in a previous video...
@@sora4440 >old man bad I don't like Jagens because I'm always of the mindset that investment is king but Jagens aren't that bad. There's an archetype called Oifey (33 y/o Paladin from FE4) that's like a Jagen but with good growth and Seth is of that archetype and even if he wasn't his base stat are just TOO high. If XP stealing (which isn't real btw) is his issue, that's irrelevant in SS cuz of the Tower of Valni where any xp Seth """""steals""""" comes back and more
One of the most OP JRPG characters I can think of is Seth from Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones. He joins in the prologue and already has some of the best base stats in the game. His growth rates are fantastic too, and the utility of being mounted only makes him even better. Seth can easily solo the game and will probably be your best unit even into the Endgame.
Seth is no mere Jeigan...he has ascended beyond mere Jeigandom and into the realm of legend. Seth is: the legendary, Super Jeigan. And none shall survive his wrath when he has a stack of Javelins to hand. NOBODY.
Same way with Titania in Radiant Dawn, give her some hand axes, a pure water if there are mages and she can lead the army until Ike take her place as the op unit.
Seth is uber good, he can compete with Percival, Titania or Frederick for the spot of best mounted unit (and even best in general). And if main characters were allowed, then Sigurd or Robin would've *easily* taken the spot for Fire Emblem as the most broken units
An honorable mention from Final Fantasy Tactics: Balthier in the PSP remake. His speed is so high he will ALWAYS go first, he has a default move and jump of 5 each and within a couple battles he'll have his Barrage attack. He made very, very short work of any fight where the objective was to eliminate a specific target, because unlike any other character. He'd be damaging them by turn two.
Glad to see Citan on the list. He's OP at the beginning of the game, but if you give him Power Crisis and Speed Shoes, he turns most battles into easy mode. I'd like to see a top ten of the most OP JRPG weapons/armor/accessories, too.
Your number 1 is the first character I thought of when I read the title. You failed to mentioned that he comes with a game-breaking sword that gives him auto haste, basically doubling his turns (similar to two of you other choices).
I love the Double Tech "Slurp Kiss" in Chrono Trigger; it restores a hell of a lot of HP, it heals all status ailments (or close to it, at the very least), and it only costs 1 MP for both Frog and Ayla, lol. Most MP-efficient healing spell in the entire game, for sure.
A note for part 2: I feel you should include Gala from Legend of Legaia. While he starts out pretty useless, he goes on to become his own one-man army, eventually outclassing both Vahn AND Noa in terms of strength, magic damage, healing ability and even speed. Super broken by late game, especially considering you have no choice but to use him from early game on.
Couple things about Rei - You can make him target a certain enemy in weretiger mode if you use the command ability from the goblins you fight at the start of the game, making him somewhat controleable If you set your party formation to line and put him at 1 - every other character shares his speed - so getting 3 EX turns on bosses is pretty easy Still think Ryu in Kaiser dragon is stronger though I 100% agree with Orlandeau at 1, man is a beast - even in mobile games he has appeared in and its not like you get him super late in the game or anything either
I think Rikku (FFX) should get an honorary mention. The characters can essentially reach the same stats if you grind long enough, but her Mix Overdrive just makes her essential for super bosses.
Orlandeau very OP indeed. Also Beowulf is pretty damn OP too. Oracle magic as sword skills. And I'm totally with you on final fantasy tactics. I almost never used the named characters.
About Orlandu, there are hints in the game's code that the sword techniques were originally intended to be magic-based. That would have made Agrias and Meliadoul better at sword techniques (because they're females), and Orlandu a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none. For some reason they changed them to physical later. Not only it busts Orlandu but it also breaks the AI because it expects the sword skills to be of the element they advertise in the description, but physical attacks completely ignore the element of the attack and use the one on the equipped weapon instead. (And most weapons have no elemental damage so swordskills are effectively non-elemental damage.)
You got #1 right and that's all that matters. Orlandu can easily solo the remainder of the game if that's the way you wanted to play. Technically Gadwin is OP also from Grandia but more from an 'impossible to die' perspective vs. being crazy strong.
Citan is my favourite on the list, when you thought he could not become more OP, he gets a katana and some of the most badass combos in the game, combine that with his amazing backstory and the role he plays in the story and well, he's just perfect
Yeah, I've played a ton of JRPG's in my life, but it seems David has played damn near every single one of them! (Well, at least the ones released in English.) I honestly didn't think that was possible. I would be very curious to know which ones he *hasn't* played. Must be a very short list.
Rei is even better if you get the targeting ability from the goblins. Because it WORKS ON REI. So you give him a few turns to attack, then target the enemy. He’ll never attack your team in weretiger form.
I'd say in Persona 3 Portable, Mitsuru climbs up there as well, as she learns Ice Boost, Bufudyne/Mabufudyne, and Mind Charge. With her high MA stat + Tarukaja, she can become a real beast.
I still can’t believe that Orlandu stayed with the party I mean he is literally Agrias Melidoul and Gafgarion rolled into one. Single target equipment breaking elemental aoe even life stealing. Three kits in one turns out is pretty op
@@procow2274 he can go geomancer/black mage/summoner/calculator as a secondary skillset. So if elemental AoE is needed, that's what you do. Except I can't recall a case where that was it unless you're trying to abuse calculator and elemental absorb gear to heal/damage everyone. The only actual disadvantage is like I said, female only gear. That's why agrias can be viewed as better than Orlandu in some small cases. Female only equipment are powerful, and for the most part if you're using orlandu, you're not using Gafgarian or Melidou's sword skills, but Agrias'. Granted, you will probably want a mediator to then boost Agrias brave permanently for a bit to match Orlandu's innately high brave status. I know the option is nice to have, but the Holy Sword skills just are ridiculously powerful in almost every situation. Rarely will Melidou's really come in effect as anyone you want to break their gear for, you can just OHKO them anyways. Gafgarian's skillset lacks power and trades for survivability.
An honorable mention should go to Glenn from Chrono Cross. You know how every game has a unique one-of-a-kind super-sword made for a single person? Glenn can dual wield it.
R. C. When you realize there are two dimensions and the sword exists in both... kinda one of those “hell naw they actually did it” moments that rewards you amidst the otherwise punishing worthlessness of the majority of the rest of the extras you “earn”
Don't forget Bleu from Breath of Fire 2! You can get her so early in the game and she joins with endgame ready stats, outclassing any other magical party member. Man, does every BoF have a busted party member? I've only played the first two.
In IV you have Fou Lu, he's like level 55 at the start of the game, but he is not with the main party and you control him in some occasions. In V or Dragon Quarter is the dragon transformation, but that can kill Ryu if he overuse it.
Exactly. A character that has all the best attack spells, and can fully heal her hp at any time. I actually don't use her anymore, as I feel like it really is cheating. And her stats are based on a monsters, that's why she keeps getting super high increases compared to everyone else. I heard she was a last minute addition, and it wouldn't surprise me if that was true
I think the Dog Samurai from 4 (forgot his name) takes it for his multi-attack abilities. He can RIP waves of enemies apart with nothing more than his sword and speed.
This video showed up in my recommendations and I immediately thought of Orlandu. Very excited to see he's not only here, but scored the number one spot. If I had to give a nomination, I'm gonna go with Reiji Kido from Persona 1. You have to do a lot of secret sidequest stuff to get him, but he's got powerful physical attacks, is great for demon negotiation, has probably the best Initial Persona in the entire game, and some of the strongest Personas in the end game can ONLY be used by him. He may be a bit tricky to unlock, but he is well worth the effort.
I guess you should mention Cliff, Maria and Peppita from Star Ocean 3. These 3 are so broken that they are the core for your low lv and Peppita is your friend in term of Lv 1 trophy. They are so great that they could solo super bosses by themselves in Universe, 4-D and Gutsy Bunny Galaxy difficulty. Maria in particular got her Scatter Shot by default and that skill is the skill with the "If all else failed, USE THIS SHIT." type of shit in close range.
@@Virjunior01 Actually, Mirage is way worse because you got her way too late and Cliff is just way better with normals and skill. His short normals was best suit for Fireworks setup that could beat out Albel Nox's fireworks setup. Max Shockwave is just one of the best End game skill only lag behind Energy Burst and Radiation Bolts in the game dealing with both HP and MP damage.
@@zhaoyun255 okay. It HAS been about 12 years since I last played. Thanks for clearing that up... I was remembering that in their lore, she beats him when they spar like 60% of the time or something.
@@zhaoyun255 do you know if Mirage's stat gains per level outpace Cliff's, though? Even though it's probably not worth it unless you're a crazy person going for 100 percent... I gave up somewhere around level 235, I think. And is it just me or was Mirage a slight bit faster? Shit. I wanna play this again, but after maybe 7 years of barely playing anything new, I'm growing the stupid backlog of Tales of Berseria (haven't liked Tales since Symphonia turned me off, but I actually like this), God of War reboot, FFVII Remake, Owlboy, Iconoclasts, Bloodstained, Transistor, and Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3).
You mention Orlandu from FFT but no mention of Beowulf whose sword skills are arguably even more devastating. Could’ve probably lumped them in together. Great video.
Some party members that come to mind for me..... - DESCO (Disgaea 4). She's the cutest tentacle monster ever, that is billed as a prototype Final Boss. She has some pretty good AoE specials. With monster fusion, and her last skill, she is capable of EXTREME AOE AT LONG RANGE, for MASSIVELY boosted damage! AND, there is a fantastic powerleveling map designed just for her, letting you powerlevel her (and a monster of your choice), upto lv400 (and this is before you even reach the postgame). - Red Magnus (Disgaea 5). He's just obviously strong, right out of the gate, and can carry you through the game. His Overload restores his HP, inflates his max HP and stats, and gives him some really good AoE.
And Red Magnus is top tier even in the postgame, with his unique evilities that give bonus stats to the entire squad he's on, and that ignore half the defense of enemies he attacks! Even in a game where you can get everyone to 40+ million stats and load overpowered items on top of that, Red Magnus still stands tall, because he just does more damage than anyone else can do, in ways nobody else can.
I'm surprised Lysithia from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is not on this list. Deadly to begin with and as she grows she will double attack, dodge most normal attacks and becomes resistant to almost all magic. Give her a magic staff and you might as well give everyone else in your squad the day off as she will probably single handedly wipe the enemy team off the map.
When I made Lilithmon in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, she was literally one or two shotting final game bosses for me. To be fair, making her took quite some doing
You got the collection? I'm pretty sure she was DLC in the original release. I'd vote for the humble Platinum Numemon. Yes, most if it's stats are crap, but it has 999(!) physical defense, learns a bunch of great debuffs (which means it's lousy offensive stats don't matter) AND has a passive that doubles any exp earned in battle.
You out scale enemies so fast in cyber sleuth. If anything I'd be bragging about characters like the cat who do set damage. On hard mode at least you often face stat walls who you're lucky to do 20 or so damage to.
To be fair, she's not the only one capable of such a feat. BlackWarGreymon has the same amount of stopping power as Lilithmon as a boss killer, as does Alphamon Ouryuken. And if you want to go a little weaker but still powerful, you have the regular WarGreymon, and Ouryumon, Rosemon Burst Mode, Beelzemon Blast Mode, and Gallantmon Crimson Mode.
Xenogears, the gear, with a Holy Pendant can do 6 hyper mode deathblows in a row, making him solely able to kill the final boss. Add to that the accessory that gives autoboost and Xenogears is a God...a fitting name.
I mean, Heimdall keeps up with the Omnigears and Fenrir is every bit as good plus some extra. Sure it doesn't have overpowered special commands, but it doesn't need 'em either.
Keeping up isn’t much of an issue in which all gears share the same equipment (except for frames and weapons) and even those don’t vary their damage dealt that much. The speed differences are also a lot less pronounced than on foot. The things that differentiate gear usefulness are spells and options. Heimdal/Fenrir bring absolutely nothing in that regard. That doesn’t make them horrible gears but they’re far from fantastic. Obviously Welltall/Xenogears is going to be in your team either due to plot requirements or just being crazy hyper moding damage dealer. That leaves 2 more party slots, and there 1 if not both you gotta go with gears that’ll kill it with an ether doubler paired either with elemental spells or crazy gear options. Fenrir is basically Andvari without wild smile or ydd charge. That doesn’t make it horrible, it just makes it give you no particular reason to want to put it in a team of three.
Im surprised wakka from final fantasy 10 didn't make the list. High accuracy, high dodge, high attack, equip stonetouch ball and use triple foul every turn.
Weirdly enough, my first thought was Cream from the Sonic Chronicles RPG. In a game where most characters have two actions per turn and fast characters have three, Cream only has one...and is still the best support character I've seen in an RPG. She can basically full heal the party every turn, or spend 8PP to give everyone 15PP including herself, so everybody can use their best moves constantly. You have to get the hang of her commands, but they're simple enough, or you can just equip the Chao that makes commands automatic.
Honourable mention to Tails from the same game, who can only heal one person at a time, but grants regen for multiple turns of both HP and PP, and gets two actions per turn so he can start by using it on himself.
Fun list! You made good points about Robo. I never considered him this way because he is a bit slower and weaker magic. I would add from one of my favourites, Valsu from 7th Saga. He is the only character who learns the Agility spell, his early healing magic is super useful, and his Elixir spell makes him basically a portable inn
Other possible characters to take into consideration... Peach from Super Mario RPG. Huge damage skills, great healing, pretty much unkillable with the right equipment. Meru from Legend of Dragoon. Fits every party role at the same time. Meru makes every other character look like crap. Except Haschel. He's good too. Melia from Xenoblade Chronicles. This one is arguable, but I personally think her ability to stunlock enemies with minimal help is beyond stupid. The Medic in the original Etrian Odyssey. Immunize was a ridiculously busted skill that made the whole game a complete joke. At least until the ridiculous postgame. Gafka from Radiant Historia. While Aht was deffinitely a beast, this guy was no slouch. His skills dealt insane damage and racked up combo points like crazy. Vivian in Paper Mario 2 was really useful, though I don't know if I'd call her overpowered (or him, depending on the version I guess, he was a dude in the Spanish translation which is the one I played). Still, she pretty much nullified certain bosses attacks both by killing all the adds with the area fire spell and also the shadow thing that made you invulnerable for a turn. She just seemed way more useful than most other characters.
Agreed, Vivian was pretty good party member. Although i gotta give props to Ms Mowz as well, as her basic attack ignores defense. Which a lot of enemies near endgame happen to have a lot of.
@@ThundagaT2 There were some other party members that were useful, but Vivian was the only one I feel that if you took her away from the game some of the battles would suddenly become like five times harder.
Millenia from Grandia 2. Once you get the eye of Valmar you paralyze everything even bosses with a 100% activation rate and zero chance of failure making every fight she’s in a joke.
I figured Orlandu would be number one. I've seen him described as the character that destroyed all the difficulty in FF Tactics. Boy, was that true! I'm surprised Dekar from Lufia 2 didn't make this list. I always loved it when he joined the party, both for his personality and his stats.
Yeah, he should be on list even though he has terrible speed. Like Dekar, Georg Prime from Suikoden 5 has one of worst magic resistant ,but you can fix this if he can equip Saint's Cloak ,so he can ko'd enemies with one hit that's why he's known for Deathblow. Viese Blanchimont from Atelier Iris 2 turned the game into ridiculous easy which you can thank to Viese's alchemy. Unlike others, Rita from Tales of Vesperia isn't OP character from beginning of game ,but she will eventually become broken character later.
Sabin's equipment options are crap though in the World of Ruin. He pretty much needs a Force Armor otherwise late-game magic creatures will go to town on him.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 You can give him a Merit Award and let him equip all the good equipment though. Also, if you can somehow get more than one Paladin Shield, just give it to him and he'll be dodging everything.
@@Robson-bk3oq I used Sabin a lot since I've always used Blitz moves, and a lot of times i have him teamed up with Edgar, Terra, Setzer, And Celes . So I really had to give him magic or equipment until very late though.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Well, FF VI gameplay change when we reach the world of ruin. Worlf of balance: Balance your party with the varied characters unique powers. Magic is mostly used only for healing. World of ruin: Ruin your enemy career with strong magic. Mob fight? ULTIMA!!! Boss fight? All party members spam ULTIMA!!! Strong boss fight like Kefka and Dragon Den's boss? Terra use trance + dual cast + Quick + ULTIMA!!! + Celestriad relic to make Ultima and Quick MP cost down to 1, while the other party members support her with haste, curaga, arise, etc. Or... just let them to spam ULTIMA!!!!! I really like FF VI. The story and music is superb. Gameplay is also great. But when I finally can teach everyone how to use ULTIMA, the gameplay became a bit dulled from me...
Erik from DQ11 is pretty good too once you get the ability that makes him multiply. The damage you can cause with his twins are insane. I guess he isn't OP until pretty late in the game as until he gets the ability he's literally the least versatile character of the team, only useful for Steal, and you also have to feed him a massive amount of Magic seeds before he gets enough MP to use this ability more than ounce...
Only his big bottle rockets could maybe be considered OP, but it can miss sometimes. I think that balances things out decently enough. Perhaps the problem isn't so much that they're too OP, but rather that they are too easily available to the player. There are 2 different shops in the game that sell them, so you can stock up and therefor abuse their power. They probably shouldn't have been put in any shops, instead only being found in a few gift boxes or trash cans throughout the game, and as rare drops from a few enemies. Anyway, Jeff himself is not OP, so I don't think he'd qualify for a list of OP characters.
@@JMFSpike but Jeff is the only one who can use them. When he can do 2,000+ damage vs a few hundred from everyone else I'd say comparatively to the rest of the party, at least for bosses, he's still OP
@@swiftmage Jeff can do 2000 damage to a single target while relying on backup from 3 psychic teammates. Really Jeff's strengths shine through because his teammates are able to hold their own to the point where his weak points aren't an issue (and trust me Jeff has more weak points than the other 3). Ness is the broken one (not even factoring in end game) but that is ok because he is the main character.
Jeff's big strength is that he doesn't have PP- so anything like PSI Magnet or anything that could drain PP is a wasted turn on him. He's useful as the team's item support and healer.
I want to give Agrias a shout out because you get her in chapter 2, and she can be status proof and immortal with the ribbon/chantage. Meliadoul gets the same trick, but her Divine Sword only works against equipment having enemies.
Yep this was the one I was going to say, she isn't ridiculous compared to some of the people on this list. But for Trails of Cold Steel she is a monster, the only one that might beat her is Sara Valestein.
Edgar is even more OP if you get to find the Chainsaw when you're looking for Terra after the first battle against Kefka. It's basically the Drill but more stronger and has the chance to instakill enemies
omg I’m so happy to see Raquel made it to this list ❤️ WA4 is surprisingly my favorite entry in the series because unlike WA5, each character had a fixed skill set. Sometimes I just randomly remember Raquel quotes. “no rest for my relentless blade; who wants to become rust of my sword”. Such a badass 🥰 Ragu would never stand a chance in this game
Sveta from Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Insane speed and strength, full-party healing spells, a beast-form transformation like Rei except you can actually control her... there’s almost no reason not to have her in your party at all times (except against the Ancient Devil).
SilverByakuya he will take control over whichever active party member has the highest agility stat, which is almost certainly Sveta if she’s in your party.
A note about Rei: yes, the "downside" to Weretiger is the whole berserker will attack party sometimes thing, but A) the RNG usually picks the enemy and B) there's a skill that you can use to make him target an enemy for a few turns and that just ruins the downside. Basic idea is Rei transforms and on that same turn somebody uses that skill, since they'll probably go after he does the transformation.
Good to see Radiant Historia getting love! Woefully underrated game. But Aht? Her traps take so long to set up that it hampers her full potential. You can only really get a proper setup in longer battles, making her nearly useless for everyday encounters.
Everyone eventually becomes the same depending on how you develop them with Espers, but Edgar and Sabin rule the World of Balance for their damage potential.
Getting the Valkyrie in Radiata stories near the end of the optional dungeon always got me going. She was so cool even compared to the 175 other party members you could have.
When I first played chronotrigger I thought robo was just another enemy that I was going to kill. I'm glad I was wrong. I loved how Robo's model was identical to the other robot enemies.
I'm about halfway through Child of Light and Rubella seems really useful. She's super fast and has an attack that hits every enemy; given the way the combat system works in the game, she's constantly interrupting enemies and making them lose a turn. Plus she can heal.
The beauty of Chrono Trigger is that each characters' set of tech's and dual tech's are so well thought out that no team you choose will cripple you. You can kick serious ass with any team, so it's really up to you. You just have to know how to best utilize the team of your choice. Of course, some teams are going to be better then others for certain boss battles and other situations. Robo has a few very nice screen clearing techs that I like to use for grinding levels on the conveyor belts in the Robot Factory and Geno Dome.
I'm sooo happy Orlandu made it to #1. His power was absolutely nothing short of AMAZING! It was literally the first thought in my mind when I saw the title of this video.
My vote goes to Bleu/Deis in Breath of Fire 2, you get her and she is 15 levels above everybody and has all the best attacking and supporting spells to wreck the game
Plus a free full-heal on herself that can be used infinitely... it lowers her defense for the rest of the fight, but with her stats so naturally high I honestly never noticed.
@@nightsong81 You notice it later on in the game, especially if you go to Giant Isle (which many people do to save-scum the slimes which always die to her Death spell). Using Shed there is basically guaranteeing that she will die instantly from the next physical attack that hits her.
Yes, Orlandu is the most overpowered RPG that I can think of. I was also thinking of Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre though and Debonair (OB/OB64) and Ozma(TO) certainly IMO rank up there in those games, but aren't as game-breakingly overpowered and they're both optional characters that require alignment/correct choices to get.
I never used Robo really on Chrono Trigger. Especially later on when getting Luminaire and his one other powerful attack are just OP. Also having that 75% decrease on MP just through all without problem. Also I could bring the Rapp from Grandia when comes especially start what he has. Missile is easy and he is lot faster than others. Or depends how you play that game tho
Robo is good. He can heal party without sacrificing need to use double tech same as Frog. He also has good damage on single tech unlike Marle. You can use Crono and Ayla as DPS with Robo as side support. And i dont think Rapp is a godsend though. By the time i got him, Justine and Feena already outshine him. Missile is slow projectile weapon and it kinda miss the whole time (already seein it in Sue). in Grandia, WIT kinda overpower everything
@@marivelarmitage5244 I'm just used speedrunning Grandia pretty much. In speedrun when you get Rapp, you use pretty much only missile all the time and do most of the damage. Missile is already max on start and you can spam it when you want. With power mushroom it almost doubles it damage. Even Grandia for casuals made that almost all characters are useful equally. :P
The issue with robo is that he's kind of Mediocre baseline due to low speed and magic but those are both easy things to correct, so he ends up being the best tab receiver in the game by far and becoming OP with just a little bit of hand holding. Marle has kind of the opposite problem - good baseline, terrible ability to optimize so she ends up gradually cratering in usefulness.
Melia is so frickin amazing. She can be used like a bard with crowd control, and if you hold that thunder spirit long enough, hoo boy. Cute little lady, Big McLargeHuge damage.
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The moment I saw this list i immediately thought of Orlandu.
One of the most broken thing about Orlandu is that not only is he terribly OP, he comes already equipped to butcher any enemy and he is not even a missable character that requires an effort to obtain.
yeah... the game literally gives you a *Super Boss* for free
Ikr? He gets every knight skill, one of the best knight swords in the game, comes packing a Power Wrist. Really, the hardest thing about him is getting the JP you need to get all his skills. Which doesnt take long i might add.
LOL me too and the first comment said the same thing.
That's why the Orlandeau trope exists. The epitome of the perfect party member barring Chantage/Ribbon Agrias.
the moment u get Orlando, FFT is no longer a tactic game.
A massacre game lol
Furiusly agree.
Orlandu is op af
People sleep on Beowulf. The guy can chicken almost any target in game. Also his gf is a dragon.
@@CCTV9 Reis Duelar? (if i remember i thik it's her name)
It's Orlandu's playground.
Fun Fact: People thought that Robo's song sounded a lot like Rick Astley, and the creators behind Chrono Trigger didn't know of Rick Astley til 2008
Only the beginning part of the song tho, the rest are quite different.
His song is a Rick Roll. "Never gonna give you up.." That's where it comes from, we can pretend.
I like to think that Robo was rick rolling everyone before they even knew what rick rolling was. He is from the future after all.
Ozzie, Flea, and Slash are named for musicians, if I am not mistaken.
@@wyndiahighwind7477 Don't you mean named after, because if you say named for you sound like it was something directly for this game, which it's not
I was enough of a scrub at Tactics back in the day that Orlandu was like a shining savior sent from the heavens to help me finish the game. Dude was packin' heat.
I knew Citan of Xenogears would be there, and not just because he’s in the thumbnail.
He’s so fast and strong that he owns battles. Put three speed plus accessories on him and he’ll get like six turns before the enemy gets one turn.
Plus, he’s written so well that his personality really amplifies how incredible of a story Xenogears is.
So far my favourite character plot-wise in the entire game, wich is saying a lot since the Xenogears does an amazing work with almost every single character
El Pretender
Yeah, Xenogears is my favorite all time game/book/movie/anything.
It’s almost become a religion to me.
@@smokeldogg I second that, that game changed my life for the better when I needed it the most, teaching me how can I choose my on fate and be prepared for it to be hard, but worth it. I wish so much it could be remastered for the future generations to learn all the wisdom inside it
El Pretender
I think a remaster to tighten things up would be great. I do not however want a full remake like FF7 got.
The new game is good, but its so different from the original that I worry a Xenogears remake would not be beneficial.
Not sure if true but I heard his character was actually glitched and he comes with max out agility.
Orlandu is just obscene. I thought the PSP port would address this madness in some way, but nope. Orlandu is still out there, doing twice Agrias and Meliadoul's damage for no reason at all. And it is glorious.
He is TG Cid. That reason is enough.
Noribenclousben
Orlandu and three red chocobos is all you need
Orlandu even comes with a sword that automatically gives him Haste!
@Choua Lor except you would probably never use anything like that with orlandu
@@procow2274 take a look at the description of his sword skills, most of them are holy element
@@Cressx they were originally planned to be elemental but that changed in development. They dont have a default element anymore. It takes all of 10 seconds to confirm this
@@procow2274 have you played War of the Lions version?
@@Cressx not yet
Robo's most powerful ability by far is that he's always just about to Rick Roll you.
I give Robo all the Speed tabs I come across. Once he's up to Crono and Ayla's speed he's a true beast.
Plus don't forget once his magic is up- he becomes a beast of a healer, leaving Marle redundant (apart from water spells and haste). Robo has it all, damage/heals/coverage. One of my favs in the party.
@@marlonrando7022 Robo's Beast Toss double tech with Ayla also does more individual damage than a lot of triple techs. Plus Crono and Ayla's Falcon Hit is a very cheap way to often clear the whole screen without taking a hit. Far and away the best party.
Robo is like hogh risk high gain type, while his phys atk and def are high he is mediocre in speed and low of mag def. after you invest some tabs and after robo meeting with atropos this character is a beast
Robo, Ayla and Crono is my default party. I completed 70% of the game using this party.
Robo is great, but I preferred to use Frog. He can heal while still dealing strong physical and magic damage. Lightning Rod and Red Needle are very powerful and pairing him with Marle allows them to use a team full heal. He lands crits with pretty much every normal attack too and is decently bulky. Giving him the Guardian helm reduces the damage he takes significantly.
For Rei: Early in the game you can use the skill 'influence' from Boss Goblins and if you use it, Rei in his waretiger form will attack whomever you choose with it. GG
"Doesn't that beat all." - I understood that reference.
You can't spell OVERPOWERED without TG Cid.
Just his nickname alone evokes OP status even within the game's lore.
@ً The number 1 in this top10. Orlandu, aka Thunder God Cid.
His only "weakness" is that you only get him at the last chapter of FF Tactics.
Once available for your use, he can decimate the battlefield alone, or with friends if he's feeling generous. 😁
Similarly geared Beowulf stomps Orlandu status sword arts are way more gamebreaking than raw damage.
Raquel also has access to moonlight which gives her 25FP and you can giver her accessories to increase her Reflex stat (Which her ultimate weapon does also).
Robo can easily make Marle redundant with easy access to party wide healing spells.
Orlandu is a good example of a "Win the game" Button that's given to you for free.
Playing WA4 with the data transfer from Alter Code F, Raquel had an unstoppable godsword from the get-go. It was pretty close to Orlandu-levels of brokenness.
I said to myself on #2 “if Orlandu isn’t #1, I’m gonna be pissed.” Did not disappoint. Orlandu is quite literally a one man army.
Called "Thunder God" for a reason. I genuinely wonder why people didn't fall at his feet and worship him in Ivalice.
@@nightsong81 probably because he'd pick them back up and say he wasn't a god or deity. But a man. But you can call him daddy because he takes care of everything 😂
@@nightsong81 he's "thunder god" "daddy" and a "i win" button for good reason
Hell, he even is a boss in a Final Fantasy XIV raid. You need 24 people to defeat him and is one of the hardest battles of the game XD
@@deficit06 wait, daddy thundergod cid was a FF14 boss? im guessing it was somewhere in the rabanastre raid?
One note on Annie: the stat gains are totally random. I know this because I save scummed my level ups and my whole team was over the top powerful. Citan was god-like, then he got his sword....
Random stat gains? How random?
@@TempestDacine
Random like Fire Emblem and Shining Force and Golden Sun.
Edgar demonstrates that no amount of magic will ever be as useful as a chainsaw
I dunno. Ultima+Quick+Ultima+Ultima+Ultima+Ultima was pretty strong. Chainsaw’s Chance to insta KO was unreliable.
However, Genji Glove + Offering + Ultima Weapon x 2 did break the game. Guess who can pull off this combo? That’s right, Edgar (and Terra and Locke and Celes).
Edgar is garbage after his first two hours...
Ash proves that too
Ikr? They even reworked Machinist in FFXIV to have Edgar's Auto crossbow, drill, bio blaster and air anchor. Reassembled + Drill is easily the hardest hitting combo of all the ranged non-magical DPS.
Except not because literally none of his tools are as strong as lige a firaga spell, let alone flare or ultima
BoF 3 was like _THE_ JRPG of my childhood, and I almost never used Rei in my final party. I always wanted to use Peco and Garr or Momo lol. Loved having Peco paired with Fahl as a master and power leveled, then put in the front of the triangle formation because he got super tanky and counterattacked every time. Good times.
One note on Rei: In Breath of Fire III, have Ryu learn Influence from a monster as soon as possible. You can have a character use Influence on Rei after transforming him to target enemies thus negating the Weretiger berserker mode. I usually have the Influence spell on Peco and place him in the front to take advantage of his high Reprisal rate.
As an honorable mention you could probably name all the support characters in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. At pretty much every point in the game it feels like the MC is the addition while whoever you have this points carries you through the game up until the point you get White and later Flare, but to pick only one: Phoebe. At first she has some nice spells and is good with her bow and later in the game she gets another great spell and that seals the deal for me.
I knew it was Orlandu. This man slaughters everything in sight
There's one later map right near the end of the game, where you can end the whole battle with one single move. It's against one of those "knights", though this one is a mage. If you place Orlandu in exactly the correct square, he will go first, and Orlandu can reach the boss with his swordskills. Break the Mage's Armor for an instant KO and battle win. AFAIK, it's the only battle in the whole game, and Orlandu is the only character in the whole game, who is capable of winning a battle with 1 single move. _And it always works!_
@@Dhalin i dont doubt it one bit. Even the name "Thunder God" is too modest for him. Maybe "Human Golden Gun Ultra Instinct Dovakin"
That goes without saying.
@@Dhalin you could do the same with several other methods
@@procow2274 Maybe with overlevelling or stuff like that... but the combination of Excalibur having auto-haste (which means he always goes first), and enough movement to reach the boss, and the fact that excalibur does enough damage that the armor breaking skill of his will do enough to kill the guy instantly, he's certainly the easiest way to accomplish that becuase he's capable of doing that right out of the box with no grinding necessary other than to unlock the skill.
I knew Orlandu was going to be number one, somehow. He's really one of the most famous examples that everybody tends to reference when it comes to overpowered characters.
Another overpowered character would be Peter from Shining Force 2, who is so broken that he can steamroll the entire opposition single-handed. He also never needs to be revived after battles due to being a phoenix, has the ability to fly and crosses the map in no time. He can even take a hit or two and keep on coming. The one thing is that you don't actually get to control him when you first meet up. So he'll wreck the other side's armies if you leave him to it, outside of a few special exceptions.
There are other powerful characters you get later on in the game, although these require some investment. But when it comes to being your most useful ally, Peter usually stands well above the others, and you barely have to do anything for him along the way. His promoted form is also adorable.
Kid you sounds adorable: "I just thought that he was cheating!"
I was the complete opposite as a kid. I'd take full advantage of the most broken mechanics in games I played. For instance, I used the mush badge in Mario and Luigi superstar saga and hoard as many mushrooms as possible, only using nuts to heal. I specifically looked up the most broken strategies for every game I played.
When I saw the title of the video I immediately thought of Cid/Orlandu from FFT. Glad to see that he's #1 on the list because he is an absolute unstoppable destructive force in the game. He does break the game since he can do any number of high powered, instantaneous, ranged AOE attacks to massacre any chance of difficulty. I appreciate that David said that he prefers to use the generics in FFT because with few exceptions the unique characters are mostly overpowered and mitigate any tactical challenge that a game with the word "tactics" in the title would have had. Not that anybody cares, but my second playthrough I used only Ramza and generics and it was harder yet more satisfying to complete. I thought I was pretty hardcore until I learned that there are people that have soloed the game with Ramza.
There are people who solo the game with just Ramza using skills from only one class and include level limits. Its probably my favorite game and I hope they release it on switch with some added difficulty options.
@@retrogradebolide2198 that would literally push me to buy a switch off the black market if nessesairy, if they added Tactics to the game selection.
you forgot to mention that Orlandu also comes with the best weapon in the game, just in case he wasnt already op as all hell.
Kulvis Flabu Orlandu comes with Excalibur, which is the 2nd best blade. The best is the chaos blade which you can find in deep dungeon.
@@SmallBallPoker I just love the haste effect. haste is amazing in this game.
Oh yeah, haste is awesome. I think chaos blade has chance to petrify, which is a nice bonus. Both are great weapons in their own right.
@@SmallBallPoker yeah you are right about the petrify chance, think it had regen too. I remember getting the 2nd excalibur and using it with the teleport move skill, super strong. I remember having Ramza as a squire with the move and speed bonus as well as the samurai 2 handed boost, he would hit for 600+ it was insane. I havent played FFT in 10 years, this chat is making me want to go fire it up =]
Chaos blade's higher damage is largely irrelevant. Dead vs super dead doesn't really change anything compared to auto-haste. The only character that greatly benefits is Agrias.
Before there was Orlandu in FFT, there was Haborym in Tactics Ogre. A blind dual wielding swordmaster with ridiculous accuracy. But what really makes him good is that he comes with the Petrify spell. Petrify's success rate is based on accuracy, and Haborym can use it to wipe out whole groups of enemies in a single shot. The computer almost never cures petrification, so they're as good as dead.
I knew Raquel would be here she was basically the only one really getting kills when I played because she hit's like a truck and and move and attack and man it's crazy.
I'd nominate Siegfried from infinite undiscovery. When you first get him, although its for a short while he can practically solo the game for you. When you get him later, he's basically another player character and will probably be the first of your party members you can upgrade to be able to solo the postgame dungeon.
Tactics: "Here, have Agrias."
Me: Omg she's so OP. Why would you give me this?
Tactics: "Oh, sorry...here, have Orlandu."
Me: wtf...
Matthew Surefire I always thought of Agrias as the “early game strong “ character who can carry you through the difficult moments of the game’s beginning, when the rest of your party is kinda weak
I felt the same way, then you get Orlandu and you realize her skills are actually the weakest because of the high requirement on many of them.
@@Tengokuchi Lightning Stab is one of her skills. And far and away both her and Orlandu's best overall skill. AoE, Silence, huge range, extremely high damage, no charge time, no mana cost. That skill is just busted. Well, compared to a normal party busted. Not like 5 Calculators CT/Prime Number/Holy busted.
Agrias is strong but not op, her Base Attack is low and she is stat-wise decent, she has only a move rate of 3, she is kind balanced compared to Orlandu
@@TJRex01 what do you mean, all of my characters are already superhumans by the time i met her
Orlandu and Raquel are so powerful, they can destroy the bosses like nothing.
Something to note about Orlandu for those who don’t know, or forgot, he comes equipped with Excalibur which gives perma-Haste. A really strong status buff in FFT. He’s getting extra turns, doing crazy damage and one of his sword skills can be guaranteed to drain a ton of HP to keep him trucking along. He’s a true game-changer. Great list. I got a kick out of the fact you went out of your way in multiple games to keep the difficulty ramped up.
Can confirm that Aht is indeed broken. The only way any enemy can dodge her traps is if they take up the whole grid and you can't use them on them.
I would add Millenia from Grandia 2 to my list. I can see why the game creators only let you use her at certain parts of the game because she's definitely strong, especially when you equip her with Valmar's Eye, she can make any boss a cake walk when she's in your party. She has great offensive stats and decent defense too.
Damn, no Seth from Sacred Stones. The objective best unit in the game with his insane base stats on top of being a Paladin (One of the best classes in the game), AND he joins your party in Chapter 1.
Not only that but his Growth are also really good. He joins good, levels good, and stays good. The only other unit that can is Sigurd but he falls off real hard after chapter 5.
BBQ
I was just about to type this. Seth is a monster. He legit can solo the game. But I also didn't expect him to put a Jagen on the list seeing as he said they were all bad in a previous video...
If he thinks that then he needs to git gud.
@@sora4440
>old man bad
I don't like Jagens because I'm always of the mindset that investment is king but Jagens aren't that bad. There's an archetype called Oifey (33 y/o Paladin from FE4) that's like a Jagen but with good growth and Seth is of that archetype and even if he wasn't his base stat are just TOO high. If XP stealing (which isn't real btw) is his issue, that's irrelevant in SS cuz of the Tower of Valni where any xp Seth """""steals""""" comes back and more
"Idk why the monk is mediocre while the cleric claps cheeks" they're clearly playing fifth edition my dude
One of the most OP JRPG characters I can think of is Seth from Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones. He joins in the prologue and already has some of the best base stats in the game. His growth rates are fantastic too, and the utility of being mounted only makes him even better. Seth can easily solo the game and will probably be your best unit even into the Endgame.
Seth is no mere Jeigan...he has ascended beyond mere Jeigandom and into the realm of legend. Seth is: the legendary, Super Jeigan.
And none shall survive his wrath when he has a stack of Javelins to hand. NOBODY.
Same way with Titania in Radiant Dawn, give her some hand axes, a pure water if there are mages and she can lead the army until Ike take her place as the op unit.
"Marcus? I know not this Marcus. Please excuse me while I solo this map."
Seth is uber good, he can compete with Percival, Titania or Frederick for the spot of best mounted unit (and even best in general). And if main characters were allowed, then Sigurd or Robin would've *easily* taken the spot for Fire Emblem as the most broken units
In Sacred Stones, Ross was my "kill everyone" character. I made him a Berserker and gave him a few hand axes to fight magics and archers.
An honorable mention from Final Fantasy Tactics: Balthier in the PSP remake. His speed is so high he will ALWAYS go first, he has a default move and jump of 5 each and within a couple battles he'll have his Barrage attack. He made very, very short work of any fight where the objective was to eliminate a specific target, because unlike any other character. He'd be damaging them by turn two.
i love Raquel in wild arms 4 , without her i think the game would had been way harder than it is too
Sword specialist in FFT : "Look I learned everything about this sword technique!"
Cid: "Hold my elixir, kid."
Glad to see Citan on the list. He's OP at the beginning of the game, but if you give him Power Crisis and Speed Shoes, he turns most battles into easy mode.
I'd like to see a top ten of the most OP JRPG weapons/armor/accessories, too.
Your number 1 is the first character I thought of when I read the title. You failed to mentioned that he comes with a game-breaking sword that gives him auto haste, basically doubling his turns (similar to two of you other choices).
Well 50% more turns
I love the Double Tech "Slurp Kiss" in Chrono Trigger;
it restores a hell of a lot of HP, it heals all status ailments (or close to it, at the very least), and it only costs 1 MP for both Frog and Ayla, lol.
Most MP-efficient healing spell in the entire game, for sure.
A note for part 2: I feel you should include Gala from Legend of Legaia. While he starts out pretty useless, he goes on to become his own one-man army, eventually outclassing both Vahn AND Noa in terms of strength, magic damage, healing ability and even speed. Super broken by late game, especially considering you have no choice but to use him from early game on.
Couple things about Rei -
You can make him target a certain enemy in weretiger mode if you use the command ability from the goblins you fight at the start of the game, making him somewhat controleable
If you set your party formation to line and put him at 1 - every other character shares his speed - so getting 3 EX turns on bosses is pretty easy
Still think Ryu in Kaiser dragon is stronger though
I 100% agree with Orlandeau at 1, man is a beast - even in mobile games he has appeared in
and its not like you get him super late in the game or anything either
I think Rikku (FFX) should get an honorary mention. The characters can essentially reach the same stats if you grind long enough, but her Mix Overdrive just makes her essential for super bosses.
Orlandeau very OP indeed.
Also Beowulf is pretty damn OP too. Oracle magic as sword skills.
And I'm totally with you on final fantasy tactics. I almost never used the named characters.
Going through Chronotrigger my main team the entire game was Chrono, Frog, and Robo. They were brutally effective.
About Orlandu, there are hints in the game's code that the sword techniques were originally intended to be magic-based. That would have made Agrias and Meliadoul better at sword techniques (because they're females), and Orlandu a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none. For some reason they changed them to physical later. Not only it busts Orlandu but it also breaks the AI because it expects the sword skills to be of the element they advertise in the description, but physical attacks completely ignore the element of the attack and use the one on the equipped weapon instead. (And most weapons have no elemental damage so swordskills are effectively non-elemental damage.)
You got #1 right and that's all that matters. Orlandu can easily solo the remainder of the game if that's the way you wanted to play. Technically Gadwin is OP also from Grandia but more from an 'impossible to die' perspective vs. being crazy strong.
Too bad he can't fit through plot-important doors. But yeah, love me some Gadwin. "Come, power of the universe... Dragon King SLICE!"
Citan is my favourite on the list, when you thought he could not become more OP, he gets a katana and some of the most badass combos in the game, combine that with his amazing backstory and the role he plays in the story and well, he's just perfect
I’m always impressed with David’s vast knowledge of JRPGs. Thank you good sir for the continual entertainment!
Yeah, I've played a ton of JRPG's in my life, but it seems David has played damn near every single one of them! (Well, at least the ones released in English.) I honestly didn't think that was possible. I would be very curious to know which ones he *hasn't* played. Must be a very short list.
Rei is even better if you get the targeting ability from the goblins. Because it WORKS ON REI. So you give him a few turns to attack, then target the enemy. He’ll never attack your team in weretiger form.
Akihiko from Persona 3. He has all the debuffs in a game where all the buffs and debuffs are very useful and does a decent amount of damage.
Akihiko is busted and shits on the other party members but he's not more powerful than the MC which was one of the requirements
@@BrucieJones He said this list is for not MC party members.
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I'd say in Persona 3 Portable, Mitsuru climbs up there as well, as she learns Ice Boost, Bufudyne/Mabufudyne, and Mind Charge. With her high MA stat + Tarukaja, she can become a real beast.
I still can’t believe that Orlandu stayed with the party I mean he is literally Agrias Melidoul and Gafgarion rolled into one. Single target equipment breaking elemental aoe even life stealing. Three kits in one turns out is pretty op
There was ONE disadvantage to Orlandu... female only equipment.
He doesnt have elemental aoe
@@procow2274 umm.. he actually does! lol
@@dragames actually he doesnt. The sword skills are inherently physical non elemental attacks
@@procow2274 he can go geomancer/black mage/summoner/calculator as a secondary skillset. So if elemental AoE is needed, that's what you do. Except I can't recall a case where that was it unless you're trying to abuse calculator and elemental absorb gear to heal/damage everyone.
The only actual disadvantage is like I said, female only gear. That's why agrias can be viewed as better than Orlandu in some small cases. Female only equipment are powerful, and for the most part if you're using orlandu, you're not using Gafgarian or Melidou's sword skills, but Agrias'. Granted, you will probably want a mediator to then boost Agrias brave permanently for a bit to match Orlandu's innately high brave status. I know the option is nice to have, but the Holy Sword skills just are ridiculously powerful in almost every situation. Rarely will Melidou's really come in effect as anyone you want to break their gear for, you can just OHKO them anyways. Gafgarian's skillset lacks power and trades for survivability.
An honorable mention should go to Glenn from Chrono Cross. You know how every game has a unique one-of-a-kind super-sword made for a single person?
Glenn can dual wield it.
That's hot.
how can he dual wield it?
R. C. When you realize there are two dimensions and the sword exists in both... kinda one of those “hell naw they actually did it” moments that rewards you amidst the otherwise punishing worthlessness of the majority of the rest of the extras you “earn”
@@LeoRex13 If only they trimmed the cast a bit. But yeah. That moment in the game was a huge thing for me. VERY unique for Chrono Cross
I’m hoping to see Chie with her galactic punt in this at some point.
Don't forget Bleu from Breath of Fire 2! You can get her so early in the game and she joins with endgame ready stats, outclassing any other magical party member. Man, does every BoF have a busted party member? I've only played the first two.
In IV you have Fou Lu, he's like level 55 at the start of the game, but he is not with the main party and you control him in some occasions. In V or Dragon Quarter is the dragon transformation, but that can kill Ryu if he overuse it.
Exactly. A character that has all the best attack spells, and can fully heal her hp at any time. I actually don't use her anymore, as I feel like it really is cheating. And her stats are based on a monsters, that's why she keeps getting super high increases compared to everyone else. I heard she was a last minute addition, and it wouldn't surprise me if that was true
She's a secret character though so you would expect her to be special. I only found her by accident.
@@blaze45ful Fou Lu segments weren't supposed to be a challenge
I think the Dog Samurai from 4 (forgot his name) takes it for his multi-attack abilities. He can RIP waves of enemies apart with nothing more than his sword and speed.
This video showed up in my recommendations and I immediately thought of Orlandu. Very excited to see he's not only here, but scored the number one spot.
If I had to give a nomination, I'm gonna go with Reiji Kido from Persona 1. You have to do a lot of secret sidequest stuff to get him, but he's got powerful physical attacks, is great for demon negotiation, has probably the best Initial Persona in the entire game, and some of the strongest Personas in the end game can ONLY be used by him. He may be a bit tricky to unlock, but he is well worth the effort.
I guess you should mention Cliff, Maria and Peppita from Star Ocean 3. These 3 are so broken that they are the core for your low lv and Peppita is your friend in term of Lv 1 trophy. They are so great that they could solo super bosses by themselves in Universe, 4-D and Gutsy Bunny Galaxy difficulty. Maria in particular got her Scatter Shot by default and that skill is the skill with the "If all else failed, USE THIS SHIT." type of shit in close range.
Dude, word. And Mirage is slightly better than Cliff. Maria knocks it out the damned park, though, and Peppita's psychic cannon shit is super tough.
@@Virjunior01 Actually, Mirage is way worse because you got her way too late and Cliff is just way better with normals and skill. His short normals was best suit for Fireworks setup that could beat out Albel Nox's fireworks setup. Max Shockwave is just one of the best End game skill only lag behind Energy Burst and Radiation Bolts in the game dealing with both HP and MP damage.
@@zhaoyun255 okay. It HAS been about 12 years since I last played. Thanks for clearing that up... I was remembering that in their lore, she beats him when they spar like 60% of the time or something.
@@Virjunior01 Me too but I still come back to the PS4 ver because the game was so much fun with setup and all.
@@zhaoyun255 do you know if Mirage's stat gains per level outpace Cliff's, though? Even though it's probably not worth it unless you're a crazy person going for 100 percent... I gave up somewhere around level 235, I think. And is it just me or was Mirage a slight bit faster?
Shit. I wanna play this again, but after maybe 7 years of barely playing anything new, I'm growing the stupid backlog of Tales of Berseria (haven't liked Tales since Symphonia turned me off, but I actually like this), God of War reboot, FFVII Remake, Owlboy, Iconoclasts, Bloodstained, Transistor, and Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3).
You mention Orlandu from FFT but no mention of Beowulf whose sword skills are arguably even more devastating. Could’ve probably lumped them in together. Great video.
Some party members that come to mind for me.....
- DESCO (Disgaea 4). She's the cutest tentacle monster ever, that is billed as a prototype Final Boss. She has some pretty good AoE specials. With monster fusion, and her last skill, she is capable of EXTREME AOE AT LONG RANGE, for MASSIVELY boosted damage! AND, there is a fantastic powerleveling map designed just for her, letting you powerlevel her (and a monster of your choice), upto lv400 (and this is before you even reach the postgame).
- Red Magnus (Disgaea 5). He's just obviously strong, right out of the gate, and can carry you through the game. His Overload restores his HP, inflates his max HP and stats, and gives him some really good AoE.
And Red Magnus is top tier even in the postgame, with his unique evilities that give bonus stats to the entire squad he's on, and that ignore half the defense of enemies he attacks! Even in a game where you can get everyone to 40+ million stats and load overpowered items on top of that, Red Magnus still stands tall, because he just does more damage than anyone else can do, in ways nobody else can.
I love DESCO
I feel like Usalia is better, but maybe thats just me.
I'm surprised Lysithia from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is not on this list. Deadly to begin with and as she grows she will double attack, dodge most normal attacks and becomes resistant to almost all magic. Give her a magic staff and you might as well give everyone else in your squad the day off as she will probably single handedly wipe the enemy team off the map.
When I made Lilithmon in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, she was literally one or two shotting final game bosses for me. To be fair, making her took quite some doing
You got the collection? I'm pretty sure she was DLC in the original release. I'd vote for the humble Platinum Numemon. Yes, most if it's stats are crap, but it has 999(!) physical defense, learns a bunch of great debuffs (which means it's lousy offensive stats don't matter) AND has a passive that doubles any exp earned in battle.
@@seb24789 dude platinum numemon literally erased from existence if hit by magic attack lmao
You out scale enemies so fast in cyber sleuth. If anything I'd be bragging about characters like the cat who do set damage. On hard mode at least you often face stat walls who you're lucky to do 20 or so damage to.
To be fair, she's not the only one capable of such a feat. BlackWarGreymon has the same amount of stopping power as Lilithmon as a boss killer, as does Alphamon Ouryuken. And if you want to go a little weaker but still powerful, you have the regular WarGreymon, and Ouryumon, Rosemon Burst Mode, Beelzemon Blast Mode, and Gallantmon Crimson Mode.
Lilithmon needs to do quite a lot of grind for it, the characters in this list outright broken from the start to the end.
Xenogears, the gear, with a Holy Pendant can do 6 hyper mode deathblows in a row, making him solely able to kill the final boss. Add to that the accessory that gives autoboost and Xenogears is a God...a fitting name.
Citan could’ve been #1 if they gave him a broken gear option like aerods.
I mean, Heimdall keeps up with the Omnigears and Fenrir is every bit as good plus some extra. Sure it doesn't have overpowered special commands, but it doesn't need 'em either.
Keeping up isn’t much of an issue in which all gears share the same equipment (except for frames and weapons) and even those don’t vary their damage dealt that much. The speed differences are also a lot less pronounced than on foot. The things that differentiate gear usefulness are spells and options. Heimdal/Fenrir bring absolutely nothing in that regard. That doesn’t make them horrible gears but they’re far from fantastic. Obviously Welltall/Xenogears is going to be in your team either due to plot requirements or just being crazy hyper moding damage dealer. That leaves 2 more party slots, and there 1 if not both you gotta go with gears that’ll kill it with an ether doubler paired either with elemental spells or crazy gear options. Fenrir is basically Andvari without wild smile or ydd charge. That doesn’t make it horrible, it just makes it give you no particular reason to want to put it in a team of three.
Edgar and Mash in the same party was sick af. Edgar's tools plus Mash's healing... Get Tina and Setzer for backup and it's all over
Mash? Tina? get out of the internet...
Okay, I know terra is Tina, but who is Mash? Healing? Bannon?
@@dlahouss Sabin is Mash in japanese
Yay, needed some positivity! Radiant Historia was such a frigging good time...
Im surprised wakka from final fantasy 10 didn't make the list. High accuracy, high dodge, high attack, equip stonetouch ball and use triple foul every turn.
Weirdly enough, my first thought was Cream from the Sonic Chronicles RPG. In a game where most characters have two actions per turn and fast characters have three, Cream only has one...and is still the best support character I've seen in an RPG. She can basically full heal the party every turn, or spend 8PP to give everyone 15PP including herself, so everybody can use their best moves constantly. You have to get the hang of her commands, but they're simple enough, or you can just equip the Chao that makes commands automatic.
Honourable mention to Tails from the same game, who can only heal one person at a time, but grants regen for multiple turns of both HP and PP, and gets two actions per turn so he can start by using it on himself.
Fun list! You made good points about Robo. I never considered him this way because he is a bit slower and weaker magic. I would add from one of my favourites, Valsu from 7th Saga. He is the only character who learns the Agility spell, his early healing magic is super useful, and his Elixir spell makes him basically a portable inn
Other possible characters to take into consideration...
Peach from Super Mario RPG. Huge damage skills, great healing, pretty much unkillable with the right equipment.
Meru from Legend of Dragoon. Fits every party role at the same time. Meru makes every other character look like crap. Except Haschel. He's good too.
Melia from Xenoblade Chronicles. This one is arguable, but I personally think her ability to stunlock enemies with minimal help is beyond stupid.
The Medic in the original Etrian Odyssey. Immunize was a ridiculously busted skill that made the whole game a complete joke. At least until the ridiculous postgame.
Gafka from Radiant Historia. While Aht was deffinitely a beast, this guy was no slouch. His skills dealt insane damage and racked up combo points like crazy.
Vivian in Paper Mario 2 was really useful, though I don't know if I'd call her overpowered (or him, depending on the version I guess, he was a dude in the Spanish translation which is the one I played). Still, she pretty much nullified certain bosses attacks both by killing all the adds with the area fire spell and also the shadow thing that made you invulnerable for a turn. She just seemed way more useful than most other characters.
Agreed, Vivian was pretty good party member. Although i gotta give props to Ms Mowz as well, as her basic attack ignores defense. Which a lot of enemies near endgame happen to have a lot of.
@@ThundagaT2 There were some other party members that were useful, but Vivian was the only one I feel that if you took her away from the game some of the battles would suddenly become like five times harder.
@@Hilipinapixili Yeah, Ms Mowz was optional after all. Vivian is definitely the MVP of the party.
Millenia from Grandia 2. Once you get the eye of Valmar you paralyze everything even bosses with a 100% activation rate and zero chance of failure making every fight she’s in a joke.
If she is in the battle of course.the story force you to use elena sometimes0
I figured Orlandu would be number one. I've seen him described as the character that destroyed all the difficulty in FF Tactics. Boy, was that true!
I'm surprised Dekar from Lufia 2 didn't make this list. I always loved it when he joined the party, both for his personality and his stats.
Yeah, he should be on list even though he has terrible speed. Like Dekar, Georg Prime from Suikoden 5 has one of worst magic resistant ,but you can fix this if he can equip Saint's Cloak ,so he can ko'd enemies with one hit that's why he's known for Deathblow. Viese Blanchimont from Atelier Iris 2 turned the game into ridiculous easy which you can thank to Viese's alchemy. Unlike others, Rita from Tales of Vesperia isn't OP character from beginning of game ,but she will eventually become broken character later.
Thank you VERY much for including my favorite videogame character of all time at lucky #7 Citan Uzuki. Got my sub for that :)
Thanks for the sub!
Edgar and Sabin are my favorites since there both overpowered.
Sabin's equipment options are crap though in the World of Ruin. He pretty much needs a Force Armor otherwise late-game magic creatures will go to town on him.
@@hubertcumberdale2651
You can give him a Merit Award and let him equip all the good equipment though.
Also, if you can somehow get more than one Paladin Shield, just give it to him and he'll be dodging everything.
Sabin is awful. Blitz skills deals damage based on Sabin's Magic stat
And he is the character with the lowest magic attribute in the game
@@Robson-bk3oq I used Sabin a lot since I've always used Blitz moves, and a lot of times i have him teamed up with Edgar, Terra, Setzer, And Celes .
So I really had to give him magic or equipment until very late though.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Well, FF VI gameplay change when we reach the world of ruin.
Worlf of balance: Balance your party with the varied characters unique powers. Magic is mostly used only for healing.
World of ruin: Ruin your enemy career with strong magic. Mob fight? ULTIMA!!! Boss fight? All party members spam ULTIMA!!! Strong boss fight like Kefka and Dragon Den's boss? Terra use trance + dual cast + Quick + ULTIMA!!! + Celestriad relic to make Ultima and Quick MP cost down to 1, while the other party members support her with haste, curaga, arise, etc. Or... just let them to spam ULTIMA!!!!!
I really like FF VI. The story and music is superb. Gameplay is also great. But when I finally can teach everyone how to use ULTIMA, the gameplay became a bit dulled from me...
Erik from DQ11 is pretty good too once you get the ability that makes him multiply. The damage you can cause with his twins are insane. I guess he isn't OP until pretty late in the game as until he gets the ability he's literally the least versatile character of the team, only useful for Steal, and you also have to feed him a massive amount of Magic seeds before he gets enough MP to use this ability more than ounce...
Jeff in earthbound and his bottle rockets one/two shotting bosses.
Only his big bottle rockets could maybe be considered OP, but it can miss sometimes. I think that balances things out decently enough. Perhaps the problem isn't so much that they're too OP, but rather that they are too easily available to the player. There are 2 different shops in the game that sell them, so you can stock up and therefor abuse their power. They probably shouldn't have been put in any shops, instead only being found in a few gift boxes or trash cans throughout the game, and as rare drops from a few enemies. Anyway, Jeff himself is not OP, so I don't think he'd qualify for a list of OP characters.
@@JMFSpike but Jeff is the only one who can use them. When he can do 2,000+ damage vs a few hundred from everyone else I'd say comparatively to the rest of the party, at least for bosses, he's still OP
@@swiftmage Jeff can do 2000 damage to a single target while relying on backup from 3 psychic teammates. Really Jeff's strengths shine through because his teammates are able to hold their own to the point where his weak points aren't an issue (and trust me Jeff has more weak points than the other 3).
Ness is the broken one (not even factoring in end game) but that is ok because he is the main character.
@@ClintonKE - Ness's PSI GaySex rocks my anus! };-)>
Jeff's big strength is that he doesn't have PP- so anything like PSI Magnet or anything that could drain PP is a wasted turn on him. He's useful as the team's item support and healer.
I want to give Agrias a shout out because you get her in chapter 2, and she can be status proof and immortal with the ribbon/chantage. Meliadoul gets the same trick, but her Divine Sword only works against equipment having enemies.
Laura S. Arseid in Cold Steel never left my party whenever I could use her. Her strength was unmatched.
Yep this was the one I was going to say, she isn't ridiculous compared to some of the people on this list. But for Trails of Cold Steel she is a monster, the only one that might beat her is Sara Valestein.
@@martinomagic9230 I concur..the Laura/Fie/Emma Combo is the only one worth taking..with Sara as a backup
I pick Fie cuz her evade build is broken lmao
wahyu fajar I never tried that out, I’ll have to do it on a replay. making her evasion 100% and having an unkillable fie sounds amazingly broken
@@jamesmaclennan4525 Yeah what it really comes down to is the women in these games are the true badasses, which I approve of!
Edgar is even more OP if you get to find the Chainsaw when you're looking for Terra after the first battle against Kefka. It's basically the Drill but more stronger and has the chance to instakill enemies
The chainsaw in Final Fantasy Legend is more OP, it can one-hit-kill God! };-)>
@@JohnnyProctor9 I didn't play legend. I'm not really a fan of Final Fantasy, I just played a few of them :/
Oh Raquel, yes! That Move & Attack skill, oh I loved it so much!
omg I’m so happy to see Raquel made it to this list ❤️ WA4 is surprisingly my favorite entry in the series because unlike WA5, each character had a fixed skill set.
Sometimes I just randomly remember Raquel quotes. “no rest for my relentless blade; who wants to become rust of my sword”. Such a badass 🥰 Ragu would never stand a chance in this game
Sveta from Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Insane speed and strength, full-party healing spells, a beast-form transformation like Rei except you can actually control her... there’s almost no reason not to have her in your party at all times (except against the Ancient Devil).
What's the deal with the ancient devil?
SilverByakuya he will take control over whichever active party member has the highest agility stat, which is almost certainly Sveta if she’s in your party.
@@jbleichman For the entire battle?
SilverByakuya yes, or until she dies, at which time he’ll take control of another character. But yeah, that’s the gimmick of that particular fight.
@@jbleichman Ok that's annoying. Does her high strength and speed come from her natural class or a mix of djinns?
A note about Rei: yes, the "downside" to Weretiger is the whole berserker will attack party sometimes thing, but A) the RNG usually picks the enemy and B) there's a skill that you can use to make him target an enemy for a few turns and that just ruins the downside. Basic idea is Rei transforms and on that same turn somebody uses that skill, since they'll probably go after he does the transformation.
I can't remember the name of that skill, it's the same one boss goblins use and it basically negates Weretiger Rei's downside until that target dies.
@@dukedarkwood2098 I believe the skill is called “Command”.
It's basically Drill on crack
@@derekstronf1837 yeah, either massive damage or instant death. Plus it's one of the few things that can actually hit cactuars
@@Agju Speedy little bastards
@@derekstronf1837 indeed XD
Good to see Radiant Historia getting love! Woefully underrated game. But Aht? Her traps take so long to set up that it hampers her full potential. You can only really get a proper setup in longer battles, making her nearly useless for everyday encounters.
I dont know. I guess i would choose Sabin instead Edgar /think.
Its really hard to said, both are great support party members.
Everyone eventually becomes the same depending on how you develop them with Espers, but Edgar and Sabin rule the World of Balance for their damage potential.
Getting the Valkyrie in Radiata stories near the end of the optional dungeon always got me going. She was so cool even compared to the 175 other party members you could have.
I'm sure we'll see Geno on part 2. I was surprised he wasn't on this one.
When I first played chronotrigger I thought robo was just another enemy that I was going to kill. I'm glad I was wrong. I loved how Robo's model was identical to the other robot enemies.
Sabin was my man but Edgar was 2nd. Though I always had the twins in the party
Phantom train meet suplex
xil3ntkha0s Best boy can suplex anything in sight, whether it be dinosaurs or gods.
I hated manually punching in moves. Real pain.
Takes practice. Play Street Fighter and it'll be 2nd nature in no time
@@loganhayse8771 I play cheap on it, lol.
I'm about halfway through Child of Light and Rubella seems really useful. She's super fast and has an attack that hits every enemy; given the way the combat system works in the game, she's constantly interrupting enemies and making them lose a turn. Plus she can heal.
I hardly used Robo. My dream team was Chrono, Ayla and Magus.
Same. But I was surprised at Robo's versatility when I did bother switching him in.
Chrono Ayla and Robo arguably make the best team.
The beauty of Chrono Trigger is that each characters' set of tech's and dual tech's are so well thought out that no team you choose will cripple you. You can kick serious ass with any team, so it's really up to you. You just have to know how to best utilize the team of your choice. Of course, some teams are going to be better then others for certain boss battles and other situations. Robo has a few very nice screen clearing techs that I like to use for grinding levels on the conveyor belts in the Robot Factory and Geno Dome.
Yeah, I can't imagine my party not having Ayla. Her damage and speed are insane.
It's fun to save up all of the magic tabs and dump them on Robo
I'm sooo happy Orlandu made it to #1. His power was absolutely nothing short of AMAZING! It was literally the first thought in my mind when I saw the title of this video.
My vote goes to Bleu/Deis in Breath of Fire 2, you get her and she is 15 levels above everybody and has all the best attacking and supporting spells to wreck the game
Plus a free full-heal on herself that can be used infinitely... it lowers her defense for the rest of the fight, but with her stats so naturally high I honestly never noticed.
@@nightsong81 Ya it's so rarely used I had forgotten all about it free full heal every round lol !
@@nightsong81 You notice it later on in the game, especially if you go to Giant Isle (which many people do to save-scum the slimes which always die to her Death spell). Using Shed there is basically guaranteeing that she will die instantly from the next physical attack that hits her.
Yes, Orlandu is the most overpowered RPG that I can think of. I was also thinking of Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre though and Debonair (OB/OB64) and Ozma(TO) certainly IMO rank up there in those games, but aren't as game-breakingly overpowered and they're both optional characters that require alignment/correct choices to get.
Robo is one of my favorite characters of all time.
Look, I'm just gonna say it, Samson looks like a recolor of Simon Belmont with a two-handed axe in combat.
I'd like to see an rpg of castlevania.
I never used Robo really on Chrono Trigger. Especially later on when getting Luminaire and his one other powerful attack are just OP. Also having that 75% decrease on MP just through all without problem. Also I could bring the Rapp from Grandia when comes especially start what he has. Missile is easy and he is lot faster than others. Or depends how you play that game tho
Robo is good. He can heal party without sacrificing need to use double tech same as Frog. He also has good damage on single tech unlike Marle. You can use Crono and Ayla as DPS with Robo as side support. And i dont think Rapp is a godsend though. By the time i got him, Justine and Feena already outshine him. Missile is slow projectile weapon and it kinda miss the whole time (already seein it in Sue). in Grandia, WIT kinda overpower everything
@@marivelarmitage5244 I'm just used speedrunning Grandia pretty much. In speedrun when you get Rapp, you use pretty much only missile all the time and do most of the damage. Missile is already max on start and you can spam it when you want. With power mushroom it almost doubles it damage. Even Grandia for casuals made that almost all characters are useful equally. :P
The issue with robo is that he's kind of Mediocre baseline due to low speed and magic but those are both easy things to correct, so he ends up being the best tab receiver in the game by far and becoming OP with just a little bit of hand holding. Marle has kind of the opposite problem - good baseline, terrible ability to optimize so she ends up gradually cratering in usefulness.
I think Rei deserves extra credit since you can get a battle formation that let's everyone in your party share his speed stat.
If you ever do a part two, I really hope that you include Melia
Melia is so frickin amazing. She can be used like a bard with crowd control, and if you hold that thunder spirit long enough, hoo boy. Cute little lady, Big McLargeHuge damage.
She was only good with player control. If you left her to AI she was shit.