Mages

[vivekbob]

Make your pick. Mine is Lilina>Hugh>Lugh. Just for her usefullness in the final chapters. Oh, and she's very cute.

[arashisama without the decorative symbols. RANDOM ENOUGH?!]

Lyrina > Lugh > Hugh

Lyrina's lower skill and speed is made up for with broken Anima magic and excellent supports; the latter is something the other two can't compensate for. Besides, her support with Roy is not only great, it's also fast, and you have to bring Roy to every chapter anyway.

Lugh ranks above Hugh because, by the time you get Hugh, Lugh is already promoted and several levels in. That, and Lugh doesn't demand 10k, but that's not a problem. They're both fine though.

[Charliecane]

Lugh > Lilina > Hugh

I think Lugh is the best because he joins at a point where I can level him with relative ease. Lilina's overkill magic growth is nice, but her speed is too low for my liking. Hugh is a good character and all, but I don't see any point in using him when the other two are already Sages.

[dynamo]

Lugh > Lilina > Hugh

tbh I don't really like any of them that much. But Lugh's joining time, skill and speed while maintaining decent Magic beats Lilina's enormous Magic for me. Hugh simply comes too late imo...

[theshim is the shimiest shim of all the shims that ever shim]

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Hugh is expensive, and other than his nice defense isn't going to be a particularly outstanding unit, especially considering his joining time.  Lilina's ridiculous Magic means she'll slaughter things, but the trick is that all too frequently she'll have to do it in one hit, thanks to her terrible speed.  Lugh, on the other hand, is a very well-balanced mage, with early joining time, and the only magic-user you'll have for a while.  Excellent especially on bosses with the +30 evade boost and defense, with anima's crazy hitrate.  He'll continue to rock for the entire game, and is one of my favorite units in SoS; I don't think Lilina is even close.

[vivekbob]

Lilina.....Speed.....Bad.....?

Post your stats.

[theshim is the shimiest shim of all the shims that ever shim]

Lilina has 4 starting speed and a 35% growth rate.  My level 12 Lilina has 8 speed right now...that's above average.  Even with the +3 from promotion, she will not be doubling very often.  She averages around 13 speed at 20/1 Sage...and by the time she's promoted, most enemies will have at least 9 speed, especially on Hard Mode.  Lugh starts with 6 and a 50% growth.  Speed is not a problem.

[camus the dark knight]

Ah the Lugh VS. Lilina debate... let me warn you debaters, you are in for a long, hard, and what will become hostile topic. I have gone through it before as well as watched many others do so as well.

Regardless, I prefer Lugh over Lilina (and Hugh more as well), I will not state reasons as that will add fuel to the fire, but that is my choice, Lugh.

[Hinatalope]

I'm actually using both Lugh and Lilina (yes, I likes me my magic users ). I like Lilina's magic stat, but Lugh's stats are more balanced. His magic stat pales in comparison to Lilina's (16 versus 24), but he still managed to pack a punch. In terms of speed, my 20/5 Lilina has 14 and 20/1 Lugh has 20. I don't have much use for Hugh because I already have two anima users (3 including Clarine after she promotes, but this topic's about mages >_>).

[Lord Fuckboy]

Lugh > Lilina > Hugh, pretty much like everyone else.

Lugh is the easiest of the three to level and pretty much yields similar results - one rounding or getting close to doing so with good Speed and decent Magic.  He also comes at a perfect time too, where it's easy to catch up in levels.

Lilina comes kinda late at Level 1, kinda fragile too...  somewhat tough to build up and bring to par.  Hugh takes this to a ridiculous extreme and costs money, while having averageish growths/bases in the process...  I think the competition clearly goes to Lugh here.

[Neofox]

As much as I like Lugh and Lilinia, I think I like Hugh best. Yeah, he kills your funds rank and comes a while into the game, but he's got some good durability, fairly balanced stats, and a pretty cool personality. If forced to pick, Lugh probably brings a close second, but the mages for this game are pretty good in general.

[Lord Kratos]

The FE6 mage debaet is very lopsided. Lugh wins by a lot, and then between Lilina and Hugh, I prefer Lilina by a bit. Joining situation is very important to me and Hugh's sucks moar than Lilina's.

[Mekkah]

None of them are very good, but Lugh is the least crappy of them. Lugh gets one-shotted by Brigands and stuff, which is annoying, but he grows out of it, and is far superior compared to the others when they join. Lilina has problems doing a maximum of 5 damage to everything while being one-rounded by every single enemy except like Steel Bow Archers. Hugh does slightly better (gets one rounded by Mercs only, though everything else 2HKOs him). Talking about their joining situations, that is.

[Neofox]

Isn't low defense the reason you have your mages attack enemies at a range, Mekkah?

[Lord Fuckboy]

Low defense is still a detriment no matter how you're going to sugarcoat it.

[Neofox]

Low defense is still a detriment no matter how you're going to sugarcoat it.

Yeah, but considering how common dracoknights are, you're going to want to be relying on magic to take them out since spellcasters can usually one-round them.

[Haken]

Mages are indeed seen as the most useful for such purposes; archers,a s has been tirelessly repeated to god sweet fuck, are unable to be as destructive during the enemy phase whereas wyrmslayers are hard to come by. The only real factor mainly exacting on their defense would be pegasus knights.

IMO, Lugh>Lilina>Hugh, due to earlier availability, more essential growths, and character cost (figurative and literal).

[Lord Fuckboy]

Yeah, but considering how common dracoknights are, you're going to want to be relying on magic to take them out since spellcasters can usually one-round them.

And that has WHAT to do with their lack of defense?

Mekkah is NOT saying they're unusable or whatever because of their lack of defense.  They're saying that they lack defense; no matter how you're going to look at it, it is a detriment, because you can't just negate a factor because of what it's "supposed to do," as opposed to what it's actually doing.

[vivekbob]

I have no problem in someone liking Lugh, just don't blatantly flame Lilina.

kthxbai.

[arashisama without the decorative symbols. RANDOM ENOUGH?!]

^ People have a right to dislike and even hate Lyrina. There's no trolling allowed, so comments about how much "Lyrina sucks" will be sufficiently backed up with a 'why'.