DFFOO [JP][Aerith IW][Alt run] Aerith is a support character
6Just another look at Aerith with more active participation without people finishing the fight with an actual BT phase.
Kind of a hybrid cast, since this fulfils the BRV/HP variant while having some decent off-turn dmg when Aerith does her thing during FR. It can probably do more if Ramza is replaced with another off-turn dmg dealer, or one with decent amount of cap up with more dmg on HP+, such as Yuna. Ultimately it is a balance between wanting more HP bonus% / dmg per turn, as most likely you would spam Aerith's S1 on some of the turns.
I mean, she is casually doing 1m+ periodically as a support character without going into FR, while preventing buffs on bosses and debuffs on you, with healing and BRV battery and 20% HP dmg cap up from armor. Totally normal for a support character with only LD/FR (for now?), right? That LD on the second last FT turn was just the icing on the cake.
Note that she does not even have UW+5 here, and she only has FL 28, because I find using S2 unlikely inside FT (which Ironically I did it once here to get a buff + fix turn order). So technically the % can go even higher and that Aerith LD on the second last turn of FT can go well over 20m on one target. Using EX would still get you similar dmg as well, albeit more ST oriented and can take advantage of Leo LDCA.
It is not like she need ultra ridiculous dmg to secure a spot on the team. I would put her on active duty for the sole reason that she can prevent boss buffs and debuffs at the same time. There are quite a few of those bosses around, but hey she gets much more than I expected so I will gladly accept it.
P.S.
Curious to see what Snow + Yuna BT finisher entails in this case, since Yuna fits her FR conditions as well. Can't have the fun myself since I don't have her BT.