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Chrono Trigger: Chrono, Ayla, Frog
All three of them are heavy hitters in their own right and have arguably the best selection of dual techs in the game.
Pokémon: Empoleon, Jolteon, Gliscor, Mismagius, Heracross, Tyranitar
This was the team I used throughout Gen IV. Despite having some obvious flaws, I chose movesets that allowed them to counter the standard meta team nicely. DD-Tyranitar worked wonders with a babiri berry.
Xenoblade: Shulk/Melia, Dunban, 7th.
Shulk and Melia were the only characters I enjoyed controlling and couldn't be trusted to the AI. Dunban's Blossom Dance quote justified his place alone. 7th was the shiny toy who just happened to be flashier than Sharla/Riki/REYN TIME.
All three of them are heavy hitters in their own right and have arguably the best selection of dual techs in the game.
Pokémon: Empoleon, Jolteon, Gliscor, Mismagius, Heracross, Tyranitar
This was the team I used throughout Gen IV. Despite having some obvious flaws, I chose movesets that allowed them to counter the standard meta team nicely. DD-Tyranitar worked wonders with a babiri berry.
Xenoblade: Shulk/Melia, Dunban, 7th.
Shulk and Melia were the only characters I enjoyed controlling and couldn't be trusted to the AI. Dunban's Blossom Dance quote justified his place alone. 7th was the shiny toy who just happened to be flashier than Sharla/Riki/REYN TIME.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
Bunduk from Mount&Blade: Warband. Fellow is a master sharpshooter with the crossbow.
"It's a long story, but if you get yourself a drink, I'll be glad to tell it.
A sergeant I was, in the garrison here at Jelkala. Twenty years I stood guard for the city, taking many a hard knock in many a tough fight, until they appointed a snot-nosed, downy-lipped princeling, barely out of his mother's cradle, as commander of the garrison. He came upon me standing watch atop the tower, with my crossbow unstrung -- on account of the rain, you see... Can't have the cord loosen... But Little Prince Snot-Nose tells me that an unstrung bow is dereliction of duty. Says he'll have me horsewhipped. And something in me snapped. So I walked off my post.
Now I'm here getting drunk, and the Devil take tomorrow."
"It's a long story, but if you get yourself a drink, I'll be glad to tell it.
A sergeant I was, in the garrison here at Jelkala. Twenty years I stood guard for the city, taking many a hard knock in many a tough fight, until they appointed a snot-nosed, downy-lipped princeling, barely out of his mother's cradle, as commander of the garrison. He came upon me standing watch atop the tower, with my crossbow unstrung -- on account of the rain, you see... Can't have the cord loosen... But Little Prince Snot-Nose tells me that an unstrung bow is dereliction of duty. Says he'll have me horsewhipped. And something in me snapped. So I walked off my post.
Now I'm here getting drunk, and the Devil take tomorrow."
The Lamonster
Member
I'm quite fond of this one:
(Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)
Beat me to it!
nice avatar too
It's Reyn Time!
Member
Shulk, Dunban and Seven in Xenoblade .
Shulk as the playable character (I find his debuffs/side and back attacks are just too powerful and important to let the AI take care of it.
Dunban as an avoidance tank in medium armour.
Seven as pure damage dealer.
Everyone geared for maximum strength and agility with double attack maxed as much as possible, depending on fight specifics.
Shulk as the playable character (I find his debuffs/side and back attacks are just too powerful and important to let the AI take care of it.
Dunban as an avoidance tank in medium armour.
Seven as pure damage dealer.
Everyone geared for maximum strength and agility with double attack maxed as much as possible, depending on fight specifics.
Dusty, just curious why this was your setup...
freakzilla3000
Junior Member
Colette from Tales of Symphonia
Though you aren't really given much choice in the matter, playing with Laguna, Kiros and Ward was a breath of fresh air compared to the angsty melodrama, nonsensical storytelling devices, and 2-dimensional archetypes of Final Fantasy VIII's "main" cast and scenario.
For those of you who haven't played FFVIII, you periodically play through weird dream sequences as Laguna, a hilariously awkward (but deeply human!) writer drafted into the military, as well as his two squadmates, Kiros and Ward. Their adventures include regularly getting lost, accidentally getting elected president of the most technologically advanced country on the planet, and watching Laguna's leg cramp up while trying to talk to the girl he likes.
They're funny, believable (minus everything around them), work incredibly well off of eachother, and since all of the characters in VIII play the same sans Limit Breaks, a fixed party of three doesn't make you feel like you're leaving anyone out of the mix.
The party is grounded and charming, and Laguna is easily my favorite Final Fantasy character. Just a shame theyre trapped in one of my least favorite entries in the series.
Came to post this. I find the older i get the more i prefer Laguna and his crew over the actual main characters of the game.
Would pay full price for a "Final Fantasy VIII1/2" all bout their wacky adventures. Maybe in an episodic format? Is there any way we can get an exec from Square and TellTale in an elevator together? Worked for Kingdom Hearts.
Black Door
Banned
Squall/Zell/Irvine in FFVIII.
Physical damage outdoes magic in this game, so the girls don't get used much unless I'm playing a low level game. Dark Ammo and "Armageddon fist" makes boss fights a joke.
Cloud/Cid/Yuffie in FFVII
All three characters get early multi-hit limit breaks, and can handle magic well.
FFIX...I usually use Dane/Freya/Quina/Steiner.
The former three all have cap-hitting attacks that are calculated independently from their actual stats, meaning you can walk into the final dungeon with start of game equipment and sleepwalk through fights. Steiner starts hitting regularly for 9999 once you hit around level 50 or so, and that's before you give him X-killer S-abilities
Xenoblade: Dunban, Shulk, Riki.
Dunban can't be hit, Shulk can do anything, Riki has the most HP and has tons of moves. The other characters are irrelevant
Chrono Trigger: Robo/Frog/Ayla
Marle and Lucca are useless, and Magus is so incompatible with everyone else (and you get him late) that he's not worth dealing with
FFVI: Doesn't matter, if you're not doing quicked doublecasted 1 MP Ultima on everything, or haven't given someone the master's scroll, genji glove, and their strongest weapon, you're doing it wrong
Physical damage outdoes magic in this game, so the girls don't get used much unless I'm playing a low level game. Dark Ammo and "Armageddon fist" makes boss fights a joke.
Cloud/Cid/Yuffie in FFVII
All three characters get early multi-hit limit breaks, and can handle magic well.
FFIX...I usually use Dane/Freya/Quina/Steiner.
The former three all have cap-hitting attacks that are calculated independently from their actual stats, meaning you can walk into the final dungeon with start of game equipment and sleepwalk through fights. Steiner starts hitting regularly for 9999 once you hit around level 50 or so, and that's before you give him X-killer S-abilities
Xenoblade: Dunban, Shulk, Riki.
Dunban can't be hit, Shulk can do anything, Riki has the most HP and has tons of moves. The other characters are irrelevant
Chrono Trigger: Robo/Frog/Ayla
Marle and Lucca are useless, and Magus is so incompatible with everyone else (and you get him late) that he's not worth dealing with
FFVI: Doesn't matter, if you're not doing quicked doublecasted 1 MP Ultima on everything, or haven't given someone the master's scroll, genji glove, and their strongest weapon, you're doing it wrong
Ghostofst4rm4n
Neo Member
Entire team in one character. Plus he's great with the ladies.
VII: Cloud \ Barrett \ Red
VIII: Squall \ Rinoa \ Zell
IX: Zidane \ Steiner \ Garnet \ Vivi (My man, OP. Although, i've done 18 playthroughs, i think i've done _nearly_ all decent party combinations at this point, including a zero-heals run at a certain point and some other trickery)
X: Auron\Wakka\Yuna.
XII: Balthier \ Ashe \ Basch
XIII: Lightning\Fang\Hope
FFT: Two ninja, four arithmeticians. I like cheating.
And outside of FF: ME, Garrus+Any. Fuck yeah, Garrus.
VIII: Squall \ Rinoa \ Zell
IX: Zidane \ Steiner \ Garnet \ Vivi (My man, OP. Although, i've done 18 playthroughs, i think i've done _nearly_ all decent party combinations at this point, including a zero-heals run at a certain point and some other trickery)
X: Auron\Wakka\Yuna.
XII: Balthier \ Ashe \ Basch
XIII: Lightning\Fang\Hope
FFT: Two ninja, four arithmeticians. I like cheating.
And outside of FF: ME, Garrus+Any. Fuck yeah, Garrus.
Chopper Dave
Member
I'm quite fond of this one:
(Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)
I would love to say Mario, Bowser and Geno but Peach's healing is so damn useful. She is so cruel benching my favorite characters like that. I am too weak willed to say no though
Black Door
Banned
Vaan/gun, Ashe/greatsword, and Basch/sword generally tended to be my endgame party
DeadPhoenix
Member
I pretty much always rotate my characters. I just hate leaving anyone out if I can avoid it, but there are a few exceptions...
CT: Crono, Frog and Ayla. Dat triple Tech.
FF8: Laguna's crew has already been mention so I'll go with the my regular party, Squall, Zell and Rinoa. I didn't actually like Zell, but his fucking limit break was awesome(and i preffered spamming limit breaks over GFs so that was important to me)
Wow.... That is all I can think of. Pretty much every other game I try to keep full team balanced, even to the point where it makes the game way harder. I think even my last attempt to play through vanilla FFT ended in failure because my characters didn't have enough levels for a storyline battle and I didn't feel like doing any more grinding(I've beaten the game before so w/e). I actually prefer it this way, keeping all my allies at the same level automatically is just the most boring thing to me.
CT: Crono, Frog and Ayla. Dat triple Tech.
FF8: Laguna's crew has already been mention so I'll go with the my regular party, Squall, Zell and Rinoa. I didn't actually like Zell, but his fucking limit break was awesome(and i preffered spamming limit breaks over GFs so that was important to me)
Wow.... That is all I can think of. Pretty much every other game I try to keep full team balanced, even to the point where it makes the game way harder. I think even my last attempt to play through vanilla FFT ended in failure because my characters didn't have enough levels for a storyline battle and I didn't feel like doing any more grinding(I've beaten the game before so w/e). I actually prefer it this way, keeping all my allies at the same level automatically is just the most boring thing to me.
omegashockwave
Member
Chrono Trigger : Crono, Frog, Ayla
Persona 3: MC, Akihiko, Yukari, Mitsuru
Persona 4: MC, Yosuke, Yukiko, Kanji
Xenoblade: Shulk, Dunban, Charla
Mass Effect: Wrex, Garrus
Persona 3: MC, Akihiko, Yukari, Mitsuru
Persona 4: MC, Yosuke, Yukiko, Kanji
Xenoblade: Shulk, Dunban, Charla
Mass Effect: Wrex, Garrus
PlumCantaloupe
Member
That smartass robot in KOTOR that kept calling me "meatbag".
Best Final Fantasy.
GoodCoffeeJoey
Banned
Cloud - Tifa - Cid
Final Fantasy VII - Cloud,Cid and Barret.
Xenogears - Fei,Citan and Emeralda.
Edit:
Damn this takes me back and I agree with you 100%.
Xenogears - Fei,Citan and Emeralda.
Edit:
Damn this takes me back and I agree with you 100%.
rainking187
Member
Star Ocean 2-Claude, Rena, Ashton, Celine
My list per game :
Persona 3 Portable - MC, Aigis, Yukari and Aki (both Aigis and Aki are really useful due to all there stat-buffs/de-buffs)
Persona 4 Golden - MC, Kanji, Naoato, and Yukko
Mario RPG - Mario, Peach, Geno
Mario and Luigi - Mario and Luigi of course!
KH's - Sora, Donald, and the World Character
:Persona 3 Portable - MC, Aigis, Yukari and Aki (both Aigis and Aki are really useful due to all there stat-buffs/de-buffs)
Persona 4 Golden - MC, Kanji, Naoato, and Yukko
Mario RPG - Mario, Peach, Geno
Mario and Luigi - Mario and Luigi of course
!KH's - Sora, Donald, and the World Character
Mental Atrophy
Banned
Fighter, Fighter, Fighter, Red Mage.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Came in to say this:
I love the dynamic of every character in this game. And this to me is the perfect party.
(I really hope that image isn't huge. I'm on mobile. I stole it from a post above.)
I love the dynamic of every character in this game. And this to me is the perfect party.
(I really hope that image isn't huge. I'm on mobile. I stole it from a post above.)
Masquerader
Member
Baldur's Gate:
Both of these guys are frankly awesome. Give him a large sword and some armour and he's the best berserker ever. He's also very kind, and extremely entertaining. Because "Go for the eyes!!!"
By all accounts, Xzar isn't a particularly practical choice for a party. But he's my favourite character in the series. A complete lunatic with very interesting dialogue, and I like it that way. Also has an interesting story, and I like him paired with Montaron.
Both of these guys are frankly awesome. Give him a large sword and some armour and he's the best berserker ever. He's also very kind, and extremely entertaining. Because "Go for the eyes!!!"
By all accounts, Xzar isn't a particularly practical choice for a party. But he's my favourite character in the series. A complete lunatic with very interesting dialogue, and I like it that way. Also has an interesting story, and I like him paired with Montaron.
Why didn't he return as a party member for the sequel... >:c
MickeyKnox
Member
Straight up murdering fools from a great distance.
Megalosaro
Banned
DQ3: Hero, warrior sage sage
Dq4: hero, ragnar, alena, nara/meena,
Dq5: hero son, daughter
Dq6: hero, terry, barbara, milly
Dq7: hero, maribel gabon kiefer
Dq9: paladin, gladiator, sage, ranger
Dq4: hero, ragnar, alena, nara/meena,
saro/psaro
Dq6: hero, terry, barbara, milly
Dq7: hero, maribel gabon kiefer
Dq9: paladin, gladiator, sage, ranger
Yukari, Aki and Aigis. (Aigis is sadly not in the pic
Exactly the same for me.
I substituted Aigis with Koromaru during my P3P FeMC playthrough to mix things up at least a bit but Yukari, Akihiko and Aigis is the best P3 party for me.
Yukiko, Yosuke and Kanji for P4.
Pokémon I try to mix up a bit especially since depending on the game there's different ones available, though I often have an Eevee evolution on there, usually Vaporeon, Jolteon or Umbreon.
Chrono Trigger:
Lucca
Robo
Magus
Omega Flare = win but it's tough because Chrono and Frog are so awesome... gotta go with who I like the most though.
Chrono Cross:
Serge
Norris
Grobyc
Black hole double tech is good enough for me. + I love all of those characters.
Final Fantasy Tactics:
Ramza - Squire/Monk
Agrias - Holy Knight/Knight
Mediator/Oracle
Summoner/Time Mage
Dragoon/Geomancer (odd combos, I know)... I just like those classes the most. ^_^
Legend of Dragoon
Dart
Lavitz
Kongol
Super Mario RPG
Mario
Geno
Mallow
Final Fantasy XII
Baltheir
Vossler
Basch
Final Fantasy X
Tidus
Kimahri
Wakka
Lucca
Robo
Magus
Omega Flare = win but it's tough because Chrono and Frog are so awesome... gotta go with who I like the most though.
Chrono Cross:
Serge
Norris
Grobyc
Black hole double tech is good enough for me. + I love all of those characters.
Final Fantasy Tactics:
Ramza - Squire/Monk
Agrias - Holy Knight/Knight
Mediator/Oracle
Summoner/Time Mage
Dragoon/Geomancer (odd combos, I know)... I just like those classes the most. ^_^
Legend of Dragoon
Dart
Lavitz
Kongol
Super Mario RPG
Mario
Geno
Mallow
Final Fantasy XII
Baltheir
Vossler
Basch
Final Fantasy X
Tidus
Kimahri
Wakka
A Huge Battleship
Member
Revya/Gig and Lujei from Soul Nomad
Demon Path
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Become unstoppable.
P4: MC, Chie, Yukiko (Even though I hate her she's super useful) Yosuke.
P3: MC, Akihiko, Aigis, Marin Karin.
FFV: Samurai, Samurai, Black Mage, White Mage.
Tizoc
Member
Minsc from Baldur's Gate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzWbbNO_Ic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzWbbNO_Ic
IntoTheBush
Neo Member
Entire team in one character. Plus he's great with the ladies.
Yes! I could never bring myself to even try out Opera or Ernest in new playthroughs simply because he was so awesome.
