Talk:Francis Drake/@comment-2601:19B:4402:9E30:25EA:518:A660:8E03-20180310034505/@comment-27971189-20180630100002

People consider Drake weak for simple reason that she is AOE with no personal damage boost aside of ATK Up and NP Up that easily lacking compare to Buster Up.

Although Drake herself is no slacker with instant stars, this became true with Colombus, being discount Drake, trading stars for more firepower, making Drake damage potential totally go into teamworks which less preferable to deal with enemies who have more HP and gimmick.

And what LazyCat said is actually true enough.

For experieced players who have no qualm going with neutral damage, Rider is bad class.

Under current standard, having highest star-absorb is equal to interrupting teamworks, moreso when the said Rider incapable of covering it. Worse, most of them have Riding and rarely they capable to took advantages from that, unlike Archers and their Independent Action.

Thus you can see top-class Rider are people capable of maintaining teamworks (Ozy, Drake) on top of having loaded general-purpose kit (Quetz, Achilles, Ivan) to cover for their presence.

Ozy is considered top-tier not only because of his output but also how his high star absorption is cheap price for what he offers.