Talk:Nero Claudius (Caster)/@comment-118.174.166.20-20170810053842/@comment-104.32.101.200-20170810185924

I don't think you've ever really looked at either of them if you think that Illya is much better than Sanzou. Illya's my second favorite Caster in the game. I have her nearly skill maxed, I enjoy using her because of her voice and animations, and I've tried to make her good. And yet I still have to say that, no, Illya was not as good as Sanzou even before the latter got her Strengthening (I'm still kinda sore about that one...). Illya's skillset is just poorly designed all around; none of her skills are particularly outstanding, for some reason she has a Prana Burst clone and a Buster buff on her NP when she has only 1 Buster card in her deck, and her low base NP gain rate and lack of Territory Creation makes her inferior to almost every other Caster in accumulating gauge despite her good hitcounts. Also, having a Guts and heal in the same skill is about the most unintuitive skill combination possible (not to mention, it's very possible for the Guts to fail to proc when you want it to). On top of all that, there's the innate problem of being a damage-dealing Caster. Heck, her NP isn't even nearly as powerful as you might expect it to be given that there's a demerit on it. Compared to that, Nero's skillset is so much better...

I was really, really hoping Illya would've gotten a Strengthening Quest to fix at least one of her multiple problems, but I'm starting to fear that she never will because she's a Collab Servant.