Talk:Valentine 2018 Event Revival (US)/@comment-37303572-20190211072931/@comment-27845802-20190214183010

IMO Ibaraki is currently one of the best ST zerkers in the game. Would strongly recommend raising her and skilling her up unless you already have NP3+ Beowulf, Kintoki zerker, or MHX Alter. Those are the only other zerkers I can think of that can keep up/outperform Ibaraki in terms of ST burst.

She lacks an evade/invul, but that isn't really an issue since you'll kill most things before having to worry about enemies firing off an NP. The defense buff is more than strong enough to tank a single turn of burst damage if you run her with waver/mash and her heal/debff removal is really strong in a variety of situations.

One turn burst zerkers like Ibaraki and the others mentioned above will be slightly less powerful after the break guage is introduced but they're still plenty capable of chunking out one of a boss' health bars with ease. After that their job is done and you can just sort of let them die off and let a backline servant hop in and tackle the boss fight proper.