Top 10 Worst JRPG Party Members - Part 4 

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Completely disagree with Judith... She hit so damn hard when you get the combos down that she's worth learning.

Goombario? Really? Everyone knows that he and Bow are some of the most broken characters ever. Charge and Multibonk are broken.

I fundamentally disagree with Sharla and Judith. Sharla saved my ass so often and Judith was my main in coop w my bro.

I disagree with Sharla, she save my ass so often with his healing shot. Also if you upgrade Goombario, he can be a deadly killer with the "Charge" and "Multibonk" abilities.

Building Judith's Moonlight talon is enough to kill super bosses so quickly it feels like cheating. That's how broken she is y'all.

Nah bro Judith is broken. The game isn't even designed around her.

Waaaay off base with Goombario. Everyone overlooks him for some reason. He's literally the best possible partner for boss battles when he is leveled up. Charge and multibonk can take out a boss in one round.

Kimahri is definitely underwhelming at the start but if you know how to use the sphere grid well and get the lv 4 lock unlocks you can get flare and Ultima pretty fast. His Ultima weapon is also quick to find. Maybe It's just me but before I finished the game kimahri overpowered all my other physical fighters.

*lists Judith as one of the worst JRPG party members* What are you smoking, my dude?

Yeah, Judith's AI is dirt, but she is absolutely busted as a manual character with a few of her Aerial Skills. She can infinite some enemies that even Yuri can't very well.

Boney has the ability to check weaknesses, remove shields with a certain item you find... but his major advantage is that he is the one consistently dealing damage. The scrolling health in that game is an important feature... and having 2 mages with the ability to heal and attack while another melee fighter with debuffs actually puts Boney in an important position. Via Lucas, Kumatora, and Duster you'll be buffing/debuff/healing in the early phases of bosses or in fights in general... Boney will be dealing damage. Not to mention without Boney it discourages buffing up everyone's attack as now only Duster benefits. This means without Boney Duster's tools become worthless... and any offensive buffs do. He is literally the key unit to keep the balance in the game, without him... you have no one. Less health. Less inventory slots. You're no longer damaging enemies in the first turns of boss fights so you won't feel like you're making progress if you do buff/debuff. Also if I recall correctly didn't Goombario get a multi-hitting attack which is traditionally super powerful in PM games? I think it was bugged though on bosses so after the first use on a specific boss any other uses on the same boss would instantly end completely killing him.

I just finished Tales of Vesperia last week and have to disagree with you about Judith being useless. She's not the best to control, but set her on AI and her many aerial abilities are priceless due to the great number of flying enemies in the game. Most of the physical attackers in Vesperia suffer from a lack of attack that can successfully hit airborne enemies, and that is the area Judith excels at most. She ended up being in my party for most of the game once I experienced how easily she dispatched flyers.

I can forgive including Sheena, since a summoner that can only summon as an overlimit sucks (though I do like her) But Judith is a great character to play as,

One character I expect to see on here later at some point is Rosch from Radiant Historia. This game, for context, mostly takes place in two different timelines: the Standard History and the Alternate History. Rosch... is almost completely unavailable in the Standard History, and he goes missing a lot even in the Alternate History. He's not like Aht, or especially like Raynie and Marco which you'll always have access to. So, what can he do when you have him? Eh, not too much. He can move enemies in 3 directions, which is nice, but Stocke, Marco, and Gafka are better movers. He also has the dubious distinction of not having any magic to speak of, which hurts for a few reasons. Not only does magic typically outperform physical in this game, but this game rewards combos, which you can increase faster by alternating between magic and physical hits. That means that, if you're on Rosch's turn and a physical hit came up previously, you have to switch if you want to do a magic hit, which leaves him open to a crit. Marco also has this issue at first, but Trans Turn means that he can just pass the ball to someone else to do the spellcasting on his turn without the vulnerability of the Switch command. Edit: What makes Rosch stick out like a sore thumb even worse is that there's already a character who can do what he does, but better, and that's Gafka. Gafka is available more often, has better damage, better movement ability, and better speed, meaning that Gafka's turn economy is better. Rosch's selling point is that he's durable, but imo it's not worth it.

...What? Goombario? The same guy who could help you do massive damage to the final boss by Charging and then Multibonking?

Sharla's definitely the worst character, but her damage is actually really decent if you're using her properly - Electric Plus and Ether gems, upgrade Thunder Bullet, slot all her offensive arts + Drive Boost instead of a bunch of redundant situational support crap when you really just need the direct heals, etc. She's not jaw-droppingly awesome, but people overspecialize the poor gal because "she's a healer" and create a self-fulfilling prophecy where she's got literally zero damage. Sharla's burst damage is very solid and her AI is pretty competent at executing it, unlike say, Melia. Yeah though, for the most* part Xenoblade just doesn't need the kind of crazy healing output she provides even if her damage deficit gets overstated. Still, I'd argue if you're not going to *play* Melia or Shulk yourself, Sharla makes a more competent party member than both due to their extremely broken AIs, even if she's at the bottom as a main. No matter what you do, you've gotta place two characters in the hands of the computer, among which only Seven, Dunban and Sharla (plus Reyn as a pure tank; he doesn't know how to use his damage build) are programmed decently. +1 for Kongol and Nina 3 though, the latter's definitely the weakest Nina. Judith feels screwed by her AI; she's super powerful yet tricky even for players to use, but if you're penalizing her for that, then you kind of have to knock Melia, who is easily as bad or worse on AI.

Nina is great in Breath of Fire 3. She has tons of MP and lots of multi-target spells, so she's perfect for speeding through dungeons -- most enemies in this game have elemental weaknesses, and you don't need to ration her MP because you're going to switch to Momo as your mage for the boss fights anyway. Nina's no boss-killer, but she makes the long, grindy dungeons of BoF3 way less of a pain. The actual useless Nina? That would be the Nina of BoF2 -- who is completely outclassed in every way by Blue as soon as she is unlocked. Once the snake-lady is in your party you have no reason to use Nina ever again.

Ill be honest im just super happy to see Legend of Dragoon mentioned. Deffo one of my all time favorite JRPGS.

I’m always impressed by the wide range of RPGs you cover!My niece and I just finished Paper Mario, and I’ll humbly admit that Goom-Bro (as we called him) actually helped us a couple of times when he offered those not-so-subtle hints about the environment. 😆

Wow you are so full of it with Judith and Sheena.

Glad to see so many people defending Judith. Carol is the one who really deserves to be here. The only thing I like about him is his out of battle healing.

Judith? You mean THAT Judith from Tales of Vesperia? Well, in my case, she is one of the most broken character in this game. With good control she can easily outdamage Yuri and Carol, both at the same time. And yeah, you need to play on her on Hard to really learn all of her tricks. On easy you can just pick anybody and go with the flow. Just little picture of what was going on in my battles: Yuri fights with one monster, Carol running away screaming, Estelle blocking attacks with her sheild, Rita trying to cast any spell, Raven running and firing arrors in his enemy... Judith... sits on the mountain of enemy corpses... and without any emotion going to help her less battle hardened friends.

Judith wasn't bad Karel is bad he is clunky

Like this page and what I do here? Consider supporting me on patreon! www.patreon.com/davidvinc [0:25] - 10) Sharla - Xenoblade Chronicles [1:24] - 9) Kimarhi - Final Fantasy X [2:26] - 8) Boney - Mother 3 [3:37] - 7) Gryz - Phantasy Star 4 [4:36] - 6) Judith - Tales of Vesperia [5:40] - 5) Bau - Lufia: The Ruins of Lore [6:42] - 4) Massimo - Megaman X: Command Mission [7:47] - 3) Nina - Breath of Fire 3 [8:46] - 2) Kongol - Legend of Dragoon [9:37] -1) Goombario - Paper Mario

Glad this came out today, seeing as how part 1 made me love your channel yesterday

Also with Sharla, you have her "gimmick" (and ranty explanation of it in this comment) Each Art she uses increases her rifle's temperature which increases the damage of her non-healing arts, while making the healing ones less effective. To counter this, her Talent Art is always available, which allows her to manually vent the rifle. However, if you (or more often the AI) don't manually vent and the talent art gauge fills up fully then she does a long animation of venting which hurts her DPS, especially if she has to vent as you do a chain attack. Which segues nicely into: Her chain attack potential isn't that good, as he DPS is quite low as the archetypal healer goes, but she doesn't have that much of a variety of arts with which to increase the damage multiplier.

Kimarhi is a dragoon and blue mage mixed ... Idk I used him alot.

so far you've included Bowser, Sharla, Sheena & Judith....you really hate some of my favorite characters :( edit: also, Goombario isn't THAT bad....hell I'd rather have him & the other Paper Mario party members than the lame basic enemies that get to be playable in Kart, Party & the various sports games...he, and Goombella in TTYD, is the first ally you get so of course he'll be outshined by later characters.

Gotta disagree with Judith being on the list. A player's lack of skill with a character does not make the character bad.

Nah, I disagree... I remember Nina being great and Momo being worthless. I used the 12 level gap to teach Nina more spells from masters

Honestly, this series just shows that most jrpgs are easy enough that you can use basically most anyone and win.

Heck no on Judith. I main her and she’s completely one of the best in the game. Just gotta learn her combos and get her ex skills.

My most hated JRPG member has got to be Roger from Star Ocean 3. I intentionally kept him dead in the party because I couldn't stand his obnoxious attitude. Good thing you dont have to recruit him to the party which I didn't know at first.

Yeah, Judith frustrated me too. Didn't get good mileage out of Sharla either. However, Goombario's Multibonk can be killer if you know how to use it. And while he requires the extra effort, Kimahri is good practice for making your party OP via the Sphere Grid.

I have to give Boney a pass only cause anytime a dog gets to be playable makes me smile.

The thing about BoF III Nina is that this is the first BoF game that gives characters differential magic defense. So one, her spells bounce off of enemy magic defense, and two, enemy spells bounce off of her magic defense. So she's basically a speedy magic tank sub-healer. This is not a very traditional niche.

MegaMan Command Mission was a dope game. Criminally underrated.

Judith is good idk what you're talking about. Her aerial artes are not that hard to experiment with and utilize. It's the same with any character in that game and any Tales game; you experiment and try to maximize their potential with certain and specific setups, and with that you definitely did not try enough with Judith. As with Kimahri, you definitely did not utilize him fully. He's a great mage and attacker and doesn't really matter what you put him through. He's a great "second" Auron if you get him the break moves, and then move into Wakka's path. In the end everyone starts branching out, and Kimahri has that headstart and almost surpasses everyone by midgame if you know how to move him around the sphere(before meta game and with the teleport, friend, and return spheres you obtain through main game). The reason for blue magic being an overdrive is because how OP it can get if it were regular magic(white wind, mighty guard spam anyone?), not only that the purpose of the sphere grid is so that everyone can learn commands; blue magic was exclusive to Kimahri, thus it is an overdrive move, otherwise we'd have everyone having the ability to utilize blue magic and spam white wind and mighty guard.

A note on Goombario, his ultra rank ability, multibonk, is bugged so if you use it twice in a row, you will get capped very early.

You should do a video on top 10 JRPG and RPG characters that the game forces you to use, the characters that you don't use for the entire game only to be forced to use them anyway

The problem with Kimahri is pretty much what David said. Everybody else is a specialist while he is a bit of a Jack of All Trades, Master of None and his Blue Magic is an Overdrive exclusive feature unlike Yuna's Aeons. But he can be useful as a thief before Rikku joins.

Honestly, Tales of Vesperia is my favourite game of all time, and yet I still completely forgot Judith was a character.

so glad I came across your channel! not many new rpg related content out there that's not about ff or an upcoming game

so, you are holding it against judith, the most satisfying, most powerful Best party member in the game because shes not a mindless button mashy drone? Also Goombario is literally the MOST powerful party member in the game, charge + Multibonk is way more damage than any other party member can dish out to a single enemy. Parakarry is in fact the worst party member in the game, decent when you get him but useless once you get watt

I always use Judith, always, she performs too well as party member for me to bench her, airial combos are great at staggering enemies for longer while you focus on other enemies, never had a problem with her

To kimarhi's defense, he does get a a glorious Armlet with Fire, Thunder, & Ice elemental resists. This makes him a great elemental damage sponge, so I put him on Tidus's sphere grid just for Haste, then on Auron's sphere grid. Wasn't as strong as Auron, but he offered much greater utility. Besides, I really like having an insurance against Seymour Flux or those tough Bosses in the story. Judith - Eh, never played Tales of Hearts. If there is one thing I find controller shattering about Vesperia, why do we have to grind so much just to get the weapons that enable the characters to learn new arte? And then we have to use said arte 100 (with physical ones) or 50 (with magical ones) times before it's learned forever? The payoff is worth it, but some characters like Karol, legit are garbage if you don't grind for his altered artes. Having characters that are bad without the grind is a giant middle-finger to the players. Massimo - The elemental weaknesses REALLY suck for him. His high hp is completely mitigated by characters like cinnamon who can heal. Spider & Axel's Overdrive make them immune to damage during its activation. Items even outclass him. Goombario - At least he's funny. Charge + Multibonk does some of the highest damage for a partner, but he is one-dimensional.

Thank you so much for this vid and how respectful you are.

One other note on Kongol: the damage modifiers on his combos are abysmal compared to the others so he’s not even making up for his lack of speed in overall damage

Kongol was a killer in my party. I gave him the first legend casque to make up for his shortage.

You wouldn't expect a goomba to be a fantastic party member

Khimari!? Judith!? Kongol instead of Shana!? BOY! You dropped the ball on this list for sure.

I am surprised about Judith, because she is the character I used the most after Yuri in the battles.

Kimahri!? I strongly disagree! He's able to be anyone you WANT!!!!

Two more marks against Boney. First, Lloyd and Jeff had decent attack power with their guns, while Boney barely out-damaged Kumatora, the MAGE. Second, we already had the series-standard non-psychic party member with Duster, who hits like a truck and his tools let him dish out status ailments which are actually useful in this series.

Kongol has one advantage: the speed increasing item has a lot more effect on him and puts him at Dart's level. Add the Defense action giving him a lot of HP, and if you manage to solve his magical defense problem (and if you grind a little, you can definitively do so with one piece of equipment), can simply outlast bosses solo

Replace Nina with Momo? Are you high my dude? Nina's int growth far outclasses Momo's and she gets useful spells without having to learn them from a master. Also she's lovely. Momo can't hit the broad side of a barn with her cannon and her support spells are mostly useless, her main use is as a healer because Ryu is your primary healer and you want to save his AP for attacking and dragon transformations. making Momo your next best. Hell if we stay consistent with your hate for tanks surely Garr should be here. He's slow and gets given spells with no AP to use them. Not to mention he constantly gets stuck in doorways.

goombario is fine, he's the guy that tells the enemy weak points so he has his niche in battle. i mean, is he not made for the quick info and then switch in the first place?

Love this series, keep it going past part 5!

I find Kimarhi to be exceptionally useful if you know what you're doing with him in the early and midgame. Cheer is insanely powerful, borderline broken when more than one character has it and Kimarhi is the only one who can easily reach it other than Tidus, you can then use the early ability sphere on someone else to have triple cheer, which after only one round of turns early game can almost double your entire parties damage output. If you want to you can even break the damage limit because the Cheer buff has no cap. after 5 cheers you get enough of a defense buff to be equal to a protect spell on the whole party, while also doubling your damage output in the early to mid game, that's on top of the extra steal/use utlity from rikku's grid. Cheer doesn't seem too big when only Tidus has it but it's an ability that's exponential in growth.

My suggestions: Shana and Miranda from Legend of Dragoon. They have three things going for them - high magic (meaning they can use items and, if you're good with button-mashing, deal lots of damage), the objectively BEST dragon attack in the game combined with the fact that they are the best healers. But much like Sharla in Xenoblade, healers aren't that useful in Legend of Dragoon - healing items scale into the late-game because, much like in Tales, they heal by percentages and not flat amounts. On top of that, the "defend" command restores 10% of your max HP. The way Legend of Dragoon's system works, you'll find yourself using it WAY more often than in other games. What really harms them is the fact that they can't perform additions - they just get a weak-ass attack that basically cherry-taps enemies. They have healing magic, but MP recovery is rare and it doesnt' happen naturally meaning you usually end up rationing your magic for boss fights.... and if you're taking that much damage from bosses and NEED Shana and Miranda, you are SEVERLY underprepared. Just about eveyrthing she can do, you can have Meru do. Meru can perform additions (meaning she outdoes them in physical damage), outspeed them, perform magic on an equal level, AND on top of that, she can heal. The fact that there are only three slots (one of which is locked to Dart) in the active party is what really seals the deal against Shana and Miranda - specialist characters often only work when you have a larger party size. Claire - Jeanne D'Arc This is an unusual game for the PSP that was made by Level-5... sort of a precursor to Ni No Kuni in a way in that they had Studio Ghibli join them, but not with the amount of creative control compared to Ni No Kuni. It was seen as a 'Final Fantasy Tactics Like' game, especially in comparison to the chuggy PSP game. Enough about that, what makes Claire so useless? Here's the thing - she's a mage. In a game in which magic is generally not that useful, due to the fact that MP starts low and regenerates throughout the battle, whereas physical attacks can be used from turn one or two. So by the time you can have Claire or Richard use their magic, the battle's mostly over and you'll have to use consumables so they can do their jobs efficiently. That's one thing working against her. Number two? You have Richard. Richard has an armlet, which Claire doesn't get. The armlet gives their wearers some pretty powerful abilities. Meaning that Claire's left in the dust by Richard. Number three? She's mutually exclusive with Rose. Rose is a thief/rogue type character who is the only character that can attack Diagonally due to the fact she's the only one who can use whips. So what would you pick? A character who is pretty unique in where she can place burning auras (diagonally) and can bring utility to the table.... or a mage who is just a weaker version of who you already have. I wonder who wins... This game has NO Shortage of characters who get overshadowed, but Claire is easily the most.

YOU HAVE TO DO ONE WITH THE BEST ONES

I disagree about Kimahri, sure, from the start he’s not particularly strong, but if you take the time to level him up he can be a great all-round character

You know what's funny.... I use Khimari all the time and would argue that his existence in the game makes Auron a useless character. Auron is only there initially because his weapons have piercing, but when it comes down to it , Auron has bad accuracy and magic defense, as well as many of his skills aren't all that impressive. Sending Khimari down Wakka's part of the sphere grid means that Khimari has the ability to still kill enemies slotted for Auron (because his weapons have piercing) as well as being able to take over for Tidus as well since the accuracy he gains from Wakka's path lets him hit the wolves and lizards of the game.

37 years old. You look great for your age. This is a great series.

Completely disagree with Judith. She's a great character

I'm 1 year late, but I 90% agree with your opinion on Judith, unlike most people here. She is not bad IMO, but Yuri can do much more than her with much less effort.

Personally,i really liked the concept of Boney. We basically have an empty spot in the party, Lucas ,well rounded healer, Kumatora,magical attacker, Duster,physical attacker and special equipment user. Boney can only analyse enemies ,but has no weapons(until the endgame),little armor and low stats,why is he here, other than being an extra target? Well ,i liked that i could give him all the variety of healing,status and damage dealing items to use. This could only work in game with a large variety of consumables. Items that only a character can use feel really forced,like a skill by another name,but this way is different,these are object anybody can use,but i cannot afford to waste precious turns on. They would have usually gone unused for the rest of the game,using skills instead of them. But this way combine two weak elements in a single strong one,we can use Boney to be a secondary healer and heal a second person or an ausiliary attacker. The fact that he doesn't use armor also gives him more space to hold more items. I really liked this concept of optimisation

Now, out of the grouping here, I happen to love Phantasy Star 4 and enjoy Final Fantasy X greatly. I got alot of use out of it. Fortunately, you are right about Gryz. He doesn't have much. Even years after my last time playing Pstar 4, I recall that he didn't have much going for him. However, I need to give you a "HOLD IT!" on Kimahri, and I will explain. Apart from the obvious customization that renders everybody able to access everyone else's abilities on the Sphere Grid, the fact is that Kimahri is one of the strong fighters of the group. Somewhere between Wakka and Auron (closer to Auron, I think), in my opinion. Putting that aside, though, and even setting Lancet (his blue magic) aside, there is one thing that I in particular did that made him BROKEN, and I don't know if anybody else can get this, but I became invincible with Kimahri when I did. We got a lance that was for evading and counterattacking, whether you hit him or you didn't. No matter what, if Kimahri took damage, he would immediately attack. This weapon also caused the Stone status on enemies, and you know what happens in FFX when a creature becomes petrified, right? It shatters, immediately. SO! There I was, fighting along, almost nobody able to hurt Kimahri and nearly every enemy instantly dying of petrification. Even if they were immune, they were hurt and often. We were killing in droves with minimal effort. Forget your ultimate weapons in the game, your special summons, your Overdrive abilities. THIS was what shined in my game. Raw killing power. I used all of my combat abilities to their fullest, but at least my version of the Ronso stepping up to bat was like unleashing Alucard from Hellsing. It was death personified.

I used Kongol in my final party, granted that was like 20 years ago lol

Goombario's okay. Lakilester is the real lackluster one.

To be fair though, Kimahri is underrated as a Final Fantasy character and I am tired of pretending he isn’t.

On your point about tanks, they can be really good if there is a way to maintain aggro, like say Zin's provoke. (Although Zin has other problems in Trails in the Sky for the same reasons other physical units do.) Otherwise, they are terrible.

Tales of Hearts R is so easy to get aerial combos off in that it's kinda hilarious. Mostly because the person that is arguably best at it is Kohaku, who is canonically afraid of heights. You definitely wouldn't guess it from how the AI tends to keep her at the very top of the screen for around 80% of the fight.

0:48 Melia: allow me to take up the next character slot

When I played Legend of Dragoon I used Kongol and Albert a lot. Looking back it was probably playing the game on hard mode since they always got their turns last.

Judith is actually one of the best, even basic Arial combos lead to chains for final strikes to end battle or give massive damage to bosses. She can do infinites in the air it's hard I can't do it but it can be done. Easily one of the best members.

Holy crap someone remembered Legend of Dragoon

The best part of David’s worst JRPG party members lists is that he legitimately make you think. When he justifies his reasons for putting certain characters on the list, every single time I think to myself “Yep, he is 100% right.” Lol

I highly disagree with you on Judith and Sheena. Sure the former is not the easiest character to master, however if you take your time to learn every move step by step she becomes really OP. The latter can buff your party, debuff your foes, spam her mystic artes with the use of the elemental seals, do infinite combo, resurrect and so on. Yeah Sheena is in fact on of the best party member of Symphonia, she's just a little subtle.

Nina is a useful character of Breath of Fire III because of her magic skills.

I thought Nina was really cute! Though I felt like her personality sort of went away when she grew up. They didn't do anything else with her after she grew up. I never got the hang of the master system either in three, I think it was a bit better in four but four was a pretty big mechanical improvement over three in every way I think. They really smoothed out all the issues I had with the third game. Better master system. Slightly Lee's infuriating mandatory mini games, etc.

Typo for Kimahri. Given the nature if his overdrive, I think Square should compensate him by giving him higher charge speed of overdrive gauge.

totally agree with the kimahri bashing, im curious how he (or every character rly) builds on the expert gridsphere in the remaster

This series is the best!

My most hated JRPG party member right now has to be Dew from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. Jesus is he bad. Poor defenses, literally has so little strength that he does 0 damage to a ton of enemies; pretty much his only saving grace is that he's able to avoid a lot of things, which isn't even a total upside because he's so squishy. He's swordlocked, so all the 1-2 range options he has are magic based (which he has even WORSE bases and growth for!), and he's not mounted, so he misses out on a lot of movement options and can't use the Canto ability to get to safety. Just.... ew all around. His only selling point is that he can steal 1000-2000 gold per attack, which also isn't that good when you realize the arena exists and you can use it without wasting a turn. There aren't even any chests or doors for him to unlock, which is half the reason people use thieves in Fire Emblem anyways. Hoping to see him in part 5. EDIT: I forgot to add this, but Genealogy of the Holy War only uses one RN (random number) for its hit rate, which means that Dew's avoid rate is even shakier than most other thieves' avoidance So if Dew's enemy has a 30 percent displayed chance to hit him, they actually have a 30 percent chance to hit him. Compare this to the GBA games onward, which use 2 RNs for their hit rate, which means the same displayed hit rate on an enemy connecting their attack actually has an 18.30 percent chance to hit your unit. That's about a 12 percent difference, but that 12 percent can mean a lot.

Here's a concrete build for Kimahri without even trying. 1) Cycle him clockwise from his starting point until he gets to Rikku's path. 2) Go in, grab Steal and Use and continue just far enough to activate the first Magic node. 3) Use a Return sphere to go back to the Extract Mana ability. 4) Grab the Magic node below Extract Mana, and backtrack to enter Wakka's path. 5) Follow Wakka's path to Silence Attack. Use a Lvl 2 Key Sphere to enter Lulu's path. 6) Skip Demi, grab everything else. Finish Lulu's path. 7) Either emerge back into Wakka's path and start acquiring the Buster attacks, or head elsewhere. This is very little effort, cherry picks some of the best abilities, and doesn't require excessive grinding. When he picks up level 3 magic, he's only 4 magic behind Lulu, and he gets the spells 28 sphere levels before her (55 to her 83). Over the next 30 levels, she'll gain 0 Magic and he'll gain 25, along with Flare and Drain. By the time she's getting Flare, he's all the way up Wakka's path to Sleep Buster. And the entire time, he's tougher than her and has over twice the agility. Those kinds of shenanigans are really just not possible in reverse.

Lol at Korcha in the intro sequence. I submit that you could do an entire top 10 list of worst characters in Crono Cross. I'd argue that maybe 5-6 are worth a damn.

Elliot Craig - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. I only use him when 100% forced to.

So basically top 10 JRPG party member you don't know how to play.

Disagree about Goombario. He can gain the Charge and Multibonk skills. Charge increases his attack by 1 and you can stack those if you use Charge each turn. Combine with Multibonk, you can take out high hp foes pretty quickly. This includes the final boss!

I dunno Kimarhi can be awesome if you go down the right paths making him a good stand in for Lulu and Rikku and even Auron

You want a recent example of the big, tanky slow character archatype that works. Hendrik from DQ11. He actually has some good spells a skill where he can draw all enemies attacks towards him. Making him make use of his tank stats He can become invaluable in some of the endgame optional bosses(mostly on the Switch definitive version) on Draconian difficulty

I use Kimahri all the time. Pretty easy to build him as a Paladin kind of character (go pick up cure/protect/shell then go into Tidus' tree for haste and some damage then go into Auron's for Damage/Tanking and use white spheres later in the game for Life and Curaga.) Lulu on the other hand is entirely useless. AS SOON as you fight Seymour for the first time as you can steal Black Spheres from it and learn Black Magic on Yuna, who blows Lulu out of the water completely. Besides building Yuna for heavy black magic use also buffs your Aeon's magic stats which make theirs hit like a truck as well. Her Overdrive is also worse than Kimhari's. Edit : note this is all on the Expert Sphere Grid.

I really didn’t use Kamarhi at all until the snow mountain

The problem with tanky party character is (I think) that their supossed role is to absorb damage, which is very difficult in non tactics RPG unlees they can aggro somehow. By the way, is there a possibility we will see a "top 10 party members so overpowered they are not even funny" video?

I've never actually had Boney steal any of my healing items before. Heck, I didn't even know that was a thing that could happen until watching this video. You learn something new every day.

You bring up a very important point with the slow-strong-no magic-tank types. I feel like they really need to have their strength matter if they're going to be any importance. In fact, they should be doing at minimum of 150% of what the other characters in terms of physical damage and should take at most 75% damage that others do.

I was waiting for this part

I like Boney because the dog in the first Earthbound doesn't do anything to help Ness.