I don't use any monster-type unit but Desco in Disgaea 4. Their skills are nowhere near varied enough for my preference, but Desco gets a free pass because she's a story character.
I don't ever use Meg or Fiona in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. They are the worst units in the game, bar none.
In the post-game of The World Ends With You, when you can switch partners, I never used Shiki. The other 2 were just so much better for me.
In Tales of Symphonia, Regal spent maybe 5-10 battles in my party. I used Presea occasionally, but my party was almost always Lloyd, Genis, Raine and Zelos, sometimes Colette or Sheena.
In Dragon Age, I never used Sten or, surprisingly, Morrigan. Sten because I like Alistair more as a knight and Morrigan because I always keep Wynne around for her healing and I play as a mage so my party is frequently too defensively-impaired by the presence of 2 mages to survive having another one around.
I rarely put Gafka in my party in Radiant Historia because he never stood out to me. His attacks are powerful, but they're not all that interesting and his Elemental Beads attack was a big turn-off because Marco and Rosch could do the same thing with Grapple for a lower MP cost and both of them could take more hits than Gafka.
From Persona 4, Naoto sadly had to take a back seat. As much as I love her as a character, her skills are sub-par and she has nowhere near a high enough SP pool to use them effectively. It doesn't help that she has to dump her physical skills in order to get the skills she's really good with, those being the Hama and Mudo spells which are ineffective against bosses and unreliable without Hama and Mudo Boost, which take up 2 more slots in her movelist. In addition, she gets the powerful Megido skills which have such an insanely high SP cost that they're rarely justified without the use of Mind Charge.
In a similar vein, Ken from Persona 3 was pretty bad. He used Hama skills primarily, and never got Hama Boost. His Zio skills were useless compared to Akihiko and his healing is outclassed by Yukari's. I would talk about how I never get the chance to properly use Shinjiro, but that would be spoilers.
I don't ever use Meg or Fiona in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. They are the worst units in the game, bar none.
In the post-game of The World Ends With You, when you can switch partners, I never used Shiki. The other 2 were just so much better for me.
In Tales of Symphonia, Regal spent maybe 5-10 battles in my party. I used Presea occasionally, but my party was almost always Lloyd, Genis, Raine and Zelos, sometimes Colette or Sheena.
In Dragon Age, I never used Sten or, surprisingly, Morrigan. Sten because I like Alistair more as a knight and Morrigan because I always keep Wynne around for her healing and I play as a mage so my party is frequently too defensively-impaired by the presence of 2 mages to survive having another one around.
I rarely put Gafka in my party in Radiant Historia because he never stood out to me. His attacks are powerful, but they're not all that interesting and his Elemental Beads attack was a big turn-off because Marco and Rosch could do the same thing with Grapple for a lower MP cost and both of them could take more hits than Gafka.
From Persona 4, Naoto sadly had to take a back seat. As much as I love her as a character, her skills are sub-par and she has nowhere near a high enough SP pool to use them effectively. It doesn't help that she has to dump her physical skills in order to get the skills she's really good with, those being the Hama and Mudo spells which are ineffective against bosses and unreliable without Hama and Mudo Boost, which take up 2 more slots in her movelist. In addition, she gets the powerful Megido skills which have such an insanely high SP cost that they're rarely justified without the use of Mind Charge.
In a similar vein, Ken from Persona 3 was pretty bad. He used Hama skills primarily, and never got Hama Boost. His Zio skills were useless compared to Akihiko and his healing is outclassed by Yukari's. I would talk about how I never get the chance to properly use Shinjiro, but that would be spoilers.
