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Guide

Note: characters are ranked from strongest to weakest support from left to right.

Offensive Support

Offensive supporters serve to increase the team's damage output, whether passively with skills like Verve or Valiance, or actively using a round-start Character Skill. Generally speaking, units who support without using a Character Skill are better on defense teams, while on attack teams their Character Skill can be used at the player's discretion.

Defensive Support

Defensive supporters aim to keep the party alive long enough to queue up all of their skills to wipe out the enemy party. Among defensive supports are tanks who provoke the enemy and act as a damage sponge to protect glass canons. Pairing a tank with another strong defensive support can make for a fearsome attack team. Excessive defense support on defense teams is not strongly advisable due to units like Summer Captive F66x, who can disable the enemy's Character Skills if she uses hers first.

Agility Support

Agility supporters are pretty straight forward: they provide the whole team with greater agility. Higher agility allows you to perform normal attacks before other units while skills load. If properly equipped, agility supporters can also be fearsome turrets, provide other kinds of support, or even act as an agility rusher themselves.