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How good is Lightning's magic offense? Is she Barret-esque "she can do it but she sux" or is she actually good?

Lightning's magic is kinda dumb because all her big spells are hot garbage compared to the -ra spells. Due to how Lightning Returns works, you spend your time trying to stagger enemies to deal them MASSIVE AND CONVINCING DAMAGE (and otherwise deal chipping damage). For this reason the primary spells she uses are -ra spells for single target and -ga spells for multitarget, as they have shorter cast times in a game where enemies WILL punch the crap out of you while you cast. She has a total of 12 moves plus her EP abilities, and if I had to guess they'd be something like the following:

-Garb 1: Aerora, Heavy Slash, Blitz, Mediguard
-Garb 2: Slowga, Imperilga, Debravega, Defaithga
-Garb 3: Disaster, Deshellga, Deprotega, Ultima

This isn't a perfect setup by any means, but sems about right. Lightning is honestly a pretty limited character in what she can do. Being restricted to her three garbs of four moves each gives her a small arsenal than say, Sephiroth or Exdeath.
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