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Xiahou Shake posted...

Oh, I see now. The overall growth rates dont paint a very clean picture. What really matters is where their rates are in the stats you care about, and Dedue with no class mods is already above 50% in all the stats he's likely to care about. Ashe by comparison has shit Str growth and really only naturally excels in Spd and Dex, while being so low in everything else because of an even-ish spread that even class mods will have you counting on luck for him to turn out worthwhile.

Yeah overall growth totals are meaningless. Characters that try to balance physical and magical performance end up high in those while being inferior at either to units that do it naturally. Lysithea has the lowest growths in the game, but the best offensive growths for any magic unit (plus some very potent spells for things like Dark Knight nuking) so no one cares that she has bad growths in stats that she rarely has any reason to even use.

Though Dedue is a bad example since his speed is awful, and to top it off he's weak in flying so Wyvern is out for patching that up with its high speed base (Raphael can get into Wyvern Lord easily enough since he's neutral in flying, and Wyvern Lord will always have minimum 24 speed, so that automatically makes him outspeed the slow enemies and avoid being doubled by most of the mid-speed ones, so he's better off in the long run than Dedue despite an even worse growth)
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