History GameBreaker / AnotherEden

** Mariel is the first of the 5-star healers, and was the go-to character until other competition arose. She still stands out with some of the best healing numbers, with a dash of RegeneratingHealth on top so that she doesn't have to spam healing all the time. She also gets Aurora Force, a potent but short-lived magic defense buff. Her offense is lacking, but it's NonElemental so she fits into almost any team. Her Manifest Weapon further enhances Pure Cradle's healing and adds a side of MP restoration, and lets her Holy Burst bestow {{Critical Hit}}s to your mages to close off the inverted LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards gap.

** Thanks to PowerCreep, Mariel's Extra Style manages to be an even more impressive support unit than her other two styles. She has two support skills that each apply a laundry list of useful buffs and also apply the "Praying" effect: as long as Mariel hasn't taken any damage, the Praying effect will stay active and refresh all the buffs at the start of each of your turns. (And both of Mariel's Praying skills apply a shield that blocks damage, helping them stay active.) She also has a skill that is a strong Crystal-element attack and also heals your party for a solid 3,000 HP (6000 when Lunatic is active), a Copy-effect Lunatic skill, and a skill that restores her MP and turns her basic attack back into Lunatic, letting you use it as many times as you want.

* While Minalca is a really strong DPS unit, her Sidekick Tetra is something else. Unlike any of your party members, Tetra occupies the sidekick slot, freeing up your party space for your damage dealers or other supports. Tetra's auto-attack also heals the party by 20% of their max HP and purge them of any ailments, and it passively gives a 25% HP/MP bonus and 30% defense bonus to anyone who falls to 80% HP or lower. In a protracted fight, Tetra's Charge skill fully heals and revives everyone and reinforces the party with a LastChanceHitPoint to bail you out of sticky situations. It's also the only 5-star Sidekick so far with a healing ability. Even if you can't make the most of Minalca's skill set, Tetra can easily fit into and support nearly any party.

* Iphi's unique perk is her application of Blood Contracts -- the battle starts with every other party member having one Contract active. Each Blood Contract serves as an AutoRevive for that party member (provided Iphi herself doesn't die) so you can avert a TotalPartyKill, and offensively Iphi can proc a Blood Contract to grant [[ArmorPiercingAttack the ability to pierce barriers]] for that ally. Her Shade Zone skill also replenishes Blood Contracts to keep everyone alive. Oh, and she also can pre-emptively inflict guaranteed permanent Pain and Poison and an all-round stat debuff on all enemies. She can basically win boss fights through attrition!

And then she received a Stellar Awakening, and not only can her level cap be potentially raised to 100, but her unlockable abilities include inflicting poison and pain on enemies at the start of battle, giving the rest of the part 100% physical and magic crit rate, and a Wind Zone-setting attack that gets even stronger when used in Stellar Burst mode.

By the third Global Anniversary, Suzette received yet another step up in her Manifest's potential -- once you unlock her True Manifest, her Demonic Thrust gets ActionInitiative and inflicts both ailments guaranteed to last 5 turns, and her Dragon Assault can deal up to '''9 times''' its base damage on top of a guaranteed CriticalHit and a personal Wind damage boost! This level of power then proceeded to become the standard that subsequent True Manifests reach (one way or another) to get previously overshadowed characters up to speed.

* Felmina's Manifest Weapon, the Poison Lily, takes Suzette's concept and cranks it even further. The upgraded Licorice Blossom skill now inflicts guaranteed Poison and Pain that ''will'' last 3 turns on top of giving her a PWR boost. Tri-Cataclysm has its damage multipliers upgraded to truly inflict QuadDamage on anything afflicted with both Pain and Poison on top of having increased critical damage '''and''' inflicting a stacking physical defense debuff. Manifest Felmina greatly outclasses Manifest Suzette (but not True Manifest Suzette), though there's nothing stopping a player from running ''both'' units together to inflict massive damage.

*** Teaming up with Melody's Another Style makes Sesta even more ridiculous. One of Sesta's biggest weaknesses is that an Awakened Wind Zone will normally go away after three turns and leave her unable to use Twinblade Wolf again, but if Melody is one of four Wind characters in the front line and there's no Awakened Wind Zone, she'll set an Awakened Wind Zone at the beginning of the second turn and then every fourth turn thereafter (giving you three turns in Awakened Wind Zone and one turn without a zone). This will let Sesta continue to use Twinblade Wolf for as long as you need her to.
** Chiyo's Another Style has the unusual distinction of being able to set two different Zones with her Valor Chant: if you have four Staff characters in the front line (including her), she'll set a Magic Zone, and if you don't, she'll set an Earth Zone. She also has two excellent skills. Horai Jewel will [[ActionInitiative preemptively]] inflict guaranteed Pain and Poison on all enemies (turning on extra damage from Power of Pain and Power of Poison grasta), give your team guaranteed Magic critical hits, and will also give your team the powerful Mental Focus buff, which increases magic attack damage by a percentage that depends on the character's max MP. (And Chiyo has a very high Max MP.) Her other excellent skill, Reiki Conquest, is an Earth element Magic attack that hits all enemies, gets stronger for each unique debuff on the enemy (up to four), and also gets stronger when the enemy has a status ailment (such as the Pain and Poison that Horai Jewel inflicts). Using Horai Jewel and then Reiki Conquest while in an Earth Zone or Magic Zone usually results in lots of damage.

By the third Global Anniversary, Suzette received yet another step up in her Manifest's potential -- now her Demonic Thrust gets ActionInitiative and inflicts both ailments guaranteed to last 5 turns, and her Dragon Assault can deal up to '''9 times''' its base damage on top of a guaranteed CriticalHit and a personal Wind damage boost! This level of power then proceeded to become the standard that subsequent True Manifests reach (one way or another) to get previously overshadowed characters up to speed.

** Chiyo's Another Style has the unusual distinction of being able to set two different Zones with her Valor Chant: if you have four Staff characters in the front line (including her), she'll set a Magic Zone, and if you don't, she'll set an Earth Zone. She also has two excellent skills. Horai Jewel will [[ActionInitiave preemptively]] inflict guaranteed Pain and Poison on all enemies (turning on extra damage from Power of Pain and Power of Poison grasta), give your team guaranteed Magic critical hits, and will also give your team the powerful Mental Focus buff, which increases magic attack damage by a percentage that depends on the character's max MP. (And Chiyo has a very high Max MP.) Her other excellent skill, Reiki Conquest, is an Earth element Magic attack that hits all enemies, gets stronger for each unique debuff on the enemy (up to four), and also gets stronger when the enemy has a status ailment (such as the Pain and Poison that Horai Jewel inflicts). Using Horai Jewel and then Reiki Conquest while in an Earth Zone or Magic Zone usually results in lots of damage from both her and her teammates.

* Felmina's Manifest Weapon, the Poison Lily, takes Suzette's concept and cranks it even further. The upgraded Licorice Blossom skill now inflicts guaranteed Poison and Pain that ''will'' last 3 turns on top of giving her a PWR boost. Tri-Cataclysm has its damage multipliers upgraded to truly inflict QuadDamage on anything afflicted with both Pain and Poison on top of having increased critical damage '''and''' inflicting a stacking physical defense debuff. Manifest Felmina greatly outclasses Manifest Suzette, though there's nothing stopping a player from running ''both'' units together to inflict massive damage.

** Morgana one-ups Mariel by being a guaranteed [[CrutchCharacter 5-star character accessible as early as Chapter 13]]. His Mediarama skill (which is immediately accessible at his base level of 30) always restores 1000 HP, which lets him outheal a Mariel of equivalent level until she gets Pure Cradle. Morgana's easily-acquired Bandit Sword upgrades this skill to Mediarahan, which heals a fixed 1500 HP and lets him keep up until around level 70. And even if Mariel outperforms him in healing, Morgana still has several competent offensive and supportive skills to let him fit into most other teams. This is especially true due to Wind High Booster, a '''50% boost''' to wind type attacks for the party. Combine with three other Wind DPS and watch the boss' HP go down.
** Dunarith's healing spell also bestows a buff that grants the rest of the party a guaranteed CriticalHit for their next attack. By just spamming this skill alone your physical attackers' DPS is at least ''doubled'' throughout the regular turns of a fight. Dunarith also packs some good utility -- his Magic Cloak is not as strong a defense buff as Mariel's Aurora Force, but it lasts significantly longer and provides backup healing when they get struck by magic attacks. He became the chase unit as far as healers go until other crit-granting DPS units came along, and then found a new niche for himself with a Manifest that lets him support a greater variety of teams.

* Pizzica introduces the "song" mechanic, which applies lingering buffs for 3 turns and can apply on top of Zones, with the drawback of the singer being unable to act until the song ends unless interrupted by an ailment. Her Rhapsody Aria skill is the most valued, as it gives the party guaranteed critical hits and also gives '''+100% damage''', on top of inflicting the Break ailment on all enemies that '''doubles''' the damage of the next hit they take, leading to incredible DPS potential! Her other support skills are not half bad either, ranging between a significant DamageReduction shield, potent healing, and the ability to inflict up to three ailments at once. The game would go on to introduce more singers down the line, but Pizzica's [[SimpleYetAwesome simplicity and strength]] of her songs leave a bigger impression on the playerbase.

** Sesta pushes the bar for Zone setters and then some. If she's in the frontline with three other Wind characters, she automatically deploys and Awakens Wind Zone from the very beginning, and also gains a stack of Divine Wolf. This changes her basic attack to a one-use full-combo that unleashes all of her strongest skills in quick succession. This includes a strong team buff, a skill that inflicts Wind-specific Break, a Wind attack that decreases the target's Wind resistance, a ''very'' powerful personal buff, and then an absurdly strong ArmorPiercingAttack that hits for '''7000%''' damage at base before accounting for every other modifier that the rest of the skill sequence does. It's an incredibly high amount of burst damage without needing too much setup, and she can solo most bosses that don't have HP stoppers or Wind resistance.

** Even among all of them though, Thillelille stands out as one of the best DPS units in the game at the mechanic's introduction. Even at low levels and with early game equipment she can still vastly outdamage most other characters due to her absurdly powerful self-buff skills: her main attack skill hits harder when she's at high HP '''and''' gives a stacking PWR boost '''and''' hits twice as hard on top of a guaranteed CriticalHit under Lunatic -- all that before accounting for other buffs she's received, including from Lunatic itself! The only notable downside is that she's a major GlassCannon whose buffs and Lunatic also debuff her Endurance, but the sheer amount of ''damage'' she's able to dish out is more than enough to make up for it.

** Necoco's Another Style extends this elemental adaptation to the whole team with her Scintillant Spirit skill. Now you can straight-up field your strongest characters without needing to match your combatants' elements. Want to run something like Flammelapis, Kikyo, and Myunfa in the same team? Now you can!

** First, events near the end of the arc greatly upgrade his 5-star skills so that they can put out amazing damage [[MagikarpPower provided you've raised his Guiding Light that high]], and the arc's FinalBoss gives his unique Dragon God's Might grasta that provides him with monstrous boosts to power and speed, bumps up his critical rate and augments his critical damage. And that's not all - following the aforementioned story event, his upgraded Dragon God Slash can reduce an enemy's physical resistance by whopping '''50 percent''', and his upgraded X Slash Mk. II also gives type attack buff for three moves, which means even if he is not the primary damage dealer, he remains valuable for offensive support. By this point he'll be by far your strongest non-gacha character and will be a valuable asset to most teams.

** In addition to giving massive readjustments of his skills' utility (particularly bonus for Light characters), v3.3.1 features Stellar Awakening for Aldo that not only boosts his stats and level cap to lv100, but also give additional skill "Starwyrm Slash" that can deal massive damage depending on the total Guiding Light accumulated (and if activated during Stellar Burst, the elemental type will match the enemy's weakness). In addition, having full Guiding Light frontliners will also charge the Another Gauge to '''100% at battle start''', allowing the player to launch AF from the get-go except for specific cases.

Of the roster available in ''VideoGame/AnotherEden'', there are definitely some that are significantly stronger than the others. Not helping matters is PowerCreep continuously setting new standards for boss-slaying purposes.

** Foran's Another Style is particularly ridiculous as a Zone setter. On switch-in, she establishes the Pierce Zone which synergizes fantastically with units like Suzette, Jade, and Yukino. Foran also gives herself a temporary critical damage boost and four Tiger stacks, which all synergize perfectly with her unique skills -- Tiger's Roar Flash, under these conditions, will hit '''extremely hard''' and give the whole team 5 guaranteed crits! And to top it off, she's got the highest base speed at a blistering 258, letting her get the jump on almost anything and take actions during AF much, much faster. Though Foran would be outclassed in her niche by Tsukiha (Extra Style) and even Shiela (Another Style) she still offers decent synergy with them and was never really replaced by them.

* Jade's personal Grasta, Altridge's Resolution, stands head-and-shoulders over most other personal Grasta. His 5-star upgrade already makes him [[TookALevelInBadass significantly stronger]], but the boons from his personal Grasta are immense - a +30 to Power and Speed is unheard of on most other Grastas and makes him a LightningBruiser, and he also gets a +30% damage bonus on enemies inflicted with Pain, which synergizes with his Blaze Shoot that now inflicts guaranteed Pain, further amplifies the bonus damage from his Celebros Agni skill, and works perfectly with Power of Pain and Power of Agony Grastas. This makes Jade one of your strongest DPS units without needing investment in the Dream Encounters -- but of course, you'll have to earn this power by fighting through a few bosses first.

** Your reward for finding all thirty bugs in Lord of Mana's own PixelHunt is the ability to recruit Fukahire, the developer. Fittingly, she has bloated stats and is the only party member with [[SignatureMove Fukahi-laser]], one of the strongest skills available. Having the game's dev on your side can trivialize most of its bosses, and if you raise her Friend Rank she hits so hard that nothing can stand up to her.

** When Alma uses Lunatic+ it gives her a 50% boost in damage, which is pretty good on its own. It also puts her in trance state, which give her a 50 point boost to power. This is in addition to Brain Record, which switches her weapon to the enemies weakness for the entire battle and puts a scope on the enemy. The scope and/or the trance state give a gargantuan damage boost toner attack abilities, especially her strongest ability Aether Alchemia, has a multiplier of 14x. All in all, after two turns of preparation, she can one or two shot most bosses, even those with millions of HP. Oh, and if the boss does survive the three Lunatic turns, Alma can use Elixir Ray, which restores 50% of her HP and MP and allows her to use Lunatic again.

** When Alma uses Lunatic+ it gives her a 50% boost in damage, which is pretty good on its own. It also puts her in trance state, which give her a 50 point boost to power. This is in addition to Brain Record, which switches her weapon to the enemies weakness for the entire battle and puts a scope on the enemy. The scope and/the trance state give a gargantuan damage boost toner attack abilities, especially her strongest ability Aether Alchemia, has a multiplier of 14x. All in all, after two turns of preparation, she can one or two shot most bosses, even those with millions of HP. Oh, and if the boss does survive the three Lunatic turns, Alma can use Elixir Ray, which restores 50% of her HP and MP and allows her to use Lunatic again.

** When Alma uses Lunatic+ it gives her a 50% boost in damage, which is pretty good on its own. It also puts her in trance state, which give her a 50 point boost to power. This is in addition to Brain Record, which switches her weapon to the enemies weakness for the entire battle and puts a scope on the enemy. The scope and/the trance state give a gargantuan damage boost toner attack abilities, especially her strongest ability Aether Alchemia, has a boost of ‘’’1400%’’’ (that is NOT a typo). All in all, after two turns of preparation, she can one or two shot most bosses, even those with millions of HP. Oh, and if the boss does survive the three Lunatic turns, Alma can use Elixir Ray, which restores 50% of her HP and MP and allows her to use use Lunatic again.

** Dewey Alter's kit is fantastic and changes to match the active Zone, so he goes in almost any team and gives incredible DPS buffs to the rest of the frontline.

* Zones are some of the biggest game-changers in the game's history. It establishes a field effect that dramatically amplifies the strength of the matching element, and greatly depowers the opposing one. Your attacks of that element, regardless of number of hits, will contribute a big boost to Another Force. On top of that, the very character who's used to establish the Zone will gain extra benefits while their Zone is active. The way the Zones tip the battle in your favor allows you to beat superbosses with ease, and sometimes as fast as ''2 turns'' by using the Another Force as soon as possible. To match this, most of the later superbosses have their own AF stoppers to keep a player from blindly blitzing them down in one turn, and some others will set Zones of their own to try and counter the player's own.

* Pizzica introduces a new mechanic to the game -- the "song" mechanic, where her buffs linger for 3 turns and can apply on top of Zones, with the drawback of the singer being unable to act unless interrupted by an ailment or until the song ends. Her Rhapsody Aria skill is the most valued, as it gives the party guaranteed critical hits and also gives '''+100% damage''', on top of inflicting the Break ailment on all enemies that '''doubles''' the damage of the next hit they take, leading to incredible DPS potential! Her other support skills are not half bad either, ranging between a significant DamageReduction shield, potent healing, and the ability to inflict up to three ailments at once. The game would go on to introduce two other singers, Mistrare (Another Style) and Milsha (Another Style) but Pizzica's simplicity and strength of her songs leave a bigger impression on the playerbase.

** Of the first wave of elemental Zone setters, Myunfa was one of the most sought-after units. In addition to setting up a Zone, she dramatically amplifies the strength of the party -- her Valor Chant increases the critical damage dealt, and her Glorious Tea Stalk skill grants a guaranteed crit on top of a generous elemental damage buff. Combine her with some of the better Earth units like Cerrine and Deirdre, and you can effortlessly crush a boss who doesn't resist Earth in no time flat. Outside of Another Force blitz strategies, she also can support with an attack combined with a buff and debuff, and possesses passive healing and temporary HP increases. She's essentially a JackOfAllTrades support unit, only outclassed by PowerCreep over time.