Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36303736-20180909201356/@comment-32973614-20191115183310

In Empire of cats Aer is better than Mizly, probably, but itdoesn't really matter.

In ITF there are few problematic units, Nimoy Bore, Ursamajor, Lemurr, Cyberhorn (if one doesn't have surfer he can be very troublesome) and the abyss bosses, at least in their first few appearences. Against them, Mizli's second form is an amazing unit, while Aer would only work better against Ursamayor and I.M.Phace (maybe).

Cotc has more problematic aliens, including Le'solar, Mesocosmocyclone or however it's called, Ultra Baabaa, Star peng and others. Of these, the most problematic ones are heavy pushers against which Mizly is better, while the backliners are still dangerous, but any LD unit that may have trouble with theis barriers is usually able to break them with damage, so Aer can help a lot, yes, but the difference isn't the same as with Mizli and backliners are less often a problem.

Early SOL, with no aliens, sees Aer as the better unit, with no doubt.

Since the introduction of aliens, Mizli becomes better again for a bit, but aer stays as a better generalist.

Since the introduction of star aliens and for a bunch of subchapters before that, some new questions must be asked, and this is a rather complicated point. Are we talking about good units or bad units? It's important to ask this for the following reason: If they are bad, we can assume that one (who will have a pretty wide selection of good cats to use) will use other units in place of either of these, therefore the one with the most unique ability (Aer) will be the only one who is still of use, while the other gets outclassed and despite being better in more stages (let's assume this for now), she doesn't actually get used because when she's better, someone else is even better; when she's worse, Aer may still be of use. In other words, even if we say that Mizli is better than Aer, Mizli's ideal stages are even more ideal for strats based on Seafarer and Catman, Twinstars and Volta, or many othen approaches, since Mizli based strats are hard to combine with Volta, Seafarer or most other anti-aliens. I likely didn't explain this concept too well, but, in a nutshell, Aer tends to become a VERY situational uber in late game, while Mizli loses her place entirely, meaning that, regardless of who is better, Aer is still the most useful in this part of the game,

Considering that Aer and Mizli are both more useful early on, up to COTC, i must say that Mizli is a better unit than Aer.