Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-216.67.118.209-20160331011253/@comment-30255782-20191008023208

This first comment is to jth not you Kasa

What stages is gao better than ama in? Waves, anything inside the small range gap, stages where his midranger form is good but his evolved isn't very, and traitless are some obvious examples. I'd also rather have him in literally any general stage, I value the survivability, TBA, animation, and range more than a bit under 200 dps.

A unit that's only good in theory isn't a good unit, we agree on this.

You've listed such a limited set of stages that even if everything you've said is correct, it wouldn't prove Bala > gao. However, you didn't get them all right, here:

Mlion/ccow, Bala is pretty awful unless you wanna try to stack him, but that'd be hard, Gao 1st form works as an alright midranger if you don't have other options here/wanna beat it early.

Like all the other crazed stages: well except legs and titan cuz wave. Eraser cuz the generalist for all the supports is great. arguably cat, although the supports are white for this one so eh. Axe where all the tough enemies are reds and Gao has excellent dps for them. bird is close (baby Gao is good as a midranger, Bala is support freeze ofc). And finally island where Gao has wave for manic and crit for crazed. At least you were right about dragon and maybe bird/cat.

For relic bun, if you're going to stack, just do cyberpunk so it takes wayy less long, if you aren't stacking then both are nice to have, I'd say it depends on your other units here tbh.

For the cyclones you're gonna be using other units, probably spammable rares, as your cc. Bala won't help much since you've already got that, especially if you bring kb. However, Gao will work as great dps in either form.

For itf moons, especially clione, Gao is better. Psycho will be your cc on 2 and 3 so Bala won't have much use, but Gao will work as great dps. I'd only say Bala is better for anything if you need help to stunlock valk with that particular strategy.

You get the idea, let's not get into the stages that are actually in gaos niche and not balas, instead of the other way around.

Oh you're on itf3, so you haven't even experienced a lot of sol, and any of the advents/lategame stuff. Your opinions will most likely change quite a bit once you've played the whole game, maybe then you'll be more equipped to debate people in endgame. Not trying to look down on you, but if you're in itf3 then you simply haven't experienced near as much as me or Kasa.