Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-216.67.118.209-20160331011253/@comment-33760559-20191011015503

Baby gao is one of those cats that seem a lot better on paper than they are  in field, similar to sarukani( i know he isnt being compared but im using him as an example because he seemed so much better than he was until i actually got him and realized he wasnt even close to as good as kasa jizo). its theres like this perfect formula with kasa jizo that makes him so good in general that i have yet to see with any other cat, usually its one or two main things that keep them from being the same, even those the DPS may add up with strong against, the recharge time is a big thing still, simply from it taking longer to come back.

not to mention he cant really gain any advantage from recharge combos. in quite a few stages this becomes something helpful. althought when people talk about cats, how they benefit from combos basically never come up. example: cyberpunk with combos can almost perma slow everything by himself, a single one leaves only roughly 1 second where they arent slowed.

almost 8 seconds of recharge time really takes its toll compared to 4. and although he's better and something like reds, aliens, and floating, you dont really want to use either for zombies, he gets slightly outclassed by relics in most cases and they appear often with angels and blacks. most of the red enemies they appear with have very low health so baby gao really isnt to signicant there

Kasa jizo for - whites, relics( in most cases), blacks and angels easily

baby gao for -reds, aliens, floating enemies

niether for - metals, and zombies

there are a lot more reliable counters to reds, aliens and floatings than whites relics and black and angels. so i would say what he's great at is more valuable. its good to be great against black and angels seeing as they rush, we have drama for relics, but relics arent alone quite often. and using both helps. and we dont have anything directly for whites.

individually imo i would say kasa jizo first form is better than baby gao soley, and MLG soley, and his 3rd form adds a lot of variety to kasa jizo, so i would say in the end, although close, gao wouldnt be enough to be better than kasa jizo.

especially since the later levels kinda encourage players not to hold so close to their generalist ubers and use more diverse cats, especially even more now that they're given a lot of rare and super rare cats NP points to diversify them, and a lot of ubers NP points to make them relevant again. a while back some of the top tier ubers were basically godly compared to the rest, but nowadays with the amount of cats that can counter the new tougher enemies. the old top tier ubers arent as good in comparison than they used to be. This goes for cc units though, not attackers, because you can increase the levels from 40 to 50, so any gap there ever was between a top tier attacker and something else is widened. This was my reasoning for why mitama isnt nearly as good as she used to be. where she would basically be the win button, to now shes just a very good cc unit.