Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-216.67.118.209-20160331011253/@comment-32973614-20180408173057

HDF0UnofficialAccount wrote: Red anvil wrote: gao is a generally good unit, but there's better for almost every situation.

Fighting angels? Most ultra souls are better in any situation, as well as many other anti-angels.

Black? Same with the Vajiras and other anti blacks.

I personally don't like units without a specific target (with exceptions like Ganesha or A. Bahamut), they are good in early game but they get outclassed by different cats (not necessarely ubers) against the specific targets of a level. Jizo is one of the best anti black and anti angel, not often outclassed, so i think he's easily better than Gao in mid-late game. You're rating by niche.

IMO (or at least agreed by many others too), general use is most important as it can then carry on many stages. So what if Date can't use its ability? It's attack rate is still high which is useful in more stages (I'm not saying he's like A Tier but he has a good niche and stays in C+ Tier) I get what you are saying, and it makes sense, but usefulness cannot be rated in a general sense, in early game having something that covers you well in most situations (like Gao) is more important, but, if one has a lot of ubers, there is probably one for every situation, so a specific target (like Jizo) is better.

I suppose it's impossible to make a comparison that's always true, but i admit i should have remembered that i'm in late game before saying that i don't like generic target, so sorry about that, i didn't mean to say that Gao is bad if that's what you got out of it.

Still, early game is easier, so those who help more in the hardest side of the game, in my opinion, should be considered better by default if the balancing is fair, it's still nothing more than my opinion, but i think Jizo is better than Gao for this reason.