Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-3391158-20190520190637/@comment-25936766-20190520230226

SuperHighSchoolLevelFighter wrote: 1) Weiss's main advantages: more versatility weapon-wise,

2) can buff self,

3) more endurance with aura,

4) more comparable feats of strength and defence. 1) Actually no. Mitsuru mainly uses sabers, things actually designed to slice. Weiss's Myrtenaster can cut but by design it's meant for just thrusting, and even then for her it's just a glorified Dust holder.

And in case you want to argue about Mitsuru's P4Arena/BBTAG rapier, that still has more cutting edge than Weiss's weapon. Plus Artemisa's whipsword thing.

Note I'm not including Dust on this because Weiss always uses it with her Semblance. Her weapon has the function to channel it to the blade but that died with Monty apparently.

2) Mitsuru has Mind Charge. Weiss has never buffed herself, and others only once.

3) Except she needs Aura to use her Semblance. And Weiss, Aura or not, is one of the squishiest characters in the show. In other words, if we follow what canon says, the more she gets her ass kicked the harder it is for her to kick ass back.

Mitsuru, in comparison, while mainly a mage, is rather balanced and can take more hits than Yukari and potentially Minato.

And if Weiss ends up unconscious, which has happened before with a mid-boss kind of enemy, then she's as squishy as she looks no matter how much Aura she had left, in other words can easily be 1-hit-Killed.

4) Eh, if we want to talk feats, Mitsuru was a veteran Persona user before P3 began, and P4Arena proves she's quite capable of handling herself just fine. Weiss, for comparison, pretty much always struggles when she's alone, complete with multiple on-screen defeats.

In fact, this is even worse, because Weiss struggles even with oponents that in any other place would be mooks like the Boarbatusk or mini-bosses like the WF Lieutenant, while against anyone actually worth something, like Vernal or Flynt, she gets her ass kicked royally.