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Why would one build Jaffar?

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I guess for Dazzling effect with physical damage. I have one that I refined for fun and he works fairly well against mages.

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There're a few things aside from specials.
Jaffar doesn't need to warthfull + Dazzle combo to deal full damage.

Sure 40 base atk (with weapon) is quite low, but Lucius has just 42 with pain+
And as much as people say magic damage is worth more, Lucy will deal 0 damage to mages Jaffar can kill.

So Jaffar deals unhalfed damage, dazzle on mages with his B slot open. Aside from that is the debuff pain+ staffs don't have.

To put it simply, Jaffar will kill more units with Deadly dagger, moonbow, close counter, vantage, savage blow 6 than a unit like Lucius will with the same build.

As a last note, Jaffar's stats are kinda too thinly spread, but it has the boon that he'll usually survives a hit from an enemy that doesn't double. Lucy will get oneshot by archers.

BUT.
The kicker why Jaffar is in general still worse than staff units, is him being 5* only. Hard IV's and merges really hurt him.

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Yeah you got a point there with healers having to chose between halved dmg and vantage.

(You can get good IVs easier though, my Lucius has 45 Atk... While Jaffar IS -spd +HP and has VERY slim chances of getting an IV upgrade)

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In the end, the biggest thing holding Jaffar back is his IVs and lack of merges.
Even if you get lucky with a +atk or +spd, Lucius is just a lot easier to merge.

While I'm not one of the people who says Feh needs the mass demotion to survive, it would sure make a lot of things better. (Though a full on rework is what I prefer. Just a lot of demotions will flood the 4* pool, which might make the problem even worse)

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Ehh....
I would say Lucius, but be careful of that.

I like Lucius more as an player phase unit/mage bait.
But a -spd Jaffar just runs too much risk of getting doubled and thus killed. You will want to have him with the right IV.

Go for a +atk Lucius, just keep him out of archers range.

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What else would you do with him, if you happened to summon him? He doesn't have any unique skills to fodder.

In my case, I ended up building him simply because he was laying around, and I had no one else to use dew on.

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"No one else to use dew on"

Yeah about that I don't think anyone who started FEH late (like me in June of current year) will ever run into this problem x)

EDIT: I meant that as "I will probably always be short on dew"

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Well, your luck with summoning is better than mine then. Lol.

I only started playing in April. And all my five stars currently have their refined weapons (or at least the ones who can refine that is).

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