Silver soldier's one of the most consistent units in the game. She gets out quick, has a useful skill, and blocks 3 instead of 2. She's very, very good at clearing out small fry enemies due to the ~300+ damage she gets at max level
Phylis is actually the worst one to CC skill wise and cost wise. This is in consideration of the fact that Phylis's 244 damage versus 300 damage both equals to 3 hitting a regular goblin and that's 70% of the rush map. While she might be useful with 300 atk and 259 def, she's just as useful with 244 damage and 190 for her role. The +3 deployment cost and the fact you have to retreat her/force a healer for her ruins it. But I do agree on the fact that's she's an excellent replace for HA in the early stages. (though rogue+soldier is much stabler)
At least one CC'd archer on hand of some sort. The high attack speed is nothing to sneeze at and you're losing out 60+ damage (which is only amped by prince support) and 60 range, which is very noticable on characters with range extension.
Soma-chan wise, the 60 range is much appreciated. Which can also be easily achieved by lv2 skill, hence there's no reason to force a CC for range. Anything greater than 260 just grants an archer 2~3 more shots on fast moving target. (Slow-moving target outside of ogre have high def) Snipers have a lower attack speed when compared to archers, but sniper when maxxed has significantly better damage. (245 versus 355) Once past 310, you can 2 shot goblins on most map and 3 shot red goblins.
Therefore, I agree a CC-ed soma-chan is much appreciated. But isn't CCed Daniela better due to the higher damage and damage boost? Personally, soma-chan is a favorite of mine, hence daniela will always be CC-food. But Daniela is better of the 2 archers to CC due to damage boost. Then again, there are hard to reach places on some maps
Granted, I actually haven't seen Monica. One of the accounts I'm botting for farming has a伝説の海賊ミネルバ (Minerva?), though, and I've personally noticed that her attack speed is too low for complete coverage of the useful maps, even if it is very large.
This has nothing to do with Monica, since I agree with everything you said above. 海賊レイチェル is who you want. Quick shot = damage boost and fast attack speed. i.e. when maxxed with Prince, has 1.2k damage with huge range and the attack speed of a sniper. i.e. lmao roll over just about everything.