Waifu: Assuming the aigis devs weren't completely bullshitting about the whole choice thing, this is the first time ever we get to actually choose who we can get from among a set of units - and while my theory is that more such tickets will exist in the future, they are also liable to be expensive.
Aigis is a game, and you should be having fun playing a game. Some people care most about power above all else, and for those people this list may be relevant, differing opinions aside. But for others who care about aesthetics or personality, or some other factor that cannot be easily gauged with simple math, skill analysis or unit usage, I highly encourage the waifu choice. Having fun is the most important thing, and if the most fun thing for you is always having that favorite character in your team that you never thought you'd get, pick that character, tier lists/suggested picks/my terrible opinions be damned.
B Iris: Pink loli has defense x2.5 for area and Attack x1.4 for self. The most individually mandatory unit in Majin. Solid for regular content, too, but unnecessary.
Leone: Highest physical DPS unit in game. Block 0 on SAW is highly synergistic with current meta. Easy to place and withdraw due to cost return class characteristic.
Cornelia: Best tank in game, useful in every Majin. Very high ehp versus physical and magic, and her class characteristic +50% defense below half life gives tremendous tanking power as long as the enemy doesn't one-shot her.
Aisha: HP +14%, cooldown reduction and meteors SAW mean she has wide-reaching impact even when she's not hitting anything with her crazy non-skill DPS. Even with no buffs in over a year, she is still ridiculous, but is best with many other powerful units.
Nanaly: High single-target physical DPS. Has longer range than the other multi-hitters. Often used in Majin as a supplement to Leone, but can't replace Leone.
Rinne: Seems subtle, but has wide-reaching impact on placement options. Evasion buff to those in range provides a strong bit of ehp in its own right. Very strong in any stage you want to afk.
Sophie: Huge stats during SAW make her a primary sweeper. 0 block feature is synergistic with current meta. An amazing lightning rod. Can become status immune if an AW Miruno is also in your team.
Esta: Flies in air for 90 seconds while crushing all beneath with her 1500+ attack stat. Though she doesn't have the huge stats of Sophie and isn't as good a lightning rod, the 0 block feature while skill is up and sweeping potential means she's valuable in situations where tanking is unreasonable.
Kayou: Fluffy tails is a premier magic damage unit that hits 5 enemies within 280 range. She also has a secondary skill that deals 20% of current HP as true damage to all enemies. Very good, and no one else can quite do what she does.
Towa: Utility unit. Has the best passive in the game, reducing the delay in between attacks for all non-token units of yours while in the roster. Her constant AoE slow has diverse applications when combined with tanks and high DPS units. Suggested for players with other strong units only.
Kikyou: Frequently goes undeployed, but is used in almost every whale team. Attack +7% is that good. She can serve as an intermediate healer in a pinch. Suggested for players with other strong units only.
Minerva: Enormous attack stat allows her to pierce obscene levels of defense, and she comes with 330 range and a haste passive for even more damage. Her DPS is quite massive for a sustained DPS character during her final stage, with equally impressive uptime, though she doesn't compare to the silliness that is Leone in terms of raw burst.
Alice: A fun unit with solid uptimes and permanent scaling HP, ending up with over 5k ehp + 50% evasion at her final stage. With the proper support(e.g., other blacks) she can serve as a tank.
Nezha: An exceedingly cool unit with some minor practicality issues. Her skill, while powerful, has poor uptime, so her innate 0 block status means she has a hard time abusing her amazing base ehp. Since she has a chain passive and a considerable attack stat, she is a solid supplemental DPS that can be used in isolated positions.
Rakshasa: Cancerous unit design aside, Rakshasa is quite useful, coming back time and time again to stun enemies with her death and providing solid true damage all the same. If you pick her, you can get away with some pretty crazy stuff.
Estelle: *The* premier magic support, providing your team with a 50% magic resist cut for 150 seconds while contributing reasonable magic DPS herself. She doesn't see a ton of use in majin content at present due to greater meta issues regarding magic damage in those stages, but she is very helpful everywhere else.
Sue: Strong sustained damage unit; less popular than the likes of Nanaly and Leone since people tend to prefer heavy burst on their DPS, but still a solid contributing element in the likes of some Majin.
Frederica: Aoe physical DPS unit. Her SAW offers aoe true damage, but her regular skill with its longer duration is popular as well. She performs well even without skill due to her large stat buff passive and massive base range.
Dina: Like her sister, gained a defense modifier on skill. Her SAW turns her into a hyper-charged physical mage armor with solid DPS. She is the more viable of the two sisters thanks to better duration and more impactful skill effect.
Matsuri: Quite popular for her passive in end-game teams, she also has a competent melee support SAW. For AW2, I suggest going with the higher stat variant, as the higher ATK stat and critical strike add a fair boost to her SAW.
Moltena: A rare source of permanent true damage. She can place tokens to amp her damage, but they take up unit slots, so you will need to decide how beneficial the tokens are versus the placement of your other units in many cases. Probably the most reliable offensive afk unit in the game.
Sarah: Utility unit loaded with special abilities, providing CR for prince, massive stat buffs to prince and all princesses, and 100% evasion for 30 seconds, which combined with her reasonable defense stats, makes her the best tank for enemies with insane physical attack stats. Only recommended for people that have at least one black princess.
Clissa: Scaling ATK/DEF multiplier. Her stats get pretty crazy at the third stage, but it takes a fair bit of time to get there, and her middling stats during downtime come with considerable risk to herself in difficult scenarios. If you can protect her till she gets to final stage, she can tank some serious stuff. AW2 has improved her considerably, though she'll be a terrible starter pick for newbies.
Ingrid: AoE MR cut and solid DPS. Will do more damage than Sybilla if the enemy has a solid amount of MR, but suffers during downtimes.
Sybilla: Beloved banner princess isn't nearly as compelling as she once was with all the melee supports floating around, but still provides a reasonably good source of single target magic damage. Combine with Sarah for better results.
Olivia: 100% evasion during skill with double attack speed and great uptime. Strong in regular content, but suffers greatly in majin due to her poor ehp and the rampant MR. Combine with Sarah for better results.
Deine: Has extremely solid non-skill defense, but her high block does pose some risk in the highest stages. Her SAW is quite solid, but suffers from poor duration. A solid secondary or tertiary tank.
Berna: A cheap source of AoE physical damage that hits air. Her low cost and ability to assassinate makes her useful in situations with with insta-death prone enemies and strict UP requirements. One AW2 path offers high stats, the other, utility. I'd say their both about equal in terms of viability.
Despara: Does a lot of localized magic DPS, but her awful range means she's gonna have a bad time if you can't properly insulate her in difficult scenarios. I prefer Holy Witch for her AW2, as she's the type of unit where a lot of downtime is anticipated - better to get her skill down quicker for another use, in my opinion.
Mikoto: Has niche applications in all majin maps due to her time stop, and is an excellent afk unit, but her poor defenses and utility-laded nature make her tricky to use in such difficult missions without being creative on your own. If you have Mikoto, you have very little reason to use a mage unless you also have Estelle.
Grace: Mage armor that provides a flat 10 magic resist to all melee units, that can be further amplified by some skills, most notably Cornelia, Sophie, Cynthia, Palfy and Gellius. She serves as a disengage unit, providing solid aoe splash damage and lots of defense, but she will likely need to be removed right before her skill ends in dangerous maps due to the massive hp cut at the end.
Altair: The girl with a sheath too small for her sword is a utility-centered unit with tacked on stat buffs. She's good at what she does, but is in effect just a really good soldier. She will likely not unlock any new pathways for you, unless you have serious trouble with early rushes - and Alice is definitely better for that.
Farne: AW2 has helped distinguish Farne from other casters by providing either a long range or hard-hitting true damage splash. One route also provides her a token with 90% evasion, a helpful little guy cat dude that will see use as a stall tactic against tough enemies.
Amanda: Most notable for her plat armor drop passive. As a combat unit she is competent but not particularly compelling, offering a huge HP total and good attack for a long time. It is difficult for a healer to sustain her massive pool of HP during SAW since she lacks no other form of damage reduction and her defense is very poor. She is most likely the worst choice for a black from the ticket, as exp becomes easier to acquire and she lacks any uniquely useful characteristics beyond a big HP pool and a gimmicky passive with the useful but difficult to rationalize on-deploy melee attack +10% tacked on.
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