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I'm curious what you all think.

Yeah. My wild guess would be Seth. This is completely without any knowledge which items he can equip.

He can equip the exact same things as Hahn, with the exception of the Mahlay Shield, Mahlay Mail, and Mahlay Ring, which Hahn can equip and Seth cannot.

Seth actually maxes his stats earlier than anyone else (having 99 STR/99 MTL, 99 AGI/99 DEX). He is also completely immune to Factor 11 and Factor 13, so two of the most annoying abilities, Stasis Ball and Evil Eye, are nullified.

His gear is not great. Just knives and daggers, suits (Leather Cloth, Carbon Suit, Graphite Suit, and Cyber Suit), and circlets (Leather Band, Circlet, Psy Circlet, Silver Circlet, Laconian Circlet).

He can equip medium shields, including the Plasma Field, which is incredibly useful in solo play because of the Factor 2 resistance (meaning DF1's Flare Shot, Sa Lews's Legeon, PD1's Ray Breath, PD2's attack, and PD3's attack all do significantly less damage).

He has a cap on his skills. He has 0 TP, and he will never learn any techniques, but he will never have more than 18 Corrsions and 9 Dthspells.

Whoever voted for Alys, what's your reasoning?

Raja was difficult in some parts, but not so bad in others. Boss battles were quite easy, with really only four exceptions (Gy-Laguiah, DF2, Sa-Lews, and of course the final battle). Grinding, on the other hand, was tedious as can be, and Raja died a LOT.

I voted for Rika, she levels up fast and is quite durable.

Rika is the most difficult? Or the easiest?

Rika is almost certainly not the most difficult. Her high agility means that she'll almost never see "Cannot escape!", she has a wide range of equipment to choose from (including heavy armor and shields), she has the Silver Tusk (which deals Factor 6 damage, making it ideal for fighting pretty much every enemy from the Air Castle on, with the exception of Vahal Fort), she has the Genocyde Claw (which has a supplemental Dthspell, and most late game enemies aren't immune to it), she has Deban and Saner (so she doesn't need to bring the Swift Helm or Mahlay Shield to the final battle), and she has the Thunder Claw (enabling her to deal Factor 7 damage to Vahal Fort bots)...

The ONLY downside that I can think of is that she has no way to deal magical damage outside of using the Flame Sword/Thunder Claw/Tornado Dagger/Mahlay Dagger as an item or using Dynamite, but who cares? There's only one battle where that is potentially a problem, and that is Sa-Lews, yet Rika still has an answer for that battle because she can equip the Plasma Field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6LYA8EOcQo

This is brutal. I had to go to the hospital today, then come home and this happens.

I meant easiest sorry. XD

Sa-Lews spamming Flaeli on Raja as if it knows Raja is vulnerable to fire-based attacks lol

Sa-Lews uses Flaeli 50% of the time, Hewn 25%, and Tandle 25%. Seems like more, though, doesn't it?

Something I failed to mention about Rika: her high agility makes it less likely that she will be paralyzed. Toadstool, Flyscreamer, and Meta Slug are all extremely dangerous for biological solo characters, because paralysis=game over (Ghoul, Caterpillr, Rajago, and a couple others also cause paralysis, but you generally have enough agility at that point where it's unlikely and/or you won't see many of them)

Regarding Rika, I just realized that she would probably have a really tough time with the Xe-A-Thoul trio. I'm actually not sure what the best strategy would be for that battle.

Pretty much all characters have advantages and disadvantages, but I’d overall say Gryz would be the hardest character to solo. No healing, several insanely hard bosses, limited arsenal, no single-handed weapons, and so on.

Rune, Raja, and Seth probably aren’t a walk in the park either.