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Overview
Pros:
- 1 SP cost
- Long vertical range with potential upgrade
Cons:
- Pathetic damage
- Nothing special about her utility in PVE, plenty of other units that can silence
Roxy for PVE
It's really hard to think of a situation where you might want to use ED.Roxy in PVE.
First of all, ED.Roxy's damage is truly pathetic. Even at +5 and full potential, Roxy only does 3x70%, which doesn't come anywhere near the damage of most magic attackers. For example, at +5 full potential, base Schera (Lapis Witch) deals 3x225%, and base Eclipse (Dimension Witch) deals 3x200%, and base Loen (Last Hope) deals 1x750%.
So if you're not bringing ED.Roxy for her damage, then all that's left to her skill is her silence. There are a number of other options when it comes to silencing, including:
- Code Name S Schera (2 turns, 3 tile AOE)
- B-Rank Eleaneer (2 turns, plus-shape AOE)
- Fiend Scholar Olstein (4 turns, 3x3 AOE)
- Lucrezia (6 turns, plus-shape AOE)
If you want a serve of damage with your silence, then Schera and Eleaneer are clearly the best choices. For multi-turn silences over a wide AOE range, Olstein and Lucrezia work fine (and are easy to obtain for free). Olstein also has the bonus of being a good mana battery.
The only niche that Roxy has is that she is a water silencer. There might be a fiend hunt or boss battle sometime in the future where a column water silence will be needed... but that's a very niche use, and also a very niche reason to invest a valuable Tear for the potential upgrade.
Roxy for PVP
1 SP costumes are usually very exciting for PVP and are often high value picks. A 1 SP silence is very powerful for attacking teams, and slots perfectly into an attacking magic team with B.Helena.
Given Roxy's very low damage multiplier, hitting for lethal on her own is not very likely. With B.Helena, you might get lucky and take out a low HP unit with no M.RES, but overall ED.Roxy is not designed to kill.
As for her silence. You might get lucky and silence a full column of enemies, which would be very disruptive to your opponent's strategy. On the other hand, you could also silence a lone tank for negligible damage and waste your SP. Whether Roxy is consistent enough for competitive PVP play will depend on whether the meta encourages formations that leave attackers vulnerable to her "skip targeting" AOE silence.
Roxy is quite fragile in terms of her defensive stats, with very low base HP. Even if her silence skill lands, she may not survive being hit with normal attacks on the following turn.
Although Roxy can be an effective disruptor in an attack team for only 1 SP, her usage will be very meta dependent (depending on the likelihood that Roxy can land a good silence against popular formations).
Conclusion
Roxy's niche is as a 1 SP PVP silencer. Her damage is far too weak for use in PVE and there are plenty of other PVP silencing options. Whilst she is potentially highly disruptive in PVP, she is also very weak defensively, so her use will all come down to strategic formation play.
