[General Discussion] Most worthless party members ever!

In RPGs it starts to be a given that lots of them tend to have at least one completely worthless party member in them. They are those characters that you just absolutely don't want to use if you don't have to. What are some of the ones you guys can't stand having in your party and why?

Personally I always hated having Gau in my party in Final Fantasy 6. Aside from the fact that alot of the rages were completely useless, you couldn't even control him anyhow when you had one that wasn't useless. This could easily lead to him using attacks that heal the enemy if you don't know the exact elements on the attacks he'll use. People can argue that Umaro is useless as well because you can't control him, but in the Fanatic Tower that's actually useful since he'll use physical attacks even though you aren't supposed to be able to.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Or even in Shining Force, there were plenty of people not worth their salt.

Yeah, I know. I just couldn't think of any of their names off the top of my head since it's been so long since I played Shining Force II or III.

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Gau? All RP cred gone instantly, sir. GONE.

Not everyone in the world is going to have the same opinions as you. Deal with it. I kind of assumed someone was going to jump on me for using him as an example.

Heck here's another example of a useless party member. Morwen from Lord of the Rings: Third Age. How useful is gaining a fighter that will never be as good as the ones you already had?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Sten is mostly useless, but the fusions you could make with him in them were fairly potent, if'n I remember correctly.

Yeah, but even then, he's basicly just a weaker male version of Katt. Sure he has more mp, but that's not really the point for using either one of them. Sten and Bow were probably my least used characters. Granted I'm not saying Bow is useless, I know he's not, I just don't like Bow.

Also nice bit of info on Setzer, I didn't know about that. I used him anyhow, but I didn't know about that. The characters I always left behind when going to Kefka's tower were always Umaro and Gau.

I'm not really surprised someone told me about the usefulness of Gau. I do the same thing all the time to people that try to say Yuffie sucks.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I forgot how worthless Ernest was. The only reason I usually got him was because it took alot more effort to pair Opera with someone else for the ending if you didn't get him. Opera is the achille's heel of the last boss though so she's more then worth having.

Course offensive casters were also kind of useless near the end since they didn't have multiple hit attacks to break the damage cap. I still used them anyhow though just cause I always wanted to get decent use out of all 8 of the characters I selected.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Helloween

Lucca and Robo got pretty useless late in the Chrono Trigger game. Ayla and Marle were semi useful, but i only ever used them for the twin charm attack late in the game. Once you have a leveled up Crono Frog and Magus team there's no need to use anyone else.

Um... Magus was really only good because he started with much higher magic then other characters. If you max out everyone's magic Lucca's Flare and Robo's Shock does more damage then Dark Matter. Not saying he sucked, but I really only used Magus more then them because of his coolness factor.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Nall

Ayla was good if only for Triple Kick. The only other attack beside Confuse that hit multiple times and thus able to break the 9999 damage cap. She couldn't use any magic, which was only really a problem when you fought Spekkio and had to rely on double-techs instead.

Actually, Ayla's spin attack that makes that Tornado counts as magic. Easily the strongest one hit attack in the game if you actually raise her magic. The only problem is she has to be below them on the screen and you can't control positioning very well.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Terminus

But if Ernest is worthless, then sir, Noel is absolutely worthless.

Not sure I'd say that... Noel is the only reasonable healer substitute if you don't want Rena in your party. Now from a gameplay standpoint you can say "Why the hell wouldn't you want to use Rena?". Because it's much harder to keep her and Claude from getting together in the ending if you actually use them together in battle.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Leknaat

Claude, Ashton and Opera were my mainstays. The fourth slot was a rotation of magic users/Bowman. I like to mix my short-range and long-range fighters.

That's impossible. You can't have both Ashton and Opera.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?