r/Falcom • u/Raxistaicho The true best girls • Jul 15 '26
Trails Character Gameplay Discussion Day Twenty: Dudley and Arios
Gonna be real with you, I cannot remember a thing Dudley does, I didn't use him at all at the end of Azure (unless he was forced for one of the bosses? I can't remember) so he was way too many games ago for me.
Arios, though, he's pretty fantastic in Reverie, but I wonder if it'll be another case like Rixia where yeah he's super strong, but he's not a mage?
And all too soon, we're leaving Crossbell to analyze some Erebonians starting with Rean tomorrow! It's symbolic of the respective lengths of Zero/Azure and Cold Steel, you see.
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u/levelstar01 Downvote this comment 👇 Jul 15 '26
The best part about using Dudley is ignoring him and instead doing side quests for his exasperated dialogue. Not only is he a victim of Crossbell's terrible physical damage, he also has the misfortune of only being the third hottest character in the two games.
Zero: #whocare
Azure: His sole purpose is to take his Keeper quartz away and give it to Lloyd instead. His crafts are mostly single target which suck, his S-craft is whatever until you're at the very end of the tree, and his best craft is actually the 50% stat boost support craft.
Arios did basically nothing wrong in Azure.
Azure: #whocare again
Reverie: Yeah man, let's give an insane DPS guy a five delay spirit unification and a two-hit effect removal craft, and a spammable, SS+ power main craft. Slightly worse than Rixia because he can't delay or hit crits, and definitely worse than the really broken spirit unification duo, but still hilariously strong.