Talk:Legend of Dragon Gods II/@comment-24925111-20141018220143/@comment-1465604-20141020013815

Or, instead of running Anima, you could run Retzeya, Coco or any other 100% elucidator. That way, you can use his Special skill to get rid of those pesky 3-colour questions. Using your strategy, you can easily get "trolled" in the boss round by tri-colours. You already have Riverta. The best strategy would be to grab a helper Fu-fey becausee that will actually give you a larger room for error in the boss round since you can alternate between delaying and shielding. With Retzeya instead of Anima, you can elucidate away those pesky tri-colours and you've always got George & Emilia's nuke to keep you topped up after Zarajulem's 1500-ish AOE attack when raged.

Anima is nott useless. But she's far from optimal, even from a "non-iAP" standpoint. There  are far better spirits to run other than Anima. Her lackluster heal and 2-turn (instead of a 3-turn) delay is a huge liability.