Talk:Veronica Zimmer (Crazed Venom Wizard)/@comment-20426317-20140816200351/@comment-24940844-20140816202231

Being a new player, you probably won't be utilizing the effects of poison at all. The earlier bosses being weaker, and thus having less HP, means that you'll have finished the battle before poison can do any significant amount of damage. The whole point of poison is to deal extra damage over time. Veronica's 3-turn poison hardly counts as 'significant damage' (fyi, poison is fixed at 800 damage per turn, though I'm not sure about hers).

Absorb is a terrible skill coming off her subpar attack since she'll probably only be healing herself by about 100 HP (probably not even 100) per attack. Even the weakest superboss (3*) does more damage than this, so she's not offsetting any damage at all. Also note that AS only activates under certain conditions, which means she won't be healing herself if you miss a question/take too long to answer/get an off colour panel so it's a little bit of a stretch saying she'll be able to survive indefinitely. Of course, this is under the assumption that she is somehow the only one still alive, which is highly unlikely.

Verdict: not a good spirit at all. Use her only if you have no one else. Actually, it'd be better to run a fodder spirit in her slot so you can get the helper earlier.