Optimise YOUR AI Companions in Granblue Fantasy Relink! Who Needs Friends Anyway!

with AI this good who needs friends oh damn that's a statement that Dooms the world doesn't it hello there everybody welcome back to the channel my name is josepher and in today's Grand blue fantasy reeling video we're going to be discussing AI Companions and optimizing them for solo Play Because while it's almost certainly preferable from both a social and a gameplay standpoint to play through all the missions in gbr with three friends or through the game's matchmaking which has been improved since launch but it still isn't quite perfect some people might prefer to go it alone and not have to worry about organizing a group of people to play the game with and as someone who play through a lot of the missions including some of the proud missions by myself using their II they're surprisingly competent and can easily allow you to play through the entire game by yourself if so desired but of course in order to do that we have to look at our companions slightly differently than we would if they were human players and after seeing this particular Reddit thread showcasing a partner sigils by Dusty tibbons who actually mentioned videos that they've made in their thread I don't have a link to them but if you happen to have one I'd love to Showcase their videos as well so thank you very much for that post I was inspired to make a video to talk more about AI companions in general I do also want to give a quick shout out to the Grand blue fantasy reing community and cuz recently videos for me have been doing extremely well for gbr and I have finally broken my 20K subscriber curse that I've had for like the last year and I'm absolutely elated by it you have no idea what it means so if you've enjoyed any of my videos whether they be gbr videos or any other videos that I've done or if you've stuck by me through thick and thin since ddia since Final Fantasy TCG I'm actually extremely grateful to you so while it's really nice to sort of crack out your AI companions it's by no means better than having a full party of human players AI characters don't have access to potions for example and if optimizing time in missions is important to you you'll almost certainly want to have real people to Chuck out Mass damage with optimized builds but where the AI does do less damage overall than most human players they kind of make up for it by their survivability the AI is shockingly good at dodging large scale attacks even in proud difficulty they're not perfect at it but they're extremely competent at it so if matchmaking makes you worry about random players not being able to keep up which you know everyone plays at their own pace we should never judge people but some people do get frustrated then this will help circumvent that so I'm going to use rackam here as my example of building up a character to be specifically set up to be controlled by the AI and I know I use rackam a lot in my videos but not only is he the character that I have built most because I've only one step off from maxing out his Ascension weapon I do think he's a great example of a damage dealing character that works really well with the AI as is showcased by how well he behaves in full assist mode like I've showcased in my AFK farming videos rakam is a constant stream of damage he can attack the enemy from anywhere whether they're flying or not and he performs as such whether he's played by a human or an AI due to the AI knowing very well how to dodge I don't need to worry too much about consistent damage if rackam is on my AI team I can just leave him to his own devices and the Damage will come now every character can work with the AI if they're built correctly just like a human player but somebody like vaseraga or Gand goza might have a little more trouble getting in because the AI is so heavily leaned towards dodging attacks that they need to be right up close to do what they do best and they might be spending their time dodging away from the enemy rather than towards them building up skills on AI characters with sigils and weapon Stones is fairly self-explanatory because much like a human player damage cap is going to remain key for AI players you want to do as much damage as possible to cut down on time now my sigils are not maxed out I've been farming a load of sigils obviously not the materials to level them up yet so these stats can actually be much higher than what I'm showcasing here but some fiddling might be needed to get their damage optimized as it would be for your own character through things like stamina or tyranny or even attack up if you really wanted it there's lots of different ways to kind of get around that and if you happen to have the legendary sigils for your characters then obviously you're going to want to whack that one too now potion hoarder obviously isn't going to be necessary for an AI character because they can't use potions anyway but some strong sigils to consider and Dusty's post I'll refer to again quite rightly here would be guts and auto revive both of these sigils will help your characters to survive attacks because the way that you know losing a mission works if you get knocked out you have a bar that runs down and if it runs to zero that's when you lose the mission so having AI characters not go down easily is going to be beneficial now I actually have guts and auto revive attached to secondary stats on my on my sigil so I don't actually have to worry about it too much and I can have them available pretty regularly and I don't have to level these up all the way cuz all it does is make it so that they become active again quicker obviously it's nicer if you have it but just by giving them those sigils it makes a difference it's even something you might want to consider using for your own character depending on your pride in your skills I mean I use them to be honest beyond that generally useful skills things like Cascade quick cool down up lift is something you might want to consider when it comes to AI characters because having the SBA gauge go off more frequently is going to add up damage wise and a little tip for you with that that I'll bring up in a future video is if the AI triggers it first you'll get the full ring go around to get you to trigger it if you see that your other AI companions are ready let them go first because you have that bring your timer going down time to deal additional damage before you actually trigger your own whereas if you trigger yours first the AI will immediately trigger theirs after each after each instance so you'll get a little bit more damage by waiting God forbid you have more than one of them if you have a war Elemental or just a really strong sigil that just works generally you obviously want to walk whack that on there now defense of sigils in general you probably don't need to worry about if you've maxed the character out in other ways but if you don't have enough sigils to go around for the offensive slots it is harder to build up four characters than it is one just filling out slots with what you have will work fine you should always put yourself first so going back to the potion issue and this is also wonderfully highlighted in Dusty tiin's post having characters who are capable of healing themselves and those around them are going to be more highly desirable than those who can't and you will have to forgive the mess that is my party you can see I've been playing around with sigils and power and all sorts of things a lot lately as it means that in a situation where a character has been hit and it does happen they're going to be more able to recover themselves without you having to crack a BL blue potion in order to save them characters with healing abilities include EO Catalina Gran Ferry kagi Ostro there are others as well I mentioned in a previous character or previous video their characters with potent Buffs the debuffs were really good to choose early and I stand by that comment as well for those playing through the game up until the hardest difficulties and you start hitting damage caps and stuff so kagi Ostro and gr can both provide those as well but you might want to consider sort of playing around with the skills around once you've got the need to buff a bit less than you had before KAG Ostro actually also happens to have a Revival skill that can prove extremely useful which is something to consider as well but having sigils like guts and auto revive can circumvent the need for this so that you can focus more on damage if you want to any character that has crowd control abilities can also be extremely well performed by the AI not just by opening the enemy up up to additional damage but by also making it safer for them to continue fighting and typically the AI actually does a pretty good job of not overlapping these effects so characters like peral which is another character I recommended as an early pick Catalina again and Lancelot can come in very handy too now I wouldn't worry too much about counterattacking as the AI is so capable of dodging they're not going to need it and I also wouldn't worry about skills that either reduce damage or make the party Invincible or something like veins bubble for invincibility with the AI as I don't trust 100% or guarantee that the AI will use it correctly or keep hold of those skills and not put them on cooldowns for the times in which you'd actually need them by and large my favorite characters to give to the AI have been kagi Ostro for just having so many support abilities that are useful throughout the game and even at the end first of all because he has an incredibly powerful slow ability and his damage is fantastic I've also used a lot of Sig freeze because his damage output is just really strong though recently now that I'm not playing rackam I have actually changed him for rackam to be my AI damage dealer for that more consistent stream of damage Gran as well is another choice that I think is really good just because of the malleability of the character I don't play him very much but he is very good for what you can use him for and then Catalina because she has the Buffs she has healing she has the crowd control her damage is pretty solid as well but I'd like to hear from you who are your favorite characters to give to the AI just comment down below and if you're not sure what to comment I always say this in every video and some of you guys do do this and it always makes me smile every time it happens just type the word algorithm in it's been helping me a great deal as a YouTuber so I'm extremely grateful for every comment I see that just says algorithm so yeah that's pretty much all I have to say about AI companions let me know in the comments below like I said what your favorite characters are and thank you ever so much for watching this video and thank you ever so much again for helping me to hit 20,000 subscribers I'm going to make a proper post about that in the future because I really am extremely grateful but for the time being if you've enjoyed what you've seen today consider subscribing to the channel and maybe we'll hit 25k who knows and like the video hit the notification bell all that stuff that YouTubers tell you to do you know what I'm talking about and if you've enjoyed the video a lot and you want to support the channel further perhaps consider checking the link out in the description box below for my patreon channel where you can in all sorts of various benefits like artwork that I make specifically for you title cards that go in all my videos all sorts of other bits and pieces but for now thank you ever so much for watching and I will see you in the next video take care everyone [Music] bye-bye

Channel: Joesephyr

Views: 52,534

Keywords: Granblue, Fantasy, Relink, Versus, Rising, CyGames, GBVS, GBR, PS5, PS4, Final Fantasy, JRPG, JRPGs, 1st Impressions, Monster Hunter, Re:Link, Ranking, Tier List, Rackam, Gran, Gameplay, Tips, Guide, Hints, Farming, Experience, Money, Sigils, Infinite, Infinite XP, Cheat, AFK Farm, Sigil, AI, Companion, Partner, Optimization, Optimisation

Id: 2idzF9N7CdY

Length: 11min 2sec (662 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 06 2024