So essentially this is like Konosuba in a way! Specifically how Kazuma is the ONLY useful member of his "harem" party of four! Despite forever stuck in a Beginner Basic Class! He's had to adjust to make up for the "uselessness" of his three party members! On Paper, he looks like the Load, in practise
-Aqua....GOOD GOD "AQUA"- The Priestess who should be ULTIMATE, but has the bad luck to ALWAYS end up "trying to be useful" against foes who RESIST/NO SELL them (like Water against WATER ENEMIES like the Giant Frogs). Her godly presence is catnip to undead, causing her to run away from them when she can instantly purify them. Notice how USELESS she pretty much ends up when they face foes she SHOULD be ! She is where the Joke in "The Hero is Overly Cautious" came from where the MC of that one Seiya keeps comparing Ristarte (That stories "Aqua" though abit more sympathic as she's not a spoiled BRAT like her, and Seiya is kind of a jerk to her) to a "Healing Herb" (Jokes on Seiya, even if you can compare Healers to healing items, the point is they EXPAND when you have to USE that healing item, and using it YOURSLF means your using your TURN, which causes if your fighting one on one, a vicious cycle of Heal---> Take a Hit---> Hit back---- Hit Again----> Heal Instead of just focusing on attacking cause someone else is doing the healing instead). At BEST her healing assures Kazuma can't die for good (and even THEN it's because she BULLIES her subordinate Eris despite the fact in her position, the Hierarchy shouldn't apply much since it's OBVIOUS the Higher Ups took Kazuma's choice of Aqua as a means to "Exile her" in all but NAME and it's HER WORLD she's on). And lets not forget all the CRYING, Whining that is loud enough that you'd be FORGIVEN in thinking she's a Banshee!
-Megumin- The Black Mage, should be in practise the strongest one what with how much power Black Mages/Wizards/Sorcerers bring to the table in RPG (Black Mage for JRPG and Wizard/Sorcerers for DnD and DnD like games like Pillars of Eternity and Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2) instead she only knows one spell that is the EMBODIMENT of "Awesome but impractical" and worse it can only be used ONCE per day! Afterwards (in the case of Spell Count systems) she becomes useless, even WORSE the ACTUAL fucking Load because she's helpless and can't mov because while BOOSTING Explosions Power, she never meets the MP requirement for it so it also takes HP leaving her at a measly 1 HP! And to make it even MORE WORSE! She has a HIGH MP COUNT! Meaning if she just did what YunYun did and use Tier 2 Magic over one Tier 3. She'd be far useful! (I feel like it's a JOKE on say DnD the Lower Level Magic's with more spell counts end up alot more useful then the higher Level ones with LIMITED Magic Count that you have to SERIOUSLY justify using them!
-Lalatina AKA "Darkness"- Who is the LEAST useless of the Trio! She does her job as a tank well.....TOO WELL because she's PURPOSELY trying to "take hits" because she's a Masochist on the "unforgivable level" (The level even TOP TIER Sadists would look at her in GENINUE disgust! The Top Tier who get OFF on bringing pain, but only to the reluctant, not Unforgivables who WANT to be hit! There's no fun or pleasure in that, only "getting weird out like everyone else")! When she's NOT creeping you out, she's likely SABOTAGING if she's aware of it sometimes to "avoid the situation stopping till she's FINISHED" And even if she tries to attack, she can't! Even PURE TANKS have SOME Offense! But here Accuracy goes to 0-5% (mostly 0%) when using her SWORD. She is basically 100% with her FISTS, but she's admanet she's NOT a MONK (despite the fact they can do well with other weapons besides their fists but whatever). And again, she will usually put "being the main target to a hit" over the objective if Kazuma isn't keeping her under control! Other then her "habit" she's the one he can get along with cause she at LEAST is reasonable and has common sense when her "kinks" aren't triggered (Unlike Megumin who is usually 99%
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Here, you might as well say ALL THREE ARE AQUA TIMES ELEVEN! With Ralph being a FAR more sympathic "Kazuma"
In another funny way, you can see Ralph as "That one Boss" where some RPG or games will have the HARD ASS Boss who story wise is suppose to be a CHUMP, yet the "So called strong ones" end up being "WEAK AS SHIT" or Easily dealt with! You all know what I mean! You fight "THAT ONE BOSS" then assume the future Bosses will be the same, only to be disappointed with how EASY the bosses afterwards were (Usually sometimes because you fought "THAT ONE BOSS" when a good amount of the mechanics are still locked, usually THAT is why "that one boss" was tough! Such things as "LIMITED grinding, or Limit Breaks are locked till AFTER that boss. ETC you get the idea. But sometimes it's because they put BULLSHIT like SMT IV and the Minotaur where if you get unlucky with WHO they partner you with as it's RNG, you'll end up with a Partner who will HIT HIM WITH A SPELL HE's IMMUNE TO! Costing you YOUR Turn and allowing him a SMILE! Smile means his next attack will be DAMAGING AND A CRITICAL! And he has a Party Attack in a game where "if you the protagonist go down at ANY POINT, it's game over! And if not, he can wipe out much of your party in a attack, then attack again which will usually be at a LOW HP after the last attack YOU)