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Awakening stats and growths are too high - on player and enemy side - and ironically base stats specifically are too low on player side. It has some THE shittiest early recruits in series history. Sully and Stahl's stats are on par with Sain and Kent's, despite the fact that on the highest difficulty, lategame enemies have stats into the 40s. Nominally pair up, a high median growth rate, and a generous exp floor of 8 (12 with Veteran) are supposed to compensate for this, but they really don't on Lunatic. Everyone is prohibitively dogshit long term because, for each additional unit you field, that's one more very hungry mouth to feed. That's the real source of the Chrobin meme, it's just easy to supercharge that specific pair of units due to a variety of factors mostly related to Robin being broken.
They pandered to growth-loving, grinding, RPG brainrotted casuals big time and the result is predictable. Thankfully in Fates they saw their mistake and course corrected before the series went full Disgaea.

>don't use a robe on your early flier
>use it on your cleric instead, like /vfeg/