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Alice is basically just a good AOE Quick Caster, she has a 50% battery, NP gain up, Quick up, ATK up, another 20% battery and a 7 hit AOE NP. The other thing of note she has is that 20% battery is specifically on a low cooldown and has a unique gimmick.

Skill 3 is
2 turn cooldown
>Grant self Substitution (use 1 Robin Counter [Alice starts battle with 13 Robin Counters, cannot recover counters) for 1 attack, 2 turns
>Charge own NP gauge by 20%.

Substitution is mechanically the same as Castoria's Anti-Purge Defense, except it cannot be removed by buff removal. So in other words, every two turns she gets 20% battery and a free unremovable unignorable 1 hit Invincible.

>I heard that Aoko needs Ciel to really shine
One of Aokos several gimmicks is some of her normal attacks being AOE in Super Aoko mode. Theoretically you can try and consistently force them if you use Ciel (or now Olga or Ishtar since they can do the same thing now) + Summer BB to lock Aokos cards. This would allow you to wave clear with Aoko with her normal attacks. However doing so isn't really her primary usecase, her usecase is more just having a million things going on and throwing it all at the wall in challenge quests.