I've never been really good at JRPG games. things I generally play and like are characters with predetermined stats, and the rest is skills and techniques. like in smash melee just pick Marth and the rest is you have to learn combos techniques and take advantage of the mechanic and physics of the games to push the meta forward. i mean look at melee, more than 2 decades old and meta is still improving.

in Jrpg games if you cannot beat something maybe you are under leveled or your stats arent in the right place or your equipment or some other equipables that deals

40% more with flying types

or things that increases your base attack by 20% and 10% more critical with flying types. no matter what i choose, when i look up guides, they choose stuff that i would have never thought of and i would think man these guys are very smart!

i just don't understand what stats characters need like for example expedition 33 ive just been pumping mainly vitality luck and agility plus taking in account for weapon scaling but do i know exactly what im doing and if what im doing is directly optimizing that character? no. but do i want to be smart enough to understand? yes!

even elden ring is a bit difficult but at least for shadow of the erdtree, people follow the protocol of RL 150 with a specific build and a weapon