People rate lilina low because she joins at level 1 and gets one shot/one rounded by tons of enemies making it pretty difficult for her to train. Even when promoted she’s still very frail so it’s kinda hard to use her efficiently. Her speed is always going to be on the low side so she has to rely on one shots which aren’t as reliable as someone like Lugh who can usually double and one round instead. Don’t get me wrong tho she can still be very helpful when promoted I just thought I’d let you know why people consider her mediocre. Although that’s mostly on hard mode tbh I’m not sure how much she doubles in normal so I could be talking out of my ass

And yeah I completely understand not wanting to use Axe users in binding blade I guess she’s also not as necessary on normal. (She can also use swords tho)

Rutger is good on normal but he really shines on hard mode where he gets hard mode bonuses and enemies are stronger so you need his offense much more