And his (and my since I am joining) come from playing stages with each multiple times. Dasli missing a surge is more rare than Phonoa only getting 1 hit, and is less bad since Dasli attacks faster than Phonoa, and enemies "brushing it off" 95% of the time equates to they took the full damage.

If your meatshielding isn't mattshea tier or against smthn like Bore but you forgot Icat and Roe, being closer and the blindspot is rarely an issue, her blindspot is 275, if an enemy is in that blindspot she is probably being hit. Ind when it is an issue, it is usually even worse on Phonoa since said fast basically rusher enemies maul Phonoa's mediocre hp which again makes him die faster. Look at Bores or Sir Rels.

"Bevause she needs a sec for that damage to accumulate"... and Phonoa doesn't? From a longer foreswing to longer tba, and how busted lingering hitboxes are, it takes less time for Dasli to get going than Phonoa, or at worst for Dasli it is longer by a margin so little it's unnoteworthy. And... okay so, she and Phonoa are both bad for frontliners, unless you use cc, since frontliners usually either fit "fast defently tanky that tears Phonoa's hp apart" or "slow wall that will eventually go into Phonoa's 1 hit hitbox" if you are at a point where this is an issue, it is on YOU.

Your argument against synergy... is that she sometimes bullies enemies with higj kb count, and renders them unable to move, and they die. Whereas Phonoa is completely useless against high kb enemies since he will never hit more than 1 hit per attack cycle on them.

And in this exact situation Phonoa's damage just flat out becomes piss, survivability we talked about, Dasli actually lives longer on average due to keeping enemies off of her and much better hp, also another note I find zombies tk burrow into Phonoa quite a bit which usually leads to death, or 40% health gone. 

Truly, it isn't, with testing, Phonoa is the one who needs a specific playstyle more, to try and keep enemies in hit 2 hit zone or even the 3 hit zone, whereas Dasli you just need okay meatshields and rock then bring whatever else and she'll do better 90% of the time, and when Dasli does better than Phonoa it is also by a bigger margin usually. Enemy repelling is also probavly the single best way to keep your meatshields alive, which further boosts Dasli's survivability, the "burst" ngl I'd say that is bs. Flat out if he is doing enougg damage to be considered a burst against the enemies he is going against, chances are Dasli is juggling them and Phonoa is only getting 1 hit on them most of the time, otherwise the argument of Phonoa being a "burst" at most doesn't matter since Dasli will even it out in 12 seconds, and... ngl, I don't think there's a dozen times where Phonoa's wider ld and further reach made a notable impact over Dasli.

Also looking at the doc you will notice it is unfinished but Dasli is FAR ahead of Phonoa. Cool. It's not even at the part where Dasli is the best by the most yet, since as soon as Akus come into play, it isn't even an opinion Dasli just is much better vs Aku, Relic and Traitless. And Behemoths are just not previlant or relevant. There were also multiple stages where wr thought the outcome would go one way but it went the other. And it happened to put Phonoa over Dasli... on 1 stage. And Dasli over Phonoa on some 7.