Talk:Batman/Arkham Origins/@comment-162.207.29.13-20161112072120/@comment-28738889-20161112152911

Well, AOB still has his uses, although it does make sense in terms of the games they're based on that AKB would be better. The biggest benefit of AOB is that you can't guarantee that AKB will select the power option on defense and won't pick out two buffs that are useless against the team he's fighting. As you noted, he's also considerably easy to get, and can be directly promoted (it typically takes near 10,000,000 credits to promote AKB to E7, and sometimes more). The biggest example of a character being completely overshadowed is Lobo (by Static and later AKB). So while AKB is definitely better, there are still quite a few reasons to use AOB, especially on defense.