My game is still with my friend. I need it for double-checking the stats, but....

[yvannairie]

Let's be clear, though. When it comes to actual combat ability, Taion can be kicked over like a pile of firewood with little effort by people below his weight class, and he's only saved from being as made-of-paper as Isurd by virtue of being healthy to the point of obsession and also not running on two cups of whatever-goes-for-coffee every eight hours. Also in terms of raw numbers, he's less powerful than Isurd, as we know from Tidal Wave being a strictly worse version of Soulfire.

Taion's specialisation into a combat swiss army knife is primarily a temperament-driven development. We see how keen and thoughtful he is in the beforetimes, taking a wide angle approach to strategy that people with more specialised skillsets consider either wasteful or cautious, but that makes perfect sense coming from a center guard who is both expected to back up the frontline and multiply their combat potential, but also reinforcing the rear, and being the last line of defense for the full support roles. It's not possible to separate out which came first, him specialising into a combat style that has a huge mental overhead, or his preference for field control and fighting at multiple ranges at the same time.

Furthermore, this final version of his fighting style we see is informed by Taion having nothing left at the start of the game outside of Mio and Sena. He is the off-seer's bodyguard -- in practical terms, he exists just to slice to ribbons and reduce to ash anyone who threatens his ward. However, since Mio can't not be throwing herself into combat with the whole of her being, he also needs to be able to keep up with her, and stop her from getting herself killed.