Fire Emblem Awakening [SPOILERS INSIDE]

Man, I'm not sure if the makers of this game were just smart or stupid. You could get both your characters to max stats, but if your single character does not kill them in one hit (85 damage in some cases) counter will cripple and some cases kill you. Although some of my characters can BREAK that damage cap, it's worthless when they have aegis/pavise+ which halves it and causes my own character to do 40 damage to themselves. To add insult to injury, sure you can quickly graph out where the counter mooks are, but reinforces come and attack on the same turn.