I suppose that it depends on how one plays the game.

I, personally, never found Quina to be very useful at all, but I've spoken with people who had Quina as one of their main party members, and spoke highly of his/her usefulness in a battle. So it depends.

Id Vote for eiko! Her healing Sucks! Garnet Is a better Healer.I think why have eiko when you could have Garnet! The only time She's useful is when she has doublecast! I'll Say this one more time!What is eiko use for?you have garnet already!

I never really had a place in the party for Quinna. He/She always took fr top long to anytihng useful. So when i could evict her from the party i did...

I would say that the most useless characters were amarant, eiko, and quina.

Amarant because he's not important to the story line and his overall stats and abilities arent that great.

Eiko because she only knows like 4 summons and her overall stats and healing abilities are like ten times worse that garnets.

Quina only because the amount of dmg she inflicts is like random. One attack could do like 2910 then the next attack would 309

I agree with you, Quina isn't consistent, his damage like you said was random, but his Blu Magic was pretty awesome, Pumpkin Head was da bomb!

Amarant was good imo, His throw, and Flair stuff made him very useful at times. I think hes far from useless.

Eiko i only used when Garnet lost her voice, then I just stopped using her, her healing was nice, I enjoyed the sound of the flute :). But thats about it, Phoenix was a useful summon, Ark was better than Maiden, and Fenrir. Plus Odin + Odin's Sword did more dmg then Ark sometimes :D.

-Kuja

Loved them all,but from story-wise meaby yeah Amarant is a bit pointless.

Storyline-wise I didn't particularly find Amarant all that important. He didn't contribute too much in the way of direction in the storyline or some all-important theme like Vivi and his identity. What he did contribute could have easily been rerouted to have the other characters do what he did. About Quina... s/he's just comic relief, that's it. BUT! I actually like him/her/it.

Battle-wise I really try to make everyone useful in some sort of way, but ultimately the one who sorta falls to the wayside for me is Dagger. I'm not much of a summon user (I use them occasionally, but Vivi's my main person for magic damage), so all I really use her (and Eiko) for is healing. But Eiko can use spells that Garnet cannot: Full-Life, Esuna, Haste, Might, and Holy, to name a few. And even her summons (namely Carbuncle and Phoenix) have more utility than Dagger's. Apart from a rare summon casting, my Dagger doesn't have much utility other than just using white magic, but even Eiko trumps her in that department by having access to more useful white magic. BUT dagger's still a pretty good healer, so it's not like I'm not using her.

Quina's awesome, nuff said. I don't care that I don't know his/her/its gender. To me that's really not important. If you just put in a little investment into training him/her/it, you'll be paid twentyfold.

Even though I like Quina, I still don't see the purpose in her. Half of Quina's time is spent rolling her tongue around and eating. Other than evening out the numbers for the Shrine thing, I don't see a point in her.

Amarant was pretty blah, too. Was he just there to show hat Zidane framed him? He rarely speaks, but when he does, it's extremely emo.

I felt that Eiko and Freya had a purpose. Eiko was there to show who Garnet really was, and Freya was there to show that Kuja was strong enough to wipe out a city of rats? I'm not so sure about her, but came in handy in Burmecia.