Does anyone think a different battle morph might be better?

[Yorick Brown]

I felt that the only Animorph that needed a different battle morph was Tobias. Yes. His hawk morph was good at telling people to watch out but Ax could do that and the only thing Tobias could really do in direct conflict was rake some eyes and then fly away.

He should have used a crocodile or a komodo dragon or something for battle.

[Vivi9087]

Well remember, more often then not they needed their "eye in the sky" to inform them of when reinforcements were coming in and whatnot.  And keep in mind Tobias had the Hork morph he used on more then one occassion.

[Duff]

You arent giving a good eye rake its credit lol blinding an opponent is extremely useful, especially when they are fighting one of the others, and yea his eye in the sky was extremely useful in pretty much every situation, someone needs to be able to see the bigger picture to find escape routes, weaknesses, places they are being closed in, and jake cant do that with a face full of hork haha

[RYTX]

I think Tobias should have done Ax in battle more, it's ridiculous how long they got away with having only one Andalite in the fight in a group of  "Andalite bandits"

[Yorick Brown]

A Hork-Bajir morph would have been too confusing in battle.

[crystalclear]

I wonder why they don't switch to different animals for different missions, you know, so that they yeerks would think there are lots of them. Using only those 6 over and over again is too obvious

[Kotetsu1442]

You arent giving a good eye rake its credit lol blinding an opponent is extremely useful, especially when they are fighting one of the others, and yea his eye in the sky was extremely useful in pretty much every situation, someone needs to be able to see the bigger picture to find escape routes, weaknesses, places they are being closed in, and jake cant do that with a face full of hork haha

It isn't that the hawk form is literally useless, and yes there are situations where a aerial view was useful, but there were plenty of times where they prepared to go into battle and knew that what they needed was pure muscle and no particularly strategy beyond 'fight and make it through alive' and a lot of animals could have been better than staying hawk. Not only is 'eye raking' a lot more temporary of a distraction than something to take each enemy out of the battle, but in any realistic setting a hawk that is making a regular habit of raking the eyes of a Hork-Bajir or even a human should have gotten killed or knocked senseless then killed by a solid punch before too long.

I agree that Cassie could have done better than a wolf too. Again, it isn't useless, but she could have certainly gone with something more powerful and tougher without sacrificing 'versatility' and honestly, ripping something's throat out is an awfully intimate way to kill something for someone who finds the killing that distasteful, something that could kill at arm's length would have been less psychologically damaging so I don't agree that it fit her well even if that was the author's intent.

[LisaCharly]

Perhaps Cassie never wanted to acquire a battle morph because that would be acknowledging that she was using an animal's DNA with the specific intent of using it to kill? With the wolf, it was initially for travel.