I also wouldn't say boring and minor upgrades. There's the syngery attacks and then also things that matter a lot. Cait has 2 in particular that are super good. One keeps him from dying once and living with 1 HP and then the other lets him have a free level 2 buff to the team after using Let's Ride.
~Silver_Ermine~
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