Lute has the ability to NOT fight ever! I mean you can have a situation where Lute decides to go one on one in the final battle. Or Lute decides “Hey Hamilton you fight him by yourself” Or Lute can decide that getting some help would be a good idea. I mean Lute is a main character where you can have the image of him sitting in the corner with Hamilton talking to each other. While Slime, Suzaku, Cotton, Kylin and Mesatharim are facing the final boss.
Hamilton: Lute come on you should fight him.
Lute: I don’t care let them do that. Wow I didn’t know Crystal Trees could fly.
Slime: (Lazy ***** bum!)
Heck the fact that you can remove Lute from the main party as pointed out in this thread means you don’t have to worry about the whole LP thing. You can even buy every LP item in Facinituru without care. Now that’s cool. Heck in my current Lute game, I have 5 undead monsters aka Dullahans fighting together. Well almost I still need to make the last one a Dullahan.
On average, I have 3 Sword users, a Fists user, and one Magic user. And, because I think Emilia is simply the best character in the game, I use her in every scenario