Talk:Ainz Ooal Gown/@comment-172.251.232.209-20180505061317/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180523000108

It should be more accurate to say that Demiurge is a rear-echelon commander type rather than unoptimized for combat. Momonga is a rear-echelon fire/buff/misc. support, and thus is disadvantaged by a lack of front-liners but not directly handicapped by not having any. That is, meat shields are good but he can do without them. For Demiurge, meat shields are not merely meat shields but crucial to his offensive abilities as well. He also has abilities that can buff large numbers of minions as well as permit advanced command/control of them.

Interestingly, in the narrative these abilities have mostly only been used for showy effects rather than actual use in combat. Though the same is probably true for all the Floor Guardians, they're just too OP to use their abilities seriously in the New World.