Here are the times: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fr1aq9vLVVHkOX2bYwx4CghsADG4TZhLdsTxJZflzyc/edit?usp=sharing

I was always curious what the animation times were. If FC is on average faster than SS, that could be worth changing the card used. The question though is, does the highest FC hit go faster than the highest SS hits? Because with SS, you often need to hit 135+ to one shot a lot of enemies. SS has two animations that can do this, but FC only has one. On top of that, SS has two chances to hit what it needs (135 and 145) but FC only has 135. In an ideal run card accuracy and things like this wouldn't matter, but it would make an ideal run more difficult because the odds would tighten.

I completely agree with what VGP has to say. On top of that, Rattlebones is what I consider to be the make-it-or-break-it point of Unicorn Way, which can only be perfect if you run the Storm class. The main reason I decided to time the 1-pip spells was to have a better understanding of what would be the fastest spell specifically for Lost Souls and Skeleton Pirates (which is Imp). I found it surprising that Firecat was 80% of the time faster than Storm Serpent, and was interested to how it could potentially benefit a run. What I found was that it could be used for Field Guard in WC%.

120 Damage Firecat is slower than 125+ Damage Storm Serpents by roughly 50 milliseconds. There's only a 20% chance of killing a fairy with Firecat.

Honestly Storm is just better.

If Imp doesn't fit the range of damage required to kill an enemy, it will be faster (80% of the time) to use Firecat rather than Storm Serpent.

Then again, 50ms doesn't really do anything to the run so it doesn't really matter. I was just curious :)

Oh storm (the character's school) is definitely the best one. I was just talking regarding the 1 pip cards everyone gets. People have wondered if Fire or Life could be better, but Fire wouldn't work because their 2 pip is way slower to kill since it's a DoT and Life just doesn't have the strength output Storm has (155-195 vs 245-285).

Ah gotcha my bad. Yeah the DOT is definitely a time killer.