Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
So, actually, if you rely entirely on Freddy in lunatic or lunatic+ you can get pretty screwed because he still sucks. You also can't really grind without DLC (if you have DLC then yeah, whatever, get to 5 and then level the people you care about). But if you're doing it without DLC, you basically need to use the river movement in the first map to feed all the kills to MU so that he/she gets strong and then MU can actually carry you through really well and ends up being quite powerful.
Pretty much this.

Once MU hits level 15 you can use him to baby a team of gods without DLC.