The sword and board guy is probably the weakest at low level, and the least interesting. And in general, not very good considering how slow he is despite his lack of reach.Started playing Children of Morta. I should try out different characters before casting judgment I guess, but I do have to say that I'm surprised they made a sword character with a basic attack string of only two (!) consecutive attacks... And there's a slightly different attack you can do if you attack while blocking, but I think that's it? Maybe also coming out of the dodge that you can use every five seconds. I suppose this is something that might gets expanded as you level the character up or something, but it doesn't really feel good to play in any case. I think literally just adding a third attack to the string would've done a lot.
So of course they start you with him.