Best and Worst Sprites/Spirits Options

[SleepIncarnate]

What in everyone's opinion is the best sprite for a TM to have? Which is the worst? Same goes for spirits for mages.

For me, the worst sprite has to be the courier sprite. The ONLY thing it has going for it is the hash power, which has very limited use. The data sprite (which every stream gets) can do pretty much everything else it can, and what it can't, the sleuth sprite can do, and can generally do better, but still every stream except for dronomancers and technoshamans gets the courier as well. As for best sprite, data just barely beats out machine because, as I said, every stream gets it, and it's generally going to be better than the TM at the number one use of the Matrix..... information gathering. The machine sprite gets a lot of points though for being so versatile, and practically a must have for submersion/resonance realm searches. To put into an Evo Orderly with the command to keep you alive until you come back

As for spirits, I'd have to say best for me is the guardian spirit, simply because there's so many spells to choose from nd so few you can start with, that unless you're specializing in combat magic, it's really nice to have a spirit cover the combat for you while you handle the support magic. Worst would have to be tsk, I guess, simply because unless you want one to build you a house or something (or maybe are a possession trad and want one for something like playing an instrument), there's really not much use for them at all. It's not even a matter of redundancy like with the courier sprite, there's just nothing that the task spirit brings to the table aside from that one skill.