I mean, wouldn't Frieren be a swiss army knife, too? The problem is, we'd need to know beforehand what each character is capable of. Without that, we cannot really complain about Methode.

Same way I was wondering about the earth magic-guy in the latest episode: Frieren really doesn't know a spell to put together the broken wand? But that guy does? Kinda arbitrary. You'd think a 700 year old mage would have bothered to learn repair-spells at some time.