Shining Force can have the effing weirdest stat distributions.

[guardians_song]

Like Fire Emblem, the level-ups are random.

Unlike Fire Emblem, you can gain more than one point per level-up in a stat. This means that the people who are RNG-screwed are really RNG-screwed in comparison, and the RNG-blessed are, uh....

Let's just look at some current statistics, shall we? (Attack is given with equipped weapons, so don't gawk too much at the low attack of the healers and mage.)
Outliers are bolded.

Name	Level	Class	HP	MP	ATTACK	DEFENSE	AGILITY
ZiegFeld	5	SDMN	16	9	19	8	9
Mae	6	KNT	14	0	18	14	10
Ken	7	KNT	25	0	20	7	8
Gort	6	WARR	15	0	22	16	7
Luke	6	WARR	15	0	22	11	7
Tao	6	MAGE	13	19	9	6	9
Lowe	4	HEAL	12	18	11	6	6
Khris	3	HEAL	11	12	11	6	5
Gong	4	MONK	13	11	13	7	9
Hans	6	ACHR	14	0	15	6	11

Seriously, I don't know what Mae and Gort are putting in their rations, but I'd like to distribute some of it to the rest of the army. And I wouldn't mind Ken sharing his dietary secrets either. o_O
[...And apparently this is normal behavior from them, to tell from what a FAQ says. Yeesh. And I thought Fire Emblem had weird stat variance.]