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ICYMI this was added to the shop

My Tharja has Logic, Ice Edge, AR Airspace, Demonic Force, and AR Crux Ploy so this is an easy choice

We'll probably see A!Ryoma in a few months as well since they've now done Ancient Tiki and Tharja

Shame she can't run Taker Burst, that and Thunder Specter could have seen some use over Heavenly Soar and Null Uplift, but it's tough to beat Pass and Drive NFU

I actually really like this fairy design on her, definitely an improvement over her base art

I've been making the most out of Divine Codes 7, many great skills this time around

She was able to get Galeforce Mist, Celestial Form, Potent Assault, and Thunder Specter as well with the inheritance used

Galeforce Mist gives Damage Reduction on everyone of he opponents attacks so she can do very well with the Edelgard Ring as long as she gets enough support from allies for extra damage, primarily Reflex

I gave a B!Baldr to R!F!Alear for Archrival as well, I had 2 Alears so I can still build another Sword unit who can make use of Taker Burst

F!Fir manual for Galeforce Mist, Blue Skies 1-3, Potent Assault

R!F!Alear for Caladbolg, Archrival, Thunder Specter(I had a spare B!Marth for Even Tempest 1-3)

I!Mia manual for Celestial Form, Blue-Sky Gust, Heavenly Soar, Null Uplift AS

And it makes perfect sense why

Using an Assist with Micaiah's Ring fulfills the condition to give herself another action

However.. Micaiah's Ring does does not trigger Canto.. which means the After Canto condition for the "additional action" has yet to be fullfilled..

So if she attacks after using the Assist with the Micaiah Ring, she will Canto.. and then the "additional action" will finally take place

I might not be the first player to make this discovery, but I have never seen it mentioned on this Sub or anywhere else

I can confirm that Hot Springs Robin can also take advantage of this because she is also supposed to get Canto after an Assist, she needs True Charge support to deal with Stall though. Hot Springs Chrom, and maybe B!Sylvain but I don't have him, should be able to do it as well but I haven't tested it on him

I!Hilda can't do it however because she doesn't get her extra action after Canto

I have a rule against pulling exclusively to fodder a unit who isn't a skillbank, but the L!Rhea banner went well.. and I got tired of Eirika and Miccy hogging Atk Spd Liberate, but bless their hearts, they showed up quickly both times I have summoned them

Dorothea had been using Incite Atk/Spd prior to this, which is actually pretty decent

This is another sign from the game telling me to break that rule.

The previous time I was going to summon for fodder was when Miklan was added to the Grails, and I was going to pull Braver Hector on the NHR banner that month for Armored Flare and Patience, but the game decided to give him for free lol

W!Dorothea has been a blessing. I never spent any Orbs to get her to +5. I began playing in 2024

I got her limited Ephemera the month before her banner revival. I free-pulled her with one of the tickets W!Fomo gave us, then the following year I free-pulled her again. And now this year I have pulled her 3 more times with the 4*SHSR tickets

She has amazing Speed and 12's Writ makes it even easier to outspeed everything

I am very confused, I assumed anyone who ties for the highest possible score in AR gets Rank 1

Defense was perfect too, has anyone ever finished with a Rank in the single digits that isn't 1?

It gets to have all the fun..

I was a bit surprised that he didn't have a whaled-out Defense because he had 3 Mythics on Offense at +10

So far it's been him, PM1, and Infantry Pulse who have come at my f2p account

He has my respect for prioritizing Offense, the newest unit he has on Defense turns 1 year old this month, there's little to gain from trying to build an unbeatable Defense

I was epxecting to require an answer for the Cheer Leader Ike with the +10 Emblem Ike Ring he used on Offense, and the Emblem Roy with a few merges, but neither of them showed up here

I thought my Defense was gonna steal a kill against him because Duma broke his Fence on turn one lol, and it was going to be a challenge for him to protect his weaker units from the ranged threats. Amazingly no one died, on either side, after the first turn, and he wasn't using a Savior tank either

I just happened upon them a second ago

This wasn't as easy as last week because I encountered 5 teams this week who had both NY!Baldr and H!Freyja, it's much more difficult to handle them with L!Ayra than it is with L!Camilla. Not only do you have to hide behind Corrin's Icicles from Baldr, because Ayra can't do anything to her, you have to stay out of Lyn Ring range from Freyja

The craziest thing that happened was Baldr moved TOWARDS my team after she was hit with Canto Control from Divine Vein Vert..

I have never seen that happen. She was the only opponent left and I could no longer hide from her long enough to finish her off with Miklan's 3 Range Style

This was the 1st Rise Above/Instruct Braver Ike I have encountered in Arena.. and he was easier to beat than his base kit because Divine Vein Vert makes it impossible for him to activate his Special when he attacks, since he no longer has the Tempo effect from Warrior's Blow! lol

Say what you will about L!Camilla and L!Ayra being powercrept, they can still slay H!Freyja with just their base kits! Let's see if one of our fellow Redditors recognizes their Freyja..

I was lucky enough to have forced her to walk down that narrow path by herself, Ayra was able to trap her with the Corrin Ring, forcing her to continuously attack Miklan with the Lyn Ring while he picked off the rest of her team

The final opponent was another Braver Ike I encountered last week as well. This time it took longer to beat him because the map made it difficult for Miklan to attack him twice in one turn, it wasn't possible to take him out in 1 round because of the Roy Ring

I groaned when the first opponent had fully merged Tharjas and Ikes with +10 Emblems but the team preserved. I wasn't worried about Ike because I knew he would be a Miklan victim but Tharja was concerning because of her Potent Attacks

L!Camilla keeps defying her age, pre-combat damage is very effective when left unchecked. Miklan continues to dominate physical matchups

Powecreep is a myth /s

jk Chosen Powers are just that good, so good in fact that she did this with her base kit against a +10 Hector

Funny thing here is Baldr's Triangle Adept "penalty" gave Camilla extra firepower against the 2 Blue units lol

This is my f2p that had "bad luck" on the first E!Edelgard banner that led to a +10 Emblem unit in this Arena Core

Arena tends to be easier on this account because seasons with Ranged Bonus Legendaries become target practice, Camilla appreciates Desperation and Preempt Pulse, as well as Empathy from Fjorm.

L!Elise season is also very easy because the 2 Balistas together is very unfair

Speaking of L!Elise, she is so much worse to face when you don't have her on your own team.. thanks a lot to the people who have her on their Defenses out of Fire Season

I was making the climb from Tier 20 to 21 after the score increase last week finally booted me out of 21 after a couple of months at the top, so Fjorm was able to slot into the 4th spot on the team despite being unmerged because 3,910 is enough this week

Before E!Roy this would have been more complicated because he needed a Superboon in HP Atk or Res to maximize his BST for Arena, which meant you couldn't get his visible Spd to 30 without using either an Ascended Floret or Summoner Support(if Patience was going to be part of his build)

The +3 to all stats that Roy's Ring comes with has saved some trouble

Rise Above + Beast Sacred Seal would be more effective but not everyone picked up multiple Roys for fodder

Armored Flare is definitely preferred over Sturdy Laguz, especially in Arena where Patience users run rampant. It can protect against those Potent 100% hits and the Great Talent to Atk and Def is more useful than the +1 to unit and -1 to foe Cooldown Charges Sturdy Laguz gives

Patience is also going to be better than Iron Fighter simply because it is best for Offense.

Iron Fighter is more likely to be used by the same giga-whales who have those Max-Invested Duo units set to their Defensive Teams because it will make it harder for us to defeat him, and you know how much they value those precious Feathers..

Miklan is unlikely to consistently win Defense checks against other units like Braver Ike or Braver Hector, which will shut off Iron Fighter's ability to reduce damage to 1 on Follow-Up attacks, he will likely have less Speed than them as well so he won't be getting the benefit of the Guaranteed Follow-Up attack from Iron Fighter either because of how Patience's Follow-Up Attack Denial works. And he obviously won't be getting Follow-Up Attacks against all the fast units who naturally have NFU in their kits, the Potent 100% Attack from Patience is an absolute must-have for Miklan

The C skill has some flexibility

A Briar Save is very good for the purpose of protecting allies, since there is now going to be a Style Range-3 unit available in the Grail Shop who can snipe your team over the Corrin Ring..

Briar N Save or Briar P Save are the clear choices here.

You can make a very strong case for the Near Save version because there are Dragons to contend with, but it is nice for him to have Far Save benefits against Bows and Daggers as well.

Dark Beast Agility is the other skill worth taking into consideration. Feud is just very useful, it gives True Damage when he initiates combat, and Flat DR. But he is unlikely to benefit from the NFU because of his lack of Speed.

I think this is going to be on Miklans on Defensive Teams, and it will be worse to go up against for me because I play passively in Arena, I lure out opponents one-by-one. I was planning to support a Briar N or P Save Miklan with the Lucina Ring and Breath of Life, and take advantage of the Reflective Damage of the Save Skills, but Dark Beast skills will disable those Supports..

Over the past few months I have pulled multiple Meliais off-focus so I could have gave him a decent build from one of them.

I then pulled F!Tibarn on the only Blue Stone I selected while double-sparking the Fallen Banner, so I had even more options.

I also pulled a duplicate E!Edelgard for Patience on the Lyon Banner, but I wanted Strat Assault for a Flyer so I haven't foddered her yet.

I sniped Colorless on the Jörmungandr banner to see if I could get multiple copies of her for Armored Flare, and to possibly use Iron Fighter, but I only got her once and 2 Tikis and 1 Sothe.

I could have Sparked a duplicate of her but I prefer to get other premium units who I don't have in my Barracks with those Sparks instead of fodder, so I used it on Young Felix.

I still hadn't used my free-pull on the NHR, and I normally have a rule against summoning exclusively for fodder, but this felt like a worthwhile investment and I wouldn't be upset about getting Sorens instead of Hectors.

The game did me a solid and I free-pulled Hector, so now I have exactly what I needed and I get to use Strat Assault on my Flyer after all.

The upcoming Arena Season has already confirmed we're not getting a new Water Legendary, even though it is desperately needed, and the week after this coming Chaos Season, which should be the new unit's first Bonus Season, will be Astra/Anima

I don't expect them to drop back to back Anima Mythics and I wouldn't expect yet another Emblem so soon.. but crazy things have happened

A Green Astra Mythic could make an interesting colorshare with A!Eliwood

I'm posting this to clear some misconceptions I saw earlier about what it takes to reach and maintain Tier 21 in Arena.

I'm not naming names or telling people how to play the game, but some people have the wrong idea about what it takes to earn Crowns.

The biggest ones are the idea that it is expensive to build an Arena Core, and others think you still require merges on the Bonus Legendary to maintain Tier 21.

Just take a look at my current core for this week on my MAIN account.

How many Orbs do you think I spent to build this group?

Marni and Raph don't ever engage in combat. Raph just stands near an ally on Enemyphase, Marni is just there to use the Corrin Ring(Dull-All isn't bad either).

Medeus only has a decent build because people voted for that bum instead of A!Ryoma or E!Byleth I had a spare copy of Braver Ike laying around, and Dragon Flame was only 1200 Divine Code Manuals. I didn't ever pull for Medeus, and Raph and Marni are just Grails(I'll have another 10,000+ to spare on Monday).

I did not spend a single Orb with the purpose of building any of these units.

I use this trio every season + whoever the Bonus Legendary is. I have maintained Tier 21 every week since March with 0 merges on whoever the Legendary/Chosen Hero was since getting that free Braver Ike.

Having strong scorebots is nice but most of the time it's the Bonus Legendary who is going to carry your Arena runs, Elise can beat 90% of the units in the game herself but loses to Roy Ring BK(that's where Medeus comes in).

Yes there was a time when you would have needed a merge or 2 on an older Legendary but Chosen Heroes, even an unmerged one, have made it possible for them to reach a score that equals that of modern Legendaries.

I hope this paints a clear picture

I don't think it's cool for people to say it's not worth trying to reach Tier 21 because they have the wrong idea of what it takes to get there.

Some of us are trying to get the most out of this game while it lasts.

Legendary Heroes are usually really powerful units worth summoning for, and if we have them in our Barracks why wouldn't we try to maximize our earnings in Arena with them whenever their Bonus Seasons come around?

Feels like it's time for A!Lute and R!L'Arachel, unless they weren't mentioned on a notification from a recent banner appearance?

If Braver Celica is an option I think she shares with Lute, if not then A!Hector hasn't appeared in a while and Anniversary Marth could show up again

I'm gonna be bold and say A!Yunaka won't appear for the 3rd consecutive time. E!Ash or A!Alm would be my guesses for the 2nd Colorless unit. R!Leila was confirmed for September iirc

Braver Hector could show up here for Blue, he appeared on an LME Banner earlier than Braver Celica so he might show up on a NHR before her as well.

Maybe E!Sharena or R!Soren make another early rerun, but there is a chance we see older Blue units like Dedue or Nuibaba, or even older ones like A!Caeda or A!Ivy

Green will likely have the oldest units because A!Eliwood and A!Lachesis aren't eligible yet.. but I wouldn't be surprised if Braver Ike pulls a Yunaka here..

A!Tiki would be my guess, and it would give value to the current Orb Pack that includes a Combat Manual of her

Vanitas would be a good colorshare, but there are units like Þjazi or R!Lilina who can take a spot, or older Attuneds like Eirika, Micaiah, Azura etc.

A!Brigid was confirmed for July iirc

I swear this wasn't personal

Even though I normally don't start AR until Thursday, and I never destroy every structure and trap on the opponent's map.. that was pure coincidence