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I usually like Girardi, but have no idea what was going through his mind tonight
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Watching this game was bad for my health.
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Cid H
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Inviso posted...

Yankees posted...

Autotrading for Celes

@Yankees (only pinging because it's been half an hour with no response and want to make sure he's still offering it) Celes for Cid H?

Sure
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Autotrading for Celes
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Celes
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Check map on the bottom of the team selection page. It's a lot more manageable once you figure that out. I don't think it was widely advertised (or at all) when arena assault was released.

TT and CC allows you the same luxury if you haven't noticed.
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Yeah, the key thing is that you're forced to use more than your core team, and you can see the opposing team before entering. So you could put breakers on characters of your choice and only bring them in when you know they will do their job
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You can just treat Fir as 150 feathers. I plan to release mine when I get it. Nobody needs Glacies and I have no interest in building her.
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Menji posted...

Toguro
Nishinoya

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Reinhardt needs 62 attack with moonbow triggering to kill -Res TA Azura. I think she'll be fine
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Unless you are planning to give her Emerald Axe and Distant Counter, I don't think it matters. Not really her job
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A 5* Clarisse will probably not help you stay in tier 20 in any case. You need to shoot for 4900+ to stay. I take it easy whenever I hit 20.
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His art is dripping with condescension. I like it; it's fitting.
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I wouldn't count on the dancers coming back for the next hero fest, and I'm doubtful about the brave characters. I'm thinking something like :

Elincia
Innes
Nephenee
Sonya

Elincia and Innes feel like the safest picks to me. I would not be surprised to see Tana, Amelia, Delthea, or Celica though.
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Do you have any attachment to her? Lyn and Innes fulfill the archer need pretty well so I don't know if it would ever be worth promoting her. Alternatively, dragons like that skill to counter her as well if you have any you use.

I only have one Setsuna too, and I'm not sure what to do with it. Most likely will go to Fae whenever I promote her. Or Shigure
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They are back for me now
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I might have gotten fortunate in dodging them in that case. I'll run out the same team next week and see what happens. I could have scored a bit higher with Brave Ike or Brave Lucina replacing Tana, but Ike pulls too much weight against armor teams, and Lucina can glue a team together with her buffs.

Are you going to go with Raven tome and TA on Inigo?
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Most C skills are 200 Sp so I wouldn't fret over that. And I'm not about to 5* characters to transfer sub-optimal special skills just for arena scoring.

The expensive C skills come in at 240. The ploys, guidance, armor march, panic ploy, and the drive skills. Basically 5* exclusive stuff. You'd do better by giving Rally Def Res to somebody. It's worth twice as many as normal rallies or reposition skills

barreldragon88 posted...

So I need to pick my poison... Do I want to face tougher cavalry teams but less cavalry teams overall or do I want to face more cavalry teams that are easier to deal with.

Less horse teams also means that you'll be less likely to face them on the worst maps (you know the ones), and won't exhaust your best units for the matchup. I think my strategy will now be to lead with armor, and hold my two horse teams in reserve for theirs.
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I've heard that a seal gives you an extra point on average. Aether/Galeforce/Black Luna help a lot. Legendary weapons are worth more than any non-legendary ones.

Units like BK or Brave Ike are perfect because they naturally have 500 SP specials, legendary weapons, and high BST.
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Horse teams have less BST so you're less likely to face them, and more likely to fight higher BST armor teams. But yeah, when you do face a cavalry team, it will be merged up. Which is fine if I only have to fight them a couple times per run.
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I don't think you can go wrong with Fury on him if you have it to spare. His default skill is also fine.

I used the double SP to finish the BK today. Took him, Hector, Tana and Effie into arena assault and hit my new high score of 4870. Starting off with an armor team appeared to give me easier matches. A lot of distant counter armors, but zero Bow Lyns and only one Reinhardt. Armors are pretty much free wins, and the last map was literally 4 swords. Not a problem for Lukas and Valter.
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Guard is ok, but I can't really think of a home for it either. There are too many strong B skills and you have to give up too much to run it. It would make for a nice seal though.

That was the first build I thought of when Indigo was announced. I only have one Setsuna for Bowbreaker, and have been giving thought to building a Fae to do the same kind of thing. Cecilia is the only character I have capable of dealing with Lyn on the enemy's phase.

The cost of Cancel Affinity is pretty high on Lyn. It opens the door for the distant counter users to beat her. I think it only makes sense with Firesweep bow and that's hardly affordable. I'd rather see more of those building the arena honestly. At least my blade mages can kill that version.
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@barreldragon88, Titania doesn't have much to offer in terms of skill inheritance so you don't lose anything by merging her. Unless you plan to 5* her at some point. I have a +Spd 4* I've been considering merging into my 5* one that's -Spd. Part of me is thinking it is time to start stockpiling feathers to get high level merges on Eirika/Soren/Tharja since I have some 4* copies of each.

As for Inigo, Moonbow is a safe special for him. His resistance doesn't stand out, and shouldn't be fighting much so the low charge makes sense to me. TA is probably fine, but it's a pretty rare skill and I think I'd hold it for a character meant to brawl. I kinda wish his speed stat was worse so he'd be able to run a TA Raven build better.

The time frame matter in the way that you think it does. Sometimes the RNG is friendly and sometimes cruel. The system timestamp may be used as a seed for the RNG, but there's no sense you can really make out of it.
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Thanks TRE. As expected, pulling green looks like the way to go
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Autotrading for Celes
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Panic Ploy seal is the tempest reward. It was only a matter of time for this one.
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Freya
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Autotrading for Celes
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Celes
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Moreso for Ike, Ryoma, Xander, Zephiel, Celica, Tharja and company. Falchions are pretty much non-existent for me in the arena, and are not threatening to begin with. Nowi doesn't have to handle them when practically any ranged unit will do.
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If Elise, Nowi, and Tharja are your favorites, you can definitely use all three of these together then. It's full color coverage and will work well if you divide hone speed and attack between Nowi and your fourth. Those three should be good enough to clear most content
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I think I would run Ike/Brave Lucina/Oscar over Nowi as a source of physical damage. But it isn't super important. I've run all physical teams in the arena before too.

Lucina has a great stat spread even if she can't boost this team with weapon. Tharja and Elise should be able to take care of most things Nowi is used to kill. Having full weapon triangle coverage is the big thing as Xuxon said.
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With the blade tomes, high resistance units aren't that much trouble. I'd give hone speed and hone attack to to two of the non mages on the team so that Elise and Tharja can reap the benefits.

I'll send a friend request. In game name is Grimmer
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I don't find dancers to be useful enough on my arena team when I'm bringing along a 4*. You're basically down two combat ready units. I think you should have at least one ranged character so why not Brave Lyn instead of Ninian.

I got my perfect arena run over with Brave Ike, Brave Lucina, Brave Lyn and Elincia without much trouble. Lyn helps a lot.
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As a gift, but not for myself.
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I agree that horse emblem wouldn't be so bad without some of the claustrophobic maps. I can beat them well enough on more open maps.

The lance tier list is a mess in my opinion. Est, Shanna, and Catria are not better than Nephenee or Camus. Effie has always been overrated. I'd put Azura on top - the utility dancers offer is undervalued. It's nice to see Lukas moving up in the rankings.

I've been having good luck with this in the arena lately. Quite a pair with Lucina.


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Dark Young Link posted...

Part of me wants to 5* Erika. But her Ivs are kind of meh.

One is +Def, -Hp

The other is +Att, -Spd


Or maybe I should just stick with Ephriam and give him Hone Speed. My blue spot does tend to rotate a lot.

(And yes, Nino is a core part of my team)

I would give Ephraim hone speed regardless of what you do with Eirika. Eirika can still be useful as a support character on a secondary team to aid with Chain Challenges and Arena Assault. She doesn't have to kill things...just survive
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barreldragon88 posted...

Can BIke make good use of Panic Ploy with 40 HP? Or he should just stick with Threaten Def?

I don't think I'd do that. 40 HP is good enough to hit most mages, but it's so expensive to transfer. I'd rather put it on an armor or keep it with Valter.

Threaten Attack sounds better than Threaten Defense to me. Or a hone skill that your team needs
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Celes
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Tenma
Tobias
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My Tobin is still level one. I'm doubtful that I'll ever bother with him. I got Elincia up to level 40, and promoted and merged my +Spd - Res Athena. I'm thinking now if I want to give Life and Death to Elincia. Death blow is fine, but it might be worth taking advantage of her speed stat more.
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I don't know. But they spoil things for no reason. Pretend they aren't there
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Glad you're enjoying it. It's been my favorite anime for ages, and I'm actually in the middle of rewatching it right now.

I think Walter von Schenkopp is a little bit older than Yang. I'm not sure how old Oberstein is but he appears to be too.
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