Dual Dragons

4/12/2017 - offense 4,668; rank 5,655 [2:30PM PST] [deathless] [3 matches old system] Team: (all Level 40 and 5*) +Atk/-Spd Ninian (163) +Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 3) neutral Sharena (174) +Atk/-Res Spring Chrom (183; +Fury 3) BST: 696 (681 w/o stat skills) Now I'm averaging about 674 score an Advanced match. Three matches were on the old system so I'll definitely have my score increased if I go deathless on the new system. Even so, I'm close to the 5K bracket. Nice to see I'll probably make it there if I do that second deathless run. If not, eh, 500 Feather difference. I'm not that desperate with nearly 50K Feathers sitting there. Arena got a bit easier for me. I had very little Skill Inheritance compared to other teams and would sometimes face teams with three members of Vantage 3. Needless to say, impossible without ranged. Overall, I think I like the change. Will continue playing to see any faults/new issues I'll need to adjust to.

Sent the request. I'm Dual with ID 3866984492.

I could set up my leader as either of 5* Gordin or 4* Kagero since I already have a defense win for the season. If you want to be friends, which would be preferred? They don't have Vantage or Warding Blow respectively. Vanilla skills.

Spent none so far. Need to finish this round of Arena flag quests and the colorless ally wins one. So I'm actually coming up to 2K+ flags to spend on final round. And I have Minerva to boot. Woot to bonus points.

Haven't spent a single flag on Team Minerva. Thankfully, I'm not as desperate for Feathers. Hopefully they'll help in the fight against Camilla. Or at least bump my rank/total rank in the final match.

4/4/2017 - offense 4,570; rank 275 (3:07AM PST) [deathless] 4/5/2017 - offense 4,570; rank 1,433 (2:57PM PST) [deathless] 4/7/2017 - offense 4,570; rank 2,385 (1:13 PM PST) [deathless] Team: (all Level 40 and 5*) +Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2) +Atk/-Spd Ninian (163) neutral Sharena (174; +Threaten Spd 3) +Atk/-Res Spring Chrom (183; +Fury 3) BST: 696 Just an update for anyone that wants to know. This score is still good for top 5K.

4/4/2017 - offense 4,570; rank 275 (3:07AM PST) [deathless] 4/5/2017 - offense 4,570; rank 1,433 (2:57PM PST) [deathless] Team: (all Level 40 and 5*) +Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2) +Atk/-Spd Ninian (163) neutral Sharena (174; +Threaten Spd 3) +Atk/-Res Spring Chrom (183; +Fury 3) BST: 696 Haha. You're welcome then! I debated putting Fury on Ninian or Spring Chrom, but that 35 Speed without dropping bulkiness... couldn't resist. Yeah, then I shouldn't worry about my score. No need to try harder if I'm not going to invest for top 1K... and heck no can I fight against top 1K units, considering the likely skill inheritance going on there. I shudder. I really needed this. Thanks.

This is suspicious. Suspicious, I say! How can we have a similar team?! I'm kidding. Congrats on the score! I'm going to try to up my score--though I won't be too bothered if I can't make it past 4,570. Hope we can both stay in the top 5K! :)

2500+500+2500 = 5,500 Offense: 4,568 Final rank: 3,572 Now onto the next season with a surprisingly better score after messed up runs which I'll discuss below. 4/4/2017 - offense 4,570; rank 275 (3:07AM PST) [deathless] Team: (all Level 40 and 5*) +Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2) +Atk/-Spd Ninian (163) neutral Sharena (174; +Threaten Spd 3) +Atk/-Res Spring Chrom (183; +Fury 3) BST: 696 And that's a new high score! Okay so... I must have been very fortunate doing test runs with Spring Chrom previous season because holy crap did I finally see the "horse team." My first run was ruined by a 5*+1 Ursula w/ Blarblade+ boosted by Eldigan w/ Hone Cavalry... yeah. Needless to say, my team of Infantry no-range except on counter can't deal with that. I had to surrender. I didn't have the range nor the durability to take out Ursula. I think she also had Life or Death 3 because she had 43 Speed. The second one, yeah, it was bound to happen when there's Linde and Ninian. Of course the team has a problem with range. It was also a Linde with Life or Death 3 so... not happening. I was more fortunate on the third run. No tomes. Effie's and Hector's. That's what I'm best against.

I sure do love Ardent Sacrifice and Physic healing Ninja's up to near full HP. I'm not a little salty about that, nope. Beat Hard easy. No need to mention it when you got Level 40 5*s. Beat Lunatic on third try with a team of: 5* +Atk/-Spd M!Robin (+Swordbreaker 3), 5* +Res/-HP Ryoma (+Vantage 2, but this didn't come into play), +Res/-Atk 4* Olivia, and 4* +Res/-Def Kagero. Kagero was MVP because she could one-shot the Armored Blow Ninja the turn I baited him with Ryoma. Much like the other GHB's, the actual boss, Navarre, was laughably easy against +Atk M!Robin w/ +4 Attack and Swordbreaker 3 attached to him. Onto strats: 1) Hone Attack 3 buff to everyone just in case 2) Plant Ryoma onto forest where he can encounter both Ninja's (AI likes to put the east Ninja in the way so north Ninja can't hit Ryoma) 3) move Ryoma west after baiting while Kagero and M!Robin will be boosted by Olivia 4) Kagero kills baited Ninja in one-shot 5) Atk boosted M!Robin kills Navarre from Navarre's southwest (Swordbreaker 3) 6) move Olivia to Kagero's south (this keeps her safe and boosts Kagero) 7) the other Ninja goes for M!Robin 8) it takes Kagero, M!Robin, and Ryoma to kill the Axe Fighter 9) dance Kagero so she kills the Ninja and is in range of Cleric 10) on enemy phase, Cleric dies to Kagero 11) clear! Thanks to Ninja's doubling anyone with 34 Speed and below naturally, any slow ranged units without Daggerbreaker will get bitten by a Moonbow proc. Tread carefully.

3/29/2017 - offense 4,546; rank 1,434 (1:05AM PST) [deathless] 3/30/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 1,935 (3:06PM PST) [deathless] 3/31/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,408 (5:58PM PST) [deathless] 4/1/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,806 (2:20PM PST) [deathless] 4/2/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 3,200 (12:53PM PST) [deathless] 4/3/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 3,545 (1:31PM PST) [deathless] Team:(all Level 40 and 5*)+Atk/-Spd Ninian (163)+Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2)neutral Sharena (177; +Threaten Spd 3)+Def/-Spd Minerva (174; +Draconic Aura)BST: 687 Surge of 1,456+ people beating this score in two hours, yes/no? Testing Spring Chrom with Fury 3, I should get a similar total score next season with no chances to get scores <650 a match. It's how I got this one anyways. I'm probably keeping Ninian for positioning, Fortify Defense, and as my only magic on the team. She can sometimes stave off the common dragons Nowi and Young Tiki. Giving Spring Chrom Fury 3 hasn't really changed who I'm seeing (Effie's, Hector's). My team is competent for any outliers. That's until the Arena update drops.

3/29/2017 - offense 4,546; rank 1,434 (1:05AM PST) [deathless] 3/30/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 1,935 (3:06PM PST) [deathless] 3/31/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,408 (5:58PM PST) [deathless] 4/1/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,806 (2:20PM PST) [deathless] 4/2/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 3,200 (12:53PM PST) [deathless] Team:(all Level 40 and 5*)+Atk/-Spd Ninian (163)+Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2)neutral Sharena (177; +Threaten Spd 3)+Def/-Spd Minerva (174; +Draconic Aura)BST: 687 Testing out Fury 3 Spring Chrom in Minerva's slot. I have Ninian to help for positioning but if I didn't, I'd probably be scrambling on the bridge map at the very least. Still unfortunate to not get extra copies of Swap. I only had a death because I didn't see an opponent's Hector have -Def. Ryoma one-rounded him naturally and got promptly killed by the Effie behind Hector. Least I know now that Ryoma can do that to any -Def Hector...

Cheaper alternative. Credits to @Sunwoo of course.

Ooh. I definitely am looking forward to taking out Spring Chrom for a ride. He's certainly huge enough. Due to the nature of my team being capped out at 35 Speed, I think he wants Fury 3 at the least. I'll think about other skills if I get enough SP for him.

Mine never saw combat. My team was Ryoma, Sharena, Minerva, Wrys. Access to Rehabilitate may be the only difference here if you have competent enough teams.

3/29/2017 - offense 4,546; rank 1,434 (1:05AM PST) [deathless] 3/30/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 1,935 (3:06PM PST) [deathless] 3/31/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,408 (5:58PM PST) [deathless] 4/1/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,806 (2:20PM PST) [deathless] Team:(all Level 40 and 5*)+Atk/-Spd Ninian (163)+Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2)neutral Sharena (177; +Threaten Spd 3)+Def/-Spd Minerva (174; +Draconic Aura)BST: 687 I've snagged two defense wins with M!Robin(Swordbreaker 3)/Ryoma(Vantage 2)/Ninian/Sharena(Threaten Spd 3). I don't get many defense wins each season but they accrue the points to get 500 Feathers. Only reason I don't field a Green is because they tend to be too easy to kill on defense.

Haha, truly. I try to keep copies around. The only one I sacrificed without having a copy was Lon'qu, and that was to give Ryoma Vantage. Given that these quests have been using units everyone can get for free (even if Draug was kind of late), I don't think I will need Lon'qu for anything unless he ends up as a bonus unit.

"Clear 8-4 Lunatic with Wrys. All must survive." Then you realize that using a 4* Wrys to help units train in the lower Stratums was actually a good thing. Thanks, IS! Pretty much all of these are doable for me. Thank god we don't have another "use Armors" quest right away.

You're welcome! :) Glad I helped in some way! Lunatic 7-5 was much easier after the awful time in 10th Stratum. I was able to do it with all 4*s of Draug, two Gwendolyn's, and Sheena (who I got after 10th Stratum quest, sadly) with very little inheritance (Draug had Reposition and one Gwendolyn had Silver). As long as you get the levels in and position them right, you're set. Good luck!

3/29/2017 - offense 4,546; rank 1,434 (1:05AM PST) [deathless] 3/30/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 1,935 (3:06PM PST) [deathless] 3/31/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 2,408 (5:58PM PST) [deathless] Team:(all Level 40 and 5*)+Atk/-Spd Ninian (163)+Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2)neutral Sharena (177; +Threaten Spd 3)+Def/-Spd Minerva (174; +Draconic Aura)BST: 687 If I don't drop out of the top 5K by the season's end, my first time being there! If I drop below 5K, well, gives me more time to think about improving the team. I think it's just Ninian at that point, and she's my good bonus unit.

3/29/2017 - offense 4,546; rank 1,434 (1:05AM PST) [deathless] 3/30/2017 - offense 4,568; rank 1,935 (3:06PM PST) [deathless] Team:(all Level 40 and 5*)+Atk/-Spd Ninian (163)+Res/-HP Ryoma (173; +Vantage 2)neutral Sharena (177; +Threaten Spd 3)+Def/-Spd Minerva (174; +Draconic Aura)BST: 687 Using the surrender tactic to get above 650 points a match, this is my new score and rank. Had a failed run after another Ninian match-up. I really do need to understand how dancers work because I put Ryoma in range of a Nino that would get to him after a dance and Ninian didn't prioritize that. Final Boss of this match-up was Nino, Tharja, Ninian, and Eirika. A couple or so had Fury so I faced them despite normally higher BST. It was again on the map with the breakable walls in center and sides. It's a good thing Tharja prioritized Ninian since she could double, I assume, since that's my Res tank of the team.

Who I have: two Minerva's, Camilla, Beruka, Palla, Cherche, Subaki Who I'm probably voting for: Minerva I'm anticipating Camilla might win since she has Day 1 Focus advantage among other things.

Ooh, nice. I can plan accordingly. Without knowledge of skills, I'm thinking a team of M!Robin (+Swordbreaker 3)/Minerva (+Draconic Aura)/Ninian/Palla. My Camilla could tank the Ninja's back in Ursula's about fine (5 damage) so my +Def/-Spd Minerva should be even better--perhaps either without Life or Death 3 or buffed by Ninian. M!Robin - Navarre/Staff/Ninja Minerva - Ninja Ninian - Dancer/Navarre Palla - Axe/Staff

Oh, I guess mine's a +Atk/-Res? Sounds good to me!

Second session, two greens--WHOA Aw man. I'm happy to get one of the Easter units with a little over 20 Orbs spent. I know it wasn't who I was trying for (Easter Camilla) but just after getting a second Minerva too? In just two sessions? I don't think I can anymore.