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Awww Leif lost. And backup Alfonse as well. Kind of want Altina more because I don't have her but ranking will be a pain.

It's more I still have maybe 6-8 Shannas, but I'm more hesitant in using Desperation builds these days because having 3-4 left is low in my mind. Plus I rarely pull blue these days because it has a lot of 4*-5* units (looking at you Mordecai during New Year....TWICE.). I'm very much a hoarder and am so glad Xander is there on the Path since mine is +Atk. As for Sothis, it helps me not be tempted to try for her in the legendary banner right now (will have to wait for the results first). But I guess if you want the neutral one and a fodder one then yeah maybe have to summon a bit more I suppose. Wish you luck!

Sometimes it's worth spending a little more orbs in the circle. A lot of times I almost run out of fodder, but then I get lucky and get a Shanna out of a 4 orb summon. I mean the new divine code manuals help a little bit for these thing, even if the prices are expectedly high. Sometimes dipping a little bit helps

@Zeo Ooo congrats on the Igrene! Too bad about the bane, but with LaD4 + SS she's still pretty strong @Landmaster @daisy jane As for me? Well I had 39 orbs. Free summon was a Blazing Wind red unit. Soleil heh. 2nd circle no reds- pulled a Gunther. 3rd circle had two reds. First red was a +Def/-Res Young Tiki! Pretty neat, never had her, and more dragon killers are awesome. Pity rate reset. Then I had to farm a bit more orbs to get to 20 just in case... 2 more reds appeared. First one.... was +HP/-Def Igrene! Awesome, I really lucked out with such a small orb pile. Opened the other just in case but it was just a Corrin. Now I can complete the archer weapon triangle! Kind of funny since except for Tiki, my recent summons have been all the archer colours in an (almost) row (Wolt/Lyn/Nephenee/Igrene). As for the revival banner, also got a free +Spd/-Res B!Ike!

Next refine is Gray (yay!!!), Tobin, Jagen and Green Olwen. Poor blue Olwen, but can't wait to see what Gray gets!

I got Chrom! ...-Atk/+Def OG Chrom lol. The other red was Olivia. then tried blue on double seasonal banner and got double Male Robin. A very Awakening day it seems. Trying to resist bored spending while waiting for Igrene/new heroes

@Usana Thanks! Managed to grab a +Atk/-Def Summer Wolt as well to finally clear the pityrate which is good. @Zeo Ooof jealous of that Echidna. Still no sign of her in my main. @daisy jane @Landmaster @Diovani Bressan So i decided I wasn't seriously pulling in the legendary banner, so I dumped my orbs trying to get Conrad/Almlica, or a blue/colourless in the double seasonal. Even some orbs getting a Rath for Wolf Emblem/Def Smoke. ...In hindsight I forgot about the upcoming Blazing Wind banner No Rath but I did get a 4 star +Res/-Def V!Conrad with the last of my orbs which is workable. Also managed to grab a dupe H!Mia while going for D!Nephenee, +Def/-Spd so safe to fodder (I think i'll just use the built neutral as is) ...Now to hope either Igrene comes quickly or for some reason...isn't in the banner lol.

@Zeo Looks like an annoyingly fun set. Absorb + Mystic Boost + Pulse Smoke seems good for Abyssal maps in theory.

@Zeo Serra is such a monster with the way you play her. Brazen + Pain is always addicting to see. Ross is a little monster. Nice to see the support from Hrid and Eir. Just realised how both Lute and Hrid like debuffs, so looks like a nice team in general. Nice job juggling Alfonse's Brazen and Renewal! Missed opportunity for an Emiya theme here lol. Seeing specials do more than 100 damage is so satisfying, and Close Guard skills are such good skills/seals for clears like these. See Lif's normal damage do a tink sounds was magical. Feels strange for me to see your Matthew go way up north in the Abyssal clear, you really put him in the fray there. Kind of funny seeing Eliwood with Ardent Durandal and Ardent Sacrifice in the same set. Don't really see those assists anymore in general so good to see it made the clear work. All star clear was amazing! Loved seeing all the celebrities in your barracks join together. Great synergy all around, nice to see t hem support each other through healing and debuffs.

Huh, I just realised Cordelia only has one wing clip thing, to go with the Askr aesthetic. Ike looks awesome, the cape looks really great. Someone give him Blue Flame, would look nice with the new look lol

@NegativeExponents- Oh hey Legault! I was always unsure how to build him (or which boon) but nice to see him in action. Starfish is such a great weapon, I'm jealous! Perfect accessory, too. Zephiel is so tanky I wouldn't mind him visiting me one day. Too bad about no Nils but I hope you get him. Also hey KOF XIII music!!! Nice choice! @SatsumaFSoysoy Always satisfying to see Firesweep users countered by NCD. Cute theme with the singer singing cute as well lol. Felicia sure was lethal with her cooking. @Diovani Bressan Welp, Nowi sure decimated everything. Dragons still a force to be reckoned with these days I see. @Zeo Wooo, power couple in action! Appropriate music as well heh. Great to see the swapping thing in action. So glad you got the new FE7 units! @BoaFerox Such a great Ross! Such an absolute unit! Who needs Galeforce when you have a buff boy! TMS clear was fun, they're fun units to play around with. Seeing Ruse used is always so satisfying. Mamori is super bulky while Itsuki is no slouch. @Landmaster Elise Emblem OP as usual. OG Elise activating Miracle is always tense but satisfying. Vantage strats too strong. @Maaka I'm so jealous of your L!Leif. Galeforce Bartre though! Great clear. @DLNarshen@Alexmender@Ginko@daisy jane @mampfoid Now for my clears. Team is neutral Selkie, +Def/-HP Velouria, +HP/-Atk Yarne and neutral New Year's Laegjarn. Music is Full Burst from the King of Fighters XIV - Brave move putting Selkie within the archer's range you say? Well I need the red mage to be easily targeted the next turn, so I had to put Selkie in the fray. Her Sabotage also helps, and Atk/Spd Bond was useful and needed during that crowded melee combat in the middle. Chill Spd was to let Laegjarn double the red mage later on. - Speaking of Brave moves, Yarne also had to tank the red fox tome from the TA red mage, with some help from Selkie's Res Wave, Velouria's Ward Beasts and Laegjarn's Distant Guard buffs. This way he could activate GF and Escape Route to dart across the map to safety. Velouria partners with Yarne for quicker Galeforce. Anti-cav weapon was also very useful with the amount of cavs in this map. - And of course Velouria, she rose to the challenge in the second half of the map. Once Brazen Atk/Def activated with Close Def, she was almost untouchable. Great speed allows her double on both phases which is a lifesaver (especially against the green horse mage that threatened the whole team). --- Team is neutral Gerome, +Atk/-HP Cherche, neutral Cormag and +Atk/-Res Summer Tana. Music is Survivors Under The Sky from The King of Fighers XIV -Named mounts are Minerva (Gerome and Cherche), Genarog (Cormag) and Achaeus (Tana). Amusingly, all fliers and one of each species (pegasus, and two types of wyverns). -So glad when a unit's base skills work the best. Summer Tana had to give up her bladetome for that extra might against the green archer, so had to use her prf. Atk/Spd Push because she needed as much speed and power, but also she needed to tank later to activate Desperation (even then barely living thanks to Gerome's Ward Fliers and Cherche's Distant Guard) so Life and Death wasn't an option. Her -Res was also a challenge, but again, the Wards helped. -Speaking of base skills, Gerome was an absolute tank here. That's right, taking 0 damage all map. Guard was key to this strat, and for this, he needed as less damage as possible. Poleaxe was great for the many cavs here and Fortress Def was key in tanking everything. Thanks to Cormag's Def Opening, and Tana's Spur Atk/Def he could just take every attack with a tink. (Tana's spur was needed for perfect tanking, otherwise he takes 1 damage from the Distant Def bow lol). Sadly, because of the -3 Atk, he couldn't one shot the lance cavalier near the end but he had to shield Tana from the archer anyway. - For those who is saying Gerome is a worse Cherche, well he outshines his mother so much in this clear. Cherche's -5 Spd was too low for tanking, and she was a liability if I attack with her since she will be in the enemy's range, so she was more of a support bot with Fortify Fliers and Distant Guard. -Cormag puts his general stats to use. With some help from Gerome's Ward Fliers and Brazen Atk/Def he survives a lot of things. He need the Atk boost to punch through the TA red mage though (he falls short without it) but also needed survivability, so the Brazen was a lifesaver. Sacrificing a Silas to give him Steady Stance was also worth it (he should be honoured, lucky I like Cormag!). Surviving archers without Iote's Shield sure is impressive! I think Dull Close might have ignored the axe guys Defense buffs as well.

Spring Nailah. A wolf dressing like a rabbit? So close yet so far. @daisy jane Believe me I tried for Skylivia on her debut and got a pitybreaker Morgan M... Did get Maribelle at least so that was a nice consolation but I was so mad at Morgan for a long time.

@NegativeExponents- Hmm...Guard Lance + Heavy Blade maybe? As a sort of Special Fighter? Or Guard Lance + Brazens just to add even more stats when under the threshold, since he has a solid balanced statline. The Guard will at least protect him from burst specials. No access to more Conrads for Barrier Lance? Or Berkut? As for LAD and Close Def, the other option could be Life and Death plus Atk Smoke if you want more damage reduction that works on both ranges. It would at least benefit himself compared to a Drive.

A bit of a higher chance in legendary banners. Speaking of.. @Zeo @daisy jane @Diovani Bressan @NegativeExponents- @Landmaster Woo Wolt rerun finally here! Admittedly blue and colourless are a lot stronger picks (don't have any blues or Nephenee) but for some reason despite not playing the game I like Summer Wolt's art and voice. And I want to make a green-hair archer team. Also wow I correctly predicted the banner, down to Mia and Nephenee for colourless So my main managed to get back up to 45 orbs (Micaiah bane-merge hunt happened) while my second account had 88 orbs. So it was a race of green sniping to see which one could get Wolt first. Pretty unwise orb spending I know but I had a target. I don't remember the rate for my main, but for these were my last 22 orbs- ...uhhh speaking of three 5 stars?!? Got Summer Wolt first and he is a nice +Def/-Res. Opened the rest since blue and and colourless are great, and I got a +HP Summer Lyn and +Def Soiree Nephenee! Sadly it balances out with both of them being -Atk but hey they were my other targets (already had Mia, wanted any of the blues). At least Lyn Emblem is sort of complete again (don't have the Feh pass but technically it's OG Lyn and I have her) although it's a shame both anti-armour bow fliers in this account (this Lyn and Kinoka) have the same +HP/-Atk nature. --- As for my second account? Sadly no 5 stars with those 88 orbs (to be fair I stopped sniping green at around 60 since I already got Wolt so I switched to blue and colourless). Very ironic to have about twice the orbs but get a 8% rate. As a consolation prize, I did get my first Altena +Atk/-Res and a second Chad to merge his bane away

@NegativeExponents- i kind of like Enemy Phase, but that's my playstyle. I am having similar indecisions building Cormag but I guess for Heath, taking advantage of the extra Spd (and Res I guess for wyverns) seem to be the way to go. I was thinking maybe a Brazen, Barrier Lance build or something, but Guard Lance seems neat, too. Don't think Firesweep Lance suits Heath, but do you have Lofty Blossoms? For mixed phase, I have a silly idea of going Life and Death but using Close Def as a seal to make up for the defense loss. But I think I like the Guard Lance set better. I like that we are getting more physically defensive fliers (even if the stat spread could be a bit better allocated) or go offensive Spd-based Guard Lance set

@Zeo Wow that's amazing news! Finally the game is treating you right again! That reminds me of your SS pulls, feels great when it's your game that you get lucky in. Perfect Ayra, too! Watch as you get Larcei @DLNarshen Awesome Ishtar pulls! Congrats! Lol at the Reinhardts @Landmaster Congrats on Celica!

@Ginko @Sock Puppet Congrats on Nils! Hope you get hi, soon @NegativeExponents-! 😞 @Zeo @Landmaster @daisy jane So uhh no Leila for me but I did get a free 5 star +Atk/-HP Norne on the first circle! I was waiting for a good nature before promoting, so this saves me feathers. Colourless pool still continues to be....amazing.... with its 3/4 stars.. 1st ticket Priscilla. 2nd ticket Lissa. 3rd ticket no colourless so Oboro. 4th ticket- Priscilla AND Lissa again. ....I'll just think those 4 orbs where the price for that Norne lol

@NegativeExponents- It's a Ruse in english (but yeah I get them mixed up as well lol). I just realised both Eliwood and Hector are +Def/-HP lance dudes- bros to the end haha. Yeah Hector is a beast but to be fair he also had Bonus Doubler boost from L!Eliwood. Hope you get them!

This. I want Dart. or Harken and Oswin I could do a pirate theme with ex-pirate Barst, too. @Zeo I think what's off about Leila's art is PeNekoR is trying to accentuate her lady assets a bit more than usual, but in the process, her torso placement feels wrong in her normal art. See where the neck ends, and compared it to where her torso is, it feels a bit too far out from where the spine should be.

Accidentally hit enter too soon so excuse the double post since I can't edit the post anymore. @Diovani Bressan Yup, Saizo just dominated that map easily. @Landmaster Flying Elise when? Those trees are a bit annoying, but Tank Elise didn't have too much of a problem! Also that's a lot of Lyns (and bows), Florina must have been so happy to see a Lyn of each colour! @Maaka Wow quadding Florina looks so satisfying to use! Hector sure had the important Smite action going on there. @Ginko Nice daggers clear, nice to see Jaffar being used since I'm not sure how to build him (don't have expensive Fighter skills for him). How is the Form skills working for him in general? Ryoma tanking that mage flier was scary though

@NegativeExponents- Oh yay Brady in a clear! That's a lot of healers, great way to showcase Brady's survivability. That mage flier sure was resilient and nice use of Gravity to keep the enemies in place. @Zeo @DarkAlf @mampfoid @daisy jane @Diovani Bressan @Alexmender @SatsumaFSoysoy @DLNarshen @Ginko So since I completed a certain set of trios, here is an obligatory clear with them. Team is +Def/-HP Brave Eliwood, neutral Brave Lyn, +Def/-HP Brave Hector and +Res/-Def Bride Ninian Music is Blaze -Part III- (Kazuki Kazama Theme) from Samurai Shodown 2019 - Recently got Brave Eliwood to complete the set so I had to do this theme clear. Thought it would be a bit tricky with having 3 blues but it turned out fine. Eliwood's Def boon in particular impressed me as he survived melee encounters with low HP left. Also Bonfire with Nini's Ice Lance seemed like a funny combination. His Rally + Ruse combination manipulated the AI to make it easier for Hector so that he can time his Ignis against the green mage flier. - Hector still proves how good of a mixed-phase unit he is while Lyn snipes from afar and deals with the green units Team is +Spd +1 Legendary Lyn, +Spd +1 Legendary Eliwood, +Def/-Spd Legendary Hector and +Spd/-Atk Ninian. Music is From Brazil from Garou: Mark of the Wolves - Pretty straightforward clear, I just wanted to have all the legendary lords together with their great art (and Ninian). - Poor Lyn tried so hard against Hector. The mage flier warping in only to be met with Lyn's bow was pretty funny.

@Landmaster WOW HS Elise sure was tanky in that clear! I see Silque has been foddered off now as well lol @Zeo @DarkAlf @mampfoid @daisy jane @Diovani Bressan @Alexmender @SatsumaFSoysoy @DLNarshen @Azuris So I had this fun theme in my mind but didn't know when to do it, then it just so happened that we have an Azura BHB in the reruns. So here's the Azura-dressers battling Azura! Team is +Spd/-HP Adrift Female Corrin, +Spd/-HP Adrift Male Corrin, +Atk/-Def Performing Shigure and +Atk/-Def Mikoto Music is Past Below (Flow) from Fire Emblem Fate - A team of those who dressed like Azura (thanks Adrift) take on Azura and Corrin. Mikoto probably is the least like Azura's dress but she has similar designs as touches in her dress (like the flower thing). - Dancer AI is annoying and Azura having Lunge randomly breaks Adrift Corrin's reliance on Bond skills. Had to have Adrift Male Corrin have both enough Spd and Def to survive both enemy Corrin and the archer. Which is why he needed Steady Stance.

@Zeo Well, you got a father armour unit, so close enough! Congrats on your pulls 😄 I'd say go all in on +Atk, since Echidna handles the Spd stat better

@Landmaster Aww shame on no Elise but congrats on +Spd Lucina! Better +Spd/-Atk than +Atk/-Spd at least @Zeo @daisy jane @Diovani Bressan So been getting some stuff lately. Yesterday in the Love Abounds banner, I managed to free summon a +Def/-Spd Vector! Really ironic since it took me so long to get him in his original banner with the opposite +Spd/-Def, but hey can't complain. Going to use my old one as fodder now, even if I don't use him much it's nice to get an optimal copy and hey he has great art. As for today, nothing from the Hero fest. I know there's a Tana/Innes revival banner and as much as I wanted to fix Innes's -Spd I couldn't open all the colourless orbs. Micaiah banner though....tempting to fix my Micaiah's -Atk.. First circle two orbs. Second orb was... a +Spd/-Def Tana! Kind or ironic how she shows up on the wrong banner! @BoaFerox looks like I get to try her out now! Also hey, congrats on the Tana, too! And B!Lucina! @SockPuppet Then out of 60 orbs, I caved in until I had 8 orbs left (RIP) but I managed to come out with a +HP/-Def Micaiah! Bane didn't matter since she'll be merged into my +Spd/-Atk one. So at least a happy result, I just hope I get stuff from the double seasonal without costing too much orbs that I don't have right now!

I just realised the day they announce Leila, the Matthew/Hector BHB is up for the day and Jaffar on the weekly revival banner. Fiora is also announced while the Lyn/Florina BHB is active as well.