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Based on the predictors the results for round one are pretty much set. There aren't any real upsets, Corrin and Freyja were pretty close in the original voting. Technically the banner will be pretty good in terms on getting 5 stars with 2 sets of color sharing.

I just slapped this team together, obviously Leif would be good, but Rhys served a purpose as well. The open map made things petty easy. Someone mentioned it earlier, but I'm surprised they didn't make the map based off of Deirdru.

Generally the first pick would be the most optimal. The rest of them look gimmicky, as a strength focused child with magic a magic focused mother isn't good. Some of the options are impossible with Charlotte!Shiro and Orochi!Forrest. A Hinoka!Forrest seems kind of cool. What do those boons/banes in parenthesis mean? Anyway here's a website that I've used to see growth rates and maximum stat mods for pairings; maybe it will be useful. https://inheritance-planner.herokuapp.com/

For the Eirika case her weapon takes the single highest buff, so in your example she would only get a +4 to attack. With your Olivia case visible buffs (the blue stats) don't stack, only the highest overrides the lowest. So if you had the Gentle Dream buff on Olivia She gets +3 atk/spd/def/res, but if you used Rally Attack on her the +3 atk is overridden with a +4 instead. The things that do stack are in combat buffs, so your Peony can give +3 atk/spd from her weapon, and another +3 atk from drive atk c slot skill, and even another +3 atk from drive atk sacred seal for a total of +9 atk and +3 spd.

Man they just had to go and add Claude now, and Melady is also on this banner who I want for Wyvern Flight. Weird that they didn't make him a Wind Legendary considering Wind is lacking right now, but I guess they wanted to go with his color scheme.

Ahh the classic softlocking map. I'd like to know more of what you have available too. The most I can say right now is Swordbreaker, Alert Stance, and Training Lance on Dimitri in the forest tile. If he gets hit use an Elixir/Concoction to get him back in range of his personal skill. Then use his battalion when a good number of enemies are surrounding him. This is all pretty RNG especially with the Snipers and Grapplers, but what can you do. I'm assuming your Byleth is a Flier so hopefully you can hit and run a couple of things. There is a video here that shows some low investment builds to clear the map, but you have to have the right setup, which might be an issue. Look and see if this is helpful:

Cancel Affinity only works against Triangle Adept effects. Whether it be the A slot skill or the Gem Weapons. By the way there's a general questions thread for stuff like this.

My biggest issue is that the game feels really slow. I'm new to this sort of SRPG; the ones that I've played have a player phase and an enemy phase, but the active speed counter isn't doing it for me. I'll try to get past the "Burn down the houses" chapter, but it's rough. I'm personally not too bothered by the presentation, but having to press a whole button to see the character portraits is pretty jarring. Games like this have just had the art show up when the character speaks for years. If anything there should just be a toggle to hide or display it when they are talking. The voice acting definitely felt mediocre at best, this is pretty early into the game so maybe it will improve. It was like that in Xenoblade 2 too, but hopefully things aren't too finalized and some revisions are made. I didn't think too hard about some of logistics of the story and setting, but it's pretty nonsensical having seen it pointed out. I was taking everything with a grain of salt since you are thrown in a couple of chapters in, so there is a bunch of missing information that could help. Generally you can tell that this game has a "Gameplay first" approach. Even the name Triangle Strategy (Working Title) gave me that impression from the Nintendo Direct. The whole "Let's hand over this important character to the villain we just saw unjustly kill said character's father, even after we risked our lives to protect him," bit made no sense. I wanted to explore the other option, but with how slow the current map is for me I probably won't get around to it.

I was able to scrape by with Elincia, Reyson, Yune, and H!Rolf. It was annoying at first to get Elincia to one round the Red Fafnir, and survive the Brave Axe Cavalier, but after that it wasn't too bad. @Diovani Bressan Micaiah with the exact lethal, nice.

It has been pretty nice, I got Green Olwen so I was able to give a unit Swift Sparrow 2. Finally got a Lucina as well. I thought I would never see the day.

The full results are out and there are some jarring choices in the top 100. Some of them I guess people want the wall paper like the Summer units, but then you have vanilla Lute at #29. I'm wondering if the Jorge hacker had anything to do with it, because IIRC they said they would try to get Lute high into CYL. And there's Kempf at #95, not going to lie saving some grails isn't too bad actually. I guess a set of people had the same idea of getting Kempf and Eliwood merges for AR.

The game was pretty fun, definitely a unique experience. There aren't any online battle modes and the only online feature was rankings based on achievements or something like that. Most of the DLC isn't really worth it. There are two sets of grinding DLC, one for early game and another set for late game. If you want just get the late game ones. There are extra story DLC which is fine. Then there are the Over Classes, which look cool, but you can't get into them practically without grind, so I don't think they are worth.

Same thoughts pretty much. I wonder when the Midpoint will be? It doesn't necessarily have to be chapter 8 like last time, but we'll see how the story progresses soon enough.

They gave Lex Reposition which is always welcome. Fury would have been nicer than Atk/Def Push, but I guess they still need to release those old Push skills on low rarity units. I guess Hinata will forever be the Fury Master. I hope Díthorba is decent, I'm going to need to utilize free units more if I'm going to save for Marianne. Skimming through the wiki that Pamela character seems more involved, but Díthorba has a daughter who's in Thracia, so I guess they want that connection.

I don't know about the save state thing, but you get the items after you kill them. It won't be in their inventory.

The Veronica and Loki BHB is interesting. Only Brave Veronica and Loki are in the regular summoning pool; who would the third person on the banner be?

Especially with Lull Res, which the Lysitheas coming with Moonbow on their basekit is kind of weak, and also Plegian Katarina having Luna. At least that makes the PVE Lysitheas easier to deal with.

Bonus Anna is pretty fun to use. I guess I'll use Alfonse on my auto team so he can finally get some HM... I just pulled Gustav so him and Veronica will be a good pair. Speaking of Veronica, I have so many inheritable tomes sitting around, I might just dump them into her. Flora Guide is a nice one, but I can't efficiently inherit Speed Tactic at the same time, so that's a bother.

It's called "Copy Skill" on the same page that you select customization. To be more exact it's Allies->Interact With Allies->My Summoner->Copy Skills.

I had to stack a bunch of attack with Spur Atk/Res, Goad Flier, +Atk bucket, and her Link. I didn't do it this way in the end, but Loki could have killed that dragon and probably the Lance Flier, but who knows what other AI changes might have happened. Hinoka has a different VA in Heroes that's why it's different. @NSSKG151 Thanks! It was fun to use two units that I have high merged on this map.

Took care of this on the last day. Surprising it didn't take too long. I guess that's what fliers plus effective damage does.

One of the biggest arguments for her getting Blutgang, that I've seen, is the fact that she is first place and will get a unique skill. So they could just give her Beast Fang as a skill similar to the Lords getting their combat arts as skills. Interesting to see everyone talking about a potential Fallen alt for her. My idea was her being a Mage (Mortal Savant) with a Tome that is effective against Fliers and Cavalry. She lost her sense of self and destroys the things that she's suppose to otherwise love.

What do you guys think. Will near save skills be melee locked and far save be ranged locked? I think that would be balanced, so that there is counterplay, otherwise things might get annoying.

Boy those Save skills are going to spice things up to say the least. I wonder what kind of exclusivity it will have, at least armors can equip it. And here comes Fatal Smoke to ruin tank strategies, RIP indeed. The banner itself is kind of rough, with the color sharing. That and all of the other more lucrative banners going on will make this a skip for me. I'm not too sure how I like the new paralogue theme, maybe it will grow on me,

I'm pretty much voting for a bunch of characters I wasn't able to get or skipped out on. Red: Harmonized Dorothea Blue: Legendary Chrom and Seiros Green: Legendary Edelgard and Freya Colorless: Duo Lyn and Xane/Bramimond It seems that a lot of people want Seiros. I should probably vote for Bramimond, but I kind of like Xane more. I'll swing based on the midterm results. Granted I could get any of those colorless units if I'm lucky in the free summon.