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Well time to move onto Team Azura after dancing around it after all this time. Technically I can skip summoning on the AHR banner if she wins. I guess everyone getting a free cavalier dancer isn't as toxic as it would have been, because of Safety Fence in AR, and I don't care about Summoner Duels that much.

I think it's the way your buildings are positioned. They're squeezed together and not rotated so the other deployment spots don''t have anywhere to be.

I don't think in the game's canon she would be able to do that, but it's a cool concept. Of course she has the one ancestor that lead to bearers of that crest having a negative stigma, but I think it might have been better if even the generic demonic beasts had the Crest of the Beast. That would add more to the stigma around that crest with most of the wild demonic beasts having that crest, but I guess that would make things even more complicated, and I don't want Marianne to suffer more. It's a minor thing but the default Crest that's used for a bunch of stuff in the game is the Gautier Crest.

I can't believe Caeda doesn't have Iote's Shield. I was thinking there's no way they'll let you cheese with L!Leif. I was wondering whose career that Armorsmasher was trying to end. Maybe Caeda should have worried more about not getting dunked on than deploying this clown. Yeah Ninja F!Corrin, L!Leif, Brave Marianne, and Dancer + this map, you do the math.

The current Edelgard vs Azura situation is interesting. If it really is going to be a same hell with Edelgard in the lead, people on the Azura side can hold onto their multiplier until that last hour if necessary. I'd suspect that to be the case if the more involved players are on Azura's side and the more casual group is on Edel's side.

I got Ryza when it was on sale a few months ago, but I couldn't get into it. For me I think it's the slow early game, and the chill atmosphere, while not bad mixed with the soft JP voices just puts me to sleep. I had a hard time with other SRPGs I've tried on the Switch, like Disgaea 5 and the Triangle Strategy Demo. They weren't boring or too difficult, but I feel like I have to be too campy with certain things. I think I need to watch how others play those games at a higher level, but I've been pretty lazy. This is a weird one: SMT5. The gameplay is fine, and story in videos games are pretty whatever to me, but the way the game ends rubbed me wrong. I wasn't knowledgeable on the alignment system, and apparently this game in the series doesn't touch on it as much the previous entries. I mostly picked the "nice" answers when given dialog choices, so this puts me in the Order category. However, I vibed with the characters that represent that faction the least. For some reason the game "gives" me the choice to pick which ending I want, I'll admit here that I half spoiled somethings when I was trying to do a blind playthough that led me into some bad decisions, like not using multiple save files to my advantage. I picked the ending that went with the faction that I *didn't align* with, so the game withholds certain rewards and locks you out of a side quest unless you grind a lot of money, which I wasn't going to do. Now in terms of completion and going through other endings, things are already inefficient so I'm not enthused on picking the game back up.

This is why I camp with level one's when possible, imagine this shit when you didn't have free retries. Thanks for reminding me to put a hard counter in my lead for the people in my friend's list. Wow Azura and Edelgard are practically tied in terms of score after the first hour.

Wow a bunch of people so far want to touch the Edelgard vs. Azura thing, my condolences. You're some Warriors, but hopefully you don't miss like that class tends to do. For me I'll join Eitri, but it looks like her and Thórr are pretty close in the AHR voting, with Thórr having a slight lead. Thórr even rose the most from the interim, so maybe I'm the crazy one attempting to challenge that.

I was surprised seeing this because I've been up for a while, and I was confused wondering if I had some how missed it. Caeda's neat, I like that her outfit has elements from her Tokyo Mirage Sessions appearance. It's cool seeing a melee flier outside of Sumia with hard-canto. Since she doesn't have slaying, Galeforce will be a little rough, but it's a nice niche regardless.

Isn't there a shot in the trailer where a character with brown gauntlets touches Dimitri's hand? I'm pretty sure that's Dedue, obviously we haven't seen a full glimpse, so I'll go with 9/10. Even if he isn't inherently that popular compared to characters like Felix or Sylvain, it would be weird to not have Dimitri's right-hand man present.

The title says get your lifeguard, and mentions swimming. You know things related the beach therefore a certain season, and a certain alt of a certain character.

Ah so this how we end B!Hector's career, by powercreeping him! Not really though. Niime having an inheritable colorless tome is interesting, do any of the existing colorless tome units want it over their prfs? I do want to +10 Marianne, so I could run a tank build if I ever get a Niime.

Huh, that's funny, doesn't Pulse Smoke hard counter these Rokkr Bosses? It is kind of premium to have on multiple units I guess. I was going to use Legendary F!Byleth to let my Galeforcers negate that effect.

Right the bunny banner is coming up. Maybe it's time Cherche got an alt, since Minerva and the Whitewings sisters are done.

I forgot about Dragon Wall, the Res check will better in most cases. The Spd check from Savvy Fighter might allow her to live Julia in the Earth season I guess, but I'd assume Claude is a more frequent threat.

She should be decent against Alm due to damage reduction, and you can stack Close Guard, and Rein type of debuffs, and procing Moonbow with Darting Breath seal. Weapon triangle is a meme at times with this game due to all of the effects and min-maxing of newer units. I'd say buff up your Tiki, if you don't have a real need for Lucina or a near-save tank. B!Edelgard is by definition an investment, since we don't know what sort or refine she'll get in a couple months. Edelgard can be a good Arena core unit as well, since Lucina is more expensive to build.

Lucina's niche is that she doesn't get hard countered by units like Alm or Ingrid, so if you're having issues with those unit's she can help deal with them. Also there isn't any relevant melee means of ignoring/reducing damage reduction, so it's pretty strong for now. Lucina can add deflect melee to tank brave attacks, while Edelgard currently doesn't reduce the damage on the first hit without external support. Edelgard will get a refine, but that's ~8 months from now.

Midterm results are here and I'm disappointed but not surprised. That thing is first place, gotta love the general player base. And Sigurd isn't bad, but potentially ruins the Green/Colorless color share.

I lost to Karla all three rounds isn't that nice. Can't catch a break with these voting gauntlets some times.

I've voted for Elimine and Hatari Azura so far. Maybe I'll throw a vote for Winter Lysithea. Then there's Eitri and Thorr. I already have Thorr, but I see a bunch of people mention they were voting for her so a free merge wouldn't be bad. I'll probably ditto these. I still don't have that Claude, and if the Edelgard kids want to do their thing then I'll just do mine.

Damn Karla's been giving me the work, losing to her twice. Well hopefully Azura can stand up to her.

Summoner Duels S... what's next Summoner Duels T? I try not to be too negative about those modes, but I ran into a whale in Favor Battles earlier, and I had to forfeit real quick. Chrom fans are eating pretty good this year it seems. Nice to see Owain here, I wonder if we'll get an Ophelia any time soon? We missed getting Blue-Haired guys and Green-Haired Gals for CYL. I guess the Edel x Byleth ship is too strong.

I think I was considering Fates' logbook units for skills, but I guess that's a stretch.

FE games tend to have NG+, but since I rarely use those features, I'd like more post-game content. Hopefully this post-game content scales well since I haven't cleared Shadows of Valentia's post game because of the level jump, but I guess this is a problem on my part since I was "mister use everybody" in the main campaign. @joevar Mentioned the main issues with this route, but if it can be done well I'd like it. Some of the issue probably comes from how well the developers planned to implement the post-game content rather than using DLC as a shoehorn method.