Azuni

Mixed bag for me +More free resources from Twitter quiz/new modes is nice +Hall of Forms looks fun +Field in Aether Resort looks useful +Nice costumes on the seasonals -Rolf is the TT freebie, was hoping for Dozla to be the freebie so him/WCeci cover both AR offense blessings -Duo sounds broken, and hopefully that garbage is kept out of AR

If it does happen, I expect it to be anywhere from this evening to reset, or at latest on the coming Monday

Pretty easy MHB once I figured out how much spd I needed to stack on Lyn to make her quad Thrasir. Those in-combat boosts to her spd were quite annoying beforehand though.

Free pulled Spring Vero, who unfortunately was the only green I didn't care about; kept going until 38 orbs spent sniping green/colorless and didn't get anything, so I bailed. Better luck next time, which is January for Yune.

Had to use a ridiculously jank setup, using a Reyson as bait to keep Claude in place (narrowly doesn't get OHKO'd on a def tile), a Rehab+ Nanna to heal him and to pick off minions, a second dancer, and a Darting Blow3/Atk-Spd Bond seal Surtr with brave axe/galeforce.

Pulling greens/colorless for 1-2 circles, no more since my leg banner luck is trash. Green is priority for 1-2 Yunes for Dark season defense, and 1 Thrasir could be useful in my Anima season defense. More Eir merges aren't bad, and FFCorrin for sudden panic fodder/a crazy colorless dragon would be nice.

Locking Gunnthra in a corner after a few turns with 2 red galeforcers should make it possible. To facilitate it I had Gravity+ Nanna and LAzura for support to pick off the minions. Usually gets the full 200k by Turn7, with extra actions to spare.

Did you mean someone else? Lulls are locked to horse/infantry, armor/fliers can't learn it.

The halved challenges feels like both a good and a bad thing tbh. On one hand, half the number of total hits means you could be more likely to ghost through a whole day without getting hit. On the other, fewer hits means catching fewer enemies with your freebie rematch-fishing map (after entering immunity from your real defense map result), and thus fewer viable rematches you could take later in the week.

Even without the bonus unit for the extra boost, it's still easy to get ~10k or more feathers just from picking the bigger underdogs. At most you're losing maybe 1-2k feathers for not owning them.

Hyped for the free Mage Dancer that is Rinea. At first I was afraid of Ishtar when I saw that she was a red Dire Thunder, but then remembered she's a dancer, so it's nice that she'll be forced to attack due to doing 5+ damage on a lot of units.

Picked VL!Ike since he's one of the two biggest underdogs (other being Bow Hinoka), and I have a copy of him at lv1.

If you're asking for skills, I used: +1 Brave Lyn (+spd), with Brave Bow+ Luna, Fury, Desperation, and Brazen Atk/Spd seal. +9 Rein (+atk), with luna, Deathblow3, Lancebreaker, and Sturdy Blow2 seal Dancers had Atk Tactics+Drive Spd and Drive Atk+Drive Atk for support skills. If you were asking for strats instead, I hit the frontline Axe Infantry guy with Lyn (didn't kill him), danced her, and then had her kill the Red Mage, putting her into WoM range, got danced, and killed the Bow Knight up top as well. Then Rein pulled the first dancer to safety. After that it was smooth sailing since the reinforcements didn't overwhelm or corner like they usually do in other LHB maps.

Went through up to Infernal using my normal tank strategy of Winter Cecilia+Surtr+2 Eirs, but they couldn't handle the bulk of Abyssal. Stupidly easy Abyssal once I switched to my backup team which is the old tried and true combo of 2 dancers+Lynhardt.

Pulling Blue and Colorless orbs from the first circle I guess. Overall quality of the banner is much lower than last month's, and I have no interest in investing in any Nagas ever.

Just a minor nitpick, but armor ranged is split up just like Physical vs Magic for the other classes; Physical (Dagger/Bow) have gained an extra modifier over the Magical ones, in addition to any other modifiers that my be applied. The only ranged armor that has been released after the new modifiers was a Dagger, with Picnic Flora boasting 170 bst instead of the ~165 bst from Gen1/2 ranged armors like H!Jakob and W!Cecilia. I totally didn't point this out just because the chart reminded me that W!Cecilia essentially lost 5 bst for being released a little too early

Free picking Micaiah probably, most useful unit and interesting fodder to me (Ground Orders, but only if I got a spare). Eliwood is a close second, the other two don't contribute anything relevant to my barracks.

Relatively chill week, -100 on D total, -60 on O due to a few brain farts T27 acquired yet again, love Light week due to how tanky it makes Winter Cecilia and Surtr. It's a lot more fun when you don't have to worry about calculating damage against most opponents.

After the leak of I expect the following NH banner in September to be FE4.

Eliwood looked super nice until I noticed he was a horse, so he's doomed to mediocrity unless his prf passive is insane or if horses start getting good exclusive skills. Micaiah I can already see being a cancer unit in the dreaded Flier Ball defenses in AR. Camilla looks solid, but after Bride Fjorm's insane staff it's no surprise she doesn't leave a massive impression. No real comment on Alm, just another anti-dragon sword infantry but with some true damage added on.

Relatively easy Abyssal, at least compared to Eliwood's last month. Generic budget Rein+BowLyn combo worked out smoothly here.

Got bodied with 155 orbs spent for a measly MByleth, definitely not going back in there even though there's so much good stuff (Fury4+March, LHector, LAzura, Eir, LAlm, Caineghis). Paying for my super nice luck on the 3H ticket circles I guess

That was exactly my thought as well; maybe they originally created that Marth copy assuming he'd win a spot in CYL, and then when he didn't they switched him to be the legendary unit coinciding with them. It might as well be his CYL form, since it's his greatest possible form (with the leftover option for CYL being a meme Mr. No-Pants Marth alt).

Some people I know who use vantage/galeforce units have a separate Eir(s) for that team, Eirs who drop their prf C for something useful like a tactics buff. At least one Eir can become a spectrum +6 buffer with the appropriate Link B skill and 2 Tactics skills in the C and Seal slot, and is usually used to smite the galeforce unit up onto a trap to initiate your attack.

Finally a 4 Unit Banner that didn't destroy me with either Offbanner City or a terrible orb-to-5* focus rate. 36 orbs total, using the free pull and all tickets, taking only Greens and Reds: +def/-spd Edel +res/-spd Karla +res/-spd FByleth (all new units to me)