Hawk King

haha, seriously? We need to all vote on this ^ , Ike's mom, Merlinus, and any other stupid options for the next CYL just to see what IS can come up with. Spread the word now.

CYL2 Ephraim is ridiculous. I threw him on my Earth team with just his base kit + a dual rally and Close Defense seal. I did a run just to see where I was at in regards to where I ranked, and it was so easy to feed him all 20 kills, and without fishing for high score I finished with 3766 with is currently rank #827. That might actually be enough to keep me it Tier 21. He doesn't even have any merges, and my other 3 units are flyers so he isn't getting great support from them. I can only imagine how he would do with full armor support or mixed team Tactics support.

HOLY SHIT THIS UPDATE IS GOING TO BE GREAT! With the Combat Books, I can clear like 300+ spot in my barracks, maybe more. Cherche and Celica are both getting shiny new toys to play with and I just so happen to have +10'ed both of them. I expect Cherche's Axe to be a 16 MT Hammer with a Heavy Blade unique refinement. Best case scenario would be if it is both armor and cavalry effective like the Wing Sword and Rhomphaia with a Heavy Blade refinement. Built in Breath or Stance would be cool too, but I don't see that happening. Although, there is a high probability that it will have a similar effect as Camilla's Axe and Hinoka's Spear. Which would be cool as well. I just hope whatever it is my +Atk/-Spd nature will be ideal for her. Ragnarok couldn't possibly get Double Lion could it? That would be so brokenly over-powered. It would be great. Odin's tome would have to have a -blade effect to be worthwhile. I can't imagine anything that could fix his Atk better than that. So, a 14 Mt -Blade tome with built in Odd/Even Atk and Spd wave? That would actually be pretty good for him. Not just for dealing damage but providing support as well.

Well the wyvern riders have 35 Spd so you would need 40 to double them. A blue mage with a bladetome should also be able to ORKO them with enough buffs so maybe your Summer Corrin would work in that role.

Do you have a green mage that is just naturally fast? There is always more than one way to get a desired result.

I used Sanaki with Axebreaker 3 and double savage blow, PA!Azura (she didn't see combat so any dancer should work), Brave bow+ Leon with Lancebreaker 3 and Savage blow, and Myrrh. I wouldn't recommend a bow user though because even with his +10 stats the Wyvern riders have way too much def and he just barely got the kills. You could try substituting a TA3 Green mage with Lancebreaker to take out the wyvern riders. And the Myrrh spot just needs to be able to take out an archer, blue manakete and Grima. I don't know if this will help, but maybe it can give you some other ideas that will work. I'm gonna be honest though, abyssal difficult is absurdly difficult and there is a good chance you won't be able to clear it with your units. Good Luck.

Oh yeah! Just cleared Grima's abyssal with +10 Myrrh, +10 Leon, PA!Azura, and Sanaki. Now time to do all of the Marth maps.

No way man, it's all a waste. Bad advice. lol. I've been trying Grima's abyssal map for a while with no success. I got really close once but my Nowi had taken too much damage and couldn't tank Grima's attack. This map sucks with the enemy spawning in all 4 corners. It is way too hard to keep them from overwhelming you. Oh, if I give Leon Lancebreaker 3 he might be able to ORKO those lance fliers with Iotes shield... I don't want to, but I might just have to cheese it with a blade tome user and emblem buffs.

It's all about having the right units with the right skills. The +4 to all stats won't really make much of a difference. Usually overwhelming offensive units like Reinhardt do extremely well, and extremely defensive units who counter kill with QR are sometimes needed.

Well I swapped Lute in for L!Lucina and I have 2 defense wins already despite it not even being wind season. Looks like Future Sight wasn't the only thing getting me all of those wins. And it is Fire/Earth season. My worst combo. Because I need to pull for a bonus unit (probably 3+ copies of them), and I need to fit them into my Earth team which isn't the highest scoring to begin with, I might not be able to stay in Tier 21 this time. It might depend on how many people are up here this week.

Am I the only one who had to look up the word "Abyssal"? I legit thought they meant to name it "Abysmal" and just made a typo. So I remember having a fair amount of difficulty with Grima's Infernal map, but maybe that was because it was right before they changed the stamina cost to 0 and I couldn't just retry over and over. After checking the enemy stats, I don't know if I am going to be able to clear it on the new difficulty.

Finished comfortably in the top reward groups for AA and Arena. And made it to 80+ defense wins. Now I need to pull for some CYL 2 units to make my team for next week. Gonna have to throw Lute or Green Olwen on the team in the meantime.

Well, maximum thus far. Although, I'm scared to see what they can come up with that is better than what L!Marth got.

@Ice Dragon - I figured you would have had a much higher score than that with a +10 L!Lucina. With my team of +1 L!Lucina, +10 Effie, +10 Gunnthra, and +10 Soleil I have a score 1 point higher than yours. Which has me at rank 141 out of 4013 currently. My Gunnthra does have a nature that puts her in the 145 BST bin, but she is still worth far less than any Armor. I guess my double blessing boost is pretty valuable. Like you, I am going to have to pull for the CYL 2 units to get a bonus unit next week. None of the 5*s I have for next week have any merges. Defense wins are up to 74+ for the week. I wonder if I can get over 80. I'm surprised my team was matched up so many times let alone able to actually get that many wins...

So Marth looks like he is going to be stupidly amazing. I hope everyone is glad we had to wait so long to allow for maximum power creep. For the first time I will only be pulling on one color because I have +10s of the other three legendary heroes. Kinda upset because I need 2 more Lancinas to +10 her and more Nephenees are always welcome, but I already have two extra Fjorms for fodder and I'm in no hurry for a 2nd +10 of her. Speaking of, we need another colorless legendary soon.F!Grima isn't even good for fodder.

@Zeo It is only impressive if you can do it on autobattle. Congrats on the achievement. I still remember when Nowi was a bonus unit for one of the TT. I would do Lunatic-7 on auto battle and almost every time Nowi was the only one standing when map 7 was cleared. Sadly, she capped HM very early on so I didn't get to use her a whole bunch. Way to double tag Johann, lol. This TT was weird. Despite everyone having all 8 of the bonus units, The score threshold for top 1000 was way lower they it has been in the past. Although I did miss out on top 100 for the previous TT because I was out of town after day 3.

My initial run with a score of 3745 fell to the 1400s before I did my serious run. It's really bunched up in there so I wouldn't be surprised if the cut off was as low as 3752 right now. By the end of the season it will most likely be 3760 or higher though. We haven't gotten anything to upgrade for a long while so I had like over 450 coins. Poison Strike just happened to be perfect for letting Effie chip strong greens down and it is worth 240 SP so I didn't think twice about it. Defense wins are at 57+ now. #50 was kind enough to lose a 2nd time.

After two failed runs on the 5th battle, I was able to get an Arena run with all 20 bonus kills for a score of 3794 which shot me up to rank #122. This was a lot higher than I thought I would get, especially considering my bonus unit is only +1 and Gunnthra has such a low BST. If I had to guess, the cut-off to stay in tier 21 is currently 3750-3760. Defense wins are at 50+ now.

I'm running Effie with Wary Fighter and Poison Strike 3 on her seal to weaken anything L!Lucina can't ORKO on her own. I actually really like this change to the arena. Just like I really liked when we had to use blessed units for more score in AA. The extra challenge is fun. I am currently sitting at 45+ Defense wins. I got 10 or more during the 5 hours I was sleeping so I don't know for sure how many I have. This is getting ridiculous. I wish there was some sort of benefit to getting more than one Defense win. And ya know, a higher feather rewards than just 451 and up. My highest win is 640 points. I should get 1,200 feathers for that.

I'm hoping we get another massive update where all of the units with Blow 3 skills at 4* rarity get the Blow 4 version at 5* rarity. Similar to how the killer weapons became able to upgrade into slaying. Granted, they will probably wait long enough for many people to sacrifice 5* exclusive characters for Blow 4 skills first. I don't think the Swift Sparrow line of skills will ever get a 3rd tier. Blow 4 skills match the +8 stat boost that those skills have. I would like to see the stat+ skills go up to 4 and maybe even HP+7 for it's 4th tier.

For reference in tier 21, my early run with a score of 3745 was in the very last spot to stay in tier 21 earlier in the day, and now it has fallen out and is rank #1170 with the top 1115 currently staying. After giving L!Lucina Aether and Atk Tactics support, I currently have a run 4 battles in with all 16 bonus kills. When I finish it tomorrow, my score should be ~3790 and I fully expect that to be enough to stay. If not I could only raise my score by maybe 10 more points. If I can manage to stay in the first week of tier 21, I should be a permanent fixture as it will only get easier from here on out. Defense wins are at 25 after 2 days. I really love using L!Lucina. She is absurdly powerful. I really regret not pulling more of her on her banner. With having zero of her and Ishtar, and only a +2 Azura going into the banner, there was really no drawbacks to me pulling on blue.

Mostly I see Bold fighter. Sometimes a Slaying sword. But once in a great while I see someone with DC and Warp powder, but I'm not gonna complain when I see that. If I were ever to +10 Zelgius, I would leave Warp Powder on him because it is free and mobility is nice, but very few people I run into leave it on him. Granted the redundant DC isn't extremely common, but I see it just as much as I see Warp Powder.

I keep track of who gave me which win so once it fills up I start counting from where I left off. Right now, "Drago" is my 20th win and there is one person above them.

21 defense wins and counting... I just realized that Zelgius, Hardin, and the built-in DC dragon breath units won't be running the redundant DC for scoring in the arena anymore. They can run the much more dangerous Death Blow 4.

Ok, good. That would have been absurd. She is still going to be able to quad so many units though with her speed. Not something that I am looking forward to facing. Part of me wants to pull full summoning circles until I have one of them at +10. Even though my wallet wouldn't like that, a bigger deterrent to that is my lack of barracks space. doesn't IS realize that their sales have been slowly declining ever since our last barracks enhancement? Which was like, a really long time ago. The worst part is that she is at 144 BST and needs unfavorable superboons to bump her up to 145 BST. Even if her BST were like 3 points higher 1/1/1 in HP/Def/Res I would have been happy. Armored healer when??