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...I imagine plenty of women supported Hector. And it's extremely likely that the FEH fanbase is mostly male, otherwise what is with the high amount of fanservicey women? So I'm pretty sure it's male-majority, not male-minority... In fact, I think much of the Serenes FEH board is male, not female. At least, that's my very un-scientific impression. I'm girl who supported Mia... My sister is a girl who supported Mia... and we both did it because of Tellius bias. We supported Ike repeatedly against women. It's a little annoying to be accused of only supporting Mia because we're women and she's a woman. She's from Tellius, and has a fun character. I will almost always support Tellius over anyone else, regardless of gender. I like Hector. I'm just never going to pick him over a Tellian. Not because he's a man. I'm capable of picking a character for more than rallying against someone else's fan base. If you're joking, great! I apologize for misreading you.

Without using Duel skills, I often hit tier 21 with RD Ike (+6 I think), Oscar+10 Earth blessed, Soren+10 Earth blessed, and a decent bonus unit. The only reason I haven't been hitting tier 21 recently is lack of time and terrible bonus units for me. Plus, it's way easier for me in Earth season, as you might see from the above units. I sometimes trade in Brave Ike +10, Naesala +10, Black Knight +10, and Sothe +10, all of whom aren't Earth blessed, during non-Earth seasons. Sothe is the only one with a Duel Skill, and since he's a support unit, he can afford to drop his Life and Death A skill for his arena trips. The only armor I use semi-regularly is the Black Knight, and only on non-Earth seasons. So, very possible without duel skills, and I use a cavalry unit regularly! And Soren's a mage, which means he scores lower to begin with. It's doable.

Ah, that makes sense! So hope this trend won't continue with the games that have low representation still.

A little sad they're going back to alts on New Heroes banners... Then again, did Valentina only have a few characters left or something? Hopefully they'll go back to doing no alts on new hero banners again... Anyway, been a long time since a Valentina banner, so this is great!

I could be mistaken, but... you can't guarantee this in AR. The bonus unit requirement makes the nuke+2 dancer setup impossible, unless you're bonus unit is always one of those three (or Eir or Naga). That's why I strongly prefer tanks- they don't require two dancers as support. I run Cain+2Eir+Leanne+bonus, which works 85% of the time, and since I can rarely run two dancers, much better than two dancers+nuke. So you're either taken a scoring hit or can't always have that kind of team set (unless Eir or Naga is your nuke, which I guess is possible... But a real pain with Naga).

I use Caineghis as my tank in AR... And he works very well on tanking and counter killing. So some people do use armors as tanks in AR- I don't fear Ophelia or company during light season at all. So I use armors on offense, and I'm typically in the top 5000 (and typically 3000 during light season). Might be a bit below what you are talking about, but armors are still plenty competitive for me. In fact, I prefer my Cain light team over my Tibarn astra team, but there are other reasons for that as well.

My guess would be tome or staff? She has an AOE attack and can counterattack anyone in RD if I remember correctly. She's the final boss, so I would guess tome instead of staff. So blue tome is my final guess, but others may have a better idea! As for other Tellius mythics, I think Soan (lion), Lehran (heron before losing his powers from when he helped subdue Yune or staff like he can wield in final battle), Sephiran/Lehran (tome, probably blue, penultimate boss of RD), Dheghinsia (dragon), or Altina (dual-sword legendary) are probably all options. I imagine we'd get Ashera first, so if any of them are going to be mythics, it would be a very long time...

There's also Ashera as a possibility- I could see her being blue to balance out Yune (and Yune ultimately won, and green>blue). And since we just got Micaiah with Yune, Ashera would be a nice pairing. I'd love her to be ranged and astra, so I could switch out at least one Naga... Naga feels like dead weight on my teams most of the time, except that I can safely put her next to Tibarn.

A banner with Caineghis and Tibarn?! Oh, my poor orbs... please don't let the third unit color share, and I'll be thrilled!

Do you mean without a CYL alt? Because she has a legendary and a summoning pool alt. But if you mean CYL, that makes sense!

Too bad... Good work, team Micaiah! We can at least enjoy the fact we were leading most of the round. We did our best!

Oh, shoot... I forgot about that and just dumped my flags on the multiplier. Still hoping she pulls through!

A lot of Ike fans may also be Micaiah fans, which is where some of us (like me and my sister!) went. So it's not so much that we only care about how strong units are- we like Micaiah too, and she hasn't had a chance to win a gauntlet yet, and just got her Brave this year!

I'm on team Micaiah and running a +10 Black Knight as my lead (only fitting, as someone else said in this thread). Feel free to add me! Friend code 7328867494 Go Micaiah! And at least if she loses, I can join Ike!

Exactly- she lived in fear that people would find out, and rightfully so- look at how Soren was treated. That's a very big deal, and pretty sympathetic. I never saw Micaiah as a Mary Sue, considering all she had to endure and the fact her decisions weren't perfect or seen that way. Her people adored her, yes, but she had good reason to fear they wouldn't if they knew the truth. And the rest of the world strongly resented her as Daein's champion during the Begnion-laguz war. I'm also not sure that the Daein people necessarily knew she was branded after the war. The army that fought Ashera knew, sure, but unless they purposefully spread it or Micaiah announced it herself, that doesn't mean her people found it. My headcannon has her revealing it after she's ushered in several years of peace, but still at great risk to herself.

Add me to a "Tellius fan of both Micaiah and Ike who wants to put her support behind Micaiah this time" list XD. It is certainly not required to only like one of them, and Micaiah is finally getting her time to shine!

I'll be supporting Micaiah! I like Ike just as much, so I'll be happy whoever wins, but I've supported Vanguard Ike in many gauntlets and haven't had as much of a chance to support Micaiah. Here's to a Tellius win! If anyone on team Micaiah wants to add me, my friend code is 7328867494. Just tag me here or message me if you want to add me!

Yeah, I went for Caineghis merges on that banner (or a L!Alm)... Got two Eirs and only one merge XD +10 Micaiah sounds like a good plan! I'm loving B!Micaiah so far, and I have a +10 regular Micaiah. She's great! Good luck!

Yeah, I run double DD on my Caineghis, and he's tanked red Micaiah multiple times. Now, with flier buffs, B!Micaiah will likely be a different story... We'll see! And I'll also think about how I'll deal with B!Eliwood. I used Caineghis in AR, which is why I love him so much! I'll likely start using B!Micaiah in a flier team though...

For what it's worth, Micaiah is also effective against Caineghis, who is an armor. So that makes 7 she's effective against versus 8 that she isn't, which is pretty close to even. And there are more beasts with high defense than high res (I think), and since they're all melee and only two come with DC (Nailah and Caineghis), Micaiah can hit more in PvE without taking a hit in return. Also, I'm pretty sure my Caineghis could beat Micaiah or Eliwood... (which isn't strictly relevant, but fun XD)

I was always going to pick Micaiah, but I'm thrilled she's a good unit and that she'll likely be the F2P pick! Looking forward to Friday!

If Micaiah doesn't get a legendary, she'd be the only CYL so far to not get one except for Camilla (who will probably get one), Celica (who is likely to get one), and Veronica (who is a special case). Most likely, Micaiah will get one, which means they'll repeat an outfit, use the second promotion outfit, or make a new one. It's really not that complicated, and IS deviates from patterns all the time. They'd be silly not to cash in on Micaiah's popularity. Now, if they want to wait for next year, my orbs will need a break XD

I agree- and legendary Micaiah can be a staff unit, since she can canonically use staves. There's no reason she can't use a similar outfit. And I'd be very ticked off if Micaiah is one of the only protagonists not to get a Legendary. I know we'll get non-protagonists like Tiki and Azura, and we're still missing some Lords like Seliph and Corrin, but I hope Micaiah is coming one day. She shouldn't be locked out just because she has a brave version, just like Lyn, Ike, Hector, Eliwood, Lucina, etc. weren't locked out.

I wish I could free pull a Zelgius... Not that I need more sword armors (I have the BK at +10), but because I like him. Seems like the people who don't like him keep getting the free pull Zelgius's XD Anyway, broke my pity rate on Hero Fest with a Nailah. I think that makes three or four Tibarns (yay!) and one Nailah. Plus an Ayra, for some reason. My rate on the reds were pretty good, but more Nailah merges would have been appreciated. Tibarn is now +6, Nailah is +3.

Micaiah looks good! I really hope that B-skill is really good- I want her to be able to double or guarantee kill in one hit. But no matter what it is, she'll be my free pick. I'm excited!