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Either mixed or flier (though my primary mixed team isn’t a tactics team since it’s 3/4 infantry), though I won’t do a mixed team without at least one flier. Fliers just have so much freedom to maneuver especially once they introduced flying dancers and have some very great Bladetome candidates, but mixed teams can be a lot of fun between tactics and guidance shenanigans. Least favorite is armor. I hate the lack of movement (even armor march can be a pain to maintain) and personally I feel like their brokenness is less fun than that of cavalry teams.

Seriously? We don’t even get to pick the color? Well that’s annoying Voting for Leanne all the way. At least if she wins her color I’ll have a 50/50 shot of getting one of the two flying singers I want (assuming Azura wins but I feel like she’s a foregone conclusion).

There were two blue stones and one of them gave me Summer Corrin, one of the seasonals I wanted most! She’s +hp -atk but I’m not gonna complain about getting a character I’ve wanted since her debut for free. Here’s hoping the next one goes well!

I’m so glad we actually get a bit of choice beyond what the community decides. I feel like Legendary Azura is practically guaranteed to be the blue hero which makes me super happy (and really no matter who else is an option I’ll probably still pick her). I’d bet Tibarn, Sutr, and Duma will make up the other three. Sutr is all kinds of bananas while Tibarn and Duma are new and very powerful, though I wouldn’t complain if say Leanne best Duma out.

Blue (or green if none show up) for the first, colorless for the second. The first year’s an easy pick, as all but one of the ones I really want are blue. Year two there isn’t anyone in particular I really want because I was lucky enough to get most of who I pulled for, but colorless has the most interesting ones for me (plus the ones I wouldn’t mind duplicates of).

Micaiah’s in the same boat as Celica was for me last year: doesn’t matter what she turns out to be she will be my free pick. Looking at the other placements I’ve gotta say I’m not super interested in the upcoming Farfetched heroes, not when other than Anna it’s shaping up to be a bunch of OCs. Vika is higher than I expected her to be (though I guess being a Laguz really helps) and I’m just gonna sit here dejectedly waiting for Heather’s 296 plus the lack of Tellius banners in general to mean she’ll never get in (that or it’ll take a very long time).

I’d go with Azura without a doubt. She’s easily my most wanted Legendary and I was hoping she’d end up winning A Hero Rises part 2 after she failed to show up. Side note, I have a feeling this is taking the place of that which is nice because having to rely on a community vote is annoying.

Gotta support Cherche here, especially now that she’s one merge away from being my first +10 (even if she was stuck at +8 for months)! If she loses Lissa’s my first priority, her or Gerome,

@mampfoid It’s nice see Gerome in one of these! Alm taking out Duma was perfect, and it’ll be interesting to see how the merge change will affect things. I’m glad some of y’all mentioned the ai trick because that makes this map soooo much easier. The initial three fliers are by far the hardest part of this map between their insane speed and lack of a dragon stone breaker, but once I figured them out I managed Infernal on the very next try. Abyssal’s another story though because Summer Camilla and Elincia just barely hit the thresholds they needed on Infernal.

@Alexmender Eirika made that look easy! There’s nothing else really to say because of how effortless it looked. @Nanima Nice! I like how Nephenee was the first attacked but one of the last to be killed. @mampfoid The spacing of the enemies looked like it made this a lot easier, though that was still a close call against Nephenee! Nice job! I managed this on the first day I’m just now getting around to posting it. It wasn’t too bad though the spacing of the enemies was a little challenging. This is the first time I’ve ever had to use Miracle on someone but hey it worked (Iote’s shield wasn’t enough without heavily boosting her speed so it was just more convenient to go for Miracle).

Do I get extra for including Vika ?

...Are you kidding me. Ugh, at least Micaiah’s number two right now and hopefully she’ll stay in the top two.

Gave Heather vote number 1! I’ll probably send a vote Micaiah’s way at some point because a CYL version of her would be amazing (too bad Cherche and Marisa won’t ever get CYL versions lmao). The rest will go to some of the other Tellius ladies that aren’t in yet (Vika, Lucia, Ilyana...maybe even Fiona) and I feel like I need to give Charlotte a vote since it’s been almost two years at this point....

...Seriously? Well at least I can continue focusing the Laguz banner because wow. Like I don’t even mind Fates Royals but if we’re gonna have a Fates banner at least give some other characters a turn in the spotlight. 6 Camilla’s is ridiculous and this is coming from someone who doesn’t mind even her most recent variants.

That -atk is a little painful, but I personally run Dragonskin, Quick Riposte, and distant defense in her seal slot. It’s best at countering ranged units but that might be useful since it looks like you’re using her with two fliers that don’t have distant counter or Iote’s Shield. C-slot really depends on your preference though I don’t think I’d use her native res smoke with a primarily physical party.

Someone might’ve mentioned this already and I just missed it (in that case my bad) but the +2 attack from the Laguz transformation isn’t a green buff or a hidden buff; it’s applied to the base value. Noticed that when I was using Nailah in a party with Christmas Eirika when her attack based buffs hit different people depending on whether or not Nailah was transformed.

@Alexmender Wow, that was really close! Naesala was who I was most curious about how you’d deal with him but Eirika was very sturdy! @mampfoid It’s nice to see Brave Lucina in here! I feel like Cherche is just made for taking out Naesala. Legendary Hector being reduced to just a cheerleader/smiter is kinda hilarious @Nanima The Takumi squad made this look easy! I’m sure you enjoyed not having to deal with an armor unit. This wasn’t too bad, just had to swap a few skills to make sure Cherche could survive that green mage. Celica can also take out the manakete at the end but I really felt like I should show Micaiah off. She might not have done any fighting, but her drive defense was essential for helping Marisa secure her first kill.

Oh noooooooo I was not prepared for Nailah and Leanne! I’m not sure if I’m happy or annoyed that they share a color, though if I have to pick I hope I can pull Nailah. I’m really regretting spending orbs on the legendary banner now ? Edit: oh wait, Leanne’s colorless! That’s much better

The reinforcements were a surprise considering it’s a BHB but I personally still found it to be pretty easy I honestly didn’t realize how close I cut some of these (particularly with Cherche) but hey everyone got the job done without having to change any skills (well, besides the new set I’m trying out on Micaiah).

@mampfoid This definitely looked like it would be one of the harder one turn clears, but you still found a way! Speedy Cherche is amazing, and nice use of pass to avoid that annoying obstruct and Ostia’s Pulse to help your gale force procs. It’s been a while since I managed one of these on my own (especially on a non-earth season week!) but it turns out my fliers were more than up to the task! The two freaking starting cavalry units gave me the most trouble, between the lance one’s dull ranged making Camilla have little effect and the axe one’s reprisal plus Wo Gun easily killing Elincia without enough attack stacking. I was concerned about the manakete the first time I made it that far since I had to take desperation off Camilla and everyone had very little hp but Airzura reminded me why she’s my favorite singer to use for combat. Since the last time I’ve used them Grima got merged into a +def -hp one to change that spd bane she used to have (and hey that will even be fixed in February!) and when the update comes around I’ll be able to fix Camilla’s atk bane too (technically I can do that one now since I pulled a +atk -spd one on the legendary banner but I really didn’t want to change her ivs in the middle of trying to clear this). Overall this wasn’t too bad as far as the Abyssals go provided you can knock Azura out early.

Haven’t tried Abyssal yet but Infernal was surprisingly easy. I don’t think I’ve ever beaten it a legendary one on my first try before, but my fliers had no problems (and it’s not even Earth season!). I think it helps that Azura is pretty easily baited turn two and unlike some of the other legendary heroes she’s not too hard to kill. Here’s hoping Abyssal is also not that bad!

The merge announcement is awesome! Though it’s weird that I now regret merging the +atk -spd Celica I pulled a few months ago into my +hp -res one...it’ll be nice getting her defense and resistance equal again?

She looks really fun to mess around with...ugh, it’s gonna be tough trying to avoid spending orbs to pull for her when I need to be saving for Nailah Her legendary battle is gonna suck though...really not looking forward to it