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Well, I just got fairly lucky. Used 30 Orbs, came home with +DEF/-ATK LARoy (I know, -ATK sucks, but still, I'm happy he's home, and I'm one step closer to Roy Emblem) +DEF/-RES F!Grima (this one I am super happy about, I've wanted her since her debut and she's got a better bane than -ATK) Pretty sure it's all gonna be downhill from here, but I'll keep pulling when I have more Orbs.

Wow, the new Hector looks really good. With an axe like that, and Distant Counter and Vengeful Fighter in his base kit, this dude is bound to be great with little investment required. And more Brave Ikes (I got my first off the Nohrian Summer rerun, but Steady Breath fodder and/or a not -ATK one would be neat) and Myrrhs (I like my Myrrh, but she could use some myrrhges) would be acceptable as well. Gotta pull Red too though, since it has Tharja (please, please come home) and Warding Breath fodder (nothing could convince me to not use Vanguard Ike for Warding Breath fodder, since we got a free one) and the off chance of Leif is alright with me too, and also Colorless because Grima and LARoy might come home (and if I get Elise instead, then mine gets a merge, which is alright). Just gonna steer clear of Blue this time, since I already have Horse Ephraim, Armored Lyn doesn't especially interest me, and F!Morgan could just show up in the regular summon pool. This makes me glad I started saving Orbs shortly after pulling Summer Tana. Though I do have to wonder what they're gonna do with CYL2 Hector now... Without seeing Legendary Hector's stats, I'm gonna assume that a pure-Player-Phase build would maybe be better pulled off by LAHector since he has Berserk Armads and the new Hector doesn't, but outside of that, yeah this will probably be Best!Hector until CYL2 Hector drops and powercreeps this new one. Man, now that I think about it, regular Hector could really use a refinement on vanilla Armads to keep up with himselves, huh?

Tried for Xander/Elise on the Bohrian Summer banner. Got +DEF/-ATK Brave Ike instead. I'm happy right now. Ylissean Summer gave me a Sully. I sent her back.

@Ice Dragon @Xenomata Thank you for the advice! I guess I can save my spare Saias for now, then. I think I'll just toss Moonbow and Goad Fliers onto Tana from one of my spare Pallas and keep the rest of her default kit. Seems like she'll be pretty alright that way. Maybe I'll toss the RES Ploy Seal onto her too, I dunno. And thanks for letting me know that field buffs don't affect Ploys!

Does +RES/-ATK Summer Tana have enough RES (29) to run Ploy skills? I feel like she could maybe get something out of running SPD and/or RES Ploy, but I want to know whether she'll be able to Ploy people somewhat reliably before I throw Saias her way. Also, does Fortify Fliers get applied before the game checks whether Ploy debuffs should be applied?

Got Tana on my second orb. +RES/-ATK, but I'm just happy to have her.

Went for Karel on the TT+ banner. Got +SPD/-HP Ares instead! I was hoping to pull him, so this is great! And his SPD with the boon is actually good, unlike his dad, so that's even better!

You're not the only one. I was hoping Linde would get Absorb+'s heal-allies-within-2-spaces effect, myself, though maybe for 8 or 10 HP instead of just 7. Being Dark Aura for magic-users is nice too I suppose, but I was expecting something else. As for Merric... Flier-effectiveness was kept, and he got a shorter Cooldown on his Specials, and he can have ATK/SPD +5 when near a mage or staff-user. I think he's definitely more usable now (if nothing else, Slaying effect should see to that), but I don't know for sure just yet (haven't given him his refinement, still grinding SP). If nothing else, these two getting refinements means that weapons that upgrade into other weapons might get their own refinements now. Can't wait to see what they give Naga!

@silveraura25 Bartre. As for Canas, his stats look like he was designed to keep Raudhrowl+ and be glued to at least two of his allies at all times, since his stats get quite a bit better if you assume that he has all of his allies permanently glued to him for +6 to everything. I could see making him work if you run him with a bunch of Spurs/Drives on his allies. We get a 5-Star of him for free, so maybe I'll force him to work. Try something like Raudhrowl+ [DEF] / Moonbow / Close Counter / Guard 3 / ATK Ploy 3 / Distant DEF 3 Seal and run him with my Marth running a double-Rally, Drive ATK 2 & SPD 2, Genny with Spur DEF/RES 2 and Spur RES 1 Seal, and Airzura with Hagoita+, Earth Dance 3 & Double Drive DEF 2, glue them all to Canas and watch him tank. I still wish he had better stats tho.

Well, I'll try for Legault/Nino, but only on the free session. After that, saving Orbs for next month's Legendary banner and hoping they'll drop Legault. Those two do look pretty neat though (not Karla, she just doesn't interest me at all). The main unit I'd pull from that trailer is Canas, but he's gonna be free so I don't have to. Plus he has Raudhrowl+, which is nice. It still bugs me that that's 5-Star-locked. Cool to see Linus is coming too. Don't use Lloyd ever, but hopefully his bro will be better. Overall, I'm gonna skip this one, because I don't care for Karla, I'm betting on Legault dropping so why bother for him, and my desire for adorable alt Nino is cancelled out by remembering that I have adorable regular Nino.

Gonna remake some old units I made last year, since powercreep has happened since then: Kirby - Super Star | Colorless Breath | Infantry Meta Knight - Masked Swordmaster | Red Sword | Flying King Dedede - King of Dreamland | Green Axe | Armored Bandana Dee - Notable Minion | Blue Lance | Infantry Marx - Cheerful Jester | Colorless Dagger | Cavalry Hopefully they're better than they were before! Except Marx. He's new.

@MonkeyCheez3K Wait, I thought Legendary Lyn wasn't coming back until the end-of-July Legendary Banner? Though either way, next month's Green is gonna be worth saving for, because, at minimum, it's gonna have Bold Lissa. I'm hoping for either Myrrh or M!Grima with her, but maybe they'll have Deirdre instead. Any of those would be pretty neat.

Except Kinshi Hinoka is a ranged flyer, while regular Hinoka is a melee flyer. Ranged units have lower BST, so that's why Kinshinoka has a lower BST compared to regular Hinoka. Ryoma's a flyer, yes, but he's a melee flyer, so he'll probably have regular melee-flyer BST.

Well, I'll be pulling, but not beyond the first 5-Star or so. Legendary Ryoma excites me about as much as Legendary Raigh would have, and I already have Sigurd, so if I have to pull Red I'll hope for Young!Tiki. Blue has Hardin and Santa Robin, and I want them, and a second Fjorm wouldn't be terrible either even if I'm not sure what I'd do with her. Green has Chrom, who would've been cool before Ares came along with his Brazen at 4-Star (hopefully I'll pull one sooner or later... maybe I'll hope for him along with Young!Tiki if I pull Red), Airzura, who I already have, and Gunnthra who has made a remarkable recovery from her storyline death, so I'm not particularly looking to pull this color. Colorless is pretty cool for me, having Dagger Takumi, who I wouldn't mind getting, Innes, who I have but wouldn't mind a dupe of, and Female Grima, who I really want, so I want this color to show up with 5-Stars like it did last time (though preferably I could get a Grima, since Genny isn't on this one). So, Blue=Colorless>Green>Red for me. Next month's basically guaranteed to get Normal Tharja, Bold Lissa and maybe NYCamilla now, so I'll be pooling Orbs for that one. Wait, can flying units get Wrath? I thought that was Infantry/Armor only?

I was hoping for F!Morgan on the Stance banner, but I got +SPD/-RES Shigure instead. Which is great! I was hoping to pull him at some point, and he has Darting Stance, so I did get a Stance off the Stance banner!

Gonna limit this to units I actually use/want to use but haven't quite finished building just yet: HP: 27 [-HP Elise, has recently started seeing use again since I fed her a Genny for Wrathful Staff, and she's awesome, and her lowest possible HP is irrelevant since she only ever fights on Player Phase where enemies can't hit back... but still, that number is super low.] ATK: 40 [Brave Bow Brave Lyn, who is partnered with my Reinhardt because brave-weapon my little ranged horses are amazing together, and Swift Sparrow + Goad Cavalry + Ally S Support makes that 40 into 50 in practice.] SPD: 24 [+ATK Male Grima, who has Vengeful Fighter to double anyway and 66 Enemy Phase ATK (from Fierce Stance, thank you second Dorcas) and Aether (I fed him a Chrom) to crush people with] DEF: 6 [Life And Death -DEF Linde, who is very strong, quite fast, and takes physical hits extremely poorly, so hopefully I'll pull another Shanna so I can give my Light Mage Desperation soon] RES: 19 [Life And Death Fallen Takumi, who I run on my Water team because Skadi (+3), Fjorm (+3) and Marth (+5, thanks to Drive SPD and Falchion) give him a total of 50 SPD so he can double lots of things, and his defenses are only relevant once since he'll have Desperation up after taking pretty much any hit with his defenses] BST: 151 [Tie between Brave Lyn, again, and Reinhardt, who is amazing]

Glad we're getting Groom Marth for free. Now I can put him on a team with Bride Caeda... though now I may have to build up Bride Caeda. Also, I really mostly want Sanaki from this banner. Ninian's cute, and Tharja... well, SPD Feint looks interesting, but Sanaki looks like she'll have high ATK, which will be a nice change from my Bunny Camilla, and DEF/RES Link looks nice too. Final thought: If the next Voting Gauntlet is 2018 Brides vs 2017 Brides, who's gonna be the 8th character? Anna? Regular Marth? Someone random like Faye?

@Tybrosion Wait, your Henry already has QR3. Why do you need to give it to him? Do you want to give him a different Sacred Seal? Because Guard/QR seems like a decent combination. Good luck getting Elise, though. She's really good once you feed her a Genny/Bride Lyn, so hopefully you have a spare one of those you can burn on her (though if you don't, we're pretty likely to get a rerun of last year's Brides banner for the next Voting Gauntlet so you can pull Colorless and hope you get one of them).

Got a Green Olwen on my free pull on New Power. +DEF/-HP, which doesn't hurt her ATK or SPD, so it's good. Happy to have her.

That's a good point. Just realized that I'm gonna have to wait until they release Gronnserpent+ right now to give Henry the build I most want him to have (so Henry could have a DEF-refined Gronnserpent+ and run Close DEF in the Sacred Seal slot to have Close DEF, Distant DEF, Close Counter and Quick Riposte all at once and always have 38 DEF and 39 RES on Enemy Phase), but Henry has Close Counter now. Thanks.

Are any of these good units to give Close Counter to? M!Robin +DEF/-RES Halloween Henry +DEF/-ATK M!Morgan Julius Because I'm really not sure who to use my spare Takumi on.

So should we expect Werewolf Ishtar on the next Halloween seasonal banner?

@XRay Don't feel like going Brave Bow, so I'll keep the neutral one instead. Thanks.

Which Takumi should I keep: +ATK/-SPD or the free neutral-nature one? I want to give someone Close Counter, and I'm not sure which Takumi is better.

That would be pretty interesting. I'd like to see that, along with Infantry/Armor-effectiveness. Might actually make me build up one of the Camillas I have in my barracks. Clair's refinement interests me as well, though that's primarily because I didn't get very far into Echoes. I'm mostly looking forward to Corrin's refinement though, since I actually have a 5-Star of him who could use it, unlike Camilla & Clair. @Jingle Jangle After seeing Safeguard+, Tana's probably getting a refinement with either that effect or a damage-on-first-strike-reduced-by-30%-when-attacked-by-Sword/Lance/Axe effect in the future. Hopefully also with Guard or Vantage or something else to help her work better on Enemy Phase.