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Unexpected, but certainly interesting. Shame Hrid got the short end of the stick (literally the entire rest of his family is playable, why is IS giving him the cold shoulder?), but he could end up the Book III freebie or something. @daisy jane You mean the bow would inflict Triangle Adept on enemies after combat? That would be an interesting secondary effect. Infantry Rush is a skill added on Summer Noire, and more recently available on Mikoto, that gives Heavy Blade to Infantry units within 2 spaces of the unit that has the skill equipped. It's only really there because every version of Celica that we have is an Infantry unit and can get fairly high ATK (regular Celica has the new Ragnarok with permanent +5 ATK/SPD during combat and Brazen ATK/SPD 3, Fallen Celica has Omni Push 2 on her sword for +4 ATK, Brave Celica has Death Blow 4 for +8 ATK) so they could probably benefit from that. @ChickenBits

That's just the combined power of Divine Tyrfing (halves the damage he takes from the first strike when attacked by a Tome user, makes killing him with my Reinhardt impossible without a refresher and is generally quite annoying), Crusader's Ward (reduces damage from consecutive attacks after the first by 80%, which combined with Divine Tyrfing makes Sigurd really annoying for my Reinhardt and my Brave Lyn... haven't sicced Summer Takumi on him yet but I assume that it's the same case with him), Miracle (he comes with this, it's nice and occasionally keeps me from killing him but IMO the charge is too long to be really useful most of the time) and having pretty respectable stats outside of RES (which does make him vulnerable to healers and dragons, since Divine Tyrfing doesn't cover them, but outside of that he's pretty solid as a tank and even dragons are slightly less annoying thanks to Close DEF so really Sigurd's greatest fear is healers). My current TT+ team is Reinhardt/BLyn/Young Azura/Julius, and seeing Sigurd fills me with dread. ...That's actually a pretty good idea, though having a full-heal and lowering Alm's Special Cooldown would pretty much require restricting it to Player Phase, since if that were available on Enemy Phase then it would be super annoying to just barely not kill Alm and then have him come back to full health to deal with your next attacker... Now I'm picturing LAlm as something like 37/41/44 HP | 32/35/38 ATK | 30/33/36 SPD | 24/28/31 DEF | 11/14/18 RES Royal Bow | Colorless Bow | MT 16 | Grants ATK +3. This unit attacks twice when initiating combat with HP = 100%, then takes 5 damage after combat. Draconic Aura ATK/SPD Push 3 Mila's Turnwheel [When initiating combat with HP > 50%, if HP > 1, unit survives one lethal attack with 1 HP. If unit has 1 HP after combat, grants Special Cooldown -2 and recovers 99 HP after combat. Effect only activates once per turn.] Infantry Rush 3 I'm guessing nothing about this unit would be particularly broken... hopefully he wouldn't be too weak if he showed up like this tho.

Yeah, I'm guessing Anna for this month personally, but I won't be surprised if I'm wrong. Plus it's fun to speculate on what Legendary Alm could have! (at least for me it is) And I still want seasonal Hinoka to happen already, if only because all of her siblings have seasonal alts now. I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by this. Crusader's Ward is Deflect Melee&Missile&Magic 3, how does that relate to Miracle-with-healing?

I would guess something like Miracle, but it would restore 20 HP to Alm after the combat in which it activated. Maybe that's a bit too good though. Either that, or a passive skill that would work like this: "When this unit initiates combat with HP > 1, survive a lethal hit with 1 HP. After combat, if Mila's Turnwheel activated, recover 20 HP. Only works once per turn." Not sure if that would actually be all that good though.

I'm expecting Hrid to be an Armored unit too. Mostly because it means Nifl Emblem can run Tactic skills (like Ylgr's SPD Tactic) which would be niceish I think. Being able to throw Bold/Vengeful Fighter on him would be nice too though. I hadn't considered it, but Legendary Alm as colorless archer would be pretty neat. Do you think he'd get Double Lion again as a legendary unit, or maybe some implementation of Mila's Turnwheel? And on an unrelated note, now that we have playable Ylgr, I wonder if we'll see a Ylgr & Helbindi Bound Hero Battle at some point...

@JSND Alter Dragon Boner I was referring to the fact that, out of the gate, Caeda and Clair really only have dual-effectiveness, whereas Micaiah and Hinoka get that, a stat boost, and another skill... though I forgot about their ability to get Flashing Blade and HP +3 on their weapons, which evens things out rather well. Probably because I still haven’t given the upgrade to my Caeda. So, yeah. Good catch. My mistake.

Oh, I... completely missed that. That's neat tho. Here's hoping it's dagger-only then, they could use the help. And I hadn't noticed that Sylgr is conditional Kestrel Stance too, that makes it quite a bit better. I may seriously consider throwing some Orbs into this banner and hoping a snow loli (or Surtr, I wouldn't mind Steady Stance 4 fodder) pops out. So, non-alt Charlotte would've finally gotten into Heroes? Now I'm disappointed that that didn't happen.

So, this is a thing. Two-character banner disappoints me... But as for the units themselves, Ylgr at least looks somewhat interesting with Sorcery Blade (which I'm betting will be locked to her, or at least to dagger units, which would be a nice little buff for them, but it's probably just Ylgrlocked), even if Sylgr is a bit strange to me (why does she have conditional Swift Sparrow? Why not just go the Seigbert route and just give her Swift Sparrow?). SPD Tactic finally entering the general pool is nice too. I wouldn't mind seeing her, may consider pulling for her, maybe. Surtr... I kinda look forward to the day he pitybreaks me, solely so I can give a +10 Arden Steady Stance 4 (also @Alkaid thank you for pointing out that Steady Stance 4 has Guard on it, and on a related note, why the actual fuck does Steady Stance 4 have Guard on it), DEF-Refine Safeguard+, Odd DEF Wave 3 and Fortress DEF 3 for the highest possible defense on a unit that I could feasibly possess some day (though by then we could have Steady Stance 3 as a Sacred Seal, so he might get that instead, which would put Arden's DEF at 78 instead of the 77 he'd reach with Fortress DEF). Outside of that, I really don't care for him. Having Peshkatz But It's A Threaten And Also Only Surtr Gets The Buffs is a pretty neat trick tho, especially combined with Sinmara's start-of-turn damage in the same area, ensuring between those effects taht anything that ends its turn near him will burn. Hrid is gonna be the next Grand Hero Battle, and he will probably be cool. I'm just gonna call this now, since... well, who else could it be, really? Watch as we get late-to-the-Fates-banner Lilith or Bruno or Baby Grima or something Balance still kinda exists. Surtr's SPD will most likely be nonexistent because Wary Fighter (though he's an Armor, so he has Bold/Vengeful Fighter to work around this), and he probably won't have that much RES (with the points that could go to these stats instead going into his DEF, which I'm guessing will be base 41 with a superboon for 45, then Sinmara would push that up to 48, and that becomes 60 with Steady Stance 4 and Surtr's Menace both active, and to a lesser extent his ATK, which won't be quite as high as his DEF but will still be pretty high, and his HP). That would make sense, this one does feel kinda like it's missing something... though who would have gotten her spot on Brave Redux if she'd stayed on this banner? Final Unrelated-To-Anything Thought: They should've done Warding Stance 4 instead of Steady Stance 4, and given it to Hrid. It'd be nice to see Warding Stance 3 in the general pool, even if it was on the day its cooler version showed up to outshine it. I still kinda hope he'll have that, but if I'm right about him being the GHB then he probably won't... but until the datamine happens I can still hope!

@Ice Dragon That's true (alternatively, Micaiah and Hinoka are both cheating). I guess Caeda and Clair just got the short end of the stick, huh?

@JSND Alter Dragon Boner You mean effective damage? I think they do consider Slaying an effect, whereas I think effective damage only seems to count if you get it against multiple unit types (like Wing Sword’s Cavalry & Armored effectiveness). @Ice Dragon That’s true, it is a bit restrictive... though you could run a healer to possibly free up Lyon’s B Slot if you wanted.

@Ice Dragon To be honest, I wasn't sure about the Golden Dagger-type requirement for that one. Do you think it would work better if it was active as long as Lyon has 90% HP or more, like refined Seigmund's guaranteed follow-up attack at 90+% HP? @DefyingFates Haha, I used to make that mistake too! @Hilda Wait, how does Legendary Tiki show that? Saber I see, but Tiki's weapon isn't a refinement at all.

@DefyingFates I could see Lyon getting Guard 6 to hopefully protect him from enemy Specials, ATK/DEF or DEF/RES Solo 3 for stats when he’s alone, Distant Spectrum 2 (like Florina’s Lance, but for ranged enemies) to make him better at blocking ranged enemies, or something like “When Special is ready at start of combat, grants DEF/RES +4 during combat and allows unit to counterattack regardless of distance” to give him a Golden Dagger-style refinement that leans toward defending since Lyon is more tilted toward Enemy Phase (though it would probably require sacking a Lewyn and putting him on a team with multiple Infantry Pulses to get the most out of this on Lyon, since he can’t do the Slaying+Shield Pulse+Aegis combo that Saber can and thus probably needs to run Special Spiral+Moonbow/Glimmer to keep it up, with the Infantry Pulses helping get Lyon down to 0 CD before his first combat). Any of those would probably work fairly well for him, I think. @bottlegnomes That’s a good point. Brave Hector was gonna be super good anyway because he’s Hector and IntSys has yet to make a bad version of him, so they might have used Brave Hector as a trial run for how effective Distant Counter+Other Stuff could be. Now I’m interested in whether we’ll get refinements for a DC weapon user or two when 3.0 drops (guessing at least one of Xander, Fjorm and Ike)...

@bottlegnomes So, are those effects meta-destroying/broken/too-good? I would guess not, at least in Brave Hector's case (I would argue Maltet + access to Bold Fighter is what would make him too good if anything does, Ostian Counter is certainly nice but it feels more like a neat bonus on top of those two things than the thing that makes Hector great, he probably wouldn't be too much worse with just regular Distant Counter to be honest), dunno about Saber though since I've never pulled him. Although, the thing about Saber's refinement that interests me the most is that the effect is tied to having his Special ready at the start of combat. Do you think we could see more of that sort of effect on future personal weapons?

I expect to see Harsh Command+, which is like Harsh Command but it also cures Panic, on a 5-Star-exclusive unit sooner or later. Maybe on a Robin alt.

So, I've been pulling for Adrift!M!Corrin to use for Null Follow-Up fodder. And I finally got one... But he's +ATK/-RES, which looks like a good damn Corrin, and also I realized that I don't have anyone who needs Null Follow-Up at the moment (maybe Lewyn, but he's already good with his base kit so that seems less like need than want), so I'm gonna build him up. At least I can save Orbs for the next few days and hope the next New Heroes banner contains nothing of interest for me so I can keep saving for Book III's opening banner.

In theory, Saber can run Golden Dagger [Eff] / Miracle / Fortress DEF/RES 3 / Guard 3 / ATK Smoke 3 / Quickened Pulse, have 3 teammates with Infantry Pulse and higher HP than him (preferably one refresher, one Healer to keep Saber from taking a lethal hit, and either a second refresher or an extra-high-HP unit who can also run Panic Ploy), and just always have Distant Counter & +3 to everything all the time, and have some pretty alright defenses in the meantime (41 DEF & 31 RES, and that's before any buffs you're getting from his teammates). It probably isn't all that great, but I think it's pretty neat. Also, glad to see Florina got a good weapon. Definitely 5-Starring her if I ever pull a +DEF or +RES/-SPD or -HP one now, as I've been meaning to for a while (just gotta get a good one).

Adrift didn't interest me, so I decided to see if my pity rate would break on The Land's Bounty. The first orb contained +SPD/-DEF Mia, which is exactly what I hoped for. Nothing else worth noting on that session, but I'm just glad I got Mia. Means I got both of the units I wanted off of this banner (having gotten lucky with an early Myrrh in October). So happy.

I want, but I doubt. But let's hope. Nobody else could really drop (they don't drop alts, so it's Mikoto or nothing), and I dunno if Mikoto really has anything worth keeping at 5-Star (maybe Infantry Rush?). Well, there's regular Azura, New Year's Azura, and Performing Arts Azura, and now we're getting F!Corrin Azura, M!Corrin Azura, Mikoto Azura, Camilla Azura, and soon Tempest Trial+ Reward Azura. I think that's all of them, unless you count Shigure as half of an Azura, in which case we have one more Azura since we have two Shigures. So in total, either 8 or 9 Azuras, depending on whether you count the Shigures as an Azura or not. Personally, the units interest me. M!Corrin's Null Follow-Up seems like it could be a neat skill, though I dunno who I would use it on myself, Camilla's tome looks like a better version of Loptous (it combat-debuffs all of the stats, doesn't fail against anti-Dragon weapons, and only requires being next to someone, so Camilla can take extra advantage of Bond skills and ally-equipped Spurs), and Mikoto looks like a nice healer (bringing Candlelight+, Brazen ATK/RES and Infantry Rush to the general pool) and I kinda hope she'll fall to 4-Star (with Brazen ATK/RES 3 at 4-Star). F!Corrin also exists. I don't think I'll bother with this banner though, I'm gonna take whatever I get on the free pull and then save up for whatever comes next instead.

Cath? I'd be alright with that, if only because I'm not sure how to make her great, so making her a GHB at least means she just needs to have serviceable stats and good skill fodder. Also, maybe they could throw in POR Sothe as a TT reward or something?

So, just gonna put up some guesses for what we're gonna get out of this FEH Channel: 1) A preview of the new banner. 2) Teasing Beast units in some way. ?) Maybe something about the new weapon refinements? 3) Book III cinematic intro thing, like they did with Book II. Do you think they'll remember Anna exists for this one, or just match the Summoner up against someone again? 4) People being disappointed.

Wow, I'm really looking forward to playing with Pirahna Plant! Also, "I'm really looking forward to playing as Pirahna Plant" is something I never expected to say, ever. Also, how did they end up putting Pirahna Plant of all things into Smash? Ken is alright, and Incineroar I will probably ignore but he could be neat. Mostly excited for Spirits mode, World of Light, eventual DLC characters, and Pirahna Plant out of this direct.

Just got my pity-rate smashed on Brave Redux... By Neutral Ephraim and +DEF/-HP Silas! I'd complain about Silas being -HP, but the weapon refinery will fix that. I'm so happy, I finally have regular Ephraim! Not sure what I'll do with him, but hey, he finally came home.

Kirby, for obvious reasons. Though after that I'll probably try out Link because he's changed the most out of all the original 8 and will probably be involved in the unlock requirements for at least one of Zelda, Ganondorf and Young Link, all of whom I'm looking forward to playing as.

Admittedly, yeah, Swift Mulagir would probably be a bit difficult for Brave Lyn to take advantage of unless you run Goads/Wards/Drives (which I do, since I run her with my Reinhardt and his Goad Cavalry and their S Support), but the ATK/SPD bonus could be pretty good for her when you got it (the boost puts Brave Lyn at 49/52/55 ATK and 37/40/43 SPD before skills, and with her default skills that becomes 53/56/59 ATK and 41/44/47 SPD thanks to Swift Sparrow), and the RES bonus would be just enough to maybe let =RES or +RES Brave Lyn run a Ploy skill if you want (31 or 34 RES with Swift Mulagir, so as long as she isn't -RES you could run SPD Ploy Sacred Seal to maybe double more often, or DEF Ploy if you just wanna hit harder), so it might be a worthwhile choice for her (not sure it'd beat Brave or Firesweep, but if you never pull Faye and/or never pull/don't wanna kill your Klein/Gordin then it could be a nice alternative). And I agree on Hector probably just running Berserk Armads (it's the entire reason why Love Abounds Hector is the only Hector I still have), and I mostly included Thunder Armads because it's one of the Legendary weapons that haven't been given to the original unit yet, though Thunder Armads still has a neat effect and should make Hector a slightly superior tank against physical enemies compared to Legendary Hector (L!Hector has 1 more DEF, but regular Hector has 5 more HP so he probably wins in terms of tanking physical foes, if nothing else). I'm guessing we'll be getting Book III in December, so it will have been over a month since Legendary Eirika happened. If we were to get it next month though, then yeah, drop Eirika (and maybe the Tikis) from that list (but hopefully give her Storm Seiglinde at some point).

Right now, my entire hope for this banner is that it means that Eirika, Hector (Thunder Armads), Brave Lyn (Swift Mulagir), Marth (Exalted Falchion) and maybe the general-pool-summonable Tikis (Divine Mist) get their Legendary versions' weapons via refinery update to start Book III. Pulling Eirika would be neat, but I'm not gonna bother with this banner since Flying Nino isn't on it and I need the Orbs to fail at getting Loki/Kliff on their banner right now. Still, she looks neat, so hopefully I'll get her on one of her reruns. Just gonna pull the free pull, hopefully a Red, probably get a Raigh or someone else who will disappoint me (or regular Eirika, who would disappoint, but only because she wouldn't be the legendary version), and go back to trying for Loki/Kliff.