Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
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I did do one Hector merge today as I managed to pull a +ATK/-SPD one and that is his best IV. I figured one merge would not hurt (and in my case the other Hector had earned 9999 SP via that one tempest trial he was in, so he had a bazillion inherited skills. I was down to 6k and managed to spend it all before the merge :P He is now ready for anything ).
Was fun leveling him back up to 40 in the training map where he smoked all the armors, even the red ones :P
I also promoted Donnell. He got lucky he's a TT bonus hero - helped him jump the line. Need to get him up to 40 so I can use him on my autobattle team.
Woot! My current Hector is +hp/-atk, so I think I keep the new one, and use the other for distant counter fodder (probably on Myrrh?). Ugh, its gonna be kinda painful to give up all the SP/Inherited skills on my old Hector though.
If you invested anything heavy in him, you may just want to go for the merge rather than DC fodder.
I run Myrrh and I find I can live just fine without DC, especially since she's not tanking one of the most common types of ranged units - bows - anyways. Granted, I run her alongside two other dragons with Lightning Breath, so you may or may not be totally reliant on her as an all-purpose tank.
She can't run Steady or Warding Breath, either, which is part of the reason I was content not to just build her like an uber-enemy phase unit as one would with other dragons.
Mine tanks bow guys all day long... She's got Iote's Shield.
Woot! My current Hector is +hp/-atk, so I think I keep the new one, and use the other for distant counter fodder (probably on Myrrh?). Ugh, its gonna be kinda painful to give up all the SP/Inherited skills on my old Hector though.
If you invested anything heavy in him, you may just want to go for the merge rather than DC fodder.
I run Myrrh and I find I can live just fine without DC, especially since she's not tanking one of the most common types of ranged units - bows - anyways. Granted, I run her alongside two other dragons with Lightning Breath, so you may or may not be totally reliant on her as an all-purpose tank.
She can't run Steady or Warding Breath, either, which is part of the reason I was content not to just build her like an uber-enemy phase unit as one would with other dragons.
Mine tanks bow guys all day long... She's got Iote's Shield.
At the cost of a seal, which could go to something insanely and more universally valuable like Quick Riposte or a Close / Distant Defense.
Obviously depends on what her role is for your squad, I think Iote's is a very legit option.
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Woot! My current Hector is +hp/-atk, so I think I keep the new one, and use the other for distant counter fodder (probably on Myrrh?). Ugh, its gonna be kinda painful to give up all the SP/Inherited skills on my old Hector though.
If you invested anything heavy in him, you may just want to go for the merge rather than DC fodder.
I run Myrrh and I find I can live just fine without DC, especially since she's not tanking one of the most common types of ranged units - bows - anyways. Granted, I run her alongside two other dragons with Lightning Breath, so you may or may not be totally reliant on her as an all-purpose tank.
She can't run Steady or Warding Breath, either, which is part of the reason I was content not to just build her like an uber-enemy phase unit as one would with other dragons.
Mine tanks bow guys all day long... She's got Iote's Shield.
At the cost of a seal, which could go to something insanely and more universally valuable like Quick Riposte or a Close / Distant Defense.
Obviously depends on what her role is for your squad, I think Iote's is a very legit option.
Yeah but Iote's Shield seal Myrrh is fun She's pretty OP anyways so she doesn't necessarily *need* a seal (not that she wouldn't benefit from like, Heavy Blade 3 or something...)
I do think Myrrh is probably considered the best DC recipient right now though. Her weapon practically begs for it. I believe refined Dark Breath+ is also a good candidate (I love my DC F. Corrin).
Yeah, I think I have an overinflated view of how much time I put into my first Hector since it was in the time before the warrior/easier sp maps were available. He just has his innate stuff, plus relatively pretty easy to inherit stuff like Vantage 3, swap, and ward armor.
I was thinking of using Myrrh in my dragon team with guidance to help my dragons move around, or in my flier team as a tank with Iote's shield.
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Yeah, I think I have an overinflated view of how much time I put into my first Hector since it was in the time before the warrior/easier sp maps were available. He just has his innate stuff, plus relatively pretty easy to inherit stuff like Vantage 3, swap, and ward armor.
I was thinking of using Myrrh in my dragon team with guidance to help my dragons move around, or in my flier team as a tank with Iote's shield.
Oh yeah, Guidance is also a great seal for her on dragon teams, forgot about that one.
Woot! My current Hector is +hp/-atk, so I think I keep the new one, and use the other for distant counter fodder (probably on Myrrh?). Ugh, its gonna be kinda painful to give up all the SP/Inherited skills on my old Hector though.
If you invested anything heavy in him, you may just want to go for the merge rather than DC fodder.
I run Myrrh and I find I can live just fine without DC, especially since she's not tanking one of the most common types of ranged units - bows - anyways. Granted, I run her alongside two other dragons with Lightning Breath, so you may or may not be totally reliant on her as an all-purpose tank.
She can't run Steady or Warding Breath, either, which is part of the reason I was content not to just build her like an uber-enemy phase unit as one would with other dragons.
Mine tanks bow guys all day long... She's got Iote's Shield.
At the cost of a seal, which could go to something insanely and more universally valuable like Quick Riposte or a Close / Distant Defense.
Obviously depends on what her role is for your squad, I think Iote's is a very legit option.
Yeah but Iote's Shield seal Myrrh is fun She's pretty OP anyways so she doesn't necessarily *need* a seal (not that she wouldn't benefit from like, Heavy Blade 3 or something...)
I do think Myrrh is probably considered the best DC recipient right now though. Her weapon practically begs for it. I believe refined Dark Breath+ is also a good candidate (I love my DC F. Corrin).
I personally think armored units without a built-in DC weapon are better candidates. They have the stats to make the most of it - though Myrrh has dumbass crept stats, to be sure - and just by virtue of being armored units they tend towards enemy phase builds, whereas Myrrh has the mobility to not be pigeonholed into enemy phase. Her mixed bulk being so good is definitely a point in her favor here, though.
I've not decided what to do with the Hector that I pulled today, but I'm kind of leaning towards maybe seriously investing in Michalis. I've read that he can be built up to be quite frightening ever since the QR seal came out.
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I've not decided what to do with the Hector that I pulled today, but I'm kind of leaning towards maybe seriously investing in Michalis. I've read that he can be built up to be quite frightening ever since the QR seal came out.
Michalis' Res is borderline unsalvageable, I wouldn't burn a DC on him because he's still going to be scared of magic users. Plus the obvious strike against him as being impossible to fully merge right now.
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Woot! My current Hector is +hp/-atk, so I think I keep the new one, and use the other for distant counter fodder (probably on Myrrh?). Ugh, its gonna be kinda painful to give up all the SP/Inherited skills on my old Hector though.
If you invested anything heavy in him, you may just want to go for the merge rather than DC fodder.
I run Myrrh and I find I can live just fine without DC, especially since she's not tanking one of the most common types of ranged units - bows - anyways. Granted, I run her alongside two other dragons with Lightning Breath, so you may or may not be totally reliant on her as an all-purpose tank.
She can't run Steady or Warding Breath, either, which is part of the reason I was content not to just build her like an uber-enemy phase unit as one would with other dragons.
Mine tanks bow guys all day long... She's got Iote's Shield.
At the cost of a seal, which could go to something insanely and more universally valuable like Quick Riposte or a Close / Distant Defense.
Obviously depends on what her role is for your squad, I think Iote's is a very legit option.
Yeah but Iote's Shield seal Myrrh is fun She's pretty OP anyways so she doesn't necessarily *need* a seal (not that she wouldn't benefit from like, Heavy Blade 3 or something...)
I do think Myrrh is probably considered the best DC recipient right now though. Her weapon practically begs for it. I believe refined Dark Breath+ is also a good candidate (I love my DC F. Corrin).
I personally think armored units without a built-in DC weapon are better candidates. They have the stats to make the most of it - though Myrrh has dumbass crept stats, to be sure - and just by virtue of being armored units they tend towards enemy phase builds, whereas Myrrh has the mobility to not be pigeonholed into enemy phase. Her mixed bulk being so good is definitely a point in her favor here, though.
Well the main thing with Myrrh is that she's pretty much got the statline of an armor unit with the mobility of a flier. On top of this, her weapon calculates damage based on the lowest of DEF or RES if attacked by a ranged foe, which is amazing (especially since most mages have terrible defense) but only something that's going to actually be relevant if she has Distant Counter.
It's quite good on armors too, but honestly a lot of them already have it. Both Hectors, both Black Knights, Hardin, Grima Robin, technically all the ranged ones :P So you have some options there already unless you want to use specific heroes. I do know I put it on my Effie and she's awesome now.
I've not decided what to do with the Hector that I pulled today, but I'm kind of leaning towards maybe seriously investing in Michalis. I've read that he can be built up to be quite frightening ever since the QR seal came out.
Michalis' Res is borderline unsalvageable, I wouldn't burn a DC on him because he's still going to be scared of magic users. Plus the obvious strike against him as being impossible to fully merge right now.
This is a good point. On top of which, he loses out on Iote's Shield which is what makes him good against archers. Unless you give him the seal anyways. But that feels really weird :P I will say, one I see ALL the time in T20 arena is DC Camilla. Her mixed bulk helps her use it pretty well weirdly enough (and being available at 4* makes her easy to +10). She'd be more scary if I didn't have an easy time dealing with greens thanks to my OP Olivia :P
This is all great, but it still doesn't answer what to do with a Close Counter. I already have W!Tharja so I don't really need to give it to an armor.
This I'm not sure of. The only thing I've heard is that Halloween Henry and Valentine's Lyn are good recipients of it. TBH, I'd totally give one to my Robin if it didn't mean he'd lose his TA3 which is kind of an important skill for his kit... (plz TA seal IS?)
This just in: Grima with fierce stance and Lunatic 7 stats is indeed a beast.
This TT seems a bit rough so far, but I don't have a 5 star Gerome yet. Need to fine tune my team more. If my first team wipes on the last level, at least I can bring in refined Alm to wipe that smirk off Grima's face.
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This just in: Grima with fierce stance and Lunatic 7 stats is indeed a beast.
This TT seems a bit rough so far, but I don't have a 5 star Gerome yet. Need to fine tune my team more. If my first team wipes on the last level, at least I can bring in refined Alm to wipe that smirk off Grima's face.
It doesn't help that the other units on the map like to buff him, too.
That said, my 4*+10 Olivia with upgraded WoDao+ and TA2 (and bonus stats) just laughed at him.
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This just in: Grima with fierce stance and Lunatic 7 stats is indeed a beast.
This TT seems a bit rough so far, but I don't have a 5 star Gerome yet. Need to fine tune my team more. If my first team wipes on the last level, at least I can bring in refined Alm to wipe that smirk off Grima's face.
Apparently I've found if you have an Exalt Chrom, even at 1 hp, he will beat a full HP Grima :P (at least in player phase) Don't ask me how my auto battlers got into this situation.
P.S. - Female Robin is the absolute best in this TT. Soooooo many archers for her to smack down. I wish I could replace Morgan with Donnell on my main team, but then I don't have a 40% hero Morgan is my weak link right now (that said, Guidance seal on her is pretty handy. Oddly enough, the autobattle AI uses it incredibly well too)
That said, my 4*+10 Olivia with upgraded WoDao+ and TA2 (and bonus stats) just laughed at him.
Same, but 5*+10 Olivia with Wo Dao+, Fury 3 and Wrath 3
Edit 2: Oh, and I realized last night I am super dumb. I was saving up 20k feathers to make sure I could promote Gerome. Umm... TT just gives you a 5* version -_- WELL THEN, guess someone else is getting promoted... I will say, feels like they're giving the 4* version away much earlier than other TTs though. I got him after my first run. Thought he was usually at like 10,000 or something?
I'm really looking forward to getting this DEF Tactic seal from the TT. Especially since my default "I don't want to think about this" team is Nephenee/BLyn/Elincia/Airzura. And my backup team is VLyn/Tharja/X/X.
F!Morgan's def is so low that I might pull her off the auto-battle team. She's a total liability in the CPUs hands.
Edit: Unrelated note, I love Gerome's design. The brighter color palette compared to FE:A really works for him.
Yeah, CPU loves to make your heroes face tank things (most especially things that have a color advantage over you). Luckily F. Robin can take it with her great defense. F. Morgan on the other hand... But yeah, if I take her off for Donnell, I have to take Olivia off for Chrom probably.
Edit: Hmm, a thought occurs. The villain of this Tempest Trial is literally the reason Masked Lucina exists. I am a bit curious what happens with the end story of this one...
Hmm, a thought occurs. The villain of this Tempest Trial is literally the reason Masked Lucina exists. I am a bit curious what happens with the end story of this one...
Team Grima's Blasting off again!
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I haven't ventured to the top difficulty, but I'm using dragon emblem + M!Morgan
This is mine right now. It's pretty much just my main bonus rounds team but with Genny replaced by a weaponless healer (it's easier to swap units than take off and on skills IMO :P And Clarine both has good bulk to take hits and is a horse unit for movement range)
I haven't found a team capable of autobattling yet, but I've been at work all day.
F!Morgan is out, and while I like Gerome he's just a weaker Cherche (especially mine). Chrom is cavalry, which means he tends to run ahead of the group if left to the CPU and get blown up. And I don't have M!Morgan.
Olivia being a bonus unit, I swapped out Sakura for her, but I think healers are more useful than dancers in TT, especially seeing as how Olivia normally just ends up flinging Chrom even further into fucktown.
Given how strong my Cherche is, I may end up going Cherche/Chrom/Donnel/Sakura. Even if Chrom gets blown up Cherche wins pretty much every green matchup anyway.
Edit: Actually, with Sakura being capped for HM I ought to train up another healer.
I'm fine with bringing in a clean up squad if the Morgan team fails. It doesn't affect the score too much for Lunatic 5 if the first team wipes and I'm already throwing tons of stamina potions at it anyways.
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I haven't ventured to the top difficulty, but I'm using dragon emblem + M!Morgan
Horse Chrom, Cherche, Clarine, and my maxed TikiA! purely to brute-force everything and minimize the amount of potential bad luck failures. I run Lunatic 5, it goes all the way about 90% of the time, and I try to have at least 3 heroes in my auto squads that aren't already maxed on Hero Merit so I'm pretty pleased with this one.
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I haven't found a team capable of autobattling yet, but I've been at work all day.
F!Morgan is out, and while I like Gerome he's just a weaker Cherche (especially mine). Chrom is cavalry, which means he tends to run ahead of the group if left to the CPU and get blown up. And I don't have M!Morgan.
Olivia being a bonus unit, I swapped out Sakura for her, but I think healers are more useful than dancers in TT, especially seeing as how Olivia normally just ends up flinging Chrom even further into fucktown.
Given how strong my Cherche is, I may end up going Cherche/Chrom/Donnel/Sakura. Even if Chrom gets blown up Cherche wins pretty much every green matchup anyway.
Edit: Actually, with Sakura being capped for HM I ought to train up another healer.
Yeah that's probably a good team. It's a shame all the 40% heroes are not the best for autobattles
I haven't found a team capable of autobattling yet, but I've been at work all day.
F!Morgan is out, and while I like Gerome he's just a weaker Cherche (especially mine). Chrom is cavalry, which means he tends to run ahead of the group if left to the CPU and get blown up. And I don't have M!Morgan.
Olivia being a bonus unit, I swapped out Sakura for her, but I think healers are more useful than dancers in TT, especially seeing as how Olivia normally just ends up flinging Chrom even further into fucktown.
Given how strong my Cherche is, I may end up going Cherche/Chrom/Donnel/Sakura. Even if Chrom gets blown up Cherche wins pretty much every green matchup anyway.
Edit: Actually, with Sakura being capped for HM I ought to train up another healer.
Yeah that's probably a good team. It's a shame all the 40% heroes are not the best for autobattles
Chrom has Aether and can most definitely be a good unit in autobattles.
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edited March 2018
Honestly obstruct seal is probably going to be great. Not for arena, but like, GHBs and such I'm sure you'll be able to pull some amazing stuff off with it. The only real problem with Obstruct was that it was a B skill, which meant you were missing out on waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better skills like QR, Renewal, Desperation, Vantage, etc. But as a seal, there's a lot more room for a skill like that.
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Stuff like Obstruct and Pass were always good choices for Seals, since they're skills you don't want clogging up your B slot, but you might find room for them in your extra slot. I don't know what took them so long.
I'm not too sure about my Tempest Trials team. Spring Camilla, New Year's Camilla, Hinoka, and Cherche. 3/4 of them are less than 1000 points away from max HM, at least. I'm weirdly excited for Caeda, since armored units are a nightmare, especially Grima, who I cannot defeat without sacrificing someone. I do wish I hadn't spent my Divine Dew on Hinoka of all people...
Honestly obstruct seal is probably going to be great. Not for arena, but like, GHBs and such I'm sure you'll be able to pull some amazing stuff off with it. The only real problem with Obstruct was that it was a B skill, which meant you were missing out on waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better skills like QR, Renewal, Desperation, Vantage, etc. But as a seal, there's a lot more room for a skill like that.
yea, exactly the seal allows you to combine it with even better skills. super tanky vantage bonfire etc.
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There, Gerome get and leveled to 40. I don't know what compelled me but I gave him Distant Counter. I probably shouldn't have, but he has it now :P So ok
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Was fun leveling him back up to 40 in the training map where he smoked all the armors, even the red ones :P
I also promoted Donnell. He got lucky he's a TT bonus hero - helped him jump the line. Need to get him up to 40 so I can use him on my autobattle team.
Mine tanks bow guys all day long... She's got Iote's Shield.
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At the cost of a seal, which could go to something insanely and more universally valuable like Quick Riposte or a Close / Distant Defense.
Obviously depends on what her role is for your squad, I think Iote's is a very legit option.
Yeah but Iote's Shield seal Myrrh is fun
I do think Myrrh is probably considered the best DC recipient right now though. Her weapon practically begs for it. I believe refined Dark Breath+ is also a good candidate (I love my DC F. Corrin).
I was thinking of using Myrrh in my dragon team with guidance to help my dragons move around, or in my flier team as a tank with Iote's shield.
Oh yeah, Guidance is also a great seal for her on dragon teams, forgot about that one.
I personally think armored units without a built-in DC weapon are better candidates. They have the stats to make the most of it - though Myrrh has dumbass crept stats, to be sure - and just by virtue of being armored units they tend towards enemy phase builds, whereas Myrrh has the mobility to not be pigeonholed into enemy phase. Her mixed bulk being so good is definitely a point in her favor here, though.
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Michalis' Res is borderline unsalvageable, I wouldn't burn a DC on him because he's still going to be scared of magic users. Plus the obvious strike against him as being impossible to fully merge right now.
Well the main thing with Myrrh is that she's pretty much got the statline of an armor unit with the mobility of a flier. On top of this, her weapon calculates damage based on the lowest of DEF or RES if attacked by a ranged foe, which is amazing (especially since most mages have terrible defense) but only something that's going to actually be relevant if she has Distant Counter.
It's quite good on armors too, but honestly a lot of them already have it. Both Hectors, both Black Knights, Hardin, Grima Robin, technically all the ranged ones :P So you have some options there already unless you want to use specific heroes. I do know I put it on my Effie and she's awesome now.
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This is a good point. On top of which, he loses out on Iote's Shield which is what makes him good against archers. Unless you give him the seal anyways. But that feels really weird :P I will say, one I see ALL the time in T20 arena is DC Camilla. Her mixed bulk helps her use it pretty well weirdly enough (and being available at 4* makes her easy to +10). She'd be more scary if I didn't have an easy time dealing with greens thanks to my OP Olivia :P
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This I'm not sure of. The only thing I've heard is that Halloween Henry and Valentine's Lyn are good recipients of it. TBH, I'd totally give one to my Robin if it didn't mean he'd lose his TA3 which is kind of an important skill for his kit... (plz TA seal IS?)
Ah this makes way more sense. He turns into a super tank. His DEF is certainly good enough to run something like that.
Edit: There, another 4* promoted and leveled, just in time for Tempest Trials:
This TT seems a bit rough so far, but I don't have a 5 star Gerome yet. Need to fine tune my team more. If my first team wipes on the last level, at least I can bring in refined Alm to wipe that smirk off Grima's face.
It doesn't help that the other units on the map like to buff him, too.
That said, my 4*+10 Olivia with upgraded WoDao+ and TA2 (and bonus stats) just laughed at him.
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Apparently I've found if you have an Exalt Chrom, even at 1 hp, he will beat a full HP Grima :P (at least in player phase) Don't ask me how my auto battlers got into this situation.
P.S. - Female Robin is the absolute best in this TT. Soooooo many archers for her to smack down. I wish I could replace Morgan with Donnell on my main team, but then I don't have a 40% hero
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Same, but 5*+10 Olivia with Wo Dao+, Fury 3 and Wrath 3
Edit 2: Oh, and I realized last night I am super dumb. I was saving up 20k feathers to make sure I could promote Gerome. Umm... TT just gives you a 5* version -_- WELL THEN, guess someone else is getting promoted... I will say, feels like they're giving the 4* version away much earlier than other TTs though. I got him after my first run. Thought he was usually at like 10,000 or something?
Edit: Unrelated note, I love Gerome's design. The brighter color palette compared to FE:A really works for him.
Better Morgan?
Edit: Swapping in LIke and his DEF Tactics into the lineup helped the AI power through.
Currently using Like, FMorgan, Cherche, and Olivia.
Boy Morgan. They're both bad though.
Yeah, CPU loves to make your heroes face tank things (most especially things that have a color advantage over you). Luckily F. Robin can take it with her great defense. F. Morgan on the other hand... But yeah, if I take her off for Donnell, I have to take Olivia off for Chrom probably.
Edit: Hmm, a thought occurs. The villain of this Tempest Trial is literally the reason Masked Lucina exists. I am a bit curious what happens with the end story of this one...
I haven't ventured to the top difficulty, but I'm using dragon emblem + M!Morgan
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Steam: Thera
Team Grima's Blasting off again!
This is mine right now. It's pretty much just my main bonus rounds team but with Genny replaced by a weaponless healer (it's easier to swap units than take off and on skills IMO :P And Clarine both has good bulk to take hits and is a horse unit for movement range)
You could always just use olivia's 20% bonus to grind SP
F!Morgan is out, and while I like Gerome he's just a weaker Cherche (especially mine). Chrom is cavalry, which means he tends to run ahead of the group if left to the CPU and get blown up. And I don't have M!Morgan.
Olivia being a bonus unit, I swapped out Sakura for her, but I think healers are more useful than dancers in TT, especially seeing as how Olivia normally just ends up flinging Chrom even further into fucktown.
Given how strong my Cherche is, I may end up going Cherche/Chrom/Donnel/Sakura. Even if Chrom gets blown up Cherche wins pretty much every green matchup anyway.
Edit: Actually, with Sakura being capped for HM I ought to train up another healer.
Horse Chrom, Cherche, Clarine, and my maxed TikiA! purely to brute-force everything and minimize the amount of potential bad luck failures. I run Lunatic 5, it goes all the way about 90% of the time, and I try to have at least 3 heroes in my auto squads that aren't already maxed on Hero Merit so I'm pretty pleased with this one.
Yeah that's probably a good team. It's a shame all the 40% heroes are not the best for autobattles
Chrom has Aether and can most definitely be a good unit in autobattles.
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I'm not too sure about my Tempest Trials team. Spring Camilla, New Year's Camilla, Hinoka, and Cherche. 3/4 of them are less than 1000 points away from max HM, at least. I'm weirdly excited for Caeda, since armored units are a nightmare, especially Grima, who I cannot defeat without sacrificing someone. I do wish I hadn't spent my Divine Dew on Hinoka of all people...
yea, exactly the seal allows you to combine it with even better skills. super tanky vantage bonfire etc.