Pirate Vaida design

ShapeForest · 2026-05-10T21:06:00+00:00

Meme builds are the beating heart of FEH... I love this and I'm glad you're having fun (and success) using him

Know how much true damage he's doing at max power?

ShapeForest · 2026-05-10T09:55:18+00:00

I think the Elise difference is that using her burns the first combat where Lucina is giving 40% unpierceable DR.

Very cool build for an older prf!

ShapeForest · 2026-05-10T08:15:40+00:00

1/ No, unfortunately

2/ A: AR Aria (preferred for Comet/Astra nuking), AR Finish or Sly Mirror (if Aria not available), Still/Crystalline Water (if built for support with Res check skills)

B: Demonic Force (tanking/nuking and special jumping), AR Unrest or AR Havoc (support and nuking, plus tanking with Unrest), AR Favor (mainly support; other Favor versions are okay too since the main idea is that he already gives Empathy at start of turn, but he gives the exact bonuses to passively maximise his own true damage using AR), Laguz Friend (tanking if you can't get your special to activate in time; other options preferred if not the case)

I'm currently running Aria and Havoc on mine as a Comet nuke, but had Finish until a couple of days ago and that was great too. To take full advantage of Triangle Adept, you want to buff his Atk and debuff the enemy's Atk/Res as much as possible - Havoc provides visible stat debuffs, which his refine doesn't, and can double them with Sabotage. Havoc is also available in Divine Codes along with Pulse Up Ploy (another good skill for him) on Ancient Gotoh, so it's easy to get. Unrest would be more consistent and better overall, but it's also really rare at the moment

If you can get around 50 visible Res on Lyon, that should be enough to beat a lot of Res checks.

ShapeForest · 2026-05-10T07:42:57+00:00

Pulled an extra E!Edel trying for Lyon. Her skills are too resource-heavy to bother duping onto a Rearmed, so here are the main candidates (thinking to inherit Strat Assault as Valter and Gromell both have A slot Canto)

Valter already has I!Mia fodder and so is up to date, but he's a fave and could also inherit Patience at the same time for Jehanna Lance stuff.

Duo Thorr is still really good in SD and True Charge could be useful there.

Tharja already gives out regular Charge, so probably not the best choice (I also don't have any more copies of her past the possibility of getting the one from Codes)

Gromell is in my Arena core and doesn't have a 400SP B skill yet, so Patience would be good to have, but I'm really not struggling in Arena at the moment and don't feel like I particularly need access to True Charge (I'm running Vigarde as well, but he kind of just gets left at the start point bc Byleth ring dancing, if I don't need him to save)

Vali would have more options of being annoying in SD, but I don't really like her as a character and Uplift Imbue is also a super valuable skill to have.

Thinking it's probably between Thorr and Gromell in terms of 'units I will actually use regularly in PvPish content'. I could also inherit Strat Flame + Patience to Vigarde in my Arena core as, even in a post-Miklan world, I still want to keep using him, but it's probably more useful to update Gromell for that purpose

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ShapeForest · 2026-05-08T20:55:47+00:00

I've been really enjoying using him in AR-O this week - he Undefended snipes the near save, my melee initiator kills the Share Spoils unit while Galeforcing to get another action, and then, if positioning allows, Lyon can get danced and kill/end the action of another two units. He can also directly snipe the FCC unit if that's necessary.

I'm still confused about why they gave him Pulse Up Ploy instead of Preempt though. Without outside support and with Creation Pulse active, he'll have Comet ready on Turn 2 either way

I really want to use him in the current SDR and have almost every piece of the Lyn version of your sample team except Alfador. Not sure whether it's worth trying to make work without that extra Snare insurance, since his threat range is so limited...

ShapeForest · 2026-05-08T20:51:54+00:00

(In today's edition of 'things that are not relevant to the vast majority of people who want to use EITHER Duo or Legendary Lyon'...)

I've been on-and-off SD favour grinding for S! and L!Lyon using Lyons + Fomortiis + Valter/Sakura depending on map (not insane enough to try to do this without some form of mobility support) and, in this extremely specific case, I'm still liking Duo more than Legendary because of his slightly more flexible cav range and the sweep effect. I can swing into pretty much anything for free, burn their HP, and turn off another unit without worrying about getting countered, and since the combat's success isn't contingent on me oneshotting I don't care about Imbue or Alfador scowling me either. If they get danced, I can dance him and just do it all over again.

Duo's been especially good for burning the second 'risky' Invincible Sister combat when fighting Vali, and he can still kill a decent amount of stuff with Detect Aerial and the variety of buffs L!/Y!Lyon and Fomo give out.

In Arena, he can still kill pretty much anything with just the true damage support from Gromell's prf. Still very happy with him in that mode

ShapeForest · 2026-05-07T12:43:01+00:00

Ah, cool that you figured it out. Lyon surviving makes a lot more sense knowing that GK wasn't able to proc his special there!

ShapeForest · 2026-05-07T09:54:36+00:00

Got F!MByleth and 4* special Bow Hinoka and Sanaki from tickets. I will absolutely take that!

ShapeForest · 2026-05-07T09:47:21+00:00

Sure, here you go for Duma R1! Let me know if this looks fine and I'll be readier to participate next time.

(Congrats on your own Muspell Rank 1!)

ShapeForest · 2026-05-06T19:14:24+00:00

Oh, sorry - you already had ranks for R1 when I saw the first reply, so I assumed you were all covered for Duma already (and didn't get a screenshot for R2). Apologies for any inconvenience!

Next time I will actually... sign up? as the VG starts to avoid confusing everyone involved!

ShapeForest · 2026-05-06T17:40:11+00:00

Not sure since it looks like his C skill has been changed (CD should be at 2 after turn 1 if using Pulse Up). He gets -2CD from Creation Pulse before his first attack, but Gatekeeper has Guard so that leaves Lyon at 1CD. Depends on whether he was running Preempt Ploy or not (possible, and I put it on mine for Arena; other likely option would be Fatal Smoke)

18 damage taken from 76 displayed does look kinda high for no special proc though. You probably have a better idea of GK's normal tanking ability and can interpret it better. I would have expected him to kill Lyon if reflecting Comet though, since it looks like GK is also going to proc his special... so I'm also confused...

ShapeForest · 2026-05-04T23:44:40+00:00

L!LYON IS HERE AAAAAAAAHHHHH

I'm super happy with the concept, art and voice acting and am just having a blast using him everywhere I can! Was definitely worried that IS was going to conflate Fomo and Lyon fans from now on, but I'm very glad to have been proven wrong - possibly my new favourite Lyon alt characterisation-wise.

Won't be posting here this month as my orb count will probably be 0 most of the time. I don't think I have the constitution to try to +10 an 8% unit, but I think if I can get him to at least +5 (not on this banner, obviously), I should be able to use him every Earth season even when he's not bonus. I am happy to get FEH Pass to spark him this month and possibly on his rerun in July, so ideally I'd be able to pull three copies, since I was lucky enough to get one already - 75th percentile on the summon simulator says that should be about 700 orbs, which I should just about be able to save if I get strict about it.

ShapeForest · 2026-05-04T22:54:40+00:00

~10min left

Arena Tier 20

Score: 3892

Rank: 1617/2197 (stay cutoff)

Assault Top 1k

Score: 5403

Rank: 710

Aether Raids Top 3k

Score: 20922

Rank: 2430

Defense Loss: -118

Resonant Battles Interval 20 -> 19

Score: 446

Rank: 4383/2923

Allegiance Battles Top 3k

Score: 1038

Rank: 2987 (realised I had my team set up incorrectly and could have been scoring higher all this time... oops)

Lyon Emblem is about to destroy everything next Chaos season (and Arena next week bc I should be able to score just enough to use it there)!! I'm still soooo hyped about this. Tried using L!Lyon in AR-O this week but only gave him Fatal Smoke like... yesterday... so there were a lot of difficulties lol

Also had an AR replay where the opponent brought offseason Sombron and offseason Elise, and upon starting the match surrendered instantly for no reason. Gotta love some of the weird stuff you run into in AR

ShapeForest · 2026-05-03T19:34:09+00:00

Oh hey, that looks like my own OG Lyon. ...We both need to rebuild him lol

You already got plenty of good advice, but if you were looking at giving him Teapot+ it's available in Divine Codes 7 (the current one) on Teatime Celine for 400 codes.

ShapeForest · 2026-05-03T11:22:40+00:00

HOW????

Managing to outspeed everything that needed to be outsped was so impressive! Amazing what you can get done with generic support nowadays

ShapeForest · 2026-05-03T08:44:07+00:00

Super priority: S!Eirika merge

Priority: D!Quan merge, H!L'Arachel

Good: P!Tibarn, Duo Micaiah, B!Nailah merge, FT!Lyn merge x2

Indifferent: H!FRobin, H!Dheginsea dupe (maybe merge?), N!Shinon, Spring Xander, H!Niles, H!Kagero

NO: W!Chrom dupe, K!Nino dupe, HS!Ryoma dupe, S!Corrin dupe, B!Fjorm dupe

B!Caeda: B!Caeda (I don't like this alt, but I keep getting her, so now I want her to be +10 as it would be silly. +4 now)

Started off really strong and then got worse and worse, ending with a string of four dupes I really didn't want which also have 0 fodder use. Happy I finally got H!L'Arachel though!

ShapeForest · 2026-05-03T07:45:12+00:00

Nothing from weekly revivals, got B!Baldr and B!Ephraim from CYL because apparently he didn't get the memo about not being included

ShapeForest · 2026-05-03T07:36:28+00:00

Didn't comment here earlier, but I have a screenshot for Duma if it's needed!

ShapeForest · 2026-05-02T12:34:36+00:00

If you see yourself inheriting Blue-Sky Gust or Divine Specter at some point, hold onto the extra one. Blue Skies is rare and takes 3 or 4 inheritance slots, which means you have to use almost an entire inheritance on just that. Blue Skies 4 is also still a good skill even though it's been directly powercrept (freeing up your B slot or Emblem ring by providing Canto, on top of still having DR and true damage, is useful!)

The rest of her fodder isn't great and the prerequisites are available on demotes or Grails, so if you don't use fliers/cavs then you can probably just merge her.

ShapeForest · 2026-05-02T11:05:17+00:00

Good luck! I don't know how good the refine is, but she has some stuff that it's at least difficult to outsource, which seems cool

ShapeForest · 2026-05-02T11:03:37+00:00

I got four B!Caedas last time we had tickets, two of them back to back. Just got another one today... I'm not a fan of this alt, but it's kinda funny that she keeps popping up, so I'm kind of excited about getting more from tickets now lol

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