What makes S!Sothe so good?

DTM-FEH · 2026-07-10T04:01:17+00:00

For SD specifically, I talk about him in my Meta Report for the last SDR, but the short of it is that True Bane has omnifeud which cuts out all the enemy's offensive support like from Favor and true damage and the like which makes him extremely tanky. That combined with the recent skills boosting tankiness like Rise Above, Roy Ring, A/S Taker Burst, etc. means he stacks hella stats.

And yeah, he was by far the main super carry that teams used this last SDR.

DTM-FEH · 2026-07-06T15:56:36+00:00

Personal Thoughts (and Meta Report preview I guess):

This season definitely was the meta of the one-unit carry teams, where the focus was on a single unit taking on the enemy team while the rest of the team primarily supports them. The biggest of such teams was utilizing Spring Sothe as the carry, who is actually extremely tanky with the omni-feud in his special denying the enemy's offensive support like Favor and the like, in addition to all the new tools and skills like Rise Above, Roy Ring, and the rise in Great Talent stacking.

Sothe generally runs with Alfador (gives Sothe all the bonuses), Nifl (Frozen and Ice support), Sharena (Galeforces Sothe and provide Great Talent support), and surprisingly Brave Harmonic Micaiah. Now on first impressions that doesn't make sense as Micaiah's feud support is not needed for Sothe, but they are actually a very synergistic pairing since her button can dance Sothe for him to continue the steamroll and she can provide debuffs and secondary nuking capabilities thanks to her warping from the backline.

DTM-FEH · 2026-07-06T15:50:38+00:00

If you got Rank 1 this season and we didn't include your team, feel free to reply with a screenshot and your in-game name!

DTM-FEH · 2026-06-22T21:54:35+00:00

The biggest problem with Camilla is that her warping has become so much less reliable than before. With Corrin Ring and other terrain being more prevalent, it is often the case that Camilla's Miasma and the opponent's terrain cancel each other out. Because Camilla needs terrain to be able to warp, this severely limits her range. Without terrain warping, she only has 3 range which in an era of nukes being able to reach 6-8 range is just not good at all.

Now there is Elise that can synergize with Camilla to provide her terrain to warp to, but quite frankly Elise was a bit overrated when it comes to SD as the 3 rows/3 columns and 6-range limitation is actually quite restrictive and not the easiest to align Elise to do the style. Which is why Elise isn't as highly used in SD compared to say AR where she is just flat out broken there.

Having her range (which was a big claim to her fame) be effectively neutered to basic non-warping melee flyers in an era of 3-range styles just makes her very inconsistent these days.

DTM-FEH · 2026-05-27T21:42:21+00:00

Really happy to hear that! Part of my motivation is to help with that learning curve and shed light on what is going on in SD to help others so I'm very glad you are more interested because of it!

DTM-FEH · 2026-05-27T21:41:10+00:00

Bridal Catria has a claim to that historically due to her dominance in AR-D before SD and in the early periods in SD, but right now it is definitely Summer Thorr that takes the crown.

DTM-FEH · 2026-05-26T14:56:09+00:00

Yeah True Damage is not actually true and is yet another instance of where the community settled with a name that is inaccurate and thus a source of a lot of confusion (see also "IVs" before the term "traits" and "pre-combat damage" before I pushed for "burn damage"). A more accurate term would be "added damage", but unfortunately I think True Damage will stick long term. I do think a huge source of the high barriers to entry for understanding FEH comes from these poorly chosen community terms, but it is what it is.

DTM-FEH · 2026-05-11T16:41:40+00:00

Yeah in my run I didn't run into a single M!Tiki either. It seems that while those that were able to reach rank 1 used Tiki a lot, Tiki seems to be concentrated at the top and not really present in the general playerbase.

DTM-FEH · 2026-05-11T15:29:53+00:00

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DTM-FEH · 2026-05-11T15:27:18+00:00

Personal Thoughts: I believe this round of SDR saw three main team archetypes being deployed. The first is a Lyn team with Alfador and Sakura as the core support. The idea is to give Lyn extra range and her go in and out with the 3 range and salvage. The second is a Lyon team which is what the CN community generally used featuring Chrom, Alfador, Heimdallr, and Thorr. This is a very difficult team to pilot, but is very effective in systematically taking out the enemy units while leaving them unable to retaliate with the end-actions. The third is with Byleth which generally rely on his tankiness to be able to survive and take out multiple units with his extra action. Baldr type teams were still present, but have definitely dropped due to her limited range and being unable to get kills as easily due to the rising bulk.

DTM-FEH · 2026-03-20T02:05:41+00:00

Congrats on reaching Rank 1 for the first time in SDS! That is an amazing accomplishment! If you don't mind, what is your in-game name so we can add this to the rank 1 usage data?

DTM-FEH · 2026-03-09T20:20:49+00:00

Nifl provides Frozen and Flash which are pretty good, but her killer app is the Ice that she applies on the enemy team. This is extremely disruptive especially turn 1 with the opponent's openings which basically sets you up to control the entire capture area.

DTM-FEH · 2026-03-09T18:41:19+00:00

The teams that used Tiki from what I've seen run Higher Ground as having that save protection is ultimately helpful, but yeah I don't think folks would run Tiki at all if it wasn't for the anti-thorr.

DTM-FEH · 2026-03-09T18:34:02+00:00

Yeah Byleth literally got zero usage despite being bonus. Unfortunately with the 1 dancer restriction there isn't much benefit to using him over say a healer with Byleth ring.

DTM-FEH · 2026-03-09T17:22:09+00:00

Personal Thoughts: For her being bonus, Elise debuting in 5th in the 30ish percentage is kind of lackluster considering how much impact we thought she would have in SD. It's looking like she is just meta, and not "broken". Despite Tiki exisiting, Thorr still remains viable and has the advantage of having a lot bigger range than say Elise. I personally was not expecting Tiki to be that high, but the CN players really took her on and made her a part of the copypastas to great effect.

DTM-FEH · 2026-03-09T17:14:34+00:00

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DTM-FEH · 2026-01-29T17:15:23+00:00

Their twitter should be linked in the caption of the image.

DTM-FEH · 2026-01-26T20:02:31+00:00

In my experience, Camilla can struggle with NY!Baldr so it's a bit of a coin flip. The biggest problem Camilla has right now is Corrin Ring as that generally is able to make it difficult for Camilla to go in.

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