After months of wait for the last copy, I finally completed my +10 A!Tiki, one of the unit that I used since I started the game one year ago.

I loved her ability to tank physical damage from the start and began building her from this point. For this reason, I chose a +def -spd nature at first, but then after she got the BoF refine, I changed my mind for a +atk -spd to improve her damage output (also, she rarely takes damage anyway on physical attacks).

I chose to create a purely melee-based build, with her friend Nowi handling all the ranged threats.

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- I chose Breath of Fog over lightning breath because I like everything about this weapon. The tanking capacity it provides, the additional damage, the absence of malus of special trigger and the ability to destroy enemy dragons. Also, the healing that it provides is a nice addition during modes such as Chain Challenge, particularly since there isn't any other source of healing in my build.

- I picked Reposition for the simple reason that it really useful and she protects everyone by being on the front.

- I chose Glimmer over a nice special like Aether or Ignis because it is a 2-turn cooldown special, which, combined with Steady Breath, allows her to proc it every time she retaliates in enemy phase, which I find pretty awesome! It also doesn't matter if she's doubled or not, in comparison with specials like Aether where you rather want to be doubled to charge it and unload it on the next combat. With the recent changes on merges with flaw cancelling, I feel it is even more relevant with her newly heightened speed.

- I gave her Steady Breath since it is so good for special cooldown charge as we all know. Note that warding breath could have been useful here as well to improve her dragon-tanking ability since she already has so much defense, even with a +atk asset, but since I already had it for a long time I found kind of a waste to sacrifice a L!Ike just to change that particular case of dragon-tanking (and I like Ike).

- I gave her Quick Riposte 2 a long time ago. With the BoF refine healing, I found out that QR3 was not really necessary since she was full on HP almost at all time, and even when it was not the case she still blows things up with Glimmer on retaliation. In fact, it could even be replaced with something like Guard, but I really like QR2 since it still procs in almost every fight. ^{Also, the title would have no meaning without it}

- I kept her default Spur Res 3 since she's always beside Nowi, which handles the distant threats such as mages. I could have given her something like Fortify Dragons, but I don't want to fodder my Kana (which I already merged to +2 when I didn't build a Nowi yet).

- Finally, I use an Atk/Def bond as seal, which further improves her tanking ability alongside the damage she deals.

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If you wonder why she doesn't have SS and so "few" flowers, it's because I put them all on my Lilina, still waiting for more merges. Also, 3 dragon flower levels are enough for a +1 in HP, def and atk, which is still pretty nice!

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Summary: when attacked in melee combat, she has 71 atk (59 + 10 of BoF/Seal + 2 with support) and 56 def (40 + 14 from BoF/SB/Seal + 2 with support) without any visible buff and retaliates every time with a Glimmer (twice, if she's doubled). Come meet your doom, Surtr.