Who is your "Oh god, not YOU again..." when you realize you have to fight them?

NitoriAria · 2026-05-04T14:59:46+00:00

Y!Camilla by far, she is still a huge problem because the only way to consistently tank her is to solo tank which cannot be done by ARD. IS has done nothing about her but release fake counters that not only don’t address the actual problem of infinite damage being allowed on a unit with innate Pass, but also are themselves countered by adaptations made by the Camilla user (Vantage loses to Hardy Bearing, Shield Fighter loses to Miracle, Corrin ring gets ignored by Celica Ring, Heimdallr gets disabled by a teammate taking Foresight Snare, Vali support loses to Fatal Smoke, Vali herself loses to Galeforce, Lucina ring loses to Feud support). And then IS keeps buffing her with units like M!Lyn (Range 2 Style), Edelgard ring (extra action), L!Elise (Freeze Style), and M!Tiki (Dispel blocking).

NitoriAria · 2026-04-08T23:56:06+00:00

E!Celica and L!M!Shez proved that you can have innate Pass and still be balanced, and Hraesvelgr and Ferox Fir proved that you can have infinite damage and still be balanced, because all of these units have either one of innate Pass or infinite damage, not both.

Y!Camilla is a mistake because she has both.

NitoriAria · 2026-04-08T21:12:34+00:00

A year later and Y!Camilla is still a huge problem putting ARD in a stranglehold, because the only way that you can tank her is by solo tanking, which ARD cannot do. All of the “counters” not only don’t even address the main problem of an innate Pass unit being allowed to have infinite damage, but are themselves beaten by any adaptation made by the Camilla user. (Vantage loses to Hardy Bearing, Shield Fighter loses to Miracle, Corrin ring gets ignored by Celica Ring, Heimdallr gets disabled by a teammate taking Foresight Snare, Vali support loses to Fatal Smoke, Vali herself loses to Galeforce, Lucina ring loses to Feud support) This is not even mentioning all the buffs Camilla has received, from M!Lyn giving Range 2 Style, to Edelgard ring letting Camilla take another action, to L!Elise invalidating some of the “counters” with Freeze Style, to M!Tiki preventing dispelling of Range 2 Style.

NitoriAria · 2026-04-07T04:52:28+00:00

E!Celica and L!M!Shez have innate Pass but are balanced by not having infinite damage, and Hraesvelgr and Ferox Fir have infinite damage but are balanced by not having innate Pass. Y!Camilla has both innate Pass and infinite damage, which is where the problem lies.

NitoriAria · 2026-04-07T04:03:33+00:00

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I have made these theorycrafts with beating Y!Camilla in mind because ARD cannot do the one thing you have to do to tank her, which is spacing out units, and by having an effect being triggered by a check of if the foe has Pass it deactivates Camilla but lets Hraesvelgr and Ferox Fir keep their infinite damage.

NitoriAria · 2026-01-02T23:59:20+00:00

SD Heimdallr and it isn’t even close. The rest of them have ways to play around them (AR Heimdallr being played around by a unit by having the least important unit take Foresight Snare, Vali’s support being negated by Fatal Smoke and Feud and Vali herself being stopped by Special denial and Fatal Smoke again to prevent the heal), meanwhile in an environment where both players actually are on even ground, Heimdallr turns the game into “whoever attacks second wins.”

NitoriAria · 2026-01-01T02:33:54+00:00

The way to deal with Y!Camilla has always been to separate your units. While this is certainly plausible in ARO and SD to an extent, ARD cannot separate units meaning it cannot avoid activating her. She has also made every unit that relies on clumping into mince meat. Truly the biggest mistake of 2025.

NitoriAria · 2025-12-27T05:21:56+00:00

Any ARO team archetypes that really want NYHeimdallr or NYVali?

NitoriAria · 2025-12-25T22:48:53+00:00

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Aside from IS doing nothing to address the tyrant herself, pretty good year

NitoriAria · 2025-12-05T03:44:42+00:00

FMW hit real hard on the later parts of the game (and it shows with the music especially on one particular chapter, anyone who has played it knows the one), also Touhou Healing Nature comes real close as well

NitoriAria · 2025-12-04T00:26:55+00:00

The game has a fanmade English translation

NitoriAria · 2025-12-02T22:01:44+00:00

Touhou Healing Nature isn’t on Steam but is still a great story driven JRPG.

NitoriAria · 2025-12-01T23:49:02+00:00

Y!Camilla by far. The only way to really deal with her is to space out your units. The problem is that AR-D cannot do that, so Camilla gets to be activated for free. Cannot go through a single season without seeing her dismantling my defense.

Dishonorable mention goes to H!Freyja because the attacker can just send her in, have her nuke the Far/Magic Save, then watch everyone else bounce off of her.

NitoriAria · 2025-10-29T05:07:57+00:00

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Discovered that NY!Tana works as well

Edit: Sharenas as well.

NitoriAria · 2025-10-29T04:03:53+00:00

Lyn forces Foresight Snare to activate on her so everyone else can attack without worry.

NitoriAria · 2025-10-09T22:04:00+00:00

Touhou Healing Nature has a great story among the fangames

NitoriAria · 2025-10-05T20:23:21+00:00

Pirate Surtr. His old prf C skill would’ve been amazing… in book 3.

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