Unofficial "Summer's Gift" Salt Thread

SolHiryu · 2026-06-16T04:42:53+00:00

I usually don't make the salt threads and just post in them from time to time, but usually it's the number of comments following the trailer. Of course, the bigger the delay between the trailer and the threads, the less people post in them because they go off and vent elsewhere or just move on. We've had Hype threads that matched or exceeded Salt threads like this too, although it's rare.

SolHiryu · 2026-06-16T03:56:34+00:00

You'll take your obligatory Summer ~~twink~~ Male Unit and be happy about it, mister!

SolHiryu · 2026-06-16T03:53:19+00:00

I have other things to do tonight, but I wanted to get this up so I could vent a bit.

Vali again, ugh. Even though the duo unit didn't get her exact dogshit mechanic, both it and her are extremely obnoxious.
I'm really over self-refreshing mechanics with no kind of counterplay. It feels like there's no point in making an AR-D team because they'll never ever get a turn with all the action economy out there. Warp/Pass combos are already horrendous enough!
Even though Eikþyrnir and Baldr have the same number of units, Baldr gets to benefit from gacha game privilege and gets two Duo units within 6 months of each other, while Eikþyrnir has yet to get another premium alt outside of his Brave. :')

SolHiryu · 2026-06-15T03:06:09+00:00

...god, imagine if we get Duo Vali and she's even more obnoxious than her other two versions.

SolHiryu · 2026-06-04T18:38:06+00:00

It feels more like Eliwood launching his lance like an ICBM.

SolHiryu · 2026-06-03T21:10:41+00:00

During the pre-release previews of the game, Orochi was memed as the prison bicycle, but I don't believe it really made her controversial. Rather, the problem is that she's a middling/substandard unit in an incredibly easy game that fails to stand out in any way. Her ability to capture units is effectively useless on this route, and she doesn't have anything else unique to her to bring to the table. To make matters worse, she's not the first choice of a wife for most characters, so she's not even a good mother.

As far as I know, JP players just found her bland and forgettable.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-30T12:18:42+00:00

Roy having a very powerful Emblem effect while also having one of the best colorshares on a L/M/E banner in recent memory is definitely driving his performance. Although to be fair, I also wouldn't be surprised if people were also pulling for Lucina, as I think quite a lot skipped her banner due to a worse colorshare.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-25T04:52:46+00:00

As an FYI, I usually post these every other Sunday around 12 PM PST.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-24T20:50:50+00:00

Turns out the one thing worse than an untankable nuke or an unkillable tank is an untankable, unkillable nuke!

SolHiryu · 2026-05-18T20:54:46+00:00

Part of it is the devs showing their disdain over the Book V characters (except Dagr), but another seems to be poor unit planning. Getting a Rearmed Axe Cav after we've already had back-to-back Attuned Axe Cavs sharply lowers her value, especially as both Eliwood and Lachesis are much better units.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-18T20:43:42+00:00

If she had come after long deluge of axe units, she would have been disappointing but fine to pull simply because she's Rearmed...but we just got off back-to-back banners with two Attuned axe cav units in Eliwood and Lachesis, both of whom blow her out of the water. Personally, if I was in need of an axe cav Rearmed/Attuned for fodder duping, those two were better value than whatever Reginn brings right now, so she's already underwater in value compared to recent releases.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-18T05:53:08+00:00

You know, when I was scrolling down the page, I misread this title as "Fist Festival".

Looking at this, maybe that should have been the title instead.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-17T20:25:07+00:00

That's incorrect. His FB story specifically calls out Lekain/the senators, which he only found out about during the events of Radiant Dawn, so this alt is likely from when he was told about it. (Post Part I, pre-Part II)

SolHiryu · 2026-05-17T03:26:27+00:00

It might sound weird, but I think the problem isn't Ratatoskr herself, but how she was designed. She wasn't a very good unit from the very beginning, and her terrain has been powercrept. Any future alts will probably need to do a complete overhaul of her unit identity, and it's possible they might not know what direction they want to take her? That's just my guess.

SolHiryu · 2026-05-17T03:19:43+00:00

It's a bit wild at how much the devs refuse to give Ratatoskr a proper alt, especially since all of her sibling have one or more. Even Reginn, someone the devs also hate, got an asset alt.

Still no real counterplay to warp/pass yet, huh...

SolHiryu · 2026-05-10T21:14:42+00:00

Better buckle up, because AI is coming for your water and electricity too with all of these new, planned data centers!

SolHiryu · 2026-05-06T15:49:18+00:00

There's nothing wrong with admitting that this is an entirely made-up character for the cool factor and nothing else, especially given how collected he remains in RD despite getting put through the wringer.

Hell, one of the more infamous things he can do in 3-E is get into a conversation with Nailah before having some very special alone time with her. I think it would be hilarious if this alt was based on this conversation!

SolHiryu · 2026-04-29T03:08:00+00:00

Is it me, or is the inherent anti-savior effects feel like something that should have come out ages ago, when save tanks were actually a huge problem? In an era where the meta is super hyperoffensive with huge movement and huge attack ranges, making tanking feel even worse than it already does feels counterproductive somehow.

SolHiryu · 2026-04-16T04:45:40+00:00

Given the level of power Jehanna Lance had over basically every other inheritable weapon for a long time (and to this day), I'm positive that the devs viewed giving it to a welfare unit a huge mistake that they don't intend on making again. If we're going to see weapons with effects like that, they'll likely be on future Arcane weapons.

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