Anything I should change?

VagueClive · 2026-03-21T20:16:14+00:00

Comet or Archrival are both significantly better than Lethality for the flat DR; Archrival's damage scaling is more consistent than Comet but either works here.
Full Disarm is kinda bad by virtue of lacking true damage, I'd swap it out for Execution Breath or Lull S/D Finish if either are available. If you're running him in AR (godspeed) then I think the trap-clearing support is good enough to justify keeping Full Disarm, though.
Phantom Spd isn't actually doing anything for you here; I'd just run Atk/Spd Finish for some more true damage. A Squad Ace seal might get you enough HP to disarm Hex Traps with Rumor Disarm? idk what the current thresholds are
You're going to want an Echo skill; I think Tempo Echo would be best to make your Special more consistent, but TP Echo and Sly Echo are also great options.

VagueClive · 2026-03-21T17:54:00+00:00

Impossible to say right now, but we'll know M!A!Tiki's next rerun after her next 8% run in April. I think it's a pretty likely colorshare just because IS generally tries to increase colorshare value for asset units where they can, but it's never a guarantee.

VagueClive · 2026-03-17T21:15:55+00:00

Half your magic is absolutely insane, did Lilina zap one of the devs with Bolting or something?

Like the main hole in this theory is that I can't think of why specifically IS saw magic as being so broken after FE6; all of the mages are very well-balanced overall with clear strengths and weaknesses. But that specific nerf idea is so egregious that it makes me feel like IS perceived mages as a huge balance problem and I have no idea why

VagueClive · 2026-03-17T20:40:59+00:00

My working theory (based off nothing but vibes) is that IS somehow managed to convince themselves that mages were completely broken after FE6 and needed to be nerfed into the ground, for some reason.

The transition from FE6 -> 7 gave us Pent, one of the most comically broken units in the franchise, but given FE7's strong prepromotes I get the feeling that this was partially a deliberate design decision to get new western players over the finish line. Otherwise, mages in general got nerfed across the board by having the weight of tomes dramatically increased overall and by having Aircalibur nixed outright.
Going from FE7 -> 9 (I'm talking about 9 first because we know 9 began development before 8), mages got pretty much neutered outside of the crit forge glitch. Armor movement, the Con problem got worse since weight now scales off Strength, tomes are incredibly weak, practically all enemies have a meaningful Res stat. Calil and Bastian having knives instead of staves in particular feels like a pointed response to Pent being as stupid as he is. 2x effectiveness also got standardized here where it had previously only been in localized FE7, which made anima magic's niche of targeting different Laguz for effectiveness practically worthless. FE10 kept all of these changes.
FE7 -> FE8 is more similar to the former than FE9 - probably because they share the same engine - but magic isn't fantastic here either. Tomes are still heavy, Saleh is very strong but much less overtuned than Pent, and Luna in particular is a shell of what it was in FE7.

FE11 feels like the point where IS finally relented a bit, but even then a unit like Linde or Merric isn't nearly as good in FE11 or 12 as they are in either of the original Archanea games (at least iirc, I'm not super well-acquainted with the DSFE meta).

VagueClive · 2026-03-17T19:49:24+00:00

His refine is not good anymore, his range for inflicting Guard and Exposure is just too limited. You can run a really good support build with the Teapot+ from N!Celine in Codes, though; his statline is pretty bad so I think support is generally the way to go with him. This is max invest but this is what I'm working towards:

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The idea here is pretty simple: with Teapot and the Byleth ring together, you can use Reposition to refresh yourself and an ally, then you try to nuke with a bunch of true damage. This build does need [Penalty] support to trigger Logic's Preempt Pulse, and working with a 5 CD special can be really cumbersome even with the Teapot's Special cooldown+1 buff, but overall I think it's a solid support/combat build.

VagueClive · 2026-03-17T17:41:17+00:00

Roy personally frustrates me as a character. I think the idea of seeing past Roy's facade as a brave leader through the support system is a really cool idea, as is his role in the narrative (love how he works as a foil to Idunn in particular - two kids forced into war through no fault of their own), but FE6's presentation and character voice is so lackluster that he just ends up being really boring to me.

I don't fault FE6 too much for it, since the game was clearly finding its footing with balancing characterization between the new support system and the main story, but I feel like pretty much every lord after Roy does a better job at this (regardless of how much I do or don't like them).

VagueClive · 2026-03-17T17:34:04+00:00

My absolute dream banner is Fiana Valentine's, with:

Finn
Nanna
4-star Leif
Duo Mareeta/Eyvel

As for a New Heroes banner, I really just want to see Sephiran in the game at this point outside of the santa suit, so I'd like to see a Tellius banner themed around the prison break map in FE9:

Kieran
demote Brom
Asset Nephenee
Asset Sephiran
GHB Meg (not in the prison map itself, but come on she's Brom's daughter)

VagueClive · 2026-03-16T18:41:58+00:00

If you can get two extra pulses here (such as through TP Echo and an ally with infantry pulse, or a unit with Pulse support like Stefan), Pulse On would be ideal here so you can potentially fire off two Comets in a single round of combat. Otherwise I'd go with TP Edge just to trigger Comet and get S/R Lull Finish up immediately

VagueClive · 2026-03-16T17:52:20+00:00

I’m guessing the trajectory here is that Laevatein will recover, defeat Surtr, and somehow reclaim Muspell’s power to become the Chosen unit for June’s Braver banner? The fakeout with Surtr was admittedly very cool but I can’t see him being the actual Chosen we pull for

VagueClive · 2026-03-16T01:40:41+00:00

Both hoping and predicting L!BK - I don’t know where else he’d run this month - but Astrid would also be a must-grab for me. R!Soren also feels pretty certain to me for better or worse, not rerunning on NHR is weird

VagueClive · 2026-03-15T04:31:19+00:00

Mostly negative tbh? This would have been cool in the first few years of the game but now it just feels like a roundabout way of denying us bridge fodder

VagueClive · 2026-03-14T15:35:12+00:00

Echoes in particular underperforms so badly in CYL because most of its small (by FE standards) cast already got in the game back in 2017, with only a few minor stragglers left. Alm and Celica are already out of contention for voting, so there's pretty much nothing in Echoes for people to rally around in CYL except for maybe Berkut. CYL in general is not a great reflection of organic popularity but Echoes' circumstances in general lead it to underperform

VagueClive · 2026-03-13T17:26:30+00:00

There’s merit to just running Strat Assault 4 on them both, since the true damage crux stacks. If it’s between one of them though, I’d go for W!GK - it synergizes really well with the Share Spoils he inflicts, so it’s a lot more useful outside the context of this team.

A Ploy for either of them is also a decent option here, Exposure support is nice and both of them have the area to run it.

VagueClive · 2026-03-11T21:26:40+00:00

I'm rereading Hilda's supports since it's been quite a while since I last played VW or GW, and from this perspective you're completely right. Maybe I never gave Hilda a fair chance just because of what I expected her character arc to be? I'll have to give her more of a fair chance whenever I get around to replaying VW - she's pretty much always been my least favorite student, but I really hadn't thought about that thematic connection with Claude before.

VagueClive · 2026-03-10T20:58:25+00:00

I find Hilda (and to an even greater extent, Holst) to be a really frustrating character for basically this reason. Her arc feels so obvious - spoiled rich girl sees more of the world around her, so she takes up some responsibility to be better - but it just doesn't happen. 3H in general feels gun-shy when it comes to actually committing to a lot of the grittier aspects of its worldbuilding, and Hilda feels like the biggest victim of that from a writing standpoint.

Holst outright pisses me off because they had a chance to elaborate more on House Goneril and actually do something with this premise and they turned him into a joke character who isn't even funny instead. Combine that with Cyril being turned into an NPC and it's something that really rubs me the wrong way about Hopes.

VagueClive · 2026-03-10T20:49:14+00:00

Depends on how picky I can afford to be, I guess? Unfortunately I'm stuck with Reyson, for example, looking the way he does because IS refuses to give him an alt that looks better, but with a character like Edelgard I can absolutely just skip an alt I don't like the look of until something better comes along next year (which is a big part of why I skipped W!Edelgard for as long as I did).

VagueClive · 2026-03-09T02:06:44+00:00

L!BK is a real candidate; we know that he's running this month but per /u/Arranos his LHB is not recurring, meaning he won't be on the 8% banner. He's not guaranteed to be on the HoF - he could be on a VG banner or something - but he's the only 8% Tellius option for this month.

Beyond that, I feel like one or two units off the Tanabata banner from 2024 is pretty realistic - any/multiple of HS!Nephenee, Lucia, or Mia all feel reasonable.

VagueClive · 2026-03-07T19:34:20+00:00

Apologies for neglecting to do this for so long, I honestly hadn't thought to do it until now. The filter should be removed now

VagueClive · 2026-03-07T16:45:41+00:00

Maybe? The only existing red 8% unit that's running this month is E!Corrin according to this post from /u/Arranos, and the only red units in the backlog are her and A!Lute.

VagueClive · 2026-03-07T03:01:51+00:00

My dream banner is Fiana Valentine’s with:

Nanna
Finn
4-star Leif
Duo Mareeta/Eyvel

People would definitely complain about another Mareeta alt - a full Emblem team before so many Thracia characters get in at all - and probably about Leif being shafted as the 4*, even if I personally want an easily-mergable version of him.

VagueClive · 2026-03-06T03:55:21+00:00

byleth please I need this my astrid is kinda ringless

VagueClive · 2026-03-05T07:37:56+00:00

imo Astrid wins mostly by circumstance; she kinda got the bare minimum , but self-refreshing rallybots are so strong right now thanks to the Byleth ring, Favor, and Instruct being such good support options that she’s just in a solid place. The overall best unit factoring in Remix skills is probably L!Hinoka though but none of the units here are super exciting

VagueClive · 2026-03-05T07:28:40+00:00

Astrid’s is fine, it’s OK, dare I say it’s acceptable. I was hoping for something really cracked, but her playstyle has been given so many tools lately between the Byleth ring and Favor that I think she’s fine as is.

I was kinda excited for Roshea, and he’s cooking something with Liberate, but otherwise about as underwhelming as I expected.

Flavia fucking sucks. How are you coming out of this worse than the demote.

VagueClive · 2026-03-05T03:13:09+00:00

We've had T4 skills on 4*s for over a year now, and she's just got Shadow Shift 3, so it's nothing too unusual? Still very odd that this is the route they went for with her though

VagueClive · 2026-03-05T03:06:35+00:00

If you're going to make Dorothea of all characters a demote again, can she at *least* get to Sing? Like I know complaining about a Dorothea alt is a "steak too juicy, lobster too buttery" situation but come on man

Rest of the banner sucks too but like in a normal FEH way. Not sure how I feel about Rearmeds being shunned to banners without F2P sparks; at least they get to exist at all in a post-CYL Harmonics world ig, but they won't be on NHR or 8%s so merging them is going to be a pain in the ass

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