I did it! I finally did it! For the first time since 4 years of playing Fire Emblem Heroes, I managed to claim my first Arena crown. It happened during Legendary Ninian's bonus season two weeks ago, and it feels like forever trying to get this prized possession, given the amount of powercreep and insane skills we've got over the years.
Anyway, I still can't believe I'm worthy enough to reach this milestone after all the effort I've put into investing my F2P builds, and learning from the community to score as high as possible. Here are these units I've used during my run, and it took me so many trials to finally complete this 5-win streak.
Lumera
She's pretty decent as a F2P sword unit, although we have better options nowadays. I gave her a Spd-based build since last year, back when we used to have godswords as our premiere omni-tanks.
For scoring purposes, I gave her Rally Atk/Spd+ as well as Vital Astra from Ascended Mareeta. I also gave her Emblem Marth's ring so that she can trigger her Special easily. The rest of her skills however, are pretty outdated according to today's standards, because she can't effectively use her Spd to survive most of the modern threats.
Therefore, I would use her for nuking purposes only, even though today's meta has already been shifted to omni-tanking. Atk/Spd Ideal 4 as well as Spd Smoke 4 is already mediocre, but still, it's here for scoring purposes. Then, I gave her Close Call 4 for some Spd-based damage-reduction, together with Spd Smoke 4. Finally, she has the recent NFU seal because her weapon lacks this particular effect.
Murdock
His weapon was great on release because of Distant Counter, yet at a cost of no damage-reduction in his weapon. Thankfully, I've compensated that by giving him Emblem Ike's ring, and now he's super reliant on his stat bonuses for tanking, with Distant Def 4 granting bonuses to his Def/Res. He's super effective if you spam Rally on him, and from what I recall, he survived Valentine's Myrrh once.
Special Fighter 4 allows him to get over Fatal Smoke 4 a bit with some post-combat healing, and having Special Acceleration would make triggering Aether easier, followed by built-in Guard. Finally, Bold Fighter 3 is the closest I can get for an armor Sacred Seal for more Special Acceleration.
Murdock's pretty solid as my go-to Save unit, but he has struggled against most of the highly invested premium threats from the enemy team, like Emblem Celica (this abomination) and Ninja Sanaki.
Elice
She's turns out to be a very good staff unit, and has carried me though via her nuking capabilities, which are pretty strong.
First, I gave her Arcane Charmer for some post-combat healing to her allies, some Flat DMG & Special Acceleration for charging up Glitter of Light. It's still a very useful Special nowadays because she can inflict the Sweep effect onto the enemy team, as long as one of them doesn't have NCD. Also, she has Still Water 4 because of her high Res, making her a viable candidate for running Ploy 3.
Of all my F2P units, Elice is the best by far because she can not only function as a formidable nuke, but she can also work as my only movement assist if needed, while healing my team simultaneously.
Legendary Ninian
Ninian is still one of the best refreshers to grace the game, and it's no doubt that her refine in next year would make her even better. Since it was her bonus season, I decided to make some changes to her kit for higher scoring, even though it's already optimal for a general unit.
She now has Blue Flame as her Special. She could have Dragon's Roar and High Dragon Wall on her B skill, but they're both too expensive and it's not worth passing them to a refresher like her. In my case, I gave her Firestorm Dance 3 from Spring Triandra for Desperation support, and she can still Canto without having to run Near Trace.
Finally, I simply slotted in Joint Drive Atk for the same reason, as I couldn't think of a better C skill for her. Incite Atk/Spd, perhaps?
Overall, I think she's already good as she is. Being able to self-refresh after refreshing another ally sounds pretty strong, and even if she's not supposed to work as a nuke, she can choose to retreat after granting her ally another action, which adds some flexibility. It works pretty well in situations where you would like to stay away from long ranged units, especially those with Celica's ring.
Conclusion
To think that I could get myself an Arena Crown after so long is absolutely amazing. However, for what the future holds, I think it's going to be extremely difficult to get another Crown like this for the upcoming seasons.
It's a shame that I don't have Legendary Guinivere for last week's season, which is about to end. Guess I'll have to try my best going back to Tier 21 for the next season. This time, it's looks pleasant to me because not only Legendary Camilla is back, but I can still use Ninian for being a Ver. 6 unit.
As always, be sure to save your orbs!
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