What is CYL?

CYL are units that we voted to get special versions of, last time we got them we got powerful units like brave lyn and meta defining skills like steady breath, so yes, i recomend saving orbs

Choose Your Legends (or commonly refered to as CYL) was a popularity poll for the Heroes community to decide who should get alternate "Brave" versions, which are all powerful and come with powerful new skills. Our choices this time are Hector, Celica, Ephraim, and Veronica (previous was Ike, Lyn, Roy, and Lucina). You can choose one for free at neutral IVs. People will likely recommend saving for this banner.

CYL stands for Choose Your Legends, an event where FEH Players chose their favorite units back in January so that we can get special, super-powered alts in late August.

The last CYL event gave us Brave Lyn, Brave Ike, Brave Lucina, and Brave Roy--all of them very good units, and the first two introducing our first instance of BST powercreep and becaming meta-changing units. Because of Brave Lyn (and Reinhardt), IS introduced a lot of features aimed to nerf Cavalry units and buff other unit types (mainly Armor) to the point where Cavalry are no longer the dominant Movement type in all tier levels of the Arena. Meanwhile, Brave Ike gave us Steady Breath, which was powerful when it was first released but became absolutely insane in combination with Dragon units once weapon refines were first introduced.

This year, we will be getting Hector, Celica, Ephraim, and Veronica as the CYL Heroes. I expect that Celica and Hector are going to be meta-changing units upon release because they are the most popular female and male units, with Ephraim and Veronica being powerful in their own right.

If you care about having them, then they are definitely worth saving up for. However, based on how often Lyn and Ike have been re-released, you can always summon them another time if you don't feel like saving up right away. Also, last year, IS allowed us to choose one of the four heroes to keep for free with Neutral IVs. I'm not sure if this is happening again this year, but it is something to keep in mind if you only want one of the units.

Hell

Can you imagine the backlash if no free units this time?!