Aversa

• Preferred IV: N/A
• Weapon: Rauðrblade+
• Assist: Reposition
• Special: Glimmer / Moonbow
• Passive A: Swift Sparrow / Life and Death / Fury / Death Blow
• Passive B: Desperation / Chill Spd / Atk/Def Link
• Passive C: Even Spd Wave / Odd Res Wave / Goad Fliers
• Sacred Seal: Spd +3 / Atk + 3

Someday, Intelligent Systems will introduce some kind of competition to the damage that emblem mages can do with bladetomes. Until that day happens, we have another emblem mage who foregoes her prf tome for a bladetome in her optimal build.

Aversa has remarkably decent stats for being a free unit, despite the fact that she's the first free flier mage in the game. With 33 Attack and 34 Speed, she outshines a neutral Halloween Nowi and can surpass a Summer Tana with poor IVs. This makes her a blessing for f2p players, as Aversa's power is remarkably similar to both of the 5 star exclusive seasonal red fliers currently available in the game.

As far as the actual build is concerned- it's fairly straightforward. Since Bladetomes allow the user to add all points of visible buffs to their Attack stat when in combat, the aim with Aversa is to give her as many buffs as possible. These buffs can be supplied by her team with Hone and Fortify Fliers, but she can also utilize newer skills to buff herself with minimal help from her teammates.

Swift Sparrow in her A slot is the best of both worlds, granting Aversa an additional +4/+4 to Attack and Speed. If unavailable, you can choose to give her Life and Death instead, which grants +5/+5, but at the expense of her Defense and Resistance. Fury and Death Blow are slightly more budget options which will still benefit her offensively, though not as much as the first two skills. Note here that Fury and Desperation have excellent synergy, as Aversa can utilize the recoil from Fury to enter into the  HP threshold for Desperation.

Speaking of which, Desperation is a fairly common skill to see on blade mages, as they can use it to attack twice without being countered, as long as they are under the HP threshold. For a high HP mage like Aversa, this is a little trickier, but ultimately Aversa's high HP works well for her by giving her the bulk needed to survive a retaliatory hit which would simultaneously knock her into Desperation range. Alternatively, Aversa can use Chill Spd to try and ensure that she doubles in the first place. With her being unable to get a boon, 34 Speed is not generally high enough to double most of the speedy metagame, and if she can't double in the first place, then Desperation is pointless.

Finally, we have Atk/Def Link, which is a very useful option for Blade mages as it allows a teammate to give Aversa a double +6/+6 buff simply by using a movement Assist skill on her. This synergizes well with Even Spd Wave or Odd Res Wave, as Aversa can get three +6 buffs without her allies having any sort of buffing skill at all- useful if you’re running her in mixed teams, or if your allies need to utilize their C slots for something other than buffs.

Even Spd Wave is ideal in her C slot, as it is the most important buff she can utilize, and so having it active for a guaranteed 50% of the time is useful if you don’t have an ally around who can buff or Reposition her.

Glimmer is a given for her Special, since the Bladetome increases her Special cooldown- Glimmer is chosen over Moonbow due to its increased damage when Aversa is fully buffed, as well as the fact that Moonbow will proc off of her opponent’s generally-lower Resistance.

• Preferred IV: N/A
• Weapon: Aversa’s Night
• Assist: Reposition
• Special: Iceberg / Blue Flame / Noontime / Glimmer
• Passive A: HP/Spd 2 / Swift Sparrow / Wind Boost
• Passive B: Renewal / Wings of Mercy / Swordbreaker
• Passive C: Savage Blow / Odd Res Wave
• Sacred Seal: Hp/Res 2 / Savage Blow / Spd Ploy

Aversa’s Night is certainly unique, with an ability to hit every enemy on the field with an all stat down -3 and Panic Ploy, regardless of their position to her, as long as they are adjascent to an ally and she has 3 more HP than them. With Aversa’s high HP stat, her tome’s effect can proc on the majority of the threats you may find in the Arena or in intermediate PvE content. This build seeks to utilize her tome to its full effectiveness by increasing her HP stat when possible and keeping her HP high.

24 Res may not seem like much to use Iceberg as a Special, but her native tome adds +3 to this number, and additional stats (such as HP/Res2 from her Seal slot or Odd Res Wave in her C slot) can increase it even further until it easily hits over 30, making Iceberg do 15+ damage.  If using her as a more supportive unit with a Wings of Mercy build, you may consider using Blue Flame as her Special instead, as she will do 25 flat damage upon teleporting next to an ally. Glimmer is a typical low charge Special, but Noontime will help Aversa to keep her HP high while trading blows with her opponents.

In her A slot, her native HP/Spd is actually perfect for her, as it boosts her HP to 46 and her Speed to 36, activating her tome on any unit with 43 HP or below. Of course, there are other options here- Swift Sparrow makes Aversa more of a combat-oriented unit, while Boost skills are interesting options which have the same HP threshold as Aversa’s Night and increases any chosen stat by 6 in both phases.

B slot gives us Renewal in order to maintain her high HP, by healing off 10 combat damage every other turn and maintaining the effect of her native tome. Wings of Mercy is another alternative that allows her to support her lower-HP allies on the battlefield, while Swordbreaker simply allows Aversa to double the faster units in the game without relying on a Speed check.

In her C slot, her native Odd Res Wave is effective, particularly if she’s going to be carrying any Ploy skills or using Iceberg as her Special. However, Savage Blow also has an interesting synergy with her tome in that it does chip damage to opponents in an AoE, effectively lowering their HP to make them even more vulnerable to the effects of her tome. This can be stacked with Savage Blow in her Seal slot as well, or she can take HP/Res 2 in order to further buff her HP- if Hp/Spd is in her A slot and HP/Res is in her seal slot, then she hits a neutral HP stat of 50, which is enough to hit units like Legendary Hector, Halloween Myrrh, Legendary Tiki, and Amelia with her Panic Debuff effect.