Helbindi

An enemy phased mixed tank, helbindi will take hits while simultaneously healing himself in the same turn. Granted his attack is higher than his opponent, he will be activate noontime twice per engagement and add damage thanks to heavy blade and wo gun. While his defenses aren't boosted other than defense wave, healing on each counter attack should make up for it towards his survivability

Pulled Helbindi on his original banner intending to fodder him of for his duel skill to my raven merge project, then saw his IVs and couldnt bring myself to do it. He just sat around for a bit while I grappled with what to do with him until the Halloween TTs came around, and this build came to my mind. At first glance changing out his weapons didnt seem smart at all as his personal weapon is great (and he has guard in his base kit...) but the no hp requirement won me over. With the hackolaturn providing no hp limited guard, he essentially prevents ever getting hit by an opponents special barring any pre-charging, while warding breath accelerates his own special cooldown. QR for the EP double obviously. Due to his atrocious speed, he will virtually always get doubled, but due to his fantastic native bulk and the guard effect, he will survive most encounters. Running aether allow him to heal, potentially back into QR range. Can also run Ignis for some extra burst in exchange for the healing. With the CC seal, he reaches 45/41 def/res before any buffs, with 49 HP due to the weapon refine, for a total of 94/90 mixed bulk. C skill is flexible, his base infantry pulse is a great option and gets further synergy with the weapon refine. For mixed teams I currently have drive spd as a budget.

This experimental, untested build utilises Helbindi’s high hp pool for high damage specials.

By using every method to increase his hp, which includes being an arena bonus unit with summoner support and a blessing bonus, he can reach 80hp! This gives him plenty of chances for high damage specials.

While this build isn’t optimised and is open to change, it would be funny to have vengeance do tons of damage.

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Helbindi is arguably one of the sturdiest units around due to his bulk being on par with armored units. If he ever takes a bane to either Defense or Resistance, it's not too bad. A bane in Res still gives him 28 Res, equal to that of neutral Brave Hector and Dorcas' super boon.

Assist skill is Swap to immediately get to the front lines, though Reposition is good to get his teammates out of danger.

Specials are a mixed bag of fun; Bonfire/Ignis make great use of his nice Def stat, so does Iceberg/Glacies if he has a Res boon, and Aether for survival and piercing power.

His A-skill depends on play style; his default is good for fixing an HP bane and Arena, while Steady/Warding Breath can fix Def/Res banes while helping his specials along. Distant Counter is good, but you need to make sure none of his bulk stats have a bane.

B-skill is Wrath, which speeds up the charge time of specials even more. Quick Riposte is another option, but you may need a healer if not running Aether. Guard is a viable option when run with the Quick Riposte seal and a Breath, giving something akin to Special Fighter to Helbindi.

The C-skill is flexible, but a Smoke skill is a good choice for either securing kills or ensuring Helbindi's survival; here Atk Smoke is used to soften blows taken. Wave skills are just as good, but stick to Even Waves so that Helbindi has a buff when Byleistr is unavailable.

Seals depend on how Helbindi is built, but for this case it's the Quick Riposte seal. If QR3 is used in his B-slot and depending on the A-skill, Close/Distant Defense make for good alternatives.

This is based on my experience, but New Year Camilla is a great unit to use alongside Helbindi; her Kadomatsu+ provides Drive Def/Res 1, which can add to his great bulk. If she's given one of the Tactics seals, her C-slot can either be another Tactic to either bolster Helbindi's bulk or give more attack power, or a Spur/Drive skill to stack with the Drive in her weapon.

Helbindi is a very resistant infantry unit against both sides (resistance and defense) that has a very high power at the time of attacks but this is not very effective to perform double attacks during the confrontation of an enemy. This set is based on the following:

1. The Býleistr weapon will make a bonus of 4+ attack attributes, 4+ defense, 4+ resistance and 4+ speed to the unit and its adjacent units ... this ability will be activated every odd turn this weapon ability will help the unit mostly to resist more enemy blows and those allied units that attack at distances (wizards, archers and daggers)

2. the Reposition will make the allies protected by twisting 2 squares leaving the unit ready for the melee or attract the ally for an attack (distant or melee) that the unit can not perform or that is affected.

3. Special ability: The ability I recommend is Aehter as the unit deals damage by subtracting 50% defense and resistance towards the enemy and healing the unit with half the damage caused by the unit to the enemy. the special ability has an execution value of 5.

4. Passive ability A, I recommend distant counterattack for the reason of attacking the enemies that are in a radius of two squares and that the unit can perform an action.

5. Ability B, its speed is terrible to make double attacks but with Quick Riposte (3) the unit can make a double attack always when it has more than 70% of life and which enemy begins the attack. It will combine perfectly with distant counter-attack.

6. Passive Skill C, Infantry Pulse (3) would support all infantry units in your deck. This causes the infantry units to make those allies that have less than 1 PV or less than the unit go down -1 for the special abilities (the effect is cumulative). This favors greater for the infractions of magicians, daggers and archers.

7. Seal, Sable Blade This makes minus -1 countdown if it overcomes the enemy attack by 1 or more ... this seal is to make Aether become faster to eject; as this special ability is the most important thing in the unit ...remember that Aether recovers half the damage inflicted on the enemy...