Selena

This build uses +Spd -HP, because +Atk is for chumps. Who needs attack when Selena can just slam opponents with a 60 damage Ignis every turn? Not to mention that this twintailed wall has 50 Def and 38 Res in enemy phase melee, with 42 Spd to boot. Even Nowi will have trouble breaking through without Swordbreaker or Triangle Adept.

Down to the build itself.

Wo Dao+ is the obvious weapon choice because of how well it matches Selena's hair.

Harsh Command should also be self-explanatory.

For the special, she calls it Ignis but really it's just her normal tsun rage. As such, it works better when used in retaliation to unwanted advances.

Steady Breath is the result of Selena's recent yoga classes. She's trying to mellow out a bit.

Of course she still has a rather short fuse, and when that inevitably blows her Wrath explodes, adding even more fuel to the fire.

As this is an enemy phase build, Attack Smoke works very well for neutering nearby enemies after the first engagement, or even for initiating on a non-threatening enemy to soften the whole team up before enemy phase even starts. Combined with her already massive defensive stats, this allows her to take on an army single-handedly (though with some spur support even the heaviest hitters will be left powerless).

And finally, for when idiots try to invade her personal space, Selena activates her Close Defense seal, shutting down their completely uncalled-for advances while simultaneously boosting her totally justified retaliation.

One of my most invested, most beloved, most used, and most favorite sword unit to use who is my number 1 favorite character from fates is the Tsundere Selena. I have went through a long time in fe heroes with her. I also went time searching the most valuable skills to improve her. I know she is outclassed by the many existing sword units in the game (especially Joshua), but the thing is that well. I don’t care. What they lack that Selena has is well, being my number 1 waifu to love. I will always use her no matter what fact trys to stand in my way. To prove my love and dedication for her I made her my S support unit as well as my first +10 unit. Her ivs are +def, -hp which is one of her best ivs. I have given her many skills for a variety of builds, but this is the personal one I like using.

For her weapon her default armorsmasher is preferred. The reason why is because we live in this arena world where armors are just everywhere not only scoring high, but also causing havoc. Armorsmasher makes it so that she can deal with them easily. For refinement I went for res refine to give her a bit more resistance for dueling mages with a certain A skill.

For the assist skill reposition is preferred. It is the most useful assist in the game because of the many options it gives you. It can be usef offensively or defensively. My main problem with this is that it is nowadays rare due to the now flooded 3-4 star summoning pool.

For the special bonfire is preferred to give him some damage output. Although most prefer ignis, this build tends to make it so that Selena can reach some respectable amounts of attack.

For the A skill I made a pretty big sacrifice and gave her distant counter. Now you are probably wondering why distant counter on a unit with only 25 base atk (29 when +10 and 31 when +10 and S supported)? Well the reason why is because she is actually a pretty good user of it due to her mixed bulk. Mages can be annoying to fight when you’re lacking in range units. Distant counter tends to solve that issue. Plus if she wants to hit hard, I can always just use team support.

For the B skill wrath is preferred to give her boosted damage with her special. Although it has some anti synergy with aether, it is still useful nonetheless. The extra +10 damage can boost her damage as well as give her a bit of healing of aether. Improving her sustainability. What I also like about wrath is how it matches her angry tsun personality.

For her C skill I went for even spd wave for some extra speed. It will also help with a certain seal.

For the seal I went for atk/def bond to give her some balance between her melee and ranged fights. What will help her use this skill effectively is the C skill even spd wave. Meaning if allies want the extra speed, they will have to be adjacent to her to help her give a extra boost to attack and defense. More attack and defense also increases bonfire damage. Although it is tricky to use it on player phase, most of the time she’ll be using it on enemy phase.

In conclusion I think Selena has potential when she’s heavily invested although she has been powercrept by Joshua (due to the new heroic grails feature) as well as other sword units, there’s this fact you should know. Joshua may have her statline, but what he can’t take away is the fact that I will always always ALWAYS use Selena. As for the other sword units I might still use them due to their different roles, but I don’t use them as much to the extent of Selena. I also run other builds that I also like using. Like my double brazen build where she can fix her atk with a combination of the brazen atk/def or brazen atk/spd A skill as well as the help of the brazen atk/res seal and the steady breath build where her melee battles become better. The stats are from Selena who has no weapon and no S support stat boost and who’s +10.

When you try to min-max every character some are absolutely going to end up just terrible. That is Selena's problem. Her attack is poor yes, but a Res bane just magnifies this problem. Opting for an HP bane means you can boost her Res to the point where she can run ploys. 32 might not seem great for ploys, but really the ones it's going to affect the least are those with great defenses, which she'll have issues with regardless of her Boon/Bane and mages/anti-mages which typically have shoddy defenses anyway.

Brazen Atk/Res and Safeguard means when she's under the threshold she's sporting defenses of 39/39 when the enemy attacks her. And is they are melee she's hitting back with a solid 50 Attack. Not to shabby for a "tier 6".

For her B slot I opted for Guard as it would help her survive to get into Brazen range when she doesn't have to worry so much about specials. Though Wrath or even Vantage could find respectable use on her.

For her C and S slots I chose Defense Ploy and Speed Ploy to further increase her offensive potential, and defensive potential in avoiding doubles. If Ploys don't seem reliable enough you could opt for Threaten Defense and Threaten Speed, but they are generally a bit harder to setup for baiting to be as useful.

This is just my +4 merged enemy phase selena, cause she's my waifu. Her stats are a lot better with the S support and she can basically wall and ignis everybody. She slaughters brave builds and what not and the threatens just make it so she can guarantee safety even more!

This Selena is great at bringing down many units and acting like a wall for magic and physical strikes while being able to easily double most other units.