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Is Anna playable?

I have a real shortage of green infantry, which lead me to think whether getting a 5* Anna is worth it. I mean, it also brings the benefit of her being a bonus hero along with Alfonse and Sharena, but it would be pretty worthless if she's not viable in arena. The dominance of strong red units will cause her problems, but she has one of the highest speed stats, so that leads me to believe, that she'll be able to take out all those glass cannon mages. So, does anyone have arena experience with her?

Asked by Guts1 year 7 months ago

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She definitely has her moments, her attack stat could be just a tad bit higher but nothing like Fury 3 or Life and Death could not fix. I'm using Life and Death on her and it's working just fine, but since she' pretty squishy running this skill you'd want to run Desperation on her. Vantage is fine though if you don't have a 4* Shanna. Fury 3 will make her a bit more resilient, especially in the resistance category. Run Threaten Speed as it helps her a lot more to double things, Moonbow since Astra can get walled easily due to it granting bonus damage to how much you deal to an enemy and Reciprocal Aid if the match up she enters in happens to be at a disadvantage to her so she can prolong an ally's longevity by handing over her HP to them.

I've used Anna quite a lot pre-Hector banner as my primary green and I loved her. I pretty much ran the setup ExiledNations posted, but with Fury over LnD. With 41 HP and 31 Res she tanks Reinhardt and Linde all day and ORKO's in return. Can also take a hit from green mages and ORKO them. She kinda wants Hone Attack support though. Noatun's passive combined with Desperation make for nice plays as well. Consider Iceberg when using Fury, scales well with her high res.

Thx for both the answers. Since I don't have hector and Camilla doesn't really hold up anymore, I started thinking about Anna a lot. I'm just still not really sure. Being a f2p I always try to get the most value out of my promotions. I was also thinking about promoting Xander, but I'm not really convinced by his low speed. He'll get insta-killed by linde easily (reinhardt just rapes him), so I was thinking about wary fighter, but that being a B slot robs him of other useful skills (vantage, QR).

Wary fighter is only available to armor units such as Hector and Effie.SI-Reinhardt ORKO's any red unit, which doesn't mean you shouldn't bring red units at all. A competitive team definitely needs something that can deal with Reinhardt, though. Anna can easily tank and kill Reinhardt but she can't always safely approach him and live through the next enemy phase. For a f2p, however, it may be worth upping the Askr trio to 5 stars - because they rotate as bonus units for arena.

Oh, ok I thought it was a universal skill. Well, at least I learned sth new again :D anyway, thanks for the help. The fact, that the Askr trio rotates as bonus is a really convenient thing for a f2p, so I guess I'm just gonna start with upping Anna.

She hasn't let me down yet, and she pulled in clutch a few times. I'd say investing in all 3 starters is a pretty good idea, especially considering how one will be a bonus every week. Theres also sometimes missions that you need to complete using them, so that would be a bonus

She doesn't really pull down rankings either

Thanks for the input. I think I'll go for it now. I can see that I'll be struggling to get to the first place in arena, bcs I usually only have one usable bonus hero at best. Anna would help me to get those ranks up. Well, goodbye 20k feathers I guess :D