Athena

So I've finally decided to make use of that +Spd/-Atk Athena that's been sitting in my 5* arsenal after some... unforeseen events. I hit the unit builder and noticed that she's fairly flexible in her stats.

Not, like, M!Corrin levels of flexible, but somewhat.

I was trying to find different ways to build her aside from using the basic Fury + Desperation build that's used on pretty much every speed demon (and I don't have Wrath, not that I'd give it to her anyway), so I started looking at her defense.

I'd be putting her on a Tactics team to test this out and see how she functions (with Odin for the +6/+6 to attack and speed), but she can reach some pretty high defense without that much investment, if you can really call foddering a 4* unit 'investment'.

41 attack, 41 speed, 27 defense, and 24 resistance.

With a def-refined Wo Dao+, she reaches 42 attack and 31 defense. 49 attack and 38 defense with Brazen Atk/Def active. 55 attack and 47 speed with Odin's Grimoire active. 44 defense with Def Tactic, 50 with Close Def.

55 attack, 47 speed, and 50 defense... and we don't worry about resistance too much.

Because her speed is so high, she doesn't really have to worry about needing to utilize Quick Riposte since she'll naturally double most of the units that attacks her (unless they have Wary Fighter) and because she has enough speed, she can easily switch to a fairly simple player phase unit if need be, being at 44 defense on player phase if her Brazen's active.

Not particularly hard to set up (hardest thing being the Brazen) but seems fairly effective for a set that only needed a 4* Ares as fodder.

Gets ready for regular "This unit can run this exact same set but 20x better" comments lol