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Best Alfonse/Sharena builds? Thoughts?

Looking for thoughts. I, myself, thought long and hard about what might be the best builds for Alfonse and Sharena for both stand-alone play as well as team support. Here they are below. I could only post one pic, so Alfonse’s build is here:

Alfonse
-Folkvsngr (+Def)
-Swap/Reposition
-Bonfire
-Brazen Atk/Def 3
-Vantage 3
-Drive Spd 2
-Seal: Close Def 3

Sharena is in pic.

Absolute beasts. Alfonse is a tank, and he walls anything giving powerful bonfires. His Drive Spd will help Sharena, Anna, and Fjorm (or any teammates). 2x Brazen and Vantage activate at the same time with a “me first” raw 65 Atk in enemy phase, not to mention a Bonfire special if proced which can be leathal. He’s an enemy phase unit.

Sharena pairs nicely with her player phase build. Under 75% her Brazen Atk/Spd initiates as well as desperation, bringing her to 44 Spd next to an ally, and either 42 Spd if 2 spaces from Alfonse, or 47 if next with her weapons Def/Spd bond. Atk Smoke is there to boost hers and the team’s defence through mass enemy Atk debuffing, and Flashing Blade helps fire off Ignis easily to do massive damage. Ignis is I think the best special of choice with flashing blade, since we don’t really want Sharena to go above 80% HP again, so Aether isn’t considered.

In regards to speed, it may seem odd to consider giving her Flashing Blade as a seal. However, considering her lance refine negates enemy buffs, she should be faster than most enemy units, since a lot of units do not have natural 44+ Spd without buffs, meaning she should activate flashing blade most of the time when under 80% HP against fast enemy units, and especially when next to a teammate.

What do you think? Thanks again for your advice and help!

Asked by We like Ike3 months 4 weeks ago

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I'd say that qr works better as he won't be able to ko before entering double Brazen

Sharena, I have no clue about other than her Bond refine works with enemy phase well.

With Alfonse, though, if you're running Vantage with Braz Atk/Def 6, you'll want to increase his attack as much as possible, so an attack refine and Atk+3 seal would work better. Without Vantage, you're better off running Wrath and Glimmer, and keeping the Def refine.

Thanks for your thoughts! Sorry I just updated my post, it saved prematurely. See Sharena below. I like your thoughts on a Alfonse. I’ll consider that.

No problem.

Your Sharena looks good to me, just requires good positioning.

So, here are my favorite builds for the two of them. For Alphonse, basically the set you have there, except I'd run Chill Def instead of Vantage, since it has better arena scoring. Also, it helps his team and synergizes well with his kit. I'd also swap to a dual rally, again, for arena scoring. You could switch to Aether, but to be honest he'll kill things better with Bonfire or Ignis so it's a moot point. Basically, I'd build him more for Arena, myself, but that's a sidegrade, not an upgrade.

For Sharena, she works really well with Atk/Spd Bond, Atk/Def Link and either CD3 or QR3 as a sacred seal, depending on whether or not she's still having trouble with speedy units. With CD3 and Link active, she gets a really amazing statline of 56/63/46/50/26 as an arena bonus unit, though if you are running a tactics team or something she can make do with a Chill, or even Renewal for budget purposes. Or Guard to help tank. But yeah, I really like this set, it's a lot of fun.

Thanks for your thoughts! I wasn’t really thinking arena for some funny reason, since mostly they’ll be used as bonus units there. I can sacrifice Walmart, it would score better but I love vantage haha. It destroyed any close enemy who dares try to take him down.

Yeah I see what you mean with Sharena. I don’t have Atk/Spd bond, and Brazen A/S is ready on Linus as 5*. I like he dual rally point so I’ll do that for them. Don’t have chill Spd either. But I’ll keep these in mind for Arena!

Yeah, it depends on fodder, really. I had Bond fodder but not Brazen, myself.

I like what you did with Alfonse, but I suggest deflect melee because it's great with vantage. You can take most of the bite out of a lot of enemy specials.

Sharena: very aggressive! I don't have much to say. I prefer double bonds, but what you did is very good too. If you want her to win against high-def greens, moonbow can be considered, but if you time things right ignis might be better.

Thanks for the Alfonse seal suggestion! I think I’ll do that. They really are quite versatile eh. My build thinking is for inside and out of arena, since a fair number of quests require you to use the Askr trio to defeat enemy bosses and they aren’t buffed there as bonus units. So yeah, but I agree that bonds are great, but when she’s standing alone, yeah they can’t help. Hence the Brazen Atk/Spd I decided to put on her. At least when she’s alone, she has, as a bonus, 43 Spd and 59 Atk, with desperation she can still finish enemies off then, without standing by someone. Less position dependent.

Havent decided on a proper seal yet, however this build when used in the arena, gets sharena to an absolutely stupid:
HP 58
ATK 67
SPD 51
DEF 48
RES 42

Wow nice man! I like that use of bonds.

Is there some mistake? Arena bonus gives +10 HP and +4 to all other stats, which should bring her to 57/41/38/32 right?

If you don't summoner support your bonus units to give them the awesome 15/6/6/6/6 stat boost you're doing arena wrong.

Right and wrong aside - I'm not here to debate that right now - you're showing stats as if she has +14, not +4.

bonds are 0/5/5/5/5
arena bonus is 10/4/4/4/4
summoner support is 5/2/2/2/2
ally support is 0/2/2/2/2
tactics support is 0/6/6/6/6

Thats 15/19/19/19/19
which is 58/67/51/48/42 on sharena.

Very nice. That is disgusting eh haha. We probably didn’t know your full context which is where their comments were from. Thanks for the clarification!

I see. You didn't mention the tactics buffs or ally support when you initially offered her stats.