Looking at builds for Nowi/Fae/ATiki and theyre all pretty much the same suggested build. I have one spare BIke so I could give one of them Steady Breath/Aether.
Who would be the best option? Natures will be (Tiki +atk/-spd, Fae +res/-hp, and Nowi +def/-hp) With a Ninian near with Fortify.
or give to BK.
Nowi.
Checks optimal Rein and Blyn. Also Steady Breath requires -spd. If you are too fast on any of the dragons, you will not get doubled, your Ignis will not go off, and you will miss the kill.
Edit: Misread the iv's, i would go with Tiki. I have Steady Breath on her and no regrets!
I have only used Nowi, however, it does depend on how much you have put into them as far as I've seen. In my opinion, Nowi and ATiki are the best, however that is because I've used them for a long time and have not even touched Fae yet.
I would personally say Nowi, since, to my knowledge, she is able to kill both Brave Lyn and Reinhardt as of late. However if you want to take down Brave Lyn and possibly tank Julia or Deirdre(yes I have seen this happen) then you could run Adult Tiki and hope for the best.
Either way good luck with your building dude!
Between Nowi, Fae, and A!Tiki I think Fae wants Steady Breath the least. She has the highest speed, most resistance, and lowest attack. Combined with the fact that blue is still probably the most popular color, dominated by mages and lances that often aren't very fast, I find that she makes for the best TA user out of the bunch.
To me, I would either seek to +10 a unit or not merge at all.
Why do we ever +10 a unit anyway? Either we like him/her a lot, or we want to use him/her in Arena, right? But if we merge out of love, how is +1 different from +0? Same thing in Arena. So ya, I agree with you. The Steady Breath on your extra Ike is ripe for SI. And indeed, dragon is the goto since more Black Knight copies are highly unlikely.
Ayra and Fjorm would be the only exception here as they have legendary weapon and unique special (for scoring). They could be fine ~ half way merged. Speaking of which, I just realized I might've merged away a +Spd/-Res by accident. I realized a few days ago. I am still too heart-broken to open the game...
I would make a compromise among the followings:
A) Who you like
B) Who you have the most copies of (if you don't want to make them +10, I wouldn't bother giving them Steady Breath; if you are not close to make them +10, just wait till you are close)
C) Color. Normally, Green > Blue > Red. That is due to the color of the common mages. That however depends on the rest of your team. For example, if you are a fellow Fjorm enthusiast and guaranteed to run Fjorm on your team, you would want a DC green counter. If that is a dragon, ATiki is good. Fae is also good in this case as she does check Nino. Even Corrin can be good with her bad breath and being a better physical tank. Nowi, who is arguably the most versatile otherwise, makes the least sense in this case as they fulfill nearly the exact same role. Hope that makes sense.
Btw, when you say "Steady Breath/Aether", you mean just Steady Breath right? There is no cheap unit out there to give the pre-req to SB. And it is a terrible deal to use B!Ike for Aether. Also, be careful of choosing -HP Nowi. I would save the suitable +Spd one, the +Def/-Spd one and the +Def/-HP one you currently like until a few months later when more weapon refinery is released. Right now, you can get away with -HP Nowi due to weapon refinery giving extra HP. (Otherwise, she dies to QP Moonbow Reinhardt.) Due to weapon refinery again, +Spd Nowi is now viable and sensible. Except, it is silly to assume weapon refinery will confine to dragons, healers and a select few others. More and more heroes will get their refinery choices. Henceforth, we should expect the extra HP from refinery will be later countered by extra Mt from refinery on the enemies. Similarly, own extra Spd will be countered by enemy extra Spd. So until things clear up, save those good IV copies.
EDIT: Just noticed all the comments about Nowi countering Reinhardt and Bow Lyn. You should make sure to run your own calculations. (That's the fun.) Nowi is not the only dragon that can counter both.
Thanks for all the info. I haven't really payed much attention to Fjorm other than using her for quests. She still has her default kit.
Overall Nowi is the only one I really use atm since she is already at 5* and fits easy on most teams. I know Fae can be super useful if I give her lightning breath tho, but she's default kit atm.
As for +10 I have enough units to ATiki+5, Fae+9, and Nowi +4 and about 150k feathers. I've never made a +10 unit before (closest is Ryoma+2)
Dam now I'm thinking maybe Ill save BIke and just run Fury on all 3.
Since your Fae is much more ready, I would sacrifice B!Ike on Fae if I were you. You have the good IV right? (Save a +Def/-Spd or +Def/-HP and then a +Spd/-HP. Again, we don't know how weapon refinery will turn out.) While Fae is a slightly heavier investment as her Lightning Breath would have to come from a 5 star Nowi, it is still only 20k more feather and a readily available unit out of 200k feathers in your path to +10. But hey, if you have lots of Hinata lying around, Fury instead of Steady Breath *for now* could be a good idea.
(Even though the rarity of Fury doesn't even compare to Steady Breath, the demand also doesn't. You would only really use Steady Breath on DC counter units that you plan to +10 merge eventually. But Fury is helpful for a LOT of units that you ever use for AA and single-player modes.)
I can see two ways to optimize feather income:
1) Stay in Tier 20 arena and stay above 3000 in AA.
2) Stay between Tier 19 and 20 in arena and above 5000 in AA.
If you feel like waiting for a bit, maybe indeed use Fury and try option 2) for now? That is, merge them for a few levels. You won't need +10 all the way for option 2).
Eventually though, I would seriously think about upgrading one or two of them to +10. The dragons are pretty safe choices for +10ing. And they are just not nearly as good without Steady Breath.
Btw, do you have Ninian?
I actually have 3 Hinatas left, but I've already given Fury to alot of units who want it.
I see what you're saying about the +10 thing tho, I guess if I'm sacrificing such a rare unit I should do it on someone I can build up to +10. Dragons are perfect since they come in lower rarities too so that's true. Lol I know I've thrown many A Tikis back when I didn't think I'd have the rescources to run dragon emblem.
And yea I pulled a Ninian off banner which is why I feel like I have all the pieces for a dragon team in my box. Just gotta plan out how to spend resources.
Hinata is actually the unit I SI away at 3 star en masse before I played this game actively but still hit the barrack limit. Haha
Besides availability, dragons are also just strong. They have good BST for scoring. Aether also makes sense due to it being even number CD with Lightning Breath. With Steady Breath, Aether does prop. So even though you don't have legendary weapon on dragons, you at least have a 500 SP special. Ninian kinda needs the merge scores and extra bulk from merging. But I think if you +10 merge a dragon and bring two other units with good scores, you can get away with using Ninian. Scores aside, Ninian makes actually winning the matches a lot easier.
It doesn't hurt to go half way though if you want to wait and see for a little bit.
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