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Deadly synergy?

With all the people building up a Micaiah lately (am admittedly one of them) I realized that she would have incredible synergy with Alm on every level.

Alm is someone who needs to be kept at constant 100% HP to perform effectively, which is hard to do without support because Alm's built in renewal only works every other turn. However, with Micaiah's support skill Alm can get healed every time he finishes combat putting him back at his two-shot percent. Anyone with Ardent could already do this, but in this exchange Micaiah also benefits from losing health to be pushed into brash assault range letting her double on her player phase build. And it has no cap as to how much health it can transfer which means Alm taking a counter attack before he kills the opponent may even benefit you.

On top of that, the 2 most common arena threats are Armored units and dragons. They alone cover both of these. If there does happen to be a green armor Micaiah still can't kill, Alm already covers them because he's a high power red. The only thing stopping these 2 are cavalry units that can engage on Micaiah without taking a hit back (because she beats them too).

Of course this will only be effective when you can play arena without building buff bots and chip damage but I still think it's super cool and is potent outside of arena as well. Thoughts?

Asked by RoyAhoy2 months 1 week ago

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well alm can stop and tank melee cavalry unit infront of micaiah.
with his 76 physical bulk, It's quite hard to 1 shot him.
unless you are THE REINHARDT or brave weapon user.

anyway, I think it's a pretty neat combination if you need a range tanker for alm.
because any healer can work just as good as micaiah with him.
double savage blow pain+ is 24 AoE damage.
candle can let alm strike at safer state.
trilemma can make him blue killer, etc
and now there is that witchy staff that give alm guard, which is pretty good because he hits twice. just imagine if he does not kill L!Ike for some weird reason. he will eat radiant aether.

A healer works to buff Alm, but the idea of it is that Micaiah covers all of Alm's weaknesses. She can take out the L!Ike. It was sort of a synergy where the characters don't have to run a support for each other to work because they both help each other without even trying to. Alm takes out all squishers, dragons and greens. Micaiah takes out cavalry, armors, and reds. The only thing left that they don't really check are blue offensive units with decent res and fliers that can survive them.

healer work to buff, heal and protect alm from his weakness.
wrath dazzling covers alm weakness, in a much better way imo than micaiah.
yeah micaiah can take care of stuff like effie and hector, but healer can do that too. and they can heal alm at a much consistant pace, unlike micaiah who can only heal alm for as much as her HP.
micaiah only beats healer when fighting ranged cavalry like Blyn and brainhardt, and TA raven blue, which is why I said, it is a good combo if you need ranged tanker for your alm.
but beside that, I think healer is a much better partner for him.
you can also work blyn and brainhardt out with healer if you plan with your positioning, but i know its hard to fight ranged cavalry, since I've been getting crushed by those combo.

I've actually used healers constantly, and I do agree that they cover these weaknesses too. Not exactly better, since Micaiah can take them out in one turn. She just runs more risk because if she can't double with brash assault she might not be able to kill before retaliation. Besides, healers beat about everything though so I'd probably get bored of it :/

And yeah, ranged cavalry was actually the thing I was thinking they'd have a problem facing together. However, I was thinking someone like a green tank should be able to survive B!lyn's hit, and take out Reinhardt. And Micaiah has effectiveness against them so she has no problem player phasing any of them.

Ye mostly but remember that micaiah has a average mage hp pool while alm has an above avg infantry hp pool. So micaia wont be able to heal him back super consistently if he takes a big hit. Itll only work if you can keep them out of trouble

But it still can work because Micaiah can't be too low for her threshold to work, and Alm still has natural HP regeneration to restore whatever is left. And the remaining of the 1-2 slots can all be used for supporting what they already have.

"still can work"
This is the crux of the matter. Something that CAN WORK is not the same as something that WORKS. Im just pointing it out.

Michaia synergizes well in ANY team. So does alm with any unit that can help him heal. But remember that ur giving up one slot of repo to bring him back to safety. And sometimes hed rather be lifted back to safety consistently and heal on his own

You run the risk with Micaiah regardless of Alm though right? Like you lose that reposition just by having her. If you use Alm with any blue mage they'd supposedly be running repo to be pull Alm and take the hit or be pulled back opening up Alm to be hit again anyway. the reposition strategy only works if you are attacking with the original unit at a range to get out of range entirely or repo once with a tank..Still can work is more of an expression because nothing is set in stone in this game. When you reposition someone is still going to be taking the hit, and you'd only ever use sacrifice after combat is completed in that area as it puts her in too much risk.

Say Alm engages swordsman and gets the KO, yet took between 5-30ish damage. He's now in range of another enemy attack. If you'd most likely reposition with your support such as Titania/Dorcas to take the next hit in Alm's place and another reposition if needed. During that turn you'd use sacrifice and now Alm is back at full and Micaiah is now in range. If not, then one of them at least made it into their threshold. Next turn my Dorcas got hit by heir lance unit or mage (whatever it is), and I'm ready to finish them off now that Alm and Micaiah combined have coverage on the overwhelming majority of the game.

The point of the combination wasn't just that they benefit from each other's desired HP thresholds, they also check most threats in the game together. Though I do understand what you are saying and appreciate you contributing, hope you don't misconstrue me. These talks help solidify strategy.

As someone who use a +6 Micaiah in Arena, and love using her in arena! I sadly cannot say much about this combo as I have not summoned an Alm so I've never tried them together.

I'm still saving for my Alm, hope you get lucky on getting him at some point. You constantly talking about her actually influenced me to build up mine (I got perfect ivs on legendary banner free summon) which led me to this synergy. ty boo <3