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IS getting a bit underhanded with Y.Tiki?

So the video showed a new weapon which was confirmed in the announcement of the coming update, which I personally find exciting because I find it dull when lightning breath/expiration is all I see on almost any dragon except Ninian. However, in the legendary banner she's sharing the colour with two units (perfectly respectable ones) and if we assume that the upcoming New Power banner will be about her too, the case gets worse because she's now sharing with a unit common in the 3*-4* pool who doesn't need a new weapon (though it's worth pointing out that it would be hard to justify her adult self forgetting a technique she knew from her youth). Moreover, the legendary banner ends right before the new weapon gets revealed. I wasn't around back when the Ayra incident occurred, but this feels like the closest thing I've seen with my own eyes. The mitigating factor is that Y.Tiki is a great unit even without a new weapon so it can't be too bad to get one on the legendary banner, but this definitely looks to me like an attempt to inflate the number of orbs people have to spend for her. Anyone else think similarly or see some legitimizing factor that I'm missing?

Asked by Seeker7 months ago

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I don't think this is that bad (mostly because I already have a Young Tiki with bad IVs). And it's certainly not as bad as the Ayra incident, which gave me and everyone else an unwanted Eldigan. However, I think that having share her color on banners isn't going to affect how people summon very much because she will be on the banner with Linde, who is a very rare and sought-after unit. Personally, I am going to summon on blue and green (because I want more MERRICS), and I can't see the Tikis' new upgrade changing them enough to warrant focusing on them over Linde.

That’s not necessarily true. They could just as easily stick A!Tiki (or even both of them) on the banner, but I’m betting on just A!Tiki because Y!Tiki would have just been on this legendary banner.

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I can see why shes on the legendary banner and maybe the next banner, its been awhile since she was on one and its a good way to show off a new skill that can possibly be on her adult self too in time. By the end of the day, dragon emblem users will go for her since shes so rare to pull.

I don't think it's "underhanded." I doubt anyone is really going to spend more orbs on the Legendary Banner just for Y!Tiki when A!Tiki is getting the same weapon and refinement and is much more available. If anything, it's nice that they're acknowledging that she'll likely share "New Power" with A!Tiki and are giving people a chance to pull her on several consecutive banners.

Actually, I really like this point. Totally missed that most people will just use it on A.Tiki if at all. In that light this is just Y.Tiki appearing on two banners in close proximity

I really don't see why people think Intelligent Systems showing off her new breath is underhanded, scheming, a mistake, etc. This is *nothing* like the Ayra incident, and if someone only wants Young Tiki, they can wait for the new banner, and even if they get Adult Tiki, it's not like it's a bad thing since they BOTH get the same weapon.

Every banner, Intelligent Systems wants you to spend orbs. That's what the B8% banners are for. New power banners are for. Hero Fest banners are for. This is nothing new, lol.

It wasn't that they show off the new weapon, of course that's fine. (Wasn't the Ayra incident an issue of lack of showing off, among other things?) I just got suspicious about the colour crowding

I don't really get what you're saying. There's nothing even vaguely close to the Ayra situation with this one. What happened there was Ayra was rumored to be a free GHB unit, or attainable in some new way. No one expected her to randomly show up on a TT banner, sharing a focus color with an old unit that was not super desirable. Moreover, many people had spent their orb stash on the actual "World of Holy War" banner (Sigurd, Deirdre, and Talitiu) because Ayra was assumed to be free. Basically, it was a lack of transparency from IS making that situation bad.

The other factor in this is that Young Tiki might not even be on the New Power banner. They may just place Adult Tiki on that banner, and Young Tiki being on the Legendary banner is so people can roll for both versions of her.

Appreciate the insight of people who played longer than me. I just saw the four characters in the weapon update section of the announcement and assumed the next New Power banner would be like the last.