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Hector dilemma

I need your guy's opinion, I know most of everyone says to not merge Hector and use Distant Counter for other armor units in particular, but the current one I'm using is -HP/+Res and I've already got his optimal build on him with the correct skills. I summoned from the PoR Banner and guess what pops up? A +Def/-Spd Hector. So this is tempting me to merge because it's reducing his useless stat and increasing his Def even greater. Should I merge my old onto the new one or hand Distant Counter off to someone?

Asked by ExiledNations1 year 3 months ago

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No. You would literally gain 1 HP and 1 in either attack or the boon stat (it's alays HP and the highest other stat) from merging which is definitely not worth the loss of Distant Counter. In fact, your Hector is better than the other one. How often do you use Hector to Bait Melee vs Mages? you should almost always be baiting mages and you always get doubled. +Res is a lot more useful here, especially if you give him the Distant Def 1 seal.

Zephiel is generally the first unit I always suggest DC goes to but the Black Knight and his sword are making people overlook the King of Bern despite his better matchups vs magic vs the knight thanks to Wary Fighter.

If you don't have/want Zephiel regardless, a +Atk/-Spd Effie is the next best choice, or an Amelia as far as Armor Emblem choices go, with Effie being higher priority than Amelia to round out your DC colors on the team. With Brave Lance+ and attack boon, she still hits a mammoth 51 attack without Deathblow which is still impressive and with Wary Fighter she's basically blue Zephiel for baiting and stabbing.

That is a solid point, I was considering giving distant counter off to Zephiel but with Black Knight coming into play I feel like I can hold off on Zephiel and hand it off to Amelia (+HP/-SPD) or my Effie (+ATK/-SPD). What do you guys think?

Effie by a long shot. Give her Brave Lance+, keep Wary Fighter and adjust C slot based on if she's on an Armor team or not. Special can also be personal preference for the most part.

I think Effie is the preferred choice...especially at +ATK. I think having a DC armor of each color is highly preferred over having two greens and a red. Effie will be able to tank most green magic due to wary fighter and KO on the counter...only a heavily buffed blade tome should be able to OHKO her.

Cant really agree with that, while its true having Dc on all colours feels good, the reality is that red mages are nonexistant, so an effie with distant counter is pretty much useless, i would much rather have her use her native deathblow 3.

Amelia,on the other hand, is a fantastic DC user thanks to her high-ish speed and all around good attack and defense.

At the end of the day, merging or not depends on how badly you want/need the extra BST to stay in tier 20.

It's unfortunate mine has a bane in speed though so she might get doubled a bit too often than I'd like for that to happen.

My personal opinion is that you should hold on to a couple different IV builds of Hector before doing either merging or inheriting off, unless you desperately want to hand a DC off to a Zephiel or something (not a great option now with the Black Knight coming soon). I'd say use and build both if it's not terribly expensive of a feather dump to build both. The advantage of a + Res Hector is he can survive and counter attack and kill higher merge/buffed Reinhardts, which non-+Res IV's don't allow for as easily. Both are really viable IV sets, but honestly the Res one looks better in the current meta in my opinion.