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Help me decide... lyn or ike?

That seems to be a popular question. I am F2P, and was relatively successful in saving for the CYL banner, having 373 orbs right now.

I need ike and lyn. I don't have any 5* colorless besides Genny, don't have a decent archer, and I have never had a Klein. I don't have hector, but I do have Julia, Nino, Minerva, titania, and sheena.

Because there are so few green units, green orbs ate hard to come by, so if I only picked green orbs, I'd get less units overall (because they'd average at 5 orbs a pop) and I might get 5* duplicates that I don't need. But, I might get a hector or sonya...

There are more clear units, so they would average closer to 4 orbs per unit and would raise my pitty rate faster. I could really use some death blow fodder, more kagero for my merge, and some good colorless units in general. Problem is... there's not a lot of good units in colorless and if I see one more serra, so help me Naga...

So I guess my question is, would I be more likely to get both lyn and ike if I choose lyn as my free unit, or ike? If it's about the same, should I choose the potential death blow (but actually serra) rout, or the potential hector (but actually bartre) rout?

Thanks guys

Asked by indecisive1 year 4 months ago

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I feel like it's easier to get a bad colorless than a bad green...so I say Lyn as your freebie

I would take Lyn as your free unit. As an f2p player, you really need those summons to be useful, even when they aren't what you want. There are very usable physical and magic units in green. For colorless, there is just such a high possibility for a fully wasted summon. I would take that possibility off the table if I were you.

Here's your strategy:
Take brave Lyn as your free unit.
Go to Hector's banner and only pull greens. It doesn't matter that it might cost 5 orbs a pop. That's still more cost efficient than wasting orbs on colors you don't want (e.g. spending 20 orbs on a pull with only 1 green takes away 15 orbs, or 3 more chances for Hector).
With whatever orbs you have left after you get Hector, pull from the CYL banner. Pull any color besides colorless.
You'll get archer Lyn and have superb chances of pulling Hector and a couple 5*'s from the CYL banner.

I think I'd much rather have a brave ike than a hector. My worry is that, when ike was first released, I spent 435 orbs and still didn't get him. Now that he's in the smaller green pool over the dominating red pool, I fear that it will be even harder to get him because many sessions don't even have a green orb. I could very well spend 25 orbs before a green orb even shows up. There's almost always at least one colorless orb per session, often multiple. I just want to make sure I get both of them, you know?

If that's the case, then go the other way:
Pull from the CYL banner first until you're satisfied, then try for Hector.

Colourless hell is named for a reason. Go Lyn. If you want to try and pull for a merge/better IV later you can still attempt to get the useful clear fodder, but the less time you have to wade through the swamp the better.

As others have suggested, choose Lyn and pull for Ike or Hector. Also, going for the color you need is by far the most cost-effective way of pulling.