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Improving my Baby (5* Niles)

It's been a while since I've summoned a Niles, and I've basically put in more then 40 summons worth of pulling colourless with no thief in sight (nor Legault either...). But, I'm still happy with how he's sitting at the moment. I have quite a few +10 Niles on my friends list, but they all seem to focus in res instead of atk or spd, and they all end up barely decent when I use them in grand conquests or voting gauntlets. Mine focuses in atk, as he has an atk boon and def bane.

Anyway, this is my Niles. I love him unconditionally! And I'm sure I could build him a bit better then what he is right now, but I don't have any ideas. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
(Is desperation an ok B slot skill for him? I'm not sure how I like it, but I can't really think of a better one for him. I'm also thinking that maybe I should give him darting blow instead, so he can double more? Idk...)

Asked by Niles6 months 1 week ago
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by Swol 6 months 2 weeks ago

I'd change death blow to swift sparrow, 38 spd is good but not enough to double consistently, also I'd use iceberg/glacies instead of moonbow since Niles has great res and you could use cancel affinity in the b slot to counter raven tome users or swordbreaker since the fastest units of the game like karla ayra or mia are sword units.

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Moonbow -> Iceberg.
Death Blow -> Fury.
Desperation -> Swordbreaker.

With the reduced cooldown reduction, he can generally use Iceberg in a single round which will get a lot more kills than Moonbow. Even more deadly would be to run Glacies, but to make that work you'd either need to use Quickened Pulse or have a teammate with more HP and infantry pulse.

You really want speed in the A slot, as if this build doesn't secure a double he's not very useful. Fury gives stats in both phases which is also useful for surviving Distant Counter opponents or baiting mages.

For the B slot, you can use a breaker to deal with really fast units. Either Swordbreaker or G Tomebreaker are widely available and help him fill a role he otherwise couldn't.

More premium C slot options are Ploys and Smokes.

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by Tandor 6 months 2 weeks ago

If you keep Desperation I would consider Brazen Atk/Spd for his A slot. The biggest issue with Brazen and Desperation is the HP issue. While his res is good enough to tank a hit to get him into range I don't think it's an entirely reliable tactic, perhaps Ardent Sacrifice/Reciprocal Aid would be better Support skills in that case.

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Since he has alot of resistance and a slaying bow he really needs iceberg which is his native skill along with fury to further bolster his atk, spd and res. I would also switch the atk seal with a spd seal, with that he keeps his 46 atk but gets 44 spd on top of that.

With 44 spd he will double most units, especially most tome units.
You can keep his Desperation which has a good synergy with fury if you want to use him as a player phase unit.

Other suggestion which was mentioned before is cancel affinity, some raven tome units wouldnt like that at all.

Only problem with cancel affinity is, that it is very situational. If mother fortune isnt on your side then the next raven user you encounter uses fury instead of triangle adept. But i think, in most cases raven tome users use traingle adept beceause there arent many units with cancel affinity out there.

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