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Jailbait Lilina - Defense Team Antimeta Build

It's been my dream for a long time to build a Red mage that can surprise counter Reinhardt and Brave Lyn! I've been running numbers for awhile... These showed me that +RES Sanaki and +RES Summer Leo could take on Reinhardt...even before the upgraded seals... But it wasn't until the release of Deflect Magic 3 that Lilina became a viable option.

The bad news - I was so excited at shocking people out of Reinhardt/B!Lyn complacency that I overlooked the most obvious flaw with my plan. Attack Preview!!! Duh! No one is going to attack Lilina with Reinhardt when the preview shows her killing him. Opps.

In any case, Jailbait Lilina can counter the majority of Reinhardt and Brave Lyn setups - while also being an excellent mage duelist - but she is by no means a hardcounter. There are plenty of ways that Reinhardt and Brave Lyn can win the encounter. Since this was a build designed for a defense team the goal wasn't to develop a hard counter but instead a surprise counter that netted a few ragequits while getting people thinking... "Oh! If a Red mage can KO Reinhardt on the bait maybe he isn't the answer to all of life's problems after all."

So what do you think and have you come up with any surprising* antimeta builds?

*I.e. Not TA/Raven on a Green Mage.

Asked by Kaihaku1 year 2 months ago
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A bit out of topic, but this is the most surprising Lilina I have ever encountered. I didn't pay much attention, so she slaughtered my Eirika :D

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