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right now i'm saving up orbs for the legendary banner in january. I'm hoping to get as many legendary tikis as possible and merge her up. In the meantime though, what are some good 4* and 3* heroes to five star and merge?

Asked by winterbeats1 month ago
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All of them?
It really becomes a matter of preference and how much you would like to invest in each unit.

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You will do NO merging or promoting of any kind until the 3.0 update happens.

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It's not a good time to decide on merge projects with 3.0 around the corner.

Maybe experiment with different play styles and expand your horizons while finding what you like best for the time being?

Ideas:
- Lilina, OHKO mage, very relevant to the meta and potentially useful in bonus unit arena
- Nowi and Fae, generalists once again relevant to the meta
- Sothe, Nino, Tailtiu, Tharja, fast and aggressive ranged units
- Sheena or Gwendolyn, extremely tanky
- Cordelia, aggressive and squishy melee flier
- Raven, similar but infantry. Lon'qu if you prefer red.
- Cherche, hyper-deadly brave weapon
- Azama, Nanna, or Clarine, tanky healers. Azama is slow; the others are fast

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Adding to this list:

-Soren Allround mage that can fit on many teams
-Bartre/Florina if you need a unit that can smash the armored units. Bartre being more anti physical, Florina anti (armor)dragon.
-Ares the 4* unit that should have been 5*. His weapon and high atk are great
-Kaze/Felicia as colorless mage bait
-Lukas the wall
-Odin allround support and a sturdy mage.
-Chrom great enemy phase unit and most easily mergable falchion user.

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You got some good ideas there. A few I don't entirely agree with.
- Bartre will smash armours with no merges or 4*+10, death blow, and axebreaker. Unless you want him to beat swords too, which is possible but then I think it's time to look into 5*+10. Unless you can blow through them in one hit with steady breath + special spiral ignis anyways? That does sound possible.
- Similar if you want to bait mages with Felicia. She's fine with her prf at 4*+10. Just go for +spd -def, QR, fury or spd/res bond, Plate+eff, every mage dies unless Reinhardt attacks into her with quickened moonbow (use guard if you want to bait that). To quote the (mostly retired) player who inspired me to merge Felicia, "you can use up your guard threshold on Rein, and you don't really need it for anyone else." But if you want Felicia to work as an attacker, then 5*+10 is definitely worth considering, and go for +atk IVs.
- Florina is potentially good but I find potentially not the best value on this kind of investment...though I guess she could be pretty good on a flier team. It's that she doesn't get the extra stats vs ranged units and bows will rip through her unless you use up her seal protecting against it, in which case you may as well just use F.Grima who's faster, has built-in DC, and gets away with a bit less attack by hitting res.
- Ares is indeed a unit that could easily have stayed 5* exclusive, but he needs mostly one stat only so I think you don't get especially good value for merging higher than 5*+1 (which gives +1 atk)

Odin and Chrom are really good ideas, and people tend to forget Chrom.

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Agreed that its best to wait for 3.0 just in case they make some drastic changes. Aside from the units others have mentioned, I'd recommend (out of the blue units since you plan on merging L. Tiki):

-Shigure, great offensive lancer. He's also flexible enough to run a mixed phase or even enemy phase build. Maybe harder to merge than Cordy though.

-Reinhardt, there's no denying his offensive power. He gets even better with high investment through merges, DB4, chill res, etc. Is also surprisingly tanky and can run an owl tome CC set. Sounds cheesy but it's effective.

Clair, aka blue Caeda. Great armor and cavalry counter, built-in flashing blade (which makes other fliers jealous) to nuke anyone else, runs ploys well. Will also score well when Blue Duel Flier is released.

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I still find it funny people think they will change promotions in 3.0, the chances of them lowering the feather cost for 5*ing is very very slim, especially seeing that it would be a huge fuck you to those of us that had already 5*+10 multiple units from the 3-4* poll, like for instance me I have 3 5*+10 units from the 3-4* poll adding up to at least 660k feathers just from them alone, and say they were to lower the feather count to say 15k that's 495k meaning I would have lost 165k feathers just enough feathers to be able to 5*+10 another unit, the only thing I can really see them doing along the lines for merging is increasing the amount of feathers we get through sending units home and even then I doubt it

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They need to keep the game relevant for new players though and give them a way to bridge the gap so maybe feather count would be one way to do that.
Another is to throw a bunch of 5*s into the 4/5 or 3/4/5 pool. Deciding to merge big now and missing out on a dream merge project in a couple of weeks wouldn't be so nice.

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It's not that I expect them to lower promotion costs; it's that they might introduce or change things so that the meta shifts significantly, make units good who weren't previously good, make units who are amazing now only good.

Also, foddering possibilities and costs and opportunity cost might change.

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The only thing they would introduce would be another mass demotion like they did with 2.0 which would most likely be units that doesn't have any need of being in the 5* poll like Mist and Faye, other than a mass demotion I highly doubt they would introduce anything too big

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They didnt demote units in the 2.0. They introduced the weapons forge. I don't expect demotions with 3.0, but some new mechanic ororworthy game mode worthy of a version update.

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They did a massive demotion bringing some 5* exclusive going to 4-5* and 4-5* units to 3-4* it's the reason why say Sheena and Soleil are in the 3-4*, I'm not sure exactly when the massive demotion was but it was around 2.0 and it wouldn't surprise me if they did it again cuz with the past like 4 banners having no demotion the 5* poll is getting way to cluttered

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