Need Desperate Help Coping with Arena

Arena is pretty hard, especially if you're free to play, like I am. One piece of advice, is to create 4 star +10 merged characters (I'm doing this with Nino). The benefit of this is she'll have the bst of an infantry unit, so she won't lower your arena score, and she can deal with Reinhardt. And you'll have to surrender after losing one unit if you plan on getting a high score. And also, when you're looking at the three battle options, if the character is a cavalry unit or Pegasuses, don't even risk it, as it could be a horse or flier emblem team. It's better to waste one dueling sword than lose your steak. Other than that, arena is kinda luck based. Hope this helped a little.

I'm a ftp player, and as much as I wish I could resonate with those feelings, I can't. I jumped on the horse emblem bandwagon a long time ago, and I can consistently get 7 straight wins with my team of Rein, Cecilia, Xander, and Camus, all of which I had to 5*. I would recommend making that team (you don't even need rein because bladetome cecilia is way too broken), and your time in arena will go much smoother. HMU for more details.

This week has the worst maps in rotation, especially against horse emblem. A Reinhardt check/counter is essentially a requirement, and with many of these maps being very compact, killing a unit turn 1 is a necessity (at least for me). Otherwise, you risk being run down. I don't really have any advice for teambuilding, but all my units are player phase oriented. I tend to use Linde, Nino, Cherche/Sharena, and a bonus unit (either Anna or Alfonse). Linde is rare, but the other units are either starters or relatively easy to pull as a 3* unit (though Cherche requires a lot of investment). I find myself swapping between tiers 19 and 20, but I'm content with it right now.

Basically you need an answer to horse emblem.
Nino pared with any supports who can give +Res and +Speed will tear down the blue mage and can usually kill the green mage too. Then you need a lance user to counter xandar. Azura is fantastic to pair with Nino if you have her because she fills both those roles. The hardest part of horse emblem to counter is Camus because he will kill your Nino.

You also need a tanky hero like Xandar, Zephyr or similar to deal with Takumi and Hector teams.

That leaves your last slot for whatever fits. And yes I got all these heroes from FTP, my Nino started life as 4* as did Zandar and Zephiel who I won in GHB.

I hate arena sometimes too, but this week has been really bad in particular. All matchups I've gotten this week are either horse emblem, mage emblem, or fury3+vantage3 emblem. Like 4/5 teams have Reinhardt, and like 1/4 I'll get the worst map ever against a team designed for that map. Now more than ever it feels like if I go into a battle there's more of a chance that I have zero chance of winning on that map against those units.

My poor little Fae had to get turned into a monster just to counter KO Reinhardt and tank other hits on the first turn.

I'm f2p at tier 20, which is the highest possible tier a player could have for the number of weeks I've been playing. I've certainly run into annoying situations where losing a unit was inevitable, but in the end, most of the time strategic maneuvering (and a bit of luck) allowed me to get deathless streaks every season to get me to where I am now. Take your time to carefully analyze all possible scenarios, particularly if there's a dancer: I always consider what would happen if the dancer moves first, and if another unit moves first and gets danced. Admittedly, there are situations where I simply see no way out. However, I never let deaths get to me to the point of rage quitting. If you're frustrated with arena, just change your mindset: it's not going anywhere, you don't have to be at the highest tiers for the highest orb rewards, and it's not the only content in the game. It really isn't the end of the world if you don't rank up. I'm definitely ranking down this season, but I'm not bothered by it because I'll still be getting 4 orbs even if I'm missing out on 1k feathers. BTW, having positioning skills like Reposition on all or most of your units is great.

Don't get frustrated. Some f2p peeps do very well, bit dont compare yourself with spenders. Of course they will have advantage and they should since the game is a business and spending should give you some sort of an advantage otherwise what is the point. However, f2p players should specialize even more and ficus on a handful of heroes instead of trying to build everything. Start with a certain build you want and perfect it and then move to the next.

Lastly remember it is just a game and whether you are tier 20 or 1, it doesn't make you that much more or less of a person. For me I don't care for arena, I just like collecting and building heroes. I can be tier 20 easily if want to, but I like staying in the 17 to 18 range nice arena is mostly the same thing over and over at the end. At the end, most people have same builds and heroes.

What I like to see is for them to expand maps and allow 5 heroes instead of 4.

I've been F2P my whole time playing this game. The way I see it is that if you score over 4000 and get your defense, that's about 3000 feathers right there. Don't read to much into tiers. I've never gone about Tier 18 and it's been fine. You still get 3 orbs and a decent amount of feathers. You are bound to make mistakes while playing, everyone does. At the end of day, if I can get the feathers for my score and defense, I don't really care about my tier.

My suggestion for Arena is to have someone who can counter/tank Reinhardt (preferably a green mage or Emerald axe user). He's harmless once you are able to get up close with him. As for dancers, be wary of the danger zone (in actuality, it will be far larger). If they have WoM, focus on KOing one target.

Wings of mercy fucked both of my deathless attempts because I didn't one shot a unit... Still in Tier 20 range even with a death due to my units Rating. I need to pay more attention. By the way here is a Reinfart counter example. With this setup Reinfart will engage your unit and do double digit zeroes. If Cecilia is in range she will die easily, and Reinfart will do no damage at all. Just watch out for Leo's stacking on his threat range, in this case bait him and kill or find a square only Reinfart can reach. Then use your blue to snipe Leo. Any Axe user with high ATK will work with this build, or a Lightning Breath Fae plus TA if you lack a Hector(though she does significantly less damage to mages because of her breath attacks. You don't really need Distant Counter, just a unit who can soak his damage and any other unit in threat range so you can kill him on player phase. You can also use the unit as a counter to archers if you can find one with middle of the road Defense and Resistance(around 30 points each). Hope this helps.

I only hate the arean because I always see this it made me upset because I didn't get a bride or a bunny