I am inexperienced in the ways of Nino but I need one more green unit for Arena Assault and I have a 4 star +SPD/-HP Nino which is perfect IVs. The only problem is I'm really having trouble deciding what to give her for her A slot.
Her two optimal builds have a bunch of options, all except death blow I can giver her.
Option 1: L&D 2 - Can't do 3, but doesn't seem to be much of difference. This I really don't want to do unless someone can convince me this is the absolute best thing to do.
Option 2: Darting Blow 3 - She already has a Spd boon so this might be overkill, but it would assure doubling and keep her bulk.
Option 3: Fury 3 - Gives her increased bulk and offences. I'm not a huge fan of the recoil damage, but with a healer she could be fine. Desperation would probably benefit most from this.
Option 4: Swift Sparrow 2 - I was crazy fortunate enough to get an extra Brave Lyn from the Brave Heroes banner. The one I pulled has optimal IVs and merging to just +1 seems like a waste when she could give her amazing skills to someone else. The best use I can find is to give Swift Sparrow 2 to Nino. That gives her increased damage, pretty much assures double when paired with Eirika, and keeps her builk. However, Fury seems to do much of the same thing while also increasing bulk.
I'm torn between option 3 and 4 mainly because I still wonder if there's a better unit to give Swift Sparrow 2 to that I might get later and just put Fury on her. What do you guys think?
I'd recommend going with Build 3. Since Nino is a blade tome user, she benefits from buffs from other characters, and her res and def are usable with Fury 3's buffs. Desperation 3 works well because Fury does enough damage to lower her HP to the threshold needed to proc Desperation. I use this build and I believe it is very usable. Just keep in mind of the damage she is gonna take, as she takes about 6 damage from Fury 3, and only has 30HP.
her ivs are actually only Second best and your reluctance on Fury is strange since that's her optimal A slot skill.
+Spd/-Def is her best as she needs neutral HP/Res plus Fury to actually tank and kill Reinhardt (her most important job on any team).
You don't give a flying fuck about the recoil damage as it can't kill you and once you've gotten the important bait kill done, your turn hits and with Desperation and a speed of 42 (more with seal or buffs) you don't care if your health is low, they can't touch you.
that's 2 kills using one unit. Your other three can either clean up, or position her to safety for the next turn.
I basically agree with the stuff mentioned above, but I would mention that you might consider passing on brave lyn's c-skill instead of swift sparrow. Since its currently unique to her and a -7 atk aoe debuff on the c-slot is pretty huge especially if fighting bladetomes.
Hold your Brave Lyn, she's too expensive to be a fodder while LnD2 can provides as much stats increases as Swift Sparrow does
You don't need bulk with Nino, so, Fury is really out of question, especially with your Nino's IV
That leaves you with LnD and Darting Blow
You don't really need LnD3 as LnD2 is enough to make her a beast, you can patch the 1 point difference in atk and spd with buffs
If you choose Darting Blow instead, she'll miss the attack increases, though, you can fix it with buffs, nothing could go wrong with Blade Tomes
I hope this helps!
Lots of people seem to love L&D for Nino, but I'm not wild about the idea either. Both Fury and Swift Sparrow are honestly great choices. It sounds like you want to run Desperation as her B, so I think the choice comes down to this: Swift Sparrow avoids the recoil damage, but in order to activate Desperation, you'd have to either run Ardent Sacrifice as her support or hope that she'll be up against an enemy unit that she can bait without dying. With Fury you have to deal with recoil, but you can activate Desperation without getting hit and use your support slot for something else. Both options will make Nino amazing, so I think it comes down to personal preference.
(Disclaimer: my Nino is still running res +3 as her A because I'm lazy, but I'm working on fixing that.)
I'm old school... Mine is still running Death Blow from way back when. I should probably upgrade at some point but she's still so effective that I haven't seen the point.
But Fury all the way. It's important for mage dueling and going up against certain Reinhardt builds (-HP does you no favors here).
i'd vote fury, it's a great skill and synergies with desperation or vantage plus a dancer as she's best off making your teams first 2 kills from a defensive bait position where rest of team can supply all the buffs. only other safe way of triggering those skills is aid/sacrifice on the support slot and wait for one of your team to take dmg and take action the turn after which seems like a terrible idea.
The rigth build is fury+desperation, here is no argument there.
Once nino attacks and kills the first target (or baits and kills a mage) she will be able to use desperation for the rest of the match, so if you position her well to always initiate the recoil dmg is completely irrelevant.
On another note, her best ivs really are +spd -def, but don't worry too much, mine is also-hp and it still works extremely well.
It's already been said, but definitely go with Fury 3, it synergizes so well with desperation. The recoil damage is your friend, trust me. I have the exact +spd/-hp Nino and I unfortunately have to waste my sacred seal slot on the hp+3 seal so she can tank Reinhardt, but after that as long as she has 1 hp that's all that matters.
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