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Nowi help

I’m planning to add her to my arena team. Her partners will be Fae who will be merged +10 eventually and will have Fortify drags, H Sakura who can shut down every mage bar none, and a rotating red bonus Hero, designed to knock out axes. She’s +def,-Spd, and will soon be merged +2. The questions are which is the better refinement option for her Lightning Breath(leaning toward Def) and which B skill is best? Her two purposes will be anti archer and anti sword, which includes the possibility of a very heavily merged Lucina. I’m leaning toward Bowbreaker as from my calculations, Nowi reduces the damage of an optimal atk Lucina(designed for the max atk possible with Falchion) to a mere 15, and will OHKO her with only a Rally Atk.

Even though I have thoughts of what may work best, I’m open to second opinions. Also, for those curious, the calculation of the Lucina damage was using TA3. Sure, CA would shut her down, but who has ever seen Lucina with CA? She’s far more likely to run Desperation.

Asked by kratos109871 year 1 month ago

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Imo I think that Lightning Breath with the speed upgrade is the best and I prefer it more than the others
It works well for my +atk -def Nowi

Allow me to convince you of this build.

This is a - HP/+Atk Nowi with the +Def version of Lightning Breath. IMO the 4 extra defense is the best option for her. It lets her easily bait and dispatch every archer along with almost every melee unit. I am likely going to swap out her Bonfire btw for Ignis or Aether long-term as I just finished this yesterday. Lyn has been doing a max 4 damage to her in Arena btw, meaning she can tank a Lyn and a Reinhardt on the same turn.

If you run Close Defense on her instead of Distant Defense she can easily tank 2 hits from Falchion users. Mine almost could do it earlier against a 58 atk Marth. Any defensive buff would have allowed her to do it though.

I happened to have a spare Luke to give her Panic Ploy, so feel free to flex on her C skill. Steady Stance is also fine for an A skill. Yes I realize sacking a BIke to her is a big cost, but she's likely the best SB wielder currently in the game.

If ever I get a spare Bike, Nowi is top of my list for Steady Breath

With that IV I'd DEFINITELY go with the +Def variant of Lightning Breath. No contest. 36 def, before merges, is just too awesome to pass up.

TA3 sounds good to me. You might also consider Fury to crank her defense up even higher, though I'm not sure if that'll be any help vs Lucina.

Bowbreaker is definitely cheaper & easier to get a hold of and gets the job done for the role you're giving her. I personally prefer Quick Riposte, but that's pretty expensive and won't prevent speedy, high attack archers (*cough* B!Lyn) from doubling her.

With Fury, she falls to Lucina. Barely, but she can’t handle it. Luckily, she’s built already. She only needs to refine her weapon and gain Bowbreaker, and I’ve been pulling a lot of Setsuna lately, so Woo!

Bowbreaker is kind of a waste on her after the LB update IMO because with just about any buff, she's going to OHKO every archer thanks to the lopsided defensive stats most of them have. I mean H. Jakob might be an issue, but he's not going to double you anyway.

I'm not as big of a fan of TA 3 on her long-term. It's good for short-term if you want to make sure she can kill Falchion users, but she easily bait kills the majority of Arena green melee units and even a good chunk of mages because of their low speed/res combination, and TA 3 kills that.

What would you suggest in her B slot then?

If you want to 100% ensure she kills Falchion users, Swordbreaker so you don't have to use Triangle Adept in her A slot.

But Quick Riposte is really the best B slot skill for her so she can double on baits.

With QR and Fury, she dies to Lucina before her double can activate. With Swordbreaker and Fury, she falls 3-7 points short of OHKO-ing a +10 B!Lyn(very possible to face with a +10 Fae, +2 Nowi and +5 H!Sakura). So it’s like asking “Which of these threats, for which your team has no other answer, do you want to be unable to KO in favor of allowing her to KO a few other threats for which your team already has an answer?”

I’ve heard recommendation for bow breaker, as lightning breath has the unique ability to bypass Brave Lyn’s Sacaes Blessing skill and counter her, allowing you to wall her.

That’s what I’m going to try with mine anyway, and probably go with the +def since Fae and Sakura both have decent resistance stats