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Palla or Roy?

Having trouble deciding between Roy and palla for my arena team, both can be merged up to +5
Current arena team is:
+10 standard nino
+5 standard buffing marth
+5 enemy phase focused summoner supported Gwendolyn
I can’t decide if I should go with an enemy phase focused fierce stance/close defence Roy or a player phase fully speed invested palla, any suggestions?

Asked by kayeday6 months 3 weeks ago

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Unless you're particularly committed to either of the two, I'd consider A!Tiki here if you want another accessible red, assuming you have some copies of her.

Roy is rather underwhelming as a unit and is best left for TA3 fodder. Palla is OK on a mixed team but could also be used later if you decide to make a flier team, which really unlocks her maximum potential. Palla also opens up mobility options with flier Reposition over terrain, WoM, and Guidance seal. Guidance is especially powerful if you have armor units on a mixed team.

As much as I love Palla, it's hard to justify trying to use her over Roy in your current team set-up. A speedy Palla still isn't really fast enough anyways and without flier emblem support, she really isn't too good of a unit. In Roy's case, he's more versatile and ends up being much tankier than Palla thanks to his Refined Binding Blade. He's also not weak to bows and since their speed stat is identical, there's much better reason to use Roy overall.

The only Roy I ever was impressed with was built to tank the hell out of everything; Ayra was hitting 0's even on her special (don't know how that's possible). There's a video of him on YouTube, something to do with Binding Blade.

That being said, I find Caeda an easy pick over Palla..though maybe not outside a flier team. But I couldn't imagine merging Palla instead of distributing goad fliers. I understand that you're trying to merge units you have, but in my mind you're probably better saving the feathers.

I can't imagine using Caeda outside a flier team with that puny attack. Goad Fliers used to be the go to for flier teams, back when they were all melee and Hone Fliers was exclusive to Hinoka. However, now that it's been released on so many units, and with the abundance of flying mages, I don't think it's as big a deal.

I do kind of agree that he'd be better off saving the feathers though. There are a lot of great units in the 4* pool that can eventually be merged.

I like Roy here for the simple reason that enemy phase builds are easier to use in arena atm vs the current tank meta. And with Close Defense 6 + Guard he'd make for a hell of a tank.

Palla might take more effort but I'm curious what kind of build you'd run on her? I personally like Wo Dao, maybe firesweep sword?