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Poor IV Lancina help

I spent 300 orbs on the cyl banner, and it only gave me a BIke, Lancina and -Spd Rebecca. Lancina has shitty IVs too: -Atk +Res.
Just recently, I decided to build her nevertheless and put her into kagerocharts, but I still have trouble deciding on an A-Slot for her. I consider Death Blow, Darting Blow and Sturdy Blow.
Looking at Attacker vs. All, she has the same amount of losses with either of these abilities, but Darting Blow gives her the most wins by a good amount, followed by Death Blow and at last Sturdy Blow.
However, when looking at the favorable - unfavorable scale, Darting Blow is actually the worst for her, the best would be either Death Blow or Sturdy Blow.

Tl;dr: Are wins more important than favorable matchups, or vice versa? Thanks for any replies in advance.

Asked by Lux1 year 2 months ago

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Wins are important. But it looks to me you're relying more on statistics rather than just enjoying the game.
For me personally, I play the game because it has my favorite heroes in it and I can have the fantasy battles I've dreamed of. I've always wondered what it was like if Chrom went up against Ike. Now I know. Plus, the game is really fun! XD

As for Lancina, I'd put Death Blow 3 on her if she has an Atk bane. Sturdy Blow won't be enough to patch it.

Thanks for the answer! That's one way to play the game, but as a complete newbie to the series who has only played Fates so far, this doesn't really work for me. xD
I'm just trying to somehow make my units (that are often crippeled by IVs) as strong as possible to get through the game and arena, and it's still really fun to me. I feel like I need good units in order to really have fun, getting teared apart in arena for not caring about statistics/meta or using only units I like is not much fun. :/
You said wins are important and recommended Death Blow. With Death Blow she has 73 wins and 3 losses, Darting Blow gives her 98 wins and 3 losses. Her Atk does look somewhat low, so which one should I go with now?
Also, I read your answers in other threads. And I would also recommend you to save your orbs. I've always been saving up as many orbs as possible and only spent them on banners I absolutely needed the focus units from, and it often made me get the unit(s) I needed. Cyl was one of them, but I still got unlucky, so there is no guarantee this strategy will work. Ever since cyl ended, I strictly saved, and now I'm at 250 orbs again. I haven't summoned on PA yet, but it seems like I will blow my orbs on it eventually, or maybe the banner with better Seliph and better Julia. :^)

lancina is a bit of an oddball as she can excell without having good IVs. Mine has -atk +def and is real powerhouse. Her buffs are incredible and her bulk too, so using her as a reposition-tank + buff-monster for bridelia (or any other unit actually) works wonders.
That said, giving her fury over armored/death blow isn't that bad of an Idea for her A slot. Since she functions better as a support, especially with -atk, fury would give her additional bulk and still let her dish out quite a bit of damage if needed.
To further increase her bulk and support potential, you can also go with renewal as her B, or even desperation. Her speed is quite high even without a boon, and adding fury would help that even further.
Replacing her C-slot would be a waste, it would get rid of her insane buff-potential.

tl,dr: She's great even with -atk. give her good teammates, that profit from her buffs and 1 shot anything.

Thanks for the reply! +Def at least makes her a really good Bonfire user, but -Res is just bad. Her buffs are amazing indeed, which is why I put my -Atk Ryoma on a team with her, he can really make great use of these buffs. Fury + Desperation sounds good, but I really don't like Fury that much, I will consider it but I don't like losing a bunch of HP after every combat; also, my Fury and Renewal fodders are very limited. I do have a few Shannas though, and I was already planning to sacrifice one of them to Lancina. If I do decide to use Desperation, Darting Blow seems neccessary, since she won't double too much with 36 Spd. Right now I don't have a single Darting Blow fodder, so I still have enough time to think about it. ;)