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Shall I start sniping or continue full summons?

I pulled 2 Brave Hectors (+res, -atk and +def, -res) and 2 Brave Celicas (+hp, -def and +res, -def). If I get Ephraim or Veronica, I will use my free pick on the one I didn't get. Should I continue doing full circles or just snipe greens and colorless?

Asked by Spiral the Gamer4 months 1 week ago
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by Seeker 4 months 1 week ago

I'm late to say this, but I don't recommend pulling on this banner at all. I was asking myself whether I could save enough orbs by pulling full circles to justify pulling even though 3% is split between four units of all colours, and after I ran the calculations, the conclusion was a solid no. If you start sniping colours you're likely to pay even more orbs for these characters than if you wait for them to appear on 3% banners with only 3 focus units or on legendary banners with at least one other character of the same colour that you want.

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If you know you definitely want all 4 of them, here's what I would think about:
- It's easier to pull a focus 5* green than a focus 5* of any other colour on any banner unless the other colour has more focus units that you want (ex: you want 2/3 blues and 1/3 greens on a legendary 8% banner, then it's easier to get a focus blue that you want than your green). So you are likely to spend less orbs if you take a free Veronica and pull greens for B.Ephraim than if you do it the other way around.
- Consider how picky you are about IVs on these two units. If you ask me, Veronica performs similarly with any IV that doesn't involve -spd, while Ephraim is fairly good with any IVs but better with some than others. -spd will hurt Veronica's survivability (because she might get doubled, in which case she's definitely dead) and put a pretty solid dent in her offensive potential. That's 1 bane in 5 that can cause her significant issues, so if you only pull her once in your entire FEH gamespan, there's a good chance you don't end up with an IV that I would find sour (emphasis on I - you might feel differently, and it's important that you consider what you want and feel). And even if she comes -spd, she will still heal and debuff without any issues. On Ephraim there are four banes I could accept easily enough and two that I would prefer; as for boons, there are two that I like well enough and my preference is strongly +res (and not just for scoring). That means I like about 1/3 of the possible IVs, which isn't nearly as promising as the approximately 4/5 on Veronica. I would therefore be inclined to take a neutral B.Ephraim, especially if I wasn't planning to pull him a bunch of times. (But I do want to pull him a bunch of times sooner or later because he's super good as fodder.)

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