Uncommon unit thoughts on Olwen

My thoughts on female Magic is Everything (kidding) is that she's good in her own way. She can't necessarily be compared to her brother because her stats lets her be more flexible.

The bad thing about Olwen is that you NEED an attack boon, and even with said boon, she'll only be at 30 attack.

I think the reason you don't see Olwen very much is fairly simple - she is 5* exclusive. It is much easier to pull a Reinhardt, period, and even more so a "good" one. This also makes him much easier to merge for arena scoring.

Also Olwen's best set is arguably the blade tome set, which has really been pushed out of the metagame by panic Ploy and the various heroes with skills or weapons that nullify movement type buffs.

I've always had a +2Olwen, and no reins... I've always found her really situational to use with Dire Thunder because, even quadding, I find she often only does 2-4 damage per hit and I end up having to rely on Glacies/Iceberg to do any real damage. She's ok for AA but once you try using her on maps with inflated stats, she winds up having such low attack that she can't even dent the enemy. (Mine's +spd-def BTW)

This has just been my experience with her. She is marginally more useful with life and death, but if she can't kill the enemy in her first two hits, usually the enemy can kill her in one shot of retaliation before she can fire her remaining two shots.

i've never used her as a bladetome (not too big on horse emblem to bother building her with it and I never end up pulling any Odins (and she can't have my Tailtui!)), but I think she's more useful there because she doesn't need LnD which lets her take at least one hit before going into desperation range and bombing the enemy. Outside of horse emblem her attack is way too low and she's far too fragile to be of use. L'Arachel and even Ursula are far superior in that way.

The fact that Olwen is 5* exclusive has a lot to do with why she isn’t seen as much. That and the fact that Brave magic with a high base attack overrules bad base attack with a chance to maybe quad, or rebuild her from the ground up into a bladetome unit. But Reinhardt can function with an attack bane (not recommended, but possible), and Olwen becomes completely useless with an attack bane, is still outclassed with a neutral attack, and is usable but nothing to be proud of with an attack boon, especially if she has a speed bane. Olwen is a total crapshoot. I you get her, that’s half the battle, but the other is the impending Russian Roulette with her stats where you have a 2 in 5 chance that she will be bad, a 2 in 5 chance she will be meh, or 1 in 5 that she will be perfect.

Let’s face it though: she has been outclassed for some time. Reinhardt is better, whatever counters him will destroy Olwen, and units like L’Arachel now run a more accessible and better blade build than Olwen, even Ursula has a higher viability due to being readily available for merges and not being payblocked from high level merging. She is in the shadow of just about every blue tome horse.