I was trying for S!Tana, but ended up getting this as a pity-breaker at 4.25%. To add insult to injury, he is +Res / -HP... While even the +HP boon doesn't put his HP up that high, I can't even run his innate Panic Ploy if I wanted to.
Like, can you get a pity-breaker any worse than this?! ;_;
(Sorry if I came across as whiny, but I just wanted to vent out my frustration and disappointment.)
From the red pool, there is still the always loyal Karel, who can ruin your hope, but yeah, Luke is pretty high up there in terms of pity breakers. He's kind of like Ogma pre-demotion now.
I have a pretty close relationship with Luke tho. Whenever I tried summoning for Tharja on seasonals, I always got him, but only when it was a Tharja banner. He's the ultimate cockblocker.
Honestly, I would prefer Karel because he is actually a really good unit with his refine. Even Mist, while not Red, is a better pity-breaker because she provides that Healer utility.
But Luke? Luke doesn't really have anything going for him--especially not the one I pulled, with that IV spread.
Yeah, that's sadly kind of true. I tried doing at least something with him...my best one is +hp -res so I gave him Armorsmasher (+def), which puts his hp above 50 and def at 34, which is already kind of viable and panic ploys are consistent. I'm not a fan of foddering 5* units that I get from summoning, so even though he will not see arena play, he at least got a few shining moments in Arena assault.
Not sure what to do with your IV tho. Maybe a mixed tank thanks to his kind of balanced defensive stats? Or actually just a green check with Triangle adept and a refinable sword of your choice. There's also still the option of just keeping brave sword and commiting death blow with swordbreaker B-sklil, which can make him useful as a substitute unit on one of your cavalry teams...or just kill him for ploy.
Since he is my first Luke, I won't be killing him off for Panic Ploy unless another comes. (Hopefully, another one doesn't come to break my pity-rate.)
I'm probably just going to cap his HM through GHB, then leave him alone... I really don't want to invest in him at all.
Well... He's good fodder? I mean, units like Zephiel, Hector, and Arden will appreciate Panic Ploy. You can think of it like he saved you 20,000 feathers so you don't have to promote your Valters.
Pretty much just milk him for HM and then fodder him off. That's what I did with my last pity-breaker Luke.
Despite the great 5* pool cleanup of 2018, the red pool is still flooded with bad pity breakers:
Karel, Luke, Saber, M. Morgan, Leo, Leif, Y. Tiki, Sanaki, and Gray are either bad, have nothing useful to fodder, or require high investment compared to other units in their class. And that's not even counting all the five star only red cavs that Ares largely made inferior. There is also Soleil, who while being a top five red unit, is available at 4 stars. There's also Ryoma, who is good but has nothing to fodder and is fairly outdated in this meta.
In comparison, the Colorless pool has two awful pity breakers (Jaffar and Mist) and then three units available at 4 stars, the blue pool really only has pony Olwen and then Shigure L'Arachel, and Tailitiu who are available at 4 stars (but Talitiu is one of the top fodder units in the game), and the green pool has only Sonya for a bad pull.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind anyone else on your list but Luke, except maybe Saber (but I really like him from SoV, so I guess I'll cross that road when--or if--I ever pull him) and M!Morgan. Of course, it might just be the IVs on this particular Luke that are really pissing me off, along with the pity-breaking...
You could l what I did. Build an Ogma, Chrom, or Alm using Panic Ploy as a base utility, and then as a sword fighter, and finally as a healer.
They all have reasonably high HP and can take out green units while shutting down buff heavy arena teams.
Theoretically, Ogma can survive a Horse Emblem Reinhardt as long as he's the same merge level, Panic Ploy debuffed, and using deflect Magic. Now, I don't know why you would put Ogma in front of Rein, but you could.
I'm just gonna'... leave this here.
(He was one of my very first 5 stars so I built him for sentimental reasons, he's +Spd/-Res)
For reds, you got one of the worst ones yeah. He'd be a lot better if they put him on banners so you could get merges, but unfortunately, they never do >_< Still, he's Panic Ploy fodder at least
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