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Worth promoting Sothe +atk/-res (for a watersweep build)?

My arena team has no problem dealing with physical armors with MGrima and Nowi. But my Brave Lyn often finds herself stationed in the back all the time, because mages and especially dragons devastate her on counterattack, and she more often than not fails to secure a KO. I chose not to waste 20k for a Brave Bow on her because she's neutral and with Brave Bow she becomes too specialized vs units with low defence, while everybody else just charge their specials off her.

What I see in the arena are predominantly armor teams and dragons. Especially dragons give me trouble, because my team is skewed in favor of defense rather than resistance. 58 atk is good enough to chip a bit even through units like Myrrh, and with a bit of support may one-shot a good deal of weaker physical bulks (although Grima kills them regardless).

I've got a surplus of 115k feathers and I don't think I'll be spending these on merges (everyone except Nowi is 5* locked). Does +atk Sothe justify spending 20k? He would probably also be great in conquest battles (not a savage pain cleric but still).

My other current choices are:
* 40k for savage pain Priscilla (mine -hp/+spd). Lucrative, but I'd better wait for Elise anyway.
* 20k to give Grima Aether (Ignis does just fine currently).
I'm still more inclined to get Sothe. What do you think?

Asked by EwigeJude7 months 3 weeks ago

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I just started a sothe project myself, I think he is going to be very effective once you start getting some merges into him

I like using sothe as he can give buffs and debuffs. With watersweep, it does help prevent the counter like sacaes blessing. So as long you have some to pull him back after attack he can be used.

I gave my neutral Brave Lyn a Brave bow + and it turned out to be a great investment - she kills tons of stuff (she also has a few merges if that makes a difference). But if yours can't pull her weight she definitely needs to be replaced. I have a +atk Sothe (not sure about the bane, maybe def) with lnd and desperation, but I only use him outside of the arena. He's an offensive Power house though so I do recommend him!

No, my concern is that on the arena Sothe is almost unusable without Watersweep, and even then, recent powercrept skills (brazen def, safeguard+) make him even more obsolete. As if every infantry running Steady breath wasn't enough. I expect lots of brazen def especially, as it was given for free.

Recent WTHinoka and Ishtar competely trash Sothe's unbuffed 33 base speed even with LnD, because they get all these swift sparrow nonsense. That is if Sothe even survives the first hit with LnD. It only helps a bit that he buffs himself while debuffing his enemies.

Sothe is just a support unit on the arena, unfortunately, but at least he's one of the best support units out there. A pity he needs to sacrifice his doubling potential, A slot (LnD), B slot (Watersweep) and even his seal slot (Phantom Spd) to be considered viable in this meta.