I thought this was kind of an interesting thought. Without SI I feel like there would have been a larger variety of units actually used, because it would take actual team building. Nearly everyone uses the same characters, with the same exact builds, and it gets kind of redundant. It doesn't take a lot of creativity to grab DB fodder, put it on Reinhardt or Nino, and just decimate everything. With their default kits, they would still be good but on a much lower scale. Other units would become more viable, such as Catria and Klein, who have great native skills. Sadly, I wasn't around before SI was implemented so I never got to see what it was like before the mechanic was added. The biggest thing though, is that Horse Emblem would be so much less dominant it would really shake things up. If you want a OP buffed horse unit, guess you're bringing Jagen and Gunter along as well. It may have been the same thing, just a couple units dominating the game even before SI so this may just be pointless speculation lol. Anyways what do you guys think?
I can see what you're saying. If SI wasn't a thing, people like Takumi would still be king. I do like that SI allows you to give other units a chance (you can put great skills on a lower tier unit). There are cookie cutter builds and in the end it comes down to merges and IVs but I am kind of glad that SI came to the game. Of course it does mean you can make your units broken but to an extent they are unique
Hector, Ryouma, Azura, Nino, Linde, and Takumi were still the top tier pre-inheritance and every high end team had them, possibly in multiples. Reinhardt became more popular as a method of countering all the popular red heroes and honestly, mine has nothing inherited yet, just 5-star and a +atk boon and he still slaughters most things regardless.
You may think it was better before but it really wasn't. It's the same exact concept of 'this is the best set of units, everyone uses them now' just a slightly altered list of said units.
skill inheritance actually made a bunch of only middle tier units become much better. Yea the top guys were still on top but that's to be expected. Technically inheritance is what gave us the ability to have more heroes be decent.
Quadsuna
Raven Sophia
Swordbreaker Nowi
Brave Axe Cherche
Brash Assault Lyn
Quad Hana
Quad/Brave Raven
Quadelia
breaker builds
the potential to make a decent unit out of your favorite heroes that might have been bad before
The game honestly gained a lot more variety imo thanks to inheritance compared to before. Before if you met a whale arena team with 3 Hectors and an Azura you cried and tried again. Now that's very rare and being able to counter and kill Hector is much easier these days with axe breakers, TA, gem weapons, fire/windsweep weapons/skills, etc that it forces the meta to shift.
Right now for example, the meta is blue mage dominated. However that's because everyone started with their favorite red heroes like Marth, Roy, Lucina, Ryouma, etc. all were weak vs Reinhardt (even pre-inheritance) and Linde or other strong blue heroes. That's why more and more people shifted and now more teams are being forced to run more greens to counter this popularity of blue mages and soon the meta will shift once again to green heavy teams as a result and so on.
tl;dr Skill Inheritance makes the whole game better and permits a shifting meta to even exist.
Yeah I had a feeling SI didn't really change the "strongest units thrown onto a team" mentality. While it does create more balance, it also throws it off at the same time so you made a good point about the shifting meta. I just wish that there was a reason to use unique team comps besides building one just for fun
Without SI i would say is more fair play but still there would be some Heroes still just useless. Was Hector actually a strong hero befor SI? I must actually say no. Without SI Hector will just die no mighty Vantage no nuke ability with Bonefire. Short said rip Hectors players are way more experience.
Dunno actually don`t know if Horse Emblem would be that weak without SI. Reinhardt and Olwen would be actually still strong with example Gunther thx to Hone Attack or Olivia normal hone. Players just saw in him first no potential then later with buffs test they actually saw hey he just murder everything thx to brave weapons effect. Problem rather was not many player had him with +atk back when SI was not a thing.
Think is actually not SI the problem if a Hero was to weak it was rather the stats of the Heroes.
Now that you mention it, a throwback event sounds really amazing! One thing I love about this game is it's diversity, and you might say that entire groups of Rein's would win everything (magic IS everything), but I built a Raven Sophia and am very happy with that. Whenever I summoned colorless I would secretly hope to get a +SPD Setsuna to build Quadsuna and the thought of those things were very exciting to me. I now have a +3 Qubridelia +ATK/-DEF Quabridelia but... anyway!
A throwback event would be really interesting in that it would make us do something completely different from the norm. It's not every day you can "rebuild the meta" right? Hector and Takumi might still be a bit rampant but we're all much better at the game than we were back then. We'd come up with solutions.
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