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Number 51 + Number 52

These two units were probably the most awkward to place. Much like Masquerade Eldigan, they can be ranked very highly for being dancers or they be ranked much lower for not being the only free to play friendly dancers players have access to. Being able to Sing/Dance for another unit is always a valuable ability that makes these two useful in any game mode. They are of course not the only means of it that are free to play friendly as we have access to Olivia, Silvia, Reyson, and Tethys in the 3/4*. That being said, Adrift Azura and Rinea offer something the other alternative cannot do in the form of dealing magic damage. Being able to attack a target’s Resistance if a feat the other 3/4* do not possess. Azura’s Book of Shadows gives her a much more accessible offensive prowess whereas Rinea’s default Silver Goblet + gives her a better prowess. However, if you swap out their tomes then one is just as capable of offensive/ive aspects as another. Targeting Resistance is simply not a valuable enough aspect in dancers, who don’t see much combat, to be placed much higher like Eldigan has in his isolation avoiding.

Number 53

Scythe of Sariel gives Death Knight the one thing a defensive cavalry desperately needs, a manner in which to prevent follow-up attacks. While it is his greatest asset, the requirements for it are reliant on the opponents which can be looked at as glass half full or half empty. As it can deter units from using buffs when he’s encountered on an AR defense map or it can be a Slaying Lance when he’s presented with a team that does not involve buffs. Scythe of Sariel will also not activate when skills like a dull or lull are in effect. This would discourage him from using skills like Lulls which is one of the few fancier skills cavalry units can even use.

Number 54

Sonia entered Heroes with a unique stat spread when compared to the traditional speedy blue mage, only the seasonal 4* focus Young Lyon to take a similar approach in a more optimized manner. Sonia boasts very impressive bases across the board with the expectation of her base 24 Speed. Stat wise Sonia is a more modern take on Oliver and she has good options of weapons though the standout option is Pact Blooms to improve her damage output and survivability. The main issue a unit like Sonia faces is that her low speed makes her very easy to double with no way to stop it in the enemy phase. Sonia’s main issues overall is just appearing as a less flexible Brunnya in addition to no innate preferred weapon making her subject to poor aging as evident by the next Blue Mage coming to Heroes after her being a better choice even if he can be summoned on specific banners.

Number 55

Valentine’s Veronica possesses an incredible offensive spread of base 36 Attack and 38 Speed, which is unmatched but every other Blue Tome Cavalier with the exception of Selena. What Veronica lacks that makes all the stand out alternatives amazing are their prefs weapon while Veronica is doomed to being a generic unit. While there are some impressive tomes she can inherit, like Flora Guide and Spooky Censer, Veronica simply doesn’t possess that threat factor units like Reinhardt and Ursula have at +10. She still has the stats to do impressive things if someone decides to merge her as she’s working with more than 10 extra bst than her budget competitors. How well she’ll age is very questionable as Resplendent Reinhardt may cause a resurgence in his appearances leaving Veronica as another barrack filler.

Number 56

She is the only non-5* locked red tome cavalry unit that players have access to besides the 1 free copy of SM!Eirika from the Heroes Path. When merged, she has very impressive offenses, especially her speed which can reach a respectable 42 Speed with a refined weapon, merges, and dragon flowers. Despite how impressive she is, the fact every player gets access to a free SM!Eirika prevents Titania from getting any higher as they are pretty on par with each other at equal merges. Being the only ranged unit that can benefit from R Duel Cavalry that can also be easily merged also has its benefits towards a units value.

Number 57

Dithorba coming into Heroes as yet another generic Lance Flier right away limited how high she can possibly place due to Lance Fliers being an incredibly common type of unit with several viable free to play options. Dithorba’s saving grace that keeps her out from fading into irrelevance would be the capability of scoring in the 175 BST bracket paired with an impressive offensive stat distribution. Her base 38 Speed is the highest Speed among all free to play friendly fliers while her base 35 Attack is on the higher end of the selection of units. Dithorba’s base 33 Resistance would make her an actual candidate for Pegasus Flight if one has access to it. Dithorba, like many units, simply suffers from being grail locked, making way for the 3/4* Seteth to hold more of a presence of good scoring Flier while also having a preferred weapon that both benefits himself and his allies. Dithorba’s low Defense can also lead way into poor matchups against the many common Legendaries that each respective season possesses. At the very least if you like her enough to ignore the alternatives she will be able to function effectively enough in various modes with her modern BST that older units require a Duel skill to overcome.

Number 58

While Panne’s base stats are rather lackluster, her Taguel Fang fixes it all up and makes her quite the threat when it’s conditions are met. Capable of being granted up to an effective +9 Attack, +3 Speed, and +7 Defense/Resistance by just her weapon that can be further stacked by the synergistic Solo skills can give Panne a very dominating player phase presence. Her deceptive stats make her a potent Galeforcer as Cavalry Beasts are granted an Impact’s effect of canceling enemy follow-ups on player phase. If nothing else allows her opponent to get a 2nd hit in than that single attack will ensure Pannes survival and if Galeforce is allowed to activate then she can either retreat to safety or go for another round killing off units hiding behind her initial target. Panne does that job very well, but fails to stand out in many other aspects as Beast units are trapped within the tracks the only weapon they have puts them on. While they receive very unique weapons as a compromise, Cavalry Beasts like Panne struggle for a variety of ive skills like the other movement types possess. While Panne’s weapon is synergistic with solos, doesn’t let her run a lot of builds as cavalry units are not given as many skills to play with like other movement types.

Number 59

Scarlet Sword made Navarre one of if not the most consistent Galeforcers in the game with it’s Slaying effect + double Quickened Pulse refine allows Navarre to single handedly have most specials ready to go at the start of the match. If paired with the Quickened Pulse seal Navarre is capable of having Galeforce at a single cooldown meaning when he engages and any non-guard he can use that second action to either retreat or engage/kill another enemy depending on the situation. Aether Raids is where his Galeforce potential would shine the most as Galeforce teams utilizing Wings of Mercy is a common strategy used on both Offense and Defense. Despite being one of the first Grand Hero Battle units, Navarre’s stat line holds up very well given the roles he is capable of with his Attack and Speed capable of getting the job done with that Speed helping him avoid doubles and thus take less hits and survive. If you so choose you can forgo the Galeforce route and have an offensive special like Luna ready at the start of combat and keep it going with help from skills like Special Spiral to keep dishing out heavy hits. Navarre overall is a rather flexible unit given his age, capable of sporting a variety of player phase orientated builds effectively whether he may wanna see combat first and set up the scene for his team or swoop in to clean up after his team sets him up to perform his very to achieve two actions.

Number 60

Skadi’s refine certainly gave Fallen Takumi more to use out of his weapon that once only held any value on turn 3. The new base effect keeps the 3 column range and infliction of Panic but it now also works on turn 2 while dealing 7 damage instead of 10. The more impactful part of the new Skadi is the effect refine that grants Takumi an extra 5 Attack and Speed during combat on top of having a Savage Blow effect giving the weapon actual combat use. While this refine certainly gave a one trick pony a more presence outside of turn 3 Fallen Takumi maintains a couple of fatal flaws. Firstly, if Takumi is used in a more horizontal focus map his Skadi’s splash damage and Panic become harder to utilize on top of the chip damage being very easy to heal. Then the biggest issue to Takumi getting your grails is being too similar statwise to Clarisse who arguably has the better weapon. Takumi has 4 more Resistance than Clarisse, other than that all of their stats are the same and while Sniper’s bow only grants Clarisse +4 Attack and Speed as opposed to Skadi’s +5, it’s conditional Firesweep effect will help ensure Clarisse surviving longer than Takumi could. Perhaps if IS chose to make Skadi more threatening Takumi could find himself as a rival to Clarisse but with the relatively tame refine it was given he is merely a more flavorful choice to invest into while not being an outright waste of grail.

Number 61

Death is a simple and effective weapon that synergizes with a lot of skills as it is essentially Fury as a preferred weapon. The +4 to all stats are invisible buffs and help boost her already impressive stats. At a neutral IV, if she has max merges and flowers she reaches an impressive effective statline of 61 Attack, 44 Speed, 41 Resistance, and a workable 29 Defense. Death helping her get into the HP thresholds of Brazens and Desperation makes even budget builds capable of punching a hole into the enemy. When compared to fellow grail blue mage Brunnya, Delthea just loses some appeal as Brunnya is rather similar in the stat department and her Fimbulvetr negates debuffs in addition to giving her more build variety. The more recent addition of Ilyana into the 3/4* pool, boasting a very similar statline, also does not do Delthea any favors. But Fallen Delthea’s destructive potential is still capable of hitting modern units very hard with very little setup needed.

Number 62

Galle came into Heroes during a year where we’ve been bombarded with Lance Fliers, free to play or otherwise. Coming in after the BST increase however makes Galle among the first 175 BST fliers, making him a better unit score wise when compared to all the Lance fliers that came before him. It should be worth noting that Seteth in the 3/4* pool is a much more accessible 175 BST alternative who is also a preferred weapon in Spear of Assal. The being said Galle’s stat spread is constructed much different than Seteth’s as Galle boasts an impressive base 46 HP, base 38 in Attack and Defense, while also possessing a workable 28 Resistance that could let him take a magic hit better than other slow lance fliers. He is able to have those stats so high by becoming the slowest Lance Flier in the game with a base 22 Speed. Galle is overall constructed to best run enemy phase builds and his Guard Lance+ could arguably be his weapon for such builds. Galle’s main issue would be his class type as Lance Fliers are incredibly abundant with a lot of alternatives possessing preferred weapons to carve their own niches. However a flier unit that scores 175 BST is a useful thing to possess if you aim for success in arena, however the aforementioned Seteth can perform better in such a mode while not costing grails. It is not that Galle is bad, he just lacks anything that makes him a must have outside his base good scoring.

Number 63

Xander definitely requires more work than Camus and is less flexible as he traded a bunch of Speed for Defense. Siegfried’s refine was definitely the least impactful of the DC refines even if it does help cover some of Xander’s issues. Stopping the follow-ups of foes at or above 75% HP is arguably better than Xander himself being given a follow-up as if that is something you want to give him he can use Quick Riposte in in either his B or Seal slot. Xander shares the same benefits and issue Camus does with having DC in their weapons, that being very bad resistance to try and tank mages with. While Xander’s poor speed can be circumvented with the follow-up prevent his just can’t keep up as well as the faster Camus because there are several means for foes to overcome Siegfried’s effect and/or Quick Riposte Xander’s Quick Riposte if you wanted him to double as Impacts, Null Follow-Up, and Auto doubles have proven to be very common as well as mages hitting so hard that they might just one shot Xander even with the debuff to their Attack. Xander’s rough competition for sword cavalry over fellow grail unit Kempf and the 3/4* Eliwood also does not him any favors as those 2 are meta relevant while Xander tries to keep up.

Number 64

The base effect of Tome of Favors, +5 Attack and Resistance during combat and healing 7 damage after combat against non beast units, is very easy to achieve as very few beast units see regular use. On the other hand, Tome of Favors refine is arguably the most SPECIFIC requirement in the entire game. The effect is unrestricted transportation adjacent to and an additional +5 Attack and Resistance during combat…… but at the time of it’s release it only works with Reyson, Leanne, and Groom Rafiel. Reyson being the only one of the three that is easily obtainable, due to Leanne being 5* locked and Rafiel being a seasonal unit, realistically restricting this effect to working with a single unit in a game that has over 600 units. Oliver having poor Speed and Defense makes the ive healing a non-factor against most physical units. While Oliver can achieve impressive Attack and Resistance with both effects of Tome of Favors active, the requirement of an additional team slot to make that happen makes him hard to appear appealing when compared to any other blue mage.

Numbers 65 + 66

Orson’s stat spread is essentially a modern take on Berkut with very good Attack and Defense at the cost of Speed and Resistance. But unlike Berkut, Orson’s Bereft Lance is a very questionable pref to keep on. It has conditions similar to the Fallen Corrins where more stats are granted when you have less allies within 2 spaces (up to +6 with 0 allies), but unlike the Corrins who gain stats all around, Orson is only given a buff to his Attack and Defense and if no more than 1 ally is within 2 spaces he disable’s his foes stat buffs. It is a very difficult weapon to justify keeping if he can be giving Flowing Lance which offers just much, and a little, to Orson while being much easier to pull off with a strictly solo condition. Once given Flowing Lance Orson does essentially become modern Berkut in both stat line and function. All the while Fernand is essentially Orson with a couple of points of Spd and Def instead invested into his Hp and Attack. Even though Fernand does not have a preferred weapon, it has been established that Bereft Lance is not that standout of a weapon so every positive and negative that can be said about Orson essentially applies to Fernand.

Number 67

Linus having ed heroes with Basilikos and its ability to be refined allows him to use a multitude of builds depending on how you choose to refine it. Even before refining Basilikos, Linus with neutral IVs will sport a striking 60 Attack and 40 Spd with max merges and flowers meaning without the Life and Death refine he will still pose a major offensive threat as the Slaying effect allows easier special spam or Galeforce strats. Unfortunately for Linus, he is the first of many units in this tier that bears similarities to another unit in the 3/4* pool, that being Raven. Raven can run a lot of builds on par with Linus with the expectation of defensive ones as Linus has a striking 7 more defense than Raven. But since Raven exists, Linus is forced in the C tier. He is, however, the best of the bunch when it comes to units who possess a striking resemblance to other 3/4* alternatives as his only letdown is Weapon Triangle disadvantage and his Resistance stat being able at best if you don’t fix it.