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Earth Warriors

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Green or brown

Auto-pot
male
serpentarius
70
70
Paladin
item
auto potion
defense up

ancient sword
mythril shield
barbuta
carabini mail
rubber shoes


x-pot, hi-ether, pd, bandage, soft, maiden's kiss, echo grass





Hot Wizard
female
serpentarius
70
70
Scholar
white magic
damage split
short charge

wizard staff

holy miter
earth clothes
chantage

Earth Dragon, Quake
raise


Defender
male
serpentarius
70
70
Paladin
item
auto potion
defense up

ancient sword
mythril shield
barbuta
carabini mail
rubber shoes


x-pot, hi-ether, pd, bandage, soft, maiden's kiss, echo grass


Hot Mage
female
serpentarius
70
70
Scholar
white magic
damage split
short charge

wizard staff

holy miter
earth clothes
chantage

Earth Dragon, Quake
raise

I would like to have this team fight before Academy Team.

[pokeytax]

Well, that took too long.  Next time I will split into divisions and run best-of-one with single elimination playoffs.

Code Select Expand

Counter-Terrorists 18-4-2
Orange Company     17-5-2
Gruff n' Stuff     17-7
Grey Knights       15-9
Zombie Pride       11-12-1
Body Parts         10-14  
Poisoned Wine      7-16-1
The Dark Mark II   6-18
Charwizard         4-20
 

Good:
lolcharms (ban Steal Heart with MA > 7 until next patch)
Secret Fist (regularly wrecked whole teams)
Cover Fire (Cover Fire + Concentrate > 90% of AoE skills, great power and range, partially bypasses Defense UP)
Bussard (seriously, dude was a badass - may have to examine axe/handbag scaling)
Sandbagging (Squidgy's very vanilla team did quite well thanks to hellacious sandbagging, overall res units were well correlated with success)

Bad:
Undead Ring (one-shot Dia, horrifying. plus Raise, potions, Murasame, Fire 2, Asura... just unusable)
Jutsus (there's still room to play with these though)
Silf (terrible success rate, Don't Move is hardly a premier status)


Ugly:
40 Brave units with Regen and/or Move-HP Up and/or Blood Sword and/or Damage Split and/or Speed Save and/or Unyielding
Likewise, whole teams unable to reliably outpace regen/potion usage
Execute doesn't function properly (seems to Add: Critical, rather than functioning on Critical units), Greased Bolt is useless since Chicken expires next turn
Axes sometimes seem to hit twice, although the second hit never connects so it's purely visual I guess
Damage Split (this is a lot less clever when it's on every single unit)

[pokeytax]

It might be nice to have a thread with zero discussion, one page of team posts, edit your post if you want to edit your team(s)?  A bit hard to keep track in here.

[Melancthon]

Thanks for the vote of confidence pokeytax, I loved them too.  I think I addressed your points in my last post too, so I think we're on the same page.  They were based on a theoretical team with no unit/skill/item/JP restrictions that I made (the thief was another c/p Time Mage and they were all undead).  I really don't think undead will be viable until we see a Necromancer job that can revive them   .  I think my problem is that I get caught up in sub-themes (Dark absorb in this case) to the detriment of my team as a whole.

That being said:

Ominous Sky

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Palette: 6
Alternate: 4


Stratus        
Female
Sagittarius
70
50
Samurai      
Basic Skill  
Dragon Spirit
Equip Polearm  
Ignore Height

Ivory Rod

Platina Helmet
Platina Armor
Band of Elements
Murasame, Kikuichimoji, Chirijiraden
Yell, Wish    


Cirrus        
Male
Gemini
70
50
Lancer      
Basic Skill
Speed Save    
Equip Clothes
Jump+2      
Dragon Whisker
Genji Shield
Thief Hat
Secret Clothes
Feather Mantle

Level Jump 5, Vertical Jump6  
Yell, Wish  


Alto        
Female
Libra
70
50
Ninja        
Item        
Abandon    
Throw Item  
Teleport    
Iga Knife
Air Knife
Ribbon
Rubber Costume
Feather Mantle
                 
X-Potion, Hi-Ether, Antidote, Maiden's Kiss, Soft, Holy Water, Bandage, Phoenix Down


Nimbus      
Female
Pisces
70
70
Scholar    
Item      
MA Save    
Move-MP Up
Ivory Rod

Golden Hairpin
Robe of Lords
108 Gems

Thunder Flare, Tornado
Hi-Ether, Phoenix Down

[pokeytax]

spoiler: Scholars and Gentlemen:f65vdjsw

Bill
Male
Taurus
70
40
Paladin


Concentrate
Move +1
Slasher

Barbuta
Carabini Mail
Salty Rage




Lance
Male
Taurus
70
40
Paladin


Concentrate
Move +1
Slasher

Barbuta
Carabini Mail
Salty Rage




Jo
Female
Scorpio
70
70
Scholar
White Magic
Counter Flood
Two Hands
Move-HP Up
Ivory Rod

Flash Hat
Wizard Outfit
Magic Gauntlet

Bio
Raise 2, Esuna

Bo
Female
Scorpio
70
70
Scholar
White Magic
Counter Flood
Two Hands
Move-HP Up
Ivory Rod

Flash Hat
Wizard Outfit
Magic Gauntlet

Mad Science
Raise 2, Esuna

[Otabo]

New team that I'm starting to warm up to...

spoiler: Bloody`s Angels:1h78c3po

Palette 4, Alt 2
Bloody
Male
Leo
70
55
Paladin
Basic Skill
Counter
Attack Up
Move +1

Blood Sword
Genji Shield
Platina Helmet
Carabini Mail
Diamond Armlet

Transfusion
Accumulate, Throw Stone, Yell, Wish

Brie
Female
Gemini
50
50
Geomancer
Draw Out
MA Save
Magic Attack Up
Jump +1

Rune Blade
Aegis Shield
Holy Miter
Wizard Outfit
108 Gems

All Elementals
Heaven's Cloud

Phoebe
Female
Aquarius
70
60
Oracle
Item
Speed Save
Two Hands
Jump +2

Whale Whisker

Cachusha
Wizard Outfit
108 Gems

Life Drain
Hi-Potion, Hi-Ether, Phoenix Down

Reimi
Female
Gemini
50
70
Monk
Time Magic
Critical Quick
Short Charge
Jump +1

FS Bag

Barette
Rubber Costume
Feather Mantle

Stigma Magic, Secret Fist, Chakra, Revive
Haste

Damn spoiler tag won't accept apostrophes.

[pokeytax]

Can Monks equip ribbons? I honestly don't know, between vanilla/1.3/ASM'd.

[Otabo]

Female monks can. Pretty sure it's always been like that unless that was changed in Arena.

[FFMaster]

Male Monks can equip Ribbons, the only headgear they have.

[Skip Sandwich]

my newest team

spoiler: "Tatake! Alkaiser!":4tsswgu6

Palette: Home Red, Away Yellow

Alkaiser
Male
Leo
70
40
Paladin
Punch Art
HP Restore
Martial Arts

Heaven's Cloud
Genji Shield
Barbuta
Carabini Mail
Battle Boots

Transfusion
Wave Fist, Repeating Fist, Spin Fist, Chakra, Revive, Stigma Magic

Fuse
Male
Sagitarius
70
40
Archer
Item
Speed Save
Concentrate
Jump +2
Gastrifitus

Green Beret
Black Costume
Battle Boots

Cover Fire
Hi-Potion, Ether, Bandage, Holy Water, Soft, Maiden's Kiss, Phoenix Down

Doll
Female
Aries
70
70
Geomancer
Summon Magic
Counter Flood
Half of MP
Move-HP UP
Giant Axe

Flash Hat
Wizard Outfit
Magic Ring

All Geomancy
Ramuh, Leviatian, Fairy

Cotton
Female
Serpentarius
70
70
Mime

my team even has it's own theme song

download the mp3 here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TROMFTT4


[Tatae kono mi ga kuchihateyouto...
kesshite akirame ha shinai!]
[Kono sekai ni...
ashita wo shinjiru kokoro ga aru kagiri...]
[Ushinai ha shinai! Kibou no ENERGY!!]
[Setsumenshiyou! Okonogi Retsu ha SANTUARIO kara yatte kita senshi
ALKARL kara sazukatta chikara de, seigi no HERO ALKAISER he to henshin suru no da!]
[Uooooo---!! HENSHIN! ALKAISER---!!!!]

:EDIT: fun fact, this team is based off of the team I used to clear Red's scenario in SaGa Frontier, the only one missing from my lineup is Rabbit, the little mech with the SATELLITE LASER CANNON

Alkaiser wields Punch Arts with an effective PA of 27, making him even more buff then Bussard

I always train Fuse as a gunner in SaGa Frontier, so that's what he appears as here

Doll is there for AoE and anti-sandbaggery

Cotton is the adorable little monster girl and team mascot

[pokeytax]

This is my first video, next time I will run more teams but I wanted something I knew would be a lightning round to start.
Otabo (Bloody's Angels) v. Pokeytax (Scholars and Gentlemen)

[FFMaster]

This topic is for those who want to challenge each other to battles using the Arena Patch.

If you want to submit a team, post it in the Team submission thread. This thread is now for videos and discussion only! If you wish to propose a balance change, please post in the right thread.

Hopefully, this makes it a bit less cluttered.

[pokeytax]

Zaen (Electrifying) v. Skip Sandwich (FIGHT! ALKAISER!)  

[Melancthon]

That's not my team!

(Looks like Zaen)

[Skip Sandwich]

aww you didn't use my team's theme music. GG team Electrifying! It was a hard fought match, but in the end, you were no match for the shining justice of ALKAISER!

[Zaen]

Hmm... Yeah, I definitely need to rework this setup(and probably completely).

[pokeytax]

spoiler: Gotwald v. PX_Timefordeath:212m71qj

Gotwald v. PX_Timefordeath (The Team Your Team Could Smell Like)

spoiler: Pride v. Secondadvent:212m71qj

Pride (Another Boring Team) v. Secondadvent (Femme Fatale)

[Gotwald]

First Arena Video! Thanks to pokeytax for memory cards.

Pride = "Another Boring Team" vs CT5Holy = "Don't act/Sleeping only"

spoiler: The fight:2m5qzj1l

[Gotwald]

The next fight! Barren vs Squidgy!

spoiler: AWESOME INTENSE FIGHTTTTTTT:ytwp7a5s

Barren, IP man didn't use repeating fist, and there was no "BRUURURURURURUuRTRBRUTBRTT". Disappointing.

[pokeytax]

Now that you mention it, I am pretty sure I saw Alkaiser whiff a Repeating Fist in a test match - are we sure it's flagged unblockable?