Arena battle videos and discussion

[Otabo]

spoiler: vs Dokurider

High move teams are pretty fun to use. Loved the ninja duels. Even though the thief was determined to hit charm on Round 2 (which is mostly why I lost R2), he made up for it in R3 with that opening charm. After seeing this, I'm excited to see my 8 move team in action. GG Doku.

[formerdeathcorps]

spoiler

Now you know why I changed up that team entirely.  It couldn't beat anyone.

[Shintroy]

spoiler: Barren vs silentkaster

The first two rounds were all RNG. Was really interested in seeing what Barren's Samurai could do while conscious with Snipe). Third round could've went either way, but berserking favored Barren's team and it was curtains after silentkaster's started retreating and cornering themselves.

spoiler: Leif1991 vs formerdeathcorps

Incredibly bad match up and to top of it all the stages didn't help the paladin's lack of mobility and range. Test Knights would've done better on smaller and flatter stages.

spoiler: Otabo vs Dokurider

(lol move pun) Great match. Would've been better if it weren't for the lancer.

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Really want to see Reinoe's new mime team against a slow team. Utilizes the Mime weapon bug really well.
http://s7.postimg.org/9w0s8pjsb/lol.gif

[Leif1991]

spoiler: My match

Even though I won, I see some flaws in my team. I need to fix those immediately. @_@

[silentkaster]

spoiler: My match with Barren

Although I lost, I still feel my team performed pretty well. A couple minor edits will be all they really require I think. GG Barren.

[reinoe]

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Really want to see Reinoe's new mime team against a slow team. Utilizes the Mime weapon bug really well.
http://s7.postimg.org/9w0s8pjsb/lol.gif

I never knew about this "glitch".  Sounds frickin' cool.

[Otabo]

Ask, and ye shall receive.

FFT Arena 1.39c - Reinoe (Testing The Waters) vs. silentkaster (Stop Right There!)

FFT Arena 1.39c - Barren (Ice Absorb) vs. Fenire (Macrame Pants)

[Reks]

Ask, and ye shall receive.

FFT Arena 1.39c - Reinoe (Testing The Waters) vs. silentkaster (Stop Right There!)

FFT Arena 1.39c - Barren (Ice Absorb) vs. Fenire (Macrame Pants)

Can I ask, then? I need to see if SWA's change to Wind element was a good decision.

Awesome matches regardless. Thanks, Otabo!

[silentkaster]

spoiler: silentkaster vs. reinoe

Holy crap, my luck was bad round 1...not a single status or Raise 2 hit!!! The next rounds went a little more my way. I like Reinoe's idea for sure. Very fun team. GG.

[Barren]

spoiler: me vs fenire

My ice absorb team did well enough for what it should do. Just keep out healing my opponent which what absorb teams can be built for. GG Fenire, your ninja setup is very good.

[Fenire]

spoiler: vs Barren

gg Barren. I will definitely need to rework my team. My ninja worked perfectly though so be prepared to see more of him.

[Shintroy]

spoiler: reineo vs silentkaster

Fun fight as expected. Thanks for the vid. The success rate sometimes feels like old 1.3028. RNG aside, It would've been more interesting if silentkaster's team had raise 1 as well. I wonder what'll be the new cursed ring/flash hat combo to make undead teams last past the opening turns.

spoiler: barren vs fenire

One sided but a lot of potential from fenire's team. Interesting weapon choice on the ninja. 350+ damage what was it.. rime bolt? Ridiculous. The set was just a glimpse of what's to come with the new faith and innocent weapons paired with oil.

[Otabo]

spoiler: reineo vs silentkaster

I wonder what'll be the new cursed ring/flash hat combo to make undead teams last past the opening turns.

Probably Cursed Ring + Reflect Mail most likely. It's a huge gamble now, though.

See, IMO, Cursed Ring typically does better on a non-armor unit, though (even though armored units can do well with it too, with a good setup/team). The thing with 1.38 Flash Hat was that it was useful not only because of the Innocent, but because non-armored units could wear it without needing to sacrifice their support slot or their armor slot, and it was possible to cover more weaknesses that Cursed Ring brought (this is why no one ran Reflect Mail + Cursed Ring back then, either). Back then, a popular setup was Flash Hat + Black Costume + Cursed Ring or, Flash Hat + Gold Armor + Cursed Ring (sometimes Flame Shield/Crystal Shield was added, or Genji Shield to prevent Consecration, but Consecration is nowhere near as common as Raise 2 is, so an undead unit could get away with not having dead protection, but that's beside the point). Now if you're a non-armored unit, you'd have to sacrifice your support slot AND your armor slot (or run a pally/lancer/samurai), to protect him/her from one spell, which means that it's harder to cover other weaknesses, meaning you're more vulnerable. Unless you have other units on your team that can quickly put down the Raise 2 caster(s), status him/her or at least apply enough pressure to force him/her into using Raise 2 on its own allies, it's really not that great, and now that you're not guaranteed to revive at 0 count 100 CT, it's even harder to use and take advantage of. I mean, it's still a good item if used right, but it's now more of a gamble than it was before - at least for non-armored units. Besides, now that Dispel Magic got buffed, it's really good now and I imagine that it will become used more. Dispel Magic > Reflect all day long since Dispel Magic itself can't be reflected, meaning Reflect Mail becomes a +135 HP piece of garbage - especially if Dispel is used early in a match, and there is no other way to reapply reflect aside from Nameless Song, which is also a garbage skill due to how the AI uses it.

But anyway, Raise 2 is only the most common threat for undeads. So many teams are running Raise 2. Fire damage (if non-armored and can't use a shield) is still is a problem for them, even now more than before because of what I mentioned earlier. Seal Evil can be problematic as well, but at least there are ways around petrify.

[Barren]

FFT Arena 1.39c - Fenire (Macrame Pants) vs Reks (Severe Weather Alert)

[Fenire]

Thanks for the timely video barren.

spoiler: vs Reks

Well that didn't go so well. Gg Reks

[TrueLight]

FFT Arena 1.39C - Otabo (Take Eight Steps) vs. Shintroy (Barrows MIII)

EDIT: FFT Arena 1.39C - Dokurider (General Winters Army) vs. Formerdeathcorps (B Team)

[Shintroy]

spoiler: Otabo vs Shintroy

Wasn't expecting a good outcome out of it. Even though it's the third version of my team it's the first 139 version. Removed a Ninja unit for a berserker unit. Going to drop cursed rings on this team since innocent is no longer on flash hat. I'll have it down by MV most likely. Wrecked.

@ Otabo I thought about reflect mail and cursed ring but that leads to mobility issues. Shameful display against that team. Easy 9-1 match up. Might as well have been titled "how not to use cursed ring" rip

[Reks]

FFT Arena 1.39c - Fenire (Macrame Pants) vs Reks (Severe Weather Alert)

spoiler: Vs Fenire and thank you Barren

SWA did nicely, and it was good to see both Counter Magic actually work without backfiring and my luck deciding to be decent for once.

GG Fenire, and your team looks really solid! (SWA wasn't the best opponent for you to see the strengths of it, sadly)

[CT5Holy]

Hi guys to avoid redundant work, I'm going to record silentkaster's Protect the Queen vs fdc's Power.

Also I just recorded Dokurider's Bomb Squad vs Otabo's Stall Tactics. Will splice and upload at some point. If you guys have requests, PM me! Might take me a while to get around doing it though =P

Dokurider's Bomb Squad vs Otabo's Stall Tactics

[formerdeathcorps]

That mystery attack you saw was Tsuzumakuzu.