congrats! \o/
I know how good Savage Blow 6 is on these PvE maps and yet it still surprises me to hear it. Maybe it's that I need to try Elise on an offensive team instead
some more notes on FCorrin:
last time I mentioned that I wanted to go for a +spd -hp Guard build. I threw the build into the mass duel calculator and the results were surprising to me, I thought FCorrin would be quick enough to score kills by doubling but it turns out she isn't. By removing QR, her kills drop by about 60% in matchups. And not even at a good cost either, her survivability (in these single duels, at least) barely changes at all.
However, a spd build does great wonders for her, at least in terms of pure numbers. I'm comparing a neutral IVs with +res refinement vs. a +spd IV with +spd refinement here. She survives more matchups and sometimes gets slightly more kills. For a bane, -hp decreases her survivability slightly compared to -res. The thing to note is that giving her a -res bane over a -hp bane doesn't seem to affect her matchups with mages at all. Even if you give her -res, she still dies to the same enemy mages without dying to any new ones. Giving her a -hp bane on the other hand makes her not be able to survive some physical units -- these being units that can still double her. The lesson being: try to keep her away from buffed units that can double her unless you know she can live. Speaking of buffed units, I'm testing these matchups against no buffs, +4/+4 atk/spd buffs, and +6/+6 buffs, and everyone with moonbow and switching between LaD, DB, and Swift Sparrow. The results tend to diverge the more extreme the buffs are, with max spd investment giving better numbers than neutral ivs +res refinement as it does.
The numbers might be better for +spd -res, but there's one critical matchup that doesn't benefit from this -- that being vs. QP Moonbow Reinhardt. She dies to him at neutral IVs, yes, but only by 3 overkill damage, meaning simply standing next to an S Supported unit lets her live barely. Switching to a +spd -res IV will make him unsurvivable. This reason alone gives me great hesitation in switching over. Not to mention that while better matchup numbers in single duels may be good on paper, it may not necessarily transfer over well in actual battles or the prolonged multi-battles with inflated stats in Chain Challenges. This was a long-winded way of saying that I'll probably be sticking to neutral ivs FCorrin for the time being until I happen upon a better Reinhardt counter.
I did a very quick comparison with Steady Breath QR Nowi, and in general it seems like she can get more kills than FCorrin, but also loses in more matchups. A more polarizing FCorrin in other words -- Nowi has much fewer draws and needs Red support much more than FCorrin does. Is what I thought, but that was with my Dark Breath++ DC FCorrin. If she ran the same Steady Breath QR set, she would do much better than Nowi would, at least going purely by the numbers. With the sheer bulk that dragons have with Fortify Dragons, the lack of speed hurts Nowi much more than worse res and hp do to FCorrin.