Meo's PAD Blog: May 2017

This is a collaboration article between myself and some friends, where we each put our own input and score for the heroine collab buffs.

Barbara

Meo: I do not like Barbara. She did not receive the dragon typing for her LS that everyone wanted, and machine typing only is way too restrictive and the range of subs is not great. The 4-match type like Noctis or Kinnikuman is fun, but few of her available subs get TPAs. The HP and RCV will help you stall out for a board, so it may be better to just setup a board, then match your orbs when you need to sweep. Overall the worst pull in the REM in my opinion. As a sub, she offers the devil and machine killers that Baldin doesn’t, and brings no SBR as well. Her active is marginally useful for niche leaders when used as a sub, but at least it’s a good inherit.

Grade: D (should be F)

Marq: Just no. She's what you call wasted potential with a lead not getting dragon inclusion in her LS. No offensive awakenings other than killers, no SBR, 4 match restriction while needing to match 2 colors, incredibly shallow sub pool which have almost no utility other than Baldin, Ninegaruda, and Elgenubi without having to inherit much better monsters on top of meh monsters. Decent inherit though.
Grade: D (F)

Goochi: LUL. 3 SB isn’t bad but why go 3 when you have 4 from Tengu? The killers are fairly niche and don’t serve much purpose in a team unless you want to cheese the new c10 or something. The HP is underwhelming, and so is the RCV. I guess the attack is high for being such a bad card. The active is a niche one, as I say once again, its okay for cheesing some dungeons, but doesn’t really have a practical use. The Leader skill looks interesting but oh wait, would you look at that. It is so restrictive. You practically need more Barbaras on the team but more Barbaras means less actually useful subs. The part I dislike the most is that they turned a mad tanned loli into a berserk furious loli.
Grade:D (F)

Total Grade: D (F)

Elgenubi

Meo: Red Escha is quite useful. She can be an active enhancer when inherited on top of Krishna, or as a sub for any fire team that doesn’t require hearts. Guaranteed OE+ is always a plus for any team, so any color Escha is really good. As a leader, she is just a reskinned Escha, and I feel like her use will mostly be reserved for being a sub. With how strong Krishna is, Elgenubi is a must to increase throughput and have more fire skyfall to feed his orb hunger. She only received some stat buffs, so nothing else really changed for her.

Grade: B

Marq: Red Escha with the 3rd best artwork due to her evo. All these red OE+ but no real home for although there are teams she works well on. She works well on some teams like Krishna, Shivadra, Kenshin, Ilimina, and split Rodin. Unfortunately she doesn’t have a place on Dantalion since she breaks hearts. On all the previously mentioned teams she works as both a sub and an inherit since all those leads benefit from fire skyfall and lots of fires. As a lead she is a 1.5/6/1.5 match lead evo a 1.5/6/1.5 5 match after evo. She does get some interesting subs such as Markab, Antares, Denebola with some fire making inherit, Baldin, Kuvia, Homura and Misato&AA Wunder from the EVA collab. It’s just unfortunate that she doesn’t include god typing like Bride Escha and beach Escha.

Grade: B

Goochi: I love this artwork. I could possibly see this for my arena speed clears if I never get my Hera dragon for Yomidra. The awakenings are a nice touch. I could see this on a Krishna team. The main focus is that for newer players, this could easily clear A1 and dungeons near the difficulty. Don’t see on any of my farming teams tho L.

Grade: C

Total Grade: B-

Ilmina(split)

Meo: Maximum floof is a pretty nice card to roll from the REM. Her skill is absolutely great for farming, and the resulting board is good for teams that use her colors. Dropping killers for dark resist and a 7c awakening is pretty nice, considering she makes a 7x6 board and 7c isn’t very difficult on those boards, while having no killers eliminate damage control problems. A strong leader pairing for Xiu Min or Ilm, or a board change sub with true damage as well.

Grade: A

Marq: The fluff lost her SB and killer this is a sad time. With this evo Ilmina decides to completely redesign herself by flipping her main and sub attribute, and ditching her killers and 2 SB for 15% dark resist and the 7 combo enhance awakening as well as an impressive 2k hp. As a sub she fits perfectly on Ilm teams as she has an Ilm active but also true damage which allows to clear floors like Tamas, fatty dragon, py, predra or even z8's first form. She also fits on Xiu Min, Revo Venus, and NY Yomi teams. A quick not although she doesn’t have traditional offensive awakenings the 7c enhance awakening provides 2x damage to the monster per awakening so having one is better than having one tpa but worse than two. As for a lead she still makes a 7x6 and is a 20.25x for dual leads with a 43.75% damage reduction when you activate which is matching fire & light. She makes an interesting lead as she can pair with Ilm at best I believe or even Tifa or Xiu min to provide those teams with a small but consistent shield that doesn’t require the use of an active. Although I think this form of Ilmina will not have as much use over time compared to the 4sb killer version (the farm/good form).

Grade: B

Goochi: Oh boy. It just got real. This version traded 2 of her SB with an SBR, 3 dark resists, and a 7 combo boost awakening. This version is a very tanky leader. It is also pretty viable if paired with a friend Ilm, not Ilmina. This set of awakenings is more suited for more real dungeons like A3. The stat is 1 off from original Ilmina, being at 983, but you can’t be too mad when you have 7010 HP, that’s 3^rd highest in the game as of right now. It is absolutely bonkers. The RCV did get shafted quite hard, and so did the ATK. But having the 7 combo buff does help the attack section. Also having a shield is quite nice for gravities since that Low RCV means less healing. The active remained the same which is nice because I don’t have to skill up different things again zzz.

Grade: A(S)

Total Grade: A

Juri

Meo: Water now has access to a 50% shield aside from Yo, and Julie is pretty decent. Her array of awakenings is great for non A3 content, and offers a decent multiplier. She can be paired with Balboa for the RCV boost, or Artemis to stack more HP (though you’d want the RCV). The addition of the damage reduction baked into her LS as well makes her pretty tanky, and I see use as a water or grass TPA leader. As a sub, she is basically a blue lead balboa, so not as good.

Grade: B

Marq: Here’s the good blue shield I would've said we needed except for the fact that we got Yo who also is a double orb changer. But Juri still has a place since she’s a blue Balboa with dragon killer. Void def is helpful when farming or if you’re running a blue team that has a problem breaking high def or need shield. Some examples would be Revo Lak, Rukia, Revo Karin (if she ever gets announced to get one), Revo Hermes and RyuneI&I teams. With the given teams she may be a better inherit than sub due to not having actual offensive awakenings. As for a lead though that’s where she gets interesting. She is basically first evo balboa with an hp multi and 25% shield before evo and lead balboa after. Given the fact she has an hp multiplier instead of RCV it might be more beneficial to lead with friend balboa even though you'll lose out on a base orb changer. One thing to note is her hp multiplier and static multiplier are only 1.5x instead of 2 so you'll have to combo more when doing chip damage without trying to fully active. The drop from 2x hp from A.Artemis to 1.5x from isn’t too bad since you'll get a 25% shield when you match wood&water.

Grade: B

Goochi: Glad to see her take of her goofy glasses. Her awakenings are strong as they provide reasonable non niche killers *Cough Barbara Cough*. Juri isn’t meant to go as a Radra sub though. Those killers will come in the way during A3. But during like some casual A1 runs, she will decimate everything. Her active is basically balboa so it’s a meh for me. Slightly niche, okay for some dungeons with high def. I could go on about something something blue shield but since the introduction of skill assist that has become less of a sell point. Her LS is really good in my opinion. High damage, Tanky, while reducing damage? Sign me in oh baby jesus. Paired with balboa, this could become a disgusting lead. If only if it had a better Active skill I would not hesitate to give it a S. The stats are high up there, ranking it at 868. I really like this card and hope to see it to be put on more use.

Grade: A

Total Grade: B+

Kuvia

Meo: Kind of wanted an SBR so she could be used on Shivadra teams for mass TPAs, but w/e. She makes a decent sub/inherit for Dantalion teams, which I hear is quite decent with the new buff, as well as any other red TPA team as a double orb create that doesn’t break hearts. The heart skyfall is just a bonus, and 2 SB doesn’t hurt at all. Aside from that, the high attack with the 4 TPAs means she will do great work. Not much use as a leader.

Grade: B

Marq; Where’s the SBR. Please gibe SBR. Kthx. For real though, An SBR would have made it fantastic for a short 10+ easy dungeon. But now my dream is crushed. Even with SBR badge my Shivadra team would only have 90% and we know not 100% = 0%. 2^nd SB is nice tho. The attack is fairly high for being such a TPA heavy card. Active is nice in the sense that it doesn’t break hearts and is a double orb changer. What I dislike is that it increases heart orb drop rates. RIP my rankings QQ. Leaderskill is nothing to be impressed at. Heroine collab does not have that good of leader worthy monsters.

Grade: C

Goochi: Kuvia is one of the 5*s that has a few teams she can go on and isn’t just a niche sub/inherit. Kuvia as a sub is bringing 4 prongs and 2 SB with her evo (only 1 SB pre-evo) so she'll be putting out some decent damage. Although like Mito and Momiji doesn’t have a SBR which could put teams at risk if the lead doesn’t have sbr or another sub is missing one. She has being red/blue as well as being machine and god typing going for her which gives her access to be subs on some of the best fire leads such as Shivadra, Revo Shiva, and to some extents Dantalion, Krishna and Christmas Gremory. Unfortunately she doesn’t really have a place on Yamamoto and A.Cao Cao but if you have no other option she works but beware of sbr problems with Yamamoto. The reason Kuvia can work on all these teams is because for one she is a double orb changer who doesn’t break hearts so you can flood yourself with reds while keeping hearts on the board. The second reason is she has a heart skyfall buff although its only for two turns it minimizes the chance that you don’t have hearts if/when you need them as well as lowering the chance of having to use a heart maker for Dantalion and Christmas Grem, beware it does overwrite Krishna's skyfall buff.

Grade: C

Total Grade: C+

Mel

Meo: Surprisingly not the worst pull in the REM anymore. She is a blue Juggler that doesn’t get the enjoyment of Awoken Pandora, and gets access to some of the best subs with multiple TPAs or Rows to exploit. However, Juggler isn’t as good anymore in this meta so Mel isn’t as strong as intended to be, and her active doesn’t guarantee activation if you have no hearts. Low CD means you can always inherit over it though. As a sub, she is pretty lackluster but at least she guarantees enhanced heart orbs.

Grade: D

Marq: Debatably the worst roll in the whole machine she is just a joke but at least she gained a SBR with her evo. Converting columns that aren’t on the left or rightmost really screw with the board. To her credit she does make exactly 5 heart orbs which is just enough for a cross but you have the change to change your attacking orb color as well as having to waste extra movement time if that isn’t the location you wanted your cross at. One prong and not being an offensive orb changer is lackluster but works if she is all you have. Now as a lead she is the closest NA has to Juggler which is way too late and also that fact that the team has to be row based and use the best base blue row subs in the game is a big hurdle to get over in order to make the team.

Grade: D

Goochi: LUL #2 right next to Barbara. Not even loli, just edgy. Good stats except for RCV, Garbage active, mediocre leader skill, meme worthy.

Grade: D(F)

Total Grade: D

Meridionalis

Meo: Got buffed in a way she didn’t need, kind of like Gremory getting additional rows. She is still immensely strong as a leader, and the increased damage multiplier will clear just about everything you need to. Aside for that, she did not receive any game changing buffs like an SBR. As a sub, she offers lots of rows and a strong active.

Grade: A

Marq: Another row and 100x to 126.56 for another orb. Nothing has changed except sadness for no SBR or SB.

Grade: A

Goochi: GIB 2^nd SB! 2^nd SB would have helped my Toshiros come up quicker. Those 6 row enhances are overkill IMO since Meri isn’t really lacking in the damage aspect. What would have made her really busted (hehe) would have been a SBR and an extra SB. HP multiplier would have been amazing. The extra multiplier on her Leader skill is nice since it helps for consistency for Ganesha x Meri for devil rush and God rush. The recovery is so good, did not need to be touched on. The active is extremely nice for bypassing combo shields, especially when you’re a row reliant team. This card can beat most stuff, even the hardest dungeon out now, Colosseum (can confirm, was surprisingly easy for a row team going through combo shields)

Grade: A

Total Grade: A

Mito

Meo: Green Lmeta isn’t entirely terrible, but is extremely weak as a lead. The extra row heart and SB are nice, so she can be used as a base inherit for a green team that needs a cleric or base with devil killers. Rolling a cleric for 10 stones isn’t the greatest though, and will hold you back if you don’t have a strong leader to put Mito on. Mito’s true niche is in farming devil rush with double Ganesha due to 9x killer being extremely strong (see sub Tsubaki).

Grade: C

Marq: Sadly didn’t get that second skill boost she needed and got the row bind clear she should’ve had originally with her evo. She has really nice uses for both ALB devil rush farming where she removes the need for a damage enhance, as well as double Ganesha devil rush team that unfortunately isn’t able to be done in NA due to lack of Whaldor/Verdor. Other than devil rush she really doesn’t have many uses and is outclassed by other wood bind clears. In terms of lead 20.25x is ok if you’re just starting but at the same time you shouldn't be rolling heroine if you're just starting. D

Goochi: I am sad that she didn’t get the 2^nd SB that I would have wanted. I would have also wanted some wood row awakenings for her uevo since it does make Ganesha x Liu Bei devil rush farming quite more stable. I would say she is pretty niche in her uses as it restricts her basically to devil rush. As for her active portion I would have to gladly pass on it since there are better options such as Ceres to bind clear. In terms of lead, 20.25x is okay but its 2017 and its powercreeped out of this world. I personally don’t think she deserves all the hate that she’s getting because I do farm a lot and it is nice to kill things through shields because of her decent base stats and her double devil killers. B

Total Grade: C

Momiji

Meo: Sylvie with a light main attribute and plenty of TE. However, she still doesn’t have an SBR so she is quite unwanted as a sub, and most teams will prefer Saria boards due to LAkechi fix for an enhanced bicolor board. Fuma can be used to fix Momiji for bicolor, but it is pretty wasteful to run both as inherits for your team, or having one on the team regardless. You can use Momiji for Kaede teams if you’re still running her in 2017, but otherwise Momiji isn’t very good.

Grade: D

Marq: Where's the SBR, on a serious note she really did need that SBR to gain any real relevance as a decent sub that doesn’t put constraints on the team instead of that SB which isn’t too bad. Having a Sylvie board change without the haste is ok even though her haste never made any big splashes. Momiji is a decent inherit for light teams that have a heart or wood converter. She probably is going to be used be most as an inherit for Myr teams for those who don’t have Saria/Apoc which is fine but be warned that the only monsters that convert wood to light currently are Bride Escha and Fuma Kotaro. There’s also hope that her skill will be one of the top inherits for Reincarnated Apollo since he need both wood and light to fully activate. Most the 5* heroine rolls all follow the same trend as being pretty meh leaders and are easily outclassed for the most part.

Grade: D

Goochi: No SBR naniiiIIIIIII, ok memes aside. She needs that SBR. As for the active it’s a poor man’s Sylvie. Nothing too good since there’s no LAkechi for those kinds of boards. As for the leads it falls down because of its orb requirements for such a lackluster multiplier. I couldn’t see any teams that would use this for farming unless there happens to be one that requires a Sylvie board without the need for haste. On the plus side at least the stats are decent……….. /shrug

Grade: D

Total Grade: D

Navi

Meo: 4 SBR is great for farming teams that need it, next to Beach Chester. Her leader skill grants you a 7x6 to play with your fun heartless leaders like Sakuya, LKali, and Ra, but I don’t forsee Navi being any more useful than that. Revo Sakuya needing 10 combos may find use in a 7x6, but having no tank multiplier makes it difficult for her in the long run. Sherias skill isn’t very good due to hearts being so important in this meta.

Grade: D

Marq: 80% sbr stick that is both dragon and god with regular Sherias active is all that really needs to be said. But on a serious note with her evo matching 5 colors makes her a 1/16/16 lead who makes a 7x6 board means you can happily match mortal poisons.

Grade: C

Goochi: Oh boy the poor man’s beach Chester. I got to say I do like Navi slightly better than Bchester just because of the added SB. Other than that, I can’t say much. The meta doesn’t really favor Lkali board changes at this moment. The stats are good and the active CD is average so you could inherit stuff over her. Her LS is a joke though. Much better choices out there. But the bonus RCV is going to be funny to look at since it is a high multiplier for RCV.

Grade: D

Total Grade: D+

Romia

Meo: Green main Zuoh with a 7x6 board. She received the vital SBR that all good cards should have, so she serves as a decent sub for TE. I feel like she may become useful for Revo Meimei teams, but having no offensive awakenings besides dragon killer may mean other hard hitting TPA subs may be better. Aside from that, 7x6 pairing with Anubis is pretty fun, but aside from that I do not see a real use in Romia.

Grade: C

Marq: A green main Zuoh with 4 fingers. She can be used as an ALB sub if you don’t have/don’t really want to farm Dios since her active and LB/ALB would give you a green and red bicolor board along with 2 sec of movement time thanks to Romia’s awakenings. She also can have potential for Revo Meimei since you'll only need to be matching green and dark for the multi. Romia also has a dragon killer if you're having problems with any dungeon with dragons. As a lead Romia makes a fun pairing with Anubis giving you a 7x6 board you’ll just have to remember to match multiple sets of wood and dark but outside of that no real use as a lead.

Grade: C

Goochi: Best Anubis sub next to Yuna :^) (Compliments to Marq). A green color Zuoh isn’t that bad IMO. It actually appeals to me that we get a different colored Zuoh. Artwork is <3 too. The awakenings are good for players that started to learn how to combo. An extra skill boost would have been nice because it would have been a good Leeza Replacement for SDR farming teams. Speaking of SDR farming teams, the dragon killer is a double edged sword. Romia might go too much over. It really depends on the use. The leader skill is okay. The 7x6 board might be used for Anubis and such. The other damaging aspect isn’t really too good. As I said before for some other cards, 25x for such a low multiplier isn’t a good thing in 2017.

Grade: C

Total Grade: C

Sheena

Meo: It’s a bicolor light and dark board. She got a SBR to make her a decent sub, but there aren’t many teams looking for a bicolor light and dark, namely Noctis or Revo Vritra. Physical killer is pretty useless and machine killer only comes in handy rarely, so I expect to see Sheena used as mainly an inherit for those teams that like bicolors like Anubis. Otherwise, weak card.

Grade: C

Marq: Not much to say about Sheena she’s a bicolor board changer and the only one to make only light & dark, has physical and machine killer and gains sbr with the evo( finally an sbr is gained). She pretty much plays her role as an inherit much better than Momiji since leads like Noctis and Anubis like bicolor boards the later much more than the former. She could also be a good board change inherit for Yomidra and awoken Ichigo/Saito.

Grade: C

Goochi: Decent Awakenings, Nice Stats, No hatsL. Sheena is the first Dark + Light bicolor board changer. With a short CD and having a Dark Base (very nice because of Assist buffs). Leader skill is meh. For most parts I don’t really think that these heroine rem cards have the best leader skill out there at least for right now.

Grade: B

Total Grade: C+

Uruka

Meo: WOW. Uruka is the main star of this REM now due to everyone wanting damage absorb void for garbage spawns Sopdet, Parvati, Vishnu, and Heradra. Tacking on a DKali board change on top of it was pretty unnecessary, but appreciated so you can always do your Radra activation when you pop your damage absorb void. The skill may be quite long to activate, but it makes a lot of things much easier when you don’t need to control damage, so overall very worth. Being both God and Dragon type means she is useful for rainbow teams Roots and Radra, while covering water for those teams. Both ults have their ups and downs, namely the Radra-esque split getting prongs but no shield, and the normal Uruka getting an RCV multiplier. It will be acceptable to pair with another lead here, since you may want the other leader to cover what Uruka doesn’t. The 7x6 will allow you to activate almost any turn, and a normal DKali board change should guarantee you can get those TPAS for maximum damage.

Grade: A+

Marq: Now here’s were thing get fun, for the first form of Uruka we get the first main blue monster that has a DKali board who also happens to have Fujin's skill. So one debatably two of the most sought after active skills on a single card at a 24 cd max skilled. Although the cool down may seem long is better to think of it as Fujin's skill with a DKali board at the cost of 5 more turns. She’s God and dragon with a sbr so she fits on Radra and Roots teams while covering that blue slot that may or may not be a problem for some. This form has basically DKali's awakenings but replacing the sing prong for a 7c enhance awakening which is better in a sense. She basically fits on rainbow teams that actually give her their full multi. As a lead she makes the board 7x6 and is basically DKali LS with a 25% shield, 43.75% for dual leads and doesn’t even have a type restriction. She actually makes a decent lead since whenever you activate you’ll have a shield in case of preemptives at the cost of having to activate and only getting the shield for matching five colors. Now on the other hand her evo flips her attributes so she’s dark main. Along with the attribute flip she loses the 7c enhance awakening for 2 prongs to match Radra as well as gaining a substantial 1k atk at the cost of 1k hp. On the lead side of things she becomes a 42.25x lead at the cost of trading the shield for an rcv multi so you lose the ability to tank and to be able to recover from them as long as you activate.

Grade: A

Goochi: POGCHAMP. Same awakenings as super mega ultra-chicken = amazing already. The active CD may come a tad bit long but it’s a great base. Stats are magnificent, weighing it at a 979, almost at those reincarnated bad boys. Active is useful in so many situations. Let’s say in coop, you and your partner have Uruka, there goes Vishnu and Heradra, easy as that. That Dkali board change is perfect for the current chicken meta. The LS is meh to me since I am not the largest fan of 7x6 boards. But it does fit with some leads like Evangelion Miru. Both versions are good but I am fan of the Dark one since it has the same main att. as Dkali: P

Grade: A+(S ranking)

Total Grade: A+

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