Is Powercreep Really Out of Control? This FEHtuber's Opinion May SHOCK You... [Fire Emblem Heroes] 

I don't really appreciate when new units kinda negate all previous mechanics: Deny buffs, deny guard, deny followup manipulation, deny DR, deny deep wounds, deny pre combat damage, deny dazzling, deny teleport block, deny special activation... when you cant use the mechanics anymore, you can only fight cancer with more cancer

Power creep is good when it is healthy but FEH is really rampant.

Remember when FEH advertised the game as a celebration of you being able to play your fav characters? Yeah, we can’t. What’s the point of the game when everyone uses the same damn units.

Great video, thanks Tacho. As Tacho says, powercreep is a necessary part of this type of game. Good power creep means units doing new/different things, and your old units are still useable. Bad power creep means new units are just better versions of old units, and/or your old units become useable. Another point is the investment needed in units. These days, merges typically aren't needed, so it's quite easy to pick up a few of the new toys to play with every month. I don't mind too much if my old unit gets powercrept if they've given me enough orbs to get the new unit in the meantime. I'm not really that bothered with being competitive, but I can see why power creep really bothers people trying to reach the highest ranks.

I feel like there's good powercreep and then there's bad powercreep. Good powercreep was Saves, Breath of Life 4 (specifically to counter pre-combat damage), Finish skills, stone/tree/ice veins, and Laguz Friend. Basically anything that can be slapped onto an old unit to help them stay relevant in the meta. Bad powercreep was pre-combat damage like Flame veins, any Edelgard alt that allows for stackable Galeforce (so any Edelgard alt), and Valentine's Lyon and Seidr+alts that cancel a unit's movement before combat even begins. The last one is especially a horrible addition because it doesn't really require any skill, and there's no sportsmanship in it.

I think a lot of this boils down to not even casual vs competitive players, but just giga super entrenched players like you vs pretty much everyone else. You mention how DTM is F2P and never pulls, and maybe this is a skill issue, but I shouldn't need to be as unbelievably cracked at the game as DTM in order to compete against the newest stuff as an F2P player. And although you do see a lot of different felix builds doing different things, the thing that most people (very understandably) find frustrating about felix never changes across any of those builds. He runs at you, takes another turn, probably warps in with the celica ring, and kills 2 units if you don't counter him. That part doesn't really change no matter what build he runs. A lot of those other units have the same problem, where despite the fact that they can run all sorts of different builds and fulfill different roles, the things that people find frustrating about them doesn't really change across those builds. You see it a lot in pokemon as well, where the non giga-competitive players lose interest in formats where the same pokemon get played over and over again, despite the fact that one pokemon can do radically different things from team to team. Not to mention that feh is so unbelievably complicated and hard to understand that sometimes you think you have a counter to a unit and you try it out only to watch them get absolutely shredded by the unit they're supposed to be countering because of a bonus or something from a random unit standing 5 tiles away from where the fight's actually happening. The original reddit post also kind of glosses over the fact that having so many units that are so broken in so many different ways creates a very frustrating "rock-paper-scissors" element at the top level. I know it's not as bad in a mode like AR where you can switch teams after you see the enemy comp, but for modes like Arena and SD, if you bring a unit like gatrie or idunn to counter felix and your opponent runs you down with a celica ring duo gullvieg or something. I know a lot of potential teams I'd want to run in those modes die on the drawing board because I can't get a certain important matchup to die. And this is before we mention that having so many units that demand their own counters on your team made modes like arena assault and pawns of loki completely unplayable. Sorry about the wall of text, just wanted to put my thoughts out there. Been a long time viewer but this is my first comment, good video, Tacho.

My biggest issue with powercreep isn’t the effects and power itself. It’s stuff surrounding it like the text being so long and near unreadable with its descriptions. It makes it so easy to forget what each unit does bc the skill and weapon descriptions are so unorganized and thus easy to lose track. Also stat creep which shouldn’t be a thing anymore at this point. Just make stronger skills to inherit

Its irritating sometimes yeah but after the fallen edelgard incident ive really put more time into learning how to dissasemble new units tool kits. Like you said in the video i was suprised with ascended idunns peformance against B felix as she is quite old by now and My og leif can survive to rounds against winter edelgard with the right support so yeah its not all doom and gloom

Powercreep is healthy, true, but releasing broken trash like EIke is overdoing it. And I know, there is AAAAALWAYS someone in the comments who is gonna try to be the smart and special one saying "duh, Ike iz not broken, u need to uze diz very specific counter" every single time, but it all amounts to nothing in modes like Arena. The problem is how they ruin perception on players about what a good unit is. When they release filthy garbage like Crapblem Ike for example, they make a quick and easy buck because everyone goes for them. But then they release a decent banner with normal but not broken units and people wont even bother summoning, because the bar was moved so high up that the only way to sell is to keep releasing broken trash every month, spiraling things out of control.

I'm kind of on both sides when it comes to the eternal debate of powercreep. On one side, I love seeing how creative and fun these units can be like Brave Felix, who does have far more counters than someone like Emblem Ike did at release and can be used in a variety of ways in any and all game modes than just a crazy good omnitank. However, I also do have notable grudge against powercreep primarily due to how FEH at it's core has so many outdated and ancient systems that they don't bring up to date with some of these newer units they release. For example, I 100% agree with you Tacho that a unit like Emblem Celica isn't a raid boss to the extent someone like Brave Felix can be, but due to the maps being the same small and restricting sizes (outside of Rival Domains, SD and other large map game modes) make her and the lack of more than just two anti-warp options can make whoever uses her Engage ring a massive threat. It's things like that and still being able to use multiple copies of the same unit in both sides of AR that really make me anti-powercreep. But something I love about powercreep is +10 merges (Outside of Mythic units) not being as impactful as they used to compared to today really allow for newer and F2P players to stay competitive. As a player who started playing just last year, this has helped me tremendously in competitive game modes. Overall, it's a hard debate for me to decide how to feel about this. All I know for a fact is that powercreep will never go away due to FEH being a gacha cash cow and the fact that FEH should've always been a PvE/Coop gacha rather than a PvP focused one.

I don't think anyone will argue that there doesn't need to be some amount of powercreep, but it's fucked beyond all recognition in FEH because IS has absolutely no restraint and things move at light speed. They release a unit that "does a new thing" and is "interesting" but they're so overtuned that they're just the best thing in the game and nobody else can compete. Variety does not matter because everyone will get crushed by the top handful of meta units that are omnipresent. It's not true variety because you're pigeonholed by the meta. Everyone ends up congealing into the same pool of stuff which is the exact opposite of interesting. 90% of AR maps I see in any given week are the exact same shit with Celica ring Felix, brave Robin, Heidrun, etc. My favorite units that I've babied like hell with skills and flowers and other goodies are completely unusable in competitive content because even with the highest levels of investment they can't hold a candle to anything released in the past year. You say you're having the most fun with AR in a long time, but I'm the exact opposite and am having the least fun I've ever had, even worse than the old Sigurd/Nott days. And I say this as someone consistently getting top 1k finishes.

When the f*cking glossary got powercrept by skills having too much text they barely fit the screen anyway, I think it’s a bit problematic.

Im 14 mins in the video watching this to me is just like you're trying to defend the huge flaw this game has along with that post in Reddit, yes units can do unique things at the cost of rubbing off your fun of using your fav units just to keep up with *powercreep* and gacha in general should not be like that play fgo if you don't get it.

I just wish the game had more things to do... Aether Raids is fine but the fact that it's limited to a small amount of aether per day sucks, they doubled the amount but it's still not enough. The events are not that good either (except Seer's Snare which btw should be permanent with weekly prizes) and you're stuck with just the arena.

I think the problem is some people put way too much credit into "all you need is the newest units" not taking into account that I could not care less how broken the new Reginn is when I don't even care about Reginn as a character. I don't find playing with busted units fun if they're not characters I'm actually attached to. So I still see value in +10ing favorites because I don't need them to stand up to the meta. I just wanna clear difficult content with them, which any unit is capable of doing with enough investment.

The era of constant godswords...jesus. I don't remember all of them, but I remember School Felix being released as the "GLR Spammer" and then eventually we got Severa...the better "GLR Spammer" lol. It really was the Malibu Stacey meme from the Simpsons "What are you talking about? She has a new hat?" XD. Like I enjoy powercreep in the sense that we have to rethink how we use our units, as this helps us pull out units we've never really thought of using before (not even powercreep with the units themselves, but also skills). Like I would have never really bothered with my well-built Forsyth until Brave Alfonses's skills came out, and realized you needed a near-save with super good mix-bulk (Another good thing about Forsyth being that he cuts deep wounds in half, meaning that he still heals in astra/anima season). Like to this day I have an evil cackle every time any B.Felix teleports into range and cannot kill the dude after multiple attacks. SO BASICALLY its alright....as long as we aren't constantly forced to redo our teams skills. I don't enjoy having to pull for multiple Attuned/Re:armed units just so I can pull that SINGLE copy of a new skill and fodder to them if its going to be a commonplace (Like I don't need merges on my Attuned Azura, but I ended up with 3 of her and used her as my B.Alfonse fodder bank. So whenever she shows up its like I'm obligated to pull for more copies just to refresh her). Like tbh prob 3 times a year I think is a healthy point to change how we approach things. That doesn't seem like a lot of time, but considering everything in FEH is weekly, having like 12 week matches under the same meta is doable. Does FEH need to calm its tits at times....YES. Like CYL8 shook the game up the most as of recently. Let us go through at least until the end of this book before we drastically change things. CYL -> End of Book Mythic/Legendary -> Anniversary -> CYL and repeat.

Tbh, I loved these new units and the way IS is going with characther design, I'm not attached to old units and I know my favorit ones can have good skills or better versions of them coming in the future, so I don't mind powercreep.

The anti-power creep crew have a problem where Instead of trying to improve, they just blame the power Creek while those who put even a little bit of effort are excelling.

I do think powercreep migth be going a lil to fast, but i like the direction they have taken with the units so overall as long as they release units that dont break the meta but rather enhance it like Ectonier and peko mama i think its fine, the game has been very fun the last few releses, the meta has turned into a roll compresion where every unit has to fuffil multiple rolls and i like this direction rather than being S tier units at one thing their now A and B tiers at a lot of things (with the exception of maybe emblem ike but even then he has a ton of stuff)

Feh's problem is never powercreep. The problem is lack of improvement of gameplay. I can not remember how many years fe pass has been pushed out. They never increase its value for adding new features. They should at least give timesaver to everyone for free and add more incentives to fe pass.

This game is old. Powercreep isn't a big deal when the game should probably be dead by this time next year.

my big problem with feh is that it’s not inviting to new fans and alienating to long time fans. I would not be surprised if the feh playerbase only stays for the fire emblem title alone Powercreep is a universal constant it’s just something that will always happen especially for a gacha game. Like you know how many characters have “broken the game” over the course of 8 years lol

I wish they would tell you exactly how much damage things do. I'm tired of having to do college math

I understand powercreep is a thing, and it's going to happen, but the issue with Feh's powercreep is that they overtune new units and skills so much that the ways of dealing with them become more and more specific/limited everyday. It's especially bad if you're someone who doesn't summon or spend money often it can feel pretty egregious. I saw someone in the comments mention that good powercreep introduces strong units that do unique things, but you can still use your older units, which is something that you can't really do in Feh anymore because again these newer units are just so overtuned and powerful older units can't do anything. Perfect example, I brought my Corrin into Voting Gauntlet. She's my most invested unit; she's +10, max dragonflowers, ascended, summoner supported, has the resplendent stats, I gave her an essence, an echo skill, Laguz Friend etc. She's incredibly stacked, and yet a single unmerged/uninvested Brave Felix just rolled on in and immediately blew her up. It's frustrating because it just feels unfair, and you can't do anything sometimes. The other two gacha games I play, Touhou Lostword and Godzilla Battle Line, have powercreep, but it doesn't feel as out of control that Feh's powercreep feels. Touhou Lostword is all PVE content. There's no PVP, and you can still do the harder content with older characters. Godzilla Battle Line is completely PVP, and they do have powercreep, but as long as you play the game during the season, you're pretty much going to get all the new units. This current season that's about to end was themed around the Godzilla anime movie trilogy, and the new units were the versions of Mechagodzilla and King Ghidorah from those movies. They're both pretty powerful units, and I got them both just by playing the game. They even give you free copies of Godzilla Earth, Space Godzilla, and 2 copies of Godzilla 2002 just by playing the game. The only thing is leveling them up, but you get them. Oh, and they do buff or nerf units too before a new season starts.

You do realize that after only a WEEK you uploaded this video, there's already a new S unit (sigurd)? I don't know man. Normally, i would argue that i'm fine with powercreep, but at the current rate it's been VERY difficult to save orbs past 2 or 3 months. Saving of 2025 AHR is gonna be such a pain.

I have been loving the powercreep in skills. I think the combinations have been the most fun part of this game. New skills change how viable previous units are with fun combinations that make you rethink the game. My problem is that prf weapon/skill powercreep negates that and it has been moving too fast compared to inheritable. I think "If everyone's broken, no one is" only applies when you're looking at units from the past year (with a handful of exceptions). I'm not saying year 1 units should be viable, but they are actively releasing direct nerfs to units from two years ago

I don't like that FEH turns me into a meta slave just to be able to compete. I despise the new Fjorm and her design but I'm still pulling because Shield Fighter is a must have skill and I don't have any other unit in my barracks that can tank the recent shit. I've been playing since Gen 2 and while powercreep was always there, it used to be possible to set aside orbs for favorites without seriously hurting your account. I've been struglling hard for a while just because I refuse to spark every new banner.

Honestly I just create a new F2P account every time there is a bulk META shift. Pull a few units, make some fun teams, then play until IS drops the next bombshell. I've been a dolphin player since DAY 1 (yes orcas are actually in the dolphin family and not whales) and don't mind shelling out a few bucks here and there to keep the game alive. I love the franchise and so much of my own fantasy writing is inspired by Fire Emblem. My problem with powercreep is I.S. consistently creating a problem just to solve it a few months down the road. Even with a +9 Ophelia fodder bank (best granddaughter) Sometimes I just do an event or two, autoplay Aether Raids, and arena (Tier 20.5) and not invest orbs until the next "Need META X to win" that I actually enjoy.

I think there's upsides and downsides to power creep. If there's a clear weakness, then I think it's fair. Much like old F!Edelgard, you could kill her with NFU, Armor/Beast eff, ruptured sky, aoe, TAdept/Raven tome, etc which are pretty average things even for that time. Obviously there was terribad units like Setsuna that couldn't even successfully off themselves against her, but for the most part, there was decent answers. When it's something like E!Ike, and he's got Creation Pulse, BoL4 support, Gotoh AoE DR, and twin uzis, then I'm like... alright I guess I have to bring a very restrictive set of units to deal with this crap. The amount of support you can stack on units, support units of course protected by saves, you really have to hit and run sometimes, but the mobility of units is so erratic when we're also dealing with warping, debuff cleansing, dancers, repositioning, AI move order(which I still have no idea how to calc), bonus movement, IEDs and airstrikes, etc. I then have to somehow telegraph a unit running in with 4 movement, canto's backwards, gets danced, another unit has guidance and moves unpredictably so that another unit is now in range of you.... The mobility has been the issue for quite some time. Armor units and infantry used to be able to be picked at from afar even if you had to leave them as the last unit standing, but you legitimately have to worry about too many threats jumping in randomly so that you _can_ try to deal with these omni tanks. I don't think this issue in Arena is all that bad since it's only ever 4 units, but every other competitive game mode is plagued with this nonsense.

I think the addition to new skills and playstyles are really nice, and I'm curious to see what the new emblems will bring in the future. But the thing, for me, that's making powercreep sometimes unbearable is: The "obvious" counters to units are not doing anything to meta characters anymore. Here are some examples: - Oh my, Attuned Micaiah is a supportive green mage, I'm going to bring a strong red unit that targets defense to deal with her (there's not many, I even saw my friend's L!M!Shez fail to kill her) - Oh my, Felix is a very strong red offensive unit, I'm going to use a bulky blue tank unit that can retaliate with strength to kill him (there aren't) - Oh god, Heidrun is a very bulky green unit with lots of damage reduction, I'll have to bring really strong red initiators that can have enough damage to kill her (Only Felix can do it consistently, and sometimes not even him). Like, there's not typing or group of units that are able to counter these meta threats. They can only be countered by the new toys the game releases later. And I think this trend of units having no weaknesses on release started back then with fallen edelgard.

I agree with your points. F2P player here, have been able to save up orbs for the past few CYLS and rearmed/attuned releases like you shared about DTM skipping some banners like I do. HOF for me, specifically Dancer Eldigan and very soon Tina were/are great F2P options for those who've been able to save the free forma souls. I like playing the PVE modes with my favorite characters from the mainline series. It's nice to play with them and customize them without having to commit energy to a playthrough of 3H or genealogy or engage, for example. FEH def needs a co-op mode.

I've been saying this since canto was introduced: The problem is not the 'powercreep' (=or just 'progress', to use a proper word for it... I swear the gacha community with their language and hyperbole is a special... something.) of the units or necessarily the rate at which new skills, abilities and base score total are introduced at. The problem is they didn't design the vast majority of maps keeping those factors in mind and I would argue it has broken the design balance last year and worse yet, now it's breaking the game flow. No new mode has remedied any of it and the underlying problem remains. It's insane to me how Fire Emblem title of all things can have such shit maps. It's like the team who designs them doesn't hear of the latest unit design and if they even test the game, they only play with the launch units or Askr trio. As for requiring many different units for playing different modes - I've only benefited as I never invested in +10's with all the latest bells and whistles and instead just summoned whatever seemed like a fun unit to have. It doesn't matter though, when playing the game is miserable. There's no strategy involved since opponents' every move has become too unpredictable in limited map space. Either you get lucky and survive the first turn or you don't and it's on to the next match to see if you get a better map and a player whose team doesn't consist of only the latest units. You could think ahead and calculate every variable, but it would take far too long requiring an unhealthy dedication to the game.

I think i just feel mixed, like i like new interesting effects, but dislike your new toy falling off a few banners later. I am also kinda oldschool in wanting to use invested favorites, but in general you can use those in PVE, or one invested of those in other modes. My first thought of Sigurd was that he and his ring might be kinda not fun to go against, but will see. Enemy hit and run is something i do not really like But there are still some that keep up for a long time, like the Winter Edelgard and likely B!Felix/Robin, those can be still fun to invest in. And those kind units will stay usable and fun for very long in PVE

I haven´t played FEH in a while. I remembered that power creep wasn´t as bad as it seemed. Most of my matches in AR Defense were probably of people that just auto-battled and most players did not try-hard their defenses. Summoner Duels was one of the worst additions to the game. Literally, the standard for that game mode is to make units that can k.o. 99.9% of the rooster and units that can survive 99.9% of other units was just absurd. I think that the concept of a removable skill was one of the best additions in the game, sacred seals and now emblem rings. The real problem is that they lock the spark on those units behind the feh pass. Fire Emblem Heroes is f2p friendly in the sense that you can obtain most of the orb rewards using free units. However, what is the point of getting all of those orbs if you can´t guarantee the end of the month unit without paying for the premium subscription. I paid for the feh pass and some bundles for years until I just did not feel like it; I would reinstall the game the moment they decide to make all sparks free and after that I might subscribe for the feh pass until EOS just as a thumbs up.

I'll be honest. While I do find quite a few units in this game really annoying to go up against. I for the most part also use these same units. And while it would be nice if older units got a bit more love. I still think you can make most things work in this game, given enough time and dedication. As somebody who has a core team of older units, I can say it can be annoying but also really satisfying. When Emblem Ike came out, I had a fanstatic time with my invested Bridal Lilina nuking him consistently. Now with Brave Felix, as someone without any invested blue near save, I struggle, but he isn't unbeatable. Frustrating, but not unbeatable. Emblem Sigurd is busted for sure, but he is not unkillable. And you can counter him. He isn't the best example of healthy powercreep by no means, but he at least isn't doing everything like Heidrun or Attuned Micaiah. Fagado is a great example of a recent unit with a gimmick made to target defensive special abusing tanks whilst not being all too crazy otherwise. I liked Freyr on release for the same reasons, he mainly got that anti-bullshit mechanic to him of cleansing the spam of debuffs, but otherwise he is quite manageable. And he had existing counters to him even before his release. Overall I think the game is in a better spot than it used to be a little while back. It has become a lot more versatile with so many unique effects and new skills. That make for so many strategies with newer and older units. I was originally a day one player and remember when you had just started out your channel. We were even friends in the game for a while, without knowing it lol. I returned to the game just over 2 years ago and it has definitely become a lot less dull in my opinion, when it comes to strategies. Mind you I do play a little bit of competitve, while mostly being a casual who just likes collecting their favorites.

I wouldn't mind that the pair up being available on Arena nor any other game mode. That said, Pair up would human hands only, if you lose the pair it counts as a lose character, you get less Scoring for Ar, get points on SD for defeating him, and counts as a death towards the death counter on Arena. Moreover, the pair up should not count as the bonus unit if he is pair up with a bonus unit. Otherwise, the game would become into beating everyone with that busted unit that hasn't got the skill restrictions nor merges of arena units.

The problem with powercreep in FEH is the speed at which they show up where what's the point of summoning if they will just get replaced and the pvp, money, and gacha aspect of it. If you are a whale and dolphin then you can try and keep up with the meta, if not then you are so out of luck. This is a pay to win game disguised as a f2p game. If the summons weren't requiring you to pay for a guaranteed summon or if you received a lot more orbs to do so then maybe it wouldn't be bad but at this rate, you wouldn't be able to do so for all the pvp oriented and a little amount of pve. Its anti-casual and to me that is immediately a red flag and a really bad way to retain players. It would also be okay if there were more fun pve content, but sadly IS seems to be going the pvp focused route. The only fun pve I think would be seer snare and even then, it could lead to problems if ever these shiny new broken toys show up to wreck even the strongest of units.

There are a lot of people here talking about "good" and "bad" powercreep. My two cents is that if a unit makes the game more fun they're a good addition to the game. Having things balanced and having every unit usable isn't a virtue, it would just mean new units are recycled versions of older units. The recent units are very strong and fun to use, and countering them takes a lot of skill and planning. To me that's a lot better than a lot of metas in feh history.

I don't mind powercreep units being hard to kill in itself, since ultimately there's always a way to damage them. But I really dislike how right now there are so many units that can just cover the whole map with their insane mobility/warping and even self-dance and then retreat to safety, all the while bypassing difficult terrain. The regular maps are just way too small for that and having to play around that almost every single time gets really annoying when there's hardly any good counter to it.

It's not just powercreep, it's feature creep. Characters now have way too much bloat in what they do. I shouldn't have to reach a dissertation just to understand what a character does. And I pretty confident in saying most feel the same way. I've been with the game since day 1, and I hate where FEH is currently, nothing about it is fun and I treat it as nothing more than a collector.

you know of the 3 gatchas i play feh is the only with power creep i can feel. in touou lost word there was once power creep but now units feel as strong as they did when we reached a certain level and in reverse 1999 i'm not even sure what power creep would look like. they put out one absurdly broken unit and now everything just compares to how can it make that unit better

FEH is starting to feel like a chore if you just want to play it casually. Recent voting gauntlet annoyed me so much. Also sticking to easy arena to avoid the same unit over and over.

I'd say something, but I'm lucky enough to snipe for the bs and can get by just fine 😅 so I probably don't count

Powercreep in and out itself isn't the problem but I don't think we need powercreep happening almost every month lol

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth music in the background; opinion approved.

Oh i also do not reall like when every banner has something that gives lots of FOMO, like give me some time to save up first 😅

I'm probably not gonna mind this powercreep considering how fun these new toys are to play with.

Totally not. Getting 4 actions per turn and not being the best galeforcer in the game is totally normal 😮

I uninstall game yesterday

From my experience, every iteration of Edelgarde was manageable to fight against (to be fair i don't touch arena or Summoner duels) I have have no clue on how to deal with Felix other than Dazzling staff/windsweep

People can tank NFU felix with Idunn, Hector, or Gatrie?? I want to see that. I am trying to find a way to counter him too... 🤔

THATS MY POST!!! IM KINGSLY91!!! Thanks for making a video on my post!!

I remeber 3 months back when I started the game I was loving it due to my faves doing great in pve. Since I touched pvp I've been thinking about my life choices everyday that should tell you how a regular ass new player feels among the exquisite sea mammals in feh. PS: the 14k views is probably due to ppl seeing Edelgard in a Christmas outfit in your thumbnail. Evidence for that is E!Ike and all the units after being a lot more broken and brain dead but still not attracting as much views. But not even she can save this game in my eyes.

Meanwhile I'm still wondering how the hell you enemy phase brave felix

24:30 I disagree with this take, I'm going to talk from a competitive stand point mind you, casuals can do whatever they want, also if you're a dolphin fehpasser then sure, you can live this life just sparking 2 or 3 banners a month and get every new toy, that's IS objective ultimately, but as a f2p player you truly need to invest on mythic merges and legendary merges at some point, having 1 or 2 fully merged offensive mythics per season is really a life saver in AR, and even arena teams with with an old legendaries such LAzura + 2 scorbots+bonus, outscore teams with no legendary and filled with just duos or ghb scorebots +bonus, of course if you have a fehpass you can probably ignore all of this and just spark for the new legendary a let it do all the kills, you could also try your luck but that's a slippery slope, just look at Oblivion's horrible EIke summoning sessions or PM1 chasing for ECelica for all eternity, those are the true experience that make people quit the game. I do agree with having the most fun playing the game right now, for the first time, I got forced to play galeforce because the nukes were insane and I loved it, WEdelgard then Felix with ECelica ring, it's such a joy all thinks considered, also I tend to ignore SD so remain sane hahaha

We can no longer classify this as power creep sir Tacho, this must be henceforth known as banner creep, as every new hero banner is just that, and this weeks new units are next weeks forgotten.

I am more engaged in the game right now then I have been in years. I actually think they've done a good job designing units horizontally ever since Emblem ikes release. In past time, tanks that outclass Emblem Ike in everyway would release just a month or so after he would have dropped but this year the tanks released after him all offer something different but aren't outright better.

What approach do yall think works for beating felix in SD? People always give him nectar support and celica ring, so after he warps to you, you have to be able to one round him or he will destroy your whole team. Who can one round him when he has nectar support?

I don't mind powercreep as it's not *boring* powercreep where the unit's numbers are just so bloated or kit so overloaded that it's extremely difficult to counter them or justify not using them but they fundamentally aren't doing anything new and interesting.