Arena
This guide is for people who want to reach T21/T20.5 and have trouble picking units for arena. This guide will help try to explain how arena works and what units to pick.
Why push for T21/T20?
Rewards! (T21= 5 orbs, 3500 feathers a week!)(T20= 4orbs, 3000 feathers)
Arena Crowns
T21= Staying in T21
T20.5=Every other week is T21 and the other is demoted to T20
Basic Arena mode explained:
How scoring works:
Base Score + Rarity + BST Value + Level Value + Merge Value + SP Value) x Bonus
-The most important thing for scoring is the merges, SP value, BST value and having a Bonus unit. The current highest possible scoring unit is 754 with a BST of 180
How to build your Arena Team:
You want to have 3 units who score very high and one unit from the weekly arena bonus unit. In arena, the bonus units should kill all the enemy units because of the extra +3 bonus points per kill.The other 3 units are just there to support the bonus unit, which we will call cheerleaders.
What unit to pick for arena? (Cheerleader picks)
The most important thing is merges, if you have any unit that are +8 or higher(preferred +10), they can be used in arena. All units need to be a 5 star unit and lvl 40. Keeping merges in mind, you want to pick a unit with high BST for scoring.
Which hero to pick.
Tier 0: Any legendary hero during their season
Tier 1: Any 177+ BST unit
Tier 2: Any 172-176 BST unit
Tier 3: Any 167-171 BST unit, Any unit with Duel flying/infantry 3
Tier 4: Any 162-166 BST unit
Explanation: In the formula, BST is calculated by every 5 BST (ie, unit with 170-174 BST is counted as a 170 BST). In a recent patch, merging units will increase a unit BST score by 3. So now taking the +3 BST into account, a unit within 167-171 would score as a 170 BST unit. A unit with 166 BST could score as a 170 BST unit if the unit has a superboon in one of the stats, this would increase their BST by 4.
Which Hero to pick: First, pick any hero you have +8 or higher then pick any of the recommended unit above. If your picked hero score equal or below 744 then i would not recommend to use it for Arena because your team based score will be to low to reach T21.
When to use Legendary Hero:
You should only use legendary hero if that unit can score more than 726 and blessing is in season. The reason why 726 is because when in season, a blessed unit will gain +8 scoring points. So 3 blessed units, not including legendary hero, will increase scoring by 24 points. Basically a 726 scoring hero acts like a 750 scoring unit. When it is in season, each of your unit needs to have the same blessing as the legendary hero.
When to use 2 Legendary Hero:
You should use 2 legendary hero if both units can score more than 734. Each blessed unit will gain an extra 16 scoring points, thus 32 extra points total.
Which unit to pick as a F2P player (Cheerleader pick)
Tier 1: None
Tier 2 Grail: LA! Eliwood, H! Docus,
Tier 3: Sheena, Draug, Effie, Gwendolyn, Mordecai, units with Duel flying/infantry 3
Tier 3 Grail: Black Knight, Zephiel, Summer Ylgr, Arden, Rutger, sigrun
[Updated 8/20/19]
Explanation: I am only recommending units that are in 3/4 star summon pool and any units in the Grail shop. As a F2P, you want to pick any unit in the tier 3 range that you have the potential to merge to +10. Any lower would hurt your based score.
Max Score potential
Tier 0: Varies
Tier 1: 754
Tier 2: 752
Tier 3: 750
Tier 4: 748
This is based on Max SP skill, Max Merge in each BST. This does not include season blessing
Cheerleader Units Build
You want the 3 cheerleader units to support your bonus unit to get all the kills. The build for each unit is similar but for the bonus unit you want offense skill to get kills. You want unit to use their unique skill if there is one. The 3 cheerleaders unit should be invested heavily because they are the core scoring for your team every week.
Simple build for max score for Cheerleader unit
Weapon: Unit’s preferred weapon
Assist: Any Duel Rally + [Budget: Duel Rally]
Special: unit’s unique, Aether/ galeforce
A slot: 300 SP Skill, Duel Flying/infantry [Budget: Any 240 SP skill]
B slot: Any 240 SP
C slot: 300 SP Skill [Budget: 240 SP skill]
Seals: 240 SP Skill
Website to check SP for each skill (https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Passives#List_of_Type_A )
Image of cost of each Skill, (credit goes to fire emblem discord https://discord.gg/fireemblemheroes )
SP Cost Special SP Cost A Slot SP Cost B Slot SP Cost C Slot SP Cost Seal SP Cost
Simple BUDGET build for Bonus Unit
Weapon: Unit’s preferred weapon
Assist: Duel Rally (4star inherit: Oscar, Tailtiu, Roderick)
Special: unit’s unique, Aether/ galeforce [Budget: 300 SP skill-Blazing skill]
A slot: 240 SP Skill
B slot: 240 SP Skill
C slot: 240 SP Skill
Seals: Any 240 SP Cost
How SP skill scoring is calculated:
The formula is for SP is Total SP/100, round down. Example, Total SP between 2000-2099 SP is counted as 2000 SP, 20 scoring points.
After picking your 3 cheerleaders and arena bonus unit.
You need to check your team based score. You can use this website (http://www.arcticsilverfox.com/score_calc/ ) to calculate your team score or check it by allegiance battle.
Your team based score is determined from the average of your 4 units score.
The range you see in arena is Based score -4 to Based score +12 (ie, based score is 736, you will see a score between 732 to 748 in advance)
It is reasonable to search for based score +8-10, depend. Searching for +12 score would eat through a ton of dueling crest.
You can calculate the Team Based score from the formula: Floor((Total Score of units)/8)*2 Your team based score will increase by 2 for every 8 points increase on your team. You can change out an assist or change a skill if you have extra points to give up and not drop 2 points in team scoring.
Staying in T21
A based scoring team of 740 or higher is required to stay in T21. With 740 based score, you should search for battles with a score of 748 or better. The cutoff to stay in T21 every week is around ~3890-3800. With 748 and all bonus kills, you can score 3800. This is like the bare minimum to stay in T21.
There is a higher score needed during Water season, i believe a score of 3800+ is needed to stay in T21. During Water season, recommend a based scoring team of 742. Searching for battle score of 748 or higher.
For T20.5
The cutoff score is around 3740~3750, you would need to search for enemy team with a score of 738 or higher and with all bonus kills.
Tips
At very high scoring, most of the units you face are armor units. To make runs easier for the bonus units is to equip armor slaying weapon instead of unit’s preferred weapon. Equipping armored slaying weapon over preferred weapon will probably drop unit score by 2
This reddit post can help you estimate the arena scoring cut off.
you can slightly cut corner if you know how the arena scoring works. read this
this is a calculation of the arena scoring system https://imgur.com/NycQzxt
If you have a Duel infantry/flying fodder, consider this list to pick your cheerleader
Arena Assault
What unit to pick for Arena Assault?
The recommended units are the same in Arena. you want 4 high scoring units. Any unit can kill any unit in Arena Assault.
After picking your 4 units, you need to check your team based score. You can use this website (http://www.arcticsilverfox.com/score_calc/ ) to calculate your team score or check it by allegiance battle.
How Arena Assault is scored:
Arena Assault find matches based on your Team based score.The range you see in Arena Assault is Based score -2 to Based score +12 (ie, based score is 736, you will see a score between 734 to 748 on advance)
You can pick your first battle but not the next 6 battles. It is recommended to pick your first fight from your Team based score +8 to Team based score+12.
You get +1 extra points for every blessed hero and legendary hero that is the same as the current season. A total of 28 extra points can be added for using 28 units in Arena Assault. You just need to bring in units with the correct blessing to receive the extra +1 points. It is highly recommended to have a large pool of heroes for Arena assault with many blessed units for the rotating seasons.
Recommended Item usage
Recommend item to use please look at this reddit post: Relative Strengths of Arena Assault Items
Top 1k players
The cutoff is around 5280. You would need team base score of 750-752 and all 28 extra points to reach top 1k rank.
Top 3k players
The cutoff is around 5240-5250. You need a team base score of 746 and all 28 extra points to reach top 3k rank.
Tips
As your team based score increase, you will see more armor units in the battles. You should make units with armor slaying weapon to make life a bit easier.
You can bless lvl 1 dancer just for scoring.
Allegiance Battle
Based info on Allegiance Battle
What unit is recommended for scoring?
The same units listed in Arena. In allegiance Battle, 3 high scoring units and one Legendary Hero with a pair up ability are needed for scoring. You will score a lot less if you do not use a Legendary Hero with pair up ability.
How scoring works in Allegiance Battle
Team based score + Quest Bonus + Friend Bonus + Synergy+ Advantage KO bonus+ pair up KO bonus
You can only influence your team based score, Advantage KO bonus, and pair up KO bonus.
You need a minimum of 1 Legendary Hero with pair up ability to max your score on Pair up KO bonus. Basically you want only your Pair up units get the right kills to maximum your score. You want the pair up units to have a different color (red,blue,green,colorless) to kill for Advantage KO bonus and Pair up KO bonus.
Only the four unit you put on a team counts toward the team based score. The pair up unit of your Legendary Hero does NOT count toward the team based score, thus it can be +0 and have any skill set.
Top 1k rank
The cutoff changes every week because of the increase Synergy bonus. I would say the cutoff is around 939 + Synergy bonus.
For this week, 9/2-9/9, cutoff the synergy bonus is 21, thus the cutoff is around 960.
Tips
Galeforce is highly recommended on melee units with pair up ability.
A competitive guide for Aether raid and event mode will soon to come.
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Competitive Arena Guide For T21/T20.5
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