#u: zora ideale (ssr)

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im back again to ask something ajdkkc

anywho, i finally got vanessa thread of fate and im confused on who should i kick out of my team and whom to keep. here's my team just in case you're curious. (and the characters i have)

i reallyyyy need a healer on the team tho otherwise my team would be doomed 😭

Hi dude!! Hope you've been well.

Getting into it, both Vanessa and Zora operate the best on "Mono" teams. For Vanessa, that might look like her, party Mimosa, Mereoleona as a tank/DPS (or Patri), and Charlotte. For Zora, that's likely going to be him, ceremony Luck, Charmy/Kahono/Gauche if you can swing it, and William. The Mono meta is going to continue for a few seasons more, and then we're going to have Valkyrie Noelle introduced, which will disturb that meta by adding two new types to the game (purple (chaos) and yellow (harmony)).

Why is this the case? Well, currently the structure of the game is such that each type has a special strategy.

Blue has counterattack.

Green has SP regeneration/skill spamming (Ceremony Charlotte, Party Mimosa, and Fate Vanessa ALL regenerate SP)

Red has burn stacking --> more damage/blasta + witch queen combo.

Now, these strategies are by no means ubiquitous. Mereo also has burn stacking --> damage, and she's green. Yami and Noelle [Swimsuit] have counterattack, and they're red. However, most SUPPORT units in their types have passives that only activate if everyone in that team is only one color. Those support units include: Party Mimosa, Zora, Vanessa [Fate], Charlotte [Academy], Sally to some extent, Charlotte [Ceremony], Witch Queen, and more.

Zora in a mono blue team gives himself a +15 SPD boost at the start of a round. That's INSANE, and it makes him the fastest character in the game, but only if he's in that type of team. Otherwise, he has a regular debuffer speed of around 112-114. You can play him however you want, but you will be working at a disadvantage to people who are using him in mono (at least, in the arena), because that's just kind of how the game works.

It looks like you've got a lot of well-built units. As it stands, however, there's no reason to have both Zora and Noelle on a team -- their skills are essentially the same, and Zora's benefit is that he basically turns any attacker INTO Noelle through DEF stacking, damage reflection, and damage reduction.

Langris is frankly a shit DPS, even though Fate Vanessa resolves his Skill Points problem to some extent (I'm sorry to langris fans but he's not lore-accurate. forget eating my brain out of my head, the most he's ever done is lightly blow on me. im talking like 1k damage) so if I had a recommendation, I would swap Noelle out for another DPS character and Mereo for Vanessa. You could also swap Charmy for Vanessa and Magna for Noelle and run a burn/stun/taunt team of sorts, but I would personally play around until you find what's fun for you and then go with that.

Thanks for asking! Please feel free to continue to do so :D I'll do my best to help!

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any idea which gear suits Zora the best? I've already put a set of gear for him that i found from youtube but i wanna hear your thoughts :)

Zora is the fastest character in the game right now, and he will be for some time. You want a 4pc speed set [Secret of the Deep Sea] and then whichever set you have to provide survivability (usually DEF/[The Great Merchant's Collection], as the 2pc buff for that is fucking ridiculous). Essentially, you want as much DEF on him as you possibly can get.

Zora doesn't really need gear focused on attacking, as almost all of his damage comes from his reflection on his Skill II. For Talents, you most likely want to go for Reduce Skill II cooldown/DMG res with a SPD carved stone, and DEF 20%/DEF and CRIT RES with a DEF carved stone. It's basically just THE standard support build, pretty much identical to one that you would use for William or CA Charlotte, etc -- I wouldn't suggest using talent stones on the attack part of the tree unless you want him to do raw damage, which is. unlikely.

I imagine this isn't too different from what you heard in the YouTube video, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it lmao

Thanks for asking!

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UPCOMING UNITS:

Seasonal:

William Vangeance (Defender) [PARTY]

Sub DPS

Taunt

Counterattack support

Mimosa Vermillion (Healer) [PARTY]

HP-scaling

SP buffer

Mono-green buff

Pickup:

Zora Ideale (Debuffer)

“Reflective Trap” character-specific counterattack

-SP debuff

Reduced DMG Dealt debuffs, DEF buffs

Vanessa Enoteca (Supporter) [THREAD OF FATE]

SP buffer

Invulnerability

Mono-green buff