UNIT ANALYSIS - PUMLEFICIENT SEMIRA

UNIT ANALYSIS - PUMLEFICIENT SEMIRA

OVERVIEW   

Game Area	Rating	Notes
Arena	7.5/10	7/10 As a Leader, 8/10 as a Sub
Challenge Arena	9/10	Generally good unit with a variety of potent benefits
Questing	11/10	Lots of very useful effects for auto-battle + that pesky status challenge
Trials	8.5/10	Great standard toolset for many trials, especially hilarious for Trial 004.
Grand Gaia Chronicles	8.5/10	Great standard toolset + Ailments come in handy.
Frontier Gate	9/10	Status Cleanse/Null + Poison, Paralysis & Curse + HC/BC Buffs. VERY Helpful.
FG Farming	5/10	No offensive buffs and below-average modifiers. Not highly recommended.
Frontier Hunter	8/10	Useful tools for Terminus Clearing. Nothing special for OTK Farming.
Raids	8/10	Good toolset + Ailments that are essential for some bosses. Estoreit Killer!
Overall	8.3/10	Great status cleanser with some competition but works nicely with many Global Exclusives including Gazia.

STATS (7/10)

Stats	HP	ATK	DEF	REC
Base	4,655	1,561	1,466	1,739
Lord	6,650	2,230	2,095	2,485
Anima	7,542	2,230	2,095	2,247
Breaker	6,650	2,468	1,857	2,485
Guardian	6,650	2,230	2,333	2,366
Oracle	6,650	2,230	1,976	2,842
Max Imp	1,000	600	300	400
↑ ↓ Final, in-game stats may differ slightly

Ø  Monstrous REC, Dreadful DEF and average HP/ATK. Really weird Imp Caps.

Ø  Somehow she found a way to have less DEF than Ciara but manages to trump her in HP & REC.

Ø  Stats are not terrible but she's a bit squishy. The REC gives her a situational advantage over Ciara though. Whereas Ciara needs Melchio or Gazia as a crutch for a DEF boost, Semira can also take advantage of Aurelia's REC->DEF boost and much more efficiently than Ciara.

Ø  For the most part it won't make a big difference. Semira is a support unit with below-average damage modifiers. You're going to be equipping defensive spheres on her and probably won't even be tempted to use damage-boosting stuff like Heavenly Bud or Blighted Seal.

SKILLS (6.5/10)

LS - Insidious Supremacy:

+100% ATK (Light/Dark), Negates Ailments & +25% Damage vs. Ailment-Induced Foes.

Ø  For the Arena it has some value over Sefia/Kikuri/Magress/Atro. You get the ATK bonus and don't need to worry about the "Status Effects Active" rule. If mono Dark/Light leads were all you had then I'd flip a coin between Semira and Atro/Magress.

Ø  Outside of the arena it has even less value. It's just not a particularly valuable status null LS in the face of units like Charla, Deimos and Griel.

Ø  It actually has surprising value in Challenge Arena where you might have a mixture of Dark/Light fodder to deal with a "No Brave Burst" rule and thus can't fully utilize one of the mono leaders.

ES - Pumpkin Extraordinaire:

+100% Damage against status-inflicted foes & adds ailment cleansing to BB/SBB.

Ø  The value here is the cleansing, it's an absolutely wonderful addition to her toolset. The damage bonus is not to be overlooked though, she will inflict ailments on anything susceptible so this gives her 380%/580% BB modifiers respectively, much nicer numbers than before.

Ø  It would be nice to have some type of stat boost like the SBS units. Ultimately an ES that adds something to BB/SBB is kind of lame because they could have just made the BB/SBB do that stuff in the first place ...

COMBAT (8/10)

BB - Callous Revilement (8/10):

12-Combo, 280% Dark attack on all enemies for 24BC. Inflicts Curse, Weaken, Paralysis & Poison (75%), 3-turn Status Prevention + Cleanses Ailments (ES).

Ø  Within her Niche of inflicting ailments, this is a 12/10. As a status cleanser vs. an immune boss, it's just a weak BB that cleanses and prevents ailments, so nothing special. It's great if you need the ailments but lacking if you don't, Edea's BB is substantially better in that respect.

Ø  This BB is sad/hilarious in the Arena. Unless you went up against status prevention leader, prepare to crap all over your opponent's team with Curse and Paralysis.

SBB - Virulent Castigation (9/10):

15-Combo, 480% Dark attack on all enemies for 20BC. Inflicts Curse, Weaken, Paralysis & Poison (80%), 3-turn Status Prevention + 35% HC/BC Drop Rate & Cleanses Ailments (ES).

Ø  This is basically just her BB with the nice addition of a Feeva-level HC/BC Boost. It's a good thing she has it because the BC generation on her BB/SBB are below average.

Ø  Within her Niche this SBB is amazing, 80% chance to inflict potent ailments and a BC/HC buff that synergizes with units like Nadore, Bestie, Nemeth and Andaria. Semira can also work nicely with Paris since you'll be SBB'ing most of the time so the overlap is a non-issue.

Ø  Her SBB is particularly useful in Raids where you might need her ailments, will need her status cleansing and probably will greatly benefit from +35% HC/BC.

Ø  Many trials resist BC but that doesn't mean BC buffs are useless, it means you need one just to get anything out of the damned boss. Status cleansers are standard for trials anyway so she can definitely contribute to many different setups with her SBB buffs.

UBB - Spooktacular Calumny (3/10):

17-Combo, 1000% Dark attack on all enemies for 20BC. Adds all ailments to allies' attacks (100%) for 3 turns & boosts OD gauge by 25%.

Ø  I'll be honest, it just sucks. They haven't created a scenario for us yet where you would ever use this UBB. FG Floor 24 comes close but there are so many better UBB's to use. Even Tora's UBB is better than this ... I'm not really sure what they were thinking.

Ø  Don't use this UBB unless Semira is the only 7-Star unit on your team. Remember, the OD gauge becomes harder to fill every time you use it so that +25% only slightly compensates.

CONCLUSION

Ø  Semira is a great status cleanser. She has a fairly different toolset than most of the other cleansers although she is slightly similar to Edea, who's actual primary role is mitigation. She outright beats Lunaris in terms of utility (And defense, can you believe that?!), especially since Lunaris doesn't play nice with Zedus and his wonderful 50% ATK-down effect.

Ø  Interestingly enough, Semira works perfectly well with Edea and Edea covers the 2 ailments that Semira lacks. If you really need a variety of ailments then these two units are probably the best duo you can put together (Tora and Fedahl don't have full coverage and are far less useful than Edea).

Ø  She's still largely a niche unit but she has enough useful tools in her SBB that you can safely use her as your primary status cleanser in a variety of situations without feeling like you wasted a slot on a unit who doesn't bring enough to the table. She works particularly well with Andaria, Bestie, Libera, Nadore and Paris because she offers complementary BC generation and especially Andaria & Paris because you get useful overlap where your units can cover each other's roles when necessary.

Ø  She also wins the Gazia Compatability Award (further raining on Lunaris's sad, dank little parade) for not having any conflicts with Gazia and helping him maintain his BB gauge.

RECOMMENDED SPHERES

Ø  Drevas + Heresy Orb - The classic Cleanser setup, this addresses her 2 weakest defensive stats while bolstering her BB gauge needs (which aren't too bad).

Ø  Malice/Buffer/Occult + Star of Hope - A generic stat sphere with status immunity and BC generation that works while guarding.

Ø  Paskuan Weapon Enhancer + Grudge Bow - If you happen to be doing that "Status Ailments" Quest Challenge

Ø  Really anything you want as long as you protect her from status ailments when doing Raids/Trials. 

(Click here for Sanguine Hood Ciara Unit Analysis)

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