Marisa

Mostly base build, except for Renewal 3. I wanted to build her, but didn't know how.

Summoned on ???, 5 starred on ???
(Currently LV. 40 with no Dragon Flowers and C-Ranked with S!Marisa)

Pseudo-legendary build. Made to use with any team.
Distant Counter to raise matchup versatility. With her high HP, Panic Ploy would take care of the buffed enemy units in cardinal directions, as long as they aren't tanky blue units.
Wrath complements damage and healing when reaching HP threshold.
Flashing Blade Seal to make Sol activate in every fight, considering she has Spd enough to double attack the target.

The main idea of this build is to increase Marisa low Attack and average speed and to turn her into a Offensive Monster. while also allowing her to maintain a decent defense. Keep in mind this build Works best if you fully invest her with dragon Flowers.

Life and Death 4( you can use Life and death 3 as a F2P alternative) main purpose is to increase her Attack and speed to 37ATK and 43SPD respectively(without factoring in dragon flowers). Marisa is one of the few F2P unit that can make good use of this skill with her high hp she can take the reduction to her DEF and RES without suffering to much

Slaying edge+ is chosen over Wo Dao+ mainly to make it easier to proc Dragon Fang.The ATK refine is chosen over SPD refine in order to bring Marisa to 53ATK(55 with dragon flowers)

Dragon Fang main use is to further increase her attack 50% so that she will destroy her enemies however it is best if you invest dragon flowers in her so she can get full use of this special. You can use luna as an alternative if your attack is lower than 55.

Repel 3 main purpose is to compensate for her reduced DEF and RES as a result of Life and Death 4. if her speed is greater than her foe damage is reduce 4% for ever stat above her foe up to 40%. With 45SPD(including dragon flowers) their are no hero will higher speed at base(Not factoring weapon effects).

Odd Speed Wave mainly used to further increase her speed in the event that her enemy is faster than her.

Flashing blade 3 is used to make it easier to proc Dragon Fang and as I stated earlier with 45 speed(51 during odd turns) there will be few faster than her at base.

The general gimmick of this build is to spam Blue Flame as much as possible during the enemy phase. Within the get-go of a battle, Infantry Pulse will activate and Marisa will be able to retaliate with a +35 true damage special thanks to Steady Breath's special cooldown reduction and Wao Dao's +10 to special. With Wrath active the damage will be boosted to +45 with an additional bonus from whatever Marisa would have dealt. With her high HP and decent defense, Marisa is generally safe when being used to bait out physical duelist.

Due to her low natural attack, Marisa's fatal counters with this build are enemies that incorporate Guard, Firesweep, and Wary Fighter.

If Marisa is partnered with B!Lucina with the new refine, the flexibility of the A slot for Marisa can be switched around freely to fit your needs. It should be mentioned that Steady Stance 4 increases the potential of the build, as a lot of units will fail to even fatally wound Marisa. Despite this, skills like DC or any Brazen variants can work well.

For the choice of C Slot, if you have another Infantry Pulse unit, Panic Ploy works very well with her high HP stat. The only units that will ignore it will more than likely be armors. As for the seal choice, it can easily be replaced with anything.

If the +3 to Speed isn't important to you from the refinement to her weapon, then it would be better to opt for Defense to make her bulkier. You can also give her DC and Distant Defense for her Seal if you opt for a +3 to Resistance, but she will be much more squishier as a unit.

Hi! I hope that you love Marisa as much as I do and I hope you find this build usefull. Well now going to the point. Marisa is (in my opinion) one of the best red saber units in the game. Her HP, Attack, Speed, and defense are extremely good, and even her resitnace allows her to tank some magic damage. This build is for both enemy and ally phase. Why is that? Her speed allows her to basically use glimmer pretty much every fight, when attacking or being attacked. Her high HP allows her to abuse of any of the HP boost type skills, (Earth boost, fire boost etc), so this allows her to have pretty much attack +6 in every fight she gets in. Then we add quick riposte, this allows her to attck twice to any poor guy who dares to challenge her. Her HP and defence are so high that it will take a lot of hits for her Hp to drop bellow 70%, and since glimmer has a good 2 attack cooldown, she will receive one attack and being able to use glimmer, her wo dao will also add a +10 in the damage, so pretty much everyone who try to face her will die or lose a lot of HP (Her father must be proud of her). Infantry pulse is self explanatory, -1 charge to every infantry allies. For her seal I recomend close defense, this will make her even more tanky, so when you are facing a any red or green dragon or any color normal unit, she will be able to tank the damage, deal some damage in return and even survive the trade. I have her WO Dao + speed casue I think she can use some more to double some guys, but I could also recomend defense or damage, any of the three options are great. Swap depends on your team, normally I use it so she can trade with one of my mages to a safe position so Marisa tanks in the next turn. I personally recomdend to give her Fire Blessing. Why? Because of legendary Hector. His C skill Ostia's pulse give -1 special cooldown to allies. Marisa with her C skill will fo the same. This means that it will be a -2 special cooldown to any ally in the map. If your mage has a similar tome with those effects or quickened pulse, you can reduce something like eather or glacies o dragonic aura all the way to no cooldown or to just 1. Hector also gives bonus HP and attack in the fire season, so it helps Marisa to keep a high HP and damage.

Reasons to use Marisa? She's a great character (both stat wise and character design), she's a freebie saber that you can summon with grails, she is a mobile tank damage dealer, that can also support with her C skill and swap. (And she's waifu)

Reasons why not to use Marisa (or cons): None, shes just amazing (:v). Many blue mages can double her or one shot her. If you don't have a healer in your team and take her to tempest or chain challenges she will not be able to use her a, b, and c skills and die to the second or third blue mage you find. For this build to work you need to keep her HP above 70% always, else she will only be able to tank a little bit before she dies.