Pirate Naesala

Stat Variations

IV Sets

Flying Beast

Pirate Naesala is a flying beast, updated for his time with a strong statline and base kit. Flying beasts have always been oppressive due to their 3 mov range and ability to fly over obstructions that might hinder cavaliers. While they've typically fallen out of favor due to powercreep, Pirate Naesala gives an updated look at what a modern flying beast is capable of: an incredibly strong and fast unit who works best when attacking quickly and decisively. In addition, his statline is superb, with exceptional Attack and Speed and reasonably balanced Defense and Resistance, giving him a lot of raw combat power.

Crossbones Claw

Naesala's prf weapon is frankly, overloaded with goodies: an effective atk/spd solo for him, offensive null follow-up, and built-in desperation (without the HP requirement) all at once. This enables Naesala to attack twice before his opponent can counter while nullifying all skills that would prevent his second attack. But that's not all - this weapon also functions as a slaying weapon, which basically means that Naesala gets even more oppressive, with the ability to trigger a potent Glimmer or Moonbow special before his opponent can even retaliate.

Base Kit

It would be remiss not to mention Pirate Naesala's Stall Ploy, which he himself is not even a fantastic user of due to his low HP - however, it's undeniably a powerful defensive skill which inflicts gravity on foes in cardinal directions if they have additional movement - like say, Legendary Sigurd's buffs. Interestingly, this ability will also work against enemy bird type beasts, as well as movement granted by Annette.

Onto skills which benefit Naesala more - he comes fully loaded with Atk/Spd Solo 4 and S/D Near Trace. When combined with the debuffs in his prf weapon, Naesala effectively grants a 16 point stat swing to both his Speed and Attack, while granting him additional movement after his initial move - something that's quite lethal for flying beasts due to his enhanced movement in the first place.

Strict Requirements

Naesala needs to both be transformed and be not adjacent to an ally in order for all of his prf effects and the effect on his Atk/Spd Solo A slot to be utilized, meaning that Summoners have to pre-plan how to use him, particularly if using him in a turn 1 Galeforce strategy. Needing him to be transformed is going to limit his flexibility, especially on Aether Raids Offense teams where most mythic heroes will prevent him from transforming.

Because he needs Heavy Blade in order to trigger Galeforce, Naesala is also going to have difficulty playing well with others in a beast-based Galeforce strategy, since all fliers and cavaliers also rely on Heavy Blade. This limits Naesala's potential combat partners due to the fact that you can only use one Heavy Blade seal per team. His ideal partner is Velouria, while he can also work nicely with Rafiel and ironically, Pirate Tibarn who comes with Heavy Blade 4 in his base kit.

Naesala himself can take Heavy Blade in his A slot, but due to the rest of his kit debuffing his foe's Defense rather than buffing his own Attack, this will likely leave his Attack stat too low to proc the cooldown acceleration reliably.

Weapon Skills

Weapons	SP	Rng.	Mt.
Hatchling (Flier) At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts). If unit transforms, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) If unit transforms, grants Atk+2. Learns by default at 1 ★ Unlocks at 1 ★ Beast Flier Only	50	1	4
Fledgling (Flier) At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts). If unit transforms, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) If unit transforms, grants Atk+2. Learns by default at 2 ★ Unlocks at 2 ★ Beast Flier Only	100	1	6
Adult (Flier) At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts). If unit transforms, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) If unit transforms, grants Atk+2. Learns by default at 4 ★ Unlocks at 3 ★ Beast Flier Only	200	1	9
Crossbones Claw Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). If unit is not adjacent to an ally, inflicts Spd/Def-6 on foe and neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.  If unit is not adjacent to an ally and unit initiates combat while transformed, unit can make a follow-up attack before foe can counterattack.  At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts) If unit transforms, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) If unit transforms, grants Atk+2. Learns by default at 5 ★ Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-Inheritable skill.	400	1	14

Special Skills

Special Skills	SP	Turns
Night Sky Boosts damage dealt by 50%. Learns by default at 4 ★ Unlocks at 3 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.	100	3
Glimmer Boosts damage dealt by 50%. Unlocks at 4 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.	200	2

Passive Skills

Passive Skills	SP	Slot
Atk/Spd Solo 1 If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+2 during combat. Unlocks at 2 ★	60	A
Atk/Spd Solo 2 If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+4 during combat. Unlocks at 3 ★	120	A
Atk/Spd Solo 3 If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+6 during combat. Inheritable by all units. Unlocks at 4 ★	240	A
Atk/Spd Solo 4 If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd +7 during combat. Inheritable by all units. Unlocks at 5 ★	300	A
S/D Near Trace 1 Enables【Canto (Rem. +1)】.  Inflicts Spd/Def-1 on foe during combat.  【Canto (Rem. +1)】 After an attack, Assist skill, or structure destruction, unit can move spaces = any movement not already used that turn +1. (If unit used a movement skill that warped them, its remaining movement is 0.)  (Unit moves according to movement type. Once per turn. Cannot attack or assist. Only highest value applied. Does not stack. After moving, if a skill that grants another action would be triggered (like with Galeforce), Canto will trigger again. Unit's base movement has no effect on movement granted. Cannot warp (using skills like Wings of Mercy) a distance greater than unit's remaining movement +1.) Cavalry & Flying Only Unlocks at 1 ★	60	B
S/D Near Trace 2 Enables【Canto (Rem. +1)】.  Inflicts Spd/Def-2 on foe during combat.  【Canto (Rem. +1)】 After an attack, Assist skill, or structure destruction, unit can move spaces = any movement not already used that turn +1. (If unit used a movement skill that warped them, its remaining movement is 0.)  (Unit moves according to movement type. Once per turn. Cannot attack or assist. Only highest value applied. Does not stack. After moving, if a skill that grants another action would be triggered (like with Galeforce), Canto will trigger again. Unit's base movement has no effect on movement granted. Cannot warp (using skills like Wings of Mercy) a distance greater than unit's remaining movement +1.) Cavalry & Flying Only Unlocks at 2 ★	120	B
S/D Near Trace 3 Enables【Canto (Rem. +1)】.  Inflicts Spd/Def-3 on foe during combat.  【Canto (Rem. +1)】 After an attack, Assist skill, or structure destruction, unit can move spaces = any movement not already used that turn +1. (If unit used a movement skill that warped them, its remaining movement is 0.)  (Unit moves according to movement type. Once per turn. Cannot attack or assist. Only highest value applied. Does not stack. After moving, if a skill that grants another action would be triggered (like with Galeforce), Canto will trigger again. Unit's base movement has no effect on movement granted. Cannot warp (using skills like Wings of Mercy) a distance greater than unit's remaining movement +1.) Cavalry & Flying Only Unlocks at 4 ★	240	B
Stall Ploy 1 At start of turn, inflicts【Stall】on foes in cardinal directions with HP ≤ unit's HP-5. 【Stall】 If unit has "unit can move 1 extra space," converts that effect into "restricts movement to 1 space" through its next action. Inheritable by all units. Unlocks at 3 ★	60	C
Stall Ploy 2 At start of turn, inflicts【Stall】on foes in cardinal directions with HP ≤ unit's HP-3. 【Stall】 If unit has "unit can move 1 extra space," converts that effect into "restricts movement to 1 space" through its next action. Inheritable by all units. Unlocks at 4 ★	120	C
Stall Ploy 3 At start of turn, inflicts【Stall】on foes in cardinal directions with HP < unit's HP. 【Stall】 If unit has "unit can move 1 extra space," converts that effect into "restricts movement to 1 space" through its next action. Inheritable by all units. Unlocks at 5 ★	240	C