New Year Fjorm

• Preferred IV: +SPD or +ATK / -HP
• Weapon: Slaying Bow (+Spd) / Firesweep Bow
• Assist: Reposition
• Special: Luna / Moonbow
• Passive A: Swift Sparrow / Life and Death / Atk/Spd Bond
• Passive B: Desperation / Chill Spd / Atk/Spd Link
• Passive C: Even Spd Wave / Even Atk Wave
• Sacred Seal: Atk/Spd Bond / Atk/Def Bond

While Fjorm can run a Firesweep set, it’s generally less effective on her than it is on a colorless archer due to her color matchups. Essentially, Firesweep can help her to safely attack into red units, but due to her weapon triangle disadvantage, she isn’t favored to garner many significant KOs in a reasonable amount of time. What her weapon of choice ultimately boils down to is whether or not you value quick KOs against her favorable matchups (blues and green/colorless) or value safe-but-slower KOs (achieved through tedious alternating turns with Dancer support) on all units.

With that out of the way, a Slaying bow is ideal for Fjorm in the current metagame as it allows her to bring more power to her matchups in a scenario where stat stacking and defensive minmaxing is becoming commonplace, at the expense of making her slightly more fragile. If she can sustain a single counterattack, she can activate Desperation and keep her damage rolling as a pseudo-brave attacker. With a defensive bulk of 55 (60, if she’s utilizing Atk/Def Bond Seal), she can cut it close, but it’s markedly easier when attacking into a blue unit.

Luna is her Special of choice due to her lack of solid defensive stats (with low Defense and Resistance, Bonfire and Iceberg will both be lacking) and because she can consistently activate it in a single combat. Moonbow can also work if you prefer, and will instead activate on every initiation with Desperation active.

For her A slot, her native Atk/Spd Bond is fine, but it definitely limits her positioning more than Swift Sparrow: for the tradeoff of -1 Atk and -1 Spd, she can position herself anywhere on the map with a similar buff, which is worth the sacrifice in most situations, particularly for a unit who prefers Player Phase initiations as much as New Year Fjorm.

The rest of her kit is self explanatory, as she wants to use Desperation if you anticipate her in multiple combats, or Chill Spd if you do plan on using her with a Firesweep Bow. Her C slot can have your buff of choice in it for either her or her teammate.

Her Seal slot is good for an additional buff- if you’re concerned with her defensive bulk for her first initiation, you can utilize Atk/Def Bond and attempt to position her with an ally for an extra boost if necessary, but if you’re more concerned with her ability to perform as a solo unit, then Atk/Spd Bond works as well for when you need to give her a little extra firepower against a particularly fast opponent.

• Preferred IV: +ATK or +SPD / -HP
• Weapon: Brave Bow
• Assist: Reposition
• Special: Moonbow
• Passive A: Death Blow / Swift Sparrow / Life and Death
• Passive B: Chill Def / Chill Spd / Atk/Spd Link
• Passive C: Odd Atk Wave / Odd Spd Wave / Goad Fliers
• Sacred Seal: Atk/Spd Bond

Brave Bows have lower mt and lower Speed, which makes running a Brave Bow build slightly less reliable than a Slaying Bow build- but when it works out, the damage potential can also be higher and prevents her from being retaliated on, keeping her somewhat safer during the Player Phase.

Fjorm can be deadly with either iteration of this build: either building on Attack for more upfront damage or building on Speed to try and quad. When quadding however, she still has to worry about being retaliated on, meaning that running Life and Death with this build is less optimal than an alternative like Swift Sparrow or the recommended Death Blow.

Fjorm has a decent amount of Attack and can utilize it well with this build, which can definitely delete many blue and colorless units, though she may have trouble when initiating onto high Defense green units and red units.

• Preferred IV: +ATK or +SPD / -HP
• Weapon: Kabura Ya+ (+Spd)
• Assist: Reposition
• Special: Moonbow / Luna
• Passive A: Fury / Atk/Spd Bond
• Passive B: Atk/Spd Link / Desperation
• Passive C: Goad Fliers / Even Res Wave
• Sacred Seal: Atk/Spd Bond / Spd + 3

This is more of a budget set for Fjorm but is still remarkably effective, particularly at deleting blue units. She can easily outspeed much of her competition, particularly since overly fast blue units are more of a an exception rather than the rule- and if the enemy blue is fast, they’re likely to be debuffed by the Kabura Ya.

With this set, her Speed can reach incredible heights and she naturally doubles a great many threats- even more if she has buffs, which she or a teammate can provide for her by utilizing an assist still for Atk/Spd Link. Her Attack and Speed stats can both be minmaxed on a budget, making her a very attractive option to defeat the blues that hassle your team.

The reason she would rather opt for Fury over her native Atk/Spd Bond is to help her with aggressive positioning, so she does not always have to rely on an ally to boost her stats. However, she takes Atk/Spd Bond in her seal slot just in case, so she has the option of buffing her key stats +5 each if she needs it- if not, then she only sacrifices her seal slot as opposed to her more valuable A slot.

Her C slot is variable- a more expensive option here would be something like Def Smoke or a Speed Wave skill (with which you’d probably run Desperation over Atk/Spd Link in her B slot).