| Boon | + Spd | Bane | - HP |
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Skill Set
Hero Build Overview/Explanation
Sacred Seal: Brazen Atk/Spd 3
Preferred IVs: +Spd or +Atk
While a 3-Cooldown in-combat special may not sound like the best idea for a Special Spiral weapon, Ares is one of the very few units that can pull this off thanks to his ability to run both Special Spiral and Desperation alongside his Accelerated Special trigger.
Dark Mystletainn is a given, as it allows Ares to run any 3-cooldown Special and turn it into no cooldown, however for the sake of this build a 4-cooldown special works just as well. His Assist skill is open to change and is up to the player.
Astra boost damage by an extra 1.5x, which is a great deal for a mighty high Atk unit like Ares.
Double Brazens are used because the center piece of the build is Desperation, since both Brazens and Desperation help your unit when they’re below the HP threshold. Attack stacks are important to do more damage while Speed stacks help guarantee doubles. With Desperation, it won’t matter whether your first attack is an Astra or not as the second attack will almost definitely trigger it (if Guard effects are not active), and after a round of combat it then returns to 1-cooldown
Finally, Savage Blow is chosen as the C skill to bypass any pesky Guard units, however this makes him vulnerable to Vantage foes if their HP drops too low (and losing a Brazen for Hardy Bearing is a risk to Astra and Desperation). The skill can be swapped out for Def Smoke but that then makes him vulnerable to Guard units, so pick your battles wisely
