Groom Saul

Weapon: Dazzling Witchy Wand / Dazzling Pain / Dazzling Palm Staff / Dazzling Melancholy

Assist: Restore+ / Return+

Special: Miracle

Passive A: Atk/Spd Solo 3 or 4 / Atk/Spd Push 4

Passive B: Wrathful Staff

Passive C: Odd Recovery / Preference

Sacred Seal: Live To Serve / Savage Blow / Distant Guard / Atk/Spd Solo / Atk/Res Solo

• Saul’s offensive spread is quite good among the staff cavalier lineup, meaning he can run the usual offensive set many staff units use to great success.
• The combination of either a Dazzling weapon and the Wrathful Staff B slot skill or Dazzling Staff B slot skill and a Wrathful Staff weapon is ideal to give Saul the Wrathful Dazzling combination. Just use which of the two is available(or your favorite if you have both).
• Saul’s best assist for general use purposes is Restore, but if one wishes to use him on an AR-D team, his innate Return is a better choice.
• Staff users have a plethora of great weapons at their disposal, such as the Witchy Wand(Or Melancholy if you wanna be less fancy) which shuts down the foe’s specials, the Pain staff which inflicts passive damage after combat(increasingly valuable with bulky abominations like Fallen Edelgard running around), and the Palm Staff, which lets Saul debuff the foe’s Attack and Speed by 5, which gives him more follow-up attacks while reducing the damage he takes.
• Offensive A slot skills such as Atk/Spd Solo and Atk/Spd Push are ideal to give Saul a substantial offensive boost during Player Phase.
• Saul’s innate Odd Recovery is a great skill, giving his allies a significant amount of healing in addition to removing their status conditions during odd turns.
• Finally, Saul’s sacred seal slot can be devoted to either utility(Distant Guard/Live to Serve) or Offense(Solo Seals), the choice is mainly up to preference.

Weapon: Dazzling Tannenbaton / Dazzling Pain

Assist: Restore+

Special: Miracle / Windfire Balm+

Passive A: Fort. Def/Res 3 / Def/Res Bond 3

Passive B: Sabotage Atk / Wings of Mercy

Passive C: Odd Recovery / Preference

Sacred Seal: Distant Guard / Drive Atk

• Saul can run a full support build reasonably effectively thanks to his decent Resistance and access to a fantastic support weapon in the Tannenbaton, which grants alies within 2 spaces the Guard effect and a boost in defenses. However, the Tannenbaton is a seasonal locked weapon that is difficult to obtain, so the Pain staff is a workable substitute.
• Restore is generally the best choice of assist for staff users as it allows them to remove their teammate’s debuffs on demand(excluding Isolation) while also healing a decent amount of HP.
• Fort Def/Res enhances Saul’s already good Resistance and makes him an even better user of Sabotage skills. Def/Res Bond is a fine option on a budget as well.
• Sabotage skills allow Saul to inflict debuffs on distant foes as long as two or more of them are adjacent to each other and have lower Resistance than Saul, giving his allies an advantage when fighting them(although one must be wary of debuff absorption sources such as Fallen Ike and Unity Skills). Wings of Mercy allows Saul to teleport to an injured ally and heal them, which can be useful in certain situations, but Sabotage is typically a better option unless you’re on a budget.
• Saul’s innate Odd Recovery is an excellent choice of C slot for any staff user, but it can still be replaced according to player preference.
• Finally, support skills such as Distant Guard and Drive Atk round off Saul’s kit, giving his allies an additional +4 Defense and Resistance when they’re attacked by a ranged foe or a +3 Attack bonus as long as his allies are within 2 spaces of him.