Fae

Weapon: Eternal Breath (+Eff)

Assist: Reposition

Special: Noontime / Aether

Passive A: Distant Counter

Passive B: Null Follow-Up / Null C-Disrupt

Passive C: Joint Drive Spd / Pulse Smoke / Infantry Pulse

Sacred Seal: Spd Res Solo / Quick Riposte / Mirror Stance

• Eternal Breath provides buffs to both Fae herself and her ally. This meant that when creating a team for Fae specifically in Aether Raids Offense, players can choose to not run other sources of visible buffs. This opens up for other forms of support, most notably in-combat buffs such as Drives and Distant Guard should a player choose to run Fae as the main unit.
• As Fae is still a launch unit, she will struggle to compete against more modern units such as Bramimond, Thrasir, and Resplendent Eliwood. Bringing a second unit that can cover for Fae’s lack of performance in those matchups is ideal for Fae to succeed. 
• Eternal Breath’s cooldown acceleration on damage is helpful for 2 cooldown specials such as Aether if a player wishes to get it at every fight, or Aether for every other fight. The latter is reminiscent of the old typical Steady Breath build. Distant Counter for this build is likely to be a non-negotiable due to the prevalence of ranged units in the current landscape.
• Due to Fae’s relatively mediocre speed in the modern context, some work needs to be done to ensure that follow-ups are less likely to happen. This can come from the Sacred Seal with SPD RES Solo, C skill with Joint Drive SPD, or even switching the IV for SPD. Null Follow-Up is helpful to combat against guaranteed doubles from Bramimond.

Weapon: Eternal Breath (+Eff)

Assist: Rally + / Rally Up + / Reposition

Special: Blue Flame / Aether

Passive A: G Duel Infantry / Distant Counter

Passive B: Sudden Panic / Wrath

Passive C: Joint Drive Atk / Joint Drive Spd /  Time’s Pulse

Sacred Seal: Drive ATK / ATK DEF Bond  

• Unfortunately, the efficacy of Fae’s Eternal Breath specifically in the arena is questionable at best. This is because of the lack of positional movement skills with a higher SP cost. This meant that not only does Fae needs to run a Rally skill (which is about as stupid as running Distant Counter with Lightning Breath), the buffs gained from Eternal Breath could also be obtained from running Rallies on her allies anyway.
• As Fae needs to run G Duel Infantry, she would be without Distant Counter. The generally increased presence of ranged units from Legendaries and Duo units makes her a difficult proposition to outfit her with any form of combat skills. Should a player ignores the scoring requirements, the focus can be simply a one-shot build using a combination of Wrath, Time’s Pulse, and Blue Flame. This ensures that Fae could activate Blue Flame off on 1 retaliation hit per enemy phase. 
• The rest of the build tries to specifically make Fae into pure-bred support in the arena. Sudden Panic is extremely useful due to the prevalence of Rally skills in the enemy team. Fae’s high base HP along with G Duel Infantry granting HP makes her a prime user for the skill.