Sakura

This is for users that want to have a great balanced healer. The good thing about a jack of all trades is that they’re very flexible and can work well with most of what you can give them. Sakura is a reasonable example of what I’m talking about. Before I begin explaining this set up, you should know that the reason this skill set worked very well for me is because I merged Sakura a lot, so don’t have any extreme hopes that this will be awesome. I just thought of this and felt proud of it, so here I am. If you decide to use this skill set, I would recommend having a +Def/-HP Sakura. I’m sure other IVs could work, but this is particularly meant to buff up her defense, considering that she’s slightly frail. If you decide to merge her, I would focus on her durability, but also a little bit of her Atk/Spd, so she can fight back as well. You could try doing half and half as I’m sure that would be good. It’s up to you and how buffed up you want her to be.

I chose her attack to be Slow+. I had to think hard on this decision because I was considering the Fear+ (Wrathful Staff) skill that she has. However, I chose this skill instead because it can allow her to cancel counter attacks. You can use other stave skills as well and they’ll work usefully in their own ways. I couldn’t find any useful speed skills that weren’t nearly as effective as Slow+, which is why I focused on that. If you choose to use her primary tool, it will do well with bringing attack stats down on foes and you don’t have to worry about not having Wrathful Staff; also it’s cheaper, but I never really care about that. The only thing you’ll need to worry about if you decide to use something different is finding an effective Spd skill.

Her support is Physic+. This is my personal favorite healing skill and this will explain why you need good Atk. The higher your healer’s attack is, the better their healing performance will end up. You can choose to focus more on Sakura’s attack because that’s a good idea, but I wanted to balance it out. A healer with a good Atk that uses Physic+ is a really good supporting unit and might even be the best in the game in terms of healing capability.

The special is Imbue. The main reason why I decided to use this is because it’s simple to use and it increases the HP that Sakura gives. This was the kind of effect I was hunting for, but the specials I saw either increased particular stat categories or healed your entire team like Heavenly Light. Of course you can go for those approaches and that would very much help. It all comes down to what you prefer.

Her A Slot is Fort. Defense/Resistance. Before I talk about this defensive skill, I really have to thank Kliff and Nintendo for giving us this skill because it’s one of my favorites. You get permanent +6 Def/Res for a very low cost of -2 Atk. It doesn’t come cheap in terms of orbs or SP, but it really helps to get a units defenses together. This is the main skill that I used for her durability change. It works really well on Kliff, but it works even better on a unit with middling durability. Thanks to this, I got Sakura’s defense and resistance up to 40 and over. I strongly recommend that you use this skill, but it’s up to you.

Her B Slot is Wrathful Staff. I felt obligated to waste my B slot with this skill until I resolved her speed and attack problem. Thanks to this skill, you can forget all about the disadvantages of giving her the Slow+ staff. However, if you choose to use that spot for something else, that also works. I mainly use this skill to polish her fighting performance.

So for her C slot, my main focus was finding ways to increase her Atk to better her fighting performance and healing performance. I had the hardest time with this slot because there were very few attack skills that I was interested in. I finally came to a decision of using Odd Atk Wave 3. This skill is great for support and strengthening her attack power. With a skill like this, she can go over 50 attack, which to me is better than average. Sakura can heal better with this skill as well as fight better. If you’re having her in a particular team, you could also find ways to use supporting Atk skills on other units to better Sakura’s performance, though my Sakura is meant to keep her stats without the support of other units, so she can go into any teams and not have to be negatively impacted by it.

I typically like units that can heal themselves such as Ike and his Aether for example. He only has to rely on his own skill to keep his HP in check. This is why I gave Sakura the Live to Serve skill. She doesn’t have another healer supporter unless you like having two stave users in your team. If she can get from giving, that’s pretty effective if she’s ever put in a dire situation where she needs more HP. This does have it’s own problems though, considering that she’s going to need to rely on units getting hurt to support herself. Even so, it’s the best I could come up with in terms of self healing factors. You could use renewal, yet then you’ll have to worry about Wrathful Staff unless you don’t mind going without it that is.

I know that my set is not perfect and further down the line, better skills will be used for her, but I hope this skill set helps at the very least.

Vampire tank Sakura

+Def (superboon) -HP

Wrathful Absorb+: Self healing. Her base Fear+ can also be considered, but keep in mind it doesn't apply the debuff on enemy phase

Martyr+: Use allies to also restore own HP.

Miracle: Sakura is not allowed to die.

Close Counter: For attacking all through enemy phase. The fact that melee units tend to have lower resistance helps keep Sakura healthy.

Quick Riposte: Pairs well with close counter and absorb. Sakura gets to counter twice and stays in QR range thanks to Absorb.

Atk Ploy 3: Damage mitigation when she's surrounded.

Close Def 3: More damage mitigation.

Budget Notes
- Physic+ over Martyr+
- Def +3/ Fortress Def 3/Atk +3 over Close Counter
- If not using close counter maybe swap your seal to Atk +3/ Distant Def 3

with her Defense boon and decent Speed she can get her defensive stats into 35/37 (Fear Debuff included).with a close/distant defense with your choice she turns into 41/43 defensive stats.

i used Wrathful over Dazzling cuz of Ayra reasons but Dazzling is never been bad :D

30 speed may be a bit bad but you can patch it up easily with Hone Spd 3/Drive to avoid getting doubled by speedy people but why need speed when she's already tanky? :3

BLESSING: None
SEAL: Spur Def
SUPPORT: None

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Built for Tempest Trials. Usual teammates are Ike, Nino, and Ephraim.

When I have an extra 20K feathers to burn and no one else to spend them on, I'll upgrade to Life to Serve 3.

5 star +2, Fortress Res 3 seal, Tank build that allows Sakura to use the fortress skills while not worrying about the loss of atk because of her weapon and savage blow. If they ever add a fortress def seal then that could be used as the seal and close counter could be used as the A skill so she can deal more chip damage even on enemy phase from melee attackers.