{"id":3308,"date":"2022-12-17T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T21:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:32:44","slug":"a-hero-rises-ahr-2023-predictions-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/17\/a-hero-rises-ahr-2023-predictions-red\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hero Rises (AHR) 2023 Predictions for Red &#8211; Fire Emblem Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With AHR 2023 coming in the middle\/end of March 2023, I&#8217;ve started saving up my orbs. At the moment, I&#8217;ve saved up about 400 Orbs and it&#8217;s the middle of December. At about 250 Orbs per month, I estimate that I&#8217;ll have around 1,200 orbs by then. In last year&#8217;s AHR banner, I spent about 1,300 orbs and barely got one of the units to +10. You can read about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/25\/ahr-2022-huge-summoning-session\/\">here<\/a>. This year, however, the likelihood of an all-green banner again is very unlikely, meaning that we need more orbs on average to get those +10 units.<\/p>\n<p>The voting period happens at the beginning of February. Let&#8217;s go over my predictions of the likely candidates for AHR 2023.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note: The images of these heroes were obtained from <a href=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/heroes\">Gamepress<\/a>. Since there are a lot of heroes to go over, I&#8217;m breaking down my AHR predictions into a few different posts. In this one, I&#8217;ll just go over the Red units who I think will likely make it in.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/FireEmblemHeroes\/comments\/ybnvl2\/ahr_2023_straw_poll\/\">poll on Reddit<\/a>, taken at the end of October, here&#8217;s what others predicted:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ahr-2023-predictions-poll.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ahr-2023-predictions-poll.png\" alt=\"ahr-2023-predictions-poll\" width=\"665\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ahr-2023-predictions-poll.png 665w, https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ahr-2023-predictions-poll-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I predict that Red will be the color that the majority of players will attempt to get all 4 heroes to be. Having the color sharing is a win for the majority of the playerbase as we can spend less orbs for more heroes and merges.<\/p>\n<p>For me, I don&#8217;t have very many tanky or bulky units. I have built up and invested way more squishy, ranged player-phase nukes like Duo Corrin, Harmonic Azura, and Young Innes. My Arena team is comprised of all ranged player-phase units who can&#8217;t take any hits back from opponents like Halloween Duma, or able to enemy-phase. For Aether raids, the tanky units I use are just Ascended Fjorm and Askr. I unfortunately don&#8217;t have very many tanky units to use in Aether raids such as Ascended Idunn, Duo Duma, Brave Tiki, or Rearmed Robin who I can use to enemy-phase. I do have Medeus, but he&#8217;s a defense mythic and can&#8217;t be used on offense without sacrificing my score. The general problem with tanky units though is that they generally don&#8217;t last as long as player-phase units and with the introduction of Embla, having a squishy team covered by a save unit is no longer viable.<\/p>\n<h2>Red<\/h2>\n<h3>Likely<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Valentine Chrom <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-02\/FEELINGS.png?itok=fVonOv0O\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>He can move again after using his assist skill. Also charges both him and the targeted ally&#8217;s special cooldowns by 1 if used within the first 4 turns of the match.<\/li>\n<li>Scores very well in Colosseum game modes and also very annoying to face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summer Edelgard <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-06\/AbsDoko.png?itok=ezcow4dz\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Weapon is a brave weapon, grants an additional action. Combined with Galeforce, she can move up to 3 times in a single turn!\n<ul>\n<li>A very good unit especially for those Galeforce strategies in Aether Raids, which is one of the few counters to the Embla Cav-line teams.<\/li>\n<li>Great in Colosseum game modes as she can charge in, defeat the enemy, then retreat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scores very well in Colosseum game modes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ninja Camilla <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-11\/Tsunade.png?itok=nF8-Mz16\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Has brave vantage effect which is just super annoying to face. Not many players have a brave red tome user.<\/li>\n<li>She is very good in Aether raids offense, one of the few counters to the Embla Cav-line teams.<\/li>\n<li>Camilla is also a very popular unit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Veronica <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-11\/Vernico.png?itok=-o5L6JPn\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Disables foe&#8217;s counter-attacks, and pierces through damage reduction skills. Very powerful mage.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of players are missing a good &#8220;low-budget&#8221; red mage unit. We have Reinhardt for blue and Ninja Corrin for green. Aversa just doesn&#8217;t have the offensive capabilities as Veronica and I doubt many players have actually built up any of the red mages we keep getting from the GHBs.<\/li>\n<li>Scores very well in Colosseum game modes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Embla <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-11\/Embler_1.png?itok=WBXkAsMf\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Super annoying to face in Aether raids. Having the penalty status neutralization and disabling save skills makes her a really bulky unit and difficult to take out, especially when paired with the modern Cavalry units like Eir and Veronica.<\/li>\n<li>Save skills are not very common outside of PvP game modes, so that skill might not see a lot of use. She does have speed-based damage reduction though, and she&#8217;s also really fast.<\/li>\n<li>Defensive Mythic unit, offensive mythics are more valuable to have merges on than defensive mythics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Less likely<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Halloween Duma <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-10\/AtkMachineBroke.png?itok=Z-Red7xV\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>An exceptionally good far-save tank. Not all players have red Armor dragons.<\/li>\n<li>Counters my green team (L!M!Byleth, Ninja Corrin) when I play the Arena.<\/li>\n<li>However, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s popular enough or that players need many far save units, most players should have at least one by now (Ascended Fjorm, Legendary Tiki).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fallen Lilith <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-05\/LilithButANGERY.png?itok=cGmp7RW5\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Can teleport to any space within 2 spaces of their support partner.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think the majority of players use supports very often. The support bonuses barely make a difference and I usually don&#8217;t have &#8220;set teams&#8221; where I always bring these same 2 units together.<\/li>\n<li>She is a good unit but I think the majority of players would prefer a ranged unit, duo unit, harmonic unit, or mythic\/legendary unit, and Lilith is none of those.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rearmed Lif <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-09\/ArcaneEljuonir.png?itok=t2qaIkp1\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>A strong unit that comes with the arcane Sword.<\/li>\n<li>Rearmed heroes do allow for skill duplication, so having 1 rearmed hero in the pool would be great.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s popular enough of a unit to make it into the top 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rearmed Ophelia <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-12\/Opheeelia.png?itok=Sq7x2lvx\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Very recent unit.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of players I think wouldn&#8217;t have built any red mages so the rearmed Red Tome is not very high in demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Legendary Nanna <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-03\/Banana.png?itok=SNM6sloE\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>A really good unit that pierces damage reduction. Very good player-phase unit, has full-hp desperation.<\/li>\n<li>Competition with Brave Seliph and Rearmed Lif. I don&#8217;t think Sword Cavalry is very high in demand or very rare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Unlikely<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Brave Seliph <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-08\/SigurdButBoring.png?itok=gqSVLc0k\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Has Miracle built into his weapon, if his HP is greater than 25% at the start of combat, making him hard to defeat as he is very fast and hard to double.<\/li>\n<li>However, since he came out for CYL, a lot of players already have a copy of him and don&#8217;t want merges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Young Ike <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-04\/Tricycle.png?itok=EB5xkzhi\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s also a really good unit. But I think most people already have an F2P Sword infantry (such as Yen&#8217;fay or Holst) and I just don&#8217;t think enough players would find a slightly more powerful unit of that same type to be appealing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Young Mia <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-04\/Whyu.png?itok=qBa1fX8q\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Same as Young Ike<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bride Sophia <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-05\/Sofhia.png?itok=5268PlyH\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Ninja Camilla has better matchups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thief Leila <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-08\/Layla.png?itok=0yFVPiGa\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Ninja Camilla has better matchups.<\/li>\n<li>Leila&#8217;s main gimmick is having Canto (Ally 2), which just overall is not as useful compared to Canto (Rem.).\n<ul>\n<li>This is because if there are no allies within 2 spaces, no Canto is granted, which is just not as good as Canto (Rem.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ascended Young Tiki <img src=\"https:\/\/gamepress.gg\/feheroes\/sites\/fireemblem\/files\/styles\/50w_icon\/public\/2022-11\/AdultTiki.png?itok=AggR9H1P\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Combat matchups overall aren&#8217;t as good compared to the other super-powerful units we got recently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With AHR 2023 coming in the middle\/end of March 2023, I&#8217;ve started saving up my orbs. At the moment, I&#8217;ve saved up about 400 Orbs and it&#8217;s the middle of December. At about 250 Orbs per month, I estimate that I&#8217;ll have around 1,200 orbs by then. In last year&#8217;s AHR banner, I spent about &#8230; <a title=\"A Hero Rises (AHR) 2023 Predictions for Red &#8211; Fire Emblem Heroes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/17\/a-hero-rises-ahr-2023-predictions-red\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Hero Rises (AHR) 2023 Predictions for Red &#8211; Fire Emblem Heroes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirknightj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}