Thread:DeathByStaccato/@comment-27960787-20161117030317/@comment-27076522-20161117063742

My thoughts on Kanon are kinda scattered across the future units and his own page so I assume you've already seen my point on him with Eleanor in mono thunder.

In non-mono thunder, Kanon is definitely one of those units you build around, rather than slot into your squad. He has no ATK buff to increase his ATK>DEF, so you're going to want a unit for that - and who springs to mind immedietly but Ark. They make a wonderful pairing, too, as Kanon covers the negates that you may usually take on Ark, and allows you to take his elements buff for more damage in the team.

With those two, you want a mitigator, obviously. Rain and Hisui are a no-go, while they're both excellent they don't work well with Kanon. By the way, I reccomend getting both his nulls unless you plan on using him with Elimo (I wouldn't, btw, I think Elimo does better when you don't build her specifically to work with Kanon). Anyway, there's Charlotte and Magress, who are no. Lara is only one turn, and as we're talking non-mono-thunder, Eleanor isn't as desirable. Stein... nah.

Krantz. Krantz works well with Kanon. He provides a burst heal so you don't have to feel bad about not taking Kanon's burst heal, and Ark also has a burst heal, which is good. The thing with Krantz is he doesn't give a huge amount of buffs to his allies, because he's mainly good when you've got your stuff covered. His BC costs are ridiculously low and his HP is monstrous, alongside his BC droprate being nice.

Now, I'm not going to delve deeply into building a team with Kanon. However, Kanon + Ark + Krantz/Some other mitigator (Johanne, perhaps, although a newer one coming out is always possible) is a very good core.

Kanon himself has nice buffs. DEF, ATK>DEF, two turn CRIT null (only seen on Gabi so far), negate status, cure status, null stat down (SP), and null EWD (SP). A great negation kit that also partially covers the conversion role, with Ark providing the other role of boosting the stat that gets converted.

TLDR: I really do think Kanon is quite good. You need to build around him, as he's hard to just slot in, but if you can, I think his nulls are great and he's an excellent partner for Ark.

What was it you wanted to talk about?