User blog comment:H1DD3NC0D3/Help me build a good team please?/@comment-26566855-20150703002243

You've gotten a lot of good ideas for team builds in the comments here, but the one thing I keep hearing is you don't know how to team build and people keep asking what your using the team for. So let's talk about some strategy in team building instead of building an all purpose team. There are some key things you should take note of when getting to the later parts of the game.

HC & BC production: Many later quests will throw in one enemy rounds to really mess with BB/SBB spam and further along there is even reductions built into fights that cause less BC & HC to drop naturally. Your going to want to look into your units SBBs and make sure you have someone who is giving you a boost to BC and/or HC production or a combination of the two across multiple characters. Your also going to want to start really looking at the hit counter for all of your units Normal Hit, BB & SBB hit counters.

Mitigation: Damage reduction spam will become more and more important and your damage mitigators should often times if not always be dual sphered. The only mitigators who really lack in ability on the field today seems to be Tesla. I just don't see anyone using him. Most of the time your going to see Shera, Darv, Narza or Aaron being used now on most builds. You can stack your characters with as much HP as you want and if the RNG decides to focus on one of your units it can mean certain death.

Status Ailment Nullifcation & Curing: You can solve this a few different ways. One of the best ones is to make sure you negater always has the ability to refresh your buff every 3 turns. This becomes a problem when enemies that wipe your buffs away start to show up. You can have a leader that nullifies or you can use a refined gem or Drevas on a character that removes status ailments but make sure they can use that every turn if need be then. This will become a needed tactic when enemies remove leader skills :D

Enemy Element: Can you bring someone who buffs or causes more damage with the right opposing element? i.e. sybil sisters, shida, etc. etc. as these can often help increase damage if you have room.

Buffing Criticals: Later in the game enemies can start ignoring crits so having your 1tko crit team will only be valid before so long. Many early builds were built around buffing crit and crit damage and just unleashing SBB spam. They tried to put a stop to that in later quests by adding this mechanic. Still useful for the non-buffed though and shouldn't be dismissed.

Leaders with HP buffs: Even with all of these buffs and mitigations bosses will soon begin doing insane amounts of damage and will start removing buffs before they begin their assaults. It is wise to often have one if not both leaders who can buff your parties HP.

BC gain on hit/when being hit/on turn/BCBCBCBCBC: Basically anyone who can buff the way you earn your BCs is going to be crucial in the later stages of the game. Narza is great for this because his SBB does soooo much. Lilly Matah, Kikuri and Narza are good examples of these types you need to look out for. For leaders you should be making friends with people who use Raaga and Rosetta since characters like these will help immensely against one enemy rounds. The down side to Narza and Lilly is they don't add to the hit counter with their BB/SBB.

Healing & HC: You need to watch out on your characters with less then 1500~ish(I think) recovery as they can have trouble with heals and HC healing. You can stack your hit counters as high as you want, but if your trying to heal massive amounts of HP after a massive hit with crap recovery its gonna be painful if your relying on a YOLO squad with no healer. Even then later in the game you need to start watching your strategy on turns and can't auto battle everything. Once in a while you will start to need a healer.

I'm sure I've sparked others minds now so whatever I missed someone will hopefully chime in. I figure I'll also maybe let someone else speak on building pointers for specific quests. You'll just need to become savvy looking at your research into things.