[ENG][JPN] April 28, 2020 - May 05, 2020 Weekly Questions & Advice Megathread

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[u/CubeoHS]

Daily raids ranked in priority order left to right, although I make no promises about your ability to clear them:

Monday (STR):

Rayleigh Lucci Ace Jinbe Kuma CP9 Kaido+ Sanji Arlong Akainu Shiki Capone Pink BB Chopper (top 5 are the really essential ones IMO, CP9 and Kaido have their uses, but get 6 copies of Chopper for support and Lucci is priority one if you have Bullet)

Tuesday (DEX):

Judge Bonney Cracker Crocodile Doflamingo Sabo Vergo Duval Mihawk (Top 3 are all quality, Doflamingo/Sabo/Croc are OK and then it sorta falls off a cliff)

Wednesday (QCK):

Zoro Bellamy CP9+ Big Mom Kizaru Enel Ivankov (Zoro is way, way, way better than anyone else on this day and is fairly easy to farm due to Clash Assist Monet, the others not named Kizaru Enel and Iva are alright also)

Thursday (PSY):

Stampede Sabo, Bartolomeo, Fujitora, Hancock, Pica, Franky, Tesoro, Heracles, Garp (falls off a cliff to some degree after the top 3, Barto and Sabo are much better than the others)

Friday (INT):

Lucci, Mr. 0, Carrot, v2 Doflamingo, Kaido, v2 BB, Magellan, Caesar, Aokiji, Zephyr, NM Luffy (Top 4 are good, BB is behind them and then you hit a cliff again)

There are no raids on Saturdays

Sunday (Dual units)

Magellan/Hannyabal Shanks/Mihawk Coby/Helmeppo Sengoku/Garp Usopp/Chopper Big Emperor Stampede Duals Buster Call (Top 5 are quite good, Big Emperor mediocre at best, Stampede Duals rarely if ever useful and don't even bother with Buster Call past the gem)

[u/CubeoHS → u/CubeoHS]

/u/rtan24 most of these also have supports but I don't remember any of them so perhaps /u/GoldFishPony can come in for that.

[u/GoldFishPony → u/CubeoHS]

Ah yes supports the thing I’ve patched onto just because they were somewhat interesting (though that person that made the support database has far better info than I do because I don’t actually know any of the numbers)

u/rtan24

First off I view every “hp only” support as completely useless so I’m just gonna ignore any units with that because the chances of your death being the maybe 100 health the support will give is extremely unlikely. This means: garp, Blackbeard v1, duval, imposters strawhats*, big emperor, drake&urouge, and wapol&foxy are considered useless to me and I will ignore them.

There are a couple that only boost hp but they gain another affect at level 5 that makes me not consider them useless (tankman and v2 blackbeard) because they add the ability to do damage to specific characters (cracker and whitebeard respectively) which can make them theoretically useful.

Franky gives attack and hp boost along with a damage boost to Buffalo and baby 5. You will fight baby 5 and buffalo maybe a full 5 times total (including replays) throughout this game, so I find it pretty funny they give a boost to 2 uncommon enemies. Like baby 5 can appear as a waifu boss I guess but they’ll never be difficult bosses (at least as the ones you focus on, I think they are in a garp challenge but all stages on those are generally hard so focusing on these 2 would be a waste)

V2 doffy boosts damage against law at level who might be a boss sometimes along with all stats so he might be worth farming support of at least, though he supports vergo, trebol, pica, and diamanté and I’m not really sure how frequently you’ll use those characters, especially in a crew doffy isn’t already in.

There are 2 that give defense reductions from a type who are barto (int 3% damage reduction) and kuma (dex 5% reduction), these are also extremely unlikely to be useful unless you are really desperate to reduce enemy damage without having a special do the job much more efficiently.

Unique effects: there are a few that have unique effects so they may be usable at some point. These would be boa (2.5x chain lock when hit by chain boost down, boosts sisters and marguerite), pica (when unit uses special, powerhouse and driven’s empty and badly matching orbs change to matching ones), vergo (supported character’s orbs x1.75 when they use a special), and Ace (when supported character uses a damage dealing/health cutting special then free spirit and powerhouse empty or badly matching orbs are changed to matching ones). So these could potentially be useful, but similar to most supports, the supportable units severely limits their usability. Boa’s sisters are kinda outdated so while they’re still pretty good to work together, you aren’t extremely likely to use them. Pics boosts doffy who is a usable unit along with a few much less frequently usable (gladius, baby 5, buffalo) so he could theoretically be useful but you’re not given empty or badly matching orbs too frequently. Vergo boosts doffy also so he could also be useful in a turn where doffy is your highest damage but can’t use orbs, but he makes it so you can’t orb boost your full crew (and multiple doffy’s already boost orbs so it’s kinda useless), he also boosts monet and Caesar so maybe Caesar will have a relevant use but we have yet to have a great monet. Finally ace is one that was basically made to go with v2 whitebeard and then made irrelevant by v2 whitebeard+. He was a matcher which would be great but v2+ loses the damage in his special so ace no longer does anything, ace also only boosts whitebeard so don’t plan on using him with anybody else.

Tesoro is one that could be useful but is very unlikely to happen. He supports all psy units and changes their int orbs to psy when you start the boss stage. This matching orb is great, but he only changes one orb and I think most enemies nowadays give you block orbs rather than badly matching ones so it’s unlikely you’ll encounter a great use for this. If you want the matching orb effect, story vivi is a much better choice because she works for anybody and changes any orb type (except block, rainbow, and maybe empty or g? Not sure on those).

Last category of supports besides those that boost attack or rcv are the last turn boosters. As far as I can tell there’s only 2 of these, Zoro and shiki. Zoro gives a 1.3x color affinity boost for slashers when you reach the boss stage, this can be extremely useful in case enemies react poorly to you color affinity boosting or you have a full team with different boosters and utility but the extra damage would be appreciated. He also supports all slashers so he is easily usable. Pretty much the same reasoning for shiki, just swap out driven for slasher and attack for color affinity.

So the rest of them are all attack or rcv boosters (or a random assortment of the 3 stats), these are the ones you’ll use most. The best of these are ones with high% of stats given (like 7 is high for a raid unit) with high enough stats anyways. This way your boost is the best. I view rcv as worth something unlike hp because that healing is much more essential in my experience and it ties in directly with some character’s specials/captain abilities like shirahoshi or mansherry so it makes them much better. Attack is pretty self explanatory, just hit harder. I don’t know a great ranking of these, legends are basically always better for stat boosts but when you don’t have any then the f2p ones are great. I would just look at the database for choosing the best ones as it gives the actual stat boosts and all for much better information.

[u/rtan24 → u/GoldFishPony]

Thank you, really appreciate it

[u/rtan24 → u/GoldFishPony]

Hey man, want to thank you for helping me out and the detailed explanations.

I’ve been playing a bunch since and really enjoy it now, really didn’t expect to get back into this game even since nothing made sense to me, and I wouldn’t have if it weren’t for you, so thanks :)

Hit pirate level 361 so about 100 levels in this time and got some good legends like Sabo/Koala, Kaido, Sani/Judge, Lucy 6+, etc. Just wanted to let you know that I’m having a blast!

[u/GoldFishPony → u/rtan24]

Oh huh I never really get follow ups on these so this is nice to read. Glad you’re having fun! Nice set of legends there too, hope you keep on enjoying the game!

[u/rtan24 → u/GoldFishPony]

🤙

[u/rtan24 → u/CubeoHS]

Thank you!

[u/Tearsofwolf → u/CubeoHS]

Someone asked a question in the megathread which pointed out that the new weekly raids (Bonney, Carrot, Stampede Sabo, etc.) haven’t been added to this list yet. Any possibility that could be done sometime?

[u/CubeoHS → u/Tearsofwolf]

Ah right that's something I was planning this morning. Will do it now It's been updated