 Hey everyone, welcome back for more XOCR's content, today's video we're going to talk about FC Valentina, her stats, strengths and weaknesses, her skills, playability and especially her recommended garden stones. We're going to talk about her synergy with other heroes, her overall rating and my final thoughts of her. But before that, if you want to see more XOCR's content, please hit the subscribe button down below. So here we are at FC Valentina's hero profile, so she's called a trickster for whatever reason I don't know. Her nation is North One Frosty, she's the daughter of Shufraken. Her element is frost, her position is chaos and her attack type is magical. So she is also a gold fate core, so she's really actually hard to get. And let's move on to her strengths and weaknesses. So for FC Valentina's strengths, so she has above average attack, above average dodge and high critical hit, while her average stats is hit. While on the other hand, her weakness is she has low HP, she has low defense, low block and low attack speed. In other words, she is a glass cannon, she packs a punch but she is easily killed. So again, we'll discuss more on what are the recommended team comps to build around her. So for her skill preview, so let's talk about her passive. So she has mana absorb 3, but as an FC from the Summer Festa, she gets flap flap and Summers Blessing as well. So for flap flap, this is a modification that she imbues to her enemy. So it's applied with each valid attack, so for 3 turns. And Summers Blessing is summed up, she and her teammates are immune to frost for one turn. So after, for example, the immunity is gone, it grants the whole team an attack increase by 50% for 9 turns. So this is the usual standard passive added to Summer Festa units. But for her S1 and S2, so we start with her S1. So for her S1, this is the standard skill with her original form. But for her FC form, she adds contempt, so mana burn to all enemies afflicted with fear of the Abyss. So she needs Shafraken for this one. So if a target is afflicted with fear of the Abyss, and bind all enemies for 7 turns. Meaning if you attack an enemy that has fear of the Abyss, that enemy and all of the team members will be binded for 7 turns, meaning all their mana will be gone. So mana burn will happen for 10 mana, so if that player has a max of 10, so that all of those 10 mana will be gone. And this is applied for 7 turns. So let's move on to her S2. So it's the same damage, it's 525 damage to one enemy, so it's seductive cage of despair, so it has the same passive added to it effect, no actually same added effect for the skill as her S1, so it's also contempt. So mana burn and this also requires Shafraken for it to be activated. So my take on Valentina is her regular form is really not that good. If you have her regular form without her FC form, she does not really play well in terms of your team. I would not recommend bringing her original form, but for her FC form, the team comp that I have in mind would make her the centerpiece. Because for her to thrive in a team, she would have to be protected by a couple of members of that team. So she has one of the best actually end game skills that I have seen in terms of making sure that in just one skill with a couple of setups along the way, you can defeat your enemies. I'm not just saying one, but all five of them. So just a friendly reminder guys, if you like this video and you would like to support my channel, please hit the subscribe button down below. As for Valentina's playability, so for PvP, she is mostly used in tag. She's rarely used during PvP, but in PvP tag, she's usually used on the second team. I myself use her there. So she is, I built my PvP tag team with her and around her is Lepin, Shufraken, Garf, and Dorca. That's my second PvP team. And it's very good actually. It's a setup team which, what I mean by setup is you set up your attack for Valentina that she hits and that she mana burns the whole team in the opposite side. So that's a setup. So it incorporates a lot of survivability in terms of you have their Garf, you have their Dorca, you have their Lepin. So Shufraken is there just to give Paphir the Biss and to sweep off enemies which have low HP. So again, she's very good in PvP tag. For PvP, I can also use her there, but I would suggest that you use her for tag because there are better teams other than using her because again, when you're using Valentina, you require a lot of setup in terms of defeating the other team. So you need to, for example, if there's Summer's Blessing, you need to take that out. You need to make sure that she survives and she deals her S2 or S1 skill for mana burn. So again, the best way to use her in PvP is tag PvP. So for PvE, so she's good in the airship battle, sorry, in the squadron battle. She is also good in your chapters. She's good in finishing them. Recently, I've used her in Infinity Core, so she's also good in one of the stages. And I also was shocked that I did use her in New Peer Slap. She was one of the easy clears for one of the bosses. I actually forgot which one, but she can be used in you, Peer Slap. So for FC Valentina's Recommended Guardian Stones, there are only two choices for her. So for her equipment set effects, the first one is Nature, because it gives her dodge. And when you awaken the same set effects, she will be given HP bonuses, the max is plus 2000, and dodge bonuses, the max is plus 12. But my most recommended one, if you have it, is Fire. So Fire, in terms of equipment set effects, so she'll be given a maximum damage reduction for a full set, which is plus 20%, but when you awaken her with the Fire Guardian Stones, the full set, you'll be given plus 5000 HP, and that's a lot for her survivability. So again, the key for her, for FC Valentina is to survive, for her to unleash her S2 or S1. Because again, her attack speed is not that, no, she's the slower, in the slower spectrum of attack speed. So she might go last, or probably fourth, in terms of your hero rotation, so she needs to survive until then. As for her synergy with other heroes, so as for her synergy with other heroes, so she is ideally paired with heroes with provoked skills, so that attacks would be redirected to that defender. The other one is she can be paired with heroes that give her additional HP, for example, you can pair her with Bathory, also with Garth as well, because they give her additional HP. Also she is also paired with heroes with revive, so the best would be, I would suggest would be Lepin, because Lepin also gives you heal, so from heals she can revive, and she also gives a turn reset. She is a complete utility for this one. And for the other one, the other category would be heroes with protect, so the best one again would be Garth for this one, but the other heroes that I've seen with protect 3 are, I think it's Obellia and Giselle, and I actually forgot the other one, but they are the other two that can provide her with protect, but the most common that is being used is Garth to give her protection, so again the other alternatives is Giselle or Obellia for this one. And so she needs also, the last hero that you should include in her team is a fast frost hero to eliminate Summer's Blessing, because she cannot deal her S1 or S2 damage with Contem and Mana Burn if the other team is under Summer's Blessing, so you have to get rid of Summer's Blessing first before you can land her attacks and do Mana Burn with the other team. So again, so if you can see in my screen, so aside from Tantaluk, well Tantaluk can be okay because he provides provoke, but the others are built around her for protection. So again, when you build a team with Valentina, she is the centerpiece, because if you don't build a team around her, she is easily killed, even on the first turn. So also again, I forgot to mention, if you want to live on the first turn, you also add Bathory to your team because of Tranquil, so that is one of the suggestions as well. There are a lot of people that are having a hard time working around FC Valentina because she is ace. What I call in my days of playing Magic the Gathering was she belongs to a combo deck. So what I mean again, she requires a lot of setup before you deal her final blow. But when you deal her final blow, it's usually game over. So she's kind of part of a combo deck. So everybody or every piece in your team complements her and should complement her because she's the end game. So that is how you build a team around her. So here we now with our overall rating. So the rating system for this is five being the highest and one being the lowest. So we begin with her stats. So FC Valentina is a four for her stats because she has decent stats, she has very decent attack. You just have to make sure that she survives. So that is where the whole team goes into play and protecting her. So she has good attack, good dodge, good critical hit. She can deal a ton of damage as long as she survives. So that is why I gave her a four for stats. The next would be her playability. So I've tried to test her with a couple of content with the last few weeks and I found out that she is capable of being a all-around contributor or hero. But again, her qualifier to be in a team is that Shufraken should be there. Because if Shufraken is not in the team without fear of the abyss, you cannot really use her in any team. So again, her playability stems from being together with Shufraken in that team. And the last is synergy. So I would give Valentina a three out of five because for the reason that her synergy with Shufraken is actually a must. They are a one plus one or by one take one. You cannot really play Valentina without Shufraken. So that is her crutch, that is also her advantage. But mainly it limits flexibility in terms of building a team around her. As well as let's say for example, if you build again the same team that I had earlier with Garf, with Dorca or with Lepin, you strictly have to stick with most of them for her to survive. So in terms of synergy, it's good that you can surround her with good heroes. But what if you don't have those heroes? What if you don't have Garf? What if you don't have Shufraken? What if you don't have Lepin? So it's really a headache if you don't have them. But if you have them again, you are in a good position to make her succeed. So question, would you need her FC if you have her ready? Yes, definitely. You cannot again play her without her FC. It's impossible. I don't see a lineup that would fit her if you don't have her FC in her swimsuit. So that's just it. If you don't have her swimsuit on, you cannot really put her or put a team around her. So the last is my final thoughts. So again, I'll just repeat what I said earlier. So she's very light on Shufraken and her being playable with other heroes for survivability. So she's a good character with the right kind of team composition. She is a good end game hero. If you don't have those pieces, well, she's really, really bad. So again, she needs a good supporting cast to stay alive and pull off her skills. Because again, I wish she is a faster character so that she could attack early on. But unfortunately, she has low attack speed. And again, if you're really determined to build her for a combo deck, supposedly, she is worth the investment. Because once she hits her S1 or S2 with your opponents having few of the abyss, it's really game over. They cannot do anything except basic attack. So you could play her round with your opponents, but make sure you finish them off. So that's it for FC Valentina. I think she's a good character. Just build a good team around her and make sure that she is built well, built to be tough. And that actually concludes my video, guys. So let me know what you think in the comments below. Would you agree with me? Do you have FC Valentina? What are your recommended team comps if you have her? So please write them, please comment it down. And I hope you guys try to learn how to combo her with other heroes. And you guys stay safe, always, and I'll see you in the next video. Warden out.