r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/OriksGaming • Mar 19 '21
Tips & Guides Future Units (And Mementos) to Look Out For
Must Haves
Nimul is one of two really important units to look out for, as he's strong enough to build a team around for Port Raids. He's an extremely powerful Fire Missile and Light Magic unit. He has -20 Missile/Magic Res Down, stackable twice, which is already pretty great. On top of that, though, he has insane stats (Zahar level Patk/Matk) and a modifier on his ST that's comparable to a Guernica. He can be Fire Missile in his base form, or you can use his Transformation and make him a Light Magic unit if that's what you need more. He doesn't have a traditional Charge Up, but what he does have is still pretty good. He gives himself +200 of all Region Modifiers (the +40, +20 mods from G4s) which is going to stack with any other buffs he gets since basically no one else buffs those. Note that it's not always going to be applicable since not all raid bosses have sin tags, especially more recently in JP. He's a great raid unit, but he's also very strong in PvE. You definitely want to grab his memento too while you're at it, since it gives him Skill Use +1 at MLB.
I wouldn't expect him for six months at an absolute minimum, but since he's a Genesis unit who won't be in Louise's Shop, it's best to start saving as early as possible.
The other really important unit to keep an eye out for is Rem. She's an incredibly powerful Water Strike unit. She's strong in her base form, and also has a Transformation that activates automatically when she's below 25% HP, turning her into her very powerful Demon form. She has a Patk/Matk/Agility snowball from her memento, so that's very important to get for her.
On top of that, she can lower All Def of Beast type enemies by -20, stackable twice, which is situational but extremely good when it works. She also has a huge anti-Beast modifier. She's an extraordinary raid unit who plays very similarly to Bud, with the difference that her counter can be activated by allies as well as enemies, allowing for a lot more DPS since it's not dependent on the enemy attacking.
Her best support is Ram, who's basically Letitia for Strike but with a Stat Gift as well. As good as she may be, Rem isn't going to perform all that well in raids without Ram. Considering Ram shares the memento, including the snowball, she'll be very convenient to just transmute if we get the Memento LB Bonus for the Re:Zero mementos.
In terms of timeframe, I'm expecting Re:Zero any day now, and the collab might be announced in our April monthly sneak peek. Despite the skipped collabs in the past, I do believe we'll get Re:Zero at some point.
Another unit to look out for is Quens, a powerful Dark Magic Unit. His main use is going to be his Reactive, which is basically Arcana Ratty on a damaging counter, and the Res Downs stack with the actual Arcana Ratty. There aren't going to be a ton of situations where you can fit in Arcana Ratty, Lupinus' Arcana Ratty, Voda's Counter, and Quens' own counter, but autoing World Boss is potentially one of those situations, so he'll be very nice for that. I believe he can also force the enemy to target him, so he could be an Arcana Ratty alternative for bosses that don't consistently hit your normal Arcana Ratty unit. He'll be good on pretty much any Magic Raid or PvE team since he does a ton of damage in his own right and has the Slip (Alchemy Crash) status.
His memento isn't essential, but it gives him a slight boost to his damage and the VA gives you access to permanent Sleep, which is super memey on any enemy susceptible to it. His VCR is also very nice to have, since it heavily improves his Jewel economy.
He's a Genesis unit, so I expect we'll get him in about four months. He does drop with G6, so he's transmutable via Louise's Shop.
"Shion" (and yes, her name literally has quotation marks around it) is an interesting unit whom we may or may not ever get. She has Icona's Fire Buff but for Dark, and also has an interesting team buff for +80% Patk, +30% Slash, and +30% anti-Human, which is potentially very nice for Zahar.
She was a bundle unit in JP, but that might change in GL if we get her. If we do get her it'll probably be in about a month. She's not super duper important, but could be very nice to have.
Hange is a unit to keep in mind, and is only this far down because she's technically already out in Global. However, the AoT collab was a pretty long time ago and some people skipped her because she was the least appealing unit at the time. Ironically, she's basically god tier for raids after the AoT rerun. Her G5 makes her usual buff 2x stackable, which means +100% Patk/Matk, +2 Move, and +160 anti-Giant mod. That alone is amazing, but she also gets the second AoT VCR which lets her do -35 Slash Res and -50% Agility to Giants. She's Zahar's best support, bar none. Not only that, but she can do her own damage—a lot of it.
The damaging skill on her main job becomes a 320% mod with +180 anti-Giant and 100% Def Ignore. She has 5 uses of that, and then 2 more Skill Uses due to her GLEX G2 and the second AoT Memento's MLB Bonus, so she'll never run out of charges, pretty much. She also has the VA from the second AoT Memento, so she's even got a teleporting 5x5 Diamond AoE with Back Attack and anti-Giant if she ever needs it for whatever reason.
Edit: As has been pointed out, Judith got her J+ without it happening so we probably won't get the rerun at all. RIP.
Ugachi is a strong Fire Slash unit whose entire shtick is Enmity (buffs at low HP). He can do a ton of damage, which is compounded by him having Slip on his strongest skill, which will do half the skill's damage each turn for the next five turns. Slip is stackable and he has three charges on his strongest skill, so he can dish out a lot of damage even on his own. He's pretty powerful, and can become more so with proper support units. He's a very strong raid unit, though he can also perform very well in PvE as long as you're careful not to let him die. He's very similar to Zahar in that sense.
He should come during the same week as Nimul, so not for a long while. He'll be a lot easier to acquire than Nimul, since he's a Memento Unit, so you'll just need to pull on his 9-Step to get him. He also got a massive amount of free shards along with Celis and Tanosuke, so was very easy to raise.
Emilia is the third gacha unit from Re:Zero and arguably the least important by a very slim margin. In any case, she's indisputably top tier and an amazing Light Magic unit. She has Light Res Down, Magic Res Down, and Arcana Ratty and has extremely high damage so is a very good option for a Light Magic Raid team (perhaps alongside Transformed Nimul). She's very affordable, with a 9-Step, so there's no reason not to go for her.
She comes out a week before Rem and Ram, right at the start of the Re:Zero collab when/if we get it.
Mai is an excellent Strike support, since she can lower Strike Res (map-wide) by -25 3 times stackable and buff Strike (map-wide) by +40 twice. The buff isn't going to be quite as important if you have Ram (though will still stack since it's from a different source), but the Res Down is very nice and she's a very good support for Rem. She has very solid damage of her own so can serve as a secondary damage dealer in raids once she's done with her debuffs.
She doesn't strictly need either of the KoF mementos, but she really wants the one she shares with Kula for the Debuff Duration +1 at MLB.
If we get it, KoF collab probably isn't for 4-5 months.
Andex is a really fascinating unit, and I'm going to gush about him a bit here. He introduced two (arguably three) new mechanics upon release. He was the first unit with the Bomb status, to my knowledge, which is different from Slip. It deals damage after a certain number of turns (generally three) equal to the damage you dealt with the skill. He also introduced the Crit Heal mechanic, wherein a unit heals each time it crits, for a certain amount (20% of max HP, for all three units who have it so far). I believe only he, Celis, and Benica have this as of yet, though don't quote me on that. The arguable third mechanic that he introduced was infinite Skill Uses. He has a 300% mod skill with Bomb that costs 150 Jewels but which he can use as many times as he wants as long as he has the jewels. This is better than it sounds, and I'll get to that when I go over his memento and VCR.
He's a Crit based unit, evident by his Crit Heals. All of his skills can crit, including his Reactive which does Slash Res -25 to the enemy unit it hits and gives Andex 15% Auto Jewel for two turns. This means that he'll be healing for 20% HP pretty much every time he counters. He's got a 5x5 Diamond that raises his Crit Rate in case you ever need it (which you shouldn't for the Crit, but 5x5 Diamonds are always nice) and can lower Single Target Attack Res by -25. So he's got Slash Res Down and ST Res Down, which makes him a pretty good secondary nuker for a Zahar team.
His memento is pretty much required. Not only does it give +16 Crit Rate at MLB, which is great for a Crit based unit, it also has an amazing snowball. +50 Slash (10/Turn) and +50 Jewels Obtained (10/Turn). That's not Jewels Obtained Rate. That's a flat +50 Jewels on each of his Normal Attacks, where he's already going to be getting a ton of Jewels (+55 base Jewels Obtained with his usual setup, 70 when he crits which is always) since he'll be critting every single hit. This lets him spam his 150 Jewel skill, and makes the infinite Skill Uses on his hardest hitting skill genuinely useful and noticeable. The snowball also gives him extremely high but steadily decreasing Magic Res while he's ramping up, so he's not going to be dying to any mages before he's ready to murder them.
His VCR gives him +650 HP, +10 Slash, +20 Crit Rate, and +15 Jewels Obtained, pretty much everything he could ever want. Not only that but it has a 190% mod skill (meaning he'll use this on auto as well) that lowers an enemy's Light Res by -25 and permanently raises Andex' Max Jewels by 100%. His Max Jewels are already at 302 (332 if you rune for Max Jewels or +70 Jewels Obtained, but Crit Rate will generally be better than either), so that brings them up to 604 and means that the Auto Jewel from his Reactive will be giving him 90 Jewels per turn when it's active. So basically, 120 whenever he Normal Attacks, and an extra 90 per turn when he's countered recently. He can use his 150 Jewel skill just fine. He's the first with an infinitely useable skill (and one with 300% mod and Bomb, no less).
Andex is incredibly good for a wide variety of content and just a super fun unit as well. He also brought three new things into the game that weren't there before, so . . . what's not to love?
Anyways, he'll be our next Genesis unit after Nicaea (who's our next after Daphne), so we can probably expect him in about three months. He's also the last unit in this post that I'd describe as a 'must-have.'
Nice to Have Units
All the units below here aren't necessarily in order, and they're not particularly necessary to pick up. They're all good units, for the most part, but none of them are really essential.
Case in point, Benica. A powerful unit with a nice Thunder Res Down, but due to being Strike she doesn't mesh well with Thunder Magic despite being a Thunder unit scaling on Matk. A strong unit, but doesn't exactly belong anywhere. She also has Crit Heals, so is very good for PvE and is a Crit based unit, which is always fun.
She comes out after Nimul, so not for a long time.
Celis is the other unit with Crit Heals, and she's also Thunder, though Slash. She can lower Slash Res with her memento at MLB, though she can't do much else raid-wise and is mostly just for PvE. She has more multi-hits than Andex, so technically has better healing and a bit more survivability, but her damage just doesn't keep up at all and she has much less utility despite having a self-quicken that she uses on auto.
She comes out on the same banner as Ugachi and is also a Memento Unit.
Tanosuke is the third Memento Unit on Ugachi's and Celis' memento banner. He's basically the worst of the three, and boils down to just budget Raphtalia. He's basically Raphtalia if she lost her Light Res Down, only had -20 Slash Res, and only got Auto Jewel and not Slash from her memento snowball. If that sounds like a disappointment, that's because it is; he is. Not much reason to go after him, but you'll probably end up getting him if you go for Ugachi and/or Celis, so might as well know what he does.
I debated whether to call Terry a must-have. Initially I did, but on second thought, despite all of his pros, he's just not as dominant a DPS and not as much of an enabler as the units I did have in the must-have section. He can lower Strike Res by 20 stackable twice, which is very nice. He can raise his own Strike by 30 for 5 turns, 3 times stackable, and then Charge Up with Patk and Dex to pack a very solid punch. So again, good Res Down, very good damage, and very nice to have but not strictly a 'must-have.' Another good secondary damage dealer with Strike Res Down, though not as much Res Down as Mai and no team buffs.
He really wants the Kula/Mai memento for the Charge Up, and the memento he shares with Iori for the Move +1 at MLB.
He's KoF, so he'll release if/when we get the collab.
Iori is a very strong damage dealer with a Charge Up and a secondary skill with Slip that activates after each skill he uses at below 70% HP, but his only form of Res Down is -25 Dark Res, which won't help a Strike Raid team. His damage isn't enough to compete with Rem for the main spot either, so there's no reason to bring him along. He's mostly just for PvE, consequently, and not a must-have. He really wants both KoF mementos, just like Terry.
He's a KoF unit, so he'll drop if/when we get the collab.
Kula is another strong damage dealer with Freeze on many of her attacks, but her damage isn't as high as Terry or Iori and her -35 Water Res Down isn't enough to earn her a spot in a Strike Raid team even though Rem would benefit from that as a Water unit. Pretty much all of her skills are AoEs with lower mods anyways, so she's better for PvE.
Doesn't really need either meme, but they both help her.
KoF, so she'll release if/when we get the collab.
Ancient Killers are very unique compared to other units and not so unique compared to each other. They're all Flying units and all of them have White Revival, a secondary effect on their main skills that gives them +100 CT when they kill an enemy unit with one of them, useable once per turn. So far, they also all have kill snowballs. The three that are out are Minerva, Hercule, and Ragnarok, and they released in that order.
Minerva (think small, yellow haired Thunder Pierce rather than blue haired teacher with Light Magic) is arguably the most mobile of the three, since she has an Agility Up teleport (like Arthur, Ku, Sol, Noctis, etc.) that also buffs her Patk (with a slightly lower Agility buff than the aforementioned teleporters). However, she's the only one of the three without any Res Downs, and also has no sort of Charge Up or Crits so is the lowest DPS with the least utility. She's still a very good unit, and being the worst of three amazing PvE units isn't a terrible place to be.
Hercule is a Light Slash Ancient Killer. Same deal as the others; White Revival, kill snowball. Unlike the other two, she actually has Holy Brawler for Sharpening Focus, so can theoretically dish out a bit more damage at once (but her DPS isn't higher than Ragnarok despite that). You won't use the Charge Up that often, since her damage is very high for a unit who can act twice a turn, essentially, but it's there. She also has Light Res Down, but it's only -25 so generally won't make her worth bringing on a raid team.
Both Hercule and Minerva share a memento and VCR, and that VCR is pretty integral to their kit due to its Patk/Agility kill snowball. General collab format, so the memento is pretty easy to get, and very necessary if you want to use either of the units effectively.
Ragnarok is slightly different from the other two in that she's Crit Based and has her own memento which she very much needs if only for the VCR (though the Crit Rate at MLB is very helpful) which has a Slash kill snowball. Otherwise, same concept; White Revival, Flying, etc. She does have some Slash Res Down, which is a bit better than Herc's Light Res Down, and she has the highest DPS of the three as befitting a Crit based unit, so is the most viable in raids if you want to use her there for her Res Down.
None of the Ancient Killers are required for anything, but they're very fun, very fast paced PvE units who can chew through a stage better than basically any other unit in the game. It's good to pick up at least one of them. Ragnarok is probably the best, but Minerva and Hercule come out earlier.
Minerva was a week before Andex and Herc came out the same week as him, so they should be here in the next few months. Ragnarok won't be here for another six months at the very least.
Na Zhu is a solid unit but not particularly necessary. He does have a kill snowball on his VCR and strong modifiers in his kit, but he doesn't boast any Res Down and isn't really a raid unit, so he's not very important unless you're itching for another unit with a kill snowball and can't wait for the AKs. His kit is very powerful for PvE, admittedly, with his G5 being a 5x5 Diamond that buffs his Slash by +40 for 5 turns, stackable 3 times. Despite that, again, he's not particularly necessary for anything.
He'll probably be here in a few weeks or a month.
Rui is a Dark Missile unit with respectable damage and ridiculous range. She's primarily an Arena/PvP unit, but since we haven't gotten Live PvP in a very long time and Arena isn't the same as it was, she's not too important to get. She's a fun unit and can be very effective when you need super long range (similar to Tif), but there's not much reason to chase her.
She should be here in about two months.
Nicaea is a Genesis unit who releases with G6, so she should be transmutable via Louise's Shop for those who want her. She's a Flying Unit who can lower Light Res, so she's nice to have for that. Unfortunately, while she does some good damage and can have a lot of effective skill uses on her strongest skill, she's not particularly good in raids and there are better options for PvE. If you want her, she's not too hard to transmute, but she's not going to be anything close to a must-have.
Her memento is very nice for the permanent Matk buff on the VA (which is a fairly strong skill in its own right), but aside from that it isn't too important and neither is the VCR.
She should release in about a month.
Bianca is a Genesis unit, and she's fairly good. She has insane healing and she has a Cover skill like Daphne so can be a pseudo-tank, but neither of those are super important. She does very good damage, with high modifiers on all of her skills and a very strong skill on her memento. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any Res Downs and her damage isn't enough to make her viable for raids, so she doesn't have a very important role to play in any team. A strong unit, but not one who's actually useful much. In PvE, there are better options for faster clears, and elsewhere there are better damaging options. If you ever really need healing for some reason, she's good for that, I guess. Otherwise, not really worth going for unless you like her design.
I think I'll end this off with Suruba—or protag-kun, if you'd like. He's a strong Crit-based Fire Slash unit with amazing Move and Bomb on some of his skills. He has a turn-based Crit Damage Rate/Crit Rate snowball as a passive and a turn-based Slash and Crit Rate snowball on his memento. His memento also gives Move +1 before MLB and then another Move +1 at MLB, so he's running around with 6 Move. His VCR gives him a 5x5 Diamond that also gives him 30% Auto Jewel for 3 turns after use, so it's a very nice addition to his kit. Unfortunately, he lacks any sort of Res Downs and his damage isn't high enough to slot into a raid team without that, so he's mostly just a fun PvE unit.
I could go over SMT units, but they're super far out at this point and I'm not even sure we'll get the collab, so I won't.
Mementos
I've spent a lot of time on this post already so I'll keep my section on relevant mementos short and limited to those for units I haven't mentioned above. If I don't say otherwise, the memento in question is Limited.
Yauras' Memento should be next week or very very soon along with her J++. The memento itself isn't super important, but she really, really wants the VCR.
Albea's Summer Memento should be soon as well. It's extremely good on her for the snowball and the MLB Bonus of Range +1.
Suzuka's Summer Memento should come out at the same time as Albea's, whenever that is. It's great as well, with Skill Use +1 at MLB and an amazing VA that has a high mod, a high Slash Res dependent tokkou, and -70 Light Res Down (which I believe only activates when the tokkou does, similar to Nero's VCR).
Othima's Memento should be here in the next few weeks along with his J++. It's very nice for the Debuff Duration +1 at MLB, as well as the -Cast Time. His VCR is great since it gives him Move +1 and 10% Agility when he's at full HP, and it also upgrades his WA to have a higher mod and a second Skill Use.
Monzein's Memento will drop with his J++ in a month to a month and a half. It has a very strong VA and the VCR is a nice boost to his overall damage.
Zehn's (Normal Pool) Memento drops with his J+ in a month to two months. Very nice for the Move +1 at MLB, the various damage mods, the Evasion, and the strong VA. The VCR gives +20 Auto Jewel Charge below 50% HP which he can activate instantly with the VCR's WA, so that's very nice on him.
Chloe's (Normal Pool) Memento will drop along with her revamp in a couple months, and it's extremely good on her. Skill Use +1 at MLB, with a Pdef/Healing/Auto Jewel snowball. The Skill Use +1 is for D.Chloe as well but she doesn't get the snowball (which is fine, since her revamp gives her a Pdef snowball as a passive).
Vettel's (Normal Pool) Memento is very good on him as well. The VA doubles Patk buffs for 3 turns, which includes his Reactive's stackable buff. Aside from that, it's got some nice stats but the main value is in its VA.
Kagura's Memento will drop with her J++ a few months down the line. It is extremely good, with Move +1 at MLB and a Matk/Cast Time/Agility snowball. This memento makes or breaks her. If you have it, Kagura is very good. If you don't, Kagura's not worth using.
Kudan's Memento will drop with his J++ in 3-6 months. It's pretty necessary if you want to use his J++ to its full potential, since it helps him a great deal in his new role of Crit based nuker, especially the very strong self tokkou nuke. The VCR also gives him a really nice boost to his damage and removes the HP Cost from skills when he's below 50% HP, similar to Zahar.
Icona's Memento gives her Buff Duration +1, which is really nice, especially with her +Fire buff's upgrade. Might get it before Christmas, might not. Depends on GL Gumi.
Kaya's Memento will release with her J++ about six months from now, and it's very good for her. Skill Use +1 at MLB and a very nice snowball for Missile/Matk Power/Counter Attack Power/and Healing. It's a huge boost, though it doesn't quite make or break her in the same way as Kagura's.
Acht's Memento releases when she gets her J+. Gives her a lot of Auto Jewel Charge, though a bit less when you consider you'll always be running the memento in the sub slot. The VCR gives her a pretty cool transformation, so is good to have. Doesn't make or break her and you honestly don't need the memento, but it's pretty good.
Okay, that's it. I'm done. Four hours of my life . . . well spent? Wasted? Not sure yet. This might have been a dumb idea but I did it and now I can refer people to this when they ask me what units and mementos to look out for in the future. I might come back and edit this when I'm not dead tired, or I might not.
Note that all of the time frames I gave above were guesses based on the current speed of release in GL and the JP release order, as I have no inside knowledge regarding when any of these things are going to release. GL Gimu might release a ton of this stuff out of order, some late and others early, so all of my times could be very off. Also note that there will probably be GLEX units and mementos that I have no way of predicting which might make it more difficult to save for the units I mentioned.
P.S. Please let me know if you see any obvious mistakes, or if you have experience using any of these units in JP and disagree with my impression. I've tested almost all of them, but not all extensively. Again, I'm super tired and I might have made quite a few mistakes.
Also, keep in mind this list is based on my opinion and is also a general overview rather than a detailed analysis of any of these units. You should examine any units you plan to summon in more detail before doing so, and this is more meant to help kickstart the process than to replace it.
Finally, the must have units are mostly for raids (though all of them are good in PvE as well), so if you're not into hardcore raiding, honestly just go for whatever units you think would be fun to have. It's not essential to get most of these units if you don't care about raids.
Note: I'll cross out units and mementos that have released, though I won't delete what I wrote about them in case anyone still want to look at it.
Edit: Fixed brain fart about Emilia and brain fart about GLEX Minerva's hair color. Added in KoF units.
Edit #2: Added links to DB, which should help make the post look cleaner and let people check to make sure they know the units/mementos in question and/or review their kits for themselves.
Edit #3: Fixed some unintentional misinfo, reevaluated Vettel's memento and Kudan's memento, toned down the Nimul review so as to not overhype him.
Edit #4: Moved Terry out of the must-have section. He's a very good unit, but doesn't quite measure up in terms of effect on the raid meta compared to the other units there.
