Granblue Fantasy Relink - Ferry Character Guide

do you like battles ending extremely quickly at least according to endgame timers and enjoy stun locking enemies stopping them from moving and being able to accomplish anything Ferry might be the character for you at least based on her current optimal play style as of right now fery is the prime skybound artbot being able to build gauge and use S Spas faster than any other character in the game truth be told I feel she may be one of the three characters in the game who needs a fundamental rebalance on her abilities and numbers simply because of her current best play style and intended play style feeling fairly opposed and playing fairy as intended does not feel nearly as rewarding and worth it on the current patch with that in mind I will be discussing why this is and also why I do think her current place in The Meta is still interesting and fairly fun it's possible a future patch could invalidate some of this but for now in this video I want to discuss fairy discuss General play style and setup talk about some strengths and weaknesses and showcase some practical use in harder raid fights if you enjoy guide content on this game RPGs in general and especially Xenoblade and are interested in seeing more since I do plan to cover everyone in this game as well as future Rel Le content on relink please be sure to subscribe to the channel because it does help me out so much and I will love you forever let's get into it so let's start with the basics here at first glance fairy has a couple Unique Mechanics most notably the pet Gauge by performing attacks or using certain skills faer will summon up to four pets at a time with each pet granting bonuses to fery as well as continuously attacking her Target your first two pets will both occupy the first slot of the three slots that you have if you are worried about only seeing three each pet summoned gives a 10% bonus to your attack and defense and as fairy you will likely want to keep your pets active as much as you can pets will not trigger effects like supplementary damage sadly but it can still be a boost to have them active and get useful Buffs out of them her first support skill tells you one of the ways to summon her pets and it's basically just tied to her main combo essentially you have a combo attack that does three attacks in a row and if you hold down the attack button on either of these three attacks at any point during your standard three button combo hitting this charge attack will summon one of her pets and hitting all three of these charge attacks will summon all of her pets so you can can have them all active this is probably the most basic way to summon her pets but probably not the method you will be using super often given that link attacks will fully summon your pets and certain skills will also summon all of your pets immediately making them more efficient ways of summoning but this is a method to keep in mind if you do need it her second support skill says that her y attacks will deal more damage based on how many pets are on the battlefield which brings me to the discussion on Onslaught and why this is typically not a good move so by holding down the Y button or what is generally the charge attack or combo finisher button for other characters Ferry will use Onslaught which is basically an area of effect attack that will have all of her pets attack the enemy at once after 5 Seconds the attack will automatically stop and all of her pets will disappear after one final attack effectively ending their current summoning this will clear all the slots in your pet gauge as well so the good news about this move is that it deals High stun damage and can be an okay way to rush link attacks which will give you your pets again the bad news is basically everything else using this will prematurely end any attacks or skills that are currently using your pets you can miss damage if you're too close when using the attack and just in general the negatives of this ability will usually will result in being lost to your total DPS and utility if you aren't immediately charging into another link attack as a way to resummon your pets instantly and this is kind of where the fundamental balancing problem for Fairy comes from because this feels like one of the intended strategies with the character but it's rarely worth doing over what is actually optimal so with that in mind what exactly is optimal for Ferry well fortunately for Ferry she has another fantastic and very viable option being her one of the most useful characters in the game currently the role of the SBA spammer so what fery does have going for her is that her jump SL launch attack and her aerial finisher are both pretty strong moves basically you can press Jump Plus attack at the same time to do a launch attack and immediately press y or your finisher button to do a finisher the launch attack has a low modifier but if you're able to cap the attack it can do the same damage as two normal attacks very quickly and the aerial finisher has the same multiplier as normal attacks but can hit three times incredibly quickly meaning you can get five attack attacks with just two buttons in an extremely short period of time all while your pet remain active and continue attacking enemies for you also this has much higher DPS than using Onslaught at all with fairy players estimating over 7 million more damage in a 60-second window just for spamming your jump attacks the craziest part of this it also builds SBA gauge at an insane rate which eclipses basically every other character in the game making her one of the best characters for building SBA gauge stunning bosses by using SBA attacks and supporting the team with a strategy to have some of the fastest and easiest fights in the entire game since of course using SBA gives your other party members 10% you're also able to build it while they use their sbas it's a really really effective strategy for just stun locking enemies very very efficiently launch slam is basically your go-to combo as fairy and way better to use in almost every situation than Onslaught or any of your other combinations if you already have your pets active and it could be very satisfying to build up that quick SBA to make farming very easy on a number of enemies so because of where her current damage caps are and how Onslaught works and with how ridiculously quick she can build SBA her launch slam is just sign signicantly better to use right now to take advantage of her kit that means you want to be maximizing SBA usage and pet up time as the primary way to support your team and all setup and strategy will revolve around that as your ideal gameplay Loop we'll talk more about other gameplay aspects in other sections so let's get into setup now so for the weapon I'm running exactly what you expect here the Terminus weapon it's just the simply best weapon in the entire game with catastrophy bonus effect giving you even higher damage cap giving you a bunch of extra attack as long as you're below 45,000 health and giving the very useful sigil booster trait as as well very nice effect to have the uh imbue on it isn't anything super special this time around it just ensures I had 100% crit rate with only one critical hit rate booster this time around since I have the over masteries to do that and mainly I have it for the auto revive effect just as an extra kind of supportive way to stay alive if I need it so that's just kind of why I have it because I'm not running potion hoarder on this specific setup so having that extra revive is pretty nice to have just in case I mess up or Canon fight super quickly but if you're ending fights quickly you don't need potion hoarder nearly as much although potion hoarder is still a really good trait so still something you might want to run depending on these situation fantasms Concord this is the unique trait of fery that I am running this basically allows your pets to deal more damage and that's always going to be pretty good because uh that allows them to deal a little bit more damage in all their attacks and also grants uh debuffs that's going to be the main thing here you can inflict uh attack down 20% and defense down 20% for 10 seconds 25% of the time when your pets attack pretty easy to keep that up at all time with how often your pets are attacking as long as you're not using Onslaught and as long as you're just keeping them active as much as possible and spamming those jump attacks so a really unique really good unique sigil effect to have her other unique sigil effect is not nearly as good it just increases the damage cap of onslaught we've already kind of discussed it Onslaught is not very good as a uh ability to use so uh don't really recommend using that in current level play as of right now sadly the bonus trait on it is damage cap this allows me to run one less damage cap sigil it's an orange trait though so it doesn't really make that much of a differ to have it here or not but it does allow me to change my setup a little bit to uh kind of optimize it just a little bit more at the very least so that's nice as an effect to have I have my other three damage cap sigils to make sure I'm hitting the absolute maximum on damage cap so I'm doing as much damage as possible even on a character like faery who doesn't do the most damage it is nice to be able to hit all those damage caps and do as much damage as you can with the character anyway the sub traits on them are two quick cooldowns and an uplift so quick cool down is just really nice to have in general because uh more quick coold down I have the more I can use my abilities to summon my pets more often If I Ever Lose My pets or I'm an ability where I don't have my pets and just want to summon them very back very quickly having pets up also build yourb up a little bit faster when they attack and when you can use skills that use them as well so that's useful and then we have uplift this is probably the best sub trade in the game on ferry as far as what you can possibly run because it builds your SBA gauge gain even faster you're able to use SBA even more often you're able to St loock enemies very early on into fights and uh kind of skip a lot of phases in fights which is really useful to have and uh just in general you're able to use even more Spas you're able to sunlock enemies more absolutely fantastic effect on a character like fairy who already builds that bar incredibly quickly this just increases that and magnifies that even further so absolutely be running uplift if you can fit it into your slots because it's just one of the absolute best effects that you can have I've got my two supplementary damages ideally I can run three if I had a better uh subtrate setups or anything like that but this is just kind of the best I can do for now as far as what I wanted to do here maybe I could replace link together but it has an uplift trade on it and I really wanted to keep that uplift trade and Link together is still really nice do more link attack damage and build up link gauge further to act even as more of a suppor of a team option for your team so chain burst damage which you're doing a lot with fery uh SBA damage which you're doing a lot with fairy you get a lot of benefit out of link it link together just in general so I still do still like that as well then I have a tyranny this has uh guts attached to it I believe as the subtrate so guts helps me live with one HP no matter what if I get hit by something that's just nice to have especially when I'm not running potion hoard or just as an extra safety net here so that's pretty nice as an effect to have and of course tyranny boost your attack by 36% of the cost of 20% Max HP so you're able to get a lot of benefit out of the attack Boost from that to make sure you're hitting caps on your launch attacks which are a little bit hard to hit caps on so that's just the uh benefit of that combo booster also offers me my last uplift and also is just the guarantee basically along with the stamina on the critical hit rate to ensure that I'm hitting the caps on everything that I need to hit caps on this might be just a little bit Overkill here but it does guarantee that I'm always hitting those damage caps that is nice to have the stamina boost 51% combo booster Stacks up pretty quickly with all the attacks you're doing and uh obviously uplift is the main source and benefit of all of this as well if I had uplift on supplementary damage I could probably ditch one of these damage boost ERS and uh probably still hit caps depending on the team setup and if I'm getting my defense down debuffs all the time and stuff like that but just in general it is last to have and uh just guarantee that make sure I'm getting the uplift procs uh having guts as nice as well on tyranny so able to kind of max out these these important traits here to get the most benefit out of them as I can I only need one critical hit rate Five up my current setup to 100% critical hit rate to maximize damage there and make sure I'm hitting all the damage there and then finally I have Eis this comes with a quick cool down as well to make sure I'm maxing out my skill cool down so I can summon pets more often now I'm not running Cascade on this current set there's probably a way to fit it in and it could still be beneficial for skill cool down as well but uh I haven't really noticed that I really need it that much I think uplift and quick cool down are more important in this specific case but Cascade could still be something worth running and egis is just nice to have to make sure I'm hitting over 40,000 Health make sure I'm not dying in one hit since I'm running tyranny but uh definitely possible to possibly replace tyranny and egis with a couple other options as well here to uh uh maybe do some more damage with more supplementary damage or add some more defensive sub traits like potion hoarder something like that but main things max out uplift max out quick cool down those are probably the main things you're going to want to do and make sure you got your damage caps maxed and doing as much damage as you can also so that should cover it B basically for sigil setup there not really too complex with fairy all around uplift is the most important thing as I've said let's take a look at her skills really quickly these are probably the four General skills I would recommend running most of the time especially for the more General SBA Builder setup here because it just gives you the best mix of keeping your pet up time and uh kind of supporting your damage and your team although there's some other support skills she has as well which can be useful depending on the situation we got umof I don't know if you pronounce it that way but this is a nice skill to have because it grants a free Stout heart meaning you can spam your jump attacks with a pretty much impunity and also kind of summons a damaging Spirit orb from one of your pets around you that does decent amount of damage acts as a nice DPS increase and uh it Grant outout heart which is really nice as an effect to have so you can keep spamming and keep spamming uh your jump attack so you can build SBA faster you don't have to be interrupted by damage and as long as you got a decent amount of healing you should be fine and even then you might still be able to avoid attacks without too much issue but it is nice to have that Stout heart effect you could even combine this with steel nerves maybe as a subtrate effect as well if you really want to but I don't really think it's necessary with how fast you can end fights anyway but it is something to keep in mind purch spirit is one of your absolute uh most important skills here it's not going to be the most damage compared to a different skill that summons all of your pets but it is a skill that summons all of your pets at once which is nice to have just immediately get them out immediately start having them do damage and uh just make sure they're on the field and active at all times to give you the Buffs and make sure they are doing damage to the enemy and helping build that SBA gauge so nice effect to have just a generally useful skill for the type of play style the faery currently has straight this is probably your best skill this is basically even better version of purge Spirit where it will summon all of your spirits at once extremely quickly you can immediately roll cancel out of this and it'll still summon the pets and they'll still attack and they'll do a lot of damage when they're summoned with this ability as well so this is probably your best skill just in general for summoning your pets something I recommend pretty much at all times very very good skill does a lot of damage summons pets very quickly you don't have to worry about anything then we got henrion this is another or hin rton I don't know this is another really really good skill basically based on how many pets you currently have active you get a bunch of Buffs uh attack plus 50% pretty crazy just in general but you also get a critical hit rate boost if you somehow don't have 100% you get free supplementary damage on hit if you have three pets active and if you have all four pets active you also get invincibility for a short period of time and those are two of the best possible Buffs in the entire game invincibility is really nice make sure you spam jump attacks with impunity supplementary damage just gives you a nice free 20% damage boost on everything and stacks with a supplementary damage sigils so that's nice to have as well so this is just a really nice buff effect you can activate it immediately after using strafe to get all of the benefits no matter what so just a really good skill to have something you probably should be running at all times on Fair just to get the most benefit out of her self Buffs and uh damage here and to help build SBA even faster as far as her other four skills they've got a couple General Uses but are not going to be as useful for the General kit most of the time uh blus gu spend I don't know how to pronounce this but uh this summons two of your pets and basically this does a frontal attack that inflicts defense bound and can remove one buff from the foe the buffer move can be useful against certain enemies like the White Worm but besides that it's not going to be the most useful effect because the defense down is lower than the effect you get from your unique sigil already so this is actually usually not worth running 99% of the time so this probably one of the worst skills you can run just because you'll get a more useful defense down just kind of passively just from having your pets summoned automatically with your unique sigil effect then we have sikam G this is a slow effect which can be useful sometimes depending on the situation but it only summons one of your pets at a time and uh slow can be an okay status effect to have but it's not really something you should be focusing on as fery who's more about building that SBA and stunning enemies that way rather than focusing on other forms of CC or status effects so probably not something you're going to be using most of the time but if you really do need a slow if you really do need an extra way to CC or St lock the enemy this is an option it does give you another way to kind of stun enemies as fairy while you're waiting for s sp8 come up or something like that so it is an option to consider benediction is kind of a healing buff that affects your allies grants region and uh defense and attack to everyone based on how many pets are on the field which is okay it's an all right buff most people do not need to worry too much about having a 10 to 20% defense buff and the 20% attack buff is usually not going to be that useful for most party members either in the region is kind of not great with everyone running potion hoarder so it's okay to run this sometimes but you need like a highly specific team that knows they're taking advantage of it most of the time I don't really recommend this over your other abilities that are just going to offer much more utility and usefulness just in general and finally we have Pendle this will summon some pets and uh basically allow your pets to remain on the battlefield while kind of whisking you backwards to safety and that's okay as an effect but you don't really need it especially when you have built-in invincibility built-in Stout heart as well so this could be useful in some situations to kind of Dodge attacks while uh keeping your pets active or summoning some pets but most of the time I don't really see this being the most useful ability but it is an option to consider at the very least so just in general I recommend these four skills I think they're going to be the most useful of use of damage and just general utility even if you're not running Buffs for the entire team you still got some debuffs with your pets just being active at all times and uh you have a really really good self Buffs here with Stout heart invincibility supplementary damage stuff like that at the very least so let's briefly talk about masteries my current over masteries do not have any skill cap damage up because skills are a little bit less important on Fair you're not using them as often as for damage and uh normal attacks make up the bulk of your damage as fairy especially if you're spamming jump attack and all that stuff very often so when I got when I saw the over Masters that gave me perfect normal cap up 20% and critical hit rate up 20% I just ended up keeping it because I figured it would just be the best kind of option here in general healing cap up doesn't really do anything but it's just kind of there and then attack up 700 I guess that's pretty nice makes sure hitting those caps a little bit easier as well ideally you can get skill damage cap up along with this as well because it will give you a damage boost at the very least on your SK that you actually do use for damage cuz you do use a few but normal attack damage cap up and critical hit rate up 20% are definitely going to be the most important things to look out for here on fairy which is kind of the same with a lot of other characters in general but skill damage I would say is a little bit less important on her but it's still something important something to shoot for if you can find it stun damage up could be really nice as well to uh get link attacks more often to make sure you can summon your pets a little bit easier as well so that's an option to consider also and then obviously SBA damage cap up might actually be pretty good on her just because you're spamming SBA so often so that could be an option to consider as well and something you might want to look out for if you can conveniently fit it into any of your sets here I think that's going to cover it for a general setup let's take a look at some practical gameplay application and some really funny and fast fights as per usual here at your spoiler warning on postgame late game raids if you are worried about that let's get into it so I'm just going to show off a couple examples of how insane this SBA build is and how easily you can just optimize it if you know what you're doing here so I start think off I use strafe immediately to activate my pets I use my Buffs to make sure I have those active then it just kind of immediately go into jump spam I activate my uh other art as well to get as much damage as I can while I'm doing this and I'm already off to a start of over 56% sbaa now there's another fairy in this room and that can kind of showcase the value of running uplift versus not running uplift because you can see how much quicker I'm building it than the other Fairy Who I Am nearly certain is not have uplift otherwise they would have been able to build it almost as fast as me and you can see I'm already I'm already at a 91% we're only like 30 seconds into the fight and I already get it up here but I decided to wait just actually no I activate it instantly because I'm just a that much of a gamer go ahead and activate SBA he's already in overdrive want to make sure that we uh can phase skip this and maybe break overdrive really quickly he's kind of stun locked the other fery does get their SBA in time because of the 10% for me and we're able to immediately break P at uh yeah 40 seconds out the fight basically already about 50% thanks to the uh just insane SBA build the other two allies that I have on my team here also already have their SBA now because of that and just being able to constantly attack and have the enemy stun lock so as soon as it gets back up they can do a 22 as well and immediately just kind of SBA chain again here before the elemental shift goes off and uh yeah they're just go into town here this is one of the most broken and effective strategies in the entire game SBA does pause the actual endgame timer so it's stuck at 5909 right now so uh endgame timer doesn't tell the entire story here this is probably close to like a two-minute strategy than like a one minute strategy but it's still really just insane that you can just able to do this at all a certain strategy you're probably able to just completely speedrun this I'm already at 100% sbaa gauge Again by the way so I go ahead and activate that one more time because why not I might as well so I just activate it one more time I I just get a little bit more damage to unlock him a little bit longer here and make sure we get him to that Health range where we're able to just kind of end the fight extremely quickly here uh the other fairy gets tears up really quickly after that and uh yeah once you get him under 10% he goes into his in Rage phase where he starts charging his attack so even if he was to able to actually get to the middle of field that was all that is all he is going to be doing which I think he does actually get the opportunity to jump there with 1% left so we're a little bit we we didn't get the sub one a minute run here so I guess we're jobbers but you can just kind of see there he wasn't able to do anything the entire fight and the fact that this is just so free and simple with basically any kind of strategy is just absolutely absurd and uh I still can't believe this character is just able to do this right now I would not be surprised this got changed in a patch because it is really really dumb and you're able to do this in just most other fights as well like even the evil blackm I was able to do this with our charlot like immediately dying here well not immediately but dying very very soon into the fight I immediately just kind of go in here I take advantage of the invincibility and my uh Buffs here to just kind of go in start immediately building up SBA the charlott is dead with 1% SBA doesn't matter I'm already at 50% uh the charlott also doesn't know how to match for some reason doesn't matter I'm already at 65% but 70% 74% 7 7% uh 79% I do have to dodge some attacks here I get invincibility out of dodging I make sure I stay out of the slow field so I don't have to deal with that uh kind of Dodge around since I'm already close to 100% anyway and I'm trying to build SBA before he goes into his kind of enrage attack here where he flies up into the air so uh we're just kind of working on that and I'm at 95% here I get in a little bit more range here get it to 99 and then I'm able to get my SBA off just in time before he goes into what is probably going to be his enrage attack here uh get an SBA off is going to allow us to stun lock him and get him out of overdrive here really really fast and uh despite the fact that the EO is not quite at 100% just kind of with the stun timing here uh EO is able to get close enough to kind of SBA chain after this and since we're we can chain this out of a break we have a little bit of extra free time here to uh go into that SBA and uh yeah we're able to just kind of stun along the people black worm too because of this even without the charlot doing much and uh it just kind of goes to show the power of SBA and how strong it can be if you are able to take advantage of it in these fights it's already at 10% and uh the jeta uses theirs now and uh the fight's basically over and if you want to hear my thoughts on it well there is no way there is no way it's easy and I think that's really all there is to say it's just really that simple and easy I can't can't believe this character exists in the game as they do right now I'll show off one more P fight with that group I was with earlier it's uh really is just this simple it was just kind of activating your pets activating your Buffs spamming your jump attack and just using SBA is kind of the optimal strategy with the character to get the most benefit out of her it's it's kind of absurd honestly I would not be surprised if this got changed I've already said that but yeah if the strategy kind of stays that is right now which really kind of an overtuned and really spammable SBA kind of stun strategy Fair's using a lot of speed kills because of how strong the strategy is as far as uh in-game timer speed kills at least now I think RTA speed kills might be a little bit different just because of not being able to stop the timer with SBA but the fact that you're able to stop the timer with SBA is still kind of absurd and broken just in general and uh it is really funny that you're able to do it so General strategy though is really just uh not too much different than what you've seen it's just kind of spamming the uh jump attacks over and over and uh just spamming SBA when you have it this is why uplifts really good you're able to build SBA really quickly and uh just go to town on all these enemies without too much issue at all which is absolutely absurd it doesn't even matter how strong the enemy is really right now you're able to still kind of kill them really quickly with uh just kind of the abilities you have which is pretty insane and uh pretty broken I wouldn't be surprised there's some type of fundamental balance change in the future to Nerf SBA a little bit or something like that cuz right now this is definitely really strong in her General intended play style with Onslaught it's just not very good right now which is a little bit unfortunate so if this does get changed in the future and this does get outdated I do apologize for that but for now this is a really strong strategy as I've said and uh yeah one of the best strategies you can use online right now just in general I do think that is going to cover it mostly for this guide video I don't really know what else to say about this it's just really fun really broken and uh something a lot of people are abusing right now so uh thank you guys so much for watching this guide video I do appreciate all of the support as per usual please look forward to all my future character guides if you did enjoy and 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Published: Wed Mar 06 2024