In keeping with last year’s anniversary event, LW is being great to the player base once again.

I’m personally looking forward to the Great/Super chance increase – I’ve been hoarding EXP materials from the event shops for a while now, and it’ll be nice to clear out my inbox a bit.

There are a few things I want to talk about today; namely, the platinum tickets and the event reprints. Tickets first!

Platinum Tickets

I wrote a post on this last year that’s mostly still relevant. The quick tl;dr, if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, is:

Husbando > Practical Unit > +5 to relevant charge skill level > items

I also recommended Thunderbird, Seth, Arsalan, Musashi, and Volos as practical units.

There are a couple of additions this year in AR as well as some good new 4★ units to choose from.

I’d recommend AR somewhere around the same level as +5 to a relevant charge skill. There aren’t a ton of AR cards that are going to significantly affect anyone’s teams, but there are a few effects that are worth considering. If you are thinking about them, take a look at the list on the wiki, and consider how they’re going to work with your team (and make sure you can equip them!) before you go ahead and grab one.

Generically, The Dog’s Battlefield is probably the easiest equipment to recommend, with a reliable and useful effect that can go on a bunch of units.

I would not recommend getting a duplicate of an AR card – their effects scale linearly, unlike unit skills and charge skills, meaning +5 won’t add very much value (a 5% increase, in fact).

We’ve had some good 4★ units added to the roster since the last anniversary. Other than Volos (there are other units that can give your team Barrage now), last year’s recommendations still stand. Other options:

Ose: Ose’s a pretty good defensive support option as an alternative to Seth. He’s also a pretty good early-game option, as a lot of his power comes from his default skill, that applies Dazzle on attacking.

Licho: I was pretty keen on Licho when he was released, and I’m pleased to say that he absolutely lived up to my expectations. He’s probably the safest recommendation of the current 4★ roster.

Behemoth: If you have 5★ Gyumao, then this is a no-brainer – double Behemoth (yours along with a friend support) and Gyumao makes for a very efficient team for farming wide maps. Even if you don’t have Gyumao, pulling the entire enemy team into your range is a pretty useful effect to have around.

I have yet to decide what I’ll pick up this year – I got coins last year, but I’m leaning towards seeds this time around. I’m also tempted to pick up a duplicate Thunderbird – though I’d get next to nothing out of it (he’s at sacred artifact level 96), it would satisfy the completionist in me to have him at level 100.

Gacha Reruns

Power levels across these gachas vary pretty considerably. I’m largely basing the below recommendations on the 4★ units – 5★ units are 1) pretty powerful across the board, and 2) not worth chasing, unless you are a glutton for punishment.

If you’re rerolling for a 5★, I’d recommend trying for Valentine’s Shino, either of the 5★ units from Fashionista, either of the 5★ units from the Andvari Resort event, or a Jiangshi Krampus.

As always, if you’re husband chasing, feel free to ignore the below advice!

Setsubun – NO

In niche cases, such as the Setsubun event, Motosumi does spectacularly. Outside of those, he’s a bit average. Since he’s the only limited 4★ here, it makes it pretty easy to recommend skipping this one.

Valentines – YES

All four of the available 4★ featured in this gacha are pretty great. Surtr is probably the highlight, though Behemoth and Kenta both have a good number of uses.

Ueno Fluffy Kingdom – NO

None of the three 4★ units here have really made an impact. None of them are explicitly bad, but they’re also not worth chasing. Alp is probably the best of the bunch, but he’s in the regular gacha anyway (and you can pick him up with a platinum ticket, if you’re desperate).

Fashionista – YES

Probably the easiest of the gachas to recommend rolling in. Suzuka is one of the best 4★ units in the game right now (I missed the range on her Charm when reviewing her – it’s 6 squares!), and Amatsumara and Tsathoggua are no slouches, either.

Andvari Resort – YES, BUT

This was a really tricky one – Along with Suzuka, I’d put Beach Seth towards the top of the 4★ units in the game, and the 5★ units in this gacha are nothing short of spectacular, but ultimately I think Kotaro and Goemon are average enough to bring it back down. If you’re fine with getting either of these (they’re not awful, but not really something to chase), then feel free to roll.

Volos is a really strong combo piece, but really needs other pieces of the combo to shine – namely, other units that inflict debuffs on the enemy. If you’ve got these (or are using your platinum tickets on them) then Volos is pretty good; otherwise, don’t chase him.

Jiangshi Night – NO

We just had this one – if you’ve just started, roll Fashionista instead (or reroll for your choice of 5★), and if you didn’t roll in it while it was here, your decision probably won’t have changed.

Good luck to those rolling, and I look forward to seeing what awaits us in 2020!