HI Lucky! I know you answered recently about what upcoming medals NA people should wait for (we should wait for Riku Illustration EX [M]), but what do you think about the EX Aqua/EX Terra/ EX Ven medals?? Are they worth saving up for? Thanks for all the help!
Terra EX [P], Ventus EX [S], and Aqua EX [M] (I’ll just call them the ATV EX medals), all give an additional +30 % guilt for the turn. So far, they are the only medals in the game to increase the guilt for the turn. However, there is a downside to this ability: the +30% guilt that ATV EX medals give does not stack. For example, if you use Aqua EX [M] and copied her with a copy medal, you will only get a +30% guilt increase. The same thing happens if you use Terra EX [P] then followed by Ventus EX [S], you will only get a +30% guilt increase for the turn. While this is a new ability and technically a new buff, the reason why I don’t think the ATV EX medals is that worth it is because the guilt increase doesn’t stack. So if you use a copy medal with ATV EX, multiple ATV EX in your deck, or ATV EX medal with DA, you won’t increase your potential damage output if it was other types of buffs that hasn’t been maxed out yet, such as UAU or UDD, because the +30% guilt doesn’t stack, whereas the other buff does. This is why I think Riku Illustration EX [M] is a better medal to go for, compared to ATV EX, because the UDD buff stacks, so if you copy Riku Illustration EX [M], you can get UDD-4 which will deal more damage than +30% guilt. In other words, Riku Illustration EX [M] would still be relevant if you can have a copy medal or DA on Riku Illustration EX [M] because the buff stack. Not only that, the ATV EX medals can EASILY be outdated once they release a medal that increase the guilt more than 30%.
However, I don’t think Riku Illustration EX [M] is worth getting… The only downside to Riku Illustration EX [M] is that Riku Illu. EX’s [M] multiplier is rather low, similar to the gen 3 EX medals (Riku Art version EX [P], Marluxia Illustration EX [M], and Sora&Riku Illustration EX [S]) and this generation of EX medals was outdated very quickly with Kairi EX [M] and the Foreteller EX…and I am afraid the same thing would happened with Riku Illustration EX [M] as well… I guess to further confirm this, HD Zack [S], a regular premium, is going to be UAU+1 and enemy UDD-1 for the turn, so that means we can probably expect a new Kairi with enemy UDD as well, and I wouldn’t be surprised if SEJP also gave the new Kairi a guilt increase ability. I skipped Riku Illustration EX [M] because I am gambling on the fact he’ll be outdated easily as the gen 3 EX medals with the new Kairi (but also because he was not guaranteed in 15 draws and I was waiting for an upright speed version).
~ Lucky ★彡