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Kana (F)

Overview

Female Kana is an infantry green dragon unit and a pretty good one at that. Her stats are very balanced, with nothing being pitiful. With 30/34 atk/spd, she is not the fastest or the hardest hitting dragon on the market, but she still does some good damage, especially with buffs. Her defenses are also pretty decent at 33/26. These are boosted even further if you keep her Water Breath that gives her +4 def/res against ranged units. Basically, Distant Def 2 built into her weapon. She’s just really a good unit no matter how you look at her.

Pros/Cons

+ Good offenses, potentially a very speedy dragon girl

+ Good mixed defenses

- Very very weak to Falchion users

- Arguably outclassed by other green dragons like Myrrh and MGrima

Similar Units

Poor Fae probably got booted off of a lot of dragon emblem teams when Kana came out. She performs better than Fae is pretty much every way. She has higher spd (Fae has a sad 28) and better def (25 vs Kana’s 33). Fae also has a pretty useless weapon nowadays, Light Breath, so she requires heavy investment to be viable for many teams. The biggest perk that Fae has is her easy accessibility. Available at 3*/4* means you can hunt for the IVs you want and easily merge to +10. Currently, Kana is locked behind her 5* status so unless you’re a whale, you’re unlikely to get a +10 FKana. 

 On the other side of the spectrum, you have probably my favorite unit in the game: Myrrh. Myrrh has bad speed, let’s get that out of the way. It’s stuck at 25 neutral. However, her weapon, Great Flame, denies follow-ups from units who have less defense than she does. And boy does Myrrh have a lot of defense at 36 neutrally. With Quick Riposte, she’s doubling anyone who comes at her while avoiding getting doubled back which makes her a formidable enemy phase unit. With her low spd, however, she’s going to struggle to kill on player phase and that’s where FKana shines. With her high spd, FKana can be pretty effective on either phase. Myrrh, I would say, just barely wins out here though because she is a flier and with Iote’s Shield, she gets all the perks without any of the drawbacks. If you don’t like enemy phase units though, please go for FKana because you’ll appreciate her ability to perform offensively a lot more.

Team Options

Dragon Emblem! She’ll tank those Reins for your Tikis.

If not that, then she can function as a good mixed tank on most teams. She can take care of green and blue units alike (except Julia and Deirdre because of their effectiveness against dragons). She really super fears any Falchion users and generally just any sword units are gonna cause her trouble. Having someone like Hardin or Brave Hector to tank and murder those pesky Falchion users will be good for her. Or, anyone who can run up and kill them first (rein...) is also a good option.

IVS

+Spd is optimal to get her to 37 spd which is enough to deny followups from anyone with spd up to 41 which is going to be a lot of units. +Atk is a second great option to boost her middling atk to a more respectable 33. 

This is where it gets confusing though... +Res and +Def are also not bad options in FKana’s case. If you want her to be primarily a mixed tank, go with +Res, get the superBOON and get her up to 30 res naturally. If you’re more worried about physical threats, +def is a better option to get her to 36 defense. 

HP is best dropped but if you don’t have that option, -def would be second best drop. You don’t want to lose her 26 res and drop to 23, and you definitely don’t want to lose spd or atk.

A neutral FKana is also totally viable without messing in her superboons and banes (HP and ATK are superBANEs, RES is a superBOON).

Builds

Dratini

Weapon: Water Breath+ (Spd ref)

Assist: Reposition

Special: Moonbow

A: Fury 3, Steady Breath

B: Quick Riposte 3, Guard 3

C: Goad Dragons is good but it’s up to you

Seal: Close Def works well but Distant Def can save her from a few magic hits

If you’re going budget but still want a great girl, this is the set for you. With the Spd ref, even without a +spd nature she’ll hit 37 spd (40 with +spd) and then with Fury, she gets to 43 which is amazing without merges or buffs. If you want to give her a little more bulk. take Steady Breath for the def and the special charge. Quick Riposte might seem stupid with 43 spd, but it can help her take out a few units who are speedier than her. If you still aren’t convinced, and that’s fine, you can go Guard to avoid some specials that could nuke her. IF you are not going in arena against ridiculous spd units, you can probably drop QR and go Guard instead.

Dragonair

Weapon: Lightning Breath+ (Spd ref)

Assist: Reposition

Special: Aether, Bonfire

A: Steady Breath

B: Quick Riposte 3, Chill Spd 3

C: Again, Goad Dragons is good but only with another dragon or 3

Seal: Distant Def probably better for those mage matchups but you can also slap QR3 here

With more investment...considerably more... she can be a typical whale build of a dragon. This is not necessary at all, but if you want something that can counterattack and take a lot of damage, this is a good choice. Lightning Breath gives her DC without losing a Hector, Aether is good for surviving longer but Bonfire will do more damage overall. Chill Spd can help her debuff the speedy units and then either double them or avoid doubles from them.

Get skills from...

Lightning Breath+: 5* Nowi, Adult Tiki

Reposition: 3* Selena, Barst

Moonbow: 4* Odin, Palla, Athena

Bonfire: 4* Adult Tiki, MRobin

Aether: 5* Lucina, Brave Lucina, Chrom, Exalt Chrom, Ike, Brave Ike

Fury 3: 4* Hinata

Steady Breath: 5* Brave Ike

Warding Breath: 5* Legendary Ike

Quick Riposte 3: 5* Leo, Klein, Deirdre, Dorcas, Subaki

Guard 3: 5* Titania, Leon, Micaiah, FMorgan

Chill Spd 3: 5* Fallen Celica

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FKana as a gift. Azura!Kana as a bonus.

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@twistedkat17 precious kanas for your birthday~

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Busting Dr Cynthia Buliks Injurious Revisionism of Anorexia and Eating Disorders.

By Michael Bench, MEP, WGSGC

1.Can you tell who has eating disorders?

Cynthia says “no”.

Actual Answer: Yes.

Starvation effects are observable and anorexia is cosmetic starvation. Those females with an early eating disorder (EDNOS) or using Anorexic behaviors should be addressed and reported to school staff or counseling for their safety; Crash Dieting is disordered eating even if not a diagnosis and is part of a larger social problem of aversions to patient and honest physical conditioning. Crash diets are the tools of lushes. The very lushes that publish female targeted media promoting cleanses and ‘quick fix tips’.  Medical and health advice, if from a document, should only come from academic journals. 

2.Are mothers to blame:

Cynthia says no.

Actual Answer: Often

Mothers who have seasonal weight control efforts and use crash diets to cheat their way to a 'beach body” are modeling disordered eating. Crash diets are disordered eating. Mothers involved with pageants have also been known to use other methods like infecting their daughters with tapeworms to reach a desired thinness.

3.Are families to blame?

Cynthia says no.

Actual Answer:Yes.Situationally.

Involvement with sport, social or classist activities that prioritize gender roles before sport itself is a complicity to eating disorders and body dysmorphia. A parent who willingly lets an industry or coach alter her child’s course of physical maturity is actively neglecting their child no matter what the presumed benefits.  Families also normalize some seasonal classism, poor nutritional behavior, and poor communication that can be seen in children using anorexic trope behavior and insincere-suicidal attention getting. Mothers who believe their daughters should be paying attention to female targeted fashion media and other retail or pop culture are poorly guarding their children.

4.Is society to Blame? (Far too general. Go home Cynthia.)

Actual Answers: Media is to blame partly in that it protects its advertisers exploitation and revisionism of need/want psychology. Media also forwards health talking points for the unhealthy. The term “weight control” for example is an index case of tolerating a slothful deviant-leisure society who cheat their way to “good looks” simply for summer exhibition. Then they return indoors for winter with their indoor sloth and lazy nutritional rituals.

Coaching & Fashion: Females are not males. Training them as males or believing diet is a form of genetic engineering is magical thinking that can injure the athletes. Instead, minimum ages in sport should be raised so children in gymnastics ,for example, are not used as carnival acts. Lacking a period, a females maturity/fill out has not been “stalled”. She is amenorrheic whether with or without a visible menarche; an event itself that’s been postponed. Females cannot sustain low BMI male thinness to appear his heterosexual-binary-other. In fashion , the binary roles are actually the same , only at smaller emaciated sizes and not androgynous as reported. Fashionistas who take their model's health for granted as an act of 'luxury artification” are long guilty of endangering her health/assault , among other violations like complicit child trafficking  (Set aside whether the female volunteers the risk, the runway’s terms are decided by the foolish and nihilist cosmosexuals having very little competence about human physiology. Respecting ‘who we are” ,eh?) Females normalizing anorexic/disordered eating as a justification of their (model) career or fame are themselves a microphone for social blame. 

5.Are Anorexia and Eating disorders a White race problem/Female problem.

Actual Answer: Yes.

The democratization of Western and American market views of ideal beauty and ideal sexuality has not changed the core source of toxic constructions of binary gender. The manipulation of the female body to conform to eras if disinformation and beauty trends, ie Gibson girl and the Heroin Chic waif, show that 'disordered eating' and its long term effects are practiced as luxury fads. Actual mental disorders escalated to Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa stem from European and South Asian religio-social pacts of personal virtue(Breatherism/Inedia). Ever since the first London and American reports of Inedia or fad fasting the practicioners lied about how little they ate. Anorexia, breatherism and inedia have always been appropriate religious rituals used by desperate zealots for attention.. The vulnerability to this sort of radicalization around fasting links to psychological vulnerability and distortions of their self  (a specific form narcissistic personality disorder)

6. Consider the remainder of her list debunked.>>(will add the rest later)

>>Anorexia is NOT A CASH COW.

If researchers want to do genomics research, have at.   Anorexia itself has provably been found occurring as fads. If the 'formal' uppity journal community don’t have the courage to admit mental illness can be market caused and that the external sphere of society can be toxic..  it is their own failure to confront it and demand regulation. Gibson Girl, Heroin Chic, and proana ‘lifestyle’, are fads whose females are too often seen as ‘victims’ of a male privilege error rather instead their own stubborn choices and long term effects there of : I reject the notion Anorexia should be tolerated as a go-to for researchers that simply need grant money and repudiate those that attempted to distract its identity. The democratization of Anorexia as ‘everyone’s disease’ leads me to be highly suspicious of Buliks motivations as a professional  and what diet/pharm companies are handing her NCEEDUS checks. 

“ Aye , I hear you was gonna go on a crash diet. You dont wanna be one of those wanna bes..  A real crash diet , ya cut your own brake cables , go for a drive on elevated roads and see how many cliffs you can climb back up from.”

What is Anorexia Nervosa:

Behaviors of Disordered Eating are not themselves the source of the problem. All persons using crash diet and anorexic symptom behaviors however should be considered ‘eating disordered”.  Anorexic behaviors are actions of solving a problem the subject appears to suffer even if originally having a healthy proportioned body.  Current research suggests that between 3-10 exposures to any message makes an audience more willing to oblige and 'know' its message. This also means a female convinced that eternal youth is where she must rest her physical body to be beautiful is not technically a mental disorder yet. In the struggle to keep her body looking prepubescent the damages of malnutrition and gray matter deterioration lead to distortions of thought. These distortions then create  new symptoms, unoriginal symptoms that are signs of a narcissistic depression and helplessness.

Starting at that point for internal pathology....

If Anorexia is a mental illness aside from market learning then it must be recognized a problem of extreme dissatisfaction with the self that has escalated.  Anorexia Nervosa , or the most extreme form of cosmetic starvation is then to be recognized : A narcissistic depression formed from the conflict or inability to adapt to adolescent body changes. Social messages denouncing the mature female body and independence may solidify these formerly inert cautions. Further, body changes of the teen are used by marketers to embarrass and humiliate the teen for imperfections; a classic 'witch hunt' scenario of threatening the girl with being burnt at the stake for not being a sexual object. The anorexic is faced with that environment daily; an environment where she has no choice to identify as an adolescent among peers and media , whether she’s ready to adapt or not. There is a clear ‘at adolescence trigger” that points to an adaptation difficulty in a soup of marketing that denounces the aged female as roast beef, spent, junk in the trunk and other negativity. The Youngest females.. healthy or by pathology would have a difficult time concluding what is good about being female when the unhealthy deposition of fat at the waist and hips is normal for her maturity.  That is mainly due to problems in the fitness community media leaving no appreciation for fitness itself. Magazine imagery is purely body sculpted or body building.. actual athletic conditioning with the time allotment it requires. 

 I am also referring to Anorexia as a form of Gender Dysphoia who's conflicted social and internal views of teen maturity can lead to traumatized states.  This should not leave room for stable anorexics or unstable females to characterize the adoption of their injurious methods for 'an in-crowd” elitism.

Anorexia Nervosa and its less severe 'eating disorders..  should actually be called #BodyDysmorphicSIBDieting ( Self Injurious Behavior-Dieting)..It includes caloric restriction, multiple stimulant abuse, dissociative abuse and abuse of prescribed medicines,  poor choices in recovery foods which adds to their narcissistic shaming. Pro Ana websites and groups must be understood part of the symptom of a sociopathic “narcissism supply”. Because Anorexia is so well known, applying its known traits can mimic actual anorexics but these body dissatisfied people are factitious disorder candidates. (they are still disordered and mentally unwell. Thereby groups calling themselves pro Ana that taunt new members as ‘wannabes’ are not doing their job as a support group; Support groups and other health resources pages welcome members  and hope to spread positiivity. Instead pro ana sites often feature a core group functioning as an exclusive cliq who give merit to the identity of ANOREXICS as it surrounds her; the actual board member is of no consequence. The Pro Ana board is an active process of denial/bargaining by making their narcissist affliction sound positive and trendy.

In no way should statements of recovery or links on these proana sites be presumed to be safe.  Anorexia Nervosa is technically an umbrella term for three or more groups necessitating 'shortcutting dieting techniques” to achieve a desireable body. One is truly a mental illness of its own, another is a sociopathic illness that has adopted anorexic traits for its factitious parading.. but is also as serious. Also be mindful that persons starting pro anorexic boards might also be sadists and psychopaths who find artificial arousal in providing a place for harm.  All persons utilizing starvation and self abuse for an undisciplined 'thinspired body” are all heading to the same fatal end; including fashion models. Anorexia in name, in diagnosis, or in method IS STILL ANOREXIA. A refusal of recovery and presumption that anorexia is a lifestyle in name , point to a group still in denial that their practices are injurious. Denial of self failure/deception is one narcissist flaw even if the personality disorder symptoms dont apply to the factitious supplicants 

Third is a general category of body dissatisfied females who use encourage each other with SIB Diet techniques rather than actually go to a gym and perform both cardio AND resistance-exercise-for-STRENGTH.. which will infact lead to hypertrophy and better metabolism. This third group is often heckled by the others as fakers and wannarexics. In fact it is the other two groups proving the sociopathic tendencies of their guilt being made manifest on others. Since they cannot empathize, they neither should be empathized. Those yelling 'wannarexics” can be considered social trash and treated accordingly. A combined trait among all 'anorexics' is they mistake strength as an inside characteristic to excuse responsible self conditioning. .. or to justify their fears lifiting weights .. as a behavior is too masculinity  defining.  Her ego exploits her physical body and the body at times will take back such time to demand fueling.  It is then rightful the ego feels shame but not for eating .. rather for the fasting that causes binging in excess of regular fueling of activity.  This singular matter has a strong motivation to be fatally thin and is their excuse to avoid most legitimate forms of  balanced physical conditioning. The thinness is of no consequence. Those who intend to crash diet their way to a perfect body will eventually succumb to the cheapness of their diets. There is no diet that achieve what physical benefits come from physical conditioning. Research addressing diet as more important than exercise in weight control addresses a foolish society terrible at both.   MB.