Talk:Filly Highwind (Ice and Snow)/@comment-81.166.196.19-20150115043308/@comment-81.166.196.19-20150119232427

I actually prefer my Summer Rusche with the three free (from extra copies) hidden powers unlocked to my vanilla SS Filly. However, if someone actually likes and frequently uses/needs spirits with this AS/SS combination and thus decide that unlocking all of Filly's hidden powers is justifiable to them, she's clearly superior in just about every way. I will personally never unlock any of them though and therefore Summer Rusche (+3), with his extra 28 HP (trivial), 206ATK and 2% more heal per turn (compared to a vanilla Filly) is slightly more desirable.

That said, aside from Rusche's extra heal per turn, they're virtually carbon copies of each other as soon as you unlock Filly's first +200ATK hippo, and it can be argued that Filly's faster SS even negates Rusche's extra heal per turn. I think people overestimate the importance of Filly's 6TTC though. You generally don't want/need to use a SS heal as soon as it's done charging, so the one extra TTC down seems fairly trivial to me when the competition is already pretty fast. Can't think of any current quests where the boss battle is long enough for it to matter, Demon's Gauntlet included.

As for the tiny combo required for the 2% extra AS heal per turn: I always play it safe with an elucidator (fully released Kaname in this case) if I enter a quest with a seemingly high rate of tricolour questions, so the chance of breaking combo is relatively low. I can't really think of a situation where one single round with a loss of 11% heal would be decisive towards my defeat either for that matter. To me Rusche's heal is a static 13% heal, and judging spirits strengths based on mine or other players ability to get a question right is not something I do.

Lastly, I very, very rarely run into deck cost issues, so the 10DC difference (vanilla) is not really much of a deal breaker in my case, I can definitely see how it would be to others though, so I guess the consensus for the average player is to run Filly over Summer Rusche as soon as you get the chance to evolve her to SS.

TL;DR: I won't use either so I don't know why I typed all of this.