-FE Engage fans still have to wait a bit. Hopefully, Engage is the next Banner for their sake.
-Fjorm's got a packed skill set and while Close Call 4 and Repel 4 are useful for retreating/crowd control, Spurn easily trumps both in terms of combat effects, with the fact that it can be used with both Vital Astra and Godlike Reflexes.
-Tharja with SPD/RES Far Trace 3 is great for a 4* Special unit.
-Boost skills finally come back and surprisingly, two effects I was hoping for a Tier 4 boost skill came true. Going from one stat to two stats and giving an HP Bonus. That said, was hoping for a Max HP > Foe's HP deal, which instead is above 50% HP, which is much steeper than 25%. But the +7 to both stats and Guard effect on both phases when 2 spaces from an ally with above 50% HP is decent. That aside, Eir and Ymir look great.
-Poor poor Donnel. Between being another Axe Infantry unit(like frickin' stop with the F2P Axe Infantry units, Intelligent Systems. He's our 5th one within this year), having a stat spread with very balanced stats rather than Min-max stats, having poor fodder and paling in popularity compared to the Banner units, only his biggest fans are going to do anything with him. Man, they really did him dirty.
Like the only real benefit he has is that he does have Trainee Stats, giving him a much higher BST of 195 compared to other recent Axe Infantry units. But until an Arcane Axe that works better with him comes out, he's certainly not going to be used over Hans, F!Shez, V!Effie or Fallen Linus.
Also, this is our first Summer Banner with exclusively females. Donnel is still a Male Summer Hero, but he's from the TT and not on the Banner.