I want Minerva so badly. I hope they make her a focus unit again because she's only able to be summoned at 5*, and there's no way I'll ever get her otherwise.
My flier team is lacking a damage carry (since I missed out on Spring Camilla and I've had awful luck with Cherche natures), and Minerva is really cool, so I'd like to use her.
Why did IS have to make flier emblem so hard to make? Hone Fliers is only found on 5*-only Hinoka, Ward is on 5*-only Minerva, Goad is on 4-5* Palla, and Fortify is on 4-5* Caeda. The 4* summon pool is larger than the 3* and 5* pools, so summoning specific heroes is fun.
Hinoka is literally the only member of my flier team I'm deadset on using because everyone else I have is bad. Minerva/+atk Cherche is all I want cricricri
Meanwhile, the knights where only Effie and Zephiel lack knight skills. The only issue is that there are no 3* summonable axe knights.
Yeah, I don't know why the flyer skills are primarily on high rarity units and without alternatives like Olwen shares Ward Cavalry with Eliwood and Reinhardt's Goad Cavalry can be substituted with Gunter's Hone Cavalry.
Along with having the other flyer skills on 3* summonable flyers, a physically tanky sword flyer should be added soon since it is limiting to only have 2 sword flyers and while Palla's defense is good, it's not tanky-good and there should be a lance wyvern rider who is also high physical defense and high attack since Subaki is the only tanky one, but his attack is all right, Catria is average, and everyone else is either high resistance and/or speedy glass cannons.
Haar, Heath, Melady and Vaida come to mind as flyers who should have a flyer skill. Haar and Melady are captains from what I know and Heath is the leader of his unit and also very caring of his allies, so Fortify and Ward Flyers would make sense and would parallel his personality with Vaida who is Heath's commander and I remember her being aggressive so Hone Flyers or being another option for Goad Flyers would make sense for her. Problem: none of them use swords. Haar uses an axe and can use a lance when promoted while Heath, Melady, and Vaida are associated with lances, but use swords when promoted.
Hmm, if they do a banner with Leif, then his sister Altena might make it in. I don't know much about Thracia, but Altena is the user of Gae Blog, so we'd have another flyer with a legendary weapon and Thracia has the leadership stat, so maybe Altena should have a flyer skill. Shanna's eldest sister, Juno, having a flyer skill makes sense since she's basically the Palla in the three Pegasus Knight sisters thing.