Should you recall Zibroi & Should you have recalled Raklet?

Should you recall Zibroi & Should you have recalled Raklet?™ Soccer Spirits

First of all, a late Merry X'mas and Happy New Year to everyone @_@

Hope all of you had great fun during your holidays. 

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First of all, lets talk about the Raklet recall. 


I did plan to write a discussion about Raklet recall but there was news regarding Robin release during the New Year Patch (31st Dec 2015).

Personally, I felt that the Robin EE will decide greatly as to whether if you should recall Raklet.

Thus, it was kinda conflicting to discuss about recalling Raklet before knowing the details of Robin EE.

But the contradicting fact is that, details of Robin EE is only released after Raklet recall option ends.

Hence, we can only take a retrospective view towards Raklet recall now. 


Determining factors towards Raklet recall:

As we all know, Raklet has been striped of her totem effects and her skills now only affects herself.

So that basically justify her for recall for everyone who used her ONLY for her totem effects.

There are 2 major factors in consideration outside of Raklet totem:

• First, with the new CoT content, mono elemental matches can be a concern.
  
  So ideally, we would want to keep the best goalkeeper of each element for future, harder CoT matches.
  Without knowing the details of Robin EE< its hard to determine if Raklet is the best thunder GK or will it be Robin?
  
  But now, we know. all the three 5* thunder GK have their own edges. 
  
  Nute #1 in critical resistance, #1 in damage reduction, #3 in HP.
  Robin #3 in critical resistance, #2 in damage reduction, #2 in HP.
  Raklet #2 in critical resistance, #3 in damage reduction, #1 in HP.
  
  Overall, HP and damage reduction with decent critical resistance is desired.
  All three goalkeepers have more than enough critical resistance;
  Hence, Raklet and Robin have a slight advantage for CoT PvE content.
  
  
• Mono Thunder PvP team
  
  Who will be the best PvP thunder GK to keep?
  
  Overall, Raklet insane HP still puts her #1 for mono thunder PvP GK atm.
  
  With the right damage reduction totem (nerua/magnus/patricia/death queen/chitose), she can survive any OHKO.

Overall conclusion, mono thunder PvP teams should have kept Raklet for PvP GK.
Other than that, everyone else who recalled Raklet, you've made the right choice  :yes

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Should you recall Zibroi ??

  


First lets look at how Zibroi was nerfed?

Before Nerf:

Absorb II: Recovers the action bar and spirit by 30% when attacked (Recovers HP by 15% first)

After Nerf:

Absorb II: Recovers the spirit by 30% when attacked (Recovers HP by 15% first)


So Zibroi basically doesn't recover action bar when attacked now.


Next, we look at how Zibroi was buffed.

Before buff:

Totality II: Reduces the incoming damage by 30%

After buff:

Pride of the Blessed: Increases the MAX HP by 40% and reduces the incoming damage by 30%


So Zibroi gained 40% HP.


Hence, there is no adamant reasons to recall zibroi, by the look of the skill changes.

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So, dont recall Zibroi?


Although there is no need to recall zibroi based on the skill buff/nerfs, there are few other factors to consider.

• PvP
  
  Ever since PvP heal nerf was implemented, zibroi was almost never used for PvP ever.
  
  He has been mainly used for PvE content since.
  
  Hence, this HP buff and change in PvP meta, has sorta revived him in PvP.
  
  More and more people are using him in PvP against the William meta.
  
  So, now the question is, do you want to keep Zibroi for a PvP GK against William?
  
  
• CoD
  
  Zibroi has been one of the top GK for CoD since a long time.
  
  He has unconditional damage reduction unlike Isillia, decent damage reduction.
  
  However, his lack of critical resistance requires certain components in the backline to help him survive from critical hits.
  
  This limits him to certain formation, which impedes him to be used for CoD score run formations;
  
  In which he might die from taking too much critical hits.
  
  For these score run formations, Lucian & Isillia inherent critical resistance place them in better positions.
  
  
• CoT
  
  Mono elemental matches; 
  
  The best dark goalkeeper is Zibroi undoubtedly. 
  
  Hence, there is definitely a reason to keep him for future, tougher mono elemental CoT matches.
  

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Who should recall Zibroi ?

If you are a new player, with only zibroi as goalkeeper, it might be better to recall him and switch to a better GK like Lucian.

If you are struggling with PvP using zibroi, you might want to switch to a better GK like Lucian.

If you are struggling with PvE CoD with zibroi, you can recall and use his sho-sho on a GK more suited for you.

If you have a s2 player urgently in need for superbs, you can always recall Zibroi for sho-sho to be used on s2 players and scout Zibroi again.

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Who should keep Zibroi?

If you are an endgame player with >2 goalkeepers fspu +160, then its good to keep the best goalkeeper for each element

They can be used for CoT matches, PvP etc. to swap around against different strikers