Hi Everyone!

I would first like to say thank you to everyone who supported Noppy both in the design competition held back in 2019 and even today. Noppy wouldnt have made it into the game without your support and i am very grateful to be part of the game's history.

So for those who are wondering, yes Gumi did gift me with 4 copies of Noppy and shards enough to EX 3 her and I was immediately thrilled to build her and use her as part of my team. I did save a bunch of resources from way back when and managed to fully door, pot and enhanced all her abilities. Unfortunately since returning to the game after my year long hiatus I wasn't able to go for her Firion doublehand sword build and have to make do with her STMR greatsword build. I did spend one of my precious STMR moogles on Lightning's STMR so i can get the 5x chaining cap. (why doesn't she have this innately as a chainer is beyond me) But otherwise she hits really hard after her LB and i've been enjoying it immensely.

So far, I'm really enjoying using her in the latest boss event (shoutout to Auhlsotho's creator). I'm currently pairing Noppy in a team with Ed & Al, Melia and Vinera, all 3 are able T-SR with her and am having alot of fun clearing the content i missed out on for the past year (cough I haven't started season 3 cough)

SKILLSET

In terms of Noppy's kit and overall place in the Meta I can't say I'm the most knowledgeable person but I am somewhat bummed that She is released with some weird flaws in her kit, primarily her tanking capabilities seem to be on the weaker side and might not be reliable due to its short effective duration and her abysmal tank stats. I'm however happy with her chaining capabilities given that it matches up with most of my most-used units. I definitely love that she got a few utility moves that i can forsee being useful, being her copy buff-steal thingy, aoe steal (gonna spam this for story stages), defensive buffs and libra with mirage skills. Interestingly enough they actually kept two of the 3 skills I designed which were her aoe steal (15x even, which was alot back in the day) and her triplecasting skill. In terms of element, I did feel she would be light or maybe fire element (keeping to the holy knight theme), so earth was really a surprise for me, but it didnt bother me as much in the end.

In terms of passives I'm generally happy with what they gave her, TSW instead of TDH is a plus although i still find myself using a 2H weapon, my biggest gripe as mentioned earlier is that I'm a little disappointed that increase chain cap modifier is not given to her which i feel is so important for a DPS chainer. Nevertheless with Lightning's STMR she still does alot so its not the end of the world:)

I dont have much to say about the vision card in terms of stats. It works well for her designed build. It would be better if it were not locked to greatswords (to open up different builds) but there are other cards for that so I'm not too upset about it.

DESIGN

I have 0 complaints with her base form design and I love her animations alot. If I absolutely have to state one thing I wish they added, was her damaged pom pom which I feel gives her a more unique identity and sheds abit of light into why she behaves the way she does. I loved the little movement nuances like how her visor flops over her eyes when she swings her weapon or straight up face planting when she attacks really helps bring out her character and I feel the animation team did an amazing job.

I'm a little less sold on her brave shift form. It still looks great and cool that they kept to her knightly theme and gave her shininess a nice saint seiya style upgrade. But overall I did feel it took away from her clumsy cute charm. If anything I was a little sad because I soon realised if I wanted to use Noppy I have to use her in her BS form to have access to her offensive kit. (which was the form I did not design)

Her vision card however is GORGEOUS and I love it alot. It is very close to what I have thought Noppy's room might have looked like - with full on posters of heroes (her idols), her comic books, cosplay making tools etc. The animation of her going from sewing her skirt to posing with her sword to reading her manga is really adorable too and I would highly recommend those of you who have her vision card to spend a couple seconds watching it :)

FINAL THOUGHTS

Overall I'm very happy to see Noppy introduced into the game, and its very much thanks to you guys and to the FFBE team. She's strong in the current meta while not being top tier. Would I have preferred if she was at least as strong as Zidane? Of course I would, but its not the end of the world if she wasn't either. I understand FFBE tends to buff older units much further down the line (though not always guaranteed), I'll be using Noppy for as long as I can and remain hopeful in the future should she get any buffs. I'm super happy should anyone of you decide to pick her up in the current banner and hope you have fun using her as much as I did. But if you choose to save your resources for a certain white haired, one winged pretty boy, I totally understand that sentiment as well.

Cheers!