Here I am. You probably not know me, or perhaps remember that one post of a guy pulling for ArcLance and insta upgrading him to lv200 5/5. If you remember that, yes, that was me .
Going to the point. Drayton is the new Special AoE Dragon Unit. A role that was being filled until now with really outdated pairs, which made the Special side of the Dragon Tower pretty annoying/hard. Even more because with NY Lana Dragon has a really strong general Support and between Ani6 Red, Hassel EX Zone and Arc Lance Rebuffs + both Special and Physical Dmg the rest of the Tower was pretty solvable.
So, how good is he? Is Drayton It?
He is simply good and easily much better than the pairs he comes to finally replace. But, If Im being honest, not as strong as his partners.
He is really clunky. At least if you try to maximize his tools. His kit is almost a brick.
He has a circle and in 3/5 S-Move 9!!! If there is a circle active, so you would think you want to save at least 1 MP for later on a Nuke… but the circle gets placed by itself if you use your tera blast.
Okey so don’t use Tera Blast early, right?
Problem: His buddy move can only be used if you used another move first. So you MUST intercalate it.
This move also by itself has 2 uses (4 actually because his Tera Blast also gives an extra use for every Circle you place with it) and deals 50%! more to paralyzed targets while dropping 2Sp.Def. So at least your 4th buddy move is against full debuff enemies if you only use this (Spoiler. You wont, It’s too slow) So you gotta burn those circles for this move, while having the option to use It for either stat drops or potential AoE Nuke.
So? Just Spam his trainer move or Paralyze.
Problem: Paralyze is, for some reason, how he applies Special Break. (On Its first use) So you would technically want to Paralyze the enemy later on, for that Buddy Move Nuke or Sync Nuke. But this goes back to the rest of the set.
Oh and his trainer move is a single use set up because It gives Endurance and Special Move Next 5!
Nothing. And I mean NOTHING on his kit wants to go first. Buddy move is locked, Tera Blast burns circle’s MPs, using Circle by itself doesn’t refund Buddy’s MP, Thunderwave wants to be used later for a Nuke.
This all together makes a really clunky kit. Or at least if you wish to use all at Its maximum.
Other teammates that can speed through Sync buffs would help him, and further investment too.
As a Tech unit he really wants 3/5 at minimum ofc, but Drayton has locked in 4/5 both Team Moves 2 and Team S-Moves 3, and in 5/5 and extra use of his circle. All this is really good, specially the extra circle, but Idk if worth the candies.
The Video itself:
As you can see in the video, I simply choose to ignore Special Break. The entire rest of the sync pair is strong enough to not need It. I used F29 because F28 is weak to Dragon so I don’t think is fair. (I didn’t bother with F30 because I just unlocked It lol)
My ArcLance is 5/5 but It barely made a difference because 1 Extra rebuff is pretty meh, NY Lana meanwhile is not even 3/5 and is not even caked (No field on Sync lol nor 30% S-Move to the team with Grid) so this team could be much better.
TL;DR: Worth the placement as the strongest Special AoE Dragon Unit. Not as strong as the other Top 4 Dragon units but still good enough for the special side of Tower. But clunky af to use at Its maximum, Special Break is a wasted debuff on his status move.