Anchors are as useful, actually. To slow down that sanik teams with Alpina, Orchid Wylder and Edelveiss evolved XD

Kinda works opposite for me. I'm using Oncidium so Strawberry and Lavender aren't lagging behind like crazy (Canola and Dendrobium balance the team out).

Originally Posted by ZeroZet

Anchors are as useful, actually. To slow down that sanik teams with Alpina, Orchid Wylder and Edelveiss evolved XD

Well, that's taking my point from the other end lol. Ultimately, depends on if your 4+*s are fast or slow. The three you listed combined can make for a VERY fast team (which on some maps end up being the boss and ending map too soon and you miss some pests).

TLDR: If you're going to raise 2/3*s seriously, focus on ones with extremely high or low speed and use them to balance/unbalance your 4+* teams' speeds to make sure u hit all pests on map.

I started playing this right when the Moonvine event begun, that's around 52 days ago and i upgraded the 2* girls, i already have maxed out all of them and i can say the investment was worthy, they allow me to clear Ultimate maps, i can't say with ease but with some planning and strategy i have cleared many Ultimate maps with 3 stars

I'm currently working on the Copper units and i'm planning to max out all of them too, i will recomend to lv up your girls equally, if you concentrate all your efforts on a few of them you will eventually run into a situation where the enemies are to many and stronger than your squads, it's better to have squads with all the members at lv 40+ than a squad with 1 single unit of lv 50+ and the rest with lv 20-30, also try to keep all your squads with similar speeds, when you need one or two speedy squads you can switch girls form squad to squad to get the speed you need for a certain map

Here's my Squads:

I keep Di Yu because she was my first unit and had max affection from the start and those affection bonuses helps her a lot even when she is just lv 31, she will stay in the squad until i max out another Copper girl, i'm not saying Silver or Gold girls aren't that great, they are awesome, specially with their powerfull skills which gives stats boost, but if you don't have to many of them you shouldn't be afraid to invest on the lower rarity girls, they can fight too

Pretty much what Kyosuke said, focus on all your teams equally, and when you reach a point when all your teams can handle difficult maps (with this i mean killing a few pests of ?-8 without getting rekt) then you can power up your helper squad, atm these are my squads



Now they are pretty balanced, but a while ago my helper squad was too far strong from my other squads, and i was strugling with event maps cause my other squads where so damn weak, so improve all your teams equally and you will see the magic

I can't agree with simply focusing on all your teams equally. Focus on your helper team first, THEN focus on whatever you want. Unless you have prior arrangements, people you want as helpers aren't going to want you as an ally unless you can help them as well. Two really strong teams (one of them a helper) are going to be enough to get you through a large majority of the maps. For those maps that require a more balanced approach you can split up your helper team to shore up the weaker teams.

Regarding 3* girls specifically, they're not BAD, but their ability to equip four items isn't really a selling point if the higher star girls beat their stats with one equip. Level all of the ones in your teams some, but save evolution for your favorites (doesn't really matter too much which ones). That way you won't have wasted leveling/evolution on girls who will be replaced every two weeks with event girls. I've still got two evolved (but not maxed) 3* girls hanging onto my weakest team by their fingernails (and several 4*s who never did make any teams, so as I said, they're not BAD), but after I get the next event girl at least one of them will be dumped.

To be honest, Flower Knight Girl isn't all that difficult and the phase where you have to worry about stuff like this doesn't last too long. As long as you keep playing regularly, soon enough all your teams will be strong enough without really having to focus your efforts anywhere.

Depends on your objectives, I suppose. For simply clearing maps and try to spawn SGs, having one high-powered team will get you farther than splitting your best units amongst the 4. Also, unless I'm mistaken, your friends' helper teams get scaled down (maybe up if they're lower level?) to your best girl so having at least 1 high level girl you've raised a lot should help. Many maps can be cleared (not 3-medal'd but just cleared) with just 1 team + helper, then you spawn SGs, get the manyus from there and raise your weaker girls. This is, if I'm not mistaken, the "suggested powerleveling" route, but like the above unregistered poster said, as long as you play regularly, the phase where your teams are weak enough you have to worry about being able to clear content won't last that long.

That said, in general, your 2/3*s are going to be replaced before too long, as you'll get event 5*s, 4*s here and there from normal gacha and if you spend the FGs you save up you might get a few good premium units as well, so as I said before, unless you're using 2/3*s with extremely high/low speed to adjust your teams' speeds to meet map requirements, I wouldn't worry about raising them too much (in particular the 2*s who even with 4 equip slots and skill level 5 get outclassed REAL QUICK by the 4/5*s, especially if you do well enough in events to get at least a 3 equip, skill level 4 event 5* every 2 weeks.