Originally Posted by Drip

There is one more combo for Defense buffs: some girls have a passive skill that reduce a pests ATK. So combine those two buffs, and making your squad near untouchable becomes a little closer in reach.

Good point, "Enemy Skill/Attack Down" (girls like Southern Cross or Cherry Sage) would be even better than Defense buffs on high-end maps (less counter damage but a LOT less damage taken so more chances to counter)

Hey, can someone give me tips on how to improve my squads with this lineup? Just auto sorted after total power for now since the beginning.
5* Girls

4*Girls

Originally Posted by kaiser

Hey, can someone give me tips on how to improve my squads with this lineup? Just auto sorted after total power for now since the beginning.
5* Girls

4*Girls

Hard to say, since it depends a lot on the maps you generally play. But, I'd definitely move Dipladenia to either your helper squad (makes it very useful for others)
or
move Dipladenia to your second squad while putting Orchid in your first squad instead (more flexible to you in case of webs behind switchnodes)

The second option is a bit more complicated, but in that case, you'd want the first squad to be (slightly) faster than the second, and the second squad (slightly) faster than the rest of your squads.
If the first squad to hit the switchnode runs into webs, then you put your first squad at a different tent, so the second squad (Dipladenia's) is sure to pass through the webs.
If the second squad to hit the switchnode runs into webs, then you can put squad 1 and 2 in the same tent leading there, causing Dipladenia's squad to pass through the webs without loss of speed. Just be careful that sometimes webs are actually beneficial.

For the rest.. Put your favourite girl as leader for team 1, don't go mono-color on any team, try to keep your first team relatively more powerful than your other teams, because
1) it's the team that tends to run into most pests and bosses (price of running ahead of the rest)
2) it's your helper team, and some players might drop you from their friendslist if it's too weak to be of any help to them

The first and easy thing to do is to sort through them by basic, matching/similar abilities. That'll Team Synergy 101. The 4* Knights will follow the same pattern as the 5*.

+Atk% ~ Canna, Peach, Setaria
+Def% ~ Bipinna Cosmos, Southern Cross, Waterlily
Nest Panel ~ Japanese Iris, Gentian
Solar Power ~ Calla, Lavender, German Iris

Camellia ~ +Atk/Def%
Orchid ~ +Atk%, Nest Panel, Speed as needed
Dipladenia ~ Nest Panel, Speed as needed
Lilac ~ +Atk%, Speed as needed

Another option is to disperse your +Def% abilities across the squads, as its efficiency drops off as the Pests' Attack rises. Also having dodge units myself, like Waterlily and Ionocidium, you can stack some together to capitalize on survival, so [Setaria, Waterlily & Southern Cross] is another thing to consider.

Originally Posted by kaiser

Hey, can someone give me tips on how to improve my squads with this lineup? Just auto sorted after total power for now since the beginning.
5* Girls

4*Girls

For your Helper Squad:

Japanese Iris + Edelweiss (she arrives soon anyway) for the famous Pest Heal Combo
Orchid for Speed and Atk Buff
Camellia for Atk Buff and Def Buff (also has a Bloomed Form later on)

For the last Slot you have different options:

1. Lavender (She is a solid 5* with good stats, has Bloomed Form later on but she lowers your overall Speed quite a bit)
2. Peach (also has solid stats and buffs Atk)
3. Dipladenia (for disabling Web Nodes and an extremely fast Team together with Orchid and Edelweiss, has Bloomed Form too)

For your other 3 Teams i would advise you to make specific Teams.

A few examples:

1. A Team based around Solar Blast Damage / increased Life Crystal Drop etc.
2. A Team which contains Girls buffing each others Atk Stat.
3. A Team based on Defense Stacking (Bipinna, Southern Cross, Water Lily etc.)

thanks for all the tips, i'll try to look over my squad as time permits.

Using a variety of girls from events, gacha, and several 6* guaranteed offers, this is what My Set 1 ended up like:



I don't see myself changing it much anymore, each squad synergizes pretty well with itself.
The only girl left on my wishlist would be Anemone, she'd fit perfectly in team 3 to replace Strawberry Candle, who I'd move to team 2 to replace Chocolate Cosmos. That would turn team 3 into a pretty badass counter-squad, and team 2 in an alternative Solar Squad.

I have Peach, who I could put into such a Solar Squad as well, but I find her voice terribly annoying, so I removed her from the roster. Dawgwud and Leucocoryne would benefit from the increased amount of solar blasts regardless of what team they're in, so they're fine where they are now.

Originally Posted by Drip

Using a variety of girls from events, gacha, and several 6* guaranteed offers, this is what My Set 1 ended up like:



I don't see myself changing it much anymore, each squad synergizes pretty well with itself.
The only girl left on my wishlist would be Anemone, she'd fit perfectly in team 3 to replace Strawberry Candle, who I'd move to team 2 to replace Chocolate Cosmos. That would turn team 3 into a pretty badass counter-squad, and team 2 in an alternative Solar Squad.

I have Peach, who I could put into such a Solar Squad as well, but I find her voice terribly annoying, so I removed her from the roster. Dawgwud and Leucocoryne would benefit from the increased amount of solar blasts regardless of what team they're in, so they're fine where they are now.

We are in the same boat...except i have much more Leveling to do than you (I removed my evolved Solar Blast Team from the roster...including Lavender)

For the first time since i started playing i am satisfied with my Girls:



I have got enough Manyus for Edelweiss to raise her Level to Lvl 50 (Evolved) after i acquired the necessary Bloom Dragons.
Primrose and Apple need some serious Training though...And maybe i can swap Mountain Lily out if i get something good from the guaranteed 5* Tickets next week or i have to wait for her Revival Event...

Justicia would be n1 though...

Originally Posted by Wutan

We are in the same boat...except i have much more Leveling to do than you (I removed my evolved Solar Blast Team from the roster...including Lavender)

For the first time since i started playing i am satisfied with my Girls:



I have got enough Manyus for Edelweiss to raise her Level to Lvl 50 (Evolved) after i acquired the necessary Bloom Dragons.
Primrose and Apple need some serious Training though...And maybe i can swap Mountain Lily out if i get something good from the guaranteed 5* Tickets next week or i have to wait for her Revival Event...

Justicia would be n1 though...

Last week, I figured I was more or less at the stage where spending 1-2 Flower Gems on the Manyu daily was actually a good investment (my stamina is over 360 now, so that makes 4.5 manyu runs for 1 FG). Barely a week and a half ago, the levels on my roster looked just like yours: squad 1 all lvl 70, but the other squads between lvl 13 (that was Black Baccara) and level 60.

I'm starting to worry now where to spend some of my Manyus. Especially the blue ones, since Cyrtanthus is almost lvl 70 as well. I guess I'll just start leveling girls for the nation battles. Plenty 1-4* and also some 5* left to train, even if I hardly use them.

Originally Posted by Drip

Last week, I figured I was more or less at the stage where spending 1-2 Flower Gems on the Manyu daily was actually a good investment (my stamina is over 360 now, so that makes 4.5 manyu runs for 1 FG). Barely a week and a half ago, the levels on my roster looked just like yours: squad 1 all lvl 70, but the other squads between lvl 13 (that was Black Baccara) and level 60.

I'm starting to worry now where to spend some of my Manyus. Especially the blue ones, since Cyrtanthus is almost lvl 70 as well. I guess I'll just start leveling girls for the nation battles. Plenty 1-4* and also some 5* left to train, even if I hardly use them.

Yeah i also consider using FGs on the Manyu daily.

The next Girl i desperately want is Maple and she doesn't arrive before January / February 2017 and i have stored 6000 Nutaku Gold for her anyway.

I also have to Level a lot of Girls for Nation Battles: Rose, Gentian, Canna, Iris, Scarlet Tulip, Rubellum, Bipinna etc.