This is pretty much my general quest squad.

Team 1 focuses on Solar Blast damage, 2nd for obligatory chocolate nodes and decent buff, 3rd for pest raid and 4th for 1st turn combo.

Team 1 is a skill spam team with Iris for damage bonus and Gerbera for her attack boost due to skill spam.
Team 2 is my counter team. Star Lily and Southern Cross are here for defense bonus.
Team 3 focuses on Solar Blast and Shine Crystal drop. I hope I can replace Casablancaby Convalaria or German Iris one day.
Team 4 is just a high damage team with Kerria as the main damage source. The others are here for more attack boost. St Paulia is here because first waifu.

Well, I certainly miss something but I can't post any pictures or links here .

The ideal counter squad would not only have lots of counter girls, but also Enemy Attack Down girls like Bride Oncidium and Cherry Sage (Counter damage is based off girls' Attack and Defense stat, so less enemy damage means they'll live longer and counter more). Enemy strength in story maps grows faster than girls' Defense can mitigate, so Enemy Attack Down does a lot to help survival and survival = more counter opportunities.

It's true. But unfortunately I have not these girls. In the same logic, Southern Cross is bad in a counter team since her skill decrease the skill boss rate aka multiple counter chance. But I have nothing more with a defense buff :/

Originally Posted by maotd

It's true. But unfortunately I have not these girls. In the same logic, Southern Cross is bad in a counter team since her skill decrease the skill boss rate aka multiple counter chance. But I have nothing more with a defense buff :/

Very true, we just have to do with what we have available. That said, Southern Cross isn't really a bad choice. She does have a Defense Buff, and she is very useful against bosses who have a single target attack for their special. Given a choice between a "normal" attack against your girls or a single target special attack, I'd gladly take the normal attack. It's just the AOE bosses for which she isn't ideal. Not ideal, but certainly not bad either.

Below are the 5* units i have at the moment

For my helper squad i mostly used my favorite waifu candidates^^ ( something like choco, japanese iris, gardenia, night phlox and strawberry candle)
Would be curious to hear which helper squad u'd choose for near future (my maxed units and nearly maxed units) and in general.

At the moment my team is just sorted in a way that the squads have kinda the same speed.
If I'd have to choose a team comp of all my units it would be probably something like this

1) pest control squad. Strawberry hasn't a special meaning here - simply wanted to have her in the team but i'd rather have units with solar dmg in 2) since her crystal drop rate works as well for the other team even if she isn't in the specific squad
2) solar blast squad
3) not sure here. the idea is a evasion squad but i wasn't sure for the last two spots so I simply put the counter girls there
4) attack buff squad. Night Phlox is here instead of 2) since she has an attack buff as well as a skill with life steal which harmonizes with attack buffs

Not sure though if the benched knights are the ones who should be benched

(oh and yea i have convallaria twice since she was my first dupe and I thought back then it would be smarter to level her :P)