Quote Originally Posted by IvanLedah21 View Post
You wouldn't AW a Valkyrie just because you want a Valkyrie, you'd AW her because you want the:
1) early UP ramp that's "free" (100% UP refund on withdrawal when AW)
2) decent lightning rod (Valkyries have MR)
3) decent duelist (Valkyries are a poor-man's princess against physical units and better damage against mages due to those enemies have MR to reduce princess' magic damage)

The first note is in particular the reason you'd use Valkyries at all if you have a Princess above Themis. If not, Valkyries can fill in for them as per note 3. For note 2, the only other option readily available (read: not premium summon-based) is bandits (higher HP, no MR) unless you got Claudia during her event (if you have Karma you've been playing long enough to likely have a plethora of options if you didn't take a break)
I'm still rather new so have missed most of the flashey event units, still have a good team base that I don't really need valks to stand in as a duelist. Though I still use valks from time to time and I guess they become most useful during subjugation type events.

So I would mainly be using the likes of Kerry and Emilia for option one and possibly two if need be, I do have other more powerful stand ins.