Quote Originally Posted by IvanLedah21 View Post
Fair enough except... when are you EVER going to throw down ANY archer and leave her vulnerable to targeted fire? My point is killing liches quickly is generally more vital than killing enemy archers since archers are easier to tank than liches unless you have certain units like Sophie, most of whom are black rarity and therefore not commonly owned. Also, do liches have high defense? Otherwise I don't see an issue with killing them with archers (unless you have an AW VH lol). Any physical ranged unit should do as long as they're protected from attacks by tanks/lightning rods and if you're not lucky enough to have a high-quality lightning rod you're going to need to do swapping and having Victoria focus on the lich means it dies sooner, therefore fewer lightning rod swaps needed.

Also, I acknowledged in my recommendation post that TC doesn't have Bernice, the reason I brought her up is to show that there are plenty of units that can tank archers that aren't rare summons, while the units that can tank liches are much rarer and most of them are Plat or Black.


Now to be fair, I have a lot of premium units so this isn't an issue I've had to deal with, so my theoretical statements here could be inaccurate in practice. I'm talking how it looks on paper.
A lot of G maps (maybe some X maps too) have early goblin archers, and thus you don't have the luxury to drop an expensive tank early, especially if you need to save them for something bigger later in the map.

That mostly applies to blind runs though. Still, if you know a lich is on that map, then naturally you'll put ranged units down first, and that sometimes means putting the archers in the line of fire alone until you're ready to bring out the healers/tanks. AW Bashira just circumvents the need for an early melee tank.