Quote Originally Posted by thatoneguyfromwork View Post
Going to ask here since I feel kind of lost on who to focus on leveling since it's such a difficult thing in this game.

I know from reading on here that my 4 Star SR girls are going to outclass my 0 zero star UR and even my 1 star SSR. So the first SR girl I got I started feeding exp cards and training her like there is no tommorrow, got her to 55. Honda Tadakatsu, I upgraded her from Ninja to Veteran Ninja and gave her my 1 star SSR gear to make her as strong as possible. Now...the problem I'm having is she performs about on par with my 1 Star SSR maxed out, Toyotomi Hideyoshi with weaker gear.

So I feel like I screwed up in picking Honda to max out just because she was my first 4 star SR. I have since got more SR 4 stars; Mori Ranmaru, Imagawa Yoshimoto, Shimazu Iehisa, Ishida Mitsunari and Mori Terumoto.

Since I finished Honda I'm moving on to one of these girls. Which is best or should I hold on for a even better SR?

Looking at them, even though I know I don't have a good graps on stats and battle in this game. It seems to me that Shimazu Iehisa going to be my next focus. Please, let me know if there is a better option of what I put or if I should just wait for key girls to get 4 starred.
While I do not consider myself an expert, I managed to get past the sr part of the game fairly quickly. The 4 star generals only outperform strong ssr or ur generals when you can give them really powerful gear that can not be equipped at lower levels. If you are using gear that is equippable by lvl 35 or 40's the ssr or ur will be generally stronger if they are powerful ones, since their skills increase their dmg by a lot more. This is especially true with tiger of kai, and sanada yukitaka and master strategist. Both of those generals do more dmg than any sr even if they r at lvl 55 and they are 35. I personally only leveled up generals in sr that had either regen like Naoe and sr nene or attack increase skills that I could inherit once I was able to. Using the very limited experience cards on generals with trash skills like Mori is going to slow your advance down greatly. I had more success using a bunch of 2 or 3 star ssr generals until I managed to get gear that was not equippable by them. The honda is a decent general to have leveled since it has the +defence and offense skill to inherit until you get to better generals. I found that regen is one of the most useful things early on in the game and allowed me to clear things much stronger than should have been possible, and takenaka is especially useful for pushing against units that should wipe you out by surviving being destroyed multiple rounds sometimes. Even a 0 star takenaka can make a better tank than most other generals until you get to better gear simply because he is hard to put down if u put him in the strongest lane of the enemy attack.