YMMV / Brave Frontier

• Abandon Shipping: A former Foe Yay Shipping example are Farlon and Ramna, who were lovers before the latter's betrayal. This ended when Farlon's 7-Stars lore reveals he accidentally killed her in the end.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is the Summoner (You) truly a God-Mode Sue, or do your companions just blow out your reputation to save their own?
  • Sodis: Is he a Christ-like figure whose sacrifice was necessary for humanity's survival, or a very flawed human whose Stupid Sacrifice only made everything worse?
  • The Unit Guide, Grand Gaia Chronicles Spin-Off manga, and the fandom cannot seem to decide whether Alyut was reluctant, angry, confused, overjoyed, or feeling all of them when he got promoted to being the Twelve Guardians' leader after Sodis' defection.
  • Lugina: Were his Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy tendencies genuine, or were they just a cover so that nobody would ever find out about his true identity and allegiance? The main story and his Grand Quest suggests that it's the former, but Bertz has more than once implied that it's the latter.
  • The Bariura Emperor: Does his journey to Vilanciel for slaying the ultimate weapon is for saving his people from God War or he just doesn't care about them at all.
• Americans Hate Tingle:
  • Global Server players don't like Thunderbird and Eric much, mostly because of their Brave Bursts attacking random targets. Even after Thunderbird's 6-Stars form gave it an Area of Effect Super Brave Burst, the hatred still stuck. In Japan? They're still considered low-tier, but not as the butts of cruel jokes. Eric is even loved by Yaoi Fangirls due to his Ho Yay-tastic story and Bishōnen appearance.
  • Farlon is noticeably more hated in the Global Server fandom because some find him killing off a portion of his own team completely unforgivable, especially when it all started from him trying to murder Sodis in revenge for his defeat. He's more a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds amongst Japanese Server players because after accidentally killing his girlfriend (Ramna), killing off the rest was his Despair Event Horizon moment. In addition to killing off Ramna, he angrily beheaded a little girl (Luly), slew a friend who protected another (Rina) and Mutual Killed a guy who wanted to stop him (Grybe). Oh, and he also blinded Signas in one eye.
  • The European version of the game. It became the source of hate and ridicule for both Global and Japanese players due to it changing a lot of the game's overall mechanics and gameplay on top of having different terms of execution, making it far worse than the other servers. Changes include the Mirror World gimmick and increased difficulty in Vortex Dungeons, which are comparable to insanely hard Trials.
    • European-exclusive units also became the source of hate and ridicule for the other servers since their release. Some of the worst offenders include Arthur (mostly due to his ability to doublecast Brave Bursts, which is outright game-breaking), Gazolina (converts REC into Shield ala Tridon), and some of the units in the new Zodiac batch (The worst offenders being Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Capricorn, Scorpio and Leo. Which, respectively, are copy-and-paste versions of Michelle, Elimo, Shera, Elza, Zelnite and Sefia).
• Angel/Devil Shipping: Griel and Bordebegia, with the former having once been the Judge of the Gods and the latter being the Beast of Destruction. It helps that the latter also sacrificed itself to protect the former.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Most bosses can be easily beaten when you know their attack patterns, or when you happen to have extremely strong units in your squad.
• Awesome Music: Brave Frontier is chock full of them. Case in point:
  • Warrior's Will, the song that plays during the Final Boss battle in the Grand Gaia Chronicles Quests.
  • Flash of Light, the Normal Battle music played during Raid Battles.
  • Imperial Capital Randall, the theme that plays in Randall and during certain cutscenes.
  • Promise, a piano remix of Imperial Capital Randall and plays during the cutscene after Lucius's defeat. It's very touching to hear, especially because Tilith chooses to relinquish her freedom in order to maintain control of the gate to Ishgria.
  • Home, another remix of the imperial capital theme.
  • Roaring Soul, The music from Strategy Zone trials.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • The entirety of the Soul Bound Saga units. Some praise them for their unique design, in both artwork and their battle effects, and their Rare Summon (Summon 10 times, get 1 guaranteed SBS unit) rate up model was praised for it's consistency of how they could be acquired by players. Others hated them for being considered a cash grab; the fact that you wouldn't be able to evolve them without their limited time Vortex material, how they tend to look, or be actually overpowered (mostly focusing on Ultor, Tridon and Hadaron) made it worse. Plus, their release timing looking like a form of Author's Saving Throw does not help. The limited evolution material issue however has since been fixed, as the Soul Bound Saga dungeons are now available every Thursday in the Vortex.
  • Just about everything regarding Zeruiah. From her somewhat game-breaking Super Brave Burst that some people have said rendered Zelnite and Shida's 7-Stars upgrades outclassed before release, to her limited time availability, to her entire existence hindering the previous Winter Glades Blitz units from getting their 7-Stars forms, and so on. What also doesn't really help that much is that she got an Omni Evolution too.
    • The reveal of the third-place winner of the Japanese Server's Omni Evolution Poll (Elza) quickly divided the fans into those who were happy for the result, and those who thought the third-place winner already had too much attention placed into her.
  • The 12 Guardians are considered this to many fans of Brave Frontier. Many people are split between them should getting a 7 Stars or not. Some of them support the idea of them getting an 7-Stars evolution due to their story is one of the main story in the game, Others were kind of sick and tired to see them getting an OE due to how lackluster/niches some of their skillsets are and it prevents some of their favorite units to get an OE in favor of the 12 Guardians itself.
• Better Off Sold:
  • If it's too expensive to use them for fusion, the crystals can be sold for high amount of Zel; their prices are in-between of that of Jewel God and Golden God.
  • It's not a good idea to use the Jewel Gods in battle, but a very good idea to sell them for extra cash.
  • Trial EX 3: Xie'Jing is mainly praised for the challenge and difficulty that many hadn't faced since Trial 003: Maxwell, as well as being Global-exclusive content that is also worthwhile experience. Her Trial itself also contains interesting gimmicks, such as the Bozdells' "Anarchic Detonations" (skills with the same name but with different effects), and that in order to cancel her "Depraved Punishment" attack, you have to kill Fei in that turn. Xie'Jing herself is also a very powerful unit that rivals other 7-Stars units. On the other hand, many would have to face the Trial's RNG of her "Blighted Harvest" attack, which is the main downer of it.
  • The fact that the Global Server got Avant's batch before Adel's batch. Was it a blatant cash grab for the game's Second Anniversary, or a smart move considering the niche uses of Adel's batch?
  • Challenge Arena: A fresh, new feature that gives something to do for players who have cleared all the current content, or a frustrating grind-fest? Also, is the Opponent First Strike rule as well as the number of units on your squad decreasing your total points earned really necessary?
  • The fact that the selections for Legacy Units who get Power Creep upgrades are equalled to Pandering to the Base. Parts of the fandom who like the less-loved units are not amused about the Ensemble Darkhorses that keeps getting all the attention. More notorious examples of this include:
    • The Global-exclusive Omni Evolution Poll, of which purpose is to just gather interest, quickly devolved into a voting war between the fans of Nyami, Zeruiah and Zenia because those fans thought the units they voted for will surely get their Omni Evolution form later. They did. And with Zenia winning first place, the fandom broke even further.
    • Interestingly, there's one case where the fanbase broke out because this rule was averted. Kira and Feeva, Darkhorses extraordinaire who were placed quite high in the Japanese Omni Evolution Poll, were put aside in favor of their batchmates Kanon and Tazer. And to add more salt into the wounds, it was subverted two months later as Kira and Feeva get their Omni Evolution anyway.
  • The announcement of Brave Frontier II as a separate game completely detached from Brave Frontier managed to break the fanbases of both the Global and Japanese Servers, to the point that the game's producer had to calm down everyone.
• Cargo Ship:
  • Lance x Drevas, at least until Drevas' humanoid form as a unit was revealed.
  • Darvanshel x Shield. It doesn't help that one of his shields is named after his wife.
  • Karl x Antidote Bottle. Karl must really, really cherish that Antidote you made for him.
  • Ophelia x Diary
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome:
  • In Colosseum, expect Selena to appear in nearly every single squad you face, no matter what Phase be it Offensive or Defensive. She has an Angel Idol buff AND extra Hit Count through her Extra Skill provided you equip her with Lexida. Also, with the right Enhancement options, she can get a built-in Immunity towards Status Ailments on top of great BC Production, further increasing her usefulness. Finally, she's a free unit.
  • In Colosseum again, other units that have the capability to withstand attacks that would normally kill them are also commonly used in both Phases as well. Notorious examples include, but are not limited to: Ilm, Chloe, Erza, Xenon, every single one of the Vortex Arena units, and many more.
  • In battles that require survivability (such as GGCs, Trials, Strategy Zones, Frontier Rifts, and Guild Raid), units such as Elaina who have unconditional elemental mitigation along with high stats and BB/healing on hit are extremely useful. As of 2018, however, there aren't any go-to Leader units since most content is now based around element-specific teams, not to mention the different units to pick if you want to nuke or tank content.
  • Frontier Hunter farming teams nowadays have a variety of units to use, but the most infamous is Snow Priestess Miku. Her Leader Skill alone boost Spark and elemental damage, breaks the attack limit, and can raise units' attack by a whopping 120%. Her BB can clear status, fills the Overdrive gauge extremely quickly due to it's 10% boost, and boosts everyone's BB gauge by a massive amount simply by guarding every turn.
  • For a while, Zeis was regarded as essentially required to reach the highest tiers of Frontier Hunter scores, due to the fact that not only did her Leader Skill and kit do an exceptional amount of damage, the existence of fire nukers such as Rugahr and later Blaze and Natsu meant that no other team could match their damage output.
• Crack Pairing:
  • Douglas x Serin: Despite having no interaction in their lores at all, they were paired off sometimes due to their virtues of being formerly Spark King and Queen.
  • Same with Zelnite x Elza, which became popular due to both of them being the staples of BB Spam squads, and being the prime targets of Pandering to the Base.
  • Vanberk x Bargus, due to them being both DILF and (unfortunately) the least wanted units of their batch.
  • Thunderbird x Eric, for them being Low Tier Letdowns, mostly in the Global Server fandom.
• Demonic Spiders: If you don't have a unit that can dispel and/or nullify Status Ailments or the proper Items that can get rid of said ailments, any boss or enemy unit that can Paralyze or Curse (or both) can become this.
  • A particularly nasty example of this was the "Frosty" enemy during the 2014 Christmas Event, who appeared in groups and would hit your entire squad with an attack that had a chance to Paralyze them - and if it managed to Paralyze every one of your units, you'll lose the ability to use healing Items and basically become unable to fight back.
• Die for Our Ship:
  • Lunaris is either ignored or paired with Rina by those who ship Sodis and Alyut with each other or with Zephyr and Raydn.
  • Bertz is hated by those who ship Seria with either Lugina or Karl, all because of the things he said in Zamburg.
  • Many Kalon x Ilia shippers wish Ark to die because Ilia is "too good for him". Never mind that Kalon is dead and both Ark and Ilia are dying anyway.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Due to recent reveals, some players have been treating Melchio this way. Poor Melchio just misses its Master Reis, that's all! Nevermind the fact that Melchio destroyed its own world and terrorized Lizeria too!
  • There exists a portion of the fandom who tries to paint Shida in a much sympathetic light. Which usually means that he turned evil because someone abused him in the past.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Has own page here.
• Fan Nickname:
  • "Will-sama", a nickname bestowed by Japanese fandom to Will. Is usually used in mocking manner, since he's a low-tier Unit despite being hyped in several units' stories. Then he took multiple levels in badass.
  • The Almighty Thunderbird: a mocking nickname for Thunderbird line, which is infamous for being a Low-Tier Letdown.
  • Sets of units are usually called "[whoever is the most noticeable unit of that set] batch", unless they already have specific names given by the developers themselves.
  • "Starters" for Six Heroes, for obvious reasons. Atro and Magress included, even if they're not available as starters.
  • High-Tech Shida: Reis, due to his uncanny similarities with Shida story-wise and their different field of expertise.
  • "Potato" for Lugina, due to his head's shape, his element, and the rocks that float around him as Gaia King. Also "Luigi" due to his in-universe nickname of Lugi, which is so close it almost seems like a simple misspelling, as well as wearing green. As well as Loogie, as it's the phonetic spelling of the aforementioned nickname.
  • Cancer / Trypophobia Dragon: Ragshelm's 7-Star form, due to all the cancer-like shape around its body, which can trigger Trypophobia.
  • Due to some people finding Shusui's name difficult to spell, they call him "Sushi". "Shitsui" is also common, especially for those who find him annoying.
  • "Zedus Christ", a nickname bestowed upon Zedus after his 7-Star lore gives him Messianic Archetype vibe.
  • BariTannia Empire: Bariura Empire, due to the eerie similarities its last Emperor have with Emperor Charles story-wise, and Omni Magress' Zero-Approval Gambit giving Zero Requiem vibes.
  • Because of his overall happy-go-lucky nature and brimming with curiousity, Allanon didn't take long to be nicknamed "Allanerd". There's also "Allameme", which references his Meta Guy tendencies.
  • A portion of Japanese fandom calls Yuura "Yuura-paisen", a play on "Yuura-senpai".
  • "KKR" is for KiKuRi.
• Fanon: Due to the ambiguous nature of the units' lores and lots of Cliffhangers. One popular theory amongst the fandom is that Narza is actually Alyut who went insane after killing Sodis, and that he specifically worships Maxwell.
  • Also, Ophelia being considered a Yaoi Fangirl.
  • It's popular to make Weiss, Shida, and Rashil Childhood Friends. Or at least, making the three having studied under Bran since their childhood.
  • Before it was confirmed as canon, it was commonly believed that the Zelban who taught Atro and the Zelban who followed Michele are one and the same.
  • Since what looks like Maria appears alongside Ark in the original title screen of the game, it's common amongst players (especially fan-artists) to base the appearance of the Oracle Maiden Ilia on her. This later becomes Ascended Fanon.
  • Shusui's Verbal Tic, in which he always introduces himself when he shows up, is commonly believed to be created because Raaga often forgot Shusui's name. Now that the truth behind Shusui's name is revealed, it was replaced by another headcanon about how Shura wants to make everyone knows that he and Hisui are meant to be by repeatedly saying their Portmanteau Couple Name.
  • There is also one regarding Melord, that he reached out to Kyle because he wanted to make friends for the first time in his life, now that Lucius had abandoned him.
  • There are some theories and speculations that Farzen is actually Colt when he grew older/in disguise due to their similarities with the artwork and their skillsets almost similar as them.
• Fan-Preferred Couple:
  • Kanon x Maxwell, BIG TIME. After the Six Pillars batch's release in the Japanese Server, the fandom got flooded by fanart of the two.
  • After his Heroic Sacrifice in Mildran, many players prefer to ship Kalon with Ilia.
  • Zelnite x Fizz is more popular than the supposedly official Zelnite x Rozalia, even in-universe due to this trope being the basis of Fizz's Omni Evolution form.
• Fridge Brilliance: Has its own page here.
• Fridge Horror: Also has its own page here.
• Game-Breaker:
  • "Brave Burst Spam", "Critical Hit Spam", and "Normal Attack Nuke" squad archetypes. The first is designed as such so that all of your units can use their Brave Burst every turn. The second originated with Zebra's advent and is designed to spam critical hits by maxing out crit chance and damage. The third is relatively recent, and came due to the release of Savia and later units like Ceulfan, whose UBB adds an insanely high amount of extra hits to units' normal attacks and can easily bring a late-game boss down from 100% to 0%
  • Units like Felneus and Uda can also do this when combined with units with high Hit Counts like Douglas and Serin due to their Ares' Excelsior Leader Skills (which boosts the effect of Brave Crystals) and Super Brave Bursts (which increases the drop rates of said Brave Crystals).
  • Deemo and the Girl for "Spark Team" archetypes, because their Leader Skill, "Charm" (4-Stars) and "All Charm" (5-Stars), fills a unit's Brave Burst Gauge a bit every time you hit a Spark. So with high Hit Count units, such as Douglas, Elza, and Serin, and Deemo as your leader, you'll most likely see their BB Gauges fill up before they even get the Brave Crystals. Not to mention that their Brave Burst, "Friction" (4-Stars) and "Magnolia" (5-Stars) also boosts Spark Damage for all units for 3 turns. So you can potentially one shot some bosses with Deemo as your leader. Now that they've gotten their 6-Stars form, they somewhat got even more broken than they did.
  • Speaking of Douglas, he was a prominent example of this trope. When Douglas first got his 6-Stars form, he went from a terrible unit with a random hitting Brave Burst, into the first unit who had a 30-Hit, multi-target Super Brave Burst with 30 Drop Checks. Douglas also carried a 50% buff to Spark Damage on his Super Brave Burst, which, when combined with his BC Production and Sparking potential, turned him into one of the best offensive units in the entire game by a long shot. Douglas alongside Felneus proceeded to dominate every season of Frontier Hunter, and it's said that the best team at that time for every content except for Arena was a Felneus Leader coupled with a full team of Douglases. It was bad enough that he was one of few units who got hit by a nerf (which did not work as it intended), and was a subject of balance issues until Power Creep kicked in and units such as Luther and Elza, both of which are completely superior versions of Douglas, were introduced.
  • Many considered the Damage Mitigation units to be this thanks to their ability to significantly reduce the damage you take from your opponent. The existence of Damage Mitigation units pretty much renders everything but the absolute hardest content in the game to be a complete joke, at which point they become almost necessary for players to even have a chance of winning. With the growing pool of units that have damage mitigation in their leader skills as well, it's not very hard to reach levels of mitigation closing in on 100 percent.
  • Maxwell was usually considered THE best unit in the game during the 6-Stars era, having amazing stats, ridiculous Brave Crystal generations, and a fairly amazing set of Brave Bursts, including her Super Brave Burst which has a ridiculous damage multiplier and Hit Count. Even better, Maxwell has a Leader Skill that increases damage for both Critical and Elemental Weakness, on a multiplier that is fairly close to Zebra and Mare (both of which being considered units with broken Leader skills that are only being held back by their mediocre stats), practically turning it into by far, the best Leader Skill in the game. Of course, to acquire Maxwell, you need to have a squad that is strong enough to survive and beat the third Trial, which in itself is VERY difficult.
  • Hadaron's Super Brave Burst grants him a "Stealth" buff for two turns. For a few months before the ability was patched, if he was the only unit alive while he had Stealth active, the enemies wouldn't be able to attack at all. With the right setup, Hadaron was able to use his Super Brave Burst every other turn all by himself, maintaining Stealth indefinitely and rendering most fights trivial. (A few bosses have passive effects that can stop a solo Hadaron from filling the Super Brave Burst gauge consistently, but the notorious "Trial 003: Maxwell" is not one of them.)
  • Mifune's Omni Evolution effectively took the Arena meta like a piece of plywood, cracked it in two, jammed it into a jet turbine, and scattered its million pieces across the land of the dead. Then burned it just for good measure. With the highest natural ATK stat (Imps included) and an Enhancement that gives him a 20% chance to hit every unit on the opposing team for half damage (not that it matters with his ungodly ATK stat), fighting a team of Mifunes that survive your first turn is effectively a death sentence, and no amount of pseudo-Angel Idol buffs will help short of Juno-Seto; Omni Mifune's damage is high enough to One-Hit Kill the majority of units in the game. The worst part is that he's a common unit (you can get him as soon as you hit the Monster's Nest with a bit of luck, read: before beating the first world) Which, as you would expect, allows players to easily farm for him for other content or make a team of six of the things.
  • Zenia's Omni Evolution is similar to Mifune and sometimes leads teams of them in the arena. Her leader buff is only a 100% attack up to Mifune's 150%, but she has a more useful secondary effects such as a 40% HP up and adding extra normal attacks to her team. She also will have between 150% to 100% more attack due to her enchantments on top of her special sphere and EX skill cranking her even higher. While she can't hit the entire enemy team like her Mifune flunkies can, she will kill something with every turn and is somewhat harder to kill.
  • Knight of Holy Light Ark was one of the best all purpose leader units available. His leader ability buffs all stats by 50%, has a spark damage booster, a BC drop booster, and a passive 20% damage reduction when a certain amount of damage has been taken. On top of this he also possesses impressive personal stats, a powerful unique sphere, and a strong extra skill which guarantees he's likely the strongest unit on the field. His Burst attacks are also some of the most powerful and versatile around, especially when including some of the enhancement he can have. Needless to say he is a very common sight leading teams in raids or on friend lists.
  • Disnomian Emperor Shion. He had the fastest OD gauge fill rate buff of any unit, and with a 3 turn mtitigation UBB that boosts OD gauge even further, this unit is notable for it's infinite mitigation UBB if used correctly. It was so overpowered that Ushi even gave him an SSS. (max rating was SS)
    • Of course, with recent powercreep, Shion has actually fallen to the point where he's only considered decent, especially with Xenon's omni, which not only does more damage but has more utility, OD fill, and even mitigation piercing.
  • Savia's Omni Evolution did not look impressive at first, being a decent but not great unit that buffs ATK, DEF and offers BB on Spark that can be found on superior alternative, but its her SP enchanced UBB that make her horrendously overpowered. It increases ATK, DEF, a massive increase on OD fill rate, and increases the hitcount of normal attack for the squad. With Enchancement she gains an extra hitcount on top of a power increase for each hitcount, totalling into an effective power increase of 1000%. To put that into perspective, average power of a standard hitcount UBB during her release was 600%, which means Savia have almost double the power of the predecessor. On top of this, her UBB tier DEF buff allows a squad boosted by her UBB to further increases their offensive power by using DEF into ATK convert buff, which Savia can get through another SP enchancement. As a nice bonus, while OD fill rate is generally considered completely useless, its a different story with a much higher value, which allows you to use a follow up UBB after the first round of UBB. Savia is so ridiculous that every single hard content in the game used to have a working strategy built around her UBB, including contents that is explicitly designed to prevent any form of UBB usage from the get go.
  • Lunar Maiden Qiu-Tong is well worth any Gems a Summoner has to spend to get their mitts on her. She's a tank with glorious amounts of HP and can stall it out even more with her BB and SBB, which reduce incoming damage by half. However, her real value comes in her UBB, which nullifies all incoming elemental damage and shreds it down to one. This, combined with her Leader Skill, which restores a bit of HP and BB gauge, makes her work a bit like a reverse Rosa; she can let the team tank element damage that would normally destroy them all, and while the enemies are doing damage in the double digits at most, you can sponge up hits, fill up your BB gauge, use it to get more BC, go into Overdrive and repeat, while taking almost no damage, and what little damage you take is absorbed by the heart crystals and Qiu-Tong's leader skill. And even if one can't outright out-damage the boss, you can still outlast them, chipping away while taking almost no damage.
  • Fire and Water's Synergy effect, Steam, is perhaps the most broken out of all of them. It adds 5 Synergy Shards to your current count when their DBB is used, then goes on a cooldown. At higher bond levels, this effectively means you can fire off at least one Dual Brave Burst for free, or MORE than free, allowing another unit to unleash their DBB immediately after!
  • Galene would normally be one's standard heavy nuke unit. She's one of the few guaranteed an infinite stream of Super Brave Bursts, as her SBB refills the gauge upon use and gives Stealth, but that on its own isn't that special. What is it that makes her so powerful, then? Her Sphere, the Excelsior Chip. Assuming you took the time to craft its highest form, the Excelsior Chip MK-3, whenever the Glitch in the Heart dungeon reran, this Sphere boosts Galene's ATK by an absolutely insane 150%. While this may make one think that the Sphere itself is the broken one, Galene's Extra Skill is activated by this Sphere, so not just anybody can use it effectively. The Sphere doubles her Spark damage output, her Extra Skill gives her the ability to perform Spark Criticals and doubles her ATK again, and she Sparks with herself. Meaning? With the right secondary sphere, such as the common Occult Treasure or the Blighted Seal, she can cleave massive chunks of health off of even the heftiest of foes. She can even crack open Flamebound and Fireblight Revenants like nuts, or at least severely wound them, something that normally requires 4 people to do! She has a Dual Brave Burst with Vektor, and their Quagmire synergy pairs nicely with her Stealth and surprising tankiness, which is why you'll see so many of these face-meltingly powerful robots when raiding Raid Class 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or against the Specter.
  • As a whole the core mechanic of the game is extremely overpowered as time goes on, due to the multiplicative scaling of each factor on damage calculation. The damage formula of Brave Frontier can be summed up as Base Attack * BB Mod * Critical Modifier * Spark Modifier * Elemental Weakness Damage Modifier. Base Attack and BB mod become broken as unit's statistical score and buff value increases, at some point the cap of 99999 is easilly reached by units, which led into the introduction of Break ATK Cap increasing it to 130000. Critical Modifier have a maximum of 70% chance to proc at a stable 50% damage increase, which got broken once Critical oriented Leader skills are introduced that outright doubles the damage output. Spark Modifier was considered the most balanced for a long while, due to the instability of Sparking, resulting in a relatively higher power level of Spark Spheres alongside a modest Spark Leader skill. It got broken all the same once units reach higher level of damage with better animation are introduced, Spark based Leader, and built in increased Spark damage with high numbers become commonplace. Finally Elemental Weakness Damage Modifier was the most overpowered of the bunch, due to being all but guaranteed when done properly, and as the other mechanics, got broken when Elemental Weakness oriented Leader skills are introduced to the game. As a whole, the biggest difference between the older state of the game, with the later state of the game is the allowed potency of these mechanic by introducing hard content with built in resistances towards these mechanic. All of the mechanic works together in 6* era but it didn't become broken thanks to their lower value. With the current meta units, Spark, EWD and Crit are often found in one team or rarely in just one unit, allowing people to see the enjoyable sight of damage numbers in the trillions.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: There's a curiously huge amount of Global Server players who love using Dilma, mostly because of his Ignore Defense buff and his extremely high BC Production rate, not to mention his relationship with Lilith is hilarious. And, he's reportedly caused Stupid Sexy Flanders for male players.
  • Ciara has garnered enough popularity in the Japanese Server fandom to make Alim import her and Semira into the Japanese version of the game.
  • The European Server's exclusive unit llewxaM is adored by both Japanese and Global players because she's designed as a "good" version of Maxwell, who is already a fan-favorite herself. Her short skirt and general adorableness also helps.
• Goddamned Bats: Unicorn and Pegasus have an incredibly long attack animation. The Paralysis effect they carry with their normal attacks can easily bring them to Demonic Spider tier. Basically, any unit that can Paralyze or Curse.
• Good Bad Bugs: Lance Champion Vernil is a unit focused on status ailments. The problem? His status infliction wasn't coded properly, so on release, he was able to inflict the poison debuff on everything, even bosses that were supposed to have immunity to it. Since poison does 10% of a target's max health as damage every turn, even difficult bosses found themselves melting into sludge before he was quickly patched.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Grahdens' teasing Owen about the latter's love life suddenly becomes unfunny after Rayla, the only person Owen ever fell in love with, died protecting him and made him continuously blame himself for her death was introduced.
  • Shusui's Verbal Tic and Super-Persistent Predator tendencies might be funny, but once it's revealed that the loss of his friend Hisui was what made Shura to become "Shusui", one might feel bad for the guy.
  • The character at the center of the original title screen was once thought to be Vargas in a different costume. He's actually the person who killed Vargas, as revealed at the end of the game's first story arc.
  • Hate Farlon all you want for killing a portion of his teammates, but Chapter 9 of Grand Gaia Chronicles reveals that he had been emotionally manipulated by Melord in secret to go berserk, and he's not the only victim of his spell - the negative emotions Alyut felt for his older brother also escalated beyond his control as well, leading to him killing Sodis.
• High-Tier Scrappy: While almost every Colosseum player knows to expect enemy teams to have plenty of Angel Idol units and more often than not a specialized leader, such as Blaze or Fionna, Erza Scarlet is by far the most dreaded. Not only does she pack two Angel Idols, her entire kit is focused around defense, defense, and more defense, her BB generates enough BC to instantly fill it up again, and if equipped with Yggdrasil Edict she literally cannot die. Here's a clip of Erza single handedly taking out another team. And here's her soloing the last boss in the game.◊
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Fire-type Revenant you fight to access the Specter is called the Pyreblight Revenant.
• Ho Yay: Oh yes.
• I Knew It!:
  • After half of the Twelve Guardians received their 7-Star form, some theorized that all of them would receive one sooner or later. As of December 2015, they were right.
  • Barion cursing Mora for having "the cursed blood of Estria" led to theories that she might be Adel and Savia's daughter. While Mora herself doesn't truly confirm it, there are enough hints in Estria that it's true.
  • Zelnite, Elza, and Shida winning the "What Units would you like to have 7-Star form" Japanese poll. Some had predicted it since the poll was announced.
  • Due to how lackluster the 30-day Daily Log-in Rewards for Second Anniversary in Global version were, many expected that it would be extended. It was extended for ten more days with more worthy rewards.
  • Many players have made several fan-made Deemo and the Girl's 6-Star form, with most of them based their appearances and skill names on Myosotis, ANiMa, Entrance, and Sanctity. The original Deemo and the Girl eventually take the former two, while the new Dark version based on Saika take the latter two.
  • Since Frontier Hunter Season 25 features Reda, who is a Japan-exclusive unit, most predicted that she would be either removed or replaced. She's replaced by Lucia, a Global-exclusive unit.
  • Avant winning the "What Units would you like to have Omni Evolution" Japanese poll. Literally everyone saw it coming.
  • Krantz as the runner up at the same poll. Way before the reveal, Japanese forums already had speculations about it. It turned out to be spot on.
• Incest Yay Shipping:
  • Some theorize that Elza's love to her sister Alice is more than just "sisterly love". It doesn't help that her name is just one letter away from Elsa.
  • As said in the Ho Yay section, all male members of Twelve Guardians adored Sodis to some extent, and that's including Sodis' brother Alyut. When Sodis betrayed the gods, Alyut even tried to reason with him before outside parties interfered. And Sodis let himself be killed by a brainwashed Alyut in order to break the spell on his brother.
  • Melina is very obsessed with her uncle Chrome, noting that he is "strong, kind, and handsome".
  • Colt worshipped his older twin Claire, saying that she's "the best" and attacks everyone who disagrees with him. One of the reasons why he dislikes Quaid so much is because Claire has a crush on him.
  • Vargas' reaction when he was informed that his father went missing and is presumed dead? Train harder and make him his inspiration. Avant's reaction when he was informed that Vargas is dead? Regain his memories, break down crying for three whole days, and use Vargas' Dandelga to slay off the gods until he dies too. Avant might be too attached to his son...
  • During both times Kalon on the brink of death, he muttered Aaron's name and lamented about their past relationships. Granted, the first time it was one of his clones' death, but since all of Kalon's clones share a Hive Mind, it still counts.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
  • Shida has been paired with the most male, female, and genderless units due to his popularity and his overall presence in the lore.
  • On the other side of the story, the Summoner (You) has been paired with just about every NPC and summonable unit ever, no matter what gender he/she is.
  • And on the NPC's side, Seria is already paired with practically everyone in the main cast and Mora.
• LGBT Fanbase: Of course, a gay fandom for this game exists, and they really adore Darvanshel, Avant, Bargus, Griff and so on.
• Low-Tier Letdown:
  • Thunderbird and Great Falcon Ziz are considered bad to both their bad stats and Brave Bursts attacking random enemies instead of all of them. They are also flat-out scrappies as they can be randomly summoned from the Rare Summon Gate, especially when players expect far better units. Zazabis, on the other hand, gets the underrated treatment. Its stats are better than expected, so at least its usable on boss fights that are only one enemy.
  • Part of the reason why Farlon is disliked is because his seven 7-Stars form is often seen as a bad unit thanks to his low damage output and mediocre buffset.
  • To an extent, many of the current Time-Limited exclusive units in any given server. Most of them are fairly good in one way or another, but they are resented instead since not everyone can have the luck, money, or have hoarded enough Gems to summon them.
  • Fadahl is often seen as, by far, the worst 7-Stars unit in the game due to his pretty lackluster kit as a Status Ailment inflictor. It comes to the point where he's the first from his batch to be permanently removed from any Popular Units Rate-Up Polls.
  • Of all the six elements, Earth is considered to be the worst one because a lot of the Earth units are geared towards support rather than offense powerhouse. Making them fall short in comparison to other elements.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Bertz "Klauser" Felker is an agent of the shadowy Abel Faction who masterfully persuades others by giving them information to target their emotional vulnerabilities, not even needing to lie by doing so. Seemingly working for his organization to stop the Summoner and their companions, Bertz in truth uses them for his own agenda. Stealing the core of a Divine Being the Abel Faction seeks, Bertz plans to use the power of the Divine Beings to save the world of Elgaia and put an end to his own nightmarish past.
  • Zamburg ruler, Cosmic Demon Amu-Yunos is an ancient, extra-dimensional being that seeks her own death to alleviate her boredom. Seeing the Summoner as a candidate for helping her end her own life, Amu-Yunos challenges them to defeat her lest she destroy Ishgria. When defeated by the Summoner, Amu-Yunos is thrilled at the excitement of death and helpfully warns the Summoner that they will have to fight another version of her. Amu-Yunos is also revealed to have made a pact with a young summoner whose comrades had been wiped out, allowing him the chance to change his destiny. Though Amu-Yunos simply seeks an entertaining end to her immortal existence, her charm and jovial nature made her to be one of the most compelling foes to be faced by the Summoner and their companions.
• Memetic Badass:
  • Luther. He's rocking that "Full Metal Cross".
  • The moment Will got his 7-Star form, he became this.
  • Tridon's Shield buff is said to be so broken, it can withstand literally everything.
    • Scratch that. The update to the shield mechanic nerfed it so that it only absorbed Do T, countered damage, and normal attack damage. Not to mention that Tridon is no longer the exclusive bearer of it, as the second batch of Vortex Arena units all have shields in their kit.
• Memetic Loser:
  • The Thunderbird line, despite having a great improvement of the 5-Stars Zazabis stat-wise, is still labeled as the worst units ever and are the last ones people ever want to receive from the Rare Summon Gate. Then again, Zazabis wasn't grouped together with its lower counterparts in their receiving end of mockery.
    • Zazabis' 6-Stars evolution, Ardas, completely reverses this by making its BB and SBB Area of Effect attacks and having a 70% Spark Damage buff on its SBB.
  • Eric is another one due to even his Super Brave Burst hitting random enemies.
  • Will used to be one, especially in the Japanese Server fandom. Then his 7-Stars form arrived, and most of his detractors began to shill him.
• Memetic Molester: Shida, Shida, Shida. He is a Mad Scientist whose experiments include human modifications, one of which resulted in the subject looking younger than he actually is. He also successfully seduced Zellha and made Themis label him as a "pervert". Vargas Chronicle even have some panels in which he's observing Vargas, Mifune, and Logan while making suggestive expressions.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The Thunderbird line by itself turned into a popular meme, commonly seen in Rare Summon jokes.
  • Thunder Vortex Arena. ^explanation Vortex Arena is basically what the normal Arena is like - except that your squad there is restricted to use units who have the same element as the Arena's current namesake - offering rewards that are quite useful as you go up the ranks. What makes this a meme is the delay associated with this event in particular, being started during the August of 2014 before getting taken down due to the stress it put on the server resulting in it being active for less than a day. The event would then return on December. During the downtime, the fandom endlessly joked about it.
  • Server Errors and compensations in general have become jokes as well amongst the fandom.
  • There's now a growing trend of players claiming some of their units as their Waifus.
  • Raid when? ^explanation This was a frequently asked question amongst Global Server players before Raid Battles got released, as the game's Japanese Server usually gets new content first before they do.
  • All Hail Ding Dong Sobida! ^explanation Just recently, a Server Engineer named Ding Dong Sobida was added to the game's credits. Since then, the server has suffered little to no instability. Cue all the praising. Even better, Mr. Sobida got promoted to Server Engineer Lead soon after.
  • Salt Frontier ^explanation Because of the many things that could possibly go wrong in every aspect of the game, especially when attempting to summon rare units, players often shed tears whenever something bad happens, namely horrible rare summons.
  • If even Luly could get her 7-Stars form, everyone can get one too! ^explanation The reception towards Luly's 7-Stars form is divisive due to her previously being killed by Farlon in his 7-Stars form lore with her own lore only restating that as well as making a passing mention of her family's custom, and her somewhat uninspired skill sets. Players took this as Alim running out of ideas and that they just pick random old units to get 7-Stars nowadays, hence the meme.
  • Zedus is the Ultimate Spark God! No, Luther is! ZEDUS! LUTHER! (repeats until both sides stop) ^explanation Luther had a bizarre cult following in the Global Server fandom. Zedus' 7-Stars lore had a certain Messianic Archetype vibe, which gave him the Fan Nickname Zedus Christ, which combined with his prowess as an offensive Leader quickly gained a similar cult following with the fandom. This resulted in a Fandom Rivalry between the two factions.
  • "We're gradually letting players in. Please wait." ^explanation Players usually get this message on the day the current season of Frontier Hunter begins, as countless other players will repeatedly try to login on that day in hopes of getting a head start on gathering a lot of Frontier Points for raising their Frontier Rank. With the advent of Guild Raid, this has been taken up to eleven due to the fact that almost every single season something like this happens
  • Zoom Zooom!! ^explanation The name of Shadow Cat Nyami's Super Brave Burst. This went memetic after it was discovered that it has the ability to Spark with itself, which when combined with Nyami's prowess, can dish out some massive damage.
  • When Keymaster Gilnea returns and Battle Maidens get their 6-Stars.^explanation Either or both of the two are the most common joke responses to uninformed players who ask for delayed contents and/or impossible requests, since Keymaster Gilnea is Permanently Missable (even in Japan) and the release date for Battle Maidens' 6-Stars forms are constantly delayed. However, the Battle Maidens did get their well-deserved 6-Stars forms after 2 years.
  • Kulyuk Chicken^explanation Kulyuk Chicken, or Ayam Kuluyuk, is an Indonesian dish with Chinese influences. It is made up of battered chicken in sweet and sour sauce. The joke here is that one of the the other Divine Ten, usually Maxwell, will be eating that dish in front of Kulyuk, much to his horror.
  • Bells and Staff^explanation Referring to Nyami's Bells and Allanon's Ritus Staff, the Spheres required to activate the Extra Skills of Nyami and Allanon respectively, which were released a month after they were added into the game. During the wait, the fandom constantly complained about them.
  • EU units are a Joke^explanation Concerning the Americans Hate Tingle approach of this, every time that the European version of the game releases an exclusive unit, it will inevitably become a source of both hate and ridicule by the players of other servers. People all over Reddit poke fun at it, especially on how badly implemented and done the European exclusives are.
  • Get your 100% guaranteed Limited-Time Exclusives after 40 times of summoning!^explanation The highly-questionable approach of Limited-Time Exclusives in the Global version of the game, which nets you the featured unit after wasting a very high number of summons (usually 40, hence the meme) in the Rare Summon Gate.
  • Griff'd^explanation Referring to how Griff completely outclassed Reis, who was released a month before, by having his exact same kits but with stronger modifiers and more buffs. After that, the term will be used if there's a Unit who completely outclasses another Unit who is released close before (or sometimes, after) in the same server.
  • I Am War Demon Shusui, I Seek Stronger Opponents^explanation This is due to the fact that one of the characters always repeats this quote over time to the point it has become something of a meme due to some people are getting annoyed with this quote/find it really amusing.
• Memetic Troll: The Thunderbird line for those without luck in the Rare Summon Gate, before it gained access to its 6-Stars form that doesn't do random target damage.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The warm synthesizer chord when your Brave Burst/Super Brave Burst meter fills to the brim, and the accompanying lights up to show it's ready to be used. Another candidate could be the deep, relief-flooding "bwoooshhhhhh" sound when finishing off a quest, particularly after you've beaten an extremely hard boss or Trial.
• Narm:
  • Whenever Karl appears in Frontier Hunter's Terminus stages, he will always have a special skill named "Special Antidote" that only triggers whenever he's been inflicted with Poison. That Antidote you've made in the Justified Tutorial very early in the game must be a treasure for him if he still kept it after a very long time.
  • The non-English language options can make some of the terms sound narmy, even by that language's standards.
  • Eze's death was suicide by stabbing himself with Bathoota. Considering how huge Bathoota has become at the time of his death, one has to wonder how the hell he managed to pull it off.
  • In Fal Nerga, Karl's newly-shown demonic form makes him resemble a cat. Lampshaded by Paris and Seria who were unamused by the event, Seria even tells him it was too much build up for little pay off.
  • Inferno Swords Logan's translated Super Brave Burst name, Magical Coffin, managed to raise the eyebrows of some players. It sounds like it came straight from the Magical Girl genre.
• Never Live It Down: If a unit has a particularly embarrassing or stupid moment in their lore or in Frontier Hunter, expect it to get turned into jokes. Examples include:
  • Arius and his Selena paintings.
  • Themis' shouting "PERVERT!" every time Shida is in her line of sight.
  • Orwen's fleeing from his country in which he's the Emperor of.
  • Reis and his self-recovery mechanism.
  • Weiss and other glasses-wearing units proclaiming the supremacy of glasses, and goggles by extension as well.
  • Colt and Alyut arguing to each other about who has the best older sibling, while said siblings either cheer them on or scold them.
  • Just a mention of Farlon killing a portion of his team including Ramna, and he's forever branded as the Twelve Guardians' Token Evil Teammate and a terrible boyfriend.
  • Rashil will never live down his peculiar obsession towards Lilith.
  • ORN39 ^members Orna, Lucina and Lucana and Ulkina's exclusion from the group despite her similar name to the group's members. Although, they did accept Ulkina eventually and surprisingly, Hogar too.
  • Karl and the Antidote from the tutorial.
  • Lafiel getting mistaken as a ball due to her attacking animations.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page here.
• No Yay: According to some fans, Yuura taught Shida more than just necromancy and dark arts. The reason it's not a Ho Yay moment is because of the age gap between the two, leading to some Squicky implications and a Freudian Excuse for Shida.
• Pandering to the Base:
  • "Popular Units" Rate-Up is a special kind of Rate-Up which puts up to 25 Units who win special polls put by the community manager into an exclusive pool.
  • Those who were placed in the Overall Top 10 of 2015's Japanese Unit Popularity Poll got a Grand Quest portrait for the game's artbooks. In fact, Ivris' Grand Quest portrait originated from them.
  • Units who are selected to represent Brave Frontier in collaborations are usually the Six Heroes and various Ensemble Darkhorses.
  • The Japanese Server's occasional "Which Unit do you want to have [insert the strongest evolution tier at the time]" Polls. Although they are quite divisive due to the extremely predictable winners, to the dismay of the fans of the less-popular and less-useful Units.
• Play the Game, Skip the Story: When the official wiki does not contain entries for the storyline or characters as NPC, you'll know how many people care about the storyline of Brave Frontier.
  • But then again, that would spoil the game.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Several units were rescued from being unusable when they were allowed to evolve to their 7-Stars forms. Special mention goes to Edea and Elimo who both became full-fledged Damage Mitigators and a staple for many battles, bosses, and Trials.
  • Alice is two layered rescues. Her original sub-par but still nice [1] was redrawn into [2]. Her ability to convert REC to ATK was frowned upon at first, but then when Alim suddenly made her more viable with the release of 7-Stars Tridon and Deimos who can boost their squad's REC, all of a sudden she became a great ATK buffer that rivals Michele as well as becoming a reliable offensive healer.
  • A lot of units actually gone through this over time when their niche was discovered as time went by. A big example was Dilma, who used to be hated thanks to his low hit count, and the perceived uselessness of the Defense Ignore buff. It was soon proven wrong when data-mining showed that Dilma has MASSIVE BC production, and a bunch of hidden buffs on top of his absurd Healing Factor and damage potential. As a result, Dilma went on to become one of the longest lasting, and well loved unit during the 6-Stars era.
  • Hadaron was mostly known as the black sheep of the Soul Bound Saga unit batch, due to his Game-Breaking Bug potential for cheesing, extremely overpriced SBB, and buff timing issues. Following his 7-Stars form release however, alongside numerous fixes for his 6-Stars version, he saw a big increase in popularity thanks to his unique ability to deal obscene single target damage, and an expensive but affordable cost, alongside a nice synergy with other popular units like Ark and Zenia.
  • The moment Ciara and Semira received their 7-Stars evolutions was the moment that they were rescued.
  • Behemoth, previously regarded as a joke unit, received an Omni evolution and immediately turned into a Colosseum terror, due to his extremely damaging single-hit attacks that could outright ignore % HP Angel Idols and a selection of SP options dedicated solely to raising his attack as high as the game could possibly tolerate
• Robo Ship:
  • Michele x Duel-GX kicked off when the Ten-Winged Tormentor Grand Quest was released. It was in this Grand Quest where Duel-GX was shown to be more than just a programmed robot, being able to first interact with Michelle and explaining its situation to her.
  • There is also Dilma x Lilith, which solidified after their batch's Grand Gaia Chronicles revealed that Lilith started to show signs of emotions after Dilma saved her from the gods.
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • Poor, poor Bran, for getting this treatment both in (by his alleged alumni) and out (mostly by Shida fans) universe. He is said to be a volatile old man who cares for nothing but sweets, often forced his students to eat cakes, and sometimes sexually assaulted them. He's like the Dumbledore of Brave Frontier on this matter.
  • Yuura is cited to be downright mean to Medina and/or abusive to Shida.
  • Balgran is always portrayed as a cold-blooded killer after it was revealed that he was the one who murdered Claire, Colt, and Fadahl..
  • According to some fans, Rashil wants to examine every parts of Lilith, and will resort to rape if necessary. His stalker-ish behavior early on and his status as The Friend Nobody Likes also helps fuel this interpretation of him.
  • Kalon is often portrayed as an abusive brother to Aaron who doesn't even know of his death.
  • Seria likes to abuse and kick the Summoner, both physically and mentally, as if she's in a permanent state of PMS.
• The Scrappy:
  • Ciara and Semira were part of a notorious Halloween event that was largely considered little more than a blatant cash grab. Although there wasn't anything wrong with the units themselves, you were required to have one of them in your party in order to challenge the last level of the special Halloween dungeon - which was, of course, the one with the biggest reward. The two units could only be acquired by using the Rare Summon Gate, which costs five Gems for every summon and gives you a randomly selected (but rare) unit. The chances of either Ciara or Semira being the randomly chosen unit was fairly low, but if you used the Rare Summon Gate ten times during the event you'd be "gifted" one of them as a bonus. Gems cost $1 from the store and are given out very, very slowly during regular play; if you didn't happen to have hoarded all the Gems from a few months' worth of free play, you'd have to pay up to $50 in order to get your hands on either one of them.
    • To add insult to injury, when Ciara's and Semira's 6-Stars forms became available, their Brave Bursts and Super Brave Bursts had a damage modifier much, much lower than almost every other comparable 6-Stars units. After a few days and much whining from the disgruntled masses of Brave Frontier's players, this was eventually fixed via a patch.
    • In fact, the next time Alim made a Vortex Dungeon event that relates to a Global Exclusive Rare Summon batch like with the Soul Bound Saga units, they made it a point that you won't need the RS unit to even enter the Vortex Dungeon anymore, thereby showing just how badly this was thought through and done at the time.
    • However, the two's 7-Stars forms' release and the revamp of the Halloween Dungeon now rescued them from the scrappy heap.
  • Farlon is by far the most hated 7-Stars Legacy unit, if not 7-Stars in general. As a unit, he has the distinction of being a Glass Cannon with exceptionally low damage potential to the point that he's very close to being the weakest damage dealer amongst other 7-Stars units. In terms of lore, his lore is notable for being fairly disastrous: unlike the rest of the Loyalist Guardians, his motivation to join the faction was not so much his loyalty to the Gods, but more about revenge towards Sodis, and he killed off or severely wounded a lot of the other Guardians, which usually makes him be called as the villain of their batch.
  • Zeruiah, for the same blatant cash-grab reason as Ciara and Semira above, but even worse. To elaborate, she was only obtainable through the time-limited "Frosty Summon Gate", which only opens after summoning through the Divine Summon Gate five times, and there was still a chance that she wouldn't appear in the Frosty Summon Gate. She boasts a +12% boost to EXP earned on top of her Leader/Friend Skill, which is slightly better than what Zelnite's 7-Stars form ended up getting, and at that time only the Japanese-exclusive Haruto had that kind of Leader/Friend Skill too. Her Super Brave Burst is a 40 Hit Count, infinite Area of Effect attack that applies all six elements while boosting her squad's BC, HC, and Item Drop Rates. In short, her being Purposefully Overpowered is what set people off, especially for those who don't have her.
  • Zenia as an Omni Evolution is considered this to some Brave Frontier community when she was released for the first time. Due to the removal of her BB Attack buff and a very low spark damage compared to other Omnis. Her focus is really niche as a unit due to her hit count buff and her expensive skillsets doesn't help the matter. Many players are disappointed at best and infuriated at worst due to her lackluster skillset to the point that some people made a petition to make her a great unit. Subverted due to because of the backlash that Gumi received, They decided to listen to their playerbase and decided to change her skillsets that made her Rescued from the Scrappy Heap a little bit even if she's a bit niche
  • Of all the protagonists, Seria is the least liked of the crew.... Mainly because of her abrasive personality towards the summoner that turns the fans off and her being a stereotypical token tsundere doesn't help either.
  • Limlinate or Rimlynette from his own batch is one of the most least liked units prior to his release, mainly because his skills cover buffs that previously released Earth units already had, require a high BC cost to use, and can't attack at all. Remedied a little with some changes Gumi did, but still very subpar compared to his batchmates.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Brave Bursts that hits random targets are frowned upon for their unpredictability and are accordingly deemed unreliable. In fact, this is how some units received their Memetic Loser status.
    • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap now with units such as Sae, Persenet, and Ensa-Taya, whose random target attacks are extremely effective in Guild Raid and Colosseum at inflicting status ailments upon the opponent.
  • The Unit Types in general. So, you summon a meta-defining unit whose type is Oracle? Too bad! Abandon that unit and try to roll for an Anima or Breaker one!
    • Now regarded as a meme, since Oracle types had their debuff changed, and Omni units' stats often get so high no one cares about their type.
  • Recently, Time-Limited Rare Summon Gates for Purposefully Overpowered and/or Holiday Exclusives are being frowned upon.
  • The Colosseum's Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors Support Skills mechanic is often deemed unnecessary, adding more RNG on top of the already RNG-filled regular Arena.
  • The Fast Forward option, or to be more precise, the lack of required mechanics that would make it properly viable.
    • First of all, it is only available in Quests much to the relief of the players having to face Karna Masta but the 3x speed mode is not carried over in between runs, meaning that players who are fodder farming have to constantly tap their screen every 10-20 seconds like a rat in a skinner box. Not to mention, auto-runs will stop whenever your bag or unit space exceed maximum, turning it into an equivalent of an expressway with speed bumps and checkpoints.
    • Secondly, to avoid abuse of the 30-min Parade dungeons, it is not available in the Vortex at all. This becomes very problematic in holiday events and the Monday Karma dungeons where there are around 7 stages per run, turning farming for the materials into a time and battery sink. Combine that with the unit and item space limitation mentioned above and you have yourself an already slow and tedious grind fest that can get constantly interrupted, effectively sucking the fun out of the game. And that is not counting the more recent holiday event bosses...
  • Any of the content that was implemented by Gumi is considered to be this. Especially Guild Raid that is considered to be the worst offender of them all due to the fact that it looks unpolished or is still in beta system and has a lot of many bugs such as boss HP desync,the game kicks sometimes kick you out,so many bug exploits that got abused and so on.
• Ship Mates: Many of the pairings can coexist nicely in the fandom due to the limited Ship Tease in their lores.
  • Six Heroes has Vargas x Lava, Selena x Arius/Lucina, Lance x Drevas, Eze x Emilia, Kuda x Atro, and Magress x Themis.
  • Cursed Fire Armor has Vishra x Logan, Dilma x Lilith, and Rashil x Reeze. Or the Ho Yay variant, Reeze x Lilith and Rashil x Dilma.
  • 12 Guardians has Sodis x Lunaris, Signas x Ophelia, Farlon x Ramna, and Raydn x Alyut. Alyut x Lunaris shippers also usually ship Sodis x Signas/Zephyr and Grybe x Ophelia as well.
  • Six Pillars has Kira x Feeva and Tazer x Tora.
  • Michele x Lodin and Zelban x Tiara. Or alternatively, Michele x Duel-GX and Lodin x Tiara.
  • Arus x Priscilla and Belfura x Shera.
  • Ark x Ilia usually goes with Ruby x Dion, Yuura x Medina, and Balgran x Rinon.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat:
  • The Sodis/Lunaris/Alyut Love Triangle has their own share of rivalries. And if either Signas, Zephyr, or Raydn enters the fray, chaos may ensue.
  • Yuura/Shida shippers and those who ship either of them with someone else doesn't go exactly well, either.
  • Lugina/Seria, Karl/Seria, and Lugina/Paris shippers notably avert this and are peaceful with each other... at least until Bertz showed up and teased all sides about it in the story.
  • Claire/Quaid, Claire/Colt, and Diana/Quaid all have a field day with this. Fadahl/Ivris generally averted this, until their corresponding Grand Quest which gave the Colt/Ivris Ship Tease strong winds to sail on.
  • While still small, there are people that prefer to ship Vargas with his daddy Avant than his Implied Love Interest Lava.
• That One Attack:
  • Sir Sancus Xenon Lv 10's Area of Effect attack, "Soul Desecration", especially when he casts it thrice in a turn. That attack can and will most likely kill your entire squad if you're not making them Guard.
  • Dual Blade God Eru's "Necro Fusion"; A massive AoE attack that cannot be mitigated.
    • Really, any of the Elgaian Refugee Leaders' AoE attacks; Especially if you kill their partners beforehand. Sometimes they'll do it 3 times in a row, which can really take down your units if you're not careful.
  • Trial 003 Maxwell's "Endless". If a unit doesn't have 50% Damage Mitigation AND is not Guarding, they WILL die no matter what.
    • "Destiny" and "Meteor" can count as well; especially if she's buffed with "Sacred Song", which boosts her ATK, DEF and gives her an Ignore Defense buff.
  • Zevalhua's "Glorious", which will kill your squad unless you use Magress' UBB or deal enough damage within 3 turns to deactivate it.
  • "Empty Seal" is an attack used by most of the Ishgria Demon Lords. They all have somewhat different versions of the attack, but it's always the strongest attack they can hit you with and is pretty much guaranteed to leave your team in really bad shape if you can manage to survive it at all.
  • Nevsky's "Mysterious Light" in the Refugee Leaders' Grand Gaia Chronicles. It deals massive damage and wipes away every buff you've applied to your squad. And he uses it pretty often.
  • Every time Lugina appears in a Trial, expect him to have one of this in one way or another. In particular, his "Grand Hazard" is notorious for it's extreme amount of single target damage, and Lugina is the most common buffer of Ignore Defense, which, while a buff for the players, is an extremely dangerous buff for the enemy side due to the players' reliance on the buff.
• That One Boss
  • Any time you're facing Phoenix and its later evolutionary forms. It constantly uses its Brave Burst, which lets it regenerates for a few turns before using it again. Unless you have Poison or Paralysis, it'll either be a long or impossible fight, depending on whether you can damage it more than it recovers its HP.
  • Miracle Totems when you're first trying to evolve some of your units into their 6-Star forms. Not only they can cast Brave Bursts of different elements, they also have a new move, "Chaos Trilogy", that can, together with using other attacks at once, even knock out 5-Star units!
  • Owen in Wulgee. He hits hard and can inflict Injury and Weakness. He can boost his own CRIT, ATK, DEF, and Hit Count. He can fully restore his own HP. His UBB empties all of your units' BB Gauges and reduces their HP to 1. And if you dare use Items during the battle, he will get infuriated and removes all the buffs on your squad before severely damaging them. And the catch to all of the above? He is the first fight in the region, and you're supposed to win.
  • As far as Raid Battles' Class 6 Missions goes, Mordlim holds the notion of being the most difficult Raid Battles boss due to not only because of her dealing so much damage, but also because of her defensive fighting style and frequent Damage Mitigation means that you will deal little to no damage against her. Oh, and she also deals damage to and removes the buffs on the highest HP unit every turn as long as her branch part is alive.
• That One Level
  • Seria's Strategy Zone, Battle 001, is still notorious due to how often help requests for it still appear, despite many of the newer players have units that could easily steamroll it if they read the guides.
  • Heroes of a New Era is considered one of, if not the hardest Grand Gaia Chronicles available. Unless you have a team with great nukers, you'll have to slowly chip away at everyone's health. This gets especially annoying when you consider the following:
    • Julius does a buff wipe attack very often.
    • Rouche often surprises many players with his attacks, which, when sparked with any of the other five bosses, can easily smash through units' health bars.
    • Laberd is by far the most infamous part of this GGC. Not only is he the tankiest member, it's possible that his UBB, which comes with a buff wipe, can wipe your team. And he does this twice.
  • Strategy Zone X1, Xie'Jing, was regarded as this for quite a bit, because not only did she have attacks that could easily kill an entire team, there were bugs that sometimes messed up health thresholds as well
    • Lost this status soon after when someone realized that if you taunted her correctly you could skip her squadwipe moves. Even easier now that there are more taunters that just Ultor and Leona.
• Viewer Gender Confusion:
  • Official flavor texts explicitly refer to Atro as male, but there are many who would insist that "he" is actually a "her", due to his androgynous appearance. The confusion was so bad, even the translator dubbed his 5-Stars name as "Goddess Atro" before the term was corrected in a recent version, and even then, it took further updates to correct all his mistakenly gendered terms.
  • There are also a lot of Cute Monster Girl units who are classified as Genderless Units, such as the Ramias and Fairies. The Other Wiki has to disclaim that they are classifying their genders based on their in-game data, as the result.
  • Estelle was mistaken as a boy by the community when her artworks were released. Her short hair, baggy pants, and lack of curves were cited to be the reasons.
• Win Back the Crowd: After fanbase waited for around 3 years to see Tilith going on a beach vacation, Gumi finally gave her not only a beach vacation event for her, but also an Omni-base version of her in a swimsuit during the 7th Anniversary. The fact that she was the strongest Earth Nuker at the moment helped.