Special (SP) Arena Team Compositions

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1. well god forbid you don’t have Anne: Miracle Fairy.

   • I don’t use her at all and I’m currently top 1 on my special arena ladder.

     • congrats whale

   • or imagine not having Scarlet

     • Yeah… Imagine…

   • I actually think Anne is no longer a must-use (if have) anymore.

     I fight against big whales. I need to use nikkes who have high skill levels and 3 4 Overload gears. I don’t think Anne is worth investment, so I use Blanc instead

2. No jackal, Pepper, Emma, Maiden, Noah, Rapunzel 💀

3. damn what a shitass compositions, no n…. use this shit

4. jackel and biscuit ruin arena so hard lol

5. update new special arena comp please

6. Update please 🙏🏻

7. So many new PvP based nikkes since this was last posted.

8. Is this going to get updated? :sadge:

9. when can you do a all other players based teams? theres so many options and this gives just a basis on like the metas .

10. Nice!

11. fck ı dont have jackal , biscuit , noah , anne what can ı do now

12. A very guide guide compared to the previous one! Well done!

    Why should biscuit not get OL gear for pvp? Is it better to priortise OL boots Noir, instead of chestpiece or helmet for biscuit?

13. Finally this got updated, and finally we get alternative teams, still as I don’t have Xanne, Noah or Rapunzel, I still have to be creative with some teams

    • Same. I don’t have Biscuit either.

14. Yo why is scarlet first isn’t she gonna get targeted first? shouldn’t she be in the middle since she is ar and rocket launchers, sr on the sides?

    • You see the Rapunzel and Miracle Fairy Anne? If they’re gonna chew up Scarlet that fast, she’s also tearing a massive chunk out of them and generating a lot of burst. Even if she dies, Rapunzel or Xanne will res her. I got no Xanne so I use Blanc but my ordering is Scarlet, Blanc, Rapunzel, Centi, Anis.

      The teams offered here are surprisingly great. I feel kindof dumb because I was using what amounts to the Alice Stall comp with my Scarlet in it when that was clearly not needed at all.

15. Wow really nice update to this guide! Any notes about Makima skills/gears?

    • She can be low investment, her main purpose is to tank / Sponge up all the hits she can for the team until her skill passive runs out (Invulnerable for 5s upon receiving fatal damage), the duration doesn’t change with skill level. But just if needed just to boost the CP a bit, the usual 4/4/4 skill investment can be done.

16. Damn, so Emma is not an option even for pvp anymore?

    • Everything listed is of course just a general suggestion of an incredibly powerful comp. Depending on the meta of your particular SP grouping, Emma can still find usage.

      Like, as dumb as it sounds, since Emma has fallen out of favor and I personally don’t give a crap if they throw their Scarlet at her, I’m running one of my defense setups with Modernia out in the open.

17. This is an incredible update to this guide. The previous version was honestly just not very helpful especially when you’re missing core units like xAnne, but this one pretty much fixes all my gripes. I really appreciate that this guide was completely reworked into what is probably the best Special Arena guide out there right now. Definitely gonna go through my teams and use this guide to improve them immensely.

18. I’m having some doubts about the Scarlet/CAnne/Centi/Anis/Jackal team shown here. Against Scarlet teams with Noah, it can’t burst fast enough to outspeed Noah’s invuln, and because the team doesn’t have invuln protection itself, it dies to the enemy Scarlet nuke. Not sure how that’s supposed to work.

    • Don’t throw your Scarlet team at them if they do that then. Throw your Noise + Noah + Jackal stall team at it and laugh as their burst does nothing and they get torn apart as soon as both of your Noah’s immunity buff wears off.

      I used to swear by using what he has listed for the Alice setup, but was running Scarlet in it. I realized upon switching to test out these suggested comps that I never needed to bunker up my Scarlet. It frees my scarlet instakill via burst setup to be used on something else instead of me wasting such highly valuable defensive means to support scarlet burst when it will do nothing in the mirror match anyways.

19. What do I do to replace Power? That’s like the only one not listed and she’s not on Standard pull so I can’t get her.

    • Ah I see in the text it says Privaty! Sorry!

20. Not sure if any char can replace Noir?

21. In “Missing Unit: xAnne” team 1, if I use Poli instead of xAnne, my Scarlet is sometimes taken out before bursting. Is there any way I can alleviate this?

22. Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but why are Drake and Noir’s recommended cubes Bastion? Both having only 9 shots in their magazine makes Bastion’s ammo refund sound counter-intuitive.

    • standard ver assumes you’re pairing Noir and drake together (+ ammo on burst and ammo refund), as you’ll always be bursting before your first mag runs out
      Advanced ver assumes you have Overloaded gear and at least 1 ammo roll on drake.

      • Thanks for the clarification!

23. sad, I don’t even have Scarlet, Power, xAnne, and Jackal.. How can I replace them

24. Do you have a team if I’m missing Rapunzel and Biscuit?

25. Anyone have a link to the old guide?

26. I got all the units except Noah and Rapunzel lol
    constantly get knocked down by those with 20k+ overall cp lower

    arena is pain xD

27. Any suggestion for missing both rapanzel and jackal ?

28. Can you update with 2b and a2

29. Please update the team comp.

30. Can you Update the SP Arena Comp please?

31. Would you update arena compositions for the newer additions, please?

32. Remove the limited time nikke and scarlet and then we talk

33. Like wtf? Make this make sense?

34. Thanks for the reformat of the guide. In the old guide, there were recommendations for overloaded gears and skills investment for PvP units. Could you please add them to this new guide?

35. What exactly does “Speed requirements: Ideally all 3 SP Arena teams should be at least 3RL” mean? Like what is RL in this context? Do I want every team to have 3 Rocket Launchers?

    • RL in this case means, How many Rocket launcher shots until full burst. Each RL shot tends to be 1s.

      So basically 3 RL = the team will burst in around 3s after the round has started. PvP’ers use this terminology rather often based on this tool

      https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11KWYeyvef91A-vfFuqglJJ8-OhR90TcKFVpJ6Ny_5h4/edit#gid=1990278246

36. Thank you for the update and the hard work you put into it! Are these teams just the recommendation for defense? No sub options listed here either like in the old guide. The Rookie guide talks about Red Hood teams a lot as being strong, but then there are none here for SP? Also OL gears and cube recommendation’s would be helpful.

    • Yeah these would be defense recommendations. A lot of it still applies to attack, but you can do more niche picks in attack to directly counter whoever it is you’re attacking. Red Hood/Alice are niche since they’re a lot easier to counter than a solid Scarlet or stall team.

37. Yeah, OL and Cube and Skill recommendations for each unit would be really helpful.

38. This guide is a step down from the previous one. There’s quantitatively less information here than before, and it’s laid out in a less comprehensible way.

    • I think this guide is more organized but only for people who kinda already understand how to make good SP arena teams. People who don’t have a good understanding yet will need more handholding. That said, the previous guide also had info on cubes, equipment and skills which are great.

39. can we please have to old guide format back? i have the feeling this doesn’t apply to 80% of the the community, there is only a small % fighting in higher brackets of SP arena and also maintain prior knowledge on SP arena that find use in this guide

40. I’m gonna have to echo what others are saying about this new format being a downgrade from the last one. It’s far more confusing and feels far less useful.

    • Feedback is being heard! Our pvp guide writer is still rather new in making guides in general, and still needs a slight direction to go on. So more constructive/specific feedback would be greatly appreciated so we can provide you a better guide in the future! We do have our old guide in the archives.

      • Thanks for the hard work you guys put in.

        Some feedback:

        I’d like it if the guide featured three of the *best* SP Arena teams if all units are available, like the previous guide. And then the breakdown sections where certain units aren’t available with respective sub-ins for their positions.

        Also recommendations for cubes, OL lines and skill levels would go a long way to help the people who actually care about eking out a slight advantage to make the difference between rank 3 and rank 4 rewards.

        Again, thanks and keep up the good work!

      • Where can I find these said archives?

      • I would prefer the “here’s the 3 teams you should use if you have these nikkes” format

41. Now i know why there’s some dudes using some of these terrible builds in SP Arena. Jesus Christ, just update them

42. Is this still relevant? If not, do you guys have some guide/link to PVP’s current meta?

    • It’s not relevant, tbh the only resource on this site for PvP that’s at all up to date is the Tier List if u filter it to PvP.

      You’re better off looking on YouTube tbh

43. What is the best way to deal with Blanc + Black scarlet team? Basically Blanc’s indomitability prevent Black scarlet from dying dispite me killing their other team members, and black scarlet ends up killing me eventually.

44. get your current pvp guy to redo this shit, this is outdated

45. Update this guide pls

46. Can y’all please update this? This is extremely outdated.