However, there are plenty of great base-4 characters. Robin and old Tiki are S-tier in this ranking:, and there are a bunch in the A tier, but you aren't going to get a Takumi level character from a 3-star pull. It does seem like few base-3 characters will be upper tier in Fire Emblem Heroes. Getting a 5* character drop in Brave Exvius was also ridiculously hard. On the other hand, there were plenty of base 3 characters who you could upgrade to upper tier.

You'd end up with whole squads of Marias and Cyans. In Brave Exvius, getting a 4* character doesn't really mean anything, since plenty of characters top out at 4* (and are almost universally useless). The only reason you would ever use them is because the 5* drop rate sucks, and it takes awhile to build up your collection of 5* units (before you are good enough to win all the free ones). They are also stuck as 4* characters forever. In Tales of Link, 4-star characters are a step above trash.

From the games I have played, 4* characters are way more usable at this point in the game than the equivalent in some other gatchas.

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