New Year Peony Builds and Best IVs

This is a ranking page for the hero Peony - Álfar Dream Duo from the game Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). Read on to learn the best IVs (Individual Values), best builds (Inherit Skill), weapon refinement, stats at Lv 40, and more for New Year Peony.

Heroes With the Same Name
Peony	New Year Peony
Attuned Peony

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New Year Peony Rating and Basic Information

Overall Rating	9.5/10
Reroll Ranking (excluding Inherit Skill)	S (▶Reroll Ranking)
Ranking (including Inherit Skill)	S (▶FEH Tier List)

Peony - Álfar Dream Duo: Basic Information

Color / Weapon Type / Move Type	Green / Green Tome / Flying
Rarity	5 Star
What Kind of Character Are They?	・Her Duo Skill refreshes allies and a buff and a movement perk ・Belongs to a rare unit type of green tome fliers ・Possesses a long range Atk buff for allies

New Year Peony Skills at 5★

Bond of the Álfar Might: 14　 Range: 2 Grants Spd+3. Grants Atk+6 to any ally in cardinal directions of unit during that ally's combat.

Gentle Dream Range: 1 Grants another action to target ally. Grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+3 and the following status to target ally and allies in cardinal directions of unit and target (excluding unit): "Unit can move to a space adjacent to any ally within 2 spaces." (That turn only. Cannot target an ally with Sing or Dance. This skill treated as Sing or Dance.)

Atk/Spd Bond 4 If unit is adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+7 to unit and neutralizes unit's penalties to Atk/Spd during combat.

Res Cantrip 3 If Sing or Dance is used, inflicts Res-7 on nearest foes within 4 spaces of unit through their next actions.

Joint Drive Atk Grants Atk+4 to allies within 2 spaces during combat. If unit is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk+4 to unit during combat.

New Year Peony's Duo Skill Effect

Duo Skill

Grants another action, Atk/Spd/Def/Res+3, and the "unit can move to a space adjacent to any ally within 2 spaces" status to adjacent ally with the highest HP for 1 turn. (Allies with Sing or Dance can be granted this effect as well. If multiple units meet the conditions, effect will not trigger.) (Duo Skills can be used once per map by tapping the Duo button. Duo Skills cannot be used by units deployed using Pair Up.)

Standard Effect 1

Duel
If unit is 5★ and level 40 and unit's stats total less than 190, treats unit's stats as 190 in modes like Arena. (Higher-scoring opponents will appear. Stat total calculation excludes any values added by merges and skills.)

New Year Peony Best IVs

Recommended IVs

Stat	Superboon/Superbane	IV Recommendation
HP (16)		★★★☆☆
Atk (20)		★★★★☆
Spd (13)		★★★★★
Def (3)		★★☆☆☆
Res (4)		★★☆☆☆

◯ = Stat gains +4 with a superboon, ✕= Stat goes down by -4 with a superbane, - = No assets or flaws

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When using an Ascendant Floret, we recommend getting the next superboon if it fits the hero. If not, consider what stat your hero needs most.

+Spd/-Res

The best IVs for New Year Peony are +Spd and -Res. A higher Spd stat allows New Year Peony to both score more follow-up attacks and avoid taking hostile follow-up attacks. Being a refresher-assist unit, she won't be attacking most of the time so just having enough Spd to prevent taking follow-up attacks is enough.

+Spd for a +10 Merge

We recommend a +Spd IV when merging New Year Peony to 10. This is for the same reasons as above. At this point with Bond of the Álfar, she reaches 51 Spd so she can definitely become a reliable seconary offensive unit if you are in need of one.

New Year Peony Best Builds

Mobile Support New Year Peony

HOT
： Bond of the Álfar ： Gentle Dream ： Moonbow ： -	： Atk/Spd Bond 4 ： Wings of Mercy 3 ： Guidance 3 ： Aerobatics 3 ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This is a build used for Aether Raids Defense and Arena. Enemy units can be caught off guard due to the number of movement skills that give her allies an edge.

Stat-buff Support New Year Peony

HOT
： Bond of the Álfar ： Gentle Dream ： Moonbow ： -	： Atk/Spd Bond 4 ： Wings of Mercy 3 ： Joint Drive Atk ： Drive Atk 2 ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This is also a support build for New Year Peony, but instead focuses on providing additional bonuses to nearby allies in lieu of mobility. Peony can provide up to +13 Atk to nearby allies, which can turn the tide of the battle!

Budget New Year Peony

： Bond of the Álfar ： Gentle Dream ： Moonbow ： -

： Atk/Spd Bond 4 ： Res Cantrip 3 ： Joint Drive Atk ： Aerobatics 3 ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This is a build that uses little skill inheritance to make New Year Peony into a support unit. You can also opt for Wings of Mercy 3 for the B skill instead of Res Cantrip. For flier-centric teams, you can use Flier Formation as the Sacred Seal.

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New Year Peony Stats

Stat Rankings

Neutral Stats at Lv. 40 (5★)
153
HP	40	Rank: 489/1171
Atk	34	Rank: 836/1171
Spd	40	Rank: 309/1171
Def	16	Rank: 1099/1171
Res	23	Rank: 836/1171

Stat Values

Lv 40+10 Stats (5★)

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
+10 Merges W/ Skill Bonuses	45	53	48	20	27	193
Lv.40 +10	45	39	45	20	27	176

Stats at Lv 40

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
5★- Adjusted for Skills	40	48	43	16	23	170
5★ Lv.40	40	34	40	16	23	153

Initial Stats (with Skills)

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
5★ Lv.1	16	20	13	3	4	56

Stat Comparison of Similar Heroes

Hero	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
Dorothea	40	40	36	17	45	178
Lara	40	35	44	34	24	177
Halloween Seadall	40	40	46	21	25	172
Summer Olivia	37	40	45	21	25	168
Spring Mirabilis	37	36	18	36	41	168
Rearmed Plumeria	40	46	18	19	45	168
Spring Triandra	37	43	46	18	18	162
New Year Peony	40	34	40	16	23	153
Plumeria	41	40	18	16	37	152
Plegian Dorothea	37	38	35	16	26	152
Rinea	38	30	33	23	28	152
Triandra	38	37	38	16	22	151
Peony	38	31	36	16	24	145
Soiree Reinhardt	38	34	21	27	25	145
Soiree Ishtar	36	34	36	16	22	144
Bridal Ninian	34	28	33	18	27	140
Azura (Young)	36	33	29	17	25	140
Performing Inigo	37	28	33	22	20	140
Legendary Azura	33	30	35	17	24	139
Hoshidan Summer Micaiah	33	34	20	18	34	139
Performing Shigure	34	31	29	21	24	139

Note: Stats bonuses from skills are not taken into account.

New Year Peony Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses

New Year Peony Roles

Peony - Álfar Dream Duo Roles
Close-Physical	Ranged-Physical	Close-Magic	Ranged-Magic
Physical Wall	Magic Wall	Effective Weapon	Movement Assist
Exclusive Skill	All-Range Counter	Recovery	Refresher
Legendary	Mythic	Duo / Harmonized	Resplendent

New Year Peony is a ranged magic attacker (range = 2). Therefore, when not accounting for the Weapon Triangle, the amount of damage she deals will be equivalent to her Atk minus the foe's Res stat.

Duo Skill Usable in Arena

New Year Peony's Duo Skill raises her arena score, in addition to unleashing a powerful battle effect. Duo Heroes have a Duo Skill which can be used once per map. Additionally, her Duel effect treats her stats as 190 in Arena modes, giving her a huge advantage over many other heroes.

The effect of New Year Peony's Duo Skill is shown below

Her Duo Skill grants the following to a qualified ally:

1. Refreshes them, granting another action.
2. +3 Atk/Spd/Def/Res
3. The following status—"unit can move to a space adjacent to any ally within 2 spaces"

You can read the in-game text for New Year Peony's Duo Skill and the duel component in this section!

New Year Peony Strengths

Extremely powerful refresher skill

New Year Peony's exclsuive skill Gentle Dream buffs an ally while simultaneously granting them another action. Allies who have been granted additional movement, as well as all allies in cardinal directions of both Peony and the ally who gained extra movement, will gain +3 to all stats and be able to move to a space adjacent to any ally within 2 spaces. In addition to being a useful refresher skill, it buffs all allies and grants more mobility, making it one of the best support skills available.

The qualities of this skill make New Year Peony a great Aether Raids defense unit because it can cause raiders that do not plan an attack to make costly mistakes.

Refreshes her allies' actions and debuffs enemies simultaneously

When New Year Peony uses Gentle Dream on an ally, her B skill, Res Cantrip 3 gets triggered and it inflicts -7 Res to the nearest foes within 4 spaces of unit. This gives great advantage for Peony and her team as this will help her magical allies to deal more damage to affected enemies.

Take note that Res Cantrip will not activate when using Peony's Duo Skill

Possesses the ability to refresh dancers!

Refresher skills like Dance and Gentle Dream cannot refresh units that have refresher skills currently equipped. However, Peony's Duo Skill can! This can make for some interesting strategies that you can run with New Year Peony's kit.

Take note that her Duo Skill also provides +3 to all stats and the ability to warp to a space adjacent to any ally within 2 spaces. You can take advantage of this extra power and mobility by taking out a priority unit!

Buffs allies in cardinal directions

New Year Peony's exclusive weapon Bond of the Álfar will grant +6 to the Atk of allies within cardinal directions of her. As long as the ally is in one of her cardinal directions, the amount of spaces away they are does not matter, allowing her to buff all allies from a safe distance. This buff also stacks with the effects of Gentle Dream, so she can grant massive bonuses to all allies while giving them extra movement and mobility.

New Year Peony Weaknesses

Aether Raids buildings that disable Duo Skills

Duo's Hindrance is a structure in Aether Raids that prevents Duo Heroes from activating their Duo Skills from turns 1 to 3. This is a major strategic hindrance so make sure to take it out if your strategy needs you to do so. Bring in a ranged unit with high mobility like Reinhardt or Veronica in your team so that you can easily take out buildings that counter your team.

You can also bring Reginn as her extremely good mobility through Canto 3 allows her to take out a building and then retreat to safety thereafter.

Weak to bows

As a flying unit, New Year Peony takes 1.5x damage from bows and weapons effective on flying units. Be sure to keep them out of the range of archers and leave them to other units.

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New Year Peony - List of Skills

Weapons

Skill Name	Might	Range	Effect	Learned At
Wind	4	2	No Effect	5★
Elwind	6	2	No Effect	5★
Rexcalibur	9	2	No Effect	5★
Bond of the Álfar	14	2	Grants Spd+3. Grants Atk+6 to any ally in cardinal directions of unit during that ally's combat.	5★

Assists

Skill Name	Range	Effect	Learned At
Dance	1	Enables target to take another action. Cannot be used on units with Sing or Dance.	5★
Gentle Dream	1	Grants another action to target ally. Grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+3 and the following status to target ally and allies in cardinal directions of unit and target (excluding unit): "Unit can move to a space adjacent to any ally within 2 spaces." (That turn only. Cannot target an ally with Sing or Dance. This skill treated as Sing or Dance.)	5★

Specials

This Hero has no Special skills that can be learned.

Passives

Skill Name	Effect	Learned At
Atk/Spd Bond 1	If unit is adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+3 during combat.	5★
Atk/Spd Bond 2	If unit is adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+4 during combat.	5★
Atk/Spd Bond 3	If unit is adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+5 during combat.	5★
Atk/Spd Bond 4	If unit is adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd+7 to unit and neutralizes unit's penalties to Atk/Spd during combat.	5★
Res Cantrip 1	If Sing or Dance is used, inflicts Res-3 on nearest foes within 4 spaces of unit through their next actions.	5★
Res Cantrip 2	If Sing or Dance is used, inflicts Res-5 on nearest foes within 4 spaces of unit through their next actions.	5★
Res Cantrip 3	If Sing or Dance is used, inflicts Res-7 on nearest foes within 4 spaces of unit through their next actions.	5★
Spur Atk 1	Grants adjacent allies Atk +2 during combat.	5★
Drive Atk 1	Grants allies within 2 spaces Atk +2 during combat.	5★
Drive Atk 2	Grants allies within 2 spaces Atk +3 during combat.	5★
Joint Drive Atk	Grants Atk+4 to allies within 2 spaces during combat. If unit is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk+4 to unit during combat.	5★

New Year Peony as a Source Hero

Value of Skills	★★★★★

Inheriting Res Cantrip 3, Atk/Spd Bond 4 or Joint Drive Atk

New Year Peony can be used to inherit Res Cantrip 3, Atk/Spd Bond 4 or Joint Drive Spd. However, New Year Peony is a very useful special hero that you can only obtain from specific banners. Please think very carefully before fodderring her off.

If you are able to inherit Atk/Spd Bond 3 from another unit, you can inherit Atk/Spd Bond 4, and another skill of choice.

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How to Get New Year Peony / Illustrations / Voice Actor / Quotes

How to Get New Year Peony

Obtained through a Special Summoning Event!

New Year Peony is a limited time Hero who can be pulled from a Special Heroes Summoning Event. They do not appear in regular summons.

Note: Not currently a featured hero in any Summon events.

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Voice Actor and Illustrator Information

Voice Actor (English)	Ryan Bartley + Lexi Klein
Illustrator	Kippu
Appears In	Fire Emblem Heroes

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