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{{Transient icon|Aegir|variant=Christmas|rarity=5}} occupies three particular gameplay niches: buff copier, buff stealer, and {{Status effect|魅了}} applicator. This first role is unique to Christmas Aegir and is arguably his most notable role: he can copy all ally buffs by moving, which can potentially allow him to do millions of damage. His second role is notable for the range of his buff steal, powercreeping his original variant's ability to buff steal and still being a relatively unique niche. Finally, Christmas Aegir has the unprecedented ability to charm enemies on turn start and can charm enemies while attacking, both at rather good procs. As a top performer in each of the above gameplay roles, Christmas Aegir is an excellent unit to have either as a specialist for high damage or as a generalist for regular use.

- The CP Down part of his skills, while it eats up a lot of CP, it’s a bonus at best due to enemies usually not reaching their Charge normally to begin with.

- The fact Buff Snatch scales off enemy skill level greatly limits self-benefit properties given how most buffs scale off of it to be at their peak. Enemies often don’t have high skill level to begin with.

{{Transient icon|Aegir|variant=Christmas|rarity=5}} has the unique niche of being able to copy all of his allies' buffs. There are a few things to note about this ability. First, the skill timing of this ability is when moving, restricting Christmas Aegir's buff copying in a certain way. Namely, he'll mostly benefit from buffs that activate on phase/turn start since they occur before Christmas Aegir can move. Similar logic appears to buffs that activate when appearing. As a consequence, he won't be able to copy a unit's buff that activates when moving, when/after attacking, or before/after receiving damage unless it rolls over into the next turn or if the skill applies it to him as well. For this reason, an unkillable Christmas Aegir by means of {{Status effect|回避}} is unlikely to occur unless LW decides to release a unit with turn start Evasion. On the other hand, Christmas Aegir could theoretically do something akin to that effect with {{Status effect|根性}} by piggybacking off another unit's buff. The main point of note here is that Christmas Aegir mostly performs well with buffs of longer duration and he can only copy one turn buffs that are applied on phase/turn start.  

The third point is that Christmas Aegir has pretty good damage that is consistent. An unseeded Christmas Aegir with {{Status effect|剛力}} deals 5903 damage per square with {{Weapon|Shot}} range and if extra damage against {{Status effect|脱力}} is possible, this number becomes 8863. So Christmas Aegir only really needs one or two offensive buffs to clear most enemies, and that's easily possible by buff copying or even by traditional means by having an offensive buffer as an ally. So although Christmas Aegir is a buff copier who can deal millions of damage potentially, it's important to remember that he can function outside such contexts as a reliable attacker who does not always have to move.

Having two methods of applying {{Status effect|魅了}} to enemies, Christmas Aegir also does so at competitively high rates, making him the best applier of Charm in the game. His Charm on turn start is at a 40% rate unseeded, and if the effect procs, it allows the team to prioritize other enemies. Moreover, since it's on turn start, stalling and turnscumming can be performed to debilitate enemies by rerolling the die. On top of the first method, Christmas Aegir can apply Charm by attacking at a 30% proc. Since Christmas Aegir can easily copy buffs, {{Status effect|閃き}}, {{Status effect|集中}}, and {{Status effect|連撃}} are all possible methods to improve his activation rate.

Skill seeds are appreciated here for guaranteeing {{Transient icon|Aegir|variant=Christmas|rarity=5}}'s buff copying ability, upping his {{Status effect|魅了}} and {{Status effect|脱力}} procs, and improving his buff stealing proc. There's quite a lot to benefit from here for consistency, but it's nothing really major. Regarding HP/ATK/Level seeds, HP seeds should be prioritized here since Christmas Aegir's base HP is relatively low. Moreover, using Christmas Aegir usually means that he'll have a load of offensive buffs already, so more ATK is generally overkill outside of pursuing bigger numbers.

{{Transient icon|Wakan Tanka|variant=Fashionista|rarity=5}}, {{Transient icon|Musashi|rarity=3}}, {{Transient icon|Kengo|rarity=3}}, and {{Transient icon|Tetsuya|variant=Christmas|rarity=4}} all have some form of {{Status effect|CT+}} or {{Status effect|CT}} on phase start with access to additional offensive buffs so these are all good candidates for teammates. There are likely other examples but this is a good starting point. Kengo in particular is a great teammate since his Crit is actually on turn start which means that Aegir can continually tap into burst damage.

Except for {{Transient icon|Tsathoggua|variant=Fashionista|rarity=4}} due to his {{Status effect|不動}}, the Fashionista units all around are particularly good due to their appliance of Ardor to allies and access to innate buffs on their own. "One of the best {{Star|4}} units in the game right now", {{Transient icon|Suzuka|variant=Fashionista|rarity=4}} is actually a nice teammate here due to her innate access to both {{Status effect|閃き}} and {{Status effect|集中}}, upping an unseeded Aegir's {{Status effect|魅了}} procs to 50%-60%.  

{{Transient icon|Krampus|variant=Jiangshi|rarity=5}} and {{Transient icon|Jinn|rarity=5}} are examples of self-sufficient attackers with offensive buffs that stack with Christmas Aegir's {{Status effect|剛力}}. Jiangshi Krampus in particular is interesting since he has turn start {{Status effect|極限}}, which can be very powerful if played correctly.

Aside from Fashionista Wakan Tanka and Musashi mentioned already, units such as {{Transient icon|Sitri|variant=Christmas|rarity=4}} and {{Transient icon|Ose|rarity=4}} could be used so that Christmas Aegir can piggyback off their {{Status effect|回避}} and have a free shot at charming enemies.

Finally, there are straightforward offensive buffers who preferably do not need to move. Some examples here are {{Transient icon|Claude|variant=Christmas|rarity=4}} and {{Transient icon|Tomte|rarity=4}}. Tomte in particular is great due to his access to {{Status effect|金剛}} and {{Status effect|連撃}} which Christmas Aegir can copy on top of all the buffs Tomte delivers.

{{Transient icon|Aegir|variant=Christmas|rarity=5}} doesn't have many good options for AR equipment yet as of time of writing, but he does have access to {{AR Equipment|id=5011}} which allows him to pierce {{Status effect|回避}}. This is very useful since Evasion is sometimes used to thwart first turn advantage in maps and because there are quite a few enemies who apply Evasion behind them.

Since much of {{Transient icon|Aegir|variant=Christmas|rarity=5}}'s appeal depends on his movement, status effects such as {{Status effect|不動}} and {{Status effect|恐怖}} are particularly dangerous. This is an important note to beware of in both team composition with Christmas Aegir and having him face off against enemies since Christmas Aegir has both the ability to copy buffs from allies and steal buffs from enemies. Namely, do not use {{Transient icon|Chernobog|variant=Beachside|rarity=5}} with him carelessly.

Due to Christmas Aegir's multiple sources of {{Status effect|魅了}}, he can be quickly shut down by an enemy with {{Status effect|弱体反射}}. If he doesn't proc Charm, he'll be hampered by {{Status effect|脱力}} at the very least.

Christmas Aegir is not immune to skill sealing effects so {{Status effect|束縛}} and {{Status effect|S封印}} are detrimental to him.

This team is designed to grant {{Transient icon|Aegir|variant=Christmas|rarity=5}} a host of offensive buffs for potential challenge quests which may require such damage output. Namely, Christmas Aegir can be moved at turn start in order to have {{Status effect|極限}}, {{Status effect|攻撃強化}}, {{Status effect|集中}}, {{Status effect|剛力}}, {{Status effect|CT}}, {{Status effect|無窮}}, {{Status effect|CT+}}, {{Status effect|熱情}}, and {{Status effect|根性}}. This effectively translates to 7.14 million damage per square on phase one, turn one for an unseeded Christmas Aegir. Furthermore, if the enemy is not resistant to {{Status effect|脱力}} (which is unfortunately not the case for most challenge quests), Christmas Aegir has extra damage against this debuff which he applies himself, making the total number to be 10.7 million. These numbers can be increased through the use of seeds and ARs. Of course, this team assumes that Christmas Aegir can group his teammates, so this sort of strategy won't work for wide maps, at least in the beginning phase.