Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-121.7.195.67-20161127162922/@comment-210.86.88.163-20161127200244

- unless you got kiwames, there is no way to escape day long range troops. Even if you take out the enemy troop or the enemy itself, the long range phase will go through

- shields only useful if your team is struggling to keep their troops in my opinion. After your swords reach a certain point, long-range troops only take about 1hp off troops since that's the minimum damage they do

- as ppl above mentioned, S-rank doesn't improve sword rarity. Most of my rare drops came from A's and B's (swords rarely drop from this rank); C-rank and defeat will not get you a drop. I'd focus on the overall team rather than the ranking :)