Are there pros and cons to having people on your friends list? Do they do anything aside from give you a tiny number of feathers once you meet a low threshold? Is there a limit to how many you can have?
Either my camilla has terrible stats or I'm starting to like hinoka a lot more and more. Most times I find myself needing to orko a particular unit and camilla not having enough mt to do that even with hinoka's +6 mt/spd buff, while the latter can. I would suppose her mt is supposed to balance the savage blow, but I haven't found it too useful so far. Hinoka's blazing wind when it goes off is absolutely devastating and actually affects the attack target as well.
Camilla's strength IS on the low side, but you have to pick your targets carefully with her. Fully upgraded she should be quadruple hitting almost everything, which means she should always be triggering Draconic Aura. Because she attacks four times a round she benefits more than most from strength boosts too.
But yeah, what you're really paying for on Camilla is Savage Blow. It's not always 100% useful, but when it is it can basically mean winning the game. Getting it off once turns most neutral-ish or favorable-ish matchups from close calls into one-shot kills, and getting it off twice if you can manage it seals the deal almost always.
There are a lot of things Camilla isn't good against because of her low attack, so playing her successfully is a matter of making trades with her where you come out on top. Bait their healer or archer into a chokepoint, take them out with Camilla, and she'll die but it'll often take opponents two attacks to finish her off and you'll get one of their characters KOed as well as softening up the rest of their team without charging their special moves.
Unfortunately axe is and always will be the worst weapon because more high-quality sword characters exist than any other weapon type, while lance is and will always be the best for the same reason. So in that sense she's sort of anti-meta by killing opposing lance wielders to protect the multiple sword-wielding protagonists you're likely running, but she dies easily to those same multiple sword users, so... Yeah, it's a rough place to be in.
She nearly always pulls more than her weight on my PVP teams, but she also nearly always dies first (she's so brave...) and is occasionally dead weight for a round against exceptionally weird team compositions. To play her right I'd say you need very careful positioning, heavy hitters who can capitalize on the chip damage she dishes out, and preferably an ally who can raise her attack.
