Question about Falcon's "Redwing" ability

[Wolfpup3]

This may sound dumb, but I'm sort of confused by it. When it triggers passively, I guess it consumes blue gems, then it leaves behind a countdown tile...

Now in every other case, you want to protect your countdown tile so whatever effect activates when it counts down, but...in the case of Redwing, do you actually want to destroy the tile? Like I don't think anything happens once it counts down? Is it just there as "while this tile is on the board, Redwing can't activate again"? So you want to destroy it so Redwing can reactivate assuming you have the blue gems for it?

Obviously Falcon seems like he's probably useful, but kind of a more complicated character to use!

[archmag]

It does not consume blue AP. It only requires a certain amount for passive to work. As long as you have that amount the passive will trigger if there are enemy special tiles on the field (type depends on Redwing skill level) and you don't have it's countdown active. And yes, you want to destroy that countdown tile as soon as possible so that Redwing returns early and can eat another enemy tile. Although if you leave it on the field and focus on other combos when it disappear by itself it can trigger some extra cascades so sometimes it is useful to keep it.

[Wolfpup3]

Awesome, thanks!