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Absolutely. What do you think Charlotte and Rinka are for? Even Arthur earns consistent deployment because his pair up bonuses are so good early on.

For utility, Falco. Otherwise, she really needs the offensive boost of Hero over Bow Knight.

It's not just "not as deep as JP", it's really not deep enough. This man is basically the pilllar that Nohr stands on. He's the " should every burden ever" guy. I mean it's not even like Symphonia's Kratos Aurion where each dub had an equally accurate representation of him (JP represented how old he actually was while Eng represented how young he looked). This is just oh god why. Ryoma kept his deep confident voice (that is admittedly just Chrom+) so that they didn't for Marx seems odd.

You've still got units like Effie, Belka, Silas, and Flannel who could be a part of the action. You can do with or without them if you want.

Hey that's not fair because Kyle Herbert is also a god so it's okay. Also the quality of Awakening's dub is quite a bit higher than this from what I've been hearing so far. Kaze will take some getting used to. Maybe they should've gotten Kyle for him again :P

Can we talk about how amazing the player was? come on everyone would sound bad compared to Ono D.

There's certainly enough gold to afford it in Hoshido and a couple of them do drop in C21 which around where your units will reach A rank anyway.

In game, Zero's offense is fine, considering the above average Mt of bows and how he pretty much always doubles. I just used Zerker Belka as his pair up fodder and he was set.

10 base speed and no support ranks right before every enemy promotes and requires anywhere from 21-26 AS to double? It's pretty rough for him. Nishiki is pretty solid. He'd really just like a boost to his Str/Def since he's usually fast enough. FeMui almost never plays back row since they are so good. The only thing would be that as a DM with -Lck you'll be sitting on a 40 Str Growth so Kamui's physical combat might be sketchy post promotion. Hoshido and IK Yato do give Str boosts but Nohr Yato only boosts bulk so it may be an issue without Felicia/Gunther support. Kamui's bulk growths also seem kinda sketch as a DM as well.Edit: didn't realize DM had +10% str Growth lol

It's funny because Nohr gives you a ton of money, you just have to go out of your way for it. The girl is truly useless. Flannel is great for either Effie, Luna, Cam, or Belka. All of these units either greatly appreciate his boosts (Luna/Belka) or get taken to new levels of fuckery (Cam/Effie) when paired with him. As for your general plan, sounds good to me. FeMui is usually better because Jakob's personal is so insanely strong. Another fun build is +Mag/-Res Spellcaster but it's really just a worse +Str/-Res Ninja. :/ For astro: 1x is a good place to build weapon rank. I used it to take Kamui from E Kunai to D Kunai in my Nohr run. You could use it to go from E Lances to D Lances then Arms Scroll for shockstick if you have to. Wyvern is kinda awkward early on.

For units that are bulky and don't care about avoid, they are amazing. Coming to mind are Hinata, Oboro, and Tsubaki. They also have really high hit too so they are perfect enemy phase weapons. You get the warrior Naginata in Nohr too but really late (N25) but bulky Lance units like Effie and Silas love it while it is around.

Haha you're totally using an asset/flaw build I stole from another user here. Answering these in order: The "blood" classes are indeed sub par but not terrible. They seem like failsafe classes in case you picked a subclass that can't use Yato or something. Dark Blood can be pretty decent coming out of Spellcaster since the Tome rank carries and you get a bit bulkier but mixed classes are never as good as specialty ones. I have never used Kanna because Kanna isn't very good in game. +Mag/-Lck Paladin is Gwimpage's build. You are correct in that Levin sword is the build's main appeal. Levin sword until you need Yato basically. Mount + strong 1-2 range. Might work better as Mamui x Felicia since her personal gives a damage bonus and even with +Mag, Cav Kamui's magic is sketch. +Str/-Res Samurai is pretty ridiculous. 55% HP/70% Str/60% Skl/60% Spd/40% Defense growths, on top of proc stacking Astra and Dragon Fang, on top of avoid stacking Yato plus class bonus plus Jakob personal + flowing Strike, on top of swordfaire + Yato. It's all just really really dumb. It works great in IK because 3rd route Yato is a totally balanced weapon. +Str/-Res Ninja is mostly the same deal, except with 1-2 range and no swordfaire/Astra proc stacking. Ninja Kamui makes a lot of Nohr's hardest chapters noticeably easier save 26. I recommend it over Samurai for Nohr.

Whether or not it's worth it is up to you. Basically everyone benefits from it, so it you can just throw it whoever you want, but ideally carrying a weapon rank into the class makes it that much better.

Depends on the route. Hoshido starts you off with 5k then gives you like 12k in the first chapter. However, there is also only one seal until C14 minimum so class hopping only can happen for 1 character early on. Nohr starts you off with 3k with potentially 10k to earn in C8, another 3k in C9 and another 10k in C10. There are also 2 parallel seals prior to the C14 shop (1 in the level 1 shop, 1 from C9 boss) so you have the funds to do class hopping for 2 characters since there are 2 seals. Silas and Effie would probably be good candidates for it too since they both carry weapon rank into it and have the same availability lol.

Dark Falcon's speed +2 is deceptively good.

That's what I meant by train Luna. Getting her to level 5 from E rank lances and a 40% Str growth could be difficult without help. After that you don't need to do much. Worth noting though that Luna being fast is pretty cool for Nohr late game and she gets Fighter skills (HP +5 and Roundhouse) from Marrying Flannel as well if you want to use her for more than just a rally speed bot. Flannel gets a nice boost of speed out of the pairing too which he always appreciates. Edit: Also rescue is E rank like Awakening so really just by instant promoting her then sealing her to Falco she can use rescue.

Basically what Tooru said. There is no reason to not use dlc classes early on if you choose to. They really break the early game so use them at your discretion. Worth noting that in IK almost all of your early game units benefit from Dread Fighter, for example.

He is. Cool thing about him is that you can either train him as a unit or use him as fodder. He's great on Cam, Luna, and Effie. Cam and Effie are self explanatory (so much power) while Luna benefits incredibly from his bonuses and he really eases training her while she is in Pegasus. For the most part, Shephen's list covers everything. A few cool pairings are missing (Oboro/Ryoma and Flannel/Effie, for example) but it's dead accurate. In case you haven't noticed, Kagerou Hana and Oboro are loose women

Defensive formation hurts her more than it helps because Effie can actually double some things.

In theory this sounds good, but in practice she can only dabble in Hero/Zerker if she marries Flannel or Arthur. Of course, she makes great use of those 2 (moreso Flannel), but even so she carries no weapon rank into those classes. In truth, Effie is so ridiculously strong that she could probably rock a bronze forge and still ORKO, but it's better to keep her mounted so she doesn't fall behind the rest of the crew so Great Knight is fine. If you manage to get it somehow, it's pretty amazing. It's basically Great Knight Effie with +1 Mov and a more reliable Speed growth.

Great Knight all the way. I usually promote her at 18 because she needs that Horse for mid game onwards. Has no business with General ever. Something funny to think about is Dark Flier Effie though. Her durability goes RIP but 70% Str/65% Spd and flight and keeping lance rank is lol.

Marx w/ S Charlotte kills the fuck out of everything already so Luna doesn't do much for his offense. He's also already a stupid good tank too with his effective 29 base defense so diamond Strike is sorta overkill since he probably doesn't eat counters on player phase anyway due to 1-2. He'd love mirror Strike but that's all the way at 20/15 Falco lol. On the other hand, his son Siegbert could use both of those skills because he lacks Xander's prf weapon. Since he also starts with a Lance rank, he's probably better off going Wyvern than Paladin, but that's Gen 2 stuff.

Basically what Espinosa said. Mozume is also significantly better when reclasses but she just goes from really terrible to kinda terrible so her situation doesn't change. The only characters hankering for a reclass would be Mozume, Kamui, and the servants. Camilia appreciates one after getting Deadly Breath because Wyvern is a straight statistical increase for her, Leo is an interesting case. You could either make him a full out nuke with Sorc or make him a faster mount with Strategist. However, I prefer him as a Dark Knight because he's fast enough as a Dark while also having some pretty crazy good bulk. Camilia and Marx are also kinda cool. Assuming Cam marries either Arthur/Flannel or buddies with Luna, she can opt to go Zerker/Hero for a bit to get some cool skills and Marx could go Hero if he marries Charlotte. It's overkill reclassing, but it's still cool. Basically, there aren't that many characters that benefit from their own secondary, but there is a lot you can do with buddy/marriage seals. I'd wager 10/1. So... 31?

BB dubs too good. I can get behind DC Douglas for Ganz. A part of me also wants Cam Clarke or Patrick Seitz for Marx. Edit: I also want Brina Palencia for Belka.... because Varona

Her bases and growths are already high AF for those areas, but more never hurts. She'd like speed more than strength so that it can keep her doubling thresholds for steel weapons good (a +1 Steel Axe is 14 Mt, +2 is 16 Mt lol. Nohr actually throws enough axes at you to make a +2 no problem). Good fodder for her includes Arthur, Flannel, Inigo, Luna (early on for steels), and sorta Kaze (works both ways).