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No, just -60% HP to an enemy you initiate combat against within two squares. Other nearby enemies only take 20%, as do enemies that initiate combat against you.

They stack.

Wait, is it currently? Robin themself isn't even necessarily male. If that's true, what the fuck, IS.

She does, but Fighter is the only class she can share with Lazward.

Oh, I thought others could A+ support them but I guess not. Why does Corrin have to be so confusing about Buddy Seals?

Male Corrin with secondary Rod Knight should grant it as a Buddy, but odds are you haven't set that up.

Elise should give Rod Knight.

So after playing through all three Fates stories, I've started replaying Sacred Stones and it's really funny how hard it is to care about durability now. "Use an Iron Sword? Why? I have this Rapier. It's better."

No, I neither know much about optimizing characters nor particularly care. I see no reason to cut down on variety by removing cool unoptimal setups.

Any ranged physical weapon works, not just bows. There are plenty of ways to get through it. Class selection isn't a big deal, anyway. You can get those same skills on plenty of other characters with as much trouble or less.

I used a Freeze staff and a series of ranged attacks, personally. But yes, she's hard to hit.

If they aren't as good as Silver weapons, but the statistics say they are, the statistics are not accurately measuring weapon quality. Also it looks like they have the same Crit Evade as Bronze, not more. And they have a fair bit less Mt.

In Hoshido, the last unpromoted character you get during the main story is a level 14 Nishiki in Chapter 12. In Nohr, the last unpromoted character you get during the main story is a level 15 Flannel in Chapter 14. In Invisible Kingdom, you get Elise, Effie, Harold, and Charlotte ranging from levels 7-10 in Chapter 14, Nyx at level 9 in Chapter 15, Asama and Setsuna at levels 13 and 11 in Chapter 16, and Odin, Zero, Pieri, and Lazward ranging from levels 12-16 in Chapter 17. Given that Chapter 17 is the last one to feature any unpromoted enemies, that all seems like a bit of an issue.

Like most skills, if you have a character with them, you'll be better off putting it to use than not, but they're not critical any more than most. They're good, though.

They usually tweak things. I'm not sure what could be done for Invisible Kingdom, but I feel like they could smooth things over a bit with Nohr.

I can believe it; it's just not something I've personally noticed.

I wouldn't say more chaotic, but I definitely noticed both player and enemy Dragon Vein effects having more of a presence in shaping map-specific strategy in Nohr compared to Hoshido. Haven't noticed any stat patterns in any route.

Yeah it's not a Brave weapon thing; it's just that Dual Attacks no longer care about the main unit's number of attacks at all.

No. Nohr has a lot more to its maps than just the victory conditions, giving enemies cool tricks like specifically tailored skills and tricky Dragon Vein effects.

Oh yeah earlygame stuff is more conventional, and yeah Lunatic.

What sorts of troubles?

That could explain the Mt alone, but there's something else going on for the Crit. If they boosted the Crit separately somehow, they might've done the same to the Mt, so +63 could still be the maximum.

No, that doesn't add up at all. +63 Demonic Ganglari would have 79 Mt; add in his 42 Str and that's still just 121 Mt. He's listed as having 317 Mt. There are some small miscellaneous bonuses he should have like from S rank Swords but nothing that would close a gap of almost 200 damage. Crit is the same way. His stats should only give him 19 Crit; even accounting for his class and the weapon I'm counting just 34 Crit while he's displayed as having 289, a difference of 255 Crit.

Main unit attacks, then attacks a second time because they have a Brave weapon Support unit attacks, then attacks a second time because they have a Brave weapon Main unit doubles, then attacks a second time because they have a Brave weapon Brave weapon attacks are consecutive. If the support unit doesn't have a Brave weapon, there is no possible way for them to get more than one Dual Attack.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. You're absolutely correct: he joins at level 10 in Invisible Kingdom Ch15, even though he joins at level 2 after Nohr Ch16, with his stats adjusted accordingly. In Hoshido he joins at level 10 as well with the same stats but that's after Hoshido Ch22. So yes, it's completely befuddling and the only explanation I can think of is that the devs must've copied the wrong set of stats.