Birdy

Oh no, I wasn't refering to your description, just the description NOA/the game gave it =p.

I think Vantage + Pivot is probably the best on him. Wings of Mercy is much more situational and if anything, would fair better on a defence team. Kagero/Jeorge are one-shot units that shouldn't really get retaliated upon. Olivia is almost always used for dancing I presume. Reinhardt/Cordelia are also heavily offensive and want to take out a unit in one turn without getting counterattacked. This wouldn't really let you activate Wings of Mercy very often. As for a C-skill, it depends on what your other units have mostly as C-skills, since you generally don't want two units with the same Hone skills since they overwrite eachother. You could take Threaten Def + Pavise also I'd say. Moonbow/Draconic Aura are also good options on him.

I just wanted to say this since the description is kina off, but Chrom's skill [Axe Mastery]: "If unit survives, all axe-users on team get 2x EXP", is better worded as: "If unit is alive, all axe-users on team get 2x EXP", since survival to me basically means 'after battle'.

Dire Thunder (+ not neccesary =P) is not inheritable I'm afraid, it's an unique weapon. You'll be in for some heavy farming though if you want to give her blade tome + other skills if you 'only' have one of her. Good luck!

If you've gotten only one stat-up from leveling by shards/crystals, you would have gotten the same by leveling them by fighting/healing. Level-ups are fixed, like people said. Time wise, it's better to use shards/crystals. SP wise, it's better to level them by battling/healing. You pick what's worth more to you =).

Seeing the other ones and my own, seems like yours is +ATK -SPD

I feel like Minerva has a good shot, especially since she's pretty good in this game. I'll be going for her personally, atleast.

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I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Fury doesn't activate at the start of your first hit/get hit, it is already active on units when the battle starts.

Draconic Aura almost always outdamages New Moon. To outdamage Draconic Aura, New Moon needs to activate on a targer with more Defense than you have Attack, which is almost never. The question is more if you value the one-CD of New Moon over Draconic Aura's two-CD.

No, four attacks is the max.

What would you guys give Azura for skills? I gave her Wings of Mercy 2 so far and she has 600SP points left and a A, C and Special skill open. Fury could always be good I guess, adding to her survivability a bit. Hone/Fortify for Nino/Tharja could be good aswell. Team is below (Will train a new Eirika if I get one probably): (Copy pasted from the General Discussion topic, since this topic would be a better fit.)

Hmm, could be, though my team is all squish. Main strategy is to buff Tharja and Nino > Attack > Sing > Draw Back and do that all over again if I can't delete them next turn. So far games in the Arena have been really easy with this.

What would you guys give Azura for skills? I gave her Wings of Mercy 2 so far and she has 600SP points left and a A, C and Special skill open. Fury could always be good I guess, adding to her survivability a bit. Hone/Fortify for Nino/Tharja could be good aswell. Team is below (Will train a new Eirika if I get one probably): Edit: Might have been a better question for the the skill inheritance topics, I'll put it there, my bad >.<

He has some good synergy with all his current skills all making him stronger at low health. You could just upgrade those for 830SP and you'll have a good unit. You could take other skills, but they're more costly to upgrade most of the time and some are rare, like Distant Counter. Personally, if I had the optional, I would give him Fury instead of his Defiant Atk, and then a C-skill and assist skill that just depends on your team.

Good find, but I think @Ice Dragon already worked on this. You can see all his findings in his stickied topic, but here's the part about modifiers.

Arena resets after 7 wins. So after 7 wins, your score is set, and you can try to beat that score with your next 7-win streak.

I mean, it's Arena. You can't possibly prepare for every unit. Leo is so unique and rare, not to mention just not a great unit, that preparing specifically for him would feel like a waste to me (not that M!Robin is bad though, not at all).

Fury 3 is what I use on Lucina (and the Nowi and Linde you saw, which is why it matched me with you...). I was torn between choosing either Swordbreaker or Desperation for her B skill and after quite some contemplating I ended up choosing the latter. If I had the option though, Distant Counter + Vantage could also be good, though I know you're not a fan of Vantage.

Hmm, there's only so much you can do I guess on defense, but I would say the main thing would be to just equip all the skills. I noticed both Lucina's (And I believe Julia too?) just had their default skills. Anything special you're planning with them? I was also lucky that I had Anna with TA with me to deal with Robin, because that set-up is pretty brutal I must say.

@Ice Dragon Could you not ruin my streak like this? >.> (Actually, I had 4 damage too little to kill your second Lucina that killed my Linde. Normally I would give up and try again for a high score, but this was a matter of pride >.>)

It will help you against against things that would otherwise one-shot you. Fury 3 will do 6 damage to you, but it will never let you go below one HP. Besides that, it might also keep you from getting doubled because of the +3 SPD it gives.

Be sure to both equip your best skills last for future offspring On a more serious note, I'm happy for both you and @Ice Dragon that you've gotten so many happy/good things from this series. Chapeau! =) Apologies for those who can't be bothered with this info and just want to know more about the game, I'll leave it with this =P.

Sounds good, but how much of that would you credit to Ninian being in the game as opposed to the Fire Emblem series? Just curious xD. If such a character would be the start of a big path in life for me, I would probably try and get as many copies as I could of him/her aswell xD.

Doesn't have to be a rant though, you actually made me curious how Ninian would lead you to those things.