AlecColasante

I have to disagree. I very rarely use staves, and I'm doing fine. They are nice to have, but far from mandatory.

Personally, I think you will be fine without Pair Up. My first play through was hard classic and I did very little pair up, except on the final, and is wasn't very difficult. Although I used the merchants, and did the dlc to get the characters, but I also didn't use any children except Lucina, so those kinda balance out. Anyways, good luck!

My favorites are (in no particular order) Virion Chrom Lon'qu Panne Nowi Lucina Owain Inigo Kjelle Morgan Yarne Tiki If we're counting spot pass though, Hector is still my favorite

I forgot about the effective damage from the falchion, that would have made it much easier, but luck was on my side.

Hello everyone, I started Lunatic mode on Wednesday, and I have to say, after you get the renown awards, it became much easier, in fact, My avatar, with Chrom as a support unit, was able to solo chapters 19-25. Then I got to the Endgame. Even with forged brave weapons, my avatar can only do like 5 damage a hit on the boss, 2 after pavise, which almost always activates. So I was wondering, for those of you have beaten it, what was your strategy? Did you rush the boss with several people, take it slow, or something else entirely? Edit: I managed to beat it by pairing My avatar with Vake, giving him bowfaire, a forged brave bow, Astra and pass,, and extreme luck. First turn I just ran forward. Second turn, I ran up and attack the boss for 12x4 damage, and managed to pull off two astras, with no misses, and he never got pavise, and he missed. Then he attacked, hit me, and I killed him. Now on to Lunatic Plus!

HECTOR!!!, Ike, The Black Knight, Marth, Roy, Jaffar, Nino, Eliwood, Lyn, Eirika, Ephraim, Miciah, Nergal, Lyon, Ashnard, Lilina, Sothe, Paris, Matthew, Nephenee