Okay, Self-indulgent Time

okay, self-indulgent time

i replayed fire emblem fates recently to actually learn the reclassing system (i was only using master seals previously), and the first thing i noticed while looking up stats is how drastically boons and banes can change the avatar's stats. So, as a joke, I immediately decided to play a magic class. Also, I played hard mode for the first time.

This is Kaori, a diviner/onmyoji classed avatar, with +magic and -strength. She's mature and calculating and not physically strong (making some early game dialogue pretty funny). She sided with her birth family, and picked up magic after her "father's" lovely sword exploded in her face. She almost immediately ditched Yato, using a +1 thunder tome that she totally didn't dimension hop to get (I also worked out online play finally). She's also a little salty that she was pushed towards swords growing up.

She managed to 1v1 Leo in his map with magic, and Xander which allowed her to skip his entire level lol.

She adores her son Kana, who reclassed into paladin and picked up tomebreaker from a previous logbook unit who had it. With tomebreaker, armourslayer, and beastslayer, Kana took down quite a few scary threats.

In terms of a magical avatar: fun, funny, decently strong, but very frail, at least in hard mode. Often having to hide behind defensive units meant she didn't see as much battle, but the onmyoji being able to use staffs meant she had added utility as a healer, which was why I picked it over sorcerer.

Fates can be hilariously bad in some places, but it's my first fire emblem game so I'm still quite fond of it. I miss being able to customise the player character so much ;-;

New fire emblem ask game: send me a couple of characters and I'll describe the build for them I had the most fun with, including silly/weird/strong builds.

Put in the tags when you reblog which fire emblem games you've played/want to be asked about. Also if you're asking probably send a couple of characters in case there's no answer to one. I've played fe3h 8 times and still havent used every character, so best to give options.

I really like coming up with builds and optimising so i think it would be fun to see how you guys play too ^-^

If you're taking suggestion perhaps Manuela?

sure! (ignore how long this took, pokemon came out)

so do you like orange

My first awakening avatar, I drew this on my bf's computer bc I'm over at his place

Alright i'll give this a go; Caspar, Ashe, or Ignatz

I've used Caspar as both a wyvern lord and a war master and i think his brawling sets work better overall. now that i have the dlc, i've been training him towards war monk for the brawl avoid if i use him again tho.

I havent used ignatz in a while, and iirc i only used him back when i was playing the routes for the first time in normal difficulty. i heard he's an okay crit unit tho. also sorry but i didnt feel like drawing three characters ^-^;

Ashe is... i used him in my last run, which was azure moon hard. I was training him towards dancer but he got strength blessed so I kept him as an assassin. Overall he did okay but was not a particularly good dodge and crit unit, nor was he as a reliable damage dealer as other units, and dropped away slowly towards late game. It also probably doesnt help that I was trying to run him alongside some really good builds (byleth beat most of the final map solo).

Ashe had riding proficiency from a previous run, so his niche became running +1 mov and march ring, giving him 8 mov that was not impacted by bushes/forests. With high dodge and movement he could swoop in and deal a bunch of damage (possibly critting too), and if he did take the about 30% percent hit he would take a lot of damage but was likely safe until i could heal him, as the assassin's stealth ability would force the enemies to attack another unit if they were in range. I also gave him swords such as thunderbrand (with ng+ crest items) and armorslayer to boost his damage in late game.

This build is less silly and more trying hard to make a character i really like keep up with a team of some of the best characters in the game.

Overall, it's a shame that characters like ashe have objectively bad growth rates because I love him and caspar as characters. As units, ashe is beaten in every relevant stat by characters like petra and leonie who just do his stuff better (and have access to falcon knight).