Some Edies

some edies

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).

this poor guy

so do you like orange

Oooo Constance or any of the wolves?? 💖

yes! constance! (i've been meaning to draw her for ages whoops)

I've had the dlc for two runs (vw and am, both hard) and idk if i'd ever play without constance again. She has two very specific features:

tied with lysithea for highest magic growth in the game

bolting

bolting is only learnt by constance (60% magic growth), hilda (25%), and manuela (35%). warlock/gremory gives +10% magic growth, giving constance a huge magic stat by the end of the game. her defences are horrible, but she shouldnt be getting attacked anyway.

by the time she's in warlock/gremory she can cast bolting four times, unless her crest of noa activates and she gets more uses, so she's able to completely remove four enemies per battle from across the map. I give her the ordelia sorcery co. battalion for +8 mag and +20 hit too, and thyrsus so she can hit from 5 range with her normal spells once she has S rank reason. She also gets fimbulvetr and agnea's arrow for increased power if needed. her weakness is powerful bosses with counter like the death knight, but otherwise she can one shot almost anything

I only ever bring one mage who can't learn physic per team, and it's constance now. She also has rescue, which isnt worth enough to get flayn a team spot, but it's really nice utility on constance.

I usually have her in warlock for bonuses to her black magic and double bolting castings, and then gremory for extra movement. With bolting I really don't need the utility of dark flier, and it's very rare that she gets so far from the fighting that she'd need it anyway (usually very spaced out maps, like the lysithea/ferdie paralogue)

anyway i really like constance

the other wolves:

balthus has a cool personality but other brawlers just tend to perform better for me, like byleth and felix (and he directly lost to cyril in the vw run)

hapi is... another linhardt. she has the same magic growth as him, and also learns physic and warp. she was a good replacement on my last run when he got bad magic level up rng in the early game and never recovered. i take her thru bishop just to get more heals and warps, and then end in gremory. she does not get dark spikes

yuri is good. in my first run with him he was a trickster. i made him a dancer last run and with sword avoid nothing can hit him. i wanna try the war master crit build i heard about.

these screenshots are from my first run with the dlc characters

theyre good

i coloured it lol

i just colour-picked from the official artwork bc it's late and im tired