Bridal Tharja

• Preferred IV: +SPD or ATK / -DEF or -RES

• Weapon: Rauðrblade+

• Assist: Draw Back / Ardent Sacrifice / Reposition / Rally Atk/Spd

• Special: Glimmer / Draconic Aura / Moonbow

• Passive A: Fury / Brazen Atk/Spd / Swift Sparrow / Life and Death / Atk/Spd Bond

• Passive B: Desperation / Swordbreaker / Spd Feint

• Passive C: Odd Atk Wave / Spd Smoke / Res Smoke / Flexible

• Sacred Seal: Speed+3 / Attack+3 / Heavy Blade

The standard Blade Tome build that Tharja uses exceedingly well.

A Speed boon is preferred to maximize the number of units Tharja will be able to double, but an Attack boon is great as well and will help her run the Heavy Blade Seal if one wishes to do so.

The weapon of choice, Rauðrblade+, will allow Tharja to deal massive amounts of damage to enemies when she is receiving buffs.

Draw Back is a good option for an assist skill for ranged units, but Rally Atk/Spd and Reposition are great as well. One should consider the assist skills on the rest of their team when deciding what skill to use on Tharja; it often helps to utilize some variety. Ardent Sacrifice can be a great choice as well, as using it on a teammate once can put a neutral HP Tharja in both Brazen Atk/Spd range and Desperation range.

Glimmer is the preferred choice of Special. As it is a 2 cooldown Special and Tharja should be hitting most units for very high damage, Glimmer will generally be very reliable. Draconic Aura is a good, safer option as it will deal a fixed amount of extra damage based on Tharja’s Attack, although it will activate slightly slower considering its higher cooldown of 3.

Fury is a great choice for the A slot. It will increase Tharja’s offensive power while also minimizing the chances of her getting killed on the counterattack. The chip damage from Fury will also help put her in range to activate Desperation. Brazen Atk/Spd is another great option that will allow Tharja to deal even more damage and have more Speed, but this requires her to reach the required HP threshold first, as opposed to Fury which is ready at the get-go. If utilizing Ardent Sacrifice, it becomes much easier to reach this threshold. Swift Sparrow and Life and Death are great choices as well. Atk/Spd Bond is a good skill, but as it is a Bond skill, it lends itself to be used on Enemy Phase rather than Player Phase. Bridal Tharja is an offensive unit, and getting the positioning for teammates right for using a Bond skill during Player Phase can be particularly tricky. If one is able to do it consistently though, then Tharja’s default A slot is perfectly serviceable.

As Tharja will be hitting a very high Speed stat ideally, Desperation is the preferred choice of B slot to allow her to attack units twice without getting hit herself. Getting into the HP range of Desperation can be achieved via entering combat and taking Fury chip damage or using Ardent Sacrifice on a teammate. Swordbreaker is another good option for Tharja as well considering the meta of extremely fast sword units, but Tharja is susceptible to getting OHKO’d on the counterattack on units with Distant Counter, especially if she has an HP or Defense bane. Spd Feint is a nice little skill that can be activated from a safe distance, but it doesn’t quite offer the same level of consistency of help that Desperation or Swordbreaker might bring. It also is dependent on either Tharja or a teammate running a Rally assist skill, taking up a slot for a potential positioning skill.

Odd Atk Wave works great on Blade tome builds, and Tharja is no exception. Providing an effective +12 damage every other turn thanks to the weapon effect as well as increasing the Attack of any adjacent allies, Odd Atk Wave truly makes for an extremely potent if not slightly inconsistent skill. Smoke skills such as Spd Smoke or Res Smoke are generally very useful as well. Tharja is incapable of running Ploy skills due to her low Resistance, so a simple team supporting skill like Hone Atk will work fine too.

Tharja will want an offensive stat boosting Seal such as Atk+3 or Speed+3. Heavy Blade is also an interesting option for a Seal. If Tharja is <= 75% HP, she is capable of being in both Brazen Atk/Spd and Desperation range, meaning that she will almost always be able to activate Heavy Blade on any unit she attacks, allowing her to hit once and activate Glimmer on the second hit. This makes for an extremely deadly combo. This is a slightly more risky approach, but one that reaps very high rewards.

• Preferred IV: +SPD or ATK / -DEF or -RES

• Weapon: Múspell Fireposy

• Assist: Draw Back / Swap / Reposition

• Special: Glimmer / Moonbow / Draconic Aura

• Passive A: Fury / Brazen Atk/Spd / Swift Sparrow / Life and Death / Atk/Spd Bond

• Passive B: Desperation / Swordbreaker / R Tomebreaker / Spd Feint

• Passive C: Hone Atk / Odd Atk Wave / Flexible

• Sacred Seal: Speed+3 / Attack+3 / Heavy Blade

A build using Tharja’s default tome, the play style is not much more different compared to using a Blade tome. Considering her poor defenses, Tharja will still be played offensively rather than defensively.

Múspell Fireposy is an interesting weapon, granting Tharja a static +3 to Speed as well as increasing her Attack and Speed by 2 each for every ally within 2 spaces of her during combat. This works as a sort of improved Owl tome, as Defense and Resistance are not particularly useful in this case and having allies within 2 spaces instead of adjacent makes for much easier positioning.

Glimmer won’t be quite as potent as it is on the Blade tome build, but it will typically still be reliable as Tharja will be having her Attack boosted by nearby teammates. Moonbow can be taken for more reliable damage, while Draconic Aura will likely deal more than both at the cost of being 3 cooldown instead of 2.

The choice of A slot is about the same as in the Blade tome build, and the listed skills are recommended for the reasons stated earlier. Fury will help Tharja both offensively and increase her odds of surviving a single hit, Brazen Atk/Spd will allow her to hit massive Attack and Speed, Life and Death is a great offensive option althout it makes Tharja even more susceptible to getting OHKO'd on counterrattacks, and Atk/Spd Bond is a decent budget choice if that is all that’s available.

Desperation is the clear choice of B slot as Tharja will be hitting very high Speed. Swordbreaker is always a decent option too. R Tomebreaker can be run to counter any other mages that may be running R Tomebreaker too as Tharja will almost always win any skill ties thanks to her massive Speed. Tharja’s default Spd Feint can work fine as well, but as Tharja will likely be hitting massive Speeds regardless, it’s fine if a different B slot is taken instead.

The C slot is not particularly important in this build, so a basic team supporting skill can be taken. Odd Atk Wave can definitely be a great option on this build as well, but if one wishes to give Tharja Odd Atk Wave, it is highly recommended to use a Blade tome instead as that is where field buffs truly shine.

The choice of Seal is also more or less the same as the Blade tome build. Simple offensive boosting Seals such as Atk+3 or Speed+3 will always be appreciated. Heavy Blade is still an option considering Tharja’s tome will increase her Attack and is even more so an option if Tharja has a boon in Attack.