Est

Est’s Anti-Armor Delivery Services are open for business!!!

White there are better weapons choices, Slaying Spear+ makes est an Armor breaker, and it also allows you to keep other weapon fodder for later. A Res+ upgrade increases Est’s ability to ploy other units with high res, and even escaping Arvis’s ploy capabilities.

Fury, being the almighty god skill that it is, increases all of Est’s stats, allowing her to both tank hits and dish out punishment even better. With the downside of taking damage though, it’s important that you only pick fights that you can win.

While any Breaker skill seems like a stupid choice with Fury, this is a different case. Est can run any of the Breaker skills available to her (meaning Axebreaker and Green Tomebreaker are out of the question, obviously), and still have a decent amount of HP afterwards. Using these skills is basically a one-time nuke against a certain type of unit, since she’ll probably take a hefty amount of damage.

Any Ploy skill can be run in her C Slot. Def Ploy is especially good to allow her and her other melee allies to rack up quicker damage on units with high defense but low res like Effie, Black Knight, and Hector. Atk Ploy increases her survivability and can even give her a chance of staying in Breaker range. The same can be said about her Sacred Seal. The only exception to this is Res Ploy, unless you are running her on a team a mage like Morgan, who can obtain Flier buffs, or Sanaki, who has her Cymbeline Refine.

All in all, this set is meant to bust the pretty common threat of Armor Emblem. However, it also works on other fronts as well, which makes Est a well-rounded unit and an acceptable teammate on a Flier team.

The youngest pegasus knight is quite the fixer-upper of a unit. Granted an unsynergetic kit that makes her little more than feather fodder, she's someone who requires a whole skill transplant to be usable in the long run. Once you make that investment, however, you won't be disappointed.

Est is a very aggressive player phase unit when given the proper build. Her attack reaches an excellent 56 with an attack boon, and Death Blow makes it reach a blistering 62 on the player phase. That's enough to help her proc Heavy Blade against a fair portion of units, and with Slaying Lance+, her Luna only needs one hit to be charged up and ready to retaliate. Where she shines is against slower units that allow her to double them, thus ensuring almost certain death against anything that isn't a green unit. Hit and Run allows her to draw back after she attacks, which allows her to be easily repositioned out of danger by one of her teammates. Guidance allows her to help any armored or infantry friend get into position to unleash some hurt as well, so she can assist her teammates as needed.

This build for Est allows the Youngest Whitewing to become a duelist among the blue units and slayer of the reds. She has a one turn special that allows her to deal with high defense units with ease, although a two turn Luna is not bad either. The crux of build lies in the Fortress Defense 3 skill. This builds allows Est to endure physical hits that she would otherwise not and become badly damaged all at the cost of 3 points of Attack. This build excels also when integrated into a Flier team, of course results with vary depends on team composition and enemy lineup. However, this build leaves her vulnerable to all projectiles, anti-counter attack skills and weapons. This builds assigns Est to the role of a decent duelist of dragons due to her high resistance and give her mixed bulk. Use her well!

Don't mEst with the bEst!:
This build seeks to make the most of Est's weapon and good attack to make a hard hitting dual phase threat that can take care of most armored units.

Mirror Strike is taken to bring Est up to a crisp 58 Attack when initiating, which is capable of OHKO Zephiel, +Def Winter Tharja, + Def Effie, and + Def Winter Robin all in one mighty jab. Keep in mind that Effie and W!Robin will survive with two Ward Armor buffs, but both will still fall after a single Hone Fliers buff (watch out for +Def refinements). Mirror Strike also has the added benefit of adding to Est's Iceberg damage should it activate while she's attacking. Should you want more attack, Death Blow would be the way to go, Fury is also a good alternative in order for Est to tank hits better.

Quick Riposte is taken so Est can break through Wary Fighter and destroy anything that doesn't destroy her first. Be warned that Est's defense and speed is mediocre, so be careful when trying to use her to tank units with high attack or speed, even sword units. Alternatively, Swordbreaker or Lancebreaker can be used to help alleviate her mediocre speed.

Defense ploy is used in order to indirectly boost Est's already great attack to further heights, and to increase her OHKO potential. If running her in a Flier Emblem team, her C skill can be easily replaced with any flier buff you desire while Defense ploy can still be used as a sacred seal.

Team wise Est likes teammates who can handle Axe units and boost her attack and speed (especially speed). Palla and New Year Azura deserve special mentions as they both boost Est's stats while Palla can deal with any nasty green units who stand in her way.

I present to you the ultimate mage killer. With all your love and support, she can already tank that bloody Reinhardt even if he is max merged and kill him in return. (Watch out for Lancebreaker skills)
The speed bane is so she can be doubled by usual green mages (she'll be fine) and trigger Iceberg, for the sure kill. She takes about no damage on other blue and red mages, so bait them to your heart's content.

But if what you need is a definitive solution to Reinhardt, you can still use Blue Tomebreaker instead of Quick Riposte.