Masked Marth

He is an offensive unit and as such by golly I will give him an offensive set. You tell me what could possibly be better than 60 Atk and 46 Spd in Desperation range with a guaranteed Glimmer on follow-up (okay other than Guard)? Marth will destroy them all! Not sure why his stats are the same as a neutral Lucina though.

This Masked Marth anti dragon build is made specifically for him to become the deadly counter to Fallen Robin, Myrrh, Fae, and Kana who are green dragons. His Reposition allows his teammates to be safely pulled out of harm's way. His Renewal 3 combined with Falchion's renewal effect and Aether special allows for more combat self healing. The Poison Strike 3 sacred seal hurts any unit who initiated combat against him. Death Blow 3 combined with Falchion allows Masked Marth to destroy Fallen Robin, Myrrh and the other green dragons because of triangle advantage.

Well, Buff Ike died for this.
It's sad I know.
Other than that, when you get this "Marth" we can see that they have their weapon only, meaning that this character is completely reliant on skill inheritance. So... I decided to experiment once more. This is what I got.

The weapon Sealed Falchion can be found in the weapon refinery, it's effect is that if the user's HP is below 100%, then the user is granted +5 to all stats except HP. Though the Renewal effect is removed. Since "Marth" is a Lucina with--
Oh I'm sorry, I mean since "Marth's" IVs are the same as Lucina's when their IVs are neutral, we can say that "Marth's" atk would reach 55 when below 100% HP.

Reposition is Reposition.

Special is Iceberg. Works well with "Marth's" special art. As well as with their Warding Breath. I'll be honest that it's not the best special for "Marth". It's decent, but Luna or Bonfire is benefits more. Even Aether is fine. I placed Iceberg here, because I didn't have Ignis or Bonfire fodder.

Now let's go to the A slot.
In the memory Buff Ike, "Marth" had inherited his breathing skill, Warding Breath. How "Marth" got this skill is when Buff Ike was dying, Buff Ike's last words to "Marth " was..."You must fight for your friends." And then "Marth" learned how to breathe like him.
This breathing technique grants +4 res when attacked. This also helps decrease the special counter by 2 (instead of 1) per attack.
With Sealed Falchion Activated and when "Marth" is attacked, they get 9 res. Which would be 28 res in total. This helps them survive better against magic.

And here's the B slot.
Vantage 3! The bread and butter skill for the Enemy Phase. This works well with the Breath skill since that's also an Enemy Phase skill. What Vantage does is to attack first when being attacked when below 75% HP. Works well with the Sealed Falchion's effect.

C is always flexible, it either depends on the team or playstyle.

I put my sacred seal as Threaten Atk 3 to make "Marth" survive better as long as the enemy is in range.

Good teammates are target debuffers, dancers and allied buffers. And healers too. BECAUSE WE ALL NEED HEALING!

(Note: I always show all the effects of what they would be if they were all activated, with the exception of the special. Also while doing this I haven't actually finished this build. LOL)

Masked Marth has a pretty bad Res stat, but i decided to make her a mage counter anyway.

+Res Falchion is intended to bring Marth up to an acceptable level in order to survive a hit from red mages, who she can easily kill on counter.

Reposition is used to pull other team members (all of which are bad against mages, in my case) away from mages to let Marth deal with them. Alternatively, she can pull units towards blue mages, since she still struggles a bit with those.

Glimmer is a superior option over Moonbow for this set, as most mages have low Def anyway.

It should be pretty obvious why she has Distant Counter.

Dull Ranged 3 is there to prevent highly buffed red mages (i.e. Eirika on a cavalry buff team) from OHKOing Marth before she can hit back. Alternatively, you could use Quick Riposte 3 to guarantee ORKOs against faster red mages.

The C skill on this set is highly flexible, so I picked Hone Spd 3 to allow more units on my team to double.

Distant Defense 3 is used as the seal to give her more magical bulk. In combination with my Cherche's Res Tactic 3 (a very normal Cherche skill), she can reach up to 36 Res!

All being said, this set is still pretty stupid, but I use it because it's fun and I like it.

Currently the only limited unit who has no access ivs who is so lucky he (or she) got tons of reruns to the point where he (or she) is close to being able to reach +10. This build tends to make Masked Marth a healer for tt and chain challenge purposes.

For his (or her) weapon keep falchion. The bonus damage vs dragons is extremely useful. Not only that but it has a built in renewal 2. It will have renewal 3 built in when refined. And speaking about refinement I prefer the the refinement where it gives Masked Marth a everything bond effect.

For the assist skill ardent sacrifice is preferred for healing. And don’t worry about Masked Marth’s health as falchion recovers some of it due to its built in renewal.

For the special I prefer glimmer. Glimmer allows Masked Marth to deal even more damage to dragons. However it’s not useful outside of fighting them, though this Masked Marth build is meant for TT or chain challenge anyway.

For A skill fury 3 is preferred to give Masked Marth an well rounded boost. Though at a cost of losing 6 hp after combat. Though this isn’t a problem for Masked Marth because of the falchion’s built in renewal.

For the B skill renewal is preferred to stack with falchion’s renewal for extreme healing. This will offset fury’s 6 hp loss as well as allowing Marth to heal more hp to sacrifice with ardent sacrifice. And thanks to refined falchion now having built in renewal 3, it will now effectively stack up with the B skill renewal. Resulting a heal of 20 hp.

As for the C skill it’s random honestly cause I sometimes switch it depending on the team comp. Same can be said foe seal.

Overall I think the falchion healer build is an awesome build. Having two renewals for mega healing while also able to give away some regenerated health is incredible. Good thing Masked Marth is a f2p unit. Although it still weirds me that Masked Marth has no skills to start with. And although many consider Masked Marth a worse Lucina due to having a similar statline but no ivs, Masked Marth has the advantage of getting more merges due to the many reruns he (or she) has been getting. Masked Marth is my favorite unit to use when I want to do modes like tempest trials or chain challenges where the hp of your units remains the same. Mostly because Masked Marth can do the healer build. My Masked Marth is +2.