Performing Inigo

One of my most useful refreshers is Inigo. His ivs are +def, -res. Which I don’t think is bad. The build aims to turn Inigo into a colorless destroyer.

For his weapon I prefer gronnraven to give him weapon advantage against colorless units.

For his assist skill obviously keep dance. It’s extremely useful. It’s one of Inigo’s strengths. His selling point.

For his special I prefer moonbow just for its short charge time. Luna may deal more damage but in some cases where Inigo wants an enemy to die already moonbow might be more better.

For his A skill I prefer triangle adept to improve damage against blues and grays. As well as take less damage from them. This does however come at a cost of taking more damage from red units, though Inigo is fine as long as he stays away from them.

For his B skill I prefer bowbreaker. The reason why is because it will allow him to deny Brave Lyn’s high spd. Basically i’m building Inigo to be a Reinhardt and Brave Lyn counter. Those two are a pain in the butt to fight in arena.

For his C skill his default hone atk is preferred to maintain some of his supporting capabilities as a dancer.

For the sacred seal I prefer deflect magic for Reinhardt reasons. I thought Earth dance would be good, but other dancers or singers are better than him in terms of dance/sing buffing utility.

Overall I think Inigo can function pretty well as a colorless check. Cancel affinity colorless are the only exception though so be wary for those users. The fact that he can counter both of the annoying horses while also being a dancer to support his team makes it awesome. My Inigo is +def, - res. I don’t think that’s bad so I think Inigo is good. Whenever there’s a Rein or B!Lyn or any colorless I want eliminated who can also dance, PA!Inigo is my man.

My pride and joy, PA!Inigo. I've given him a pretty standard build with a substitution for Hone Atk with Drive Atk. I feel like Drive skills work better on dancers than hone/fortify, especially since he often dances for my Laslow that just attacked and triggered Def Smoke. He can handle pretty much any blue tome or bow unit he comes across which is really useful for a heavily red team.

Named the FEH: Dancing All Night Inigo this build using Inigo’s fairly good defence stat along with his speed to make him a dancer that is able to support his allies as well as well dance all night so to speak.

First let’s take a look at his base stats:

Hp - 37
Attack - 40
Speed - 33
Defence - 22
Resistance - 20

Not too shabby for a dancer but at a glance doesn’t seem like the unit that can use close counter effectively and he isn’t, well not without inherentance from a surprising but expensive mage.

The Egg. More specifically the green egg+ is a shamefully underrated weapon due to its exclusivity due to it being locked behind a seasonal unit and from a glance not that impressive with all the blade and raven tomes flying around. Now the egg is a weapon that grants +4 hp gained when the unit initiates an attack which isn’t too impressive and very niche but thanks to it getting a refine it now works on both phases. We’ll come back to that later.

Now dance is pretty standard and not special at all for well a dancer but it gives extreme utility on the battlefield due to it giving a unit an extra turn. Not much to say really.

Right now onto one of the more bigger curveballs, miracle. A 5 action cooldown special that allows a unit to live a fatal blow with 1 hp when procked. Now this skill would seem very strange on a unit that has 22/20 defences base but with a couple of skills this can be changed. Now remember when I was talking about The Egg well this Egg is one way of staying healthy on the battlefield but it isn’t just a breakfast break but it is there to synergies with miracle. Since you heal with The Egg on both player and enemy phase, you have some pretty nice survivability paired up with miracle and especially since you can poke from a distance to get some extra healing here and there when you aren’t bulking hits.

Close counter is a very niche skill especially compared to the “slap on anyone” distant counter. First of all a lot of 2 range units don’t have a lot of defence bar a few exceptions which makes it hard to use effectively. However when you build around close counter it can be a exceptionally good skill which can throw opponents for a loop. Close counter also has great synergy with The Egg since you are able to receive healing from The Egg on enemy phase so that means that Inigo will now receive +4 healing from every fight that he takes part in from both 1 and 2 range which also helps his survivability in general and his wins as well.

Guard is there to help counter the likes of quickened pulse Reinhardt and wrath nephnenee which do insane damage for little cost all due to specials. This will increase his survivability in the first few engagements and it will help him live to charge his miracle as well. Although guard is used for a more niche role, skills such as quick riposte to allow guaranteed doubles to help charge miracle, vantage to allow for an extra hit when low which could help him get an extra kill to get a free heal up and the ever popular skill on dancers wings of mercy as a slot filler if guard isn’t available for you or isn’t to your tasting.

I’m going to talk about threaten attack and close defence (seal) together as the both serve the same purpose. To make him bulky enough to use close counter effectively. With the combination of threaten attack and close defence Inigo is able to reach a respectable 36 defence and pair that with his 33 neutral speed he is able to be in the range that he is fast enough to avoid a decent amount of doubles.

With all these skills in place Inigo can definitely hold is one for awhile and at the same time being able to support his allies with his dance.

The recommended IV’s I’d have on him is either +speed or +defence and his preferred stat to drop is resistance.

As well as that he should have a defence refine on his egg as well.

You can honestly put inigo on any team comp as any team could use a dancer if a slot is free but good team mates for inigo would probably be fast sword units like Soleil, Ayra and Hana to help balance out the team comp. Archers like Bridal Cordelia and setsuna are great to cover Inigo’s hatred for red mages. Lastly a bulky lancer or a fast blue mage are also great teammates for inigo but as I said before inigo can fit into almost any team due to him being a dancer.

In conclusion inigo with the right support can become a self sufficient support tank that is able to life hit after hit from blue and green units in 1 range and can add a niche on your team that only one other person can perform which is performing arts shigure but he has lower defence and hp which wouldn’t be ideal for something like this.

So if you are willing to pay a small fortune in inheritance you too can have a none stop show.
Nice moves joker... I mean Inigo.

Inigo’s HP makes up for the three points in DEF lost from -DEF; -HP should not be taken if possible, as it also impedes on his already fragile ability to take a hit from mages.

While Triange Adept + Gronnraven+ is a perfectly good build on Inigo (as it is on any green mage), this build aims to keep his supportive nature while still having him be offensively viable and more flexible than the specific niche of anti colourless. Plus, Triangle Adept + raven tome is shut down by any unit with Cancel Affinity.

Life and Death makes him more lethal, but destroys his already poor bulk, something he needs as a support unit and not a primary attacker unit. Inigo’s job is to survive blue mages and destroy lance units while providing buffs, and extra turns to the team. Keen Gronnwolf helps in his offensive viability and provides a crucial effective bonus against the ever-prevalent cavalry units. His ATK is not high enough to justify Triangle Adept over Swift Sparrow (and it dampens his damage to units like TW!Reinhardt or Sigurd), although it does improve his bulk in matchups against blue mages, should you prefer to use Inigo as a blue unit bait instead.

Lancebreaker helps Inigo finish off faster lance units he wouldn’t have been able to double such as Nephenee and Bride Charlotte. Blue Tomebreaker can be an alternative, but Inigo has fairly fragile RES and doesn’t want to be in mage duels that often. Desperation is a viable alternative, but it’s a perilous situation to not have your dancer at full or near full health, and the combination of Inigo’s HP, SPD, and DEF allow him to survive a surprising amount of melee hits from full HP. Gale Dance is a good budget alternative that further buffs his teammates. Blade tome users love having Inigo as a teammate.

Hone Atk is arguably better for tanks and blade tome users, while melee and fast brave weapon users prefer Hone Spd. It simply falls down to individual team preference.

Moonbow adds an extra bit of oomph to Inigo’s attacks and helps make up for his sub-par ATK.

This Inigo is meant to be an all-around support unit. I've given him summoner support since he is my son and I've paired him off with Micaiah. He's a not-so-passive healer since he is able to do some decent damage with his attack, especially when standing next to Micaiah. With Micaiah's Sacrifice, whenever Inigo gets low on HP she heals him up and he returns the favor when attacking.
He heals an amazing 21 HP everytime he attacks.
Moonbow means that his special doesn't take long too charge and Darting Blow helps him almost guarantee doubles during the attack phase.
I've kept Gale Dance even though I could give him his mom's Blaze Dance instead but giving more speed to his allies never hurts and it feels fitting that he provides speed while also being quite speedy himself, despite the speed bane he has.