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Spring Catria

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Tier Rating

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Attack
Special
Injured

Blue Tome

Analysis by Lunare

Spring Catria - Spring Whitewing
5 Obtainable as a 5 only

Related Heroes

Catria

Hero Stats

Max Avg Total Stats at Lvl 40

144

HP 36

ATK 32

SPD 35

DEF 18

RES 23

Stat Variations

Level 1 Stat Variation Weapon

5★

	HP	ATK	SPD	DEF	RES
Low	1616	519	88	44	58
Middle	1717	620	99	55	69
High	1818	721	1010	66	710

Level 40 Stat Variations Weapon

5★

	HP	ATK	SPD	DEF	RES
Low	3333	2943	3232	1414	2023
Middle	3636	3246	3535	1818	2326
High	4040	3549	3838	2121	2629

IV Sets

	Key stats worth increasing through nature if possible.
	Complementary stats that matter, but not to the point of picking them over key stats for nature increase.
	Relatively worthless stat that can safely be decreased through nature.

HP	ATK	SPD	DEF	RES
Worst	Best	Best	Worst	Average

Boon

+SPD: Speed is a fantastic boon for Spring Catria., 38 base speed on a cavalry mage gives her incredible offensive presence, and pushes the strength of the Blárblade tome even higher
+ATK: Attack is also a good boon, as it puts Spring Catria’s offenses at an even 35/35. With that said, the Blárblade+ tome already contributes to Spring Catria’s attack power significantly, making Speed the more desirable of the two.

Neutral

RES: If possible, Resistance is worth preserving as the superior of Spring Catria’s defensive stats. Though a base stat of 23 is nothing special at all, Huginn’s Egg pushes this up to a much more usable 26.

Bane

-DEF: This is Spring Catria’s best bane. Whereas her Resistance stat is salvageable thanks to Huginn’s Egg, her Defense is beyond saving.
-HP: A HP bane allows Spring Catria to split her bulk. This bane is much preferred over a decrease to her offensive stats of course, but between the two, dropping Defense is preferred over dropping HP.

Skill Sets

The Eggs-pected (Blade Tome Offense)

Recommended

	Blárblade+	A	Swift Sparrow 2 Alternate: Fury 3
	Reposition Alternate: Draw Back	B	Desperation 3 Alternate: Chill Res 3
	Glimmer Alternate: Moonbow	C	Hone Cavalry Alternate: Drive Spd 2
SP	1,835	S	Speed +3

Show Explanation/Analysis

Preferred IV: +SPD / -DEF
Weapon: Blarblade+
Assist: Reposition / Ardent Sacrifice / Flexible
Special: Glimmer / Moonbow
Passive A: Swift Sparrow / Death Blow / Fury / Life and Death
Passive B: Desperation / Chill Res / Lancebreaker / B Tomebreaker
Passive C: Hone Cavalry / Drive Spd
Sacred Seal: Speed +3 / Attack +3

As a cavalry unit with strong offensive stats, it should come as no surprise that Spring Catria can be an impressive Player Phase hero with a Blade tome. Unlike her closest rival L’arachel, Spring Catria can benefit from investing more heavily in her Speed: with Swift Sparrow, the Speed +3 Seal, a Speed boon and a Hone Cavalry buff, Catria can reach a commendable 51 Speed when initiating combat. This is often enough to make follow-up attacks against many fast sword-wielders, though she is reliant on the Hone Cavalry buff to reach this threshold.

Swift Sparrow is the best A slot skill for offense, given that Catria benefits from both the Attack and Speed. Fury is a passable alternative, as it improves her poor defensive stats and synergizes nicely with Desperation. Life and Death is for those looking to maximize Catria’s offensive prowess at the cost of her bulk. Death Blow 4 is also a strong choice if available, as Cavalry buffs and Catria's high Speed can compensate for the forfeited Speed from Swift Sparrow.

Desperation is the obvious choice for providing a safeguard against enemy retaliation, provided Catria can reach the necessary 75% HP threshold. Chill Res is a strong skill, however, and is definitely worth considering given that it's native to Catria. The -7 Res penalty allows Catria to deal considerable damage to enemies with high Resistance, especially if Catria can guarantee a follow-up attack. Lancebreaker or B Tomebreaker are decent alternatives, but are only useful against enemies that Catria cannot already make two attacks against, thus these skills are quite niche compared to Chill Res.

The rest of Catria’s skills are relatively flexible. Speed +3 improves her chance of follow-up attacks, Hone Cavalry allows Catria to support a nearby ally who will be enhancing her weapon, and Reposition is self-explanatory.

Cool Catria (Chill Support)

	Huginn's Egg	A	Fury 3
	Ardent Sacrifice Alternate: Draw Back	B	Chill Spd 3 Alternate: Chill Res 3
	Moonbow Alternate: Glimmer	C	Hone Cavalry Alternate: Drive Spd 2
SP	1,410	S	Speed +3

Show Explanation/Analysis

Preferred IV: +SPD / -DEF
Weapon: Huginn's Egg
Assist: Ardent Sacrifice / Dual Rally / Reposition / Flexible
Special: Moonbow / Glimmer
Passive A: Fury
Passive B: Chill Spd / Chill Res
Passive C: Hone Cavalry / Drive Spd / Flexible
Sacred Seal: Speed +3 / Attack +3

When Spring Catria’s teammates encounter trying times, Huginn’s Egg can be a nice support option. Compared to other units that specialize in debuffing enemy heroes such as Lute, Gunnthrá, and Arvis, Spring Catria has an interesting niche in that she can consistently debuff multiple enemy heroes at once. Huginn’s Egg ensures that the enemy with the lowest Resistance suffers a -5 debuff to Attack and Defense, whereas a Chill skill such as Chill Res or Chill Spd will apply the respective debuff to the enemy with the highest Resistance. This can be useful when it is impossible to draw out enemy heroes one at a time, and cripples the last remaining hero with severe penalties.

Fury is the optimal A slot skill to improve Catria’s offensive and defensive capabilities. Chill Spd is the stronger of the two, but players without spare skill fodder should opt for Chill Res instead. The rest of Catria’s skills are down to player preference and team composition.

Introduction

Introduced in the second batch of Spring Festival heroes, Spring Catria is a powerful blue cavalry mage with strong offensive stats and reasonably effective support options thanks to her unique weapon: Huginn’s Egg. This flexibility makes Spring Catria a useful hero to have around: not only does she claim the title of strongest blue Blade tome cavalry mage, but she can also sit alongside units like Arvis, Lute, and Gunnthrá as a powerful debuffer.

Unfortunately, as a cavalry mage, Spring Catria has one of the lowest Base Stat Totals in the game - second only to ranged dancers. This weakness is obvious when you look at Spring Catria’s defensive stats: 18 Defense and 23 Resistance is poor at best, and though the +3 Resistance from her unique weapon helps alleviate this, she is still one of the more frail heroes in the game.

"No matter what happens, I'm here if you need help. We're comrades, after all."

Catria, Fire Emblem: Heroes of Light and Shadow

Strengths

Excellent mobility

As a cavalry unit, Spring Catria has additional movement and access to Hone Cavalry, one of the strongest single buffs in the game. With a Blárblade tome, she can demolish teams with just one buff thanks to the additional +6 Attack and Speed, as well as Blade tome bonus damage.

Impressive offensive stats

32/35 Attack and Speed is quite impressive for a tome-wielding cavalry hero. This offensive stat-line makes Spring Catria the best choice for a Blade tome, among other strictly Player Phase builds.

Huginn’s Egg

14 Might, +3 Res, and an easy-to-use Attack and Defense debuff makes Huginn’s Egg a powerful support weapon. Though it does little to improve Spring Catria’s role as an offensive unit, Huginn’s Egg allows her to support her allies by crippling enemy heroes.

Weaknesses

Awful defensive stats

Whereas some units have a high Defense or Resistance stat alongside their strong offensive stats, Spring Catria suffers from relatively poor values in both. Her Resistance gets a bit of a boost from Huginn’s Egg; pushing her base Resistance up to a passable 26, but her poor HP makes this stat unreliable in preventing OHKOs.

Incredibly weak to anti-cavalry measures

Being a cavalry unit doesn’t come without its weaknesses. Trenches and forests will hinder Spring Catria significantly, and her poor bulk leaves her exposed to anti-cavalry weapons and other weapons that deal effective damage.

Team Options

Spring Catria’s main requirement from a teammate is a hero that can provide buffs for her Blárblade tome. Ideally, this should be a cavalry unit due to their access to the powerful Hone Cavalry skill, but other classes can pull off this role if they have the Tactics skills available to them. Spring Catria also appreciates any teammate that can check her weakness to Green heroes.

Cavalry Heroes: Brave Lyn, Cecilia, Gunnthrá, Xander, Eldigan, Siegbert, and Sigurd are among the best partners for Spring Catria, as they can all provide Spring Catria with the buffs she so desperately needs to perform as an offensive powerhouse.
Powerful Red Heroes: Red units that can retaliate from melee or range make great partners for Spring Catria, as they can all check her prominent weakness to Green heroes. Ike, Legendary Ike, Winter Tharja, Ryoma, Zelgius, Black Knight, and Ayra are some of the strongest choices.

Counters

Thanks to the damage boost from Blárblade, most green heroes will crumble under Spring Catria’s immense firepower. However, green heroes that can retaliate from range and heroes with high Resistance may prove difficult for Catria. The latter is weakened by her Chill Res skill, but the former can OHKO her with ease.

Strong Green Heroes with Distant Counter: Heroes that can retaliate from range against Spring Catria such as Hector, Hector (LA), Fallen Robin and Dorcas can pose a significant threat to Spring Catria. Other heroes such as Amelia, Sheena, Winter Chrom, and Winter Lissa are also particularly threatening if they have inherited Distant Counter.
High-Res Green Mages: The infamous Reinhardt counters Julia and Deirdre are also effective counters to Spring Catria unless she has Desperation active and can power through their high resistance stats. Halloween Henry is another notable counter. These heroes are significantly weakened by Chill Res however.

User Submitted Builds

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Spring Catria build by HeyImBlak 03-22

	Blárblade+	A	Swift Sparrow 2
	Ardent Sacrifice	B	Desperation 3
	Moonbow	C	Hone Cavalry
S	Speed +3

Show Explanation/Analysis

In my opinion S! Catria would work best with a Blade build. Since among cavalry teams she faces stiff competition from Reinhardt, it is hard to justify using her over either of them, but she does have some qualities that make her a candidate for a blue slot on a cavalry team.

The first of these qualities is her Speed. At 35 base speed, S! Catria certainly is a speedy unit, but with the Speed +3 seal, Swift Sparrow, and a Hone Cavalry buff, she can reach 48 Speed and 58 Attack. This means that barring Mia, S! Catria is able to double a plethora of unbuffed units, adding to her already devastating potential damage output granted to her by Blarblade’s effect. LoD is a budget version of Swift sparrow but is only used if necessary. Sacrificing -5 of both def and res is not worth the extra 1 attack and speed. With LoD, it would give her a magical bulk of 54 and a physical bulk of 45 which means she wouldn't be taking many hits without dying.

Ardent sacrifice acts as a support skill to heal others and also get into the desperation range only just by 2% meaning with a +Hp S! Catria this wouldn't work. The ardent sacrifice gets S! Catria into the desperation range meaning she can have a massive damage output without the risk of getting OTK'ed by the enemy. Hone cavalry is there because she is best fitted onto a cavalry team with this build.

Weapon Skills

Weapons	SP	Rng.	Mt.
Thunder Blue Tome Users Only	50	2	4
Elthunder Blue Tome Users Only	100	2	6
Thoron Blue Tome Users Only	200	2	9
Huginn's EggGrants Res+3. At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 50%, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe on the enemy team with the lowest Res through its next action. Learns by default at 5 ★ Non-Inheritable skill.	400	2	14

Weapon Evolution

Weapon Upgrades

Support Skills

Support Skills	Rng.	SP
Draw BackUnit moves 1 space away from target ally, who moves to unit's former position. Learns by default at 5 ★	1	150

Passive Skills

Passive Skills	SP	Slot
Chill Res 1At the start of each turn, inflicts Res-3 on foe on the enemy team with the highest Res through its next action. Inheritable by all units.	60	B
Chill Res 2At the start of each turn, inflicts Res-5 on foe on the enemy team with the highest Res through its next action. Inheritable by all units.	120	B
Chill Res 3At the start of each turn, inflicts Res-7 on foe on the enemy team with the highest Res through its next action. Unlocks at 5 ★ Inheritable by all units.	240	B
Spur Spd 1Grants adjacent allies Spd+2 during combat. Inheritable by all units.	50	C
Drive Spd 1Grants allies within 2 spaces Spd+2 during combat. Inheritable by all units.	120	C
Drive Spd 2Grants allies within 2 spaces Spd+3 during combat Unlocks at 5 ★ Inheritable by all units.	240	C