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Table of Contents
Tier Rating
- Default
- Attack
- Special
- Injured
| Tiki (Young) - Dragon Scion |
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Related Heroes
Hero Stats
Stat Variations
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES | |
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| Low | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| Middle | 15 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
| High | 16 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 |
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES | |
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| Low | 38 | 28 | 27 | 29 | 25 |
| Middle | 41 | 31 | 30 | 32 | 29 |
| High | 44 | 34 | 33 | 35 | 32 |
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 |
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Boons
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+SPD: Tiki’s Speed is one of her greatest strengths over her older counterpart. A +SPD boon allows her to mitigate a lot of doubles and even potentially consider attacking on Player Phase when necessary.
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+DEF: With the introduction of skills like Bold Fighter and new units having more and more Speed, it is increasingly difficult for Tiki to keep up in order to avoid getting doubled. An alternative route is to boost her Defense instead to simply mitigate most damage.
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+ATK: Most of Tiki’s damage comes from her weapon, as adaptive damage and a potential boost from Breath of Fog go a long way to making up for her relatively middling Attack stat. A boon increases her damage output and improves her matchups (particularly against enemies with more merges), particularly against enemies she needs to be able to KO in one hit (such as mages).
Neutral
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RES: Aside from being a superbane (-4 to the stat), Tiki prefers to maintain her Resistance to avoid taking more damage than necessary from enemy mages and dragons. This is especially important against those that are capable of doubling her.
Banes
- -HP: Most of Tiki’s bulk comes from her defenses and Speed, making her HP a safe stat to take a bane in. Having access to refinable breaths makes it easy to make up for a -HP bane as well.
Skill Sets
Divine Scion (Defensive Tank)
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Breath of Fog (+Eff) | A | Steady Breath |
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Reposition | B | Guard 3 Alternate: Wrath 3 |
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Moonbow | C | Even Spd Wave 3 |
| SP | 1,545 | S | Quick Riposte 3 |
- Preferred IV: +SPD or +DEF or +ATK / -HP
- Weapon: Breath of Fog (+Eff/Spd)
- Assist: Reposition
- Special: Moonbow / Bonfire
- Passive A: Steady Breath / Warding Breath / Distant Counter / Fury
- Passive B: Guard / Wrath
- Passive C: Even Spd Wave / Flexible
- Sacred Seal: Quick Riposte / Quickened Pulse
Tiki’s new weapon, Breath of Fog, grants her a significant boost in combat effectiveness at the cost of a bit of versatility. While her older version gets more direct benefit from the boosts that it grants, Young Tiki can still leverage her strengths to maximize the benefits she can garner from it.
One of the main benefits that Young Tiki has over her older self is her Speed; typically this means that she gets her Speed high enough to avoid a lot of doubles. However, Breath of Fog allows her to consider some limited mixed phase capabilities, as its lack of Special cooldown penalty allows her to regularly activate her Specials without having to rely on Steady Breath or Warding Breath. This does require some investment, however, so the choice of refine for Breath of Fog is between +Eff for maximizing Enemy Phase capabilities, or +Spd for some limited Player Phase options.
The choice of Tiki’s A skill depends primarily on the type of threats she needs to be able to handle. Steady Breath or Warding Breath are ideal to repeatedly throw out Moonbow activations, but Distant Counter may be necessary if Tiki needs to be able to handle ranged threats. Steady Breath is preferable to Warding Breath due to physical threats being significantly more common than magical threats amongst melee enemies. Fury is acceptable as a budget option. Bonfire is an option if running Distant Counter or Fury, particularly if not stacking Speed.
Guard is recommended in order to secure Tiki’s matchups against enemies with overpowering Specials such as Zelgius and Ayra. Even with a +Eff Breath of Fog, Tiki typically does not have enough Attack to consistently KO them in one hit outside of significant team support. If running heavy support (such as a dragon team), then Wrath is a good option to maximize Tiki’s damage output with her Specials. Wrath is also a good pick if stacking Speed for a mixed phase setup.
Even Spd Wave allows Tiki to gain access to a massive Speed buff without being reliant on her team, but can easily be swapped out as needed (particularly if running a dragon team).
The Quick Riposte Seal is important to ensure that Tiki can double against even the fastest enemies, as her Speed is not high enough to be able to keep up with them. Quickened Pulse is a good alternative if running a mixed phase setup, or if Tiki is not running Steady/Warding Breath but still wants an instant Special activation.
Breath of Destruction (Defensive Tank)
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Lightning Breath+ (+Spd) | A | Steady Breath |
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Reposition | B | Guard 3 |
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Aether Alternate: Bonfire |
C | Atk Ploy 3 |
| SP | 1,995 | S | Quick Riposte 3 |
- Preferred IV: +SPD or +DEF or +ATK / -HP
- Weapon: Lightning Breath+ (+Spd/Def)
- Assist: Reposition
- Special: Aether / Ignis / Bonfire
- Passive A: Steady Breath / Warding Breath / Fury
- Passive B: Guard / Quick Riposte
- Passive C: Atk Ploy / Spd Ploy / Flexible
- Sacred Seal: Quick Riposte / Distant Def / Close Def
Thanks to her excellent mixed bulk, Tiki is a fantastic candidate for this standard dragon tank setup. The combination of Lightning Breath and Steady/Warding Breath allows Tiki to take on both melee and ranged threats while mitigating the Special cooldown penalty of Lightning Breath. Stacking Speed allows Tiki to mitigate a lot of doubles; however, due to the abundance of skills that allow enemies to double regardless (such as Bold Fighter) and enemies with absurdly high Speed, it may be a good idea to stack Defense instead to mitigate the damage taken.
Aether is a fantastic choice of Special due to its synergy with Lightning Breath, Steady Breath, and Quick Riposte: if Tiki gets doubled, then she will activate it on her second attack. If not, then she will have it ready after that combat. The latter case is generally preferable, as activating Aether on a second opponent with full HP will result in more healing. Ignis can replace Aether for more damage, while Bonfire can be chosen to guarantee a Special activation every combat that Quick Riposte is active.
Steady Breath is generally better than Warding Breath due to physical attackers being more prevalent than magical attackers, but either will work; the choice is mostly up to preference and availability. As always, Fury is a decent option for budget purposes. It’s best to run a lower cooldown Special like Bonfire if running Fury.
Guard is an important skill to have for many tanks, as they need to worry about dealing with enemies with powerful Specials like Zelgius and Ayra. Running Guard along with the Quick Riposte Seal allows Tiki to minimize the damage taken from these threats, as their damage output without their Specials is easily survivable. If preferred, Quick Riposte can be taken as a B skill to free up the Seal slot for something else.
Tiki has a pretty good Resistance stat that can be utilized via Ploys; both Atk Ploy and Spd Ploy will increase her combat capabilities. Otherwise, her C skill can be replaced as needed to suit any team.
Aside from the Quick Riposte Seal, Tiki can run either Distant Def or Close Def along with Quick Riposte as a B skill for more specialized bulk if enemy Special activations are not a concern. She can also run any of the myriad of Ploys available as Seals if preferred.
Introduction
With the introduction of weapon refining, dragons have become powerhouses across the board - and Tiki is no exception. Amongst the dragons, Tiki’s defining traits are her Speed and her balanced stats. With just a bit of investment, Tiki can boost her Speed high enough to avoid a good number of doubles, while still maintaining solid mixed bulk to maintain her survivability.
The introduction of Breath of Fog gives Tiki even more options. It grants her a large number of bonuses, enough that she can definitely consider forgoing the powerful Lightning Breath/Steady Breath combo. The variety of roles that she can now fulfill gives Tiki a unique niche within a team, particularly a dragon team.
Overall, Tiki is a powerful unit with powerful strengths and workable weaknesses. She works best with team support, particularly if that support includes buffs from dragon allies.
Strengths
Breath of Fog
While this weapon may not be quite as immediately potent as it is on her older variation, Young Tiki can make great usage of the numerous benefits that Breath of Fog grants. The significant flexibility granted by it should not be underestimated.
Great mixed bulk
Aside from having 73 physical and 70 magical bulk, Young Tiki has enough Speed to be able to avoid doubles from a good number of enemies. Furthermore, the fact that a lot of her bulk comes from her defenses means that she is still capable of handling enemies that can break through her Speed to double her.
Adaptive damage
Although this is a trait shared by all dragons, the ability to target the lower of a ranged enemy’s defenses means that Tiki has a deceptively high amount of damage output despite her middling Attack.
Dragon
Tiki’s status as a dragon means that she can benefit from dragon-exclusive buffs like Hone Dragons and Fortify Dragons, which allows her to easily fit into a dragon team that features incredible coverage and staying power.
Weaknesses
Anti-dragon weapons
Despite Tiki’s bulk, her vulnerability to anti-dragon weapons can cause some issues. Naga and Divine Naga aren’t a particularly huge issue due to color advantage and Tiki’s great magical bulk, but Falchions are a major issue - particularly Alm’s Falchion, as it can be refined to attack twice. Tiki also has the distinction of countering herself: enemy Tikis (both Young and Adult) running Breath of Fog will deal heavy damage to her.
Infantry
While Tiki’s status as a dragon means that she has access to the powerful dragon-exclusive buffs that other infantry lack, she still suffers from the same problems as other infantry. Namely, her movement pales in comparison to cavalry and fliers, and she is susceptible to effective damage from Poison Dagger users.
Team Options
Counters
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Strong blues: Despite Tiki’s bulk, she is susceptible to being overpowered by color advantage, so units like Nowi, Reinhardt, Fallen Hardin, and Effie present dangerous threats.
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Anti-dragon weapons: Falchion users like Alm, Lucina, and Marth are extremely dangerous to Tiki due to her low Speed and their effective damage. Julia and Deirdre can potentially take out Tiki due to effective damage in certain situations if not careful. Enemy versions of Young Tiki and Adult Tiki running Breath of Fog can also present issues.
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Debuffers: Units that can debuff Tiki’s stats can effectively hinder her effectiveness; some good examples are Arvis, Saias, Lute, and Soren.
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Preventing counters: As Tiki is almost entirely Enemy Phase-oriented, units that can prevent her from counterattacking can be extremely difficult to deal with. Firesweep users generally aren’t a huge issue due to Tiki’s strong physical bulk, but ones with color advantage like Cordelia and Tana are big threats.
- In particular, staff units running a Wrathful Staff/Dazzling Staff combo like Elise, Priscilla, and Lucius can devastate Tiki; not only can they deal good damage to her, but they can also apply potent debuffs like Gravity, or even more damage with Pain.
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Lightning Breath+ (+Res) | A | Fury 3 |
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Reposition | B | Quick Riposte 3 |
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Iceberg | C | Hone Dragons |
| S | Atk Smoke 3 | ||
+SPD/-HP
Optimal Tiki (Young) build all-rounder unit.
Weapon Skill: Lightning Breath+ (+Spd) Safe from most fast units.
Support Skill: Reposition to move over to your support or range units in your team who are in potential danger zones. Another skill to consider for the same purpose is Swap.
Special Skill: Moonbow or Bonfire, if Moonbow is unavailable.
A Skill: Fury 3 +3 stats on every stat except HP, is very good on her. Still overall great A skill for Tiki regardless if used offensively or defensively.
B Skill: Quick Riposte 3 guarantees Tiki (Young) will double against the unit initiated the attack. This speeds up special up time. Vantage 3 is another option if Quick Riposte 3 is unavailable.
C Skill: Hone Dragons specifically for a dedicated Manakete team. Another option is Threaten Res 3 to maximize unit's or other magic-based team members damage to nearby units.
Seal Skill: Flexible
Attack Smoke 3 to ensure she survives most battles and helps other team members survive from incoming attacks.
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Lightning Breath+ (+Atk) | A | Triangle Adept 3 |
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Ardent Sacrifice | B | Quick Riposte 3 |
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Moonbow | C | Fortify Dragons |
| S | Atk Smoke 3 | ||
A Young Tiki build made especially to serve the ever strong Nowi.
Because Nowi in her optimal build is able to bait out and kill virtually everything, she honestly needs very little team support. That being said, she does struggle noticeably against greens, especially those welding Naga tomes. This Tiki was made in mind for that.
TA + Lightning Breath + QR + Great Mixed Bulk enables Y!Tiki to bait out and kill all green units, even Julia, enabling Nowi to proceed to destroy.
This requires relatively careful positioning but is effective nevertheless. Fortify Dragons boosts Nowi's already ridiculous defenses to absurd levels and Ardent Sacrifice is used to keep Nowi healthy after Tiki erases the occasional green unit.
Her SS is relatively flexible, with it possible to be switched with Atk+3 for a more guaranteed ORKO against greens, or a Spur to help improve Nowi's statline even further. With a Res boon, she can also run a ploy rather effectively.
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Light Breath+ (+Def) | A | Death Blow 3 |
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Harsh Command | B | Vantage 3 |
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Moonbow | C | Breath of Life 3 |
| S | Distant Def 3 | ||
A good generalist tank that hits hard and survives nearly everything with the correct support.
IVs: I have terrible luck in gacha games so instead of "good" IVs I get weird ones, like -HP +Res. However, this is what my Tiki has, and honestly it works for me so...
+Res: Ideal for this all around defense build. Res and Def (neutral) will both be 32.
-HP: honestly any bane that doesn't hinder Def is ok but -HP means Tiki still has the stats to sweep if not inflict heavy damage and the speed to not get doubled by BB!Brave Lyn.
The weapon: Lightening Breath+ (+Def)
Substitute: LB+ (+Res)
Explanation: Built in counter and using the lowest def stat when upgraded? What's not to love? LB+ (+Res) is listed as an alt for 'as needed' basis. Personally my team has higher Res units, so a 36 Def BST balances out nicely.
The Support: Harsh Command
Sub: Reposition/Drawback/Smite any movement support
Explanation: A counter for seal/smoke/threaten skills. Tiki can handle most everything thrown at her even when she doesn't attack first, so you can buff your teammates while dealing damage during the Enemy Phase
The Special: Moonbow
Sub: Growing Flame (budget), Ignis/Glacies, Any damage reducing specials
Explanation: With LB+'s +1 trigger bane having a quick special that activates within one full turn (player and enemy phase) is a must have.
Passive A: Death Blow 3
Sub: Fury 3, Armoured Blow 3, Steady/Warding Stance 3, DD3/CD3
Explanation: Equip DB3 for more OHKOs, especially on most Green enemies. With the LB+ upgrade and DB3 you can kill Naga users before they kill you (in most cases. Having a Delthea for buffing is recommended).
Passive B: Vantage 3
Subs: Quick Riposte 3 (2 for budget), Wings of Mercy 3, Obstruct 3
Explanation: Sometimes Tiki will fall in battle. A true tragedy, but with Vantage and hopefully a ready moonbow Tiki won't go down without a KO (or some big damage)
Passive C: Breath of Life 3
Subs: Savage Blow 3, any Spur 3 skill
Explanation: BOL3 means you don't need to waste a unit slot with pesky healers. Combined with Wings of Mercy and you have wall/healer Tiki. Assuming there is no other healer type unit on your team BOL with Vantage means that Tiki can alternatively heal during her attack phase as well as attack again to finish off an enemy during their phase.
Seal: Distant Def 3
Sub: Close Def 3, any Deflect seal
Explanation: Mainly I use this seal as a counter for Brave Lyn. Can also work as a good counter for any OP glass cannon mages *cough*Reinhardt*cough*. Since my Tiki is built for a Def preference DD3 means I still get a boost against mages.
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Lightning Breath+ (+Spd) | A | Fury 3 |
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Reposition | B | G Tomebreaker 3 |
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Bonfire | C | Drive Res 2 |
| S | Squad Ace D 3 | ||
I didn't really have much choice in her IVs. She's hard to come by. I would have preferred -hp to preserve her defenses, but I'll take what I can get.
With this build, she reaches 42 speed, 56 when her dragon friends are close by.
Lightning Breath+ is an obvious choice. Fury is to further bolster her speed while preserving her defenses, Bonfire is to capitalize on her massive defense.
+10 Ninos are very common in my matches. G Tomebreaker allows her to obliterate her while taking almost no damage, and also kill those annoying Halloween Henrys.
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Lightning Breath+ (+Def) | A | Fury 3 |
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Swap | B | Renewal 3 |
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Bonfire | C | Threaten Res 3 |
| S | Speed +3 | ||
Requires a lot of investment, SP, and summoner support, but she's worth it. She eats common meta units like Ike, BK, and B!Ike for breakfast, and can even tank a non-buffed Rein under certain conditions. She serves me well as a niche for chain challenges and tempest trials, where she can ORKO pretty much anything that's not blue, with buffs. Keep a healer and buffer by her, and she'll become a god.
Weapon Skills
| Weapons | SP | Rng. | Mt. |
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Fire BreathOnly inheritable by Dragon units.
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50 | 1 | 6 |
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Fire Breath+ Only inheritable by Dragon units.
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100 | 1 | 8 |
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Flametongue Only inheritable by Dragon units.
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200 | 1 | 11 |
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Flametongue+ Learns by default at 5 ★ Only inheritable by Dragon units.
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300 | 1 | 15 |
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Breath of FogEffective against dragon foes. At the start of every second turn, restores 10 HP. If foe's Range = 2, calculates damage using the lower of foe's Def or Res.
Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-Inheritable skill.
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400 | 1 | 16 |
Special Skills
| Special Skills | SP | Turns |
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| Rising FlameBefore combat this unit initiates, foes in an area near target take damage equal to (unit's Atk minus foe's Def or Res).
Learns by default at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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150 | 4 |
| Growing FlameBefore combat this unit initiates, foes in a wide area around target take damage equal to (unit's Atk minus foe's Def or Res).
Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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300 | 4 |
Passive Skills
| Passive Skills | SP | Slot |
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Armored Blow 1Grants Def+2 during combat if unit initiates the attack.
Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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50 | A |
Armored Blow 2Grants Def+4 during combat if unit initiates the attack.
Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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100 | A |
Armored Blow 3Grants Def+6 during combat if unit initiates the attack.
Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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200 | A |
Breath of Life 1If unit initiates attack, adjacent allies recover 3 HP after combat.
Inheritable by all units.
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50 | C |
Breath of Life 2If unit initiates attack, adjacent allies recover 5 HP after combat.
Inheritable by all units.
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100 | C |
Breath of Life 3If unit initiates attack, adjacent allies recover 7 HP after combat.
Unlocks at 5 ★ Inheritable by all units.
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200 | C |
Other Info
| Origin |
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
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