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Tier Rating
- Default
- Attack
- Special
- Injured
| Winter Lissa - Pure Joy |
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Related Heroes
Hero Stats
Stat Variations
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES | |
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| Low | 20 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 |
| Middle | 21 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| High | 22 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 |
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES | |
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| Low | 39 | 30 | 26 | 32 | 31 |
| Middle | 43 | 33 | 30 | 35 | 34 |
| High | 46 | 36 | 33 | 38 | 37 |
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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Boon
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+ATK: Ideal, as Winter Lissa will almost always be able to land doubles thanks to Bold Fighter and Vengeful Fighter. This helps make up for her relatively middling base Attack.
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+DEF / +RES: Both are good boons for increasing Winter Lissa’s already significant bulk. A Resistance boon is particularly useful because it also improves her ability to run Ploys if desired.
Bane
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-SPD: This is a good bane for builds that utilize Winter Lissa’s base Bold Fighter ability, as it eliminates the need for a high Speed stat. Having lower Speed also allows Winter Lissa to get doubled more easily, allowing her to maximize the use of her fantastic bulk and charge her Special faster.
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-HP: This is also an acceptable bane in order to not damage her high defenses, and is particularly good for dealing with enemies that will almost always double (such as Reinhardt).
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Keep in mind that both -SPD and -HP banes will result in a superbane (-4 to that stat), which will also result in Lissa's BST dropping from 175 to 174. If trying to optimize for arena score, these banes are best avoided. In this case, either a -RES or -DEF bane is acceptable; Winter Lissa's weapon can be refined to compensate for one of these banes if desired.
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Skill Sets
Versatile Adorer (Mixed Phase)
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Slaying Axe+ (+Def) Alternate: Slaying Axe+ (+Res) |
A | Distant Counter |
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Swap | B | Bold Fighter 3 |
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Ignis Alternate: Glacies |
C | Armor March 3 |
| SP | 1,575 | S | Quick Riposte 3 |
- Preferred IV: +ATK / -SPD
- Weapon: Slaying Axe (+Def/Res)
- Assist: Swap
- Special: Ignis or Glacies
- Passive A: Distant Counter
- Passive B: Bold Fighter
- Passive C: Armor March / Flexible
- Sacred Seal: Quick Riposte
This build takes advantage of the Quick Riposte Seal and Lissa's base Bold Fighter to create a devastating armor-exclusive combo. Regardless of whether it's Player Phase or Enemy Phase, Lissa will always be able to double. Furthermore, she will always activate her Special when initiating combat thanks to the extra Special charge from Bold Fighter, as well as activating her Special on initiated on whenever she gets doubled.
Distant Counter is taken to allow Lissa to counterattack at range, which makes the best use of her excellent bulk. As a result, the choice of weapon refine and Special is based on preference; +Def and Ignis will improve her matchups against physical threats, while +Res and Glacies will improve her matchups against magical threats. Boosting Winter Lissa’s Resistance also allows her to better run Ploys if desired.
Armor March is pretty important to have when utilizing Bold Fighter, as the limited mobility of armors will otherwise be a massive hindrance to closing the gap to initiate. Lissa herself doesn't necessarily need to be running it, however, and can run any C skill as needed.
Let’s Party! (Defensive Tank)
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Slaying Axe+ (+Def) Alternate: Handbell+ (+Def) |
A | Distant Counter |
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Swap | B | Vengeful Fighter 3 Alternate: Guard 3 |
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Ignis Alternate: Bonfire |
C | Atk Ploy 3 Alternate: Ward Armor |
| SP | 1,695 | S | Def Ploy 3 |
- Preferred IV: +ATK or +DEF or +RES or +SPD / -SPD or -HP
- Weapon: Slaying Axe+ (+Spd/Def/Res) / Handbell+ (+Spd/Def/Res)
- Assist: Swap
- Special: Ignis / Bonfire / Aether
- Passive A: Distant Counter
- Passive B: Vengeful Fighter / Guard / Quick Riposte
- Passive C: Atk Ploy / Ward Armor / Flexible
- Sacred Seal: Def Ploy / Quick Riposte
Despite a lackluster base Speed of 30, Lissa can boost her Speed to an impressive 39 before buffs, via a +SPD IV, +Spd refined weapon, and Speed +3 Seal. This can go even higher if running Handbell and receiving buff support from Lissa's team. By stacking Speed, Lissa can comfortably avoid doubles and retaliate hard with an activated Special. However, stacking Speed can be futile at higher tiers of Arena due to the prevalence of skills that bypass Speed (such as Bold Fighter). This means that it can be better to simply dump Winter Lissa's Speed entirely and focus more on her bulk.
Slaying Axe is generally better than Handbell, due to allowing Lissa to run a higher cooldown Special like Ignis. However, due to the entirely Enemy Phase-oriented nature of this build, Handbell is strongly competitive with Slaying Axe depending on the chosen Special. If running Slaying Axe, Vengeful Fighter, and stacking Speed then run Ignis as Lissa’s Special. If running Handbell, Vengeful Fighter, and stacking Speed, then run Bonfire. It’s important to have a 3 charge Special so that it activates every combat as long as Vengeful Fighter is active if stacking Speed. If dumping Speed while using Vengeful Fighter instead, then Aether goes best with Slaying Axe while Ignis goes with Handbell. If Vengeful Fighter is unavailable or wanting to use Guard, then dumping Speed is best so that Lissa can still utilize a 3 charge Special.
Distant Counter is taken to allow Lissa to counterattack ranged units, particularly ranged blue mages like Reinhardt and Linde. This allows her to make excellent use of her incredible mixed bulk.
Vengeful Fighter is exclusive to armors and completely outclasses Quick Riposte. It has a much more generous HP threshold to stay active, and even grants an additional Special charge when Lissa attacks, similar to how Heavy Blade works. The extra Special charge allows Winter Lissa to utilize higher cooldown Specials. If Vengeful Fighter is unavailable, then Quick Riposte is still a decent option. However, if not using Vengeful Fighter, it's likely better to run Guard with the Quick Riposte Seal to prevent Winter Lissa from getting hit by enemy Specials.
Winter Lissa's excellent Resistance allows her to be a great user of Ploys; running Ploys as her C skill and Seal allow her to support both her team and herself. The choice of Ploys is entirely up to preference, but Atk Ploy and Def Ploy are great choices to simultaneously increase Winter Lissa's tankiness as well as her damage output. These can be replaced as needed to suit the team, however. Also, the Quick Riposte Seal may be necessary if running Guard in order to ensure that Winter Lissa can double.
Introduction
Winter Lissa is an armored unit that clocks in at a massive 175 BST, setting a new record at the time of her release. With 35/34 Defense and Resistance, she has incredible mixed bulk, rivaling that of Sheena. However, her boosted BST gives her a huge leg up over Sheena, as Lissa’s 33/30 Attack and Speed heavily outclass Sheena.
Lissa’s base 30 Speed is in a very awkward spot: not quite enough to avoid doubles, but not enough to really be doubling either (though this is a non-issue thanks to her base Bold Fighter). She requires heavy investment into Speed in order to get up enough to avoid doubles, but can safely dump Speed to focus on her offenses.
Her base kit doesn’t particularly synergize with itself - Handbell functions only on Enemy Phase, while Bold Fighter functions only on Player Phase. However, simply adding the Quick Riposte Seal is an easy way to make Winter Lissa a powerful mixed phase unit capable of doubling in every combat. Overall, Winter Lissa's excellent bulk and access to armored skills like Bold Fighter ensure that she will always be a serious powerhouse.
Strengths
Powerful Mixed Defenses
With 35/34 Defense/Resistance, Winter Lissa has no real weaknesses, defensively speaking, making her one of the best mixed tanks in the game.
Armor Unit
Winter Lissa enjoys all the benefits of being an armored unit: very high BST (175, the highest in the game), Bold Fighter and Vengeful Fighter, and access to armor buffs like Ward Armor.
No Weak Stats
Winter Lissa's stats are well-rounded, with no clear weak stats. Her stats are all high enough that she doesn't even suffer from being too well-rounded, like other units with similar spreads do as a result of their lower BST.
Weaknesses
Middling Speed
30 Speed is in a very awkward spot; not quite enough to avoid doubles, but not enough to really be doubling either (though this is a non-issue thanks to Bold Fighter). This can be fixed either by ignoring it entirely (-SPD IV) or with heavy investment.
Limited Mobility
As an armored unit, Lissa suffers from a very limited movement range of 1. This can be mitigated with movement assists like Pivot or Swap, as well as Armor March.
Anti-Armor Weapons
As an armor unit, Lissa shares a weakness to anti-armor weapons such as Armorslayer. She can potentially afford to run Svalinn Shield to mitigate this, but it will still heavily gimp her build to do so due to preventing her from running a much stronger skill such as Distant Counter.
Team Options
Counters
- Strong Reds: Ayra, Mia, and Eirika (SM) can all break through Lissa's Speed and overpower her defenses through color advantage and raw damage.
- In particular, Black Knight and Zelgius can completely decimate Winter Lissa thanks to their unique Black Luna Special completely cutting through her Defense.
- Physically bulky units with Guard can shut down Lissa due to a lot of her damage coming from her Special; some examples include Legendary Ike, Tiki (Adult), and Xander.
- Anti-Armor Weapons: Effective damage can easily bypass Lissa's bulk; Caeda and Tobin can both easily take Lissa out thanks to their base weapons.
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Slaying Axe+ (+Def) | A | Sturdy Blow 2 |
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Swap | B | Bold Fighter 3 |
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Ignis | C | Fortify Armor |
| S | Deflect Magic 3 | ||
High investment player phase build, by using this you will nuke every Enemy that can counter with Ignis. Meant to work best in ward armor teams it's easy to hit absurdly high defenses while exploding any unit on the receiving end.
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Slaying Axe+ (+Def) | A | Death Blow 3 |
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Swap | B | Bold Fighter 3 |
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Ignis | C | Fortify Armor |
| S | Attack +3 | ||
Player phase oriented W!Lissa. Bold fighter lets her double on initiation and so has great synergy with death blow, increasing her atk to 59 before any buffs. She could run bonfire, ignis, or aether as her special. C skill could be a skill that helps fellow armours if you run her in armour emblem teams (ward/hone/fortify armour or armour march) or any other c skill like threaten def. Her spd is a -4 with the bane and she will be commonly doubled so her survivability isn't the greatest as an armour unit. Mages and strong archers are another threat to her as she has no dc to fight back. I would say to keep this Lissa safe on enemy phases if possible.
Slaying axe is used for me because I have a 5* Hawkeye to fodder off. Handbell+ (+def) and atk+3 a skill could also be used for budget options.
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Handbell+ (+Atk) | A | Fury 3 |
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Swap | B | Renewal 3 |
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Bonfire | C | Threaten Atk 3 |
| S | HP +3 | ||
-ATK, +DEF Winter Lissa got you down? Well, I found a way to make it work that has been really helping with the game since I pulled her. This allows her to play defensively with a bit of offensive capability when you need to quickly finish someone off. Renewal and the HP seal is just to give her more health to work with to offset the Fury HP penalties.
When attacked by someone with this build she will end up with:
48 HP
51 ATK
35 SPD
43 DEF
39 RES
...thanks to Handbell+ and that's not even including ally buffs. So you can take it even further. She just doesn't die. Ever. There may be a better way to build her, but this works for me.
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Handbell+ | A | Death Blow 3 |
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Reposition | B | Bold Fighter 3 |
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Bonfire | C | Threaten Atk 3 |
| S | Atk Ploy 3 | ||
Winter Lissa has a strong player phase but without mobility options like Armor March or Hit and Run it'll be harder to make it work. She'll definitely appreciate W!Robin as an ally since she'll definitely need Armor March and healing. Her biggest weaknesses are red mages like Tharja, Celica who have sky high speed so refine her weapon for defense instead of speed.
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Brave Axe+ | A | Sturdy Blow 2 |
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Swap | B | Bold Fighter 3 |
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Moonbow | C | Hone Armor |
| S | Attack +3 | ||
With Bold Fighter and Moonbow Lissa gets an automatic 2 special attacks along with a guaranteed quad. Sturdy Blow helps her stay healthy while dealing great amounts of damage, but Fury is a good replacement if you're on a budget. +Attack helps, but any + that isn't speed will help her, just try to avoid -Attack as much as possible.
Weapon Skills
| Weapons | SP | Rng. | Mt. |
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Iron AxeInheritable by Axe users only.
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50 | 1 | 6 |
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Steel Axe Inheritable by Axe users only.
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100 | 1 | 8 |
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HandbellGrants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+2 during combat if foe initiates combat.
Inheritable by Axe users only.
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200 | 1 | 10 |
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Handbell+Grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+2 during combat if foe initiates combat.
Learns by default at 5 ★ Inheritable by Axe users only.
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300 | 1 | 14 |
Special Skills
| Special Skills | SP | Turns |
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| Glowing EmberBoosts damage dealt by 50% of unit's Def. Learns by default at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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100 | 4 |
| BonfireBoosts damage dealt by 50% of unit's Def. Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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200 | 3 |
Passive Skills
| Passive Skills | SP | Slot |
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Bold Fighter 1If unit's HP = 100% and unit initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Grants Special cooldown charge +1 per attack. (Does not stack.)
Only inheritable by armor units.
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60 | B |
Bold Fighter 2If unit's HP ≥ 50% and unit initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Grants Special cooldown charge +1 per attack. (Does not stack.)
Only inheritable by armor units.
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120 | B |
Bold Fighter 3If unit initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Grants Special cooldown charge +1 per attack. (Does not stack.)
Unlocks at 5 ★ Only inheritable by armor units.
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240 | B |
Fortify Def 1Grants adjacent allies Def+2 through their next actions at the start of each turn.
Inheritable by all units.
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50 | C |
Fortify Def 2Grants adjacent allies Def+3 through their next actions at the start of each turn.
Inheritable by all units.
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100 | C |
Fortify ArmorGrants adjacent armored allies Def/Res+6 through their next actions at the start of each turn.
Requires Fortify Def 2 or Fortify Res 2.
Unlocks at 5 ★ Only inheritable by armor units.
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200 | C |
Other Info
| Origin |
Fire Emblem: Awakening
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