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Armour Team?

Since I pulled a Winter Tharja (and Winter Chrom but this is mostly to celebrate Tharja tbh), I'm going to try to shape up a nice armour team. The 5* armour units I have are:

Winter Tharja (+hp/-atk)
Brave Hector (+hp/-res)
Effie+2 (+atk/-spd)
Fallen Robin (+def/-spd)
Halloween Niles (+hp/-def)
Hector (+atk/-hp + one for distant counter fodder)
Winter Chrom (+res/-atk)

The only unit out of all of them with high speed is Niles, but his iv's aren't the best for a close-counter build so I'm not sure about him.

I'll eventually build up Winter Cecilia but for now I don't have her as a 5* unit. Out of these units, which am I best using? I'm considering Effie and finally giving her distant counter, Brave Hector (tho his iv's aren't optimal and I may use him for bold fighter fodder), Fallen Robin, and Winter Tharja. If I don't use Brave Hector, I may slot in Cecilia or Niles, but again I'm not sure since I've never built an armour team and I'm not really an expert when it comes to building teams. If I can manage to pull Winter Fae or Eirika I could use them instead, but for the moment this is what I have going for me.

Any advice would be appreciated! I don't know much of how to build up an armour team and who to give which armour buff c-skills.

Asked by kite2 weeks ago

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Fallen Robin (M), B!Hector, W!Tharja, H!Niles

Kinda sucks that you lack an armor march, that'd be great.

Brave Hector is almost a no brainer, with an aether and distand def seal, he's quickly a very good pick for any team.

Male Grima's IV's are juicy, you can make him an enemy phase bait unit. His A slot can be as simple as mirror stance, fortress def/res or steady stance 4 if you're feeling like spending things.

Given she's your only red, and a mage, Tharja is great.
Not sure on the build (I don't have her) But I'm sure you can figure something out.

Last I'd put either Niles or Cecilia here.
Niles is a player phase beast, you can just use his base kit with armored boots and he'll do fine. If you ever get it, using special fighter works great, but a skill like Desperation is fine.
You might wanna give him a slaying bow though.

Cecilia can be great for debuffing enemy teams, baiting mages ect. She's very similair to Tharja, just with a dagger rather than magic.
(Though if you get Eirika, go for her on the last spot)

Thanks so much for this!! I don't have any armour march fodder sadly so if I can get any Winter Fae's that'd be amazing.

I can definitely give Hector aether, and I have built up Grima with aether too and its good to know other a-slot options! I've been using fury but I feel like the recoil damage is so not worth it.

Regarding Tharja, her basekit is pretty good with distant counter and vengeful fighter, so all I need to consider for her is armour buffs.

I have a slaying bow on Niles thankfully so I don't need to build him up much more than that, just gotta give him some skills! Eirika would definitely be the next best I think to round out the unit colours and for healing.

Thanks again for the detail with this, definitely helped get my head around it! :)

As for buff skills, would I be right in giving Tharja = goad, Hector = hone, Grima = ward, and Niles = fortify? With that set up I think it will buff Hector's and Tharja's defences for baiting, and set Niles up with increased speed and attack.

Np, I like talking too much.

Yeah, if you happen to get Fae you can replace Grima. Hector already has the niche of DC, Fae can be your wall.

Might want to give Hector ward instead, I find the drive-like skills better for armor teams, since with hone and fortify you need to keep the units glued together.
Fortify is fine on Niles though, given that he's going to be using armored boots, and thus is easier to keep next to allies.

It all helps!

Yeah If I can get Fae I will likely replace Grima with her for movement and give how high her res is she would be a fantastic blue mage check if I gave her DC.

So I should focus on ward/goad skills then? In that case I could use Tharja's complete build with a res ploy c slot and put goad on Grima/Fae! :)

I'd say go for a core of Black Knight, Effie and Sheena if you really an armour team, because unless you are a whale you have a chance of actually merging them up

Of those above take Tharja, Bector, Robin and add Cecilia