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Best anti-mage?

I have a lot of defensive tanks (A! Tiki and Black knight being some of them) and a Sigurd that I sometimes use for mages but he's -res so he suffers from that a bit.
Because I lately use a lot of my Wall Tiki, I quite enjoyed seeing her tank every physical color and brave lyns, so I wanted to create a ultimate anti mage too.
Being f2p and without any halloween units, what's the best choice? I saw people using Felicia (a true bae) but everyone says her attack is too low, so are there some non-event good antimages? (One that can tank every color and maybe kill them too)

Edit: thanks for the replies, I even forgot about berkut's lance and that can be Pretty sweet.
Thanks!

Asked by Narga951 year ago

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Fjorm works pretty well. I pulled one with +RES and she kills mages with ease. I don't really think you need the +RES, just use DD seal.

Just use the sorting method in FEH for RES and there you go with your mage tank

There are High res units that are Pretty bad so eh

Felicia’s Attack isn’t too low now due to weapon refinement and Kitty Paddle, but it’s still nothing to brag about, although Iceberg and Glacies usually fixes that issue. Innes is also a great option as an Anti-Mage, same goes for Fae due to the lack of red magic damage in the meta, Fjorm’s base set is crazy for killing mages (mine tanks Raven!TA Cecilia and pops her back), Halloween Sakura obviously makes the cut for her similarities to Felicia, and finally Guard Bow+ Faye and Halloween Jakob completely negate all ranged units, the former being more available than the latter.

Find a Lance unit that has an either high or average base resistance and give him Berkut's Lance upgraded and maybe even water boost if the Lance unit has a high health pool. Cause Berkut's Lance+ gives +7 Resistance when attacked and by upgrading it can also give +4 Resistance.

Gave that to my DC Effie and she is performing exceptionally well (further boost to res with Summoner Support and class buffs). Though Water Boost will be out of the equation, since A slot is dedicated to Distant Counter.

For a Special, I'm running Moonbow, though I might replace it with Glimmer since it now has just a two-turn cooldown.

Rebecca with Guard bow refined for Mt, Distant Defense Seal, and Atk + 3 or Fury. If you have fodder for Distant Defense, which I'm assuming you do not, give her Distant Defense A skill as well to double up. This gives a Neutral IV Rebecca 45 res on defense. Without the second DD, she has 39, which can be boosted to 42 by Fury. Her atk isn't the best at 42(45 with Fury) but the majority of mages don't have outstanding Defense. If you outfit her with QR2 and Moonbow(Or Luna if you expect her to get doubled) she can cause some decent damage.

Brave Lyn can run the same build to even better effect if you got her as your CYL freebie, but she should be able to get by with just the DD Seal, her native Mulagir(which shuts down the buffs of BLade Mages) and some res buffs from her allies. Fury is not the best for her, and with the speed boost she gets from Mulagir, she's less prone to doubles, so it's better to keep her Swift Sparrow.

Dragons/Manaketes in general.
Ninjas such as Jaffar offensively or Felicia defensively.
Mages with high res (Sanaki, Arvis, Julia, Sonya, Lute...)
eventually Staff users with high Res too (Lucius, Genny)
And some more particular individuals such as :
Fjorm, Sigurd and Seliph to some extent. Obviously, any unit with Distant Counter built-in their weapon can deal with mages in most cases if they are built for it. However, one of the biggest magic threat being Reinhardt, I would not advise to use a Red unit, so it would rather be Camus or Dorcas.

Well felicia is amazing as an anti mage TANK. She isn't the best killer but she can tank and charge Iceberg / glacies for huge damage.
If you invest a bit in her she can get crazy amount of res and keep a very good speed to avoid being double (which is a big part of not getting killed by mages).

Also Faye with Guard bow, Distant Def Seal ( if you have DD for A slot it's great otherway you can get fury or something else ) and QR can be a pretty good ranged unit counter.

Fjorm can do the job, but she might not be able to kill everyone with her base set.

Deidre / Julia with some investment can tank even red mages, but they might require some Fortress Res or Warding Stance to do so (and buff from teamates).

Lucius, now that healers are working can be okay as a mage tank too.