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Best IV for Cordelia

I recently got my hands on hone fliers so I decided to invest on Cordelia, I have two Cordelia's a ´+Spd,-HP and a +Atk-Def. I want to use firesweep lance and my options for A skill are Death Blow or Life and Death 3. Her B skill will probably be drag back and she'll be paired up with a Haloween Nowi. Does anyone have any experience with this? Which of the two IV is better for Cordelia?

Asked by Rayado11 year 1 month ago

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Personally I would suggest LIfe and Death on the +spd one. Her attack is plenty good neutral, and since she is running firesweep her job is never to be taking hits, so you can get away with the dropped defenses from life and death. Only reason for death blow in my book on a firesweep flier would be if the whole team is squishy and you need her to bait a red unit at some point to get the battle moving.
It is worth noting I don't have actual experience. I haven't run this build ever, just looking at the numbers and how I think the build is supposed to work.

The two is good +attack -def for Brave lance and +speed -Hp for Vulcano lance + and Life and Death

Imo the best IV for Cordelia is +Atk -res for firesweep builds, and +spd
-res for the brave builds.

It's the opposite, since with Firesweep Lance+ you need to double, while with Brave Lance+ you can either go DB3 with +Atk or LnD3/SS3 with +Spd for quad.

Firesweep on the +spd, Brave Lance on the +atk. Life and Death with Firesweep, Death Blow with Brave Lance.

+Atk for Buffed Firesweep and all Death Blow!Brave Lance Builds (46 speed when flier buffed with Firesweep, not factoring Speed +3 Sacred Seal which would give 49).

+Spd for all Quad and unbuffed Firesweep Lance builds (46 speed with Speed +3 Sacred Seal using Firesweep and 41 using Brave which would be 47 with Flier and 45 with normal).

+Spd Firesweep Cordy on a Flier Emblem wastes her boon or LnD (too overkill) so you have to choose between Flier Emblem Firesweep + Brave Lance (+Atk) or Unbuffed Firesweep + Quad Attack (+Spd).

If it were me, I would actually pick +Atk, give her Life and Death along with Firesweep and Speed Sacred Seal and call it a day since it lets you run multiple builds more efficiently. +Spd would be better if you want more flexibility and individual strength.

Not disagreeing with your comments about the overkill with those talents. However, the optimal Firesweep build will utilize Heavy Blade and Galeforce, in which case she needs +Spd to ensure she doubles after flyer buffs.

She has 53 attack with a Boon and 59 (56 without boon) with Hone, in this case she can run Speed +3 with Hone which makes 44 (47 with Boon) which is still pretty strong, and that’s not factoring Goad.
You do make a good point though, I completely forgot about Heavy Blade, I just assumed LnD + Luna for Sweep and Quad + Galeforce, and I completely agree that 56/47 is a better spread than 59/44 for Heavy Blade, not to mention that +Spd is mandatory for Heavy Blade without Hone Fliers. So that’s definitely something I overlooked.
The main reason I chose +Atk as the winner is because I think the possibility to get +6 attack or +3 speed and attack is better than +6 speed or +3 speed and attack (Boon + Sacred Seal).

Taking the opportunity to add onto my first comment as well, I would like to retract my last statement, I actually personally prefer +Spd because I prefer having the ability to run Firesweep without team support and I also prefer the quad build over Death Blow.