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Does Heavy Blade being made a seal mean that I just merge Ikes now?

Title, essentially. I know we can use him for Aether as well but you can always just 5* a less valuable hero rather than lose a potential merge on Ike.

I guess I'd also have to consider if I ever want to run a team with more than 1 HB skill?

Asked by dandydavid11 months 4 weeks ago

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I never sacrificed any of my Ikes for any of his skills... long live Ike!

Pretty much. Heavy Blade was the main reason why anyone would think of using him as skill fodder. Now that it's a sacred seal, it pretty much renders it null-and-void. I mean..sure, you could still fodder off Ike for his skill and use the Sacred Seal slot for something else....but eh. Whatever floats your boat.

Keep your extras for those who can benefit from Heavy Blade like Valter, who can make use of the Iote's Shield seal for defense from archers.

Other than that, I don't see why you can't merge Ike.

But couldn't Valter just run Iotes shield in A slot, and Heavy blade for his seal?

If one never got Michalis during his Grand Hero Battles, it's an alternative.

Ike can be merged since HB isnt as good as an A slot than it is as a seal since it cuts off the availability of DeB and LnD, HOWEVER Ikes other two skills, the afor mentioned aether and swordbreaker are super good skills that are very relevant in todays meta. Even with Abel with swordbreaker you could be desperate, so i wouldn't personally merge Ikes, but thats just me.

I never personally needed to fodder him off, sure Heavy Blade was an interesting skill, but having high atk was a must have in pvp, and alot of units outclassed Ike in that regard, so it was hard to run that. As a sacred seal its easier to boost your stats and then use it, IMO. And I never really foddered off Ike, he was a bulkier, slower Ryoma, and the second Steady Breath came out I knew what he was meant for XD

But I do think that at this point, the better sword units dont really need Heavy Blade, since the best are the faster ones, which leads to Flashing Blade being the next best A slot skill (along with Steady Breath). So, at this point, in my honest opinion he really isn't worth fodderring off, with good IV's and the right skills Ike can seriously crush physical units.

It's good together with firesweep quickened pulse and galeforce so you can get a galeforce proc on the first attack with firesweep, but that's about it.

I only ever pulled one Ike, and he has perfect IVs(+atk/-Res) so he's not going anywhere. Granted, I did consider a few theory craft that would have given up his heavy blade, but then the seal came along, so those are history.

Honestly, I'd say +SPD and a Def or HP Bane is the best. As low as his Resistance is, it's not worth lowering as it's better for his Distant Counter and it's a -4 bane, making it worse for arena points. With SPD boon, Ike can double more and proc Heavy Blade more. Quick Riposte may do the job, but you can get knocked out of it easily, and 34 SPD is much better.

My Ike is +SPD -DEF, with a SPD seal +2 and A PA!Azura with Hone SPD and Ally Support. I also have a Nino with Hone ATK for good measure and so PA!Azura can for Nino and make her burst blues that Ike can't. Ike gets 55 ATK and 42 SPD, I double and proc Heavy Blade on many units.

I was thinking, however, about using the Heavy Blade new seal, and using Fury 3 instead. What do you think?

Heavy Blade as a seal frees the A-Slot so unless you need it on multiple units, it's much better as a seal. Hell, I thought about giving to my own Ike and running something else on him.

Merge or inherit his Swordbreaker if needed. With a 5-turn process rate, I doubt Aether is that useful, unless you, funnily enough, have Heavy Blade.