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Issue with using Fire Emblem (L.Marth special)

Exalted Falchion wants him to have visible buffs before he enters combat. The special grants bonuses to allies after combat. It's not like Peshkatz, where you float a bunch of drives around the team and Sothe destroys someone and then everybody becomes OP in the process. What makes this special even harder to use for buffing purposes is that Marth, unlike Sothe, is a melee unit, so it's hard for allies to be close by unless Marth takes someone on enemy phase. However, if I interpreted Binding Shield correctly, he can only sweep dragons completely if he initiates (he might even get doubled if the dragon has swordbreaker and enough speed), and he can have fun baiting bold fighters and B.Ephraim when his B-slot is occupied by this anti-dragon shield.

Seems to me that it's maybe good on infantry teams carrying one hone atk and one hone spd because it's really awkward to try to position everybody to receive all the hones?

Other ideas on how to use this special besides just pretend it's Regnal Astra?

Asked by Seeker4 months ago

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Wrong!

His special afect as global buff. More op

Yup it's global, it's like the Balm skills(the skills that healers has that buffs allies when they heal)

Ah! Good that solves one problem. Man this guy is going to DESTROY grand conquests

there is no "If Unit initiates combat" in binding shield, its just

In combat against a dragon foe...

It concludes with " foe cannot Double"
So, Grima within flier emblem, even Summer Tiki cannot do anything against a bane spd marth alone.

How about Swordbreaker dragons

You could slap swordbreaker on fast dragon, and negate his followup from B (still dragons cant counterattack).
We must wait to see his magic bulk. If he had somethink like 45hp, lowish 20+ res he can be 1HKO by Nowi (maybe panic ployed first).
But he can be define meta hero. All of Dragon Emblems would require some kind of sword counter.

His special is basically his own way of adding +8 to all of his stats. Imagine it like Ares and his special loop. Marth atks->special activates->+8 buffs to Marth. Rinse and repeat. There's really no "other way" to use the special, but to just use the special. He works in any team, but preferably a team where everybody is has a good amount of mixed bulk.

Seems like this puts him in an awkward spot. He kind of wants to solo everything - find enough buffs to beat some opponent without taking too much damage, start destroying everybody on enemy phase, and then the issue is that he can't use a healing special because he's getting all his buffs from Fire Emblem, and he probably doesn't want to give up Binding Shield for renewal, and even if he did it probably doesn't make enough of a difference.