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IV Dilemma

I've had dupes of Eldigan, Ninian, and Brave Lyn sitting around for the past couple of months. I'm not sure if their IVs are any better than the ones I currently have in use. Would appreciate any help in discerning which is more optimal even if by a tiny bit.

Current:
Eldigan +Spd -Atk
Ninian +Def -Spd
Brave Lyn Neutral

Benched:
Eldigan +Hp -Spd
Ninian +Atk -Def
Brave Lyn +Res -Def

These IVs have been boggling my mind for the a good amount of time, so I'd appreciate any insight you could provide.

A little info on my neutral Brave Lyn, She uses Mulagir and Desperation for her offensive build and relies on being attacked after initiating to get into Desp range. This is what makes me apprehensive of using the +Res -Def Brave Lyn. Although, I did have her inherit a Brave Bow+ (regretfully) that I'm not having her use at the moment.

Asked by Saint Cryptic1 year 2 months ago

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For Ninian I recommend the +Atk/-Def. For defensive purposes, she doesn’t really want to lose her speed, it does work well with TA but I think +Atk works well there too.

For Eldigan, I think the second one is also better. Although it makes him more susceptible to getting doubled, it doesn’t reduce his attack and still works great with QR. The +Spd is nice for avoiding doubles, thus making Eldigan bulkier, but the lose in his attack is quite bad.

As for Brave Lyn, I think +Res/-Def makes her better at performing in her role by gaining a very useful stat at the cost of a less useful stat, however, you can’t ever go wrong with neutral and keeping her Defence is also valuable with Cavalry buffs. So unless you need her to tank a lot of physical hits, I would go +Res/-Def. Although neutral is perfectly fine here, so I can’t give you a definite answer for her.

I feel like the plus resist lyn is really good actually and here's why. If you give her Sacaes blessing you mitigate all distant counter users. With Lyn you kite a lot and so she won't be taking any hits from combat units. With the plus resist she can bait out mages and survive rounds when she doesn't kill the mages. So I actually don't think the plus resist lyn is bad at all. She works with the brave bow build although unless you're aiming for her to quad people, Mulagir is better.

Current Eldigan is better tho minus attack stinks. But that is easily patched with hone Calvary, goad Calvary, attack seal so you're fine there. Plus fury helps a lot. Benched Eldigan is not the best because I can see a world where he would get doubled a lot.

I would honesty use the plus attack Ninian. She's not a fighter at all and so you don't have to worry about lower defenses. At least with plus attack you can fly in with wings of mercy and finish off units. Minus speed not good for Ninian because you don't want to get doubled if you do have to fight.

The one thing I would caution on going with -Def Bowlyn is it might lose her ability to bait the other team's Bowlyn. And those matchups typically come down to whichever Lyn attacks first loses. You can try running those scenarios on Kagero Chart to see what it'd do to the matchup.