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'Just put Distant Counter on it!'

Sooo... A lot of guides just opt for puting DC in pretty much any unit. This isn't that surprising, but sometimes it feels some units might not be suited to it or have more creative builds that can work.

Units like Draug, Marth or Ares with bad or terrible res will get this as their optimal skill, when they can instead run skills to better deal with melee units.

Maybe I'm complaining about nothing since there's often an alternative build, but 'just DC' seems so not fun.

EDIT: Of course the other problem is that most people do not have like 10 hector to make these builds.

Asked by Sir of Coffee7 months 2 weeks ago

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I fully agree that just slapping DC on everything seems to be the new trend (it used to be slapping Death Blow and Swift Sparrow on everything), and sometimes I can't help but squint a little at the choices (like DC Ayra,,). Marth actually has the best Res out of the Falchions, but his niche really doesn't interact with ranged weapons. However Draug and Ares (especially Ares), I can see arguments for.

Draug will often be paired on teams with armour buffs, boosting his Res and complementing his high HP. Personally I think BK (or Zelgius) is better since he has built in DC, but Draug is more easily accessed and merged. Ares is absolutely deadly with DC + Vantage, since his weapon lets him have essentially a permanent special activation, letting him nuke ranged units before they can touch his awful Res, provided he's in Vantage range.

Ares was a bad example, he's alright.

Draug though.. He only has 18 res and no good bane if he wants to take on mages. His attack is pretty low too.
The Black Knight also has 18 res, and no boon.
Zelgius is the best if you want to kill mages with vantage, like Ares can. He can also can use warding breath with DC.

Zephiel is the best res wall, only 24 res but his Eckesacks has Distant defence, so a total of 30 with that. With his 55 health and wary fighter he'll be able to take quite a beating.
I feel like people seem to forget/underestimate Zephiel's refined weapon.

Yeah DC and Lighting Breath+ is always recommended, it's boring to see this everytime.

But this happens with another skills too, Swift Sparrow to offensive mages, Steady Breath/QR to Dragons, Bladetomes to most of the mages e etc.

I always look to the stats of the units to decide how I will build him/her, the recomended builds/IVs never influentiate my decisions.

I rarely watch recomended builds, i foddered DC only once from an extra Hector to Eirika since her res is somewhat decent and to score better in arena, i only whatch other people build when i have no idea on how to build someone

I'm not a fan of Distant Counter builds. I only feed Hector if I have the chance to those who really shine on Enemy Phase. Of course, a unit can have several builds and can change according to situation.