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Question for bow enthusiasts

My feather count has been getting rather high lately and my brain storage of merging ideas is getting dry. After looking through my barracks, I noticed that bows are missing completely from my merged units.
So, arena viability aside, which bow heroes (regular ones, 3 or 4* available) do you enjoy using?

Upon my first inspection, I'm kind of interested In Jeorge, because he looks like a supreme badass and has an interesting weapon effect, but I'm open to other suggestions, because the list of bows I ever used can be pretty much summed up to Brave Lyn and summer Takumi.

Asked by Guts5 months 2 weeks ago
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The archer pool is pretty subpar, I've only used 2 as well in the forms of Lyn and Cordelia. Aside from Jeorge and his legendary weapon, the only one I'd be interested in doing would be Setsuna as the fastest archer. There's a post a couple of pages back showing how impressive she can be. https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/q-a/rise-setsuna

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Yeah, the archer pool is sadly really underwhelming (although that linked Setsuna build looks also kind of fun). We have billions of sword units with different and (sometimes) interesting weapons or statlines, but archers kind of got shafted (alongside other colorless units pretty much). Also, wth happened to IS's vision of colored archers? That whole thing died with Legendary Lyn, it seems.

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They may have done the entire coloured bow thing jut to make Lyn immune to Bowbreaker without overloading her on fancy skills. They should still be introducing new coloured units, I'd like to see a Hana alt wielding a Kodachi or Wakizashi as a red dagger unit, even if it is a sword in Fates.

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Imo they messed up the colored bow thing by making it too narrow. If they've all got to be bows, what units would fit that thematically? Red daggers would be interesting. And I would sure like a javelin (range 2 lance).

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I like Leon, he has pretty good stats. With guard bow he can be a perfect bait for Bows and Daggers which is not that great...

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I'd say Leon or Jeorge are probably the best options.

Leon has good attack, with a boon, deathblow and brave bow he can deal quite a bit of damage. Slayer bow with ignis is also an option, he could refine it to be a nice mixed phase unit with fury or even close counter.
He can't take mages though.

Jeorge is great if you want a unit that can deal with all ranged attacks. Again fury is a great option because he uses all his stats or distand defence could work too.
A bane is hard to pick, but I'd say: Make sure he has at least 36 speed and use quick reposte.

Both are great merge options because they can use all their stats.

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Yeah, after further investigating, I pretty much ended with these two guys. They seem equally as powerful to me (although in different situations), but Jeorge has the badass artwork going for him, so he might be the actual winner in the end.

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