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Special Spiral on Like?

How well does Like use Special Spiral? Would special spiral be better than Vantage or any other b skill for Like? Ideally, on enemy phase with Special Spiral activated, he gets hit once and immediately attacks with Radiant Aether and strikes back if the foe is not finished, right? This would result in him healing more as he uses Radiant Aether on his first strike instead of his second, won’t it?

Asked by F2Pguy3 months 2 weeks ago

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Yep. Itll allow for more OHKO and to survive specials if hes actually doubled

I can definitely see that working out. Slap QR seal on him and you're good to go 👍

It would be a pretty neat combination for the reasons you said.

Though, I think it works best if (1) he gets 2 units that can give Infantry Pulse support to get it active on the first fight (assuming no Guard users), and--more importantly--(2) he runs +Spd with a decent amount of Spd support so that he can avoid as many doubles a possible, while still being able to double with Quick Riposte. This way, he gets hit once, heals most or all of the damage back with Radiant Aether, then hits a second time to finish off the enemy. Special Spiral triggers, and he'll have Radiant Aether and Quick Riposte ready for the next fight. Rinse and repeat.

He could still run it well without Spd support, but he becomes more prone to falling outside the Quick Riposte range if he's taking two hits per round instead of one, which could affect his subsequent match-ups unless Healing support is available for him. Infantry Pulse is not as necessary, but it would be nice to have it available in the first fight after the first hit, whereas L!Ike would need to hit once before proccing Radiant Aether, potentially lowering the amount of HP he can recover.

I run him with Lancina and Axura, both with drive spd, is that enough? He’s the free one btw, with Vantage and QR seal. If I do get one Lewyn, should I use and bench my +10 silver Nino, or immediately fodder for this OP combo? I already have bonus units for TT, so I won’t need him that much for this one.

Let's see: Neutral L!Ike has 30 Spd; with 2 Drive Spd, he hits 36; B!Lucina's Geirskogul give +3 more for 39; then, PA!Azura's Uror buffs (after dancing Ike) brings it up to 42. If you don't fight any Karla with Even Spd Wave buffs active or Bold Fighter Armors, then that's actually pretty decent for avoiding a lot of doubles.

However, while I don't know how many capable units you have, I honestly wouldn't fodder Lewyn off (unless you perhaps pull multiple) because he's pretty powerful in his own right, and L!Ike doesn't really need Special Spiral to put in good work. (Your current set-up is fine.) At the same time, a 4-Star Nino +10 that is built well is going to perform very similarly or better than a Lewyn because she has access to more stats due to her merge count (even if she is 4-Star) and would score better in Arena because of her merge count. In that situation, I would just keep him for other modes where his Forseti's effect might be better than a -Blade tome + Desperation combo.

That's pretty much the gist of it, yeah. It's great for letting him spam his special, so long as you keep a Breath skill on him. It's also great on him since he's likely to get more out of Radiant Aether since by the second hit there usually isn't much health left on the enemy to make good use of the Sol effect. He'd still have to rely on getting off the second hit most of the time, but it's useful for helping him tank better.