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Tips on building micaiah

So I pulled micaiah on her initial banner with +res - spd ivs and been using her for a bit.
The problem is I don't really know how to build her. Mine has iceberg, dd3 vantage and her attack buff skill but I'm not too satisfied with her.
For me, the only things she can kill are red armors and red cavaliers ( she can one shot them) so if those aren't on the map she pretty much doesn't do anything because she can't kill anything in one round of combat.
I'd like to know what you run on her and how she's been working for you because I really want to use her :)

Asked by Unit Londa8 months 3 weeks ago

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Well, I use her for support immensely, using her unique sacrifice skill

So I stuck with a renewal build, sticking around for when a Calvary or Armored unit pops up
(Has been frequently eliminating Reinhardts, B! Lyns, Zelgius, Xander’s, etc. in one shot!)

You could do with Death Blow 3 to increase the chance of ohko’ing or stick with DD, which is perfectly fine (tanks a hit from B! Lyn easier and can assure against Reinhardts)

Her speed isn’t too much, so a -Spd bane’s fine

My Micaiah is +Hp / -Def, not so different, yet a Micaiah regardless of IV’s can still perform any designated role as any other

Brash Assualt + Desperation allows her to double with her nuking damage as a offensive build, though I went with the safer sets

I have extra options to B-Slot: Renewal, Desperation(to Brash Assault combo) and Guard.

But you can use Quick Riposte on B-slot to make her kill more things, and double DD to make sure that she doens't fall below the HP condition.

I agree, it does enhance her ranged combat effectiveness greatly with QR, but do note that her opponents are likely to double, and gets the hit first.

DD works wonders with QR (watchout for high res archers / daggers and greens), though her sacrifice skill is limited (maybe swap for a different support skill like reposition or just keep it)

I don't really like QR on Micaiah, but mages will barely hurt her, so QR can activate more than one time.

My Micaiah support is V!Ike +Def/-Spd and with Earth blessing she gets even more attack, she can knockout most of the enemies in 1 hit and VIke take care of everything that is not BLyn/Reinhardt and Sapphire Lance.

Nice pair!

I use BK for his overall higher physical bulk in correspondence, both work well (I use V! Ike as well sometimes)

I was thinking of using double Infantry Pulse + VIke and Micaiah on some AA fights, Radiant Aether on first attack!!

Lol that’d be awesome

If you want her to be a player phase unit, then death blow deperation brash assault is the best choice, she can even bring down some green armors with that build.
As others have pointed out, guard, distant def, quick riposte and atk ploy are great options for defensive builds.

Ooo, I forgot about Ploys

With a +Res boon (+3 from weapon as well), that monstrous Res is bound to ploy a very wide array of units

And you can have Spd Ploy(Deirdre) to help with Micaiah spd instead of using QR.

Just a quick thought to add onto the other stuff already here;

In addition to Desperation, Swordbreaker and Lancebreaker are both pretty decent skills for her too. Mostly Lancebreaker. It lets her crack through non-DC Lance units often, especially armored and mounted ones. Swordbreaker just helps are a bit versus some Infantry swords.

The despsration set is the best one imo. +res -hp myself.
You want fury over deathblow in order to bypass wary fighter. And atk ploy from oliver for rein if its a concern.

Its funny to see how much builds Micaiah can have without change her weapon. I love this girl.

Best OFFENSIVE build, there no way to compare double DD vs brash assault combo.(In a technical way, its like Raven(Prf) vs BIke)
And the Desperation + BA only helps against wary fighter IF the enemy can counter, nothing happen without this.

(ಠ_ಠ) no!I meant what i said.

The BA set still allows her to check nearly all mages which is one of her primary jobs.

gives her utility BEYOND that. Distant def is kinda useless if there are no ranged enemies

"Nothing happen without this" .................................................its called a free hit on a unit, fury boosted so higher chamce to ohko

I understand, but i wanted to say that IF the enemy can't counter you don't get the extra attack.(the nothing happen part).

I'm not trying to say that you are wrong or something like that, sorry =/

And i don't use her for Arena, i always choose Micaiah to fight the right battles, and in the TT she have the pseudo-healer function with Renewal to be usefull when there no enemies to bait.

Those are perfect IVs, her speed is poor and takes a lot of investment to be mediocre.

I'd giver her Quick Reposte 2/3 over Vantage, her res is high enough she should take very little damage from mages. I pull her out when I see a horse bladetome team in arena assault and use her to bait mages in Chains Challenges and Squad Assaults.

If you want to build her as a player phase nuke use the Despiration 3 and Brash Assault 3 seal combo with Death Blow. Use Sacrifice to drop her health then she can double into Distant Counter melee units. It takes more set up than a magic wall but it's a fun build.

Ye but the setup for desperation has WAY less opportunity cost than other units. This is bec she can heal a unit back to full health puting them back in the fight

Mine has bad ivs (-spd +res), but I use Distant def on her A and S slo, Iceberg special, Quick Riposte in B, and dirve atk on C, it works really well for me as a basically delete for any ranged unit as well as horse/armor emblem.

This is my Micaiah. +Atk -Def. Perfect IVs. It's best to pair her with an enemy phase unit like Ike so she could have a target for Sacrifice.

Great discussions. Just replying so I don’t lose this thread - I want to refer back to it later!