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Young Ike: Re-building a champion

Soooo... young Ike was once a mainstay in my team and every time he came up on a banner (and he has been on many) I had pulled a couple of Ike’s and merged them up until I had a 5*+8. But eventually he got power crept by everyone (even himself) and found himself sat on the bench, neglected.

So earlier today with my 124 orbs, I decided to ignore everyone’s advice not too and pull for 2 more Ike’s to make him +10. And I succeeded!

2 x Ike, 1 x 5* Soliel and a Takumi ?

So now I want some suggestions on how to make him revelant again in the current meta.

He’s +atk -hp. I don’t have steady breath or warding breath to give, but I do have a lot of other fodder at the moment. Suggestions?

Asked by AngelSeras9 months 2 weeks ago
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Hmmmm, I think it depends on what you'd like his role to be. With Quick Riposte and Distant Defense sacred seal, he could be a pretty good ranged check for your team and still be able to fire off Aether's thanks to the +atk IV Heavy Blade combo.

You could also opt to keep swordbreaker on him and maybe go for something like Quick Riposte sacred seal to not only allow him to check speedy reds such as Mia and Ayra, but also allow him to duel faster green threats.

Just some thoughts, sorry I'm not the best with building DC units Angels :(

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Don’t worry, the input helps!

So I should have mentioned he has QR3 already, he also has fury 3, axebreaker 3, hone speed, threaten attack and reposition available.

It’s difficult because his speed is average and he needs swordbreaker to fight Ayra, Mia and even Eirika but QR3 suits his build better. Running it with DD3 might be a good call as he needs the extra resistance.

EDIT: Just checked and he also has Ignis and vantage 3

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by TG15 9 months 3 weeks ago

Your RNG is insane. 35 orbs got me a Sonya with optimal IV.

But for now, I’d say the best thing you can do with him is slap QR on him. Your A slot could be swapped out if you did decide to make him more offense/defense oriented, and heavy blade can always be a seal. Steady breath with close/distant def in the seal slot might not be too bad, or you could slap wrath on him and give him the QR seal. There’s a lot of options you can do with him to make him a killer, but it depends on what you have available.

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Yeeeeah but now I have zero orbs again and whilst I don’t mind buying 1 orb pack once a month, I don’t want to spend any money, I just want to play F2P, so back to saving again. Good thing there’s a TT incoming.

I think QR3 might be the one, but I’d have to wait for a breath skill. I did try fury 3 and heavy blade and it gave him incredible stats across the board.

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That could be intriguing, but fury with QR would be a bit contradicting unless you could get some high HP heals, if Ike needs to engage multiple enemies.

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Yeah, the fury would hurt his QR viability, but if you either ran a healer or ran him as a one round cannon that would take out his target and then hang back for the rest of the fight, it wouldn’t matter as much.

Also, if he doesn’t take a lot of damage on the first round, it won’t be as concerning. But he essentially can take 6 damage from his foe before he falls out of range for QR from the fury chip. But Aether would be charged for the next enemy. Maybe it would be ok.

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I made a slight edit above, but I’ll reiter my point here.

If your Ike doubles in HB range, he may drop out of QR range, BUT his Aether would be charged. Find an enemy he can smash to bits with one shot and he will probably be back in QR range with just 6 less health. So it is situational.

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I also tweaked my Ike a bit recently, mine is +Atk-Res. Due to the powercreep in recent banners, OG Ike needs a buff in stats, so I switched out HB 3 for Fury 3 in A skill, QR3 for B skill, and equipped him with a HB seal.
For GHB and TT,you can put HB3 back for A skill and Renewal 3 for B skill and a QR seal.
He's doing pretty good in my team now, although I don't use him in my arena defense team.
OG Ike is becoming more and more irrelevant nowadays, but still salvageable to some degree.

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He’s still a quality unit, there’s just better options these days.
Thanks for the suggestion, how do you find fury and qr3 together? Does the chip damage impact it much?

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it's alright especially in an one-off map, this skill set is for story maps and training tower where you only need to face 4-5 units a time.
For GHB and TT,it's better to keep his sustainability throughout the maps therefore my suggestion of switching back to HB3 and Renewal 3 for better Survivability.

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Hmmmm.....I like the QR suggestion. Heavy Blade will sync great with his attack, so that can stay in the A-slot fine. I might honestly suggest Close Defense as the seal. Adds a little defensive bulk, keeping his HP up for QR and charging Aether more quickly. Speed Smoke could help, if you wanted to extend with him a bit.

Just a few thoughts. Nice luck you got there with 2 max-merged godslayers, friend! My kingdom for a fraction of that this week. Haha. I hope you find a way to use him well!

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I was originally thinking close defence seal with sword breaker in the b slot to make him a dualist. Speed smoke could be interesting, shame I don’t have a fallen Celica to pass chill speed to someone as this would wreck Ayra for him to fight her

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actually chill speed 3 will not help Ike take down Ayra unless you can OTK her which is theoretically impossible. Swordbreaker 3 is the best counter skill against Ayra for Ike which prevent him from getting doubled.

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I meant running sword breaker and close defence and speed smoke with an ally running chilling speed to debuff Ayra, obviously this was theoretical as I don’t have chilling speed to give to anyone anyway.

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Chill Speed 3 is best equipped by debuffer units like Eirika,Soren etcs. I gave one to Eirika, it works insanely good which allows me to double a speedster unit(40+) using armor units.

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I like to keep units’ “signature” skills in place much as I can, so my Ike keeps Heavy Blade, plus Vantage and Quick Riposte seal.

I sometimes mix up his set for specific battles or teams, for example sometimes running sword breaker, but this is the set I consider to be his standard.

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