Eliwood Character Analysis [Fire Emblem Heroes/ FE: Heroes]

Eliwood

Personal Evaluation	9/10
Attribute / Weapon	Red/Sword
Rank	3~4  stars
Title	Knight Lycia
First Appearance	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
Voice Actor	Yuri Lowenthal

Eliwood is a noble born from the House of Pherae, son of Lord Elbert and Lady Eleanora. He is close friends with Hector who is the son of the marquess of Ostia. They grew up together, leading them to both become knights of Lycia. Eliwood is also the father of Roy. As a unit in Fire Emblem Heroes, he is a Red/Sword Cavalry unit.

Stats

Eliwood is a tanky Red/Sword Cavalry unit that can create a bottleneck in tight maps. While his stats do not really reflect his Defensive power, he does have high Speed and Res that can absorb incoming magic attacks.

Initial Stats

Skill List

Weapons

Name	Mt	Rng	Details	Default	Reqs
Iron Sword	6	1	–	–	50 SP
Steel Sword	8	1	–	☆☆☆	100 SP
Silver Sword	11	1	–	☆☆☆☆	200 SP, ☆☆☆
Durandal	16	1	Grants Atk+4 during combat if unit initiates attack.	☆☆☆☆☆	☆☆☆☆☆, 400 SP

Special Skills

Name	CD	Description	Reqs
Holy Vestments	3	Reduces damage inflicted by attacks from foes 2 spaces away by 30%.	Default: ☆☆☆☆ Unlock: ☆☆☆ SP: 100
Sacred Cowl	2	Reduces damage inflicted by attacks from foes 2 spaces away by 30%.	Default: ☆☆☆☆ Unlock: – SP: 200

Passive Skills

Name	Type	Description	Reqs
Axebreaker 1	B	Gives Atk+10% if weapon-triangle advantage, Atk-10% if disadvantage.	Unlock: ☆☆☆ SP: 50
Axebreaker 2		Gives Atk+15% if weapon-triangle advantage, Atk-15% if disadvantage.	Unlock: ☆☆☆☆ SP: 100
Axebreaker 3		Gives Atk+20% if weapon-triangle advantage, Atk-20% if disadvantage.	Unlock: ☆☆☆☆☆ SP: 200
Spur Res 1	C	After combat, foe suffers Def-3 through its next action.	Unlock: – SP: 40
Spur Res 2		After combat, foe suffers Def-5 through its next action.	Unlock: ☆☆☆☆ SP: 80
Ward Cavalry		After combat, foe suffers Def-7 through its next action.	Unlock: ☆☆☆☆☆ SP: 160

Strategy

Eliwood is a tank cavalry. It’s not his stats but his skills that make him a tank. With Holy Vestments and Sacred Cowl, he’s able to reduce the damage of any character that attacks from 2 Spaces away. This makes him relatively useful against dagger users, bow users, tome users, and even staff users. With his already high Res, he can soak up damage from some blue tomes like Robin (M).

However, Eliwood is still quite susceptible to physical attackers. His being a cavalry unit makes him susceptible to Blue/Lance users like Mathilda who has Ridersbane. To further Eliwood’s skills, you can try adding some defensive buffs or have some players with defensive passives surround him. A Healer such as Azama and Clarine can support him. For more versatility in movement, Azama is preferred since he can cross through forests and has Solid Earth Balm.

For assists, Drawback can work if he needs to save a few allies. However, a more personal preference would be to have Swap as he can then serve as a tank. This works best however if he has a pocket healer on hand. Reposition can work as well as it throws the ally behind him. To grant him more combat capability, Deathblow is a plausible passive trait. However, my personal preference would involve Close Defense but it’s quite hard to get especially since one has to sacrifice Adult Tiki (Ylissean Summer) to get it. Distant Defense or Defiant Def can definitely work as a replacement if the player wants to give Eliwood more tanking capability.

Counter

• Delthea – Delthea has a strong ATK power that makes his Res look bad. The fact that she’s a blue/tome also makes her incredibly potent against Eliwood.
• Robin (M) – Tanky in both Def and Res, Robin (M) can soak up incoming damage from Eliwood before throwing it back at him. He can instantly one-shot Eliwood without needing to learn Retribution.
• Gray – Gray’s Zanbato deals extra damage against Eliwood’s being a Cavalry.
• Mathilda – Mathilda has Ridersbane and is a Blue/Lance/Cavalry. He’s pretty much dead meat.

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