Echidna: Difference between revisions

She joins with high bases in areas such as [[strength]], [[speed]] and [[Skill_(stat)|skill]], but low ones in areas such as [[luck]], [[defense]], [[resistance]] and [[constitution]]. She also has low growths in every area besides [[Hit_point|HP]], ensuring that her stats will not improve much. She comes equipped with a steel axe which lowers her speed a lot because of its high weight and Echidna's low constitution, so it's recommended to trade her lighter axes or swords. Her weapon ranks are fairly high allowing her to wield powerful weapons such as killer axes, killing edges and wyrmslayers at base, this along with her high strenght and speed allows her to be a potent combat unit in her joining chapter as well as many of the next few chapters as well, but her low defense and somewhat low HP means that fighting large groups of enemies is quite risky with her even if dodgetanking is fairly viable in ''The Binding Blade''. Because of her low growths and low bulk she will fall off near the lategame, as she will have trouble doubling some of the enemeies and one rounding them without a crit, even so she can still contribute well during the later chapters thanks to her having acces to both axes and swords. She's a great candidate for both [[Durandal]] and [[Armads]] thanks to her high base weapon ranks, but these weapons should not be used much before [[The_Ghosts_of_Bern|chapter 23]] if the player desires to get the true ending.

Depending on the village you visit in [[The_Misty_Isles|chapter 9]], you can either get access to the path where you get Echidna or the path where you get Bartre. Bartre is overall bulkier thanks to his higher HP, luck and defense, along with being stronger with a high 22 defense. Because of his high consitution he can use heavy wepons without losing speed, while still being light enough to be rescued by units like Shanna, and has access to bows wich are useful for dealing with numerous dangerous enemy flyers. Unlike Bartre, Echidna has very high speed and skill which allow her to double and hit enemies consitetnly which is fairly rare in ''The Binding Blade''. Most importantly Echidna has access to swords which are a much better weapon type than axes and bows, along with a high enough weapon rank to use powerful ones such as killing edges, making her a much better bosskiller and her overall combat much more consistent.