Echidna: Difference between revisions

Echidna joins as a prepromoted Hero in [[The_Hero_of_the_West|chapter 11A]] of ''The Binding Blade'' where she will come out of upper yellow house on the right side of the map on turn 8. She will be ambushed by 3 enemies and they can attack your units as well, so it's improtant to keep your fragile units out of range, she does have a small chance of death if she gets hit by all of the three enemies, but this is quite rare.  

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 levels 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 levels, but these weapons should not be used much before [[The_Ghosts_of_Bern|chapter 23]] if the player desires to get the true ending.

Overall, Echidna is a solid unit having great combat for a few chapter, but will fall off after those. Even so she's still perfectly usable in later chapters and is one of the few viable axe user in the game.