Community Posts with Keyword Legendary Ike
Table of Contents
Tier Rating
- Default
- Attack
- Special
- Injured
| Legendary Ike - Vanguard Legend |
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Related Heroes
Hero Stats
Stat Variations
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES | |
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| Low | 18 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Middle | 19 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| High | 20 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 5 |
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES | |
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| Low | 37 | 33 | 27 | 32 | 18 |
| Middle | 41 | 36 | 30 | 35 | 21 |
| High | 44 | 39 | 33 | 38 | 24 |
IV Sets
| Key stats worth increasing through nature if possible. | |
| Complementary stats that matter, but not to the point of picking them over key stats for nature increase. | |
| Relatively worthless stat that can safely be decreased through nature. |
| HP | ATK | SPD | DEF | RES |
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Assets
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+ATK: This is ideal to capitalize on Legendary Ike’s damage output, particularly because more damage means better sustain with Radiant Aether.
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+SPD: While Legendary Ike’s Speed isn’t particularly impressive, a +SPD boon can allow him to have enough Speed to avoid getting doubled by enemy units with middling Speed.
Neutral
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DEF: Legendary Ike is a great tank, and a +DEF boon can support him in that regard; however, because the majority of his survivability comes from his ability to sustain with Radiant Aether, it’s generally better to boost his offensive stats instead.
Flaws
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-RES: This may seem counterintuitive given his base Warding Breath, but Legendary Ike generally does not want to get hit more than once by magic damage anyway; this bane won’t really change much.
- -HP: This is a decent bane, particularly for Wrath builds, as it makes it easier to hit the skill's HP threshold. HP is not super important to Legendary Ike as a lot of his tankiness comes from his ability to sustain via Radiant Aether.
Skill Sets
The Gorilla (Defensive Nuke)
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Ragnell | A | Fierce Breath Alternate: Warding Breath |
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Reposition | B | Special Spiral 3 Alternate: Wrath 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Even Atk Wave 3 Alternate: Atk Smoke 3 |
| SP | 1685 | S | Quick Riposte 3 |
- Preferred IV: +ATK or +SPD / -HP or -RES
- Weapon: Ragnell
- Assist: Reposition
- Special: Radiant Aether
- Passive A: Fierce Breath / Warding Breath / Steady Breath
- Passive B: Special Spiral / Wrath
- Passive C: Even Atk Wave / Atk Smoke / Flexible
- Sacred Seal: Quick Riposte / Atk/Spd Bond
This is a very high investment build that aims to make the most of Legendary Ike’s unique Special, Radiant Aether. Radiant Aether is nearly identical to Aether; the only difference is that it has a cooldown of 4 instead of 5. This means that Legendary Ike has access to incredible sustain as combining Ragnell, Fierce/Warding/Steady Breath, and Special Spiral allows him to counterattack almost any enemy with a Radiant Aether activation.
Wrath is an acceptable alternative to Special Spiral for this build. It doesn’t grant Legendary Ike quite as much sustain as Special Spiral since it’s very likely that he will only activate Radiant Aether on his second attack, resulting in significantly reduced healing. However, it’s possible to offset Legendary Ike’s Special charge via team support with skills like Infantry Pulse; reducing Radiant Aether’s starting cooldown to 2 will allow Legendary Ike to retaliate with his Special on his first counterattack, and if this doesn’t KO his opponent then his follow-up attack will then place the cooldown back at 2. The extra damage from Wrath can be exceptionally powerful in securing KO’s, while the additional charge per turn while in the HP threshold can allow Legendary Ike a method of restoring himself back into Quick Riposte range without having to risk a combat without a Radiant Aether activation.
The Quick Riposte Seal is extremely important to this build, as Legendary Ike is generally too slow to double most speedy enemies without it. It also allows him to bypass skills that prevent follow-ups in the cases where he does have enough Speed otherwise. Alternatively, Atk/Spd Bond is an acceptable alternative if stacking Speed on Legendary Ike (particularly with team buff support).
Vanguard (Defensive Tank)
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Ragnell | A | Steady Breath Alternate: Warding Breath |
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Reposition | B | Null Follow-Up 3 Alternate: Guard 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Def Tactic 3 |
| SP | 1325 | S | Quick Riposte 3 |
- Preferred IV: +ATK or +SPD / -RES or -HP
- Weapon: Ragnell
- Assist: Reposition
- Special: Radiant Aether
- Passive A: Steady Breath / Warding Breath
- Passive B: Null Follow-Up / Guard / Null C-Disrupt / Quick Riposte
- Passive C: Def Tactic / Flexible
- Sacred Seal: Quick Riposte / Close Def / Distant Def / Atk Smoke
Steady Breath is chosen over Warding Breath because Defense is a significantly more useful stat to Legendary Ike than Resistance, as he is much better at handling physical threats than magical threats. On a budget, however, Warding Breath is perfectly serviceable. Either skill synergizes perfectly with his unique Special, Radiant Aether, as he will be able to activate it regardless of whether or not he is doubled.
Quick Riposte is an absolutely essential skill, as Legendary Ike simply does not have enough speed to double other units consistently without it outside of stacking Speed via team support. For Legendary Ike, Quick Riposte is best run as a Sacred Seal so that he can utilize a different B skill like Null Follow-up, Guard, or Null C-Disrupt. All three significantly improve upon his tanking skills considerably; Null Follow-Up is an infantry-exclusive skill that allows Legendary Ike to shut down enemies with skills that guarantee doubles like armored units with Bold Fighter. Alternatively, Guard allows Legendary Ike to minimize damage taken from Special-reliant units, such as Ayra and Zelgius. It also allows him to safely handle armored units who are running Bold Fighter, though not quite as effectively as running Null Follow-Up. Legendary Ike isn’t the best unit to utilize Null C-Disrupt, but his sustain from Radiant Aether combined with his built-in Distant Counter from Ragnell makes him a decent choice. If running Quick Riposte as a B skill instead of a Sacred Seal, then Legendary Ike’s Seal can be pretty much anything; some good choices include those that increase his bulk like Close Def and Distant Def, while Atk Smoke allows him to provide a bit of team support while also boosting his survivability.
Introduction
Ike returns as a sword unit with slightly more stats and an improved Special, Radiant Aether. He put the extra stats to good use, sporting improved Attack, Defense, and Resistance compared to his younger counterpart. His most defining feature is his unique Special -- while Radiant Aether is mostly identical to the regular Aether, it has a cooldown of 4 instead of 5. This cooldown reduction makes this Special much stronger than it appears, as it allows Legendary Ike to easily activate his Special every combat with Quick Riposte and one of Warding/Steady/Fierce Breath, particularly if combining those with a Special-boosting skill like Special Spiral or Wrath.
Statwise, Legendary Ike has decent physical bulk, which affords him the bulk needed to stay alive long enough to activate Radiant Aether for sustain. His magical bulk is also acceptable, though it can be a bit dangerous when facing strong magical foes. Legendary Ike is extremely reliant on his ability to activate Radiant Aether for extra damage and healing; without it, he can be surprisingly frail and will find it difficult to stay standing compared to the likes of armored units and/or dragons.
Overall, the Vanguard Legend is a noticeable improvement over his younger iteration. He suffers from many of the same weaknesses, but improves upon his strengths; Radiant Aether allows him to turn his offensive power into defensive power via strong sustain. Legendary Ike’s power and versatility makes him a solid addition to nearly any team, particularly if they can take advantage of Earth Blessings.
Strengths
Ragnell
Ragnell allows Legendary Ike to run the powerful Distant Counter + Fierce/Steady/Warding Breath combo, allowing him to handle a huge variety of threats while having good sustain.
Radiant Aether
While very similar in effect to the regular Aether Special, the reduced cooldown lets Legendary Ike to activate his Special every combat without having to rely on being doubled. Combining this with skills that improve upon or accelerate Specials like Warding/Steady/Fierce Breath and Special Spiral/Wrath allow Legendary Ike to simultaneously output strong damage while maintaining excellent sustain.
Good Physical Bulk
With 76 physical bulk, Legendary Ike is quite resilient versus physical threats. His ability to run Steady Breath (increases bulk to 80) and rapidly activate Radiant Aether can make him much tankier than he appears, as he can heal some of the damage every combat.
Legendary Hero
As one of the legendary heroes, Legendary Ike can grant Special stat boosts to an ally that receives an Earth Blessing (+3 HP and +2 ATK) and is fielded alongside him during Earth season.
Weaknesses
Low Speed
While Legendary Ike has enough speed to avoid doubles from a good number of units (particularly dragons), he is still slow to the point that he is entirely reliant on Quick Riposte to double. He will also be doubled by pretty much all units with good Speed, which can hurt his ability to tank.
Mediocre Magical Bulk
While 62 magical bulk is enough to survive a single hit from a lot of magical threats, it can be detrimental to Legendary Ike in that he is reliant on keeping his HP high in order to maximize his ability to utilize Quick Riposte. More Quick Riposte uptime means more Radiant Aether activations, but taking heavy magical damage can easily knock Legendary Ike out of Quick Riposte's HP threshold, preventing him from safely re-entering combat.
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Ragnell | A | Warding Breath |
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Reposition | B | Quick Riposte 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Def Tactic 3 |
| S | Close Def 3 | ||
W - Ragnell: DC weapon
A - Reposition: Standard assist
S - Radiant Aether: Aether at 4 special charge
A - Warding Breath: Special charge +1 and res +4
B - Quick Riposte 3: Retaliate with a double
C - Def Tactic: Filler skill
SS - Close Def 3: Increase close range bulk
Stats higher than usual due to summoner bond (+5 HP, +2Atk/Spd/Def/Res), + 1 merge, and +3 dragonflowers
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Slaying Edge+ (+Spd) | A | Distant Counter |
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Reposition | B | Special Spiral 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Infantry Breath 3 |
| S | Darting Stance 3 | ||
Weapon: Slaying Edge+ (Def+ Refine)
Support: Variable
Special: Radiant Aether
A Skill: Distant Counter / Steady Breath / Warding Breath
B Skill: Special Spiral / Quick Riposte / Swordbreaker
C Skill: Variable
Sacred Seal: Darting Stance / Quick Riposte / Quickened Pulse
An incredibly high investment build, but hear me out. If you really like Ike I think this is the ideal build. It reduces his unique Aether thanks to Slaying Edge+ but also pads his stats some more thanks to weapon refinery.
By switching out your weapon and A skill you lose a net 2 attack but gain a special cooldown charge (retaining Aether proc retaliation), 5HP and whatever refinery buff you choose (speed to avoid doubles?).
Ideally he would have an ally providing infantry breath to him to further reduce special cooldown on the first enemy phase.
and thereafter special spiral 3 in hid B slot should cover the rest.
If highly merged darting stance can avoid critical doubles whereas at lower merges quick riposte is your best bet.
One cheese shenanigan you can run is Slaying Edge+ (refined), Steady/Warding Breath, Wrath and Quickened Pulse Sacred Seal to make him an almost unkillable enemy phase melee brawler
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Ragnell | A | Warding Breath |
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Pivot | B | Vantage 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Threaten Def 3 |
| S | Quick Riposte 3 | ||
It's an +4 with a boon +ATK
A: Warding Breath, it give him some bulk against magic user in combat and lower the cooldown.
B: Vantage, it gives him the possibility to attack before the enemy which safe me several time even more when he's special was ready.
C: At the time, I didn't know which C I should give to him so let's reduce the enemy def...
Seal: The combo Vantage and QR is deadly for this kind of unit who can heal themselves.
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Ragnell | A | Warding Breath |
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Reposition | B | Quick Riposte 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Def Tactic 3 |
| S | Distant Def 3 | ||
This build is an enemy phase all purpose build for all game modes. Ike built this way will have 37 def and 33 res (for Distant attacks) with summoner support,
which enable Ike be able to tank most units just by himself, and since he normally receive some ally support it will make him even harder to kill.
Even without ally support this Ike will be able to tank 1 hit from all units and 2 hits from most units except blue units with very high atk (physical units with atk >= 50 and magical non-dragon units with atk >= 47).
If Ike is not killed he will then always counter attack twice thanks to Quick riposte and will always active Radiant Aether on the 2nd hit (or 1st hit if enemy unit can atk twice before Ike can counter) thanks to Warding breath, dealing substantial damage to the attacker and healing himself.
For e.g. a Reinhardt without boon and has life&death as A skill will have (32+9+5)=46 atk, and will atk twice dealing 44 damage to Ike (46*1.2 - 33)*2, and Ike will then counter twice and defeat him, with the first atk being radian aether and heals himself for 40hp.
Typical use of this build would be for an player phase ally unit to initiate the combat, and then have Ike use reposition to move the unit out of harm and wait for enemy to engage him. For e.g. I use Brave Veronica as Ike's support, with good positioning she will reduce enemy's atk by 4, buff Ike's def/res by 4 and provide Ike with 2 def/res support bonus, enable him to tank and counter everything except specific blue units (e.g. bold fighter armors).
His C skill is quite flexible, I left his native Def Tactic 3 as it is quite useful in many situations to prevent allies getting OHKOed.
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Ragnell | A | Warding Breath |
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Pivot | B | Vantage 3 |
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Radiant Aether | C | Spd Tactic 3 |
| S | Res Tactic 3 | ||
Ike, being the Legendary hero, provides the team with a DC red unit capable of charging specials in one combat. He also assists Marth in +6 buffing the two armor units from farther away.
Weapon Skills
| Weapons | SP | Rng. | Mt. |
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Iron SwordOnly Inheritable by Sword Units.
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50 | 1 | 6 |
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Steel Sword Only Inheritable by Sword Units.
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100 | 1 | 8 |
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Silver Sword Only Inheritable by Sword Units.
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200 | 1 | 11 |
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RagnellEnables counterattack regardless of distance if this unit is attacked.
Learns by default at 5 ★ Non-Inheritable skill.
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400 | 1 | 16 |
Special Skills
| Special Skills | SP | Turns |
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| DaylightRestores HP = 30% of damage dealt.
Learns by default at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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100 | 3 |
| SolRestores HP = 50% of damage dealt.
Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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200 | 3 |
| Radiant AetherDuring combat, treats foe's Def/Res as if reduced by 50%. Restores HP = 50% of damage dealt.
Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-Inheritable skill.
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500 | 4 |
Passive Skills
| Passive Skills | SP | Slot |
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Warding Stance 1Grants Res+2 during combat when this unit is attacked.
Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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50 | A |
Warding Stance 2Grants Res+4 during combat when this unit is attacked.
Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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100 | A |
Warding BreathGrants Res+4 during combat if unit is attacked. Also grants Special cooldown charge +1 per attack. (Does not stack. Only highest value applied.)
Melee, Infantry, and Armored Only
Unlocks at 5 ★ |
240 | A |
Seal Def 1After combat, foe suffers Def -3 through its next action.
Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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40 | B |
Seal Atk Def 1After combat, inflicts Atk/Def-3 on foe through its next action.Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
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100 | B |
Seal Atk Def 2After combat, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe through its next action.Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.
Unlocks at 5 ★ |
200 | B |
Def Tactic 1At start of turn, grants Def+2 to allies within 2 spaces for 1 turn. Granted only if number of that ally's movement type on current team ≤ 2.
Inheritable by all units.
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60 | C |
Def Tactic 2At start of turn, grants Def+4 to allies within 2 spaces for 1 turn. Granted only if number of that ally's movement type on current team ≤ 2.
Inheritable by all units.
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120 | C |
Def Tactic 3At start of turn, grants Def+6 to allies within 2 spaces for 1 turn. Granted only if number of that ally's movement type on current team ≤ 2.
Inheritable by all units.
Unlocks at 5 ★ |
240 | C |
Other Info
| Origin |
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
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