Lloyd

This build aims to let Lloyd become a threatening Player Phase killer while tanking enough hits on the Enemy Phase to retaliate next turn.

Weapon: Regal Blade (+Eff) gives Lloyd enough buffs to become a mixed phase powerhouse. He can gain up to +6 Atk/Spd with his weapon alone, as well as +3 Def/Res to improve his survivability. Because Lloyd focuses on ORKO’ing opponents, the 100% HP requirement of his blade to grant +3 Atk/Spd wouldn’t be much of a problem.

Assist: Reposition or Draw Back are effective movement assist skills, but Reciprocal Aid can be used as well to help Lloyd enter the HP threshold for his skills or heal up to tank more hits.

A Skill: Brazen Atk/Spd 3 allows Lloyd to retaliate much harder during the Player Phase after tanking several hits on the Enemy Phase. This combined with Desperation will allow Lloyd to almost certainly remove most Arena threats with ease during te Player Phase. If one wishes to improve his tanking capabilities more, one can use Brazen Atk/Def or Brazen Def/Res, or simply default into Fury, which, as always, remains a solid skill for any unit.

B Skill: Desperation 3 allows Lloyd to avoid being counterattacked before finishing his series of attacks. The Speed increase from Brazen Atk/Spd will allow Lloyd to double most opponents without risking being hit back.

C Skill: Atk Smoke 3 is the ideal choice for Lloyd, as it will debuff his opponents after dealing with his first target in order to tank their hits more safely.

Sacred Seal: Close Def 3 is a great skill for Lloyd, increasing both his physical and magical bulk. Alternatively, he can use Distant Def 3 to tank common ranged threats in the Arena, such as the Reinhardt or Brave Lyn.

This build uses his Regal Blade, debuffs like Atk Smoke and Seal Atk, as well as other supports like Brave Lucina and Marth to help Lloyd take down a lot of foes, and take little back.

With Regal Blade giving him +3 spd when the enemy has full HP, Marth's Falchion giving him +2 more speed +3 more with drive speed, Brave Lucina's Geirskogul and drive speed giving him +6 more speed, and an infantry mage with drive speed like Soren giving him +6 more speed, plus Ally Support giving him +1-2 more speed, right from the start you will have over 50 speed, allowing you to hit someone without being countered, and be able to debuff your foes atk by -7!

Not only that but Soren and Marth will give Lloyd +5 more def, +3 more if one of them has Drive Def as a Sacred Seal, as well as the Ally Support giving him +1-2 more, giving him almost 30 def, WAY more than his pathetic 20, and that's not mentioning the Atk debuffs on your enemies.

His A Slot Skill is very flexible, but I would recommend a Brazen Skill like Brazen Def & Res, making his already buffed up defenses even stronger. Bond Skills, Stance Skills, or even Blow Skills are good options as well. If you were to use a Bond Skill, I would recommend replacing drive skills with spur skills so then Lloyd can get a little more stats, and also remember that your other allies are open to attack so watch out.

For his Special Skill, while Iceberg can still work, I would say Moonbow is a lot better because of 1: Because of its quicker activation 2: units with high Def.

This is an expensive skill set, but it's worth it.

Distant Counter allows Lloyd to make full effectiveness with Regal Blade's unique effect. Infantry mage is mandatory for the effect to activate, which not only gives Lloyd +3 in both defenses but he'll also get +6 to his offenses should the foe be at full HP. Close Def 3 is recommended, as he has low defenses for a melee unit.

when right next to a supported mage
HP-49
Atk-58
Spd-45
Def-30
Res-40

when right next to a supported mage & foe is at 100% hp
HP-49
Atk-61
Spd-50
Def-30
Res-40

if he had a dc weapon i could do some warding breath stuff

This build allows Lloyd to take advantage of the recent Regal Blade upgrade. With an infantry mage ally and an opponent at 100% HP, this allows Lloyd to hit effective stats of 44/57/41/23/33. This means Lloyd's stats become much better, and with infantry pulse he is able to help out the infantry mage as well. His now high Atk means he can effectively vantage trap lower def green units, and with an iceberg charged, even units like M!Grima, Myrrh, LA!Hector, and even moderate def red units like Ayra. His high res, especially for sword units, means he can easily bait out and damage or kill mages and dragons.