Legendary Hero Banners Are a Scam and I’m Never Doing This Again: a +10 Legendary Elincia Showcase
Allow me to paint you a picture.
If you were an Elincia fan in 2023, you probably had simultaneously the best and worst reactions to her treatment in FEH.
“Man, her last alt was a Grail unit after years of nothing. When is it her turn?”
“Oh! An ascended version! Sucks this means her legendary form is probably far out but at least it’s a new powerful version of herself.”
“fym Hinoka got a legendary alt before her she’s not even RELEVANT TO HER OWN STORY”
“well if she’s not getting a legendary alt this year I can be a bit more liberal with my orbs—“
“Oh god damn it.”
“FYM HER ASCENDED ALT IS ON A REMIX BANNER RIGHT AFTER THIS”
Needless to say, I love both her Ascended and Legendary alts quite a lot. Both have amazing art and provide some great utility. Specifically Ascended still holds up as a great nuke against non flat DR units while also providing good support with buffs and auto follow up. Pair it with soaring guidance and far trace echo and I have never been more thankful that IS really doesn’t give a shit about Radiant Dawn by dodging giving her a PRF skill.
But this post isn’t about her. Oh no. This post is about her legendary version.
Let the record show that I have never tried to merge project a legendary unit before, mostly because I’d like to think I’m sound of mind. Clearly I’m not if you’ve seen my last showcase with Aelfric, but that’s beyond the point.
Elincia is one of my favorite characters of all time. Even outside of Fire Emblem. I knew one day she would get a legendary, but being blindsided by it means my humble orb stash that was being held for her was reduced to atoms by the time she came around.
So, oh well. I’d start the project now, and then try and get as many copies as I can when I know she will be back. Won’t be too bad, right?
2 copies every banner. Out of the 5 banners she has been on, except for literally one freak time I got 3, I always got 2 copies. One of them being the spark.
Imagine having to forgo the then-meta defining Emblem Ike because your favorite character had to be sparked, and instead of making life easy Embla showed up twice.
Imagine the agony of seeing her share a spot with Hinoka, knowing damn well that you’re going to grab her instead because of the spite you hold for her currently.
Imagine seeing that after July 2024, her last run, you would need to wait until THE END OF FEBURARY 2025 TO GET ANOTHER CHANCE.
TO GET TWO MORE COPIES.
OF A UNIT WHO WAS OUTCLASSED BY A DEMOTE SIDE CHARACTER OF SACRED STONES IN A KIMONO.
And you wanna know the worst part? The real sting behind this entire thing?
I know for damn sure that getting my luck is actually above average for these types of projects. I’ve seen the 13% horror stories. This game can be cruel. I’m just glad it granted mercy on me by leaving the Merrin at home today.
Ok, ok. Enough preamble.
Actually not enough yet. Fuck legendary banners. I’m a filthy FEH pass user for a reason.
Ok, now that’s enough preamble. Build time.
Legendary Elincia’s gimmick was originally to leap frog with Absolute Amiti’s built in Omni-Clash, Aerial Maneuver’s super Aerobatics+Dive Bomb, and Heart of Crimea’s Omni Guidance 4. Bring in some support or road clearing, have her hop in and secure the max buffs and 4x stab in a row. Simple and effective.
Just one tiny problem with that— none of that is true damage. And in 2025, you’re either dishing out fake numbers or you are blocking with fake numbers.
And as stated earlier, the one gimmick of having Omni guidance was outclassed by NY!Tana, who not only is packed with that in her kit, but becomes a warp beacon after she attacks. Awesome man. I’m glad I’ve wasted so many orbs on this when I could’ve used it all for a demote.
But that was not going to stop me, dammit. I’m stubborn as fuck.
THE BUILD
Absolute Amiti is a given. Considering the last Arcane Sword came out before she was even released, whatever she has here is better than whatever they got now. A faultless brave sword still can go far.
Harsh Command+ is for arena and you know it. I’m not gonna sit here and pretend like I have a good reason for it man. “Oh, sure, I put it on there so that my team can now do 6 damage to Niðhöggr instead of -36” do you hear yourself?
No Quarter, because Draconic Aura was a joke to include in the first place and IS hates giving useful specials to non-infantry units almost as much as I hate Alcryst.
Almost.
(And I didn’t pull on the 3H Valentines banner for Haze Slice because if I have to hear one more Edelgard debate in my life I think I’ll bash my head into a A/D Spiked Wall.)
Atk/Spd Excel came along when I was working my way to spark for Emblem Lyn, and I got a spare B!Felix. This skill is a legitimate upgrade to her already existing Clash 4, as it provides DR and True Damage, something of which she lacks in both departments. Seriously, I cannot believe they didn’t even give her DODGE DR. They made Lucia the same year as her and said that she needed NONE OF THAT. Fine, ok. Whatever.
Now here’s the fun part of this story. In my last showcase I said that a big pet peeve of mine is when people post a unit showcase of any 5 star exclusive and it’s just their base kit with maybe the possibility of one or two skills slid on if I’m lucky. If you’re really invested into this financial sink of a game, you will do crazy shit for the love of it.
So to prove that I’m a man of my word, I took my only 9999 SP, 2.6k HM, Tempest Trial staple Emblem Lyn, and I gave her Speedtaker 4. I was not bound by the meta, nor will I ever will be. Worse comes to worse I’ll just grab her during the AHR banner. But damn it, I want this unit to succeed and you are not going to stop me. I used an otherworldly bond on a Brave Tiki that I’ll never use since I kept foddering the copies I did get, you can’t control me on what I should or shouldn’t do!
Heart of Crimea is still good. I like Omni Guidance. That is the answer to that question.
Blade Session seal because I still don’t care to look at why it gives me all those stats but it does so there we go.
Now it’s time for everyone’s favorite part!!!
The Meta Check, with Tim!
(As always, each unit is supported by popular support friends to apply necessary buffs and debuffs to the enemy lines.)
In the NY!Niðhöggr matchup she…
fucking dies!
In the V!Rhea matchup she fucking di—
wait what.
And finally, to counteract one of the biggest brick walls in the game, in the Surtr matchup she…
ABSOLUTELY CRUSHES HIS ASSSSSSS
Finally, let me run down the units I have invested into her, just to showcase my dedication to this bit.
-B!Felix: Atk/Spd Excel, Endless Tempest -Someone not important: Harsh Command+ -E!Lyn: Speedtaker 4 -W!Dimitri: No Quarter and 2 tiers do ATK/SPD prime -Cordelia: Galeforce -B!Gullveig: Flared Sparrow
So what have we learned today?
I hate legendary banners.
I have wasted several sparks on meta units for someone who will probably trivialize my kit in her remix years down the line.
This meta is truly fucked if you actually respect the battle forecast
Thank you all for reading my pain given written form. I have 6 more copies of that shitass dancing alt that I’m trying to make a tier4 ploy user to somehow scratch up and then I can rest happy knowing I got +10 of every Elincia.
Until they make her a backpack with some shit like Ivy and then I’ll be back with another existential crisis.
Happy summoning!!!!!!!