**A look at Eligor Spear's trio and why Avanni is GOAT**
So I’ve been looking for a chance to write up a post in this thread for a long time, but never found any units interesting enough to write about. However I think Eligor’s spear’s lord finally piqued my interest. So lets take look at them individually aight
Thief Lord Skylar
We open at a look at Skylar the thief lord of Eligor’s spear. Let’s start with the pros:
~ Skylar’s a thief lord which means you have steal utility for every map in this game. Now the best loot in the game in my personal opinion are droppables but nontheless his ability to steal is a nice addition to get more items to help out and also sell.
~ High move, which is very nice since a lot of maps (at least in the grismond route) are pretty big and careful positioning is important
~ High speed and decent strength, This will be relevant with the two other lords in Eligor’s spear but in short I find the meta in eligor to be very “the best defense is offense”. Skylar has only decent strength but with the help of effective weapons or crits he can very much keep up offense wise especially against axe enemies.
~ High dodge, against axe enemies it’s very rare that the enemies can hit him reliably
Now the cons:
~ Low defense, against lance enemies and sword enemies he’s very liable to die after 1 or 2 hits, further compounded by:
~ Triangle lock, Skylar’s only access to triangle control is limited to reavers and lancereavers are some of the most rare types so far as I’ve played, this means you’ll likely to count on him dodging something at 60-70 ish hit rates for survival 2/3 of the time
Overall I would say skylar’s a 4/5 stars unit. He’s really good as utility and against axe units but struggles against his counters
Pirate Camian
My least favorite of the three, let’s start with the pros tho:
~High Hp & Decent Defense, You could probably frontline a few slower enemies with Camian (not always tho, explained later)
~Access to bows as warrior, Bows are the BEST weapon type in eligor in my opinion. Not every bow unit is good but every unit that can use bows can usually get some milage out of it
~Uh…can recruit some units? yea scrapping the barrel rn
The cons tho, plenty of that going on:
~The lowest move of the three, despite having access to bows Camian’s low move means it’s harder for him to get into position and kill stuff. He’s certainly no Skylar/Avanni
~Low Spd, Now in general strong slow units in this hack is probably the worst they can be in a fire emblem hack. The “meta” is very much not designed for slow units to prosper, one hit even from an effective weapons usually doesn’t kill and a lot of enemies have high enough speed to double and enough might to do damage even with high defense, this pretty much negates the pros of having higher defense.
~Low Res, Magic enemies in eligor are deadly, a lot of your cast can’t handle even 2 rounds with them and the same goes for poor camian, even with bow advantage he won’t fair well against them
~Middling Offense, Camian’s lack of speed is not only bad for his defenses but his offenses too, whilst skylar and avanni can often one round an enemy because they double things. I could probably count the number of times camian has doubled something on 1 hand.
2/5 unit
Now to the queen, Boom!
Sniper Goddess Avanni
Now this is a unit, and it’s particularly interesting because bows have often been the worst or at best a middling weapon type, but in eligor? They’re the best. Here’s Avanni’s pros:
~ High Spd & Good Str, As mentioned before, doubling and killing is enemies is essential for survival in eligor. Now Avanni’s not as fast as Skylar but she’s fast enough to double basically any enemy anyways.
~ Flier Effectiveness, If there’s another group of enemies as deadly as mages, it’s fliers, these guys can swoop in and screw you up, luckly enough Avanni can very easily one shot or 2 shot them, with the long bow this can be done from 3 range where she stay safe from attacks
~ Magic Triangle, In Eligor, every magic type is weak to bows, which means bow units gets a huge 30 hit/dodge against them, this is especially good for avanni who can double them unlike most other bow units available to you
~ Bow Variations, Bows are very much loved in this game, The longbow is probably the best early game bow, it has the most might and 3 range, The ghost bow is a magic bow that can knock out high defense enemies (what’s suppose to be the usual counters to archers) and the anti magic bow downright gives you effectiveness vs mages
Cons:
~Low defense, Now Avanni’s amazing against fliers and mages but if you put her in front of an assasin then yea she’ll die though it’s hard to find moments where she will be front lining
7.5/5 unit
What makes this analysis interesting is more how Eligor’s Spear’s meta is the direct reason why these units are good/bad. Camian could very well be the best of the three in an enemy phase focused hack and avanni the worst but because of how deadly the enemies in Eligor are the offensive “tanks” are often better than the pure defensive tank. Dodging is a huge component of surviving in this hack which really emphasize triangle control. Despite lacking skills, Eligor’s Spear manage to shake up the usual FE meta by making bows way better than like every physical weapon type.