When I first got the game, I went in pretty blind. I didn't even know your characters could marry each other or have kids, and I didn't understand how the support thing worked, so when MU married Chrom after chapter 11, I was IN SHOCK and I thought it was the best thing ever. They only had support rank C :p but in that battle Panne and Cordelia died, so I saved and tried to do it again without them dying, and it worked, but Ricken died, not that a care a lot about him, so whatever I went with it, but after the battle Chrom married Sully instead and I was like "AHHH HELLLLLL NOOO" so I accepted Cordelia's and Panne's death as long as I could marry Chrom :p But this was before I knew about marriage and kids and shit, so I was kinda pissed that I couldn't get Severa (I heard she's amazing) or Yarne in my first playthrough, but whatever I can play the game again.
I don't have the patience to put that much thought into the game and play this strategically. All I do is pair people up with who I think fits them, and reclass everyone a ton until they have pretty good skills and maxed stats, and then boom, everyone is a tank. My main tanks right now are:
Morgan(Grandmaster) - Rating:304 - Skills: Tomefaire, Rightful King, Ignis, Lifetaker, and Pavise. All stats maxed, and his main weapons are Mjolnir (thank Naga for hammernes) and a custom sword.
Morgan is my actual favorite character and he kills everyone >:D
Lucina(Great Lord) - Rating:281 (all stats maxed except magic, which she doesn't use anyway, and resistance, but I have talismans for that) - Skills: Aether, Lethality, Aegis (which all active a lot because of Rightful King) and Galeforce. Parallel Falchion and custom Noble Rapier and none shall defeat her >:D
MU(Grandmaster) - Rating:292 - Skills: Sword and Tomefaire, Galeforce, Ignis, and Lifetaker. All stats maxed except resistance, by a point or two, and again, custom sword and tome and boom, tank.
Sumia and Cynthia are both surprisingly good tanks. In my new file, I trained Sumia some, and she's level 10 and her rating is higher than Frederick's, who as we all know is a major tank at the start of the game. In my main file, Sumia and Cynthia's ratings are 288 and 289, respectively. They have the same skills: Lancefaire, Galeforce, Renewal, Pavise, and Aegis, except Sumia has Luna instead of Aegis.
Everyone else is working to get there. They aren't on their final classes yet. I plan for my main team to be Morgan, MU, Lucina, Owain, Sully, Gerome, Nah, Cynthia, and Noire.
So in my experience, the couples don't matter a whole ton because you can make up for whatever you "missed out" on with other skills and forged items and such. And really just class change everyone a ton and they'll all become tanks eventually. But I don't have much experience is higher difficulty settings, so I can't really say if this holds true.
A surprisingly cute match I found is Lon'qu and Lissa. Frederick and Sumia are also pretty good, as well as Libra and Cherche (Gerome + Renewal = BEST THING EVER)
If you want to know how well their personalities fit or whatever, I'm pretty sure that every support convo is on youtube.
Wow, I didn't mean to type this much. I just love this game and before I knew it I typed a short story. xD My apologies. |