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Lex is an Axe Knight that joins in the [[Birth_of_a_Holy_Knight|prologue]] of the first generation of ''Genealogy of the Holy War''. Lex will start out a bit awkward as most early enemy units wield axes, and they will have a much greater chance of hitting Lex than most of the other units you start with. Luckily, Lex is durable enough to take several hits even from these hard hitting axe users, but he will likely need a healer keeping an eye on him early on. Because of the poor accuracy of axes, despite the low avoid of enemies, Lex will have trouble hitting some enemies, especially if they're in forests. Since he lacks [[Follow-Up]] and will have to wait until the end of Chapter 1 to obtain the [[Brave Axe]] from the secret event, he initially will not be very threatening at first. However, by Chapter 2 he will hit his stride as terrain that gives avoid will largely disappear and because of the high number of lance wielding enemies he will quickly start tearing through them with his Brave Axe. Lex comes with two skills [[Vantage]] and [[Paragon]]. Vantage is quite situational and rarely ever useful, but Paragon on the other hand allows Lex to snowball very quickly and often give him the ability to promote as early as chapter 2. Players might consider giving Lex the [[Follow-Up Ring]] to boost his offensive potential, but many other characters also make great use of it and Lex can usually one round most enemies, besides bosses, with his Brave axe after promotion anyway.

Overall, Lex is a solid unit, he needs a bit of investment to get going and he's not going to be very impressive offensively until he gets his Brave axe, but after that Lex will become one of the premiere frontline units with his access to [[Holy Blood]], high movement, [[canto]] and paragon.

Since no children in the second generation of ''Geneaology'' use axes, Lex won't pass down any of his axe weaponry. Otherwise, Lex will pass down his holy blood, Vantage, and most importantly Paragon. Lex's holy blood will make every one of his children fairly tanky and Paragon will make them level up and snowball very quickly. Because of his excellent availability and the talk converstion in chapter 3 which gives them love points, many people pair Lex with Ayra. Though ultimately Lex doesn't have any bad pairings, his only flaw is that he doesn't pass down Follow-Up, so it's best to pair him with a mother that already has Follow-Up, other than that minor flaw Lex is easily one of the best options for a father in the first gen.