Ilios: Difference between revisions

Ilios joins as a great prepromoted combat unit that requires no investment thanks to high base stats. Of a particular note is his very high bulk - with 40 [[HP]], 10 [[defense]], 9 [[Magic (stat)|magic]], along with innate [[Miracle]] and [[Sol (skill)|Sol]], he is difficult to get killed, making him one of the most bulkiest spellcasters in the game. Ilios's base weapon ranks are also excellent, with an A-rank in [[sword]]s and [[Thunder (magic)|thunder magic]]. While his [[Fire (magic)|fire]] and [[Wind (magic)|wind]] magic ranks are only D, he almost never needs to use fire or wind tomes, though he can use the basic [[Wind (tome)|Wind tome]] if he needs to salvage a bit more [[attack speed]] to double reasonably fast enemies. On outdoor maps, Ilios has a horse, making him one of the player's most mobile combat units there. Even on indoor maps, he is still a good deployment choice despite having to dismount; his dismount penalties are negligible, except the loss of 3 movement and [[Canto]]. He also has an [[action]] star, giving him a 5% chance to move again after completing his turn.

Ilios does have some flaws however. His primary combat flaw is his horrible [[FCM]] of 0, preventing him from critting an enemy on a follow-up attack; thankfully, he seldom needs to crit to one-round. As a [[Mage Knight]], he cannot use [[staves]], preventing him from providing specific supportive utilities such as [[Silence (staff)|silencing]] enemy spellcasters. Perhaps the biggest and most obvious disadvantage that has nothing to do with his performance as a unit is that he is one of the very few rare examples in the ''Fire Emblem'' series in which his recruitment eligibility is tied to the status of a specific unit, in his case, [[Olwen]]; recruiting Ilios in the first place requires Olwen be either [[Death|dead]] or unrecruited (letting her get [[capture]]d and taken out of the map, or leaving her behind in [[escape (objective)|escape]] chapters, does not count, since she will still be alive for re-recruitment in [[The Detention Center|Chapter 21x]]). If you're not comfortable with intentionally killing your units, you can opt to simply not recruit Olwen in [[Murder Holes|Chapter 11x]] if you desire to recruit Ilios.