Garcia: Difference between revisions

{{Character Infobox

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===Role===

===Starting stats and growth rates===

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{{analysis}}

Garcia's main problem is that fielding him is harder to justify as the game goes on. While he never truly falls off, powerful units start joining the player's army in the midgame. They all eclipse Garcia in some way. [[Saleh]], [[Duessel]], [[Gerik]] and [[Cormag]] are excellent examples. They all have something to offer beyond unmounted combat, and they can all have 1-2 range like Garcia.

Garcia has two promotion choices: [[Warrior]] and [[Hero]]. Warrior supplies higher defense and resistance bonuses than Hero. It also grants Garcia an E-rank in bows and +40 axe rank experience. Hero offers a C-rank in swords and a +2 speed bonus instead; Warrior does not grant bonus speed.

The C-rank in swords is rarely useful, since axes are better weapons in most situations. A promoted Garcia can use swords for weapon triangle advantage, but he will seldom need to. That said, a C-rank in swords is still better than an E-rank in bows. An E-rank in bows is outright unimpressive because it only allows Garcia to use [[Iron Bow]]s. If the player wants to use bows, they can promote Gerik to [[Ranger]], use [[Innes]] or train [[Neimi]]. They will all be better at using bows than Garcia ever will. Since bows are 2-range only, using them prevents Garcia from fighting well on enemy phase. Finally, Warrior's minor advantage in defense and resistance bonuses is negligible. Garcia's defenses are good regardless.

To summarize, Garcia's early game performance is exceptionally good. He is among the more durable units there, can one-round some enemies, and has 1-2 range. He suffers from long-term speed issues, but promoting him to Hero can mitigate them to an extent. He never truly falls off. While other units can and will eclipse Garcia, he remains a decent deployment choice for most of the game.

Garcia is a cheerful, caring soldier with great skill. He takes his job very seriously, but still manages to be polite. His most important task in life is to protect his son, [[Ross]]. He is willing to try new things, as shown with his conversations with [[Dozla]], in which he tries out bows and magic. However, he ends up almost shooting himself, and Dozla burns off Garcia's beard with magic, although he does get it to grow back. He thinks of things optimistically and is very dedicated to both fighting and caring for Ross.

==Supports==

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==Endings==

Father and son returned to Ide, where they toiled together to rebuild their village. Ross grew to become a greater warrior than even his father. When he himself had a son, that child continued his family's legacy.

{{quote|I have no regrets. This was always my fate.|Death quote}}

{{quote|This may be my last battle. I'll hold nothing back.|Garcia in the [[Sacred Stone (part 2)|final chapter]].}}

==Other appearances==

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==Trivia==

*In Gilliam and Garcia's C Support, Garcia calls Gilliam "Garcia" during the part where Garcia challenges Gilliam to arm-wrestle him. This same typo appeared in the Japanese version, the NTSC localization did not fix this, though the PAL version corrected this.

*In the Japanese version, the support set for Garcia and Dozla involved them drinking alcohol and getting drunk. This was changed in the localization where they instead end up trying out many different weapons and end up hurting themselves in amusing ways.<Ref>https://kantopia.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/fe8-sacred-stones-localization-garcia-dozla-drinking-jpn-vs-eng-major-change/#more-6815</ref>

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