Combining Swordbreaker with Lightning Breath and Distant Def lacks all synergy, though.

Girl!Corrin's near total lack of Res means you're wasting your time using her as a ranged counter against anything but bows. (Not that there aren't enough Brave Lyns in Arena Assault to make just another Blyn counter less than useful...) I honestly find her more interesting using her as a pure melee tank with Light Breath to combo her with an infy -blade character like Nino that needs alternate sources of Spur in the absence of an infy emblem, or else using Dark Breath with Gunnthra to synergize with Blizzard.

NWSiaCB said:

Combining Swordbreaker with Lightning Breath and Distant Def lacks all synergy, though.

Girl!Corrin's near total lack of Res means you're wasting your time using her as a ranged counter against anything but bows. (Not that there aren't enough Brave Lyns in Arena Assault to make just another Blyn counter less than useful...) I honestly find her more interesting using her as a pure melee tank with Light Breath to combo her with an infy -blade character like Nino that needs alternate sources of Spur in the absence of an infy emblem, or else using Dark Breath with Gunnthra to synergize with Blizzard.

It's not a lot of synergy but it's a lot of various coverage, she can counter all swords including Falchion and distance defense helps patch up some of her magic issues though green tomes will wreck her something fierce and she'll easily tank and counter brave Lyn, it's a very catch all build. I mean the real dragon kicker right now that's brutal is the SB, QR3 combo. It's brutal.

SilverDrake said:

It's not a lot of synergy but it's a lot of various coverage, she can counter all swords including Falchion and distance defense helps patch up some of her magic issues though green tomes will wreck her something fierce and she'll easily tank and counter brave Lyn, it's a very catch all build. I mean the real dragon kicker right now that's brutal is the SB, QR3 combo. It's brutal.

Maybe it's because I don't main her, and in Arena Assault, specialists are more valuable than generalists outside of your main team. Hence, I pull her out to stop a heavy sword unit that can deal crushing damage otherwise, like Black Knight or Ike. I toss out Nowi and Adult!Tiki and have even found a use for Male!Robin blocking Brave!Lyn.

Even if I need her to stop BLyn, it's not like she needs Lightning Breath to do it, she can just plain tank it then march forward and take BLyn down normally. (And so can Lukas... whom I'm more likely to use as a non-countering tank, since Fem!Corrin is more valuable in other roles, and BLyn's Def is so garbage, anyway.)

Even if you want to make a generalist, your team would need to be really hurting against reds to make swordbreaker make sense as a general strategy. -Breakers are definitionally specialist passives. And even if that's the case, then what Fem!Corrin really needs is Red Tome Breaker, not Swordbreaker, since her sheer armor breaks those swords just fine already.

NWSiaCB said:

Maybe it's because I don't main her, and in Arena Assault, specialists are more valuable than generalists outside of your main team. Hence, I pull her out to stop a heavy sword unit that can deal crushing damage otherwise, like Black Knight or Ike. I toss out Nowi and Adult!Tiki and have even found a use for Male!Robin blocking Brave!Lyn.

Even if I need her to stop BLyn, it's not like she needs Lightning Breath to do it, she can just plain tank it then march forward and take BLyn down normally. (And so can Lukas... whom I'm more likely to use as a non-countering tank, since Fem!Corrin is more valuable in other roles, and BLyn's Def is so garbage, anyway.)

Even if you want to make a generalist, your team would need to be really hurting against reds to make swordbreaker make sense as a general strategy. -Breakers are definitionally specialist passives. And even if that's the case, then what Fem!Corrin really needs is Red Tome Breaker, not Swordbreaker, since her sheer armor breaks those swords just fine already.

I won't deny any of that, looking into it further the only thing swordbreaker would readily let her do is make sure she puts Lucina down, an uncommon at best arena unit. All other swordy types would pretty much melt against her, did a lot of digging on various sword units, Ayra is her biggest threat. Which QR3 lets her bait Ayra easily and not to mention since it's a sacred seal now...my dragon emblem team is gonna get bonkers