Valentine's Hector Builds and Best IVs

This is a ranking page for the hero Hector - Just Here to Fight from the game Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). Read on to learn the best IVs (Individual Values), best builds (Inherit Skill), weapon refinement, stats at Lv 40, and more for Valentine's Hector.

Heroes With the Same Name
Brave Hector	Hector
Valentine's Hector	Legendary Hector
Halloween Hector	Young Hector

Revival - Love Abounds (Revival) Featured Heroes
Valentine's Lyn [8.0/10]	Valentine's Hector [8.5/10]	Valentine's Lilina [7.5/10]	Valentine's Roy [7.5/10]

Valentine's Hector Rating and Basic Information

Overall Rating	8.5/10
Reroll Ranking (excluding Inherit Skill)	A (▶Reroll Ranking)
Ranking (including Inherit Skill)	A (▶FEH Tier List)

Hector - Just Here to Fight: Basic Information

Color / Weapon Type / Move Type	Green / Axe / Armored
Rarity	5 Star
What Kind of Character Are They?	・Extremely powerful when his special triggers ・High baseline Atk and Def stats ・Wary Fighter prevents a follow-up attack by both him and the foe

Valentine's Hector Skills at 5★

Berserk Armads Might: 16　 Range: 1 Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count -1). If unit’s HP ≦ 75% and Special triggers by attacking, Special cooldown count -1 at start of turn. Deals +10 damage when Special triggers.

Glimmer Cooldown Count = 2 Boosts damage dealt by 50%.

Distant Counter Enables unit to counterattack regardless of distance to attacker.

Wary Fighter 3 If unit's HP ≥ 50%, unit and foe cannot make a follow-up attack.

Valentine's Hector Best IVs

Recommended IVs

Stat	Superboon/Superbane	IV Recommendation
HP (24)		★★☆☆☆
Atk (24)		★★★★★
Spd (4)		★★☆☆☆
Def (12)		★★★★☆
Res (7)		★★★☆☆

◯ = Stat gains +4 with a superboon, ✕= Stat goes down by -4 with a superbane, - = No assets or flaws

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Trait Fruits—How to Change IVs

When using an Ascendant Floret, we recommend getting the next superboon if it fits the hero. If not, consider what stat your hero needs most.

+Atk/-Spd

The best IVs for Valentine's Hector are +Atk and -Spd. His attack stat is a superboon, which means having a +IV on it gives him at total +4 Atk at Lv.40. This allows him to score one-hit knockouts on many units in the game. Since Wary Fighter can prevent enemy follow-up attacks, -Spd is the ideal bane.

Valentine's Hector Best Builds

Refined - Vengeful Premium Valentine's Hector

： Berserk Armads ： Swap ： Aether ： -

： Distant Stance ： Vengeful Fighter 3 ： A/R Far Save 3 ： Steady Breath ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This build aims to maximize Valentine's Hector's ability to fight in the enemy phase. The build does this by increasing his defenses, picking up a very valuable enemy phase skill in Vengeful Fighter 3. He also has tons of tools to accelerate Aether activations so regardless of how much damage he takes from magic attacks, he can easily heal up.

Budget Valentine's Hector

： Berserk Armads ： Pivot ： Glimmer ： -

： Distant Counter ： Vantage 3 ： Threaten Def 3 ： Distant Def 3 ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This is a budget build, but get Berserk Armads' special effect refine when you can! That should be the priority investment route going forward for this build. This budget build leverages the power of Berserk Armads by padding Hector with the ability to tank attacks in th enemy phase. As long as Vantage 3 is active, he is a huge threat in the enemy phase.

Refined Valentine's Hector

HOT
： Berserk Armads ： Swap ： Bonfire ： -	： Distant Counter ： Special Fighter 3 ： Atk Smoke 3 ： Quick Riposte 3 ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This build utilizes Valentine's Hector's refined weapon, making him deal lots of damage on enemy phase. On enemy attack, he will take damage and be within the Wrath-effect range of his weapon, and then can use Special Fighter's effect to trigger his Special. The heal on his refined weapon will keep him healthy so he can take more hits.

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Valentine's Hector Best Weapon Refinement

Effect of Valentine's Hector Refined Weapon

Exclusive Weapon Effect from Refining (Special Effect Type)
Berserk Armads	SP: 400
Might: 16　Range: 1　HP: +3 Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). At start of turn, if unit's HP ≤ 75% and unit's attack triggers Special, grants Special cooldown count-1, and deals +10 damage when Special triggers. If foe initiates combat or foe's HP = 100% at start of combat, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe during combat, and also, if unit deals damage to foe using a Special, restores 30% of unit's maximum HP. (Triggers even if 0 damage is dealt.) ：500　：200

We recommend the Special Effect Refine for Berserk Armads

Berserk Armads' refine not only inflicts Atk/Def-5 on an enemy unit when they attack, but also restores Hector's HP when he deals damage with his Special.

This, coupled with the Special trigger acceleration and the additional +10 damage when it does trigger, makes him very powerful.

Keep in mind that the Wrath effect on the weapon can trigger during combat, so if a foe initiates, they will immediately put Valentine's Hector within range and allow him to retaliate with a large amount of damage.

The healing will also keep him healthy so he can keep triggering this effect over and over.

About the Weapon Refinery

Valentine's Hector Stats

Stat Rankings

Neutral Stats at Lv. 40 (5★)
173
HP	50	Rank: 9/1171
Atk	38	Rank: 510/1171
Spd	21	Rank: 1047/1171
Def	40	Rank: 92/1171
Res	24	Rank: 761/1171

Stat Values

Lv 40+10 Stats (5★)

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
+10 Merges W/ Skill Bonuses	55	59	25	45	28	212
Lv.40 +10	55	43	25	45	28	196

Stats at Lv 40

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
5★- Adjusted for Skills	50	54	21	40	24	189
5★ Lv.40	50	38	21	40	24	173

Initial Stats (with Skills)

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
5★ Lv.1	24	24	4	12	7	71

Stat Comparison of Similar Heroes

Hero	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
Þjazi	49	50	18	47	42	206
Marni	49	46	20	50	40	205
Valentine's Vigarde	51	45	26	47	31	200
Young Hector	47	45	16	47	41	196
Murdock	47	45	23	45	35	195
Dedue	50	45	17	45	28	185
Valentine's Gustav	49	41	18	46	31	185
Brave Edelgard	46	45	16	43	35	185
Legendary Edelgard	45	42	17	39	36	179
Mamori	43	37	24	42	33	179
Surtr	50	39	17	40	33	179
Flame Emperor	50	40	25	37	26	178
Legendary Hector	47	40	23	38	26	174
Winter Chrom	51	40	19	35	29	174
Valentine's Greil	47	41	18	38	30	174
Valentine's Hector	50	38	21	40	24	173
Hector	52	36	24	37	19	168

Note: Stats bonuses from skills are not taken into account.

Valentine's Hector Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses

Valentine's Hector Roles

Hector - Just Here to Fight Roles
Close-Physical	Ranged-Physical	Close-Magic	Ranged-Magic
Physical Wall	Magic Wall	Effective Weapon	Movement Assist
Exclusive Skill	All-Range Counter	Recovery	Refresher
Legendary	Mythic	Duo / Harmonized	Resplendent

Valentine's Hector is a close physical attacker (range = 1). Therefore, when not accounting for the Weapon Triangle, the amount of damage he deals will be equivalent to his Atk minus the foe's Def stat.

Valentine's Hector Strengths

Berserk Armads accelerates special trigger and powers up special

Berserk Armads accelerates Special trigger cooldown. Addtionally, if Valentine's Hector's HP ≤ 75%, it grants him +10 damage to his special, and special cooldown count -1. Plus 10 damage to a a low coolown special like Glimmer on top of V!Hector's amazing attack stat makes him an offensive powerhouse.

Berserk Armads' effect triggers even when enemies attack Hector, and the refined version will heal him, making it hard for said enemies to take him out. This makes Glimmer almost always ready to activate in the next player phase, which can be game changing if you are in range to take out a high-priority target.

Can Counterattack regardless of range

Hector's Distant Counter allows him to counterattack enemies regardlress of range, as long has they do not have abilities that neutralize this effect. Combined with Armads, Wary Fighter 3, and Glimmer, it makes him a good enemy phase unit.

Valentine's Hector Weaknesses

Low Mobility

Because he is an armored unit, he can only normally move 1 space at a time. It is recommended that you inherit skills such as Armor March and Pivot to increase Hector's mobility.

Weak to Armor Effective Weapons

Valentine's Hector takes 1.5x damage from cavalry-effective weapons like Armorslayer+, and one blow from this type of weapon is sure to take him down. Make sure you know what weapons you are up against before hopping too far into the line of battle!
Heroes with Effective Skills

Valentine's Hector Teammates and Counters

Teammates for V!Hector

Halloween Myrrh	Brave Hector	Ophelia	Reinhardt
Brave Ephraim	Loki	Winter Eirika	Bridal Fjorm

Units that can heal and buff Hector

Although Hector has generally high stats, it always helps to pair him up with characters that are able to buff and heal him. A good example is Bridal Fjorm who can heal, neutralize penalties and prevent enemies from using skills that grant additional actions such as Legendary Azura's Gray Waves.

If you are intending to form an all-armored team, Winter Eirika is a great option, since she is the only armored staff user in the game. This means that she can heal Hector and enjoy armor-exclusive buffs such as Armor March 3.

Units that can deal with red units

Despite Hector's high defense, his Res is rather mediocre. If you are attacked by a red attribute magic user, you will likely be taken out in one turn. Because of this, it is best if you pair up L!Hector with a hero that can easily take out red foes such as Brave Hector or Ophelia.

V!Hector Counters

Celica	Hana	Lilina	Halloween Myrrh
Tharja	Idunn	Legendary Alm	Fallen Tiki (Young)

Anti-armor units and strong reds

Units such as Hana have weapons like Armorslayer+ that deals 1.5x to armored units such as V!Hector. Red units like Idunn are armor effective on top of being red magic attackers, so they pose a huge threat to Hector. Always be mindful of Hectors positioning in relation to units that pose a threat to him.

Should you Unlock Potential?

Should You Unlock Potential for this Hero?	Cannot Unlock Potential

Hector - Just Here to Fight Only Appears as a 5 Star Hero!

Hector - Just Here to Fight only appears as a 5 Star Hero. We will include whether or not you should Unlock Potential for Hector - Just Here to Fight if a 4 Star version is released!

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Valentine's Hector - List of Skills

Weapons

Skill Name	Might	Range	Effect	Learned At
Iron Axe	6	1	No Effect	5★
Steel Axe	8	1	No Effect	5★
Silver Axe	11	1	No Effect	5★
Berserk Armads	16	1	Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count -1). If unit’s HP ≦ 75% and Special triggers by attacking, Special cooldown count -1 at start of turn. Deals +10 damage when Special triggers.	5★

Assists

This Hero has no Assist skills that can be learned.

Specials

Skill Name	Effect	Learned At
Night Sky	(Cooldown Count = 3) Boosts damage dealt by 50%.	5★
Glimmer	(Cooldown Count = 2) Boosts damage dealt by 50%.	5★

Passives

Skill Name	Effect	Learned At
Distant Counter	Enables unit to counterattack regardless of distance to attacker.	5★
Wary Fighter 1	If unit's HP ≥ 90%, unit and foe cannot make a follow-up attack.	5★
Wary Fighter 2	If unit's HP ≥ 70%, unit and foe cannot make a follow-up attack.	5★
Wary Fighter 3	If unit's HP ≥ 50%, unit and foe cannot make a follow-up attack.	5★

Valentine's Hector as a Source Hero

Value of Skills	★★★★★

Inheriting Distant Counter

Valentine's Hector can be used to inherit the skills Distant Counter. However, Valentine's Hector is a powerful unit. Unless you have similar units like Hector or L!Hector (or any Hector), it is best that you do not fodder him off, and build around him instead.

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• The Best Fodder Units

How to Get Valentine's Hector / Illustrations / Voice Actor / Quotes

How to Get Valentine's Hector

Obtained through a Special Summoning Event!

Valentine's Hector is a limited time Hero who can be pulled from a Special Heroes Summoning Event. They do not appear in regular summons.

Note: Not currently a featured hero in any Summon events.

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Voice Actor and Illustrator Information

Voice Actor (English)	Patrick Seitz
Illustrator	Suekane Kumiko (スエカネクミコ)
Appears In	Fire Emblem (The Blazing Blade)

Illustration

Quotes: Special Triggered

Special Triggered Quotes are voice lines that play upon activating a Special attack.

Lv 40 5★ Dialogue

Lv 40 5★ Dialogue become available when a hero attains Lv. 40 at 5★ rarity.

FEH: Related Guides

Heroes from Revival - Love Abounds (Revival)
Valentine's Lyn [8.0/10]	Valentine's Hector [8.5/10]	Valentine's Lilina [7.5/10]	Valentine's Roy [7.5/10]

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