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This is a ranking page for the hero Edelgard - Flame Emperor 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 Legendary Edelgard.

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Legendary Edelgard Rating and Basic Information

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Overall Rating 9.0/10
Reroll Ranking (excluding Inherit Skill) A
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Edelgard - Flame Emperor: Basic Information

Color / Weapon Type / Move Type
Rarity
What Kind of Character Are They? A Legendary Fire-type Hero
・Strong with no adjacent allies
・If there are no allies adjacent, can move again after attacking

Legendary Edelgard Skills at 5★


Might: 16  Range: 1
Grants Atk +3. If unit is not adjacent to an ally, inflicts Atk/Def -6 on foe during combat and foe cannot make a follow-up attack.

Cooldown Count = 3
Boosts damage dealt by 50% of unit’s Def.

At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants Atk/Res+7 to unit during combat. At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% and 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants an additional Atk/Res+2 to unit during combat.

If unit initiates combat, grants another action to unit if unit is not adjacent to an ally after combat. (Once per turn. If a skill that moves unit after combat is used, references unit's position after that movement occurs.) At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25% or unit is not adjacent to an ally, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe and unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack during combat, and also, if foe uses dragonstone or beast damage, neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.

At start of turn. If unit is not adjacent to an ally, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.)

Legendary Edelgard Best IVs

Recommended IVs

Stat Superboon/Superbane IV Recommendation
HP (19) Normal HP ★★☆☆☆
Atk (31) Attack Boon ★★★★★
Spd (4) Spd Bane ★☆☆☆☆
Def (13) No Def IV ★★★☆☆
Res (8) No Res IV ★★★★☆

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

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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 L!Edelgard are +Atk and -Spd. An +Atk IV will enable her to deal more damge with each attack. Her Spd is already low and it isn't really important for her so it is safe to take as a bane.

+Atk for a +10 Merge

We recommend a +Atk IV if merging L!Edelgard to 10. Her kit allows her to potentially do two actions in one turn, allowing her to attack two times. Having a +IV in Atk maximizes the damage you can do in 2 separate attacks

Legendary Edelgard Best Builds

Budget Legendary Edelgard

Weapon Skill IconAymr
Assist Skill IconPivot
Special Skill IconGaleforce
Emblem Icon: -
Attuned Skill Icon: -

How to Use, Explanation

This budget build uses Edelgard's base kit to allow her to function as an offensive Galeforce unit. Armored Stride provides some bonus movement at the cost of positioning.

Summer Edelgard at Home Legendary Edelgard

HOT
Weapon Skill IconAymr
Special Skill IconGaleforce
Emblem Icon: -
Attuned Skill Icon: -

How to Use, Explanation

This build uses Galeforce and Raging Storm II to have Legendary Edelgard attack thrice in one turn. Assault Troop 3 grants impressive mobility which allows Legendary Edelgard to approach enemies quickly.

Enemy Phase Tank Legendary Edelgard

Weapon Skill IconAymr
Assist Skill IconSwap
Special Skill IconGlimmer
Emblem Icon: -
Attuned Skill Icon: -

How to Use, Explanation

This is an enemy phase tank build for Legendary Edelgard, this will require her to be 2 spaces away from her allies for the effects of Aymr to trigger, but A/R Far Save 3 will still be able to trigger. You can opt for Sol or Noontime for more sustain.

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Legendary Edelgard Best Weapon Refinement

Effect of Legendary Edelgard's Refined Weapon

Exclusive Weapon Effect from Refining (Special Effect Type)
SP: 400
Might: 16 Range: 1 HP: 3
Grants Atk+3. If unit is not adjacent to an ally or if foe initiates combat, inflicts Atk/Def-6 on foe, foe cannot make a follow-up attack, and reduces damage from foe's first attack by 30% during combat.
At start of combat, if foe's HP > 75% or unit is not adjacent to an ally, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe, deals damage = 15% of unit's Atk (including when dealing damage with a Special triggered before combat), and grants Special cooldown charge +1 to unit per attack during combat (only highest value applied; does not stack).
Arena Medal:500 Divine Dew:200

We recommend the Special Effect Refine for Aymr

Refined Aymr provides follow-up negation, Special cooldown acceleration per attack, a large Atk/Def penalty onto Edelgard's foe, true damage equal to 15% of Edelgard's Atk, and 30% damage reduction on her foe's first attack.

This refine stacks multiple effects onto one weapon, making Legendary Edelgard a more formidable unit than before.

Legendary Edelgard Stats

Stat Rankings

Neutral Stats at Lv. 40 (5★)
179
HP
HP 45 45
Rank: 90/1077
Atk
Atk 42 42
Rank: 123/1077
Spd
Spd 17 17
Rank: 942/1077
Def
Def 39 39
Rank: 71/1077
Res
Res 36 36
Rank: 108/1077

Stat Values

Lv 40+10 Stats (5★)

HP Atk Spd Def Res Total
+10 Merges W/ Skill Bonuses 50 66 21 44 40 221
Lv.40 +10 50 47 21 44 40 202

HP Atk Spd Def Res Total
+HP
Lv.40 +10
52 46 21 43 40 202
+Atk
Lv.40 +10
49 50 21 43 40 203
+Spd
Lv.40 +10
49 46 24 43 40 202
+Def
Lv.40 +10
49 46 21 46 40 202
+Res
Lv.40 +10
49 46 21 43 43 202

Stats at Lv 40

HP Atk Spd Def Res Total
5★- Adjusted for Skills 45 61 17 39 36 198
5★ Lv.40 45 42 17 39 36 179

Initial Stats (with Skills)

HP Atk Spd Def Res Total
5★ Lv.1 19 31 4 13 8 75

Stat Comparison of Similar Heroes

Hero
HP
Atk
Spd
Def
Res
Total
51 45 26 47 31 200
47 45 16 47 41 196
47 45 23 45 35 195
50 45 17 45 28 185
49 41 18 46 31 185
46 45 16 43 35 185
43 37 24 42 33 179
50 39 17 40 33 179
Legendary Edelgard Icon Legendary Edelgard
45 42 17 39 36 179
50 40 25 37 26 178
51 40 19 35 29 174
47 40 23 38 26 174
47 41 18 38 30 174
50 38 21 40 24 173
52 36 24 37 19 168

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

Legendary Edelgard Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses

Legendary Edelgard Roles

Edelgard - Flame Emperor Roles
Close Physical Attack ImageClose-Physical Ranged Physical AttackRanged-Physical Close Magic AttackClose-Magic Ranged MagicRanged-Magic
Physical Wall ImagePhysical Wall Magic Wall ImageMagic Wall Effective ImageEffective Weapon Movement Assist ImageMovement Assist
Exclusive Skill ImageExclusive Skill No All Range Counterattack ImageAll-Range Counter RecoveryRecovery No Refresher ImageRefresher
Legendary Hero ImageLegendary No Mythic Hero ImageMythic No Duo and Harmonized ImageDuo /
Harmonized
No Resplendent ImageResplendent

L!Edelgard is a close physical attacker (range = 1). Therefore, when not accounting for the Weapon Triangle, the amount of damage she deals will be equivalent to her Atk minus the foe's Def stat.

Legendary Effect raises Arena Score

Eff. Atk Icon Atk+2 Spd Icon Spd+3 Def Icon Def+4 Res Icon Res+4 Pair Up Icon Pair Up
Water Icon Eirika - Graceful Resolve Image Fjorm - Princess of Ice Image Ryoma - Supreme Samurai Image Azura - Vallite Songstress Image Leif - Unifier of Thracia Image Byleth - The Fódlan Star Image Chrom - Crowned Exalt Image Dimitri - Savior King Image
Wind Icon Lyn - Lady of the Wind Image Lucina - Glorious Archer Image Hríd - Icy Blade Image Gunnthrá - Voice of Dreams Image Eliwood - Blazing Knight Image Micaiah - Radiant Queen Image Corrin - Child of Dusk Image Byleth - The Fódlan Light Image Sigurd - Fated Holy Knight Image
Earth Icon Ike - Vanguard Legend Image Robin - Fell Vessel Image Tiki - Legendary Dragon Image Alm - Saint-King Image Claude - King of Unification Image Julia - Crusader of Light Image Fae - Childlike Dragon Image Seliph - Scion of Light Image
Fire Icon Hector - Marquess of Ostia Image Ephraim - Legendary Lord Image Marth - Hero-King Image Roy - Blazing Lion Image Lilina - Firelight Leader Image Celica - Queen of Valentia Image Eitri - Youthful Sage Image Edelgard - Flame Emperor Image
Pair Up and Eff. Pair Up Icon Atk Icon Atk+2 Pair Up Icon Spd Icon Spd+3 Pair Up Icon Def Icon Def+4 Pair Up Icon Res Icon Res+4
Water Icon Camilla - Alluring Darkness Image Caeda - Beloved Queen Image Guinivere - Queen of Bern Image Ninian - Ice-Dragon Oracle Image
Wind Icon Yuri - Underground Lord Image Veronica - Princess Rising Image Myrrh - Guardian Dragon Image Elincia - Undaunted Queen Image
Earth Icon Deirdre - Fated Saint Image Alear - Engaging Fire Image Robin - Exalt Nanna - Beloved Princess Image
Fire Icon Xander - Gallant King Image Shez - Sharpest Blades Image Alear - Awoken Divinity Image Hinoka - Thundering Wings Image

As a Legendary Hero, you will gain a Fire Blessing when summoning L!Edelgard. Additionally, being a Fire type Legendary Hero means that during Fire Seasons, other allies with a Fire Blessing will receive HP+3 when they appear in battle with L!Edelgard, and Edelgard's total stats will be treated as 180. This will lead to a higher Arena Score.

L!Edelgard Strengths

Great at soloing foes

L!Edelgard is able to trigger 4 separate effects from her kit when she has no allies adjacent to her. Effects vary from stat buffs, preventing enemy counterattacks, and even making additonal movements! The said condition is pretty easy to trigger. This makes L!Edelgard a very powerful at most times!

Raging Storm grants an extra action

Raging Storm allows L!Edelgard an additional action if she initiates combat and there are no allies adjacent to her. Unlike Galeforce, it is not put in the special skill slot, so she can enjoy additional actions without losing access to damage dealing specials like her native Bonfire.

Additionally, if the same trigger condition is met and a beast or draonstone foe attacks, she makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. This allows her to fight the powerful colorless beast and dragonstone units, Caineghis and Fallen Tiki

Armored Stride increases mobility

L!Edelgard's C skill, Armored Stride 3, allows her to move an extra space if no allies are adjacent to her. It is much easier to trigger than the other armored mobility skill, Armor March 3 that requires another armored unit to be adjacent to the user. It is very easy to trigger and it allows L!Edelgard to move like an infantry unit while boasting the high stats of an armored unit.

L!Edelgard Weaknesseses

Adjacent Allies Prevent Skill Effects

The trigger conditions of Aymr, Armored Stride 3, Raging Storm and Atk/Res Solo 3 is that there must be no allies within one square. Because of this, L!Edelgard's strengths may be hard to take advantage of in small maps or maps with long 1-tile corridors like Ursula's map for Grand Hero Battles. Be mindful of L!Edelgard's positoning in relation to her allies!

Weak to Armor Effective Weapons

L!Edelgard takes 1.5x damage from armor-effective weapons like Armorslayer+ and Rapier, and just one or two blows from this type of weapon is sure to take her down. Make sure you know what weapons you are up against before hopping too far into the line of battle!

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Legendary Edelgard Team and Counters

Teammates for Legendary Edelgard

Plegian Dorothea IconPlegian Dorothea Zelgius IconZelgius Legendary Eliwood IconLegendary Eliwood Fallen Corrin (M) IconFallen Corrin (M)
Brave Hector IconBrave Hector New Year Peony IconNew Year Peony Brave Edelgard IconBrave Edelgard Masquerade Ethlyn IconMasquerade Ethlyn

All Armored Team

Legendary Edelgard can fit in any team, though she will need to be not adjacent to any of her teammates.

She can fit well in all armor teams, provided someone is running Armor March 3.

Guidance Fliers

Flying dancers that possess Guidance 3 can help Legendary Edelgard reach even further across the map, setting up surprise attacks.

This can be used to devastating effect if she has two dancers on her team, granting her additional turns to take out enemy units due to the effect of her B skill.

Legendary Edelgard Counters

Idunn IconIdunn Sanaki IconSanaki Caeda IconCaeda ValentineValentine's Líf
Young Marth IconYoung Marth Hana IconHana Lilina IconLilina Bridal Micaiah IconBridal Micaiah

Armor-Effective Weapons

Armor-effective weapons do 1.5x more damage to your unit's target, so your units will have more opportunities to one-shot as opposed to other weapons.

Units that have Armorsmasher+ will do well against Legendary Edelgard and potentially one-shot her.

Red Mages

Red magic units have weapon triangle-advantage over Legendary Edelgard.

It also helps if they're using Triangle Adept 3 to further boost their damage.

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Legendary Edelgard - List of Skills

Weapons

Skill Name Might Range Effect Learned At
6 1 No Effect 5★
8 1 No Effect 5★
11 1 No Effect 5★
16 1 Grants Atk +3. If unit is not adjacent to an ally, inflicts Atk/Def -6 on foe during combat and foe cannot make a follow-up attack. 5★

Assists

This Hero has no Assist skills that can be learned.

Specials

Skill Name Effect Learned At
(Cooldown Count = 4) Boosts damage dealt by 50% of unit’s Def. 5★
(Cooldown Count = 3) Boosts damage dealt by 50% of unit’s Def. 5★

Passives

Skill Name Effect Learned At
If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Res +2 during combat. 5★
If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Res +4 during combat. 5★
If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Res +6 during combat. 5★
At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants Atk/Res+3 to unit during combat. 5★
At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants Atk/Res+4 to unit during combat. 5★
At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants Atk/Res+5 to unit during combat. 5★
At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants Atk/Res+7 to unit during combat. At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% and 【Bonus】 is active on unit, grants an additional Atk/Res+2 to unit during combat. 5★
If unit initiates combat, grants another action to unit if unit is not adjacent to an ally after combat. (Once per turn. If a skill that moves unit after combat is used, references unit's position after that movement occurs.)
If foe uses dragonstone or beast damage and unit is not adjacent to an ally, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack during combat.
5★
If unit initiates combat, grants another action to unit if unit is not adjacent to an ally after combat. (Once per turn. If a skill that moves unit after combat is used, references unit's position after that movement occurs.) At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25% or unit is not adjacent to an ally, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe and unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack during combat, and also, if foe uses dragonstone or beast damage, neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat. 5★
At start of turn, if unit's HP = 100% and unit is not adjacent to an ally, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) 5★
At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 50% and unit is not adjacent to an ally, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) 5★
At start of turn. If unit is not adjacent to an ally, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) 5★

Legendary Edelgard as a Source Hero

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Value of Skills ★★★★★

Inheriting Atk/Res Solo 3, Atk/Res Ideal 4 and Armored Stride 3

L!Edelgard can be used to inherit the skills Atk/Res Solo 3, Atk/Res Ideal 4, and Armored Stride 3. However, L!Edelgard is a very powerful and rare legendary hero. We recommend training and building around her instead, unless you really want these skills on another unit.

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    Obtained through a Special Summoning Event!

    Legendary Edelgard is a limited time Hero who can be pulled from a Legendary Hero Summoning event. They do not appear in regular summons.

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

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