Summer Freyja Builds and Best IVs

This is a ranking page for the hero Freyja - Fleeting Summer 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 Summer Freyja.

Heroes With the Same Name
Freyja	Summer Freyja

Focus - Double Special Heroes January 2022 Featured Heroes
Bridal Shanna [8.5/10]	Summer Mercedes [7.5/10]	Bridal Juno [8.0/10]	Summer Ogma [8.5/10]
Pirate Hinoka [9.0/10]	Scion Larcei [9.0/10]	Summer Hilda [9.0/10]	Summer Freyja [9.0/10]

Summer Freyja Rating and Basic Information

Overall Rating	9.0/10
Reroll Ranking (excluding Inherit Skill)	S (▶Reroll Ranking)
Ranking (including Inherit Skill)	A (▶FEH Tier List)

Freyja - Fleeting Summer: Basic Information

Color / Weapon Type / Move Type	Colorless / Colorless Beast / Cavalry
Rarity	5 Star
What Kind of Character Are They?	・Has damage reduction if she has more Spd than the enemy unit ・Will nullify effects that prevent her from doing follow-up attacks when she's transformed ・Will inflict debuffs on her target and prevent them from making a follow-up attack ・Grants buffs to herself and debuffs to her target the more bonuses they have

Summer Freyja Skills at 5★

Brightmare Horn Might: 14　 Range: 1 Grants Spd+3. At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 during combat, and also, if unit's Spd > foe's Spd, grants damage reduction by percentage = difference between stats x 4 (excluding Rokkr Specials). At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25% while transformed, neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat. If transformed, grants Atk+2 and if unit initiates combat, inflicts Atk/Def-4 on foe during combat and foe cannot make a follow-up attack.

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

Atk/Spd Solo 4 If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd +7 during combat.

Binding Necklace If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+2 to unit and inflicts Atk/Spd/Def/Res-2 on foe during combat, and also if foe has bonuses, grants bonus to unit's Atk/Spd/Def/Res and inflicts penalty on foe's Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat = current bonus on each of foe's stats. Calculates each stat bonus independently.

Fatal Smoke 3 Foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 2 spaces of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit’s HP cannot be healed through its next action.

Summer Freyja Best IVs

Recommended IVs

Stat	Superboon/Superbane	IV Recommendation
HP (16)		★★☆☆☆
Atk (9)		★★★★☆
Spd (13)		★★★★★
Def (6)		★★☆☆☆
Res (5)		★★☆☆☆

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

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+Spd/-HP

The best IVs for Summer Freyja are +Spd and -HP. A +Spd IV puts her at a blistering 50 Spd, which gives her tremendous doubling potential and protection from doubles. It also synergizes with the Spd-based damage reduction from her Brightmare Horn, giving her better durability overall. Due to the aformentioned damage reduction, she can safely choose HP as a bane.

+Spd for a +10 Merge

We recommend a +Spd IV if merging Summer Freyja to +10. This is for the same reasons as above; having a +IV in Spd grants more doubling potential as well as damage reduction.

Summer Freyja Best Builds

General Use Summer Freyja

HOT
： Brightmare Horn ： Reposition ： Glimmer ： -	： Atk/Spd Solo 4 ： Binding Necklace ： Fatal Smoke 3 ： Atk/Spd Solo 3 ： -

How to Use, Explanation

This build maximizes Freyja's offensive stats to quickly eliminate enemies in one round of combat. Brightmare Horn provides Spd-based damage reduction and also negates follow-up prevention, which allows Freyja to focus on winning Spd checks to both maximize her damage reduction and double her foes. The dual Atk/Spd Solo skills aid her in her offenses, while Binding Necklace ensures that buffs granted to her enemies are instead transferred to Freyja.

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Summer Freyja Stats

Stat Rankings

Neutral Stats at Lv. 40 (5★)
167
HP	40	Rank: 489/1171
Atk	39	Rank: 458/1171
Spd	43	Rank: 182/1171
Def	25	Rank: 737/1171
Res	20	Rank: 1003/1171

Stat Values

Lv 40+10 Stats (5★)

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
+10 Merges W/ Skill Bonuses	45	60	51	29	24	209
Lv.40 +10	45	44	48	29	24	190

Stats at Lv 40

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
5★- Adjusted for Skills	40	55	46	25	20	186
5★ Lv.40	40	39	43	25	20	167

Initial Stats (with Skills)

	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
5★ Lv.1	16	25	16	6	5	68

Stat Comparison of Similar Heroes

Hero	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
Halloween Lethe	40	44	47	35	24	190
Halloween Yarne	40	47	45	36	21	189
Eikþyrnir	45	47	16	47	30	185
Summer Nerþuz	40	46	47	33	19	185
New Year Nerþuz	40	45	47	32	21	185
Ratatoskr	40	44	46	34	21	185
Freyr	41	46	16	41	35	179
Eitr	40	44	46	33	16	179
Nerþuz	40	42	47	30	20	179
New Year Yarne	40	43	40	35	21	179
New Year Panne	40	41	44	32	21	178
New Year Lyre	40	37	42	27	28	174
Summer Freyr	41	38	16	38	35	168
New Year Kaden	41	35	39	25	28	168
Freyja	40	38	44	24	22	168
Summer Freyja	40	39	43	25	20	167
New Year Lethe	41	35	41	27	18	162
New Year Selkie	35	31	39	16	40	161
Panne	41	29	34	30	23	157
Yarne	40	35	33	32	17	157
Ranulf	40	30	37	33	17	157
Lethe	41	33	38	26	19	157
Selkie	35	29	38	19	35	156
Kaden	38	32	36	25	25	156

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

Summer Freyja Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses

Summer Freyja Roles

Freyja - Fleeting Summer 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

Summer Freyja 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.

Summer Freyja Strengths

Brightmare Horn reduces damage, allows for follow-up attacks, and prevent enemies from making follow-up attacks!

Brightmare Horn and Binding Necklace's buffs in action!

Freyja's weapon is loaded with extremely powerful effects.

She will reduce the damage she takes if her Spd is higher than her opponent's as well as grant herself Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 if her HP is ≥ 25%.

Due to her being a beast unit, if she transforms, she gains additional effects to her weapon. In this case, she will inflict Atk/Def-4 to her opponent and will prevent them from making a follow-up attack, as well as neutralizing effects that prevent her from making a follow-up attack.

This is basically half of the Null Follow-Up 3 skill and is extremely powerful due to the nature of her entire kit.

Binding Necklace creates a huge stat gap!

Like her base self, Summer Freyja comes with Binding Necklace!

If Freyja is not adjacent to an ally, the following effects are activated during combat:

1. Grants +2 Atk/Spd/Def/Res to Freyja
2. Inflicts -2 Atk/Spd/Def/Res to foe
3. Grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res bonuses to Freyja equal to foe's bonuses in each stat calculated independently
4. Inflicts Atk/Spd/Def/Res penalties to foe equal to foe's bonuses in each stat calculated independently

This creates a huge stat gap between Freyja and her foe which allows her to claim the upperhand and crush her opponents! Make sure to pit her against enemy units that gain lots of bonuses to maximize the use of this skill.

Fatal Smoke 3 prevents healing!

Summer Freyja comes with Fatal Smoke 3, which prevents enemy units from healing. This is a powerful counter to units with sustain, such as Fallen Edelgard.

Summer Freyja Weaknesses

No Distant Counter

Unlike Mythic Freyja's Nightmare Horn, Brightmare Horn does not have a Distant Counter effect built in! This takes away from her performance as an enemy phase unit.

Weak to high-Spd attribute units and Low Defenses

If a foe is as fast or faster than Summer Freyja, the damage reduction effects of Brightmare Horn will not work. Watch out for units like Ninja Zihark or even an Eliwood with high investment!

Her defensive stats are quite low sitting at 25, 20 for Def & Res respectively. She will be easily taken out by fast offensive units.

Weak to Beast and Cavalry Effective Weapons

Freyja takes 1.5x damage from beast-effective weapons like Brave Eliwood's Nini's Ice Lance or Picnic Flora's Sæhrímnir, and even one blow from this type of weapon is sure to deal lots of damage to her.

She also takes lots of damage from cavalry-effective weapons like Ridersbane. Make sure you know what weapons you are up against before hopping too far into the line of battle!

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Summer Freyja Team and Counters

Teammates for Summer Freyja

Mirabilis	Masquerade Sigurd	Reinhardt	Legendary Azura
Peony	Kaden	Reyson	Leanne

Dökkálfar and Legendary Azura

Her fellow dream fairies and Azura both provide refresher skills and straight up buffs! This allows Freyja not only to hit more, but have more weight behind her hits. They might not match Freyja's 3 space movement, but the nature of flying movement more than makes up for it.

Reinhardt

The ever reliable Reinhardt can be a great partner of Freyja in the frontline. He can also cover the magic department of the offense and assist Summer Freyja in quickly clearing the map of opponents together with their 3 movement.

Magic is everything! -Reinhardt, Thunder's Fist

Beast supports

Reyson, Kaden and Leanne are some great examples of beast supports. Reyson and Leanne dishes out amazing heals and refreshes on flying movement so they can definitely keep up with the goat Freyja. Kaden on the other hand, dishes out some mad buffs that can make Summer Freyja's laser beam extra scary!

In addition to this, by fielding an all-beast or a beast/dragon team, Reyson and Leanne will always be transformed and have 3 movement. The additional movement buff allows them to match Summer Freyja's 3 movement and reliably refresh her turn!

Masquerade Sigurd

Masquerade Sigurd is a cavalry mage who can match Summer Freyja's 3 movement and refresh her turn! As the only cavalry refresher in the game (as of July, 2021), Masquerade Sigurd is an amazing support unit for Summer Freyja should you choose not to field a beast team.

Summer Freyja Counters

Karla	Byleth (F)	Byleth (M)	Summer Byleth (F)
Micaiah	Legendary Byleth (M)	Legendary Claude	Young Innes

The Byleths

Byleth (F), Byleth (M), Summer Byleth (F), and Legendary Byleth (M) are all direct counters to Summer Freyja if properly built. All of them have a Null Follow-Up effect on their weapons which disables the follow-up negation effect on Brightmare Horn, and if given Windsweep 3 on their B slots, are able to attack Summer Freyja without fear of retaliation!

In addition to this, all of the Byleths have special skills that are great against beast foes; namely Ruptured Sky and Sublime Heaven! These specials have a very short cooldown of 2 and deal extra damage against beast foes like Summer Freyja. Sublime Heaven in particular is extra nasty, disabling Summer Freyja's damage reduction effect on her Brightmare Horn! Be very careful with your positioning when facing any variant of Byleth.

Speedy units with Null Follow-Up effects

High Spd units like Karla reduce, if not outright negate, Summer Freyja's built-in damage reduction effect on her Brightmare Horn. Karla in particular also has a Null Follow-Up effect on her weapon's special refine, which also turns off Summer Freyja's follow-up negation!

Legendary Claude

Legendary Claude also has a Null Follow-Up effect on his weapon, Failnaught. He also has an exclusive B skill, Fallen Star, which if triggered, reduces the damage dealt to Claude by 80% and applies a Gravity effect on his foes. Summer Freyja relies on quickly eliminating her opponents, and the damage reduction effect will prevent her from doing just that. The Gravity effect also reduces Summer Freyja's movement from 3 to 1, leaving her vulnerable to approaching enemies.

As a bow unit, Legendary Claude can also be given the special skill Deadeye through skill inheritance. Deadeye shuts down damage reduction effects and doubles damage dealt, and with Summer Freyja's low defenses, she will be brought down rather easily.

Young Innes

Young Innes can negate damage reduction whenever he triggers his special thanks to his weapon, Bow of Frelia. Summer Freyja relies on her damage reduction to survive enemy engagements; without it, she will lose a considerable amount of bulk with her subpar defensive stats. Ensure that Young Innes will not trigger his special skill when approaching him with Summer Freyja.

Micaiah, Bridal Micaiah, and Brave Micaiah

Micaiah and her other variants in the game such as Bridal Micaiah and Brave Micaiah all possess high Atk stats and wield cavalry-effective tomes. With her effective damage and high Atk, she can eliminate Summer Freyja quickly, even through her damage reduction!

All the Micaiah variants have low Def, however. Ensure you are fighting them in player phase and eliminate them before they can land one hit on Summer Freyja.

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Summer Freyja - List of Skills

Weapons

Skill Name	Might	Range	Effect	Learned At
Whelp (Cavalry)	4	1	At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts). If unit transforms, grants Atk+2, and if unit initiates combat, inflicts Atk/Def-4 on foe during combat	5★
Yearling (Cavalry)	6	1	At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts). If unit transforms, grants Atk+2, and if unit initiates combat, inflicts Atk/Def-4 on foe during combat	5★
Adult (Cavalry)	9	1	At start of turn, if unit is adjacent to only beast or dragon allies or if unit is not adjacent to any ally, unit transforms (otherwise, unit reverts). If unit transforms, unit can move 1 extra space. (That turn only. Does not stack.) If unit transforms,	5★
Brightmare Horn	14	1	Grants Spd+3. At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 during combat, and also, if unit's Spd > foe's Spd, grants damage reduction by percentage = difference between stats x 4 (excluding Rokkr Specials). At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25% while transformed, neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat. If transformed, grants Atk+2 and if unit initiates combat, inflicts Atk/Def-4 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
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
Atk/Spd Solo 1	If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd +2 during combat.	5★
Atk/Spd Solo 2	If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd +4 during combat.	5★
Atk/Spd Solo 3	If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd +6 during combat.	5★
Atk/Spd Solo 4	If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd +7 during combat.	5★
Binding Necklace	If unit is not adjacent to an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+2 to unit and inflicts Atk/Spd/Def/Res-2 on foe during combat, and also if foe has bonuses, grants bonus to unit's Atk/Spd/Def/Res and inflicts penalty on foe's Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat = current bonus on each of foe's stats. Calculates each stat bonus independently.	5★
Fatal Smoke 1	If unit initiates combat, foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 1 space of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit's HP cannot be healed through its next action.	5★
Fatal Smoke 2	If unit initiates combat, foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 2 spaces of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit's HP cannot be healed through its next action.	5★
Fatal Smoke 3	Foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 2 spaces of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit’s HP cannot be healed through its next action.	5★

Summer Freyja as a Source Hero

Value of Skills	★★★★★

Inheriting Atk/Spd Solo 4 or Fatal Smoke 3

Freyja can be used to inherit Atk/Spd Solo 4 or Fatal Smoke 3.

If you are able to inherit Atk/Spd Solo 3 from another unit, you can get both skills from Freyja! However, Freyja is a powerful hero on her own so please think carefully before foddering her off!

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How to Get Summer Freyja / Illustrations / Voice Actor / Quotes

How to Get Summer Freyja

Obtained through a Special Summoning Event!

Summer Freyja 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)	Stephanie Southerland
Illustrator	Yoshiku
Appears In	Fire Emblem Heroes

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