What YOU NEED TO KNOW about Omnitanking [FEH] 

Note: Special Spiral is inheritable to Armors too, btw.

This is a pretty soild comprehensive guide about how to build omnitanks in this day and age. I remember seeing a lot of people clamoring on Reddit and other places about how "tanking is dead". My response to those doomers was, and will always be: "Tanking isn't completely dead. You just have to know your game. This isn't like in 2020 where you could throw Bike at AR-D balls and write off anyone who wasn't packing an AoE Special, but outside of stuff that has scaling preemptive damage, it's mostly doable to tank most nukes depending on what your setup has." That said, I'm honestly surprised you forgot about including DR piercing as an essential component for an omnitank. This is actually pretty important, especially for slower tanks who cannot hope to outspeed many of these faster nukes (and don't bring up auto doubles, most fast nukes have NFU), many of whom carry 50+% first-hit DR stacks. Having DR piercing is particularly important in the Gullveig matchup if you're running a slower unit, as while she isn't too dangerous on the surface (her flat damage is mostly manageable and she has no innate piercing), if she gets the chance to self-refresh (which is easy for her to do thanks to her 70% first-hit DR), the amount of cumulative melt damage you're taking from her is at least comparable to what L!Cam is dishing out. While I'd rate DR piercing in the same category as stuff like DC, DR, and regen for slower tanks, it's a bit more discretionary for faster tanks, since the DR these nukes have only applies to the first hit (or the first two hits of a brave weapon). As for where you can get DR piercing for your tank: - Special Spiral 4 confers DR piercing to any offensive Special the user has. - No Quarter is a DR piercing Special available to any non-armored melee unit. - Tier 4 Null Follow and Tempo skills have 50% DR Sundering baked into them. - L!F!Alear confers DR piercing to any offensive Special the user has, provided the user is supported with her and she's on the map. - L!Cam confers [50% DR Sunder] as a [Bonus] effect to anyone within 2 spaces of her at start of turn. Note that if you aren't outsourcing your piercing, running it does come at a not-insubstantial cost to durability. If running Spiral 4, Phys/Mag Null Follow, or Tempo 4, your tank is sacrificing as much as 50% DR, which can greatly reduce your unit's survivability. Running No Quarter can also negatively impact your bulk if your tank was relying on a Special like Aether for sustain, but given that skills like Finish and Bulwark confer ~7 HP chip healing, and chip healing can also be outsourced (Gatekeeper, Celine, L!Guin), this isn't as big an issue as you might think. Have a nice day.

I can't imagine how much work you've put into your videos. Amazing content and quality too. Good job ❤

Honestly i would add penelty neutralisation, NCD and dr piercing to the list of bare minimum effect. There practicly the priority 1 effects you should give to an omnitank if they dont have that in there basekit. You aint surviving sanaki without penelty neutralisation, you need dr piercing for the 50 Dr nukes (Ivy, Yunaka, Gullveigs, kvasirs, Claude, Kagero etc...) and need ncd for lyon and even with ncd lyon is hard to survive. I can confidential as a owner of a max invest L! Corrin say that is still posible but these effects are ESSENTIAL. For a team example in ar-o i use gerik to negate peneltys, L! Camilla for dr piercing and R! Plumeria to stack penelty doubler with Camillas sabotage and for dodge form rockslide dance. It gives all important effects that are possible to outsource and gives a massive stat swing.

Great breakdown of Omnitanks! Here’s hoping a counter for melt damage comes soon.

As a player who likes omnitanking in FEH, this guide is very helpful to me. Thank you very much for this guide. 🙏 And with the addition of Atunned Caeda, I might try to use omnitanking more often. She seems really good with her true dmg reduction

(First) thanks for the guide king

Personally I think the best omni-tank in the game right now is still N;Altina. Her weapon lowers foe stats instead of raising her own, her Prf special has no real competition vs any inheritance option (1 CD Special DR% and Special DR% piercing) and is incredible for having special DR% for all hits instead of just one. And she ditches spd for every other stat. Which imo is just great, because it means she won’t be a victim of speed creep. And she’s just plain and simple really powerful, DC, Brave, and Scowl all in her weapon basically free her other slots for whatever she feels like. She’s resistant to scowl effects because she stacks her own res, she’s more resistant to lyon than most because she can win the res check, and she doesn’t buff her atk as much as others, meaning lyon doesn’t chip her as much and she has more hp than most. Personally I tend to run her with lumera support and she’s just incredible in those situations. She’s definitely not unbeatable, but I do actually believe that she is the best omni-tank vs lyon rn.

I have true dr on my kanas….building omnitanks without prfs is hard but it’s not impossible.

Today I builded my Attuned Caeda, putted Godlike Reflexes on her and putted Hortensia and Brave Robin as support, basically she carried the most recent Chain History battles on Insane difficulty, I'm very satisfied with the results, the only unit that managed to kill her was Winter Yunaka and Duo Lyon, but it was positioning diff.

Meanwhile, I'm over here building a def/res based Brave Dimitri because I'm pure blue lions trash and I'm proud of it

very cool guide, definitely gonna watch this later when I start building some more units. what are some big support units you would recommend outside of the direct counters you listed in the vid, and what units would you recommend if you were building a L!M!Alear or the new attuned Caeda?

Im hoping that the next emblem effect we get is just 20% Melt damage reduction if special is ready or if it will trigger during the combat.

Thanks so much, I was planning on making a Nemesis Omnitank, but its too difficult lol

Ok to clear up a little misinformation, Special Spiral can also be inherited to Armor units, I remember this becuase my old Zelgius used a Slaying Edge build alongside SS3 to loop black Luna

Still proud of my B!Dimitri, I'm surely on high copium but I'm hoping for a upgrade of Blue Lion

Special Spiral is inheritable to Armor too, great video anyways!

Only thing I think you missed out on is that nukes now have a lot of Damage reduction themselves whenever they initiate combat. So equipping your Omnitank with DR piercing from specials such as No Quarter, using Phys NFU or LCamilla support is very good on Tanks in order to counter those nukes that have DR Otherwise very great and simple to understand video!

I would say that a counter to melt damage is vantage Winter Dimitri and Brave Marth has it Also its funny to have vantage winter Byleth just to counter Lyon

0:35 i thought u would put duo lyon as an example somehow XD ((i pray G4 echo comes out so i can use Hortensia with it as a support unit with G4 support and atk spd buff + canto

Good guide. Until we get a NC Disrupt seal we're going to be suffering from VLyon.

It's so difficult to turn that key. I can't accept my omnitank needs support now.

While I appreciate the effort and video, the reality is tanking in general is dead and IS wants it to be that way with the units and mechanics they keep releasing. Could it still be done in theory? I'm sure it could but it's a massive, uphill and losing battle in the long run as they will keep releasing new mega offensive units that eradicate tanking strategies sadly. Especially if you're free to play, you are going to pull your hair out after a while trying to succeed competitively with just Omnitanking.

Alrighty, so if I'm running the most generic build possible on Nephenee (Arcane Luin + Atk/Spd Finish 4 + Buffer 4 + Atk/Spd Pledge + GLR and that DC seal) that's, what, vaguely approaching bare minimum?

Certainly feels tough at times. Though i may be in the minority but i hope whatever counter they make to melt doesn't outright kill it. Since i do like the mechanic just that it's overturned. Also does scowl trigger before or after acceleration effects like what w dimitri does?

Me who has used my Favorites Emblem in story mode because reasons: Well, I guess I’ll die.🤷‍♂️

There’s another tank that’s super good.

Seeing this makes me wonder, how well does rhea work these days? (Base rhea btw)

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