also, thanks to the upcoming arena bonus unit image, we know they apparently are going to change elincia's sprite hair color so it's closer to how it looked in the tellius games:
Aww, but I like her current shade of green. Anyway, I don't know if it's the quality of the screenshot, but that shade of green is still off from her Tellius artwork. It's kind of bluish while her official artwork is more like Lyn's green. Aside from Kippu's art for Elincia, all of her other art from her official artwork to her Cipher cards have about the same shade of dark green. Some of them look lighter, but I think it's more of the artist's style of "lighting" like her Awakening art is really shiny and it's just environment reasons like one of her Cipher cards implies she's high up in the sky and the sun is shining on her.
Kippu's art is very light and soft which probably lightens everything up. It might be the same shade of green like it's not yellow-green or blue-green, but the art style makes it look different. It's not as noticeable, but Linde's artwork hair is slightly lighter than with her sprite. The weird thing is why did the developers decide to go off of Kippu's style of coloring for Elincia's sprite.
I think all of the sprites stay true to their official art's coloring which isn't a problem for most of the artists since they're pretty "normal", but that doesn't mean all of them have the same style of coloring and shading. It also kind of happened with Nephenee but not the other of HACCAN art characters. Her hair's weird in that some of her art makes it more green like her official art and some Cipher cards, but her in-game portrait art and other Cipher cards are more bluish. It's just some shade of teal.
Is it worth it to give Guard 3 to my Elincia? It's the only way she can beat Brave Ike with Steady Breath and Ignis, but I'm not sure how common that build is. She does beat Brave Ike with Aether and Bonfire without it, so Guard might be too niche since it only counters a specific build. Axebreaker would be more of an all-purpose skill, and while it doesn't really help with the Brave Ike MU, it does help her handle Hector better, which is the most important MU for red fliers
Is it a common enough problem at the moment? Brave weapons can work well with Guard to prevent enemy specials from charging because they attack many times, but if it's not a big deal, then she might not need it. There's also the issue of needing to be at >= 80% HP. With CYL Ike, you could have someone else like summer F!Corrin chip him for Elincia to finish off. The only issue would be if he was running Distant Counter which would get Corrin killed, but if not, then it shouldn't be a problem.
With Hector, if he isn't getting any defense buffs, she should be able to kill him with Amiti's first two hits and a Goad Fliers buff. Without it, she'll take a hit in between and if he has 3 stacks of Ward Armor, she dies without at least Goad Fliers. If he's in Vantage range, then he needs Bonfire or Ignis charged or Elincia at low HP to counter-kill her which if he doesn't, then he's dead since he can't counter again after her turn since Armads's QR2 wouldn't be active.
I think you might want to wait it out. The inherent issue with Elincia being the best offensive sword flyer is that her legendary weapon and most powerful weapon is still a Brave weapon where it will have lowered Mt even if it's a really good weapon. What doesn't help is that it's targeting defense and the introduction of CYL Ike and Urvan was basically a counter to Brave weapons.
If Hector is giving you a lot of problems and if CYL Ike with Steady Breath and Ignis becomes that much more common, then sure, Elincia should inherit Axebreaker or Guard. Alternatively, you could run Palla with Elincia, but that might not be ideal. Or you could wait for another sword flyer who will hopefully appear soon. I don't think so since the leak was Jugdral and I don't know of any flyers who primarily use swords from Jugdral and if L'Arachel isn't going to be here for about 2 more months, then a hypothetical sword-wielding Glen as a TT reward would be pretty far away let alone Cormag getting the Raven treatment and using swords instead of lances. Then again, we could get a sword flyer from an autumn seasonal banner assuming they're going to do one during October or November. A flyer riding a reindeer could work too. Wait... What if that's actually what winter Tharja is?
Edit: Tellius TT banner is up. Figured if there was a shot at getting Ike... Didn't happen since there were no reds; only blues and greys. I picked blue. Guess who showed up? +Spd, -Res 5* Peri. I think she's my first freebie-only -- as in I only do one freebie summon for a banner -- 5* summon. Now if only I could get another Roderick...
Oh, and the Death Blow banner netted me a +Def, -HP 3* Virion yesterday.
Burgundy , why are you looking for a Bartre anyway?
though I'm moving into the dorms tomorrow and the wifi will probably be just about as bad as every other college wifi story I've heard...I need LAN. I just don't know how to LAN 
