Part 97: S-Rank: Marriage and the Ultimate Battle Partner Part 1

S-Rank: Marriage and the Ultimate Battle Partner Part 1

Support Points

When certain characters of the opposite gender fight enough battles together, heal, or even get Danced to, they reach the highest level of support. Dual Attacks become a base 60% and Dual Guards are a flat 10% rate, not including the stats to boost them further to activate.

The most important benefit of an S-Rank is marriage, which mechanically allows a child of the couple to join the party in a side-quest to fight alongside the Shepherds later in the game.

Chrom has a forced marriage at the end of chapter 11 with whoever has the highest amount of support points with him.



Support points are gained doing any of the above. Two units cannot gain more than 27 support points per mission, though the Seed of Trusts and relationship gained from Event Tiles are not factored. So it's possible to gain the maximum 27, plus add in 9 from a Seed and 9 from an Event Tile.

Inheritance

-The child of the two characters will start at level 10 of a specific class. Their stats will be determined by the averages of both parents and the child's bases.

Formula: [(mother's current stats - mother's class base stats) + (father's current stats - father's class base stats) + child's absolute base stats] / 3 + child's class base stats

Non-technobabble version: Both parents strong, kid strong. One parent weak while other strong, child okay.



-The child, except Chrom's kid, will inherit the last listed skill on both parents' skill list. The skill is only permanently decided once you start the child's mission and press the Fight button. If you do not like child's inherited skill, just exit out the mission and re-arrange it.

Donny can give either Aptitude or Armthrift to his child by just re-arranging the skill list.

-The child will inherit the father's hair color. VERY IMPORTANT!

-The child will inherit both parents' class sets, with exception.

Gender-specific classes (Barbarian, Troubadour, Pegasus Knight, Fighter) and certain special classes (Lord, Villager [if child is female], Dancer) will not be inherited by their child unless it is their default class.

Gender-specific classes will change to different classes for the child but that will be gone into more detail next time.

-Maximum stat caps will be altered by the parents. This is a min-max thing, and will be gone into more for part 2.

However, a lot of these rules will not apply to Chrom's child which will be discussed in the next Marriage update.