Lucina
- For fighter info, see Lucina (SSB4) and Lucina (SSBU).
| Lucina | |
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 Official artwork of Lucina from Fire Emblem Warriors. | |
| Universe | Fire Emblem |
| Debut | Fire Emblem Awakening (2012) |
| Smash Bros. appearances | SSB4 Ultimate |
| Most recent non-Smash appearance | Fire Emblem Engage (2023) |
| Console/platform of origin | Nintendo 3DS |
| Species | Human (augmented via Naga's Holy Blood) |
| Gender | Female |
| Place of origin | Ylisse |
| Designed by | Yusuke Kozaki |
| English voice actor | Laura Bailey |
| Japanese voice actor | Yū Kobayashi |
| Article on Fire Emblem Wiki | Lucina |
Lucina (ルキナ, Lucina) is a character from the Fire Emblem series. As one of the three main characters of Fire Emblem Awakening, Lucina is a distant descendant of Marth and the daughter of Chrom. Lucina traveled back in time in order to save her father and thus avert the apocalyptic damage inflicted during her future by the "Fell Dragon" Grima.
Lucina made her Super Smash Bros. series debut in Super Smash Bros. 4 as a playable character, and returns in that capacity in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Origin[edit]
Lucina is a distant descendant of the legendary "Hero-King" Marth. She is a princess of Ylisse, the successor state to the now-ancient kingdom of Archanea, and is Chrom's daughter. Lucina bears the holy bloodline of Ylisse's rulers, the Exalts, who carry the power of the legendary dragon Naga and her holy gifts to humanity: the Fire Emblem and the blade Falchion. This power is signified by the presence of a distinctive Brand on their bodies; in Lucina's case, hers is located in the iris of her left eye.
The adult Lucina the game primarily features is a time-traveler from an alternate future, who travels back to the current timeline in Fire Emblem Awakening due to the "Fell Dragon" Grima possessing Robin, and his legions of Risen zombies bringing her own world to ruin. Desperate to reverse this unfortunate event, she and other future children of Chrom's allies, the Shepherds, travel back in time to prevent the revival of Grima in Chrom's timeline and change the future. When she travels back in time, she initially hides her identity by tying her hair back and wearing a distinctive mask given to her by Gerome, one of her allies from the future, and adopting the name "Marth" from her famous ancestor.
Lucina first encounters Chrom and the Shepherds by saving her aunt Lissa from the first of the Risen. She would later duel Chrom in Arena Ferox, during which Chrom noticed that her fighting style was strikingly similar to his own. Lucina's mask is cut in two during an assassination attempt on her aunt Emmeryn while defending Chrom, thus ruining her disguise and causing her to disappear. She would then reappear two years later, again defending Chrom from an assassination attempt. However, she accidentally calls him "Father," prompting her to reveal to Chrom that she is his daughter by letting him see the Brand of the Exalt in her left eye. Lucina then joins the Shepherds to assist them in a new war.
In Awakening, Lucina starts out as the Lord class by default, inheriting the class from Chrom. As she is pivotal to the story, she is the only child unit whose recruitment is forced, and one of the few units that will not be permanently lost, even in Classic mode. Like Chrom, her weapon of choice is Falchion, but her version of the famed sword is the Parallel Falchion brought back from her future. Unlike Chrom's version, it is more powerful and can be used to self-heal, whereas Chrom's Falchion is initially weaker with its power sealed away and must be upgraded before the final battle to become stronger than Lucina's. Lucina can either be a potential wife for male Robin or female Robin's daughter if the latter is married to Chrom. There is also a variety of potential affine relationships between Robin and Lucina which are not acknowledged in game.
Alongside international success of Fire Emblem Awakening, Lucina has become one of the most popular Fire Emblem characters worldwide outside of Super Smash Bros. Since her debut, she has appeared as a guest character in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., Fire Emblem Fates, and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, in each case summoned in-game using her amiibo. She appeared with Chrom and fellow smasher Ryu in Project X Zone 2, a crossover strategy game featuring characters from Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, and Nintendo. Several outfit variations of Lucina are also featured in the crossover game Fire Emblem Heroes, and she is also playable in Fire Emblem Warriors. Most recently, Fire Emblem Engage features Lucina as one of the game's numerous Emblems, ethereal clones of protagonists from various other Fire Emblem games who dwell within special rings.
In Super Smash Bros. 4[edit]
As a playable character[edit]
Lucina appears as a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. 4. She is a clone of Marth, though she is shorter and lacks Marth's tipper mechanic on her sword.
Appropriately, she is unlockable by completing Classic Mode with Marth on any difficulty in the 3DS version. She is unlockable by completing Classic Mode with any character on 5.5 Intensity or higher in the Wii U version.
Of note is that she was originally planned to be an alternate costume of Marth, but was given her own character slot later in development due to "the characteristics of their attacks being different".
On the tier list for SSB4, Lucina is ranked 14th out of 55 characters, placing her three spots below Marth. While her Parallel Falchion grants her a good disjointed reach, she still suffers from high endlag in her moves, much like Marth. She also lacks a tipper, giving her a generally weaker neutral game than Marth, though this still gives her some slight advantages over Marth, as the consistent damage from her sword allows her to afford being closer to opponents, all while still delivering decent damage and knockback. As a whole, the few strengths she possesses over Marth are fairly minor, and although she has been buffed to similar degrees by game updates, she is generally seen as an inferior version of him, resulting in lower tournament representation and results in comparison.
Trophies[edit]
- Lucina
Chrom's daughter and the future Princess of Ylisse. When she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name Marth before her identity is revealed. She fights much like her adopted namesake, but more than just the tip of her sword is powerful.
Chrom's daughter and the future Princess of Ylisse. When she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name Marth before her identity is revealed. She fights much like her adopted namesake, but her entire blade is equally powerful instead of having a more powerful tip.
: Fire Emblem Awakening (02/2013)
Daughter of Chrom and future Princess of Ylisse. When she comes from the future to prevent a terrible future from unfolding, she goes by the name of Marth, but only until her true identity comes to light. She is a very similar fighter to Marth, except it doesn't actually matter which part of her sword she strikes with.
- Lucina (Alt.)
Lucina's moves are much like Marth's, but there are subtle differences. With Marth, you need to try to hit with the tip of his sword, but Lucina's sword is equally powerful all along the blade. Her Shield Breaker move lets her attack opponents and break their shields at the same time. Charge it fully to shatter shields in one hit.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
As a playable character[edit]
Lucina returns in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an unlockable Echo Fighter of Marth. She retains her primary difference setting her apart from Marth, that being her lack of sweetspots and sourspots on the Parallel Falchion, but has been subtly recloned in other aspects, such as no longer being shorter than Marth.
Lucina received a mix of buffs and nerfs in the transition from SSB4, but has been overall buffed. While she received some direct nerfs, mostly shared with Marth, she benefits greatly from universal changes to the point of counterbalancing those nerfs, as the faster pace of Ultimate allows her to more easily take advantage of her balanced damage output compared to Marth's weaker sourspots and less forgiving tipper sweetspots. As such, Lucina has very strong representation and results in tournaments, with many players considering her a viable top or high-tier character, as well as one of the best swordfighters in the game.
Spirit[edit]
611. Lucina
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name |
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| ルキナ, Lucina | |
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| 露琪娜, Lucina | |
| 루키나, Lucina | |
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| Луцина | |
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Trivia[edit]
- Lucina is the first female fighter to debut as an unlockable character (discounting Wendy, who is one of the seven Koopalings serving as alternate costumes for Bowser Jr.).
- Lucina, Robin, and Chrom are the only Fire Emblem fighters in the Super Smash Bros. series to debut in the same Fire Emblem game.
- Although Lucina's name is the same between Japanese and English, the announcer pronounces it differently between regions: the English version pronounces it as "Lu-see-na", while the Japanese version pronounces it "Ru-ki-na" (in a similar vein and stress to how Lucas is pronounced in English).
- Laura Bailey, Lucina's English voice actress in the Super Smash Bros. series is uncredited in Ultimate, similar to how she was uncredited in Fire Emblem: Awakening, as well as how Antony Del Rio (Pit and Dark Pit's English voice actor in Kid Icarus: Uprising) is uncredited in both SSB4 and Ultimate and how Hynden Walch (Viridi's English voice actress in Kid Icarus: Uprising) is uncredited in SSB4.
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| Fighters | Marth (SSBM · SSBB · SSB4 · SSBU) · Roy (SSBM · SSB4 · SSBU) · Ike (SSBB · SSB4 · SSBU) · Lucina (SSB4 · SSBU) · Robin (SSB4 · SSBU) · Corrin (SSB4 · SSBU) · Chrom (SSBU) · Byleth (SSBU) |
| Assist Trophies | Lyn · Black Knight · Tiki |
| Stages | Castle Siege · Arena Ferox · Coliseum · Garreg Mach Monastery |
| Item | Killing Edge |
| Other | Sothis |
| Trophies, Stickers and Spirits | Trophies (SSBM · SSBB · SSB4) · Stickers · Spirits |
| Music | Brawl · SSB4 · Ultimate |
| Masterpieces | Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light · Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem |
