Soldier
Beginner
What to train
Train one of these
SpearD
AxeD
Other gates
- Level
- 5
- Renown
- 1
- Item
- Beginner License
Weapons it uses
- Spear
Sword- Axe
Weapons and movement
- Spear D
- Sword
- Axe D
Movement: foot · 4 tiles
Skills
Class skills: Defense Basics
Requirement and unlock
Level 5, Renown 1 (unlocks Beginner tier itself)
Level 5, Renown 1 · Beginner License
Exam skills: pick from Spear D, Axe D
Unlocks the Beginner tier itself, obtained from a license vendor or exploration. No weapon/skill proficiency rank is documented as a prerequisite for this tier.
Stats
Stat modifiers
Flat changes to a unit's stats while it is in this class. They are not base stats; class base and max stats are not published yet.
Growth bonus
Abilities
- Master Ability: Defense Basics. Grants Def +1.
Best characters
Ordered by how many published class guides put the unit in this class, then this guide's own class path, then how the unit's preferred skills match the class exam. Ties go to the higher guide tier. The plates under a lord’s name are the guide’s tier on that route; the dark plate is the guide’s overall tier; the outlined plate is the community tier from site votes.
- JasmineRecommended by Game8 Japan, GameWith.
- SetethRecommended by Game8 Japan, GameWith.
- Not recruitable on Dietrich’s route
- TheodoraRecommended by Game8 Japan, GameWith.
- Not recruitable on Cai’s route
- Not recruitable on Dietrich’s route
- Not recruitable on Leda’s route
- GoliathRecommended by Game8 Japan, GameWith.
- Not recruitable on Cai’s route
- Not recruitable on Cai’s route
- Not recruitable on Dietrich’s route
- Not recruitable on Leda’s route
- IoPrefers Spear and Axe, which the class exam asks for.◇ our recommendation: inferred from skill preferences; no published guide names this class for the unit
- LysanderPrefers Spear and Axe, which the class exam asks for.◇ our recommendation: inferred from skill preferences; no published guide names this class for the unit
- CenturioPrefers Spear and Axe, which the class exam asks for.◇ our recommendation: inferred from skill preferences; no published guide names this class for the unit
- GaitzPrefers Spear and Axe, which the class exam asks for.◇ our recommendation: inferred from skill preferences; no published guide names this class for the unit
- Not recruitable on Cai’s route
- Not recruitable on Theodora’s route
- Not recruitable on Leda’s route
- CaiPrefers Spear, which the class exam asks for.◇ our recommendation: inferred from skill preferences; no published guide names this class for the unit
- Not recruitable on Dietrich’s route
- Not recruitable on Theodora’s route
- Not recruitable on Leda’s route
- CataniaPrefers Spear, which the class exam asks for.◇ our recommendation: inferred from skill preferences; no published guide names this class for the unit
17 more units prefer a skill this class’s exam asks for.
Notes
- Pocket Tactics types Soldier as 'Heavy Infantry' specifically (not just 'Infantry'), which is retained here as the movement type despite Soldier having no Heavy weapon rank in Game8's own weapon list -- a naming inconsistency between the two sources, not resolved. CONFLICT: Fandom's generic Soldier infobox (fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Soldier) tags weapons with per-game annotations and marks both 'Sword' and 'Axe' as '(FE18 only)' -- FE18 is this wiki's internal code for Fortune's Weave -- implying Soldier may also carry a Sword proficiency in FW that Game8's own class-list page does not list (Game8: Axe D, Spear D only, no Sword). Flagged, not applied to the weapons field, since it contradicts the directly-fetched Game8 page already used as classes.json's source. No character in Game8's Best Classes guide starts as Soldier (all four observed Beginner starts are Ornius Rider, Gladiator, Hunter or Diviner) -- recorded as a gap.
Community tier
Sources
Confidence: verified
Not yet documented: promotions, max stats.