Nichol Review [Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius]

Rating

Trust Master Rewards: None

Guide	Units	Tier List	Trust Master
Town of Mitra	Royal Capital Grandshelt	Port City Lodin	Ordol Port
Port City Lydira	Village of Kol	Grandport	Village of Marlo
Ghost Port Kolobos	Felicitas Town	Industrial City Dilmagia	Village of Ambel
Town of Kolts	Aquapolis Olderion	Town of Amore	Raven's Hideaway
Earth Shrine Exp	Latius Woods Exp	Dalnakya Cavern Exp	Grandshelt Catacombs Exp
Fulan Pass Exp	Phantom Forest Exp	Zadehl Westersand Exp	Lanzelt Highlands Exp
Wolfsfang Peak Exp	Lanzelt Mountains Exp	Kolobos Marsh Exp	Golzas Canyon Exp
Kolobos Reef Exp	Shrine of Decay Exp	Maranda Coast Exp	Dwarves' Forge Exp
Windy Heights West Exp	Mobreeze Airship Factory Exp	Junkyard Exp	Wind Shrine Exp
Mystic Woods	Aquatic Cover	Lake Dorr	Ghost Ship Exp
Water Shrine Exp	Abandoned Orphanage Exp	Timber Tracks Exp
Weapons	Armor	Accessories	Crafting
Magic	Special Abilities	Espers	Colosseum
Items	Siren	Ifrit	Golem
Shiva	Ramuh	Diabolos	Carbuncle
White Dragon	Demon Chimera	The Intangir	Surging Menace
Antenolla
Festival	Join Facebook	Blog

3★	4★	5★

General Thoughts

FFBE recently introduced Nichol as the 5th permanent band member of Team Rain. Team Rain as you may know has been doing backup vocals for Team Everything Else for sometimes now and with the addition of Nichol Team Rain will still be doing backup vocals for Team Everything Else. I do like Nichol’s lines in FFBE though and while he is a forgettable unit, his snappy lines are not.

Nichol brings along these active abilities:

Back to the Wall (Increase ATK/MAG (40%) while decrease DEF/SPR (20%) for 3 turns to all allies), going with his military tactician theme, Nichol has BttW as his offensive maneuver and IS as his defensive one, both abilities are easily outclassed by 5-Star Base Units and with their negative side effects, are marginal at best since Fina already has Cheer and Lid already has Focus.

Impenetrable Stance (Increase DEF/SPR (40%) while decrease ATK/MAG (20%) for 3 turns to all allies), I could see these abilities having marginal use on certain boss fights where the boss charges up, the problem is with Nichol being as squishy as he is, if he uses this ability rather than defends he will probably die.

Waterga (Water magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies), only one of the few characters to have Waterga, but it certainly not enough to make Nichol worth leveling.

Barblizzara (Increase ice resistance (50%) for 3 turns to all allies) and Barwatera (Increase water resistance (50%) for 3 turns to all allies), situational abilities on a character that is probably more of a liability to bring than whatever support his abilities could provide.

Along with these passives:
None

Being a basic unit, Nichol does not have a Trust Master Reward

Ancient Flood (Base: Water magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies – Max: Water magic damage (3.45x) to all enemies), well it looks cool at least, but its vanilla water damage with no added effects. Not worth casting really.

Verdict: Nichol just doesn’t bring anything to the table other than taking up a lot in your unit box, maybe a Christmas alternate reality version of Nichol will be useful (remember Black Cat Lid?) and his Water and Ice theme makes him a good candidate for that, but regular ‘ole Nichol is just a last string bench warmer, but since he’s an ice mage, Nichol probably can’t even manage even that.
Zzz… If you’re a completionist then level him up, otherwise just forget that he exist, could avoid getting him even if you don’t do the final Olderion cut scene until the next island gets released.

Stats

Rarity	HP	MP	ATK	DEF	MAG	SPR	Attack Hits	LB Drops	Exp. Growth Pattern
3★	1136	73	48	46	58	50	1	6	2
4★	1477	96	63	61	76	65	1	8	2
5★	1921	125	82	80	100	85	1	10	2

Maximum Stats Increase

Rarity	HP	MP	ATK	DEF	MAG	SPR
3★	150	25	10	10	10	10
4★	210	35	14	14	14	14
5★	240	40	16	16	16	16

Resistance

Nichol is neutral to all elements and status ailments.

Learned Abilities

Min Rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect	MP
3★	28		MP +10%	MP +10%	–
4★	54		MAG +10%	MAG +10%	–
4★	60		Impenetrable Stance	Increase DEF/SPR (40%) while decrease ATK/MAG (20%) for 3 turns to all allies	25
5★	80		Back to the Wall	Increase ATK/MAG (40%) while decrease DEF/SPR (20%) for 3 turns to all allies	25

Magic

Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect	MP
3★	1		Blizzard	Ice magic damage (1.2x) to one enemy	3
3★	12		Water	Water magic damage (1.2x) to one enemy	3
3★	40		Barblizzard	Increase ice resistance (30%) for 3 turns to one ally	3
4★	21		Blizzara	Ice magic damage (1.4x) to all enemies	9
4★	30		Watera	Water magic damage (1.4x) to all enemies	9
4★	42		Barwater	Increase water resistance (30%) for 3 turns to one ally	6
5★	32		Imperil	Decrease all element resistance (20%) for 3 turns to one enemy	15
5★	51		Blizzaga	Ice magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies	20
5★	62		Waterga	Water magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies	20
5★	72		Barblizzara	Increase ice resistance (50%) for 3 turns to all allies	12
5★	72		Barwatera	Increase water resistance (50%) for 3 turns to all allies	12

Limit Burst

Rarity	Name	Effect
3★	Aqua Wave	Base: Water magic damage (2.1x) to all enemies Max: Water magic damage (2.55x) to all enemies
4★	Marine Wave	Base: Water magic damage (2.3x) to all enemies Max: Water magic damage (3x) to all enemies
5★	Ancient Flood	Base: Water magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies Max: Water magic damage (3.45x) to all enemies

Equipment

Nichol  can equip 3 weapons and 4 armors.

Rarity	Ability Slots	Affinity
3★	2	Black Magic Lvl 5, Green Magic Lvl 3
4★	3	Black Magic Lvl 6, Green Magic Lvl 4
5★	4	Black Magic Lvl 7, Green Magic Lvl 5

Awakening

Rarity	Material 1	Material 2	Material 3	Material 4	Material 5
4★	Allure Powder (20)	Esper Cryst (10)	Quality Parts (8)	Deepsea Bloom (3)	Sacred Crystal (3)
5★	Quality Parts (15)	Deepsea Bloom (8)	Sacred Crystal (5)	Dragon Heart (3)	Holy Crystal (3)

Lore

A military tactician for the Olderion Federation. He was given a great many books on magic as a young child, as their were high expectations of him being of the Wardens of the Waters.

Raised in isolation from other children his age, he took a deep interest instead in the people he read about in books. Among these characters, he took particular interest in a legendary female warrior from an army of darkness.