Editing Fire Emblem (section)

=== Myrmidon>Swordmaster ===
Light, agile sword user who trades high Speed and Skill stats for weaker Defense to serve as a [[Dexterity]]-based crit-fisher, classically promotes to Swordmaster. Sometimes even come with unique skills or equipment to promote critical hits.  Often, an early game myrmidon begins a level as an enemy, armed with a powerful crit-fishing weapon and must be persuaded to join by another unit; this presents the player with the challenge of trying to get someone (and often a weak and squishy staff-user at that) close enough to talk to them without one of the two dying.  A popular solution is to take the Jeigan's weapons and use him as a meatshield lure.  Added in later titles; the class as a whole was based on the Mercenary character Navarre from the first game whose unique stat build was so popular that an entire offshoot class was created in later titles to imitate it.  (And the remakes outright make him a myrmidon.)

In Cipher they have anti-evasion abilities and abilities that support critical hits and evasion. Bonuses for other sword using allies pops up as well.