Man-is-Obsolete
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Can someone tell me if I'm onto something?
I was thinking that Ephriam has decent atk and def, but his low speed is his main problem. My Ephriam is +HP -atk, which makes him even tankier.
Would it make sense to turn him into a physical tank with buffing abilities? Defense 3 would take his defense close to 40, and Wary Fighter would get around his low speed - it's not like he's going to double anyone anyway. He'd probably be almost as tanky as an armored unit, but without the movement disadvantage.
I could replace his C skill with some adjacent speed buff as well to turn him into Eirika with a lance, though I'm not sure about that since Threaten Def is a pretty good skill in itself.
I think you got the right idea. I think I would keep threaten Def since it seems you're inviting attacks into him and that would help negate his -Atk nature. Does Ephraim have a tag along you could put Hone Atk on?