# 7 - Percival (Binding Blade)

                      Percival fan girls I give you permission to fan-girl all over the place. Just be quick about it. Percival fan boys (which I am proud to call myself one) I also give you permission to fanboy as well. Just be quick about it.

                     Now that we're all done geeking out over him (which I highly doubt will ever happen but anyway) let's proceed to explain why Percival is here. For starters his base stats are just unbelievably sexy. They're so good that he'll still be one of your best combat units in a 0 % growth run. Dondon151's 0 % growth run of Sword of Seals Hard Mode is proof of this (which you can check out here. The link is just the introduction but you can check out the other videos as well). So yeah, Percival's base stats are so high that he doesn't need to grow a single point anymore in order to wreck face. Now obviously I'm taking his Hard mode bonuses into account. Percival's base stats with Hard mode bonuses look like this:

HP - 51
Strength - 20
Skill - 16
Speed - 20
Luck - 15
Defense - 15
Resistance - 13
Con - 12

                  Look at that strength and speed. Also, I should point out that his constitution is high enough for him to wield a lot of weapons without attack speed (like that really matters but it's still nice to not get weighed down by everything).  

                   Percival has been described as an RNG proof cavalier and I completely agree with this. In addition to his base stats he joins with some killer weapon ranks. Lances and swords are A rank while axes are C rank. So he can wield any sword or lance that isn't regalia (and only takes a little bit of effort before he gets there) and he can start out wielding Killer Axes. Yeah that's pretty awesome. His complete weapon triangle control allows him to deal with any kind of unit in any kind of situation.

                 The only qualm with Percival on a list like this is his availability. He's around for about 60 % of his game. He's clearly one of the Top 3 best units in his game but unfortunately he's in a list where other characters can roflstomp their games from an earlier availability. Even when you take that into consideration Percival is still freaking awesome and is an obvious candidate for a high spot on this list.