For fighter info, seeLucina (SSB4) andLucina (SSBU).

Lucina
Official artwork of Lucina fromFire Emblem Warriors.
Universe	Fire Emblem
Debut	Fire Emblem Awakening (2012)
Smash Bros. appearances	SSB4 Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Fire Emblem Engage (2023)
Console/platform of origin	Nintendo 3DS
Species	Human (augmented viaNaga'sHoly Blood)
Gender	Female
Place of origin	Ylisse
Designed by	Yusuke Kozaki
Englishvoice actor	Laura Bailey
Japanesevoice actor	Yū Kobayashi
Article on Fire Emblem Wiki	Lucina

Lucina (ルキナ,Lucina) is a character from theFire Emblem series. As one of the three main characters ofFire Emblem Awakening, Lucina is a distant descendant ofMarth and the daughter ofChrom. Lucina traveled back in time in order to save her father and thus avert the apocalyptic damage inflicted during her future by the "Fell Dragon"Grima.

Lucina made herSuper Smash Bros. series debut inSuper Smash Bros. 4 as a playable character, and returns in that capacity inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Origin[edit]

Lucina is a distant descendant of the legendary "Hero-King"Marth and a direct descendant of the unnamed hero known only as theFirst exalt. She is a princess ofYlisse, the successor state to the now-ancient kingdom of Archanea, and is Chrom's daughter. Lucina bears the holy bloodline of Ylisse's rulers, the Exalts, who carry the power of the legendary dragonNaga and her holy gifts to humanity: theFire Emblem and the bladeFalchion. This power is signified by the presence of a distinctiveBrand on their bodies; in Lucina's case, hers is located in the iris of her left eye.

The adult Lucina the game primarily features is a time-traveler from an alternate future, who travels back to the current timeline inFire Emblem Awakening due to the "Fell Dragon"Grima possessing Robin, and his legions ofRisen zombies bringing her own world to ruin. Desperate to reverse this unfortunate event, she and other future children of Chrom's allies, theShepherds, travel back in time to prevent the revival of Grima in Chrom's timeline and change the future. When she travels back in time, she initially hides her identity by tying her hair back and wearing a distinctive mask given to her byGerome, one of her allies from the future, and adopting the name "Marth" from her famous ancestor.

Lucina first encounters Chrom and the Shepherds by saving her auntLissa from the first of the Risen. She would later duel Chrom inArena Ferox, during which Chrom noticed that her fighting style was strikingly similar to his own. Lucina's mask is cut in two during an assassination attempt on her auntEmmeryn while defending Chrom, thus ruining her disguise and causing her to disappear. She would then reappear two years later, again defending Chrom from an assassination attempt. However, she accidentally calls him "Father," prompting her to reveal to Chrom that she is his daughter by letting him see the Brand of the Exalt in her left eye. Lucina then joins the Shepherds to assist them in a new war.

InAwakening, Lucina starts out as theLord class by default, inheriting the class from Chrom. As she is pivotal to the story, she is the only child unit whose recruitment is forced, and one of the few units that will not be permanently lost, even in Classic mode. Like Chrom, her weapon of choice isFalchion, but her version of the famed sword is theParallel Falchion brought back from her future. Unlike Chrom's version, it is more powerful and can be used to self-heal, whereas Chrom's Falchion is initially weaker with its power sealed away and must be upgraded before the final battle to become stronger than Lucina's. Lucina can either be a potential wife for male Robin or female Robin's daughter if the latter is married to Chrom. There is also a variety of potential affine relationships between Robin and Lucina which are not acknowledged in game.

Alongside international success ofFire Emblem Awakening, Lucina has become one of the most popularFire Emblem characters worldwide outside ofSuper Smash Bros. Since her debut, she has appeared as a guest character inCode Name: S.T.E.A.M.,Fire Emblem Fates, andFire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, in each case summoned in-game using heramiibo. She appeared with Chrom and fellow smasherRyu inProject X Zone 2, a crossover strategy game featuring characters fromBandai Namco,Capcom,Sega, andNintendo. Several outfit variations of Lucina are also featured in the crossover gameFire Emblem Heroes, and she is also playable inFire Emblem Warriors. Most recently,Fire Emblem Engage features Lucina as one of the game's numerous Emblems, ethereal clones of protagonists from various otherFire Emblem games who dwell within special rings.

InSuper Smash Bros. 4[edit]

As a playable character[edit]

Lucina inSuper Smash Bros. 4.

Lucina appears as a newcomer inSuper Smash Bros. 4. She is aclone ofMarth, though she is shorter and lacks Marth'stipper mechanic on her sword.

Appropriately, she is unlockable by completing Classic Mode with Marth on any difficulty in the 3DS version. She is unlockable by completing Classic Mode with any character on 5.5 Intensity or higher in the Wii U version.

Of note is that she was originally planned to be an alternate costume ofMarth, but was given her own character slot later in development due to "the characteristics of their attacks being different".

On thetier list forSSB4, Lucina is ranked 14th out of 55 characters, placing her two-to-three spots below Marth. While herParallel Falchion grants her a gooddisjointed reach, she still suffers from high endlag in her moves, much like Marth. She also lacks a tipper, giving her a generally weakerneutral game than Marth, though this still gives her some slight advantages over Marth, as the consistent damage from her sword allows her to afford being closer to opponents, all while still delivering decent damage and knockback. As a whole, the few strengths she possesses over Marth are fairly minor, and although she has been buffed to similar degrees by game updates, she is generally seen as an inferior version of him, resulting in lower tournament representation and results in comparison.

Trophies[edit]

Lucina's trophy inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Lucina's trophy inSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U

Lucina

Chrom's daughter and the future Princess of Ylisse. When she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name Marth before her identity is revealed. She fights much like her adopted namesake, but more than just the tip of her sword is powerful.

Chrom's daughter and the future Princess of Ylisse. When she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name Marth before her identity is revealed. She fights much like her adopted namesake, but her entire blade is equally powerful instead of having a more powerful tip.

:Fire Emblem Awakening (02/2013)

Daughter of Chrom and future Princess of Ylisse. When she comes from the future to prevent a terrible future from unfolding, she goes by the name of Marth, but only until her true identity comes to light. She is a very similar fighter to Marth, except it doesn't actually matter which part of her sword she strikes with.

:Fire Emblem: Awakening (04/2013)

Lucina (Alt.)'s trophy inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Lucina (Alt.)'s trophy inSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U

Lucina (Alt.)

Lucina's moves are much like Marth's, but there are subtle differences. With Marth, you need to try to hit with the tip of his sword, but Lucina's sword is equally powerful all along the blade. Her Shield Breaker move lets her attack opponents and break their shields at the same time. Charge it fully to shatter shields in one hit.

:Fire Emblem Awakening (02/2013)

Lucina's moves are much like Marth's, but there are subtle differences. With Marth, you need to try to hit with the tip of his sword, but with Lucina, it doesn't matter, making her easier to use. Her Shield Breaker move lets her damage opponents and break their shields at the same time. Charge it fully to shatter shields in one hit.

:Fire Emblem: Awakening (04/2013)

InSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

As a playable character[edit]

Lucina, as she appears inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Lucina returns inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate as an unlockableEcho Fighter ofMarth. She retains her primary difference setting her apart from Marth, that being her lack of sweetspots and sourspots on the Parallel Falchion, but has been subtly recloned in other aspects, such as no longer being shorter than Marth.

Lucina received a mix of buffs and nerfs in the transition fromSSB4, but has been slightly nerfed overall. While she received some direct nerfs, mostly shared with Marth, she benefits greatly from universal changes to the point of counterbalancing those nerfs, as the faster pace ofUltimate allows her to more easily take advantage of her balanced damage output compared to Marth's weaker sourspots and less forgiving tipper sweetspots. As such, Lucina has very strong representation and results in tournaments, with many players considering her a viable top or high-tier character, as well as one of the best swordfighters in the game, currently ranking 38th out of 82, and 33 placements above Marth.

Spirit[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language	Name
Japanese	ルキナ,Lucina
English	Lucina
French	Lucina
German	Lucina
Spanish	Lucina
Italian	Lucina
Chinese	露琪娜,Lucina
Korean	루키나,Lucina
Dutch	Lucina
Russian	Луцина
Portuguese	Lucina

Trivia[edit]

• Lucina is the first female fighter to debut as an unlockable character (discounting Wendy, who is one of the sevenKoopalings serving asalternate costumes forBowser Jr.).
• Lucina,Robin, andChrom are the onlyFire Emblem fighters in theSuper Smash Bros. series to debut in the sameFire Emblem game.
• Although Lucina's name is the same between Japanese and English, theannouncer pronounces it differently between regions: the English version pronounces it as "Lu-see-na", while the Japanese version pronounces it "Ru-ki-na" (in a similar vein and stress to howLucas is pronounced in English).
• Laura Bailey, Lucina's English voice actress in theSuper Smash Bros. series is uncredited inUltimate, similar to how she was uncredited inFire Emblem: Awakening, as well as how Antony Del Rio (Pit andDark Pit's English voice actor inKid Icarus: Uprising) is uncredited in bothSSB4 andUltimate and how Hynden Walch (Viridi's English voice actress inKid Icarus: Uprising) is uncredited inSSB4.

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