Fire Emblem Engage has a Day 1 DLC, in which players can get the Emblem Bracelet Tiki, who appeared in both Shadow Dragon and Awakening. This paid DLC for Fire Emblem Engage can be played at any time, and players will head to a separate location. Once at the Divine Paralogue islands, players will quickly find the White Dragon Tiki.
She will request that Alear fight her before granting her powers, and players will need to take on several fights to complete the DLC. A walkthrough on what to expect when the DLC is triggered can be helpful, especially on harder difficulties.
Fire Emblem Engage DLC 1: Chapter 1 - The Ancestor
Players unlock the ability to access Engage's DLC in Chapter 6. The enemies scale with the player's average level, but players might want to wait a little bit before taking this on. The higher the level of the player's unit, the easier this battle should be. But Tiki's Bonds are very helpful, and should be gotten as soon as possible. But keep in mind that the DLC uses a player's current set up, so they may wish to avoid heading into this battle if they have just completed Chapter 11 and are missing some of their Rings. This way, players can bring the main, early Emblems along to the Divine Paralogue islands. When first encountering Tiki, she will ask to fight before joining. Here's a breakdown of the battle.
The first thing many Fire Emblem Engage players will notice is that there are enemies on platforms with Silence staffs. This means they will need to bring at least one flying unit to take care of them quickly. Other than Tiki herself and her Phantom Wyvrens, most of the enemies here are fairly basic without any special stats or amazing weapons. But since there is a chance of healers being silenced, each character will need a vulnerary or other healing item with them.
- Phantom Wyvrens: These flying units come along with the ability to freeze players with their breath. This breath has a range of 2, ignores both defense and resistance, and can be extremely dangerous. There are several ways to overcome this; Sigurd's prevent freeze bond level will be massively useful here. If players don't have that bond level yet, they can use Jean or other martial units' Chain Guard. The damage from Chain Guard prevents the freeze from happening. Then, just use an archer or wind to take them out.
- There are special tiles that open the two magical doors; before those are open, Tiki will be locked inside a magic chamber.
- Tiki Boss: She is pretty squishy as a person, but she will turn into a Dragon immediately once engaged. She can heal, give other units extra life bars with Resurrection stones, and has some incredibly powerful attacks. Players will need to approach with caution. Bring a unit with Fire Emblem's Eldegard Axe to do bonus damage to Dragon units.
Another thing for players of this Switch-exclusive JRPG to note is that the map is rather large, and it takes a whole lot of moving around to get anywhere. Thankfully, there are ice tiles that temporarily increase a unit's move speed by +2; just end a turn on the tile and the next turn will have non-flying units moving at a much higher pace.
New units will begin to spawn during the fight, but these are fairly basic units and another Wyvern. Units will keep spawning by the front door every other turn toward the south of the map as the fight continues. After the fight is complete, male Alear or female Alear can run around and adopt animals, pick up the items, and chat with their allies.
The Treasure in Tiki's Battle
Players will want every treasure on this map. There are four locations for loot, including the ??? sparkle and three chests.
- Treasure chest 1: Rescue Staff, which targets an ally within 8 squares and teleports them next to the user.
- Treasure chest 2: Warp Staff, which targets an ally next to user up to five spaces away.
- Treasure chest 3: 2,000 gold.
- Ground Sparkle: Silver Card; it gives a 30% discount at Item Shop and Armory Shop in Somniel.
Other DLC Locations
There are currently five other locations on the DLC island that unlock after defeating Tiki, but players will not yet be able to access any of them. These Divine Paralogues will be future DLC for Fire Emblem Engage, with new bracelet Emblems. These are all planned to be released sometime in 2023.
Fire Emblem Engage is available now for Nintendo Switch.
