Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes features a vast array of weapons for players to make use of, so here's the best axes and where to find them.

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes features a wide array of weapons for units to wield in battle, many of which feature special abilities that open up new playstyles and gameplay options. This guide will cover the best axes available and where they can be found.

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is a hack and slash action RPG set in the same world as Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Following a different timeline to that of Three Houses, Three Hopes stars a mercenary named Shez whose involvement causes huge changes to the original story.

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The Bolt Axe is an excellent weapon for units whose magic stats exceed their strength, allowing them to use their magic stat to calculate damage and deal out lightning strikes regularly on heavy attacks. Units like Annette, Hubert, and Marianne can make excellent use of the Bolt Axe in Three Hopes.

Acquiring a Bolt axe is luckily a fairly simple affair, as it can be dropped by demonic beasts or commanders as early as chapters 5 and 6, where it can also sometimes be found as an S-rank reward for missions.

The Axe of Zoltan, as the second-best non-relic axe in the game, is a highly effective weapon for any axe-wielding unit, with 110 might and 120 durability before any upgrades. This makes it the perfect weapon for late-game axe units.

The Axe of Zoltan can be most easily acquired in Fire Emblem: Three Hopes' final chapters of Scarlet Blaze and Golden Wildfire, and in Chapter 14 of Azure Gleam. It can be found as an S-Rank reward for a mission in those chapters. It can also sometimes show up as an amiibo present.

Hauteclere is the best non-relic axe in Fire Emblem: Three Hopes and a returning item from previous titles. With 120 might and 130 durability, it is more than a match for any foe.

Hauteclere is most often found as a broken A-rank axe, revealing its true form only when repaired by the blacksmith. It can also be acquired as an S-Rank reward for the final mission of Scarlet Blaze.

Labraunda and the Axe of Ukonvasara are a pair of sacred weapons attuned to the crests of Seiros and Gloucester, respectively. They grant a regenerative effect to their wielder that allows them to gradually recover their health, greatly improving survivability, and have excellent might and durability once their effects are unlocked at the blacksmith.

Labraunda is found equipped to Edelgard at the beginning of Chapter 4, on the Scarlet Blaze route, while the Axe of Ukonvasara is found as an S-Rank reward for chapter 12 of the Golden Wildfire Route.

Crusher is the Hero's Relic of Dominic, a hammer that strikes using the wielder's magic rather than their strength stat. This makes it a fantastic weapon for high magic characters when placing them in classes like Great Knight and Wyvern Lord. Annette and anyone else with the Crest of Dominic can perform the "Dust" combat art with this weapon. The Stagger skill this weapon possesses causes the stun gauge to appear periodically when attacking with it, allowing the wielder to break enemy stun gauges and unleash critical rushes more regularly.

Crusher is obtained automatically at the end of chapter 8 of Azure Gleam. It can also be obtained by defeating Annette during chapter 8 of Scarlet Blaze.

The Hero's Relic of Goneril, Freikugel is an exceptional axe that deals extra stun gauge damage once its skills are unlocked. With fantastic stats to match and access to the devastating "Apocalyptic Flame" combat art, Freikugel is devastating in the hands of any axe wielder, but especially Hilda.

Freikugel is obtained at the start of chapter 4 on the Golden Wildfire route, where it is found automatically equipped to Hilda.

Edelgard's personal Hero's Relic, Aymr was created by Those Who Slither in the Dark in Three Houses. During Three Hopes​​​​​​, her reluctant alliance with them is terminated and the weapon is not created during Scarlet Blaze, though it can still be obtained as an S-Rank reward for Scarlet Blaze chapter 16.

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is available for Nintendo Switch.

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