He gains a minor crit boost when standing adjacent to Oscar/Boyd/Shinon, which helps his offense. He can also participate in the triangle attack with promoted Boyd and Oscar using bows, but this is merely a novelty at best since it requires training all three units, giving Oscar bows instead of axes, and an awkwardly specific setup. In the long run, he may turn into a respectable sniper better than Shinon, but he cannot compensate for an inability to fight during enemy phase nor his bad mobility his main niche as a bow-user is having extra crit, which does not exist for snipers in the Japanese version of the game. Because of his average strength growth and terrible base, he will often struggle to gain strength and deal any significant damage without forges, making it even harder to train him. His only good growths are skill and speed, everything else is about average. To raise him, he requires a substantial amount of BEXP, which Mist and Marcia (who join in the same chapter) make much better use of. To his credit, he has his own Rolf's Bow, which is about the power of a Steel Bow with very good accuracy and high usage, alleviating his earlygame. His durability is also not great, though this matters less due to his use of bows. His base stats are incredibly low, he is bow-locked, he has no skills, and he has no mount, so his rate of experience gain is very low since it is difficult for him to get kills and can only get kills on player phase. Rolf is the second archer to join the party, and joins at level 1. This character analysis section may not be accurate to every player's experience. Recruitment: Chapter 9, automatically from the start Please help improve the page by adding information. He comes equipped with Rolf's Bow in both Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. He first is playable in Chapter 9, Gallia, in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, along with Mist. He is good friends with Mist, who is about the same age, and also is one of the few people Shinon gets along with. Rolf (pronounced /ɹɒlf/ Japanese: ヨファ Lofa) is an Archer in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, being the younger brother of Oscar and Boyd. An archer of no mean skill, he is Shinon's student. He is Oscar and Boyd's younger brother, and the youngest member of the troop.