GateCreeper

Thanks for the advice, exp allocation and combat unit choice was what I was struggling with for the most part. Think I have more of an idea on what my team lineup should be for the next coming chapters.

That's fair enough, but Ingrid, Dedue and Ashe are my throwaway units regardless. I just think having extra access to utility in decent spells like physic + thoron make Ingrid have an edge over Dedue/Ashe as a dancer. In the end, it doesn't matter which one of them become a dancer though. I could even try Dedue out for the memes.

Dedue as a Wyvern Rider is definitely not possible at this point, I've been training him to become a war master. I feared that with his absence in some chapters after timeskip it would be hard for him to catch up, so I didn't funnel much exp into him and focused on Byleth, Dimitri, Felix, and Sylvain instead. Hilda's already on my team, so I can replace Dedue with her as my semi tank I guess. I was also thinking of Leonie to replace Ashe (though I guess Ashe could still function as a deadeye/waning shot user for support???) as my secondary bow knight, with Felix being the primary one. I was actually considering making Ingrid my dancer too. She has decent spells, decent avoid, and it's not like she'll be contributing much as a flier anyways when her strength has been abysmal for me. How many physical combat units should I generally focus on? I already have four in Byleth/Dimitri/Felix/Sylvain, with Hilda and possibly Leonie being the 5th and 6th one. My regular team comp would look something like this: Byleth - War Master Dimitri - Paladin/Great Lord Felix - Bow Knight Sylvain - Wyvern Lord Hilda - Wyvern Lord Leonie - Bow Knight Catherine/Petra - Falcon Knight Mercedes - Bishop Annette - Dark Knight Ingrid - Dancer Utility characters: Marianne - Gremory/Mortal Savant (?) Dorothea - Gremory Linhardt - Bishop

So far I'm in Chapter 6 of maddening on BL route and I was wondering if there are any units I should consider benching in this mode. For instance, Dedue has been great for me early game but he's been falling off quite a bit now that my Dimitri actually has more Def than him (spd too) so I use him as my tank instead. Ashe has only gotten one str level for me and he's level 9... His mag is at 10 too... don't know how to feel about that. My Ingrid is severely underleveled, being level 6, and has not gotten a single point of str either. I'm particularly struggling on Dedue's paralogue because of these three units not being able to contribute. Does it ever get any better? Everyone else in the BL house is doing fine, Felix being an amazing archer and Dimitri being both spd and Def blessed. However, can the lacking units explained above still be used or should I replace them with students from other houses? I don't even know where to start when it comes to recruits either. Right now I only have Marianne and Hilda recruited.

Favourite: Either SNES or Tellius Saga. I have very fond memories of both eras, SNES mostly for the music and Tellius for its story and characters. Least Favourite: GBA. I started with this era actually, but it's hard for me to play any of the games in that era over again. The story isn't interesting at all to me in those games, the characters are alright but don't really stand out to me, and the gameplay is a bit lacking in my opinion.

The music, the story, the supports, the characters, base convos, the forging system... there's probably more I'm forgetting. Currently playing Maniac Mode of PoR and I'm having a blast again, forgot how much I loved this game.