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Good to know someone else gets it!

If I ever do play Thracia, Marty will definitely be part of my team. Having a base of 0 in both Skill and Speed is too funny to not use.

What do you think of units in Fire Emblem with lopsided stats or growths, where they're great in one or two stats, but terrible in other areas (Examples are units like Marty in Thracia, Barth in Binding Blade, Nyx in Fates, Arden in Heroes and Raphael in Three Houses)? Do you like or dislike them (and who's your favorite if you do like them)?

I'm glad that it ended up being the same four from the interim results winning. Adult Tiki will finally get her 2nd alt after a few years, classic fans get a win with Seliph, Chrom gets redemption after last year's CYL, and Female Byleth also gets redemption after shenanigans last year.

My first was a Zubat in FireRed. To list off the others: A Gastly in FireRed, a Paras in FireRed, a Geodude in Diamond, a Tentacool in Emerald, a Sudowoodo in Platinum, and a Rockruff in Ultra Moon.

Not counting forced shinies or ones I've gotten from trades, I've found 7 in my history with Pokemon. I've even seen Norman give Wally a shiny Zigzagoon for that catching tutorial in Emerald.

There's people who do that? And here I thought the people who shiny hunt for god knows how long while posting videos saying "OMG, I FOUND A SHINY!" had no life. I've always had the mindset of "If it happens it happens.", so I've never tried shiny hunting. Doesn't feel organic or genuine compared to having that 1 in 8192 encounter actually happen.

One aspect of Pokemon that I felt lost it's way in more recent generations is Shiny Pokemon. With Game Freak continuing to add ways of making them easier to find, they don't feel special anymore compared to the 1 in 8192 odds of finding one back in the older generations. What do you think of this? Do you think Shiny Pokemon are still worth being excited for, or do you think they've become too mainstream and lost their luster?

Cool, I don't need to say anything on the matter. As long as other people get it.

Maybe cause they wouldn't want players to have high powered moves early if it were based on number of times used rather then learning it at a certain level. I know this isn't the same thing that you're suggesting, but in the Mystery Dungeon games starting with Gates to Infinity, there was a mechanic called Move Growth, where using a move like Quick Attack a lot would improve the move, like making it do more damage, be more accurate (because accuracy isn't the same in those games other then the never miss moves like Swift or Shock Wave), and increase the number of PP the move has so it could be used more. Best part about it is that it the upgrades apply to all Pokemon who know the move, so having multiple Pokemon know useful moves like Discharge or Brutal Swing is a good idea, plus it makes moves that would normally be weak (like Quick Attack) potentially remain useful for the whole game.

It'd be great if Adult Tiki and F!Byleth won the female division, so I hope they both stay in the top 2 spots! Adult Tiki hasn't gotten an alt since the 1st year of Heroes, and F!Byleth could use better art after her Legendary. She's also better then that spaz Bernadetta. As for the male division, was hoping M!Robin would be doing better, but Chrom is fine too, and I can be happy for fans of FE4 with Seliph doing good even though I know nothing about his character aside from family relations.

I feel like that's what cost F!Byleth last year. People got distracted by Gatekeeper (or focused on helping him) in the male division so Marianne could sneak her way into a winning spot in the female division.

As though right on cue when attempting to vouch for Mozu, you show up. It's called using Skills and Pair Up, and you have both a healer and a dancer. If you can't train Mozu with Rev's early units, then that says something about you the player, because those units are perfect to get her up to speed. This is not an argument I want to have here, cause it's somewhat off topic.

Honestly, I wish they instead kept it to only the neutral characters who joined you no matter your path while throwing in a few exceptions like Keaton, Kaden, Rinkah, Hiyato, and Flora. Rev's roster is too bloated.

Fair enough in terms of lacking variety, though you did forget Mozu whose available after beating Chapter 7. Rev is the only route where she doesn't have major competition for EXP as soon as she's available, so if Corrin is overleveled, Mozu is an option. Usually switch out Gunter for her.

Conquest is my pick as well. I like how chapters 7 thru 10 give you a good chance to get a feel for all the units who join in that time frame to see who you stick with long term, and chapters 8 and 10 I find fun to play in general. Honorable mention goes to Path of Radiance, because of how well it handles the fact that you're part of a mercenary company, though I do agree that it sucks not having a convoy for most of that time. Revelation gets my dishonorable mention due to the gimmicks, however I do like how you don't get many units early on. Never liked it when you get swamped with new units like in Birthright's early game or Revelation Chapters 11 thru 17.

Which Fire Emblem game has your favorite early game (the first quarter or first third of the journey)? This factors things like difficulty curve, the units who are part of your starting crew or join just after the beginning, etc.

I know many others gave their grievances about Volug not being here already, but it's truly baffling that he's missing. Instead we got a 3rd Nailah and another Azura (even though it's been a while since the last one). At least Deen made it in, so that's another character I can check off my list.

While it doesn't have recruitable enemies, I can recommend CrossCode. It has RPG progression elements and a skill grid where you can choose what abilities to learn and stats to increase. Music is pretty good, has a likeable characters, but has Zelda like dungeons (granted harder then in Zelda) that will test you.

In no real order: 1: Nolan (Radiant Dawn) 2: Gregor (Awakening) 3: Gonzales (Binding Blade) ✓ 4: Elice (Shadow Dragon) 5: Douglas (Binding Blade) 6: Hanneman (Three Houses) 7: Barth (Binding Blade) 8: Marcus (Binding Blade or Blazing Sword) 9: Oswin (Blazing Sword) 10: Mycen (Shadows of Valentia) 11: Geoffrey (Path of Radiance) 12: Bastian (Path of Radiance) 13: Lucia (Path of Radiance) 14: Randal (Cipher or Shadows of Valentia) 15: Shura (Fates) 16: Muarim (Path of Radiance) 17: Gilliam (Sacred Stones) 18: Brom (Path of Radiance) 19: Deen (Shadows of Valentia) ✓ 20: Volug (Radiant Dawn) ...Is it surprising that 18 of my 20 picks here are men? IS blew through a lot of women already. Update: Characters added will have a checkmark added next to them.

The description is indeed incorrect. I used Raging Storm, missed with it, and it gave me the Galeforce effect anyway. That bug had to have come up after one of the updates, because I swear to God during my first Crimson Flower playthrough I didn't get the effect when I missed with it back then (which was before Male Byleth had his voice changed). Sorry for the late follow up to this, @DarkHolyElf. Took me some time to test it because Part 1 is a slog.

I've always felt that Robin could close the gap between him/her and Fredrick quickly because of the sizeable EXP boost from Veteran (and quite easily with a Defense boon). I've done some male only playthroughs recently, and Fredrick's stats would start causing him to fall behind as early as chapter 12 (the start of the Valm arc) whereas Robin would continue to get stronger at a fairly quick rate. While Fredrick starts strong, he falls off pretty hard.

I disagree with this. Sure, Raging Storm's effect is incredible, but most people forget that it's not an Art that people can just go ham with, plus you don't get the effect if Edelgard misses the attack. Amyr has low durability, and the ore needed to repair it to continue using Raging Storm is the rarest kind, with the Titinus in CF Chapter 16 being the only realistic source of it without grinding side battles (via those Sand Worms). Plus you only get 6 chapters with, so it's use is limited. I can at least consider her a candidate for best unit in Three Houses (Dimitri and Byleth give her competition, and I lean slightly towards Dimitri due to finding him better at combat from personal experience), but candidate for best in the series? I don't think she is.

If I had to name some units from the games I played, I'd say Seth (Sacred Stones), Haar (Radiant Dawn), Ryoma (Fates Birthright), and Robin (Awakening).

He also has the weapon ranks needed to use all of the siege tomes (besides Purge), so if you have them just sitting in your convoy he could use them, although Calill can do the same... while having higher base Speed and Magic... and joins 4 chapters earlier... and is 7 levels lower then him so she has more time to grow... wow, he really isn't good by comparison is he? I still think Rolf is Path of Radiance's worst unit. If you want to use bows just use (and later promote) Boyd, Astrid, or Geoffrey. Astrid also has the potential to not grow well like Rolf, but unlike him, she has Paragon to make it known quick if you'll stick with her, has a horse for utility, and gains an additional weapon type upon promotion.