Dr. C

I used Drowzee and Snorlax in a previous Trainer EXP only playthrough. I HAVE to catch the Snorlax anyways since fainting them would net wild Pokémon experience. i want to try out different Pokémon in each playthrough. I ended up teachingThunderbolt to Nidoking as well as Ice Beam and Earthquake. I’m holding onto Horn Attack for now since it still seems to do decent damage. I did end up picking up Mr. Mime and Kangaskahn as my final two Pokémon. Kangaskahn will be interesting to use since I can’t really use him as the special sweeper I would normally want because I used so many good TMs on Nidoking. I’ve never used him before though so I’m looking forward to seeing how he plays. First time I did the playthrough I used Charmander as my starter. I opted for Squirttle because short term, Bubble is learned much sooner than Vine Whip for Brock. Incidentally Blastoise is the other speedrunning Classic. Pokémon to use. I’ve never done the pokedoll trick before though Is be crazy to skip out on the Rocket Casino dungeon because Rare Candy and all that sweet sweet EXP! Anyways , I took the advice and just evolved Nidorino

I’m doing a trainer experience only run of Pokémon Blue and this is my second attempt so I learn from my mistakes and aim to establish a core team early on. Thus far my team consists of a Wartortle, Nidorino and a Dugtrio I caught in Diglett’s Cave to counter Serge. i also am sporting a Mew I got using the teleport/fly glitch for HM purposes only. So that leaves two more slots for my team and I’m trying to figure out what I should incorporate into my team to better round it out. And finally there’s the question of TMs and how to allocate them for the game. Nidorino is due for a new move since he still only has his base lead set which isn’t too hot. It’s a question of Bubble Beam vs Thunderbolt. Finally I need to ask if it’s better to evolve Nidorino sooner rather than later since Double Kick gives him Fighting Type access but level 50 is a long time to wait on Nidoking.

I never really thought about that before. Furthermore, the sages cap at B so that really narrows your A/S Rank staff users. Fortify is a beautiful thing.

Well if you wanted to classify it as gambling it’d be lottery but I see your point as well.

Okay so Hector Hard Mode (Ranked) has proven to be quite the challenge but why do the Wyvern Riders have so much bulk that only Marcus and Hawkeye can reliably kill them? I had the exact same issue with the chapter you get Ninian in but at least that map didn’t have sand and hidden treasure that makes you required to field a thief and please it in the range of these beasts. They’re wielding steel lances and they don’t tickle when they hit. This is where I get stuck every single darn time!

Yeah gambling in video games is fine if it’s done a la in game casino which is what I thought this topic was about but the loot box angle definitely raises some concerns.

If I take it one chapter at a time and I post some help threads when I need it I think I can manage. Problem is that desert chapter (Thief needed to steal white gem and Guiding ring AND unearth desert treasure with a turn count requirement that seems a touch unrealistic... yikes!)

I’ve never actually finished HHM before but the concept of S Ranking simply intrigued me. But to answer your question, I’ve done attempts where I’ve trained Lyn up as far as Level 9 and is RNG blessed (May have manipulated her to get strength on each level up so she has a whopping 12 strength going into HHM.) Ive done attempts skipping Lyn Mode and I’ve done attempts on roms with average stats patches. Furthest I’ve gotten on Hard Mode is the desert chapter (Getting all the treasure and Genesis is a headache I get frustrated with.)

I’ve been making (And deleting) several Hector Hard Mode S Rank attempts and one thing I’ve noticed in my attempts is that the sum of my levels are nowhere near the sum of 50 by the time I reach the desert chapter. Lots of forums I’ve read on HHM S Rank swear by Geitz and say he’s a solid prepromote you should get but with how much less experience you get per kill and the like, combined with how difficult Eliwood and Lyn are to train as it is, I’m beginning to wonder if Lloyd’s map and Wallace would be so bad? So my question is, is Geitz worth the effort in a ranked run?

Congratulations! Hands down my favorite game in the series for story and characters alone! Nice to see Rolf get some love too!

How much might should I forge on the hammer? My Barst has 15 Strength

I’m suffering from a bit of decision paralysis. Ive got 12 000 Gold I’m on Chapter 7 Should I forge or save my money? I’m looking at an Armorslayer or Hammer OR Extra might on an Iron Bow for Athena (Reclassed to archer) Extra Might on an iron Axe for Hero Wolf. Edit Im doing Hard 5 and have already forged the Rapier Wing Spear and Rider’s Bane to +5, +5, and +4 might respectively.

If your brother is looking for a challenge, then the choice is pretty clear. Priscilla is my favorite unit and IMO easily one of the best. An 8 move nuclear missile with Staff utility. An RNG blessed Erk could potentially be better than Pent and that... is just scary. Raven, at the end of the day is a solid infantry unit but he’s no tank even with some RNG blessing and Lucius is frail frail frail so I would say that’s the more challenging pair to use hypothetically speaking.

I’ve beaten the game successfully with 10 units! Not only that, but this is my first time beating conquest ever! I must say it’s been one heck of a ride. My personal thoughts? Hexing Rod should never be in another fire emblem title ever again! It is such an unfair staff for the player to have to deal with. Otherwise, several of the maps wre definitely challenging (Takumi’s map with 10 units is no joke) but it is certainly doable. I remember when I initially scoffed at the idea of doing this game with 10 units and no Camilla/Xander/Leo but I am pleasantly surprised to say that it is possible.

Thanks for the pointers! I did manage to finally get past Chapter 27 but I got Corrin killed by mistake when she took a hexing rod and then a blow that was more than her new HP total. AT least I know I can do it now!

I’ve been attempting this challenge for a couple of months now. Almost finished but I don’t see myself getting through Chapter 27 (Haven’t reached endgame yet) anytime soon. Overall, it has been a bit tougher than a regular play through but I feel s great sense of accomplishment for having gotten this far.

Thank you for your patience and taking the time to explain this to me. Much appreciated.

Losing one’s temper should not be confused with someone being a closet conservative. I hate the word alt right because it means nothing and produces no meaningful new school of political thought. It’s sole function is censorship by those who insist on using it. Theres far right like neo Nazi and there’s is libertarian but there is no “alt right” anymore than there is an alt left. I can appreciate your viewpoint on the point of terrorists as a Muslim American certainly but you don’t know what it’s like to wish the world was more accepting of diversity as a mixed kid and The diversity you got told to suck up and accept is a counterfeit of what you were promised. White privilege means nothing when educated white peoples set the standards of what is and isn’t racist. I grew up my whole life fighting to be acknowledged as white in a sea of ignorant comments about the shape of my eyes and the size of my penis and geographically ignorant questions of my being Chinese or Japanese and now that they FINALLY acknowledge that I’m white I have to be guilty of colonization and oppression now? Excuse me? my choices are “You’re not white and you’re not a minority except for when we want you to be white and shamed for it.” or “You’re a mutt whose bloodline taints the master race. You filthy abomination!” I am no fan of white supremacists but at least they have it figured out that I’m a damn minority! thats the state of affairs of identity politics today. The bad guys are more coherent (albeit far more hateful) than the supposed good guys (who also sound hateful but word it nicer) Identity politics and the left and right have become a royal headache.

You know it’s funny you should bring up alt right because yes that label is very arbitrary. Its a way to discredit a dissenting opinion by arbitrarily labeling it alt right. I am a child of mixed racial heritage and yet if I were to make a joke about Koreans, people would label me a racist white boy rather than accepting that maybe I am laughing about cultural quirks that I ACTUALLY grew up with. You might claim that is an alt right opinion because I’m trying to justify racial humor and yet If I were fully Korean then no such racism would occur because I’d be the race in question. Now it would be unfair to label you a PC femin-Nazi with anti mixed race racist tendencies due to a lack of evidence. However, by your own admission, such a label would be okay as long as I had the arbitrary social standards to declare it. Labels should be descriptive. Once they are used to arbitrarily quell freedom of speech and dissenting views, all it does is create a group think tank of ideologues that all look sound and act the same and oppress those who think differently. The Soviets has labels they’d assign to dissenters to seize farmland, execute intellectual threats to political power, and ship off those who were “counter revolutionary” to the gulags. The alt right label is a similar exercise in intellectual control.

Because unit slots per Chapter are limited and I don’t want to be stuck benching a unit I plan to use to kill off another one if I can avoid it.

So I’m playing a Gaiden run of Hard 5 and I’m on the Chapter 9 map and I just came across Jeorge who has better bases than Jeigan but does not have Jeigan’s beastly A Rank in lances. So knowing that I was going to kill off Jeigan and Jeorge eventually, which would be the better longer term keep? Side note: Who should be in my final army. Currently my army consists of Marth, Cain, Abel, Ogma, Barst, Julian, Lena, Seedger, Wolf, Hardin Athena and of course Jeigan who is living on borrowed time.

Fog of War and Rout the enemy is an evil combination not to mention juggling using Rafiel and keeping him alive when an enemy can leap from the dark and kill him! Anyone know of any information on where he enemies are positioned on this map and where reinforcements pop up? I really want to clear this map in 10 turns for max bonus experience but it feels like an impossible feat.

So I’m at Chapter 3 on Hard 5. I’ve got 3 axe fighters approaching from the left and Lena’s entourage up top. Bord and Darros are dead. (I’m going for 6x at least so no big deal there.) How on earth do I get through this given the insane stats of these enemy units?

Forgive my skepticism but having seen the unfair bs that Lunatic throws at you (Glares at Kitsune Chapter, Iggy and Siegbert paralogues with particular dishonorable mentions) I really don’t see how you could beat the game with no royals and no backpacks let alone with just 10 units! Seal skills on enemies wreck entire armies if you can’t ORKO them (Seal Speed being worst of them ALL) How on earth did you accomplish this and if you did accomplish it? Ive been on conquer lunatic for almost 2 years now! So basically, we are talking clear the map up to the high wall and then bum rush Yukinura and Sakura right?

I really wanted Sakura’s Spirit Dust too! Im just getting tired of resetting Chapter 22 over and over again as nauseum. I have already attempted doing this with No DLC (Minus ghostly gold since I was taking so long to beat certain chapters I was slowly accumulating gold bars on a daily basis and turning months into minutes just didn’t seem like too much of a cheat to me) or My Castle stuff and failed (Siegbert’s paralogue just broke me...)