Starwave

Yes, we desperately need one.

Your moms are as strong as Fiona.

Cool it's Ike. His design sucks, but I honestly expected as much after they butchered Eirika.

You better believe it buster.

Lol I bet you guys were dreading my appearance. WELL I HAVE ARRIVED. Ok... RTUs, where do I start hrmg. Oh I know. The single, biggest, problem with RTUs were the fact that the majority of users who participated in them have never played HM. It's a effect that's been reinforced after I replayed through HM again. Users try to refute, but at the end of the day cold hard experience matters of theorycrafting. The are a few exceptions to this rule, but for the most part we had users using the NM experience and "hard modifying it. The second biggest problem we had was bias. There was just so much bias. For the sexy characters. (99% of the guys on this site have tried to make a harem party, I know it) for the characters that they think are badasses... the bias was fucking annoying. Furthermore, there was the asinine acceptance of vote "bending." I'm going to give this character a low score because people are overrating them! That's pathetic... it's sick even. We shouldn't condone biases. The 3rd problem was inconsistency. Please refer to the Soren & Calill threads (again) and the Tibarn thread. It's simply hilarious how inconsistent the RTU voters were. On some days unit length matters and on others it doesn't. I'm not even going to touch the Nolan / Sothe / Nailah bs. I'll accept that it was a small fuckup since they're all good, but if you've played HM and you haven't mastered it then Sothe is pretty much required for 90% of part I and most of Part III. 4th: Massive amounts of PEMN. "Lol I think Tibarn is a shitty unit but I use Tanith and since she does well I think she's a better character." That was probably the worst offense (no offense dude!) and general obscenities like that. I don't like how you're backpedalling Lucina. If these threads weren't mean't to be taken seriously, then why did you enforce strict rules and expect users to comply with them in order for their votes to be accepted? Transfers were barred from these threads so we weren't allowed to use em. Sheesh. If I come across as some infallible god... please, do yourself a favor and stop taking everything I say too seriously. I've made some mistakes too. (giving Neph a 7+ bias, LOL.)

Ike Beyond just Empress Sanaki, you were trusted by a lot of people. Sephiran, I need to understand... Did you really betray all of those people? Sephiran I did. Ike I don't need to hear anything else, then. I'm going to make your death as painful as I know how. --- A unit with the most unfortunate circumstances I can think of (usable in the very last skirmish of the game) and requires someone to lend their enchanted tome to him. A complete and utter failure as a unit and as character in general. 0.5/10 - 0.5 0/10

Right. And this is a fair & valid point that should always be considered. However, there are users who fragrantly ignore this and straight up skew the votes with their bias. (Can you EVER justify giving Nasir or Ena +6 score?!?) Shit's fucked up.

NM: This is a fun chapter. You can have the DB members split into groups, and it's a perfect chapter to level up the units you like. It's just a fun experience overall (especially since Nolan and Edward can basically solo this chapter on their own) 7.5/10 HM: This chapter is not fun in the slightest. You're forced to use Nolan CONSTANTLY. Every other character is utter shit. if Leonardo / Micaiah take a hit they're dead so they need to be babied. Hell even Eddy needs to be babied, since he's 2HKOed by everythng on this map. This chapter makes me want to pluck my eyelids with a cue-tip. Urgh 4/10

Truth be told that 7/10 was just me trolling. Gareth is honestly pretty shitty (you really only need 1 blood tide users and wisps go straight after him and destroy him. He's a liability on death-less hard mode runs. I'd give him a 2.5/10

No don't do that ;_;

WHOOSH

7/10 Because blood tide is amazing.

But a 7 dude? A 7 for a unit that joins 2 "skirmishes" from the end of the game? If we were to use that logic, then Caineghas and the rest of the royals would shot up in score. I've seen you throw out votes that were less ridiculous than that. WHERE IS THE CONSISTENCYYYYYY. WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOR!

Aren't they all forced? Regardless even if could be deployed for free (btw stop cherry picking my points it's annoying) he still doesn't deserving a fucking +5 score.

Hmm How exactly can anyone justify giving him higher than a 5 if he's only available for 2 skirmishes? Wasn't this the same logic that condemned Tibarn and Caineghas because they had low availability (more than fucking nasir at least). Most teams don't even have room for him since they've already loaded their top guys / gals. Inconsistencies everywhere. Oh and i'll give Nasir a 3/10. White tide is the only reason why'd ever want to use him and even then he's a tough pick unless one of the units you brought along is lagging behind.

I don't want to harp on your case dudette but... - "Recruits X" or "takes you to X chapter" or "Gives you Bronze Sword" arguments are explicitly banned. C'mon, people, this shouldn't need to be a rule. That's not gameplay performance.

I'm going to use this as justification for my vote. NM: 8 HM: 7

I have a cousin named Nasir so... 5 (-1 bias) 4

Woah, I didn't think you'd actually admit to being biased in favor of FE girls. Silly Shotgunner, they lack boobs and are thus inferior. Anyway in other news i've been away from these RTU threads because of a whirlwind of unfortunate events. Being gravely ill, annoying relatives visiting, my laptop breaking down... etc. These were disappointing turns of events, and if I hadn't read Medaka Box from beginning to end I probably wouldn't be standing posting here today. LIFE IS EPIC!!!

Excellent? Contributions? I thought we established that 4-5 can be reliably completed in a turn and even then, he's not that useful of a unit. He was cool the first time around on normal mode when you had no idea what you were doing, but he's worthless on following playthroughs (unless you want to grind I guess). PS: I don't even consider Bane a mastery skill; its more like a punishment from the gods.

Volke is about as good as Bastian, which is probably one of the biggest insults I can give to a character. Awful availability and straight up outdone by the majority of combat units in endgame, there is no point to using Volke. Lethality is the lamest mastery skill in the game. It's a shame too, since he's a cool but, at the end of the day he's just (popular) trash. 2/10

Dat Rules (borrowed/stolen from Integrity) - Ratings are assumed to be on Hard Mode (JP Maniac). And only hard mode! - Votes need some explanation regarding their gameplay performance to be counted. If somebody else said what you want to already, quote them explicitly. +/- ≤1 point extra regarding personality/appearance is encouraged, but no more. If you exercise your bias privileges, please do so explicitly. - Numerical votes out of 10, or something proportional to it. Make it easy to calculate for my sake. - Every ranking phase ends when the next RTU thread is posted (at this point, it's hard to tell). - I will insist you do not use the "Not X" reason on any character, where X is another unit. If you do, your vote will be thrown out. - "Recruits X" or "takes you to X chapter" or "Gives you Bronze Sword" arguments are explicitly banned. C'mon, people, this shouldn't need to be a rule. That's not gameplay performance. - Assume that the character in question is being recruited. - Similar to the "Recruits X" rule, do not use "she brings a Savior to the team" as an argument. - BEXP is free to be used in any quantity on any character. - Skills can be reassigned freely. - No transfers. - I withhold the privilege to tell you your rating is bogus and demand you revise it if it breaks any of the above. I will not throw out votes anonymously, you will be informed and given a chance to revise. I will not throw your vote out if I do not support your opinion. Possible reasons for a tossed vote include: your vote is higher/lower than the vast majority to "balance the score" and failure to justify a radically different score. Averages: LYRE!: 0.32 Fiona: 1.20 Meg: 1.34 Kyza: 1.53 Pelleas: 1.85 Astrid: 2.10 Lethe: 2.21 Vika: 2.40 Leonardo: 2.53 Sanaki: 3.03 Lucia: 3.06 Danved: 3.11 Mist: 3.11 Stefan: 3.14 Rhys: 3.21 Tormod: 3.28 Rolf: 3.36 Brom: 3.56 Ilyana: 3.75 Makalov: 4.00 Nealuchi: 4.41 Tauroneo: 4.50 Geoffery: 4.50 Black Knight: 4.60 Sigrun: 4.71 Maurim: 4.72 Kieran: 4.82 Aran: 4.92 Laura: 5.13 Ranulf: 5.14 Heather: 5.29 Skrimir: 5.45 Soren: 5.45 Edward: 6.31 Tanith: 6.36 Micaiah: 6.50 Tibarn: 6.59 Calill: 6.59 Boyd: 6.85 Mordecai: 7.17 Gatrie: 7.22 Marcia: 7.31 Naesala: 7.34 Zihark: 7.44 Nephenee: 7.74 Shinon: 7.90 Oscar: 8.11 Elincia: 8.21 Janaff: 8.28 Ulki: 8.32 Leanne: 8.38 Rafiel: 8.45 Mia: 8.45 Jill: 8.46 Volug: 8.87 Sothe: 8.93 Nailah: 9.00 Nolan: 9.06 Reyson: 9.07 Ike: 9.28 Titania: 9.76 Haar: 9.91 Oliver: 384618.6 I know this is Lucina's thing but he's taking too long .-. He can tally Bastion I suppose.