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Hmm. It seems that the swimsuits are limited to the CGs when you send those four characters to a building Anna points out - and when you send any Sorcerer into battle. Not Dark Mages, just Sorcerers. Even the enemy Sorcerers on the map don swimsuits. Three enemies drop Bond Seeds; no others drop any items. The enemies, aside from the Assassin boss with a Brave Sword and the third Bond Seed, are in pairs: a promoted unit and a corresponding unpromoted one, the latter always with more skills. Even though in the case of the Dark Mages one of those added skills is Strength +2.

Schrodinger did a lot more than kill cats. And not kill them, for that matter.

OWR2 is out!

Soloing entire chapters or large parts of them with a flier is definitely not going to be easy. By the last few chapters on Hard Mode, just about every Sniper, Bow Knight, Warrior, or Assassin will have a forged Silver Bow, at least as a secondary weapon, hitting a flier for 51 Mt. It gets even tougher on Lunatic, where the effective Mt goes up to 63 and dodging becomes largely nonexistent. As great a skill as Lightning Speed is, on regular Lunatic runs, I'd avoid Dark Pegasus just because MU is so important that constraining her movement like that just isn't worth it. Not sure how well that'd translate to low-turn runs, but I imagine it stays as a prominent factor.

Wait, did the Fallen actually show up at that point in that timeline? I thought it was just because Gimle traveled to the past. Where does Lucina say she participated in the attack on Fauder's fort? That sounds really odd, especially since Krom and MU don't look 15 years older in the Intermission.

Not happening. Lightning Speed is an endgame skill even for characters that start as Pegasus Knights, and they'll be starting with an E rank in tomes, initially locking them to tomes as weak as Javelins and using them with an incredibly low Mag stat. MU can take over pretty well past that point on the lower difficulties, though.

Supports aren't too big of a worry and certainly aren't a major part of Double bonuses. Of course, we must also note that guest MUs have the same generic constraints.

Honestly I'd be happy with Serlis or Serris or anything else to just get something official to go with and cool down most of the arguments eventually. Only way it can go bad is if one version uses Celice and the other uses Serlis. Then we'd have another Caeda situation, probably even worse than the current Celice/Serlis dispute.

yeah and most of the things the characters say isn't phonetically equivalent to what they say in the japanese game either

vi-oh-ru pick a stance already, romney jr

Exactly. So how can you defend such an "original pronunciation" of Chrom?

No, I mean the mothers. Like how in the trailer, Selena was depicted as having red hair, like Tiamo.

If MU finishes off Gimle, he's dead and will never come back. If Chrom finishes off Gimle, he's just sealed and has the potential to come back sometime hundreds or thousands or years in the future.

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What "original pronunciation"? From the voice acting, we clearly hear Chrom's name being pronounced identically to the English word "chrome". What you're neglecting to take into account is the fact that "ku-ro-mu" is simply the closest way to write it in katakana. There's no way to lack a vowel after a "k" or "m", so the writers used the "u" sound, which is often silent. When pronouncing hiragana words, do you also speak with Nn's "de-SU"? I would hope not.

It means that this post is equally irrelevant. None of it gives any reason why a translated name that can be pronounced precisely like the katakana would be meant to be pronounced any other way.

It doesn't. That's my point.

On a just as relevant note, the earth is round.

Yeah and maybe they meant for Chrom's name to be pronounced "CHROOM". Not likely.

Meanwhile "SEE-dah" actually fits the katakana while being a completely valid pronunciation of the English, while "SAY-dah" just comes out of nowhere relative to the original. While the translators are well within their right to make changes, there's no reason to assume they made one when there's nothing to indicate that they did.

So Special Dance can't be passed down? Interesting. It does make sense, though, as it doesn't apply to other classes. It's possible, but it can be difficult to manage if you're not grinding. It's definitely limited to skills available in direct promotions as opposed to reclasses for feasible, fast options. Early-joining characters have an easier time reaching the necessary levels in time, especially MU due to War Experience. And as MU has the possibility of passing down Rainbow Cry, the best skill in the game, to two kids at once, it's definitely the most notable example. Passing down Rainbow Cry is definitely worth waiting a chapter or two to recruit Mark, which should be all it takes.

No.

The clone enemies indeed get bonuses on Hard and larger bonuses on Lunatic; the bonuses seem to be simply dependent on the class of the character they're copying. They also get regular forges on Hard and hacked forges on Lunatic. I haven't played far enough in Lunatic+ to say if they get the skills as well. The bonuses are constrained by stat caps, so you generally want your best character to be at or near their caps so that their own clone won't be much stronger, making it possible to defeat the clone one-on-one with buffs. For the other characters, as on lower difficulty levels, you want them to be weak enough that the leader can take them out easily.

Every run aims to be efficient in terms of some standard. So it would look precisely like anything.

Depends. B will go faster and keep your Exp gains up: LV10 unpromoted only adds 5 internal levels when reclassing, while LV10 promoted adds 15 internal levels. So going through it at the minimum levels, B will give you a character gaining Exp as if at LV26 in the target promoted class, while A will give you a character gaining Exp as if at LV36. You'll also gain two skills instead of one. A, on the other hand, keeps your character stronger the whole time, since they'll stay in the stronger promoted classes for longer. You also tend to get better skills, and can stay in the first promoted class to LV15 to get both skills for an even better skillset long-term. And in fact, if you're using a character throughout the game, they usually will have time to pick one or the other ingame. It'll happen especially fast if you go for B, but you should have plenty of time in the final class if you go for A, as well.