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Honestly I'd just flat out ignore items altogether, since they can't really save a unit's inherit flaws as they aren't a OMFG HUGE boost. If they were to be sorted though I'd only count the Speedwing as speed is such a vital stat. We all know you're probably just going to feed them all to Chrom or MU anyway. They're best considered a contingency - good for if a favored item is falling behind, otherwise mostly just "Win Harder" items.

Sounds like the definition of "Not worth it," to me, especially considering I could have a far more insane Dark Mage for the same degree of investment. Let's face it: Archers are fucking terrible, in every sense of the word. They are just outclassed by everything except Villager, and Villager is basically a joke class only there to say "Fuck you for using Donnel."

There's also the problem of Virion sucking massive balls and the only decent snipers not being worth a dick coming far too late since by then you have access to far superior units. Honestly if you really want to you can get away with using archers on normal or even hard, but on lunatic and above why bother? You're going to be too busy breaking the game with Gale Force Notsferavatar and Morgan anyway. I honestly cannot think of a single scenario in which I would rather have an Archer over, say, a Dark Mage, or hell just a regular Mage. Even the whole Longbow's range thing is gimmicky at best because you only get one of the damn things on most playthroughs, and the only reliable source of Longbows is a oneshot deal which also requires hitting 720 renown at least once

Flavia and Basilio were actually intentional design choices, they're there as your "oh shit I fucked up the game I won't be able to beat the final boss NEED HALP" units you get at the end of the game like most fire emblems. It's debatable of how much use they actually are in this regard, but well, now you know. The spotpass DLC is basically just there to give people extra stuff to do and mess around with. I'm fairly certain nintendo doesn't actually intend for anyone to really use the spotpass characters other then for the lulz and on spotpass.

KILL THEM ALL! Also for those of you who don't seem to realize you just have Yarne's mother talk to him and you can recruit him and kill everyone. Everyone wins! Except for the corpses.

That aside, as others have said, the easiest way to ChromOlivia is to just pair all of his candidates off beforehand. Failing that, making sure he stays away from the other women like they are disease ridden vultures and smothers himself in Olivia's lapdances like she is the last woman on the face of the planet as well as making him giver her his seed (of trust) works perfectly well.

While Chapter 21 holds a special "go gently caress yourself" place in my heart, I think it would honestly be a tossup between Luantic + Chapter 4 and Final Chapter. Lunatic + Chapter 4 because it's the last part where Lunatic + still stays difficult (since past that point you can grind, and as we all know chapter 4 is a difficulty spike even for Lunatic +), and the Final Chapter because they just throw so much shit at you at once that it becomes a zerg rush to take out the boss in two rounds before you get overwhelmed.

You do have to fight a bunch of premoted units though, most of which are moderately high level, so be careful about fighting both sides at once!

[spoiler=Getting ahead of ourselves so I'll go ahead and spoiler this discussion] Derp. I was wrong about the 2 kids thing because I forgot Spoiler Lady was tied to Chrom. My bad! So that point goes against Male Avatar again. But then you do have the freedom of not having to marrry Chrom to get two avatar-kids, which offers more freedom support-wise. Plus that means you also get two Chrom-kids. You can get Morgan at the same time you get access to a lot of the kids, which is what, Ch15? By that point the game starts to seriously ramp up the bullshit (admittedly it can't really catch up if you DLC and grind, but let's not assume either of those since they break the game in completely different ways outright), but you've just gotten Morgan who is availible before it gets too bad. She starts off at 10 which isn't a huge level of catch up, and Veteran lets her skyrocket through that particular problem anyway. She'll probably wind up overtaking the MU in about 3-4 maps, as has been my personal experience, at which point she just gets better from there. Now granted, it'll ultimately be simpler to just have HULK VETERAN AVATAR SMASH PUNY GAME, but with a little effort, you can have MEGA HULK VETERAN MORGAN TOTALLY SMASH PUNY GAME. The ease of supports with Male Avatar people talked about is still a point in Male Avatar's favor overall though, which is why I'd rate him above Female Avatar. That and two Chrom Kids, and with Chrom's stats having double Chrom Kid and double Avatar Kid might be worth considering. But overall children are kind of a crapshoot as it's a pain to train them in the harder difficulties so it might just be better to have that one superstrong kid. Granted you could do this, but Inigo I have found is a royal pain in the ass to train if you aren't careful, and his prologue is just brutal to beat. At the same time you could just have Spoiler Kid pair up with Male Avatar and get Aether Morgan far sooner and more reliably then Royal Weapon Morgan, plus Chrom Kid Kid stats that early. Unfortunately either way you'll have to baby Kid Kid Morgan (as I've dubed Third Gen Morgan), but I feel he/she is worth the payoff as a fantastic Est-esque. Incidentally what other points in Fem Avatar's favor am I missing? I'm pretty sure i'm overlooking something at this point Donnel still sux please make a Donnel tier to rate him lower. Anyways I'm thinking that Maribelle might want to be rated higher thanks to horse access, but then there's also the fact that you get her so much latter then Liss who's probably your superhealer by this point. Still, think she should be Top tier as well just due to how indespensible Mend and friends are on Hard and above. It's worth even more gold in Lunatic +. If we ever make a Lunatic + Tier List Olivia's probably going to be top simply because of how she can bullshit her way to 20s and then seal change easily repeatedly for free with the only investment requried being about 20 minutes per map (and the price of seals to be fair, but the gold cost for 20 levels worth of stats is ludicriously good). I'm imagining that Fem Avatar will also have this point in their favor on Lunatic + since they can also gain access to the bullshit that is the (admittedly theroetical, i'm not sure if dancers can be danced) infinite repeated dance loop which doesn't even need a immobile boss map.And then you can just convoy the seals to your dancers and...yeaaah.

On Galeforce vs Lifetaker: Pegasi As for that child combo...

Sword Hand....THROBBING!: Have Owain land two critical hits in a row. Suck It, Casuality!: Gain access to a new child paralogue after unlocking them. Vaikeception: Name the Avatar Vaike, and then have them reach A support with Vaike. Welcome To Hell: Have your entire party die on chapter one on Lunatic + without killing a single enemy. Dis-OWN'd: Kill Vladier with the Avatar in one blow. And while this one has already been done, I just had to give it a different, better name... Guy Love: Have Chrom and Male Avatar A rank before either obtains an S rank.

[spoiler=Extremely light spoilers about the name of a second generation charater]Just as a complete side note, Morgan will probably have to get her own tier above Veteran Avatar because she's just Vet Avatar ^2. Or vet Avatar ^2.5 if you decide to make her a Third Gen Kid with Ms Supar Spoiler. Although, like all kids, her stats will vary, she represents everything the Avatar stands for and even more. Anyways, I'd rank Sumia higher because a early Peg Knight is kind of a big deal due to mobility. Sure there's the isue that she's wrecked by bow users but if you use pair up just right then she's very useful. Certainly more useful then Viron, who still suffers from Archersbane (aka enemy phase). That plus the early availability of good lances vs the horrible availilbity of good bows makes Sumia solidly above Virion. Liss should be ranked up to top, because she's your only healer for quite some time. That alone gives her a very high degree of importance, and with (very casual, hell you can probably just have her heal some paper cuts while still finishing the mission at a decent pace) staff abuse and all the running around healing she'll have to do anyways, she'll probably be gaining a lot of levels. Solid (if bottom) high tier, imo. Male Avatar is superior to Female Avatar, in my opinion, for two reasons: The first of which is, obviously, the Avatar is going to be able to get two kids, which is pretty huge given how ludicrious Avatar gets even without trying. Secondly, although this does take a small but consdierable chunk of aditional investment, Male Avatar gets access to the single most overpowered kid in the entire game, even if it does mean they're only getting one kid. Also I see what you did there.