Now, Ashe may have his issues, but getting him to 70 crit with the thunderbrand in bow knight goes crazy

Delthea is so useful with almost no investment. She's fantastic in act 4 and 5 and basically one rounds everything, I'd put her in the good investment tier. Clive is awful, played through hard classic 3 times and he's very much a temporary unit with very little reason to use once you get Mathilda

now i dont want to make ships anymore...

The C support actually is a pretty minor improvement compared to no support between units capable of supporting. It's +2 hit/avo on linked attacks (and +1 MT for the Faerghus trio which is the most meaningful difference) and +5 gambit accuracy compared to the no support bonus.

I have used Ashe in all my playthrought of maddening (all 4 routs), not one time with hunters volley. And he has never disapointed me in terms of damag output and survivability. Same with Mercies Magic. I remeber something like double 40 dmg or something.

balthus always the goat of early game

Titania destroys everything from start to finish. It was very suprising when the game came out. Wasn’t used to that.

Predefined characters are better 99% of the time. But a way to have both, is for them to have a name you can’t change. Then the writing can be less ambiguous. Like V in Cyberpunk 2077. But Geralt in the Witcher 3 is great bc he’s a real person, and you can role play as him. What would Geralt do in this situation?

Female Shez in FE Three hopes is fantastic. Even if you’re not into the gameplay of those games, it might be worth watching on KZbin. Especially if you have an affinity for any Three houses characters.

OMG SO HAPPY!!! I was low-key afraid I'd have to wait another week

About enemies using Gambits, I thought they used 1RN, not 2? I'm pretty sure their hit rate bottoms out at 25, no matter what the difference in Charm is. If I've got the enemy AI down, most of the time, they like to deal as much damage as possible while taking as little as possible. So, they'll go for an attack, unless your unit can kill on the counter. There's probably more to it than that, but the general idea is that the enemy will go for a Gambit if they don't feel safe enough attacking, so if you want to reduce the chance the enemy will Gambit, make sure you can't counter.

I could probably do this beat this blindfolded

...why wouldn't Felix's Crest activate when using combat arts? Its proc condition is just "using a weapon" isn't it?

I always pronounce it "broach", and was always bothered that my wife would say "brewch". Then one day we looked it up. Apparently it's a regional thing ...except that it's not even consistent across region. So, the two of us, even though we were raised in the same town, pronounce it differently.

revisiting this series a year later, would love to see mekkah tackling this on maddening as well!

I'm assuming there might be a compilation of all the quick unit reviews(kind of like the ones from the ignorant dawn playthrough)?

46:04 In light of the quote directly before this I think it's appropriate to say that I think that enemy got the point.

Reason #1 to bring Ashe over Sylvain: he's cute

This is definitely making me wanna play 3 houses again

May this comment bless tha algorithm

Making me want to replay Three Houses... You may have me too feverish over Fire Emblem at the start of this Autumn. Falling over Fire Emblem, as it were.

Unironically this is my least favorite Maddening chapter, but seeing Balthus do Balthus things is making me reconsider. Glad this chapter can be made better for $25 c:

This series got me back into three houses and into researching lots for maddening runs

Cool stats, mine are better

I am Ingrid pilled, She is fighting for her slot.

8:08 We all know the best type of magic is the ice. I sure LOVE trading TWENTY hit and 1 weight for 15 crit that won't happen because you miss anyway. I really like Marianne but god does the ice spell makes her feel so terrible to use.

Byleth really 4/4 on magic growth lol

Dedue review super short because he's TOO GOOD.

commenting for the all mighty algorithm and to say I love this playthrough

Fun fact: Balthus has the perfect proficiencies to be able to have one of the cheapest and deadliest Vantage Wrath builds in the game. Him having Sword and Axe Proficiency alongside his massive bulk gives him access to the Hero class which comes with an innate Vantage and Swordfaire. His personal alongside defiant strength can give him +13 Strength (iirc stat buffs do stack in this game unlike engage). Hero Balthus is so much fun and for how cheap it is I can’t recommend it as a potentially endgame class.

Balthus has seen through the lies of the free D rank bows. He has brought stats and growths and assassins to his new Stat Race.

Balthus is just the Replicant version of Dedue. But what kinda wide sweeping acronym does he have? B.A.L.T.H.U.S. - Big Alpha Lurching Towards High Utility Steadfastness. Yeah... I still prefer Dedue.

This series inspired me to start a new maddening mode playthrough for the 5th anniversary... Got to chapter 3 when I remembered "Wait a minute... I hate 3H maddening!"

definitely a tier list

i hate RNG (so much so my game doesn't have it)

Anna's magic and speed growths are absolutely insane, sure takes some babying but that's any growth unit. But she will just hit harder than any other unit in the game. 50% personal magic is absurd.

Isn't that the length of an ennemy phase?

Every time I see 3H early game I'm always amazed by Felix's combat holy

We often only see the results of the optimization, it's nice to see the planning for once.

The main reason i'm so excited for this series is to learn all these little optimizations and obscure mechanics that can be used to your advantage, so i don't mind an episode like this at all

I would never expect Mekkah to say "Hawk tuah" in a million years but here we are Also about the audio balancing (unless its fixed now and you don't need the advice) I think everything's fine, but Mekkah could be a lil louder. I find him hard to hear in some places

Death knight in maddening seems like you are supposed to kill him. His move range is just way too huge and deliberately turned on compared to hard

I second @roseyrock2068 and @NPP_1, love the planning episodes too! Understand if you'd like to edit them out for brevity though :)

Maybe someone can explain to me why the colors of the student motivation smileys are different in my game 😅 Max motivation in my game is a bright pink smiley

War Monk Felix would be funny, pretty sure he can get aura knuckle eventually and knuckles can give him more chances for his crest to proc for damage. Good boy felix healing people

Unicorn overlord music? would you play it on channel one day?

Mekkah is 200 professor EXP short relative to what I expected, I think Mekkah missed 2 out of 3 blue sparkly locations in Chapter 2 that gives 100 professor EXP each? For players that want to hyperoptimize monastery and doesn't mind spending time on monastery activities, I actually think Fishing in Chapter 2 explore day is a good idea. It can be the difference between getting D as opposed to E+ professor level starting Chapter 3, which yields an extra meal in the 1st explore week and 1,000 extra gold at the start of Chapter 3. Provided the player - did Flayn's "Fresh Catch" quest in Chapter 1 (10 profEXP from fish) - did Share a Meal (Like+Like) with activity points in Chapter 1 (200 profEXP) ---> E+(110/1400) professor EXP - harvested Dedue's Seeds (100 professor EXP) - picked up the 3 professor EXP blue sparkly locations (3 x 100 = 300 profEXP) - did 2 Share a Meal (Like+Like) for activity points in Chapter 2 (2 x 200 = 400 profEXP) - correct lecture question response (300 profEXP) - St. Macuil Day with Choir Neutral + Choir Neutral units (100 profEXP) This leaves the player at E+(1310/1400) professor EXP, which means fishing for 90 professor EXP worth of fish (feasible with x5 Insect Larvae from Flayn's quest in Chapter 1 + the 4~5 star bait guaranteed in Chapter 1 monastery explore) during the Chapter 2 explore day can get the player to D professor level before the start of Chapter 3. (If someone who dislikes Choir like Felix shows up in St. Macuil's Day, you need 25 profEXP more from fishing). There is a slight conundrum with getting Mercedes for C Faith for Physic if the player also pushes for her getting Chapter 2 Fire. The general idea is that even Physic by Chapter 3 is a little tight for her, in the sense that if you divert her goals away from Solo Faith you would need to tutor or Manuela seminar or Choir with her, which all have an opportunity cost (lecture points/foregoing Seteth seminar/activity point, and/or other unit skill EXP training). There are 5 lectures before the Chapter 3 map. Mercedes needs 200 Faith EXP to go from D to C Faith. Having her goals set to Solo Faith for 5 lecture weeks yields 24x1.5x5=180 Faith EXP. The remaining 20 Faith EXP can be more than accounted for by having Mercedes use White Magic during the forced Auxiliary Battle and the Chapter 2 map. But if the idea is to get her to D Reason by the Chapter 2 map (1 week of Reason solo, 1 week of Reason+Faith) then 3 weeks of solo Faith alone would not get her to C Faith. (In fact even depleting her white magic in Chapter 1 lol + Aux battle + Chapter 2 doesn't seem to be enough w/o tutoring) In this sense, one would need to set priorities between Chapter 2 Fire vs. Chapter 3 Physic, or between the resources with opportunity costs such as tutor/seminar/Choir. ...though TBF I guess tutoring her once or twice isn't a huge deal Getting the Dimitri lecture question at 25:14 is hilarious b/c the best response for Dimitri (that yields 20% extra prof EXP) gives Dimitri AND Felix +50 motivation. (Compare Felix motivation at 20:50 and 25:55) Generally, other specific units show up during a lecture question alongside the questioner, and these other units can also get motivation. But the response that these other units like (and hence their motivation increase) may not be compatible with the questioner's. For instance, if Caspar was also in your party, both Felix and Caspar would show up in Dimitri's lecture question, but the best response would give Dimitri/Felix +50 motivation but Caspar +0 motivation.

Look at all the D.E.D.U.E. in this video. Delicious Edibles Determining Unit Enhancement.