Breaking Down: Cyril - Fire Emblem: Three Houses Unit Analysis

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This week we take a look at Church of Seiros member, Cyril!

[@Rengor1997]

All the skills and descriptions on the screen during this video should've been written in cyrillic

[@tirex3673]

or in fodlan terms agarthan

[@jamesoakes4842]

When people say that on Maddening difficulty stats matter far less than the characters toolkit, Cyril is probably one of the best examples in the whole game.

[@screwtokaiba]

He's such a lowkey brilliantly made character in context of the series as as a whole. For a series vet, your seeing a character who have Veteran and likely go "oh so hes garbage like every other unit with this before"(admitedly Mozu's pretty neat) and then not only he starts fairly strong since he can turbo getting PBV, and he have so many things that kinda reads "how to make good Three Houses character"(PBV, Vengeance, Boon in Axe Bow Flying Horse Lance). He ended up doing a much better job than every other character of his kind are supposed to do despite his average stats

[@drparadox7833]

Cyril: Is Rhea's servant and fan Also Cyril: Has Bane in Faith I love it.

[@SleepyBrady]

He can't read. It's kinda hard to learn magic if you can't read. It's probably not his lack of faith more like lack of basic reading ability as to why he's bad at those skills. Buuut it is still kinda funny. He's even memorized some words when he prays for Jeralt which is actually really sweet

[@lazerboy4942]

I can't remember which support, but the other day I saw that he actually isn't too sure on the goddess or anything, just Rhea herself

[@somerandomgoblin2583]

​@@lazerboy4942 yup!! cyril isn't a believer in the goddess at all, which makes sense since he's from almyra.

[@minimon796]

Probably the most underrated character in terms of strength. He's almost as good as Leonie

[@markc2226]

Aptitude is factored into his growths when unrecruited, it's just that he has bad bases and commoner growths don't help him at all. You can tell because he gets 1 strength almost every 2 levels on his 40% growth, vs. the 20% growth that gets 1 strength every ~4 levels (Marianne for example). For chapter 5 you can also use the quest battles to get him HP+5 very quickly. If you have C professor level and buy the statue bonus for doubled class EXP, you can get him HP+5 in the battle where you unlock the merchants really easily. On Blue Lions I usually put him on Cav Dimitri, and on Golden Deer I stick him to Byleth for that quest battle. Armor Knight Certification also boosts Cyril's HP to 30, which can make a difference for some vengeance calcs I guess. Really happy you talked about Bow Knight line for him. I know people ignore it, but it's really interesting to plan for.

[@JonoabboFE]

Ah my mistake, thanks for the correction.

[@markc2226]

@@JonoabboFE No problem, I love your content!

[@dylancassady2309]

Thank you! I was about to start a new run using Cyril for the first time. Thank you for including so much detail. This is going to help a ton!

[@JonoabboFE]

I hope it helps!

[@lewisp2862]

Damn Cyril really got the best set of boons and banes in the game, if they wanted him to be perfect they could've given him an Auth boon but a neutrality is fine imo

[@rhettmitchell]

F in the chat for no playable Cyril in Three Hopes

[@gg_sam7847]

I'd say that Cyril would be one of the one's who could make at least any use of Desperation if you end up going flying or assassin or something

[@gg_sam7847]

Especially Flying considering Defiant Crit, not to mention if you wanna save weapon durability

[@OperaQueen85]

Great video again. I’m using Cyril for the first time in VW after hearing you talk about him and I’m getting a lot out of him. Everything you said aligns with my experience. I opted for the grounded option for better battalions and a guard adjutant. Though mostly I opted for this because I have so many other fliers who are in greater need of the better battalions. Wrath-Vantage Claude really helped with HBD, by the way. That was also based on your recommendation. Thanks!

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

-Good in every physical class -Strongest combat arts (debatable) -Boons in Wyvernlord and Bowknight weaponranks

[@aggressivelymediocre350]

It’s the funny little PBV man

[@MrMarinus18]

I like to use him as a 11th or 12th member. Since aptitude makes it fairly easy for him to keep up even when slightly underleveled and point blank volley and his affinity for flying makes it easy to find something useful for him to do without putting him in too much danger. I usually have him take out stragglers that my main combat units just barely can't finish off.

[@g.n.s.153]

I don't like him as much as Bernadetta and Dedue as a Vengeance user though he's not bad I just find the others easier to work with. PBV though is and always will be my good old reliable.

[@TheRagnarok428]

I gotta say, im big on team wyvern for cyril. Flight really is just the best, and you can afford to give him a weaker flying battallion since vengeance is so strong. PBV is great early on, but i find his strength just isnt enough to keep up with killing late game. The best late game use i find for it is on fliers, and being able to fly himself really helps get to the enemy fliers to unload on them.

[@Testbug000]

Best Gremory in FE3H. Also even with accelerated timeline I’m gonna guess still no one will vote for Rhea. >:[

[@tationotaliaferro8418]

I love all three of my Vengeance characters. Especially Cyril and Dedue because of their high HP.

[@tommyortiz6623]

I personally never used him since he always appears to look angry in his portrait lol

[@deathblowringo4168]

Look, he's a Donnel and Mozu clone.

[@burstinatrixflames2506]

Cyril nunca lo uso

[@salvatoreplaia]

when i insert it?

[@aleisterleopold6229]

Cereal literally wearing rags...

[@sheeesh2131]

I’m sorry bro but I hate this character so much still will watch till the end tho 😭

[@xrhongomyniadx]

Same tbh, his toolkit is bloody amazing but his character is sooooooooo annoying. A fair amount of units in this game are one note, but Cyril takes it to the next level. I’d pay any amount of money to never hear him say the name “Rhea” ever again 😂

[@sheeesh2131]

@@xrhongomyniadx bro I thought it was only me it got to the point where I murdered him every run I did 😭😂