Can Hector Beat EVERY Class In Fire Emblem?

I used FE Builder to make a gauntlet map to test gba fire emblem characters against every other class in the game. This installment features Hector as our champion, and we can compare his performance against Roy and Lilina, and all the future units we will test in the gauntlet.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Do you think any character will be able to beat the child? Who's got the best chance? 😅

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Depends if Manakete are allowed to compete, really

[@dezel536]

I'd like to see Rutger go at it, since he's quite the boss killer in Binding Blade

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@dezel536 Speaking of. Miredy/Zeiss should have a shot too.

[@briancaro196]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 Lvl 20 Myrrh would destroy this challenge lol

[@CoqueiroLendario]

@@briancaro196 A child for a child, equivalent exchange

[@Helga-of-Skadi]

C'mon, Give Ephraim his shot. He'll definitely beat the gauntlet, for he doesn't pick fights he can't win.

[@109267r]

Maybe that's the reason he isn;t in here. He doesný pick fight he can't win.

[@SoupRoutine]

I second this, bring in the crown prince of Renais, let him sweep the whole gauntlet.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

If he can attack a whole castle with 4 guys, he'd happily take in the gauntlet solo :P

[@arcraid9681]

@@BadAtFireEmblem If im not mistaken he also 2 man the grado capital ( assume you go erika route)

[@scarletrose8766]

I wonder if god Seth would sweep the gauntlet it be an interesting take

[@AislingNightmare]

The little girl deserves a name. My vote is Deathica.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

First come first served, her name is now Deathica 🤣

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

@@BadAtFireEmblem I would argue for Morticia, since that is an actual name, but alas.....

[@hadoukenfighter]

my favorite part about hector is his character development, it doesn't get talked about enough honestly.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

What's your favourite part of his development?

[@hadoukenfighter]

@@BadAtFireEmblem I have to say either his realization that he could've been looking in a mirror during the Linus 2 fight or his handling of his brother's death.

[@JohnHerbert-pk6yu]

Agreed that’s why I love hector mode so much

[@dmas7749]

@@hadoukenfighter very good way of putting it actually

[@lucasm.3864]

I think you should put a third and fourth column for the characters that clear it for how low they get the child unit. That would be a good way to rank the ones on that tier.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I probably won't add more columns but any units with the same score will be ordered using that system, definitely

[@StirFryTuna]

Epharim is the perfect next unit to run. First lance and sacred stones unit to run

[@sielklavar]

Ayyy I'm in the video let's goooo Edit: I think comparing Raven and Cormag back to back would be an interesting comparison with their equal growth rates on two of the stronger physical classes.

[@GlinkoBlahBlah]

ROSS! (Pre-promoted to either fighter or pirate though. I want to see my boy put in work)

[@emotional_st0rm]

THE HECOTR PIC AT THE END?? HELLOO SAILOR

[@dimik6745]

i forgot that this was about gba fire emblem, and thought to myself, that masternight lachesis would have sureley wiped the floor with everyone on this map

[@YoonSnake]

Roy's our boy!(for getting murdered halfway through the challenge)

[@HanakkoLove]

I wanna see how much Lyn will fare, she'll either clear it or die to the first lance that hits her.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

My money is on the second option 😂

[@shadow_blaze2317]

Lyn has an average str of 11.6 at level 20 so she can't damage some of the tankier enemies with an Iron Sword. The Mani Katti would definitely change things.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

@@shadow_blaze2317 she's so unbelievably squishy, I don't think it even matters if she can deal damage, she still won't get very far before she's dead

[@GenoGar]

Funny that the Uber Spear weighs down the demon villager girl enough to only have 15 AS which isn’t enough to double Hector’s 12 Spd.

[@austinuhr8459]

I'd like to see Miledy. I think she'd get very far

[@yuga7397]

Ok, we need to see lyn and eliwood get outclassed by hector once and for all

[@valentinpg2737]

4:53 Hector ended the cavalier with 22 HP, the next one was the knight and although it deals 0 damage, Hector ends that combat with 17 HP. What damages him in between?

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I misclicked at one point so to be fair to hector I went back to a save state a few enemies back, so he took an extra hit at some point

[@MegaTomPlays]

I mean that's just Hector things, dude is a sassy tank

[@EnderWarlock]

Continuing to suggesr Franz. Although curious who out if the GBA cast could defeat *the child* . Maybe Athos?

[@dmb4413]

You could have saved a ton of HP by waiting and letting the axe users attack first, for a double up on the counterattacks and then the third hit on Player turn killing them (without missing like he did on the Fighter.)

[@JustsomeKid93]

I nominate sain, as every time I’ve used him he’s capped strength

[@sinistarman]

OH MY GOSH THAT'S ME!?!? new suggestion Erika and or Ephraim.

[@halcyon_echo42]

I'd personally like to see Nino, Marisa with Shamshir, and Sue go at this with the caveat of getting to attack first like in this video.

[@Direblade11]

Now we gotta do all the FE7 lords: Do Lyn next. Eliwood can be done when you want to pivot back to FE6, though you've already done Roy. Idk if Lyn has a child

[@cinnamoone3553]

i would love to see Erk or Nino give this a shot, personally.

[@venlocity2]

I dont know how stacked in favor of the gauntlet runners we want to make it but i do have a few suggestions. 1) in cases where the runner can defeat the enemy in three hits (and doubles), it is more optimal to let the enemy strike first, because then if you hit all three the enemy only got one chance to hit you. 2) if theres an issue about whether or not you should give the runner the chance to first strike then is there a way to set the enemy movements to 1? That was they can chase ranged attackers but you'll always be able to decide if you want first or second hit Anyways i want to suggest Gonzales as the next runnee. Hes the only playable bandit we get so it would be nice to have him on the board early

[@IamHattman]

As a recommendation, have the wyvern at the end drop an elixir. That way theres an even match up. I think anyone who makes it there is going to be low on health.

[@MrMariosonicman]

only problem with that is it might lead to the wyvern using it if they are low on HP, it would be better to make it drop a chest key and pick up an elixer instead.

[@IamHattman]

@@MrMariosonicman ooh, good point!

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I'm going to nominate Lowen, because he's one of the most interesting unit in the game. Is he bulky enough to win, or will his lack of offense hurts his progression?

[@lucasferro6050]

For the enemies that reach you on the turn the door is opened, you could place some walls to slow them down, the map would look a bit messy and ugly but would make it way more fair

[@ironmilutin]

Not sure how FE builder works, but would it be possible to set enemies to be stationary even when player is in range? Sort of like how bosses in games usually do? That would make it so the player can always chose if they want to first strike or enemy phase.

[@xa447]

Bow units are free then

[@ironmilutin]

@@xa447 Hmm... True. Same goes with melee units if you have a ranged weapon. Perhaps then equip the characters with a 2-ranged weapon too, such as javelin and handaxes, with the caveat that you have to use the weapon that an enemy can counter-strike.

[@imlrg9164]

I'd like to see Lyn try this out. She gets walled by the Armor Knight in her Iron run, but I'm curious what the Mani Katti would do for her

[@Alice-FE]

Bro forgot to set Javelin ranged Animations for the Uber Spear

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Bro all the animations went to shit in this video 🤣

[@lancelotdewouters474]

Show us how truly Rutger does in this set up.

[@elnchou]

This is my first time watching so idk if you know this already but to fix the bugged ranged animations go to: Advanced Editor -> Magic animations And there you can assign any animation you want to the weapon, which by default is assigned to "None" (you might need to do a data expansion if it's not on the table) You can also go directly to your weapon and click "edit magic animations" which will redirect you to the same menu Hope this helps!

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Febuilder advice is always appreciated because there's some weird stuff and I don't understand a lot of it. But in this case I don't know what happened because the first video I did on Roy had the animations work normally 🤷‍♂️

[@elnchou]

@@BadAtFireEmblem Well, then that's weird. Did you change the weapon ID or something? If not, I once had a similar problem with Gorgons, their animations suddenly stopped working just like in the video and the only way I managed to fix it was by using the function Febuilder has to compare the rom with a backup, and start replacing things until it got fixed. I never even knew why that specific byte was a problem lol So if the problem persists, try using that. But in my experience the worst thing this bug can do is avoid triggering death quotes, so it doesn't matter much for the battles themselves

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

@@elnchou I'm not sure tbh. Sometimes febuilder is weird, sometimes it's my faults, sometimes I have no idea which one it is :P

[@elnchou]

@@BadAtFireEmblem Yeah, that's how it is sometimes, I'm not an expert either, just talking about what I've seen in some months of messing around with the thing haha as long as it works we'll just have to accept it (and it may be like fire emblem itself in that sense...) But nice video, I also want to see how Ephraim does eventually hehe

[@pitfallsquad3162]

I am curious to see how you handle pre promotes, like if you will average their levels down and how you go about that. That and since everyone is unpromoted its a shame characters like l'arachel can't be done. I do love this series though, Ive been a sucker for the GBA era of Fe since I played it years ago. My goofy request is still Gonzales or Dozla. Gotta love goofy axe units. I hope your channel keeps growing and finds success!

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Thanks a lot, appreciate it :) I haven't decided exactly how to do prepromotes yet, I'll work it out at some point 😅

[@JbK856]

I think Joshua's got this, even the uber spear civilian. He'll crit every single one

[@FarCritical]

Oswin or Gilliam would be cool to see

[@AzumarillConGafasBv]

0:17 Hey look I appear there!, amazing video, Hector just destroyed everyone lol What about one with Ephraim or Dorcas?

[@emotional_st0rm]

i'd like to see some of the so-termed 'OP' units' runs to see if they can actually kill the child, maybe rutger or milady

[@noahpelletier6616]

Rutger with and without hard mode bonuses. He can best the child

[@berkberkheiser925]

Legault would be an interesting one. Usually has close to max skill and speed and around 12 atk.

[@maebemaebenot]

While it’d be fun to keep going with lords, I’m curious about how a unit with multiple available weapons would run the gauntlet. For that reason, I nominate Sain!

[@toriku_]

Hector, despite him not being confident against mages and their ilk, performed well against them

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Hector should have more confidence in his abilities!

[@vreeze33]

I'm curious how well Lyn would do. She's not known for being very good, but maybe she can surprise us with some lucky dodges or crits. I know you're looking at base classes, but I would love to see how far base Seth would get and maybe compare it to Marcus.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Lyn is very squishy so it'd be interesting to see how far she gets. I'll definitely do promoted units at some point but I haven't worked out how to implement it yet :)

[@dancinginthedust9899]

I'd like to see Seth or Marcus test their claim to best jagen

[@matthewcunningham5382]

I’d be curious if Lilina’s “perf weapon” would be forblaze. I’m pretty sure mage Lilina can’t use it, but still might be cool to see how she does with it. It may be nice to have the higher Mt weapon but also could be worse if it weighs her down too much

[@stanlet144]

Could you do Deke or Rutger next? I feel like they would do really well

[@ninjago7012]

Next with Myrrh would be nice

[@boot-4704]

What about Canas with his prf Luna? (It’s essentially his PRF, the only other dark magic user in FE7 is Athos)

[@wriggletime1412]

By that logic every single dark tome is also his prf

[@mackowens7234]

I really want to see Marcus!

[@manawing9465]

I think non GBA lords would be interesting eventually. Ike, and Sigurd and Seliph come to mind

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I can definitely do some of those eventually, it'll just depend what resources are available

[@NowiGreen]

@BadAtFireEmblem I want to see the child run the gauntlet.

[@Bobbobiam]

Will there be a video for promoted units eventually? Would love to see Binding Blade Roy, or units like promoted Rutger/Dieck with Durandal/Armads, etc. That said, Rutger or Dieck next! Ooh, Gonzalez!

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I definitely want to do a few of the vanilla promoted units, but I don't know how best to implement them. Levelling them down the promoted level 1? Unpromoting them to level 20 base? Who knows. But probably not legendary weapons, I'll save them for a different series at some point

[@greenninjaX2]

Also...For characters without a Prf...how about making their "Prf" run the best weapon their class can equip?

[@TheodoricEichen]

If you ever do promoted units, I'd like to see how well an average lvl 20 Jaffar would do.

[@BoltTheEmolga]

Potentially funny option is to bring in Kelik of TLP fame, with his Prf run being Flamberge. Of course since he’s not an actual character, it’d be for memes, maybe April Fool’s, but he’s broken enough to maybe even deal with the Uber Spear, though probably not.

[@TARDISES]

That... does sound like a fun april fools video - basically a real video in terms of content, with the joke being that it's a ROMhack character running the gauntlet.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I'll definitely do non-gba vanilla characters at some point, but I probably won't do romhack characters (possibly a dedicated stream for them though eventually?)

[@aggressivelymediocre350]

If you double an enemy and kill the in three hits, it’s better to enemy phase them and then player phase them instead of vice versa. It can stop you from facing one more attack

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Yeah I was paying more attention to commentating than how I was playing lol

[@hallowmaster2008]

I vote Ephraim or Ross! Maybe make Ross level 10 in his first promoted class, or make him level 20 as Super Trainee

[@GlinkoBlahBlah]

ROSS IS MY BOY

[@megaherky3294]

I would like to see Gonzalez

[@connorlego5229]

Ephraim! Because I like his animations

[@delllee4915]

How about Promoted to General, level 20 Oswin? My favorite heavy character next to Hector.

[@phoenixgemini42]

I think it might be better to let the units be attacked first. If the unit kills in 2 attacks its the same as if they attack first, and if they kill in 3 hits, they take 1 less hit. It should, in theory, allow them to go even further. Going first only helps if they ohko.

[@GlinkoBlahBlah]

Upvoting all Ross comments. ROSS IS MY BOY

[@fledbeast5783]

I think Fae would outright beat the final boss, so that could be fun

[@greatdaein6699]

Time for hectors bro eliwood to run the gauntlet

[@dogtools1005]

Do Barth to keep the Ostian theme going

[@QuickSilverKitsune]

Considering Gonzalez's whole stick is critting(and being one of the only recruitable Brigands in the series), i dont think hed do amazing, but i think hed make a good candidate to run the gauntlet.

[@airiloch7937]

Heath might make it to the end because of being a decent wyvern knight

[@velvetbutterfly]

I feel like Roy's daddy Eliwood would be the logical next choice, however I want a curveball like Fae

[@ludgerkres.1437]

Unsure if anything but a level 20 Melady or Rutger with HM bonuses would clear the child. But we will see. I don't think any normal mode character would clear that, assuming unpromoted of course.

[@GiantFrog]

I'll keep asking for Florina, I'm sure you'll get around to her someday!

[@IamHattman]

Gomna keep this up: I wanna see Wallace take on the gauntlet. As a backup, can we pull stats for Uther? 😂

[@Fimbu1vetr]

Hah eat that Rick52's gamefaqs guide from 2004 that rates Lilina a 10/10 and Hector a 9/10 (And Wendy a 9/10 L O L)

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

The sacred texts!

[@sockmonkeyjg]

My favorite lord finally!

[@ZeroNobody0]

Swords NAa. I loved to see the one and only Spear Lord Ephraim give it a go and defeat the gauntlet

[@damianwilson8974]

Maybe you could make the child a stationary boss so units can enemy phase her?

[@appelofdoom8211]

I wanna see how Hugh and lugh do compared to Lillina. anyway im thinking hector might be able to make it to the end

[@Blavery0]

Looking at Hector's stats, only Mage/Shaman seem threatening. So I imagine he clears the entire thing! As for the next character? If we're sticking to lords, let's get Lyn in there. I imagine she'll get wrecked without the Mani Katti but I wanna see just how badly haha. If we're doing non-lords, I'm voting for my boy Canas!

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Ding ding ding, you are correct sir!

[@a_cleverfool]

If Hector can't one round, there are cases where it is better to have the enemy engage first. For the fighter/pirate you could have gotten 3 attacks before the enemy's second attack instead of 2

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Yeah I was focused more on commentating than playing properly lol

[@ilyannattv]

Not a lord, of course, but I wanna see if Myrrh can take that child on!

[@Agent719]

Kent. Odd choice I know, but he was my boy my first playthrough and saving more popular characters for later can't hurt.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Kent and Sain are my favourite Christmas cavs

[@Name-jb7kw]

Well you've done hector for lilina. You've gotta do eliwood for roy

[@cjer6040]

I've always loved Dorcas and I've always gotten blessed Dorcas growths (60 HP, capped attack, really high defense and 16 speed), but I consistently hear that he's not a good unit

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I love Dorcas too, I'm surprised more people haven't suggested him, especially since he's a meme

[@natescullin6391]

Please do Matthew as an assassin

[@xxXProGamerDraggoXxx]

Id Love to see Nino be given a shot! Prove that she is viable and reliable!

[@hectorlackless]

Unless he faces a certain guy with a very specific weakness I think my brother in name clears

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Ding ding ding ! You don't win anything, but you get to feel smug about being right :P

[@Ghi102]

Maybe you could have the last enemy before the child drop an elixir? That way, trying to heal through the Uber Spear might be worth it?

[@HuntShowdownLab]

Can you do Guy?

[@ephraimx7]

I don't think she would win, but if we are doing non-lords like Lilina as well, I would love to see Marisa with her psuedo-prf shamshir. I know it isn't a true prf but she's the only one to have one in the base game iirc possibly even including enemies so it's hers in my mind. 😅

[@daagonthebefeler7960]

If its any unit i wanna see heath do it

[@BigBoyFargo]

Id be interested to see how Milady does!

[@xa447]

Think iron a lv20 is a bit unrealistic. Think you could do steel weapons on everything with the con for it, also that way con matters as a stat more

[@NinthSettler]

if you do this with promoted units i would like to see Wallace.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I haven't decided how to implement promoted units yet, it's a bit awkward. Wallace could just be done using his Lyn mode stats levelled up to lv20

[@NinthSettler]

by the way i predict wallace to be absolute garbage

[@Xaiclun]

He might be out of the competition, but I would like to see Seth having a go

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I want to do prepromotes, I'm just not sure how to implement them exactly in terms of levels and stuff so that they're on a level playing field with the other units

[@northeastchristianapologet1133]

I was hoping against hope that Hector would become a playable character in Smash Ultimate.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

I've never really played smash, but hector should be in every game imo

[@jacobthompson4444]

Let's see Seth!

[@jamesbiggs8397]

Shouldn't Roy use the Binding Blade?

[@adancamacho7669]

Would it possible to use a character from another game and just match the class and stats?

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Further down the line I'll start doing that, but depending on which character it is it'll be easier or harder

[@brockmckelvey7327]

My prediction is that Hector is going to just hit a string of bad luck, sadly, and only make it to 5.

[@brockmckelvey7327]

Ya know, I looked at the video length and just completely forgot that Editing is a thing. That's egg on my face.

[@BadAtFireEmblem]

Yeah the first comment didn't age well 😅

[@zabes10]

I would like to see the mercenary class it and the hero class is my favorite class in all FE

[@codangarrison1195]

I would love to see how a level 1 myrrh fairs

[@codangarrison1195]

Shes obviously gonna win with her fast level ups but I mostly want to see how she fairs against the child