Can You Beat Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones Only Using Dozla?

[@kratosmvn_]

Who was the first character you loved the most when you first played this game? Rules: 1 - Hard Mode 2 - No Glitches/Exploits 3 - 1 HP recovery item per map 4 - The convoy is off-limits to grab HP recovering items, but can be used to grab extra weapons.

[@justhenry2221]

Ephraim always ended up with Max stats without the need for item boosts, so I liked him. It was essentially like commanding a nuke

[@RudolReverie]

I'm gonna be honest it was, coincidentally, Dozla First playthrough, I made Ross a Hero, so Dozla was the only Berserker I had. Since most Berserkers just feel amazing to use, well, he felt amazing to use, so I fell in love with him

[@felix_irgendwas]

Tana is and has always been my girl ❤

[@duusu2608]

Myrrh. Since my first FE was 7, and 8 my second, I was just amazed by the possibility of using a dragon! Same reason why I loved the trainees, because they felt so unique

[@cheezy4902]

Joshua and Colm

[@gidan1128]

That comment about GBA growths isn't entirely accurate, but it is correct about capping stats being slightly beneficial for your other growths. It doesn't choose how many stats you'll get and then allocate them - it simply rolls a number 1-100 for each stat and checks if that number is less than or equal to the growth rate to see if it will increase. The reason capping stats is technically slightly beneficial for your other stats is that the game will reroll your level up if you get an empty one, and then again if you get another empty level up. This means if you cap your HP, you've eliminated the possibility of any future levels being just HP+1 (because that would be an empty level, you'll reroll your entire level up in that case and get another opportunity to increase the stats that didn't get rolled last time). So the effect is pretty negligible seeing as how unlikely empty levels are until you have multiple capped stats, but it is there. This is why you almost NEVER see empty level ups in GBA fire emblem: you'd need to be unlucky enough to get a zero stat level up 3 times in a row before it actually uses that result. EDIT: I guess I'm wrong. According to this post on Serenes Forest: forums.serenesforest.net/index.php?/topic/91108-a-deep-dive-into-level-up-mechanics/ The game rolls capped stats anyways and it doesn't care whether or not the stat is capped to decide whether the level is empty. So capped stats have no effect on growth probability for your other stats.

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you for the clarification! It's very helpful information :D

[@lspuria8440]

I thought it worked like you initially suggested. Pretty interesting in how it actually works. Thank you for being the very rare person that actually fact checks their information.

[@phdskyla5026]

Capped stats technically have a negative effect on growth probability.

[@marcalcantara1174]

Yeah I don't know what did that comment tried to cook but if you ever played with the LUA script you just see that leveling up uses the RNG list used for everything in this game, so other than moving the list by 1 you have no benefit unless you're looking at said script to manipulate the level ups, and if you're doing that already you don't really get anything out of a capped stat

[@lpfan4491]

That's not GBA FE, that's Radiant Dawn iirc. Bonus EXP-levels are set to always give 3 statups if possible, which means that a character's bad stats are getting forced to go up if other ones are already capped. So growths only play half the role they do in other games.

[@zanes_productions]

0:42 Aw. Dozla just wanted to be a princess this whole time lol

[@kratosmvn_]

And now he can finally be.

[@unlimitedisme]

Knoll has found darkness and peace in every one of these runs. Good for him (:

[@kratosmvn_]

He's gotten exactly what he deserves 😎

[@darkflame710]

That stunned pause after critting the demon king and seeing all the lords just standing there blinking in disbelief along with you is so fucking funny to me.

[@kratosmvn_]

I'm glad it made you laugh. It's so insane that you have to laugh at that kind of stuff lmao.

[@emotional_st0rm]

i absolutely love your dedication to this series. even though it takes hours to get through these runs, and a ton of it being tedious monotony, you still do it, and seem excited about it everytime. absolutely love watching these solo runs

[@kratosmvn_]

I'm glad you enjoy this series! Thank you for supporting it, I wouldn't be able to do it without viewers like you watching these videos :D

[@alexperrie4051]

I was messing around with Ch 18 and found our that the Poison fangs on the spiders will actual remove the stone effects because a unit can only have 1 effect applied and being stone the claws will always

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah that happened to me a couple of times running this map lol it's an interesting mechanic that can get you out of a pickle weirdly.

[@philippanning5988]

He said he’ll see knoll next time, is knoll finally the next run?👀🤣🤣

[@kratosmvn_]

LOL, could be we never know 👀😂

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

He better be, and I expect a death montage at the end

[@orion5663]

Might as well keep him for the finale. Let him die a few more times before he gets to shine.

[@avenblair4384]

Knoll has to be the absolute last run and it has to start with just a massive montage of him dying

[@shinyblue4774]

As someone who loves using Knoll, I cant wait for him to be last so we can have a death montage of all these runs

[@WhynotVnot]

I'd wanna see if an archer or bow class could beat it solo since the lack of 1 range counterattacks and the potential to get stuck by being surrounded sounds like an interesting challenge.

[@kratosmvn_]

The bow characters are definitely a challenge, but I'm hopping to get to one soon!

[@Crimson-Hat]

Picking units based on stats: 60 IQ. Picking units based on combat animations: 120 IQ. Picking units based on critical hit animations: 240 IQ.

[@kratosmvn_]

The only way to do it 😎

[@PatrickleMorse]

Dozla ! So rare to see him shine :') love the little death/stone montage, he's giving Knoll a run for his money in terms of "how many time they died on this series" :D

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

Wait a minute.....

[@kratosmvn_]

We rarely see any Dozla love, but I had to do it! Might have to compile all the Knoll deaths at some point lol

[@lspuria8440]

Yes. Yesssss! Dozla gotta be my favorite sacred stoned character. Just look at that majestic facial hair. 10/10

[@DumplingDan]

Dozla is 100% a short king dwarf his battle sprite is lies

[@kratosmvn_]

I'm glad I could play your favourite character. His facial hair is indeed majestic!

[@kratosmvn_]

Dozla the short king!

[@Mr.Pallanza]

Ah. The Steady Axe. When I first played Sacred Stones - Dozla was my go to to hold chokepoints, especially during the Rausten Siege or making the run thru Darkling Woods. And I stress again - the beauty of drawn animation where he does a crit by nonchalantly tossing his axe in the air, then catching it with ONE HAND, and then crashing it down an enemy's head with such decimation so satisfying to see. But yeah, as an adult now and seeing how he performs shows how pre-promoted units are not really a player's new top-tier unit in the party, rather another soldier to consider putting in the frontlines if needed. Looking forward to the next run! Hopefully with the illustrious swordwaifu Marisa or Death-Is-Always-Around Knoll or even the Unlockable characters going thru Valni or Lagdou. Cheers!

[@kratosmvn_]

The Dozla animations are elite in this game and I still love him for it despite his less than stellar performance.

[@leonardoferrari4852]

Many times they actually are tho

[@Scagh]

Another amazing video, great job! Dozla was a very good choice for a first pre-promote. I also believe that it would make sense to have a foot swordsman in the next video, Colm, Joshua or Gerik, that would be fantastic, but I will watch the next video with pleasure either way!

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you! :D I've been wanting to do a foot swordsman for a bit, but things haven't fallen into place yet for some reason. lol Soon enough I'll try to get one done.

[@tylerprince6371]

Why not a foot swordswoman? Marisa AKA The Crimson Flash

[@Scagh]

​@@tylerprince6371I totally forgot about Marisa! That's also a good choice, I agree

[@HayatoFuhaku]

6:36 That's actually a misconception. The game rolls for all stats on every level up, and doesn't take caps into consideration when judging whether it was blank or not. Getting the Angelic Robe as well as other star boosters will not help your growth (it might even make it look worse, since capped stats won't tell you they could've got a point), but I'd rather max stuff out sooner than later. In the end, it comes down to whether getting the item is worth the effort it takes, Note: This explanation applies to the GBA games only. FE10 has guaranteed level ups (something will increase if none of your uncapped stats are rolled favorably, bypassing growth rates), for example.

[@gidan1128]

It doesn't take caps into consideration? This is the first I've heard of that. Is this documented somewhere?

[@HayatoFuhaku]

@@gidan1128 I don't remember where I first heard of it (maybe a video by Mekkah), but I searched it up to double check and found a post on Serenes Forest which details how leveling up works on each game and it says exactly that. If you want to look it up, the post's title is "A deep dive into Level Up Mechanics".

[@gidan1128]

@@HayatoFuhaku Found it, thanks. That's good to know - wasn't aware of that.

[@Jyuratodus_Enjoyer]

Dozla would definitely say "FOR ROCK AND STONE!!!"

[@kratosmvn_]

Oh heck yeah he would!

[@jonnysmith8338]

If you max out HP, it's better for growths because you don't die as often.

[@entl8319]

This series just shows how good FE8 is, after all these years there are still very entertaining contents to make out of it

[@kratosmvn_]

Yes, it is still a very solid game imo. I'm glad you're enjoying the series :)

[@duusu2608]

As for the question of the worst pre-promote I nominate Syrene. But at least she has way higher speed and res than Dodge-la

[@isuckatgaming1873]

I think that she's the worst more just because she joins so late. In the context of this solo run series, she will probably preform similar to seth when Kratosmvn makes that run, and we all know how busted seth is.

[@kratosmvn_]

I think she'll perform better in the solo runs, but I guess it's still something we have to find out!

[@Luciusem]

I wonder when Ephraim is gonna make his appearance on this. Maybe as a bit of a series finale of sorts? Start with a lord, end with a lord?

[@kratosmvn_]

I already know when I'll be doing Ephraim ;)

[@memeteam8274]

ye, ephraim and seth get solo runs all the time in the fanbase. Should be easy, ive done both with like 1 fail across both.@@kratosmvn_

[@KieraQ0323]

I feel like Ephraim could be a bit too easy. Like trying to solo the game with Franz. He’ll just bulldoze the challenge after the third map or so with his 15 str and def and 50 avo

[@Luciusem]

@@KieraQ0323 But he's also locked to being unpromoted until beating chapter 16. I think it would still be interesting, not like he's _Seth_ or anything

[@jasonfox6932]

Honestly dozla placement is fine, because the fact that you had to reset for better growths rather than to change class or s rank proficiency is an inherent problem with dozla rather than decision making.

[@kratosmvn_]

Very true it was a reset based around a deficiency with the character itself and not me overlooking something.

[@tricmagic]

Nerd Dozla, suffers from a 1 point below average speed growth, crunches the numbers to make his way through, can't even double the Demon King with +5 SPD, has to drink an Elixir after fighting a dragon. Chad Dozla: Breezes through battles, blessed with SPD, dodges Stones, casually 1-taps a dragon, has no issues fighting the Demon King, and makes it look like a Sunday Stroll. (Even without the crit, the double strikes means he'd 2-round the Demon King given hit rate luck. Entirely dependent on doubling to make use of his high STR, at which point gg.)

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah Chad Dozla really made it look like a cake walk.

[@squidmanfedsfeds5301]

I’m enjoying the editing a lot in this one, dozlas dance and the montage Keep up the good stuff man

[@kratosmvn_]

I'm glad you enjoyed the editing. I always try to add little things depending on the character. :D

[@squidmanfedsfeds5301]

@@kratosmvn_ good way to spice up the videos and keep them spicy 👌

[@meltdownremix1996]

Dozla! One of those characters cursed to be probably unused unless someone either follows the intended rules and runs out of previous axe fighters or happens to be a big fan of him, and one of those characters that prove anyone can thrive in these games if blessed by RNG. It's been a while since you had to do a full reset to course correct said RNG, but that final triumph was so worth it. Revisiting Ross or some other initial character may be fun for like, a subscriber milestone special or some occasion like that, but until then I'm excited to see who'll be next.

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah Dozla showing that even he can do it after a small reset lol. You're right that revisiting my be better as a subscriber milestone!

[@justhenry2221]

Can we see a Joshua or knoll solo run soon?

[@kratosmvn_]

They are in the plans I'm not sure when, but hopefully soon enough.

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

Knoll

[@duusu2608]

Knoll, the Nerd

[@ezzenious9923]

It's been awhile since I played a full GBA Fire Emblem game but I remember specifically making sure to promote my units once they cap a stat, as I believed that once they capped a stat they stopped rerolling blank level ups. I'm learning from the comments that it apparently doesn't exactly work that way, it's just that leveling up a capped stat doesn't count as a blank level up and that's why it doesn't reroll. Regardless, I remember units only getting blank level ups when they have a capped stat, especially units like Rutger who can cap his speed and skill in like 2 levels lol. Like even in a solo run there's no way I'd leave that guy stuck at 20 speed for 10 levels and just have most of them be blank. I don't know if any of the Sacred Stones characters are as extreme a case as this but you could keep it in mind if an there ever is an unpromoted unit who happens to cap a dominant stat or two several levels early. Anyway I been enjoying binging these runs, I think I'm getting into FE again. :)

[@kratosmvn_]

So for a solo run, you"d still rather keep going for the 20/20 and that is because you'd rather get as much as possible from the unit so even if you get a few blank levels you"d rather have those and maybe get a few points in other stats here and there. I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos and hopefully you have fun getting back into FE

[@charsage1036]

From what I see even though capping hp doesn't effect growths but maxing hp early is still good for one character runs as that means they have more bulk earlier and their is zero diminishing returns later on other than potential money.

[@kratosmvn_]

True, and money doesn't matter that much in these runs as you can basically sell everything you're not using.

[@LiroRaeriyo]

@@kratosmvn_ i mean, increasing max HP early means more effective use of elixers on each map, that alone could be the key difference in any run.

[@DaniDoyle]

Capping out your HP does not actually affect the other growths in sacred stones, this is purely a mechanic from Radiant Dawn Bonus Experience. Technically, the game rerolls blank levels 1 time, but given the way in which GBA rolls stats using its fixed RNG strings, this doesn't actually get affected by capping HP (since HP is the first stat rolled)

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you for helping clarify. We had a lot of people mention something to this effect in the comments. Glad to have your help :)

[@TS-iq6dt]

When/if you do rennac are you gonna abuse the membership card to buy stat increasing items? Even just for a joke re-run at the end?

[@duusu2608]

That would be so funny. But since every unit replaces Eirika, he could always recruit Rennac for 9900 Gold and use the member card

[@kratosmvn_]

The secret shops in sacred stones don't sell stat boosters so I can't do that for this game.

[@duusu2608]

@@kratosmvn_ True, we mixed that up. They only sell them in creature campaign

[@FigaroBrothers]

I might be wrong on this, but afaik stat level ups are independent from one another and having a maxed out hp shouldn't affect any other stat growth whatsoever. The game doesn't decide the number of stat boost and then where they go. Instead, for each stat it rolls a d100-1 and compares the result to the growth rate, increasing the stat only if the result on the dice is lower than the growth rate (with the exception of growth rates above 100, in which case it chooses between a +1 or a +2 by comparing to growth-100). The only thing that might be affected is that a maxed out stat is potentially skipped during the rng calls, meaning that a stat's rng value is used for the next one instead. But that changes nothing about the expected gains, it just enables some potentially stronger/easier rng manipulations. And even then I don't think this is the case: it's quite likely that the rng call is still made but no stat is increased regardless of the result.

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you for the clarification. I do believe you are right as I've had a couple other similar comments to yours!

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

Ok, it answers at least one question. I always wondered if you can die to poison damage.^^

[@Baine53]

Ross truly is Best Axe User

[@kratosmvn_]

There is a reason we call him Ross the Boss

[@delmattia96]

Ha ha ha! I couldn't have asked for a better ending!

[@YVray]

Dozla was also one of my favorite characters as a kid, him and Joshua always found spots in my party. I think the two metrics missing from your stats are 1) total completion time (as in, playtime it took to get the credits to roll, which in this case would count the entire first run and the many deaths and retries) and 2) total deaths. The key factor in Dozla's low placement was that frustrating first run, but in the stats it's just represented as a single reset.

[@kratosmvn_]

Those two are a little harder to calculate as total time would require me to keep a clock and sometimes I have to pause in between moments in the run for whatever I need to do and total deaths are sometimes an indicator and sometimes are just a result of me doing something dumb or trying something or simply being inattentive while doing the run cause I'm watching something at the same time and in certain sections I'm a little bit on autopilot. So it wouldn't be impossible to track, but it would not be inaccurate information I think that wouldn't contribute to much more understanding of what happend.

[@StormEagleCH]

Day 288 of support for Knoll This run was brought to you by 45% accurate Stones

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you for 288 days of support :D 45% accurate stones have been haunting my nightmares.

[@Andrew-ht2br]

I did enjoy Dozla my first time playing, but he died by the end of chapter 15. I was stuck on that level for quite some time and I didn't want to restart when I saw the win. I had Ross as a backup "Big axe man", who was my favourite character at the time. Summoner Ewan was also up there for me.

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah it's a bearable lost given that you have Ross, lol

[@TheLeviathan1293]

6:52 I remember when you cap a lot of stuff your chance of blank level ups increases. What I guess happens is the game can still choose the stats you have capped.

[@ThatGuyThai]

Your perseverance to go back and do the run when you were met with a wall is noticed MVN!

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you thank you 😀

[@QuickSilverKitsune]

7:10 Iirc, the reason to max out one early is due to the fact a good chunk of FE games reroll empty level ups(can't remember the exact amount) So if you use a Robe to clear 7 level ups where you might just get HP, all the other stats get another shot at being rerolled if everything else misses, resulting in better growths all around, especially for the lower chance stats, since they get more then one roll

[@kasai999000]

It may seem like capping a Stat increases chances of other stats increase. From what I know (could be very wrong) each stat rolls individually when lvling up based on growths. If it rolls a 30/100 and has a 30% growth then it would go up.

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah, a lot of people have brought this up, but thank you for helping clarifying things!

[@kasai999000]

@kratosmvn_ ah my apologies.

[@kratosmvn_]

@kasai999000 No worries, I appreciate the input nonetheless :)

[@TheLeviathan1293]

2:46 Yeahhh, your Amelia had 11 speed as a level 1 cavalier lol

[@kratosmvn_]

She was FAST!

[@WolfBergMenace]

Dozla is a Berserker Berserker is my favorite class Enough reason to use him every time!

[@kratosmvn_]

Berserker is one of the best classes, so full marks there from me

[@SolusEmsu]

I remember there being something to capped stats being good for other growths in Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, but I think that was specifically for levels gained through bonus EXP. I do not think there is any extra bonus for capping stats on the GBA games, or if there is it is very small. Either way, I want my green glowy numbers! ahaha

[@kratosmvn_]

Hahaha yeah you're right others brought my attention to it, but I do agree that green glowy numbers are 100% worth it.

[@michael_betts]

What you are thinking of is radiant dawn bonus exp levels guaranteed 3 stats to go up, so it was best for most units to cap their good stats asap and then get their bad stats to go up with bonus exp. You can manipulate most units to cap all/most stats if you do it right and are willing to spend the bonus exp on them.

[@Mr.Boo60]

do we include remakes on the numerical FE count? would FE 12 be Fates or awakening? or if we include the japan exclusive shadow dragon sequal would Awakening be 13? Everything is clear to be before shadow dragon remake

[@kratosmvn_]

Yes we generally include the remakes when using the numerical identifier.

[@bob4960]

22:43 "All the heggs are atching" lmao

[@kratosmvn_]

😂😂😂

[@alexandersutherland798]

Dozla, a princess!? Dozla would actually believe that. 🤣

[@kratosmvn_]

Hell yeah he would, lol 😎

[@SuperGoldenFlash]

Chad second dozla said fuck the demon king

[@kratosmvn_]

Second Dozla said: "fuck your time Kratos" 😂

[@Znwarp]

Aah, team killer dozla.. this should be cathartic

[@kratosmvn_]

This, unfortunately, was not cathartic :(

[@quickpawmaud]

I love his death quote. I have never used Dozla but that makes me want to use him.

[@TheMoogleKing93]

You say he has poor stats, but forgot the most important stat of all; Facial Hair.

[@kratosmvn_]

You know what you're right. He deserves extra points for that!

[@PatrickleMorse]

Also wow, Dozla 2 has amazing stats :O

[@kratosmvn_]

He was a real monster!

[@Chunkosaurus]

How telling is the endgame that we are at gorgon's 15 minutes into a 45 minute video 😂

[@kratosmvn_]

It says a lot about the endgame LMAO

[@averysimmons2478]

Thanks for another vid Kratos, what you doin' next?

[@kratosmvn_]

No problem, thank you for watching. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but the next video we'll do something a tiny bit different :)

[@Scorpion62121]

Capped stats give an advantage to level ups in radiant dawn I don’t think the same is true in sacred stones. Radiant dawn has a different level up process

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah, that's what a few people have been saying.

[@metroid7299]

Are you planning on doing a Knoll solo run in the future?

[@kratosmvn_]

Yes I am for sure.

[@hajoeijgenraam295]

I only started appreciating dozla when i did iron mans. Usually you will just always have units that are better than him to fill out the deployment slots. If those units die, you turn to replacement units, and dozla is such a beautiful replacement unit. He's just so...alright. He doesn't really double but doesn't usually get doubled either. He doesn't always hit, but does it often enough. He one rounds sometimes when he gets a crit, but not always. He has a big pool of hp but won't shrug off hits either. Awesomely designed filler unit.

[@kratosmvn_]

I agree, he works as an awesome filler unit if you need someone to step in late game.

[@deejmateo832]

I would still love to see a natasha only run, but with mods that allow her to use light magic as cleric. Lol

[@kratosmvn_]

That could be fun, it's one of the only ways to make the healers possible.

[@holovalorant]

Love these videos! Keep them coming! :)

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you like them! :D

[@johntravolta4563]

I thought you could surpass stat caps by delaying the use of Stat items until the unit organically hits the cap. Ex: waiting to use angelic robe until the hp is at 60 to bypass that limit and increase it to 67

[@kratosmvn_]

I don't think that is something you can do.

[@avenblair4384]

Love your content !!!! Would love to see you do a Joshua/cole run !!!!

[@kratosmvn_]

Thank you! I'm very happy to know you enjoy it! :) I've been meaning to do one of those soon.

[@RudolReverie]

I have a suggestion for a future solo run, if you're interested I feel like a Colm solo would be very interesting, due to how normally weak he is you would probably have to go into Assassin for Lethality to do much of anything, though

[@bad_ill5626]

I tried Colm run but ended the run immediately lol coz he can't do anything to the chapter 2 boss (knight).

[@GaIeforce]

@@bad_ill5626 He would need multiple Str levelups, multiple Skl levelups (so that he could crit), Borrow Seth's Steel Sword, and pray to lady luck that he gets multiple 1% crits on that boss. And hope he doesn't miss. And hope he dodges. That... sounds painful.

[@RudolReverie]

just get lucky lmao /j

[@kratosmvn_]

I'm very interested in getting Colm going at some point it should be an interesting run!

[@RudolReverie]

I feel like it might take some save-scumming and, if it's possible to get far enough, grind using the steal loop in Ch. 4 I believe? I mean the one where you normally get Colm

[@christianacosta4013]

always love neimi, always spend the time and resources every playthrough. I know she's not breaking any record but would love to see if its possible if she can do it.

[@kratosmvn_]

Neimi will be by far one the most interesting runs imo.

[@EEVEE_fan16]

So kratosMVN which one was worse ? Playing the whole game with only dozla or losing l,archele(i definitely mispelled) in your ironman because dozla doesnt know what the word „bodyguard” means

[@kratosmvn_]

I think this one was worse because Chapter 18 is a thing 😂

[@EEVEE_fan16]

@@kratosmvn_ do you think knoll only will be worse ?

[@kratosmvn_]

No, I actually think Knoll will do much better than Dozla.

[@JoshuaPAMployee]

SS needs a remake because Dozla suffers majorily from art not matching sprite. XD

[@kratosmvn_]

And the only thing they change is Dozla's Sprite lmao.

[@raven6717]

That ending was the funniest it could have been oh my lord

[@kratosmvn_]

It sent me because I was soooo mad at first and then just couldn't stop laughing.

[@entl8319]

Is it possible to do a Moulder solo run? Perhaps make him an Erika Lord from prologue with his stats and growths. And then solo chapters till he gets promoted back to a priest himself? Don't know if it is doable or counts as a valid solo run.

[@kratosmvn_]

Moulder vanilla wise would be impossible, but for healers I'm willing to do some shenanigans to make some stuff work, but we'll see how I'd categorise those.

[@MyBeatenHeart]

i would love to see a video about l'arachel. because she is exactly that kind of character who would think she could do it all on her own 😅. but since she fails by default, the question is, which rules could still make an interesting challenge, here. my first idea would have been a trio challenge of l'arachel, dozla, and rennac. but since we now know dozla can solo it, maybe JUST rennac and l'arachel? think about it: can rennac take enough damage to give her the opportunity to level up? can we get her all the way to level 20, or will we need to promote her sooner? intriguing... 🤔

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah, I'm still thinking about an interesting angle for the healer runs because they will need some help in some way lol

[@anonimzwx]

when you do a reset, i think you should show a comparison between previews char and new char, also i think in the table, chars with reset should show also the sum of the play time between both runs.

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah sum of the play time could be a good way to put, but I have to think about it for sure.

[@tatocraftv]

darius the coqueror backstory

[@pieoverlord]

When you hit the first Lyon fight within 15 minutes but there's half an hour left... woof, you know something went bad. How does the Demon King's AI work? Could you have got him in a loop of summoning reinforcements on his turn rather than attacking?

[@kratosmvn_]

Yep, it was kind of bare bones until the end there! The demon king AI depends on how many people are in his range, but his first move will always be a spawning of reinforcement and I've never seen him do it twice so I don't think you make him use that ability twice.

[@pieoverlord]

@@kratosmvn_ Well he has been resummoning enemies even during these solo runs, so it can't be entirely based on number of player units, right? If you sit outside his range and just spam end turn, what does he do? Because if there is a consistent turn count pattern, you might be able to save yourself some trouble in the future.

[@kratosmvn_]

@pieoverlord sorry, maybe I wasn't clear, haha. He will always summon on his first turn whether you sit in his range or not. He will then never summon again for the rest of the fight (as far as I've tested, I've never seen him summon a second time). If you sit outside his range, he simply will not move and only attack and move if you are in his range. If there are multiple units in his range he has an attack that can hit multiple target that he will sometimes use.

[@pieoverlord]

@@kratosmvn_ Nah, you were clear - I could just swear up and down that he has summoned more than once on at least one of these solo runs. Maybe I'm nuts and you're right though.

[@LiroRaeriyo]

@@kratosmvn_ Excelblem encountered a scenario where the demon king summoned more rounds of monsters so its very much possible for him to do so, but he had his whole army sitting on him so its likely got something to do with unit count, it had also used nightmare up already so it might be based on wanting to use nightmare but not having it anymore instead defaults to summoning another batch of units.

[@gaminggoddess85]

Even Garm can't save a subpar speed unit 😢

[@kratosmvn_]

Even the power of the all mighty Garm was not enough to save Dozla (at first).

[@zavinzagg]

So yeah thats not how growths work, when you level, each stat uses an rn if you're within your growth rate it goes up. The only case where maxing a stat increases your growths is technically when the game has a min +1 stat on level.

[@malorivandervaart5823]

the angelic robe does make it better cause each stat is rolled individually but if no stats get a growth it rerolles them ALL so it reduces the chance NOTHING else grows but its pretty minor but usefull nonethe less

[@kratosmvn_]

Yeah seems I was wrong in my assumption, but at least it helps on a minor level haha

[@fluffymcfluffington3188]

So when are we getting the Knoll only run?

[@kratosmvn_]

At some point ;)

[@chaossnowkitsune6377]

Now 30 minutes in and just starting the final chapter and there is still 15 minutes left? Oh dear

[@kratosmvn_]

That is the feeling I wanted to convey because that's how I felt when starting the final map lol

[@BR-dj1bo]

Will we see Solo runs of Andaron saga in the future maybe?

[@kratosmvn_]

No, I will not play Andaron Saga.

[@BR-dj1bo]

Fair enough.

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

Dozla was your favorite character in this game? Don't worry, we all make mistakes. I'll let you guess who my favorite was.

[@pk5727]

Makes sense about stats just don’t know if true.

[@kratosmvn_]

It is actually not true unfortunately. Lots of comments corrected my theory :)

[@donnybravo1953]

Still waiting for the knoll run my guy 😂

[@kratosmvn_]

Knoll? I've never heard of him... sorry 👀😂

[@bad_ill5626]

I never use dozla and Seeing your run proves my childhood decision was right. Thanks for the confirmation 😂

[@kratosmvn_]

😂😂😂 your young self was wise beyond their years lmao.

[@0xx0_Lester]

can you do caellach?

[@kratosmvn_]

At some point I'll ty

[@breaking4me]

Can't wait for the knoll only run

[@kratosmvn_]

Lots of people are waiting for it!

[@TheDreamAnimus]

Im just waiting for the Gerik run

[@kratosmvn_]

The Gerik run is gonna be legendary!

[@vinnygambini7790]

Can we have a joshua run next?

[@kratosmvn_]

I don't know about next, but eventually for sure.

[@DMaster8686]

Probably a dumb question, but how do you change the main character in that game to be the one you want to play with?

[@kratosmvn_]

Not a dumb question! I encourage you to look on my channel there is a video where I show you how to switch characters around, It's called : How To EASILY Make Your Own Solo Run

[@DMaster8686]

@@kratosmvn_ Thank you

[@HungryTaco34]

Did I just hear Knoll run next ?

[@kratosmvn_]

You heard wrong I think... or maybe you haven't 👀

[@concipiente]

Worst/most dangerous question: is there one with an archer?.is that even possible?

[@quickpawmaud]

Just gotta rig resistance every level up

[@BR-dj1bo]

Next do a CYBFE:SS with Knoll!

[@kratosmvn_]

Maybe next.., maybe last... 😉

[@FuchsFalke]

I can't wait to see an archer run lol

[@kratosmvn_]

Oooof, it's gon be rough.

[@chaossnowkitsune6377]

22 minutes in and this is going about as well as I expected.

[@kratosmvn_]

😂😂😂

[@littlekuribohimposte]

Still pulling for a Knoll run! And as much of a Lute stan I am, her being in A+ sounds fair.

[@kratosmvn_]

I think everyone wants Knoll. Yeah it didn't feel right to put her on that level.

[@littlekuribohimposte]

@@kratosmvn_ Eveyone wants Knoll because you meme on him so hard every time. You created this

[@kratosmvn_]

I know what I did 😂😎

[@jodywiwi]

still waiting for my prince knoll

[@kase6491]

I love dozla as a character... As a unit... He sucks for a pre-promote. He's also the biggest troll when it comes to solo runs XD. I think we need another sword unit for the tier list *cough* colm *cough*

[@kratosmvn_]

He's an amazing character for sure! But he did troll us hard, lol. We've gotten a few Colm demands in this video 👀

[@catman9222]

Nah, go Marissa. Suffer.

[@coldeed]

​@@catman9222tbh half the problems with Marissa is join time and class. But her starting in the prologue and having no competition for energy rings will boost her up quite a lot

[@LordZylok]

Dozla might be kinda mediocre unit in the grand scheme of things. But I have grown an appriciation for him everytime I iron-man Sacred Stones. My Ross tends to to get speed-screwed at some point of the game, and a surpise double-attack kills him, so Dozla always comes in handy as the go-to Garm wielder. Throwing him at Fomortis and hoping for a crit with Garm is always a good time.

[@anonimzwx]

an interesting run would be assassin colm with 0 str and full luck

[@kratosmvn_]

Man, that'd be crazy fun lol

[@KiwiiPuma]

Spoilers* My guess was that you would need to reset, I am impressed on the Finale luck. The growths comment I think is only true on Tellius series when using the Bonus Exp in RD; when you Level Up vía Bonus Exp you always have a fixed +3 stats gain so once you cap some stats it will always Increase those that arent capped. Love your series❤

[@kratosmvn_]

It was good guess given how things turned out! I'm happy you love this series 😀

[@andreimiguellocanas2207]

When is seth solo run

[@entl8319]

Yeah, I am been waiting anxiously for Seth. I know it is not a challenge but whatever. Seth is the symbol of FE8. Any FE8 video series has to include a Seth episode.

[@rogermario3680]

Honestly, I think it's better for the series to make the growths fixed. You are trying to compare units and it's hard to do it when you get blessed or screwed. I know it's part of the fun to know the luck you had, but I don't think it's the way. Anyway, keep the good work, I love this videos!

[@kratosmvn_]

The thing is having fixed growths kind of boils it down to an almost mathematical equation whether it's possible to beat the game or not. And some units like Dozla would be me hoping for crit luck in the end and that would be a little bit less interesting to me. But thank you for the advice and kind words :)

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

Did you literally just decide to show us hours of dolza falling to an army of monsters 😂. ( idk his character but he said he couldn't imagine a better ending and im concerned for his mental health )

[@kratosmvn_]

Yep, haha I wanted to properly convey how tough this actually was lol (dude is a berserker through and through)