Fire Emblem Engage - Complete Character Guide

[@BigKlingy]

For all those who've seen these before, I've fixed a few mistakes (fittingly, I'd forgotten Bunet had +1 to his Luck cap) and added some new info to Celine (comments pointed out the Marth and Sigurd thing and I felt it needed mentioning), and tiny extra to Kagetsu's because lol. Editing this together made me realize how much I miss this cast. I've realized that this is probably my favourite cast in the series gameplay-wise. Although there's some balance issues, everyone is usable as both a short-term and long-term unit and besides the trainees everyone joins at a good level for their chapter so can easily slot into a team. Also, I just found out Engage has surpassed Three Houses (which itself had surpassed Xenoblade 2 AND 3) as my most-played Switch game!

[@megamanzero29]

What are you top 3 most played switch games? Mine are: 1. Pokemon Legends Arceus 250 hours 2. Mario Kart 8 190 hours 3. Fire emblem engage 170 hours

[@OrionTempest1]

Mine looks to be: 1. Skyrim (765 hours) 2. Pokemon Violet (605 hours) 3. Monster Hunter Rise (530 hours) Honorary mention to the KZbin app at 2730 hours thanks to watching a lot of videos on my Switch while recovering from surgery back in 2019.

[@imthethriller]

Noice

[@itssovalentine]

Love that when you talk about Boucheron, the first chain attacking character, you change the BGM to the chain attack theme from Xenoblade 3

[@Marckillius]

I'm so glad someone else noticed that, hahahaha

[@SomeAsian]

This game has no balancing issues. Kagetsu: PRECISION AND POWER

[@nachohangover5104]

Pannette: 100 crit "You looking down on me?!"

[@skeletonwar4445]

​@@nachohangover5104 Hey at least Panette is balanced by needing a high investment build to get a big payoff. Kagetsu is balanced by... being only a good unit instead of a great one for like 2 chapters?

[@thunderknight4149]

Pandreo: BEG FOR FORGIVENESS

[@TheApolloJustice]

Love his crits​@@thunderknight4149

[@oneclout6643]

I like how Rosado's portrait and personal skill photo are making the same pose

[@Bamboo_bazooka]

“surprisingly deadly alpaca” clearly words uttered by someone who has never met one

[@BigKlingy]

I can believe that. A lot of those kinds of animals are brutal.

[@TheApolloJustice]

Amber Wolf Knight carried me my last playthrough, dodgetank doubler AND strong???

[@AdrianArmaclat]

A fun fact i learned about the dlc dragon siblings: they can use Veyle's obscurite tome, which is more significant for Nel as it is for Rafal, since she has the better mag stat and can actually be a really decent lance mage knight that way

[@AvelineMelena]

I had no idea about that, it's pretty cool

[@BigKlingy]

Ah, so it being "Fell Dragons only" isn't just for show. Given Sombron can use it, that makes sense.

[@thel-iteralone4592]

What makes their imbalancing even more stupid is that Kagetsu and Bunet join in back to back chapters.

[@BigKlingy]

At least Kagetsu has to wait a few chapters for a good reclass, if you don't have the DLC. (Though then you lose the awesome Swordmaster crit animation)

[@degreeskelvin3025]

​@@BigKlingythat animation is the best thing abt the swordmaster class. Look how they massacred my boy 🥲

[@creativename1673]

@@BigKlingy He's good enough to make Swordmaster work anyway (as in, he's still good, but not borderline gamebreaking), and keeping the drip outweighs any potential drawbacks this decision might have If you're winning without looking stylish, are you really winning at all?

[@FUTBALLZAK]

Swear to god Engage was made without reclassing in mind (exception Jean who was a late addition.) Everything makes so much more sense if that's the case, like Bunet having low personal bases to compensate for high class bases and Pandreo having high personal bases to compensate for low class bases, or Kagetsu being balanced by being stuck in a bad class.

[@BigKlingy]

@@FUTBALLZAK Or Rosado being the only Wyvern you get.

[@NxAngel13]

persona music behind Yunaka? He knew what he was doing. Instant 10/10

[@BigKlingy]

Same VA as Yoshizawa and kinda looks like her. Fights similarly too. (Personality is VERY different though. Laura Post is seriously an amazing VA.)

[@Sonrio25]

Celine’s Luck is actually really when used with Staves and Divine Pulse. She single handedly held off the bosses in 17 with Freeze so I could do them 1 by 1.

[@donovanhadley2209]

Framme ended up being my Amber. There's just something funny about a child punching armored enemies to death. Also don't get in her way because, *"SHE'S ON A MISSION!"*

[@kirbattaque1123]

Yeah in late game I still had her and she started hitting like a truck

[@bradleyharris774]

I've been waiting for something like this because I'm seriously considering buying Engage for Christmas so this will be very handy. Can't wait for the Emblem Bio Compilation (assuming you make that).

[@BigKlingy]

That's kind of what I was hoping. That this could be a resource to people. I'm not intending this to be about full-on efficiency, just "here's what each character is good/bad at, if you want to use them." I'll probably do the Emblems at some point.

[@crazyrabbit23]

On Panette: Her Proficiency in Knives makes it so that she gets S knives as a wolf knight, which is honestly nice since you can get both S rank knives from the story. Wolf Knight patches up her speed issue pretty well. When I did Maddening I had Wolf Knight Panette (with Wrath!) paired with Lucina, giving her the extra speed and dex she wants, along with a nice bonus of being able to dual assist poison.

[@FUTBALLZAK]

Panette, Ike, Wolf Knight, Steel Dagger Corrin Engrave, Speed +3, Gentility+. Try it, trust.

[@Edgeperor]

Why would Panette need speed, she has reliable one-shot builds

[@FUTBALLZAK]

@@Edgeperor Because this is a different build built around having 90% Crit instead of 100% on a 1-2 range weapon but having 2 opps to double, plus it's cheap and there isn't much else to spend 500 SP on, plus extra speed means doubled less means tankier Ike user.

[@LoudWaffle]

Panette wolf knight looks really good, but I can’t resist the urge to make her a vantage berserker with 100 crit everytime 😅

[@skeletonwar4445]

​​@@LoudWaffleBetter to do that with Warrior than Berserker though The only thing Berserker has over Warrior is getting to keep Panette's drip intact... which might just be worth it...

[@tannbenson3131]

Really enjoyed watching your play-through! These Bios are one of the best parts! Very thorough and interesting!

[@BigKlingy]

Thanks! Really enjoyed making this too.

[@diegoranier2577]

This kind of content makes me regain hope in humanity. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

[@owen9456]

I love the choice of xenoblade 3 chain attack for boucheron its too perfect

[@Yarharsuperpirate]

Lindon also makes amazing use of the Olwen ring with his personal skill. Since at that point in the game, it will always be active with a basic thunder tome required for dire thunder He can be a critical hit powerhouse with that

[@BigKlingy]

I believe I actually used him like that once.

[@tristanbowles7258]

Also fun fact, all emblem weapons are E rank. Which means Lindon can have some stupidly funny Engage nuke builds. I think I heard Griffon Knight Lindon with Byleth can go stupidly hard. But yeah, he is amazing with Olwen and a crit engrave thunder tome. He was very fun in my Hard run.

[@Lucas17031]

Just... thank you so much for these bios Both these and the emblem ones

[@crocworks]

Just noticed we've got the Xenoblade 3 Chain Attack music when talking about Boucheron's chain attacks. :)

[@BigKlingy]

I had to.

[@TheSmithPlays]

Using the GBA Emblem music for Anna is so incredibly based of you

[@BigKlingy]

Looking for music to use for this, I forgot how many good songs Annas shops have had. Especially Shadow Dragon having a different theme for the Secret Shop.

[@brickwallace99]

I appreciate the chain attack music at chain attacking boucheron

[@radiantgoddess8881]

thank you so much for this ive been watching your vids since awakening and i will say my fav playthrough of yours is lost dimension!

[@BigKlingy]

Wow, been a while since someone mentioned that one. I've thought about that game a few times. It had a unique premise and a lot of good ideas, and a decent PC port. But it ended up mostly forgotten, sadly.

[@radiantgoddess8881]

i wouldnt say forgotten ;m; more so like a hidden gem or diamond in the rough!@@BigKlingy

[@Sean_Bird]

Always nice to have all the bios in one spot. And the thumbnail is too true.

[@Wildestleaf]

Okay, screw it, im not going to lie. I ~subbed~ as soon as I heard the Zelkov reading.

[@Sigismund697]

I find it funny how I used Kagetsu on his introductory chapter and never again but Bunet became a mainstay on my team, the dude is a wall and became my defacto tank alongside Louis

[@LoudWaffle]

Funnily enough if you reclassed Kagetsu to Great Knight, he’d be bulkier than Bunet (equal HP, +3 defense, +7 speed, + every other stat) 😅

[@kirbattaque1123]

​@@LoudWafflethis guy is way too strong

[@MakuraZalis]

Honestly, Celine is so slept on. She rocks as her personal advanced class. Nothing is better than a princess mage that's kinda tanky that can warp to an enemy to blast them away

[@marlo3536]

When me and my buddy got access to the dlc, we both pretty much decided simultaniously that Anna would become our cannoneer. After that, she proceeded to pay the tuitions required for the other cannonners in my army (in his, she payed for other reclasses and mainly equipment upgrades). Once the luck gets high enough the gold starts flowin good lol

[@BigKlingy]

It's funny, I've trained Anna in a lot of runs and she still rarely activates her personal skill. But I've mostly used her as a Warrior.

[@OrionTempest1]

Just hit endgame; really enjoyed my playthrough. Final team: (Gave the Pact Ring to Saphir) Divine Dragon Alear (Roy) Swordmaster Anna (Tiki) Great Knight Jade (Hector) Halberdier Saphir (Ike) Sage Clanne (Soren) High Priest Framme (Veronica) Griffin Knight Rosado (Lucina) Wolf Knight Yunaka (Edelgard) Swordmaster Lapis (Chrom) Berserker Jean (Byleth) Dance Seadall (Sigurd) Sniper Etie (Lyn) Sage Lindon (Micaiah) Fell Child Veyle (Celica) I really like how between Emblems and the ability to reclass into anything you want with a little effort, combined with the fact that there isn't really any situation that goes "train as or you're screwed", means you're free to experiment and have fun with your teams. You could even go ahead and do -only challenge runs if you're so inclined. I want to do another playthrough eventually, but I *did* promise I'd let my roommate borrow my copy once I beat the game. :P And fun fact: Berserker Jean with Starsphere is one of the few units in the game that has a chance of getting +2 in a stat on level (in this case, HP).

[@BigKlingy]

Saphir Pact Ring is something I've never seen before, but that's cool. Also Swordmaster Anna is interesting. Levin Swords, maybe?

[@OrionTempest1]

@@BigKlingy Yeah - I went with Swordmaster because I wanted a good LUK cap; Swordmaster has the second highest non-DLC (37, while High Priest has 38 and Enchanter has 42), while still being a Backup class for support. Helped that Swordmaster actually has the second highest MAG cap out of all the Backup classes, even though it -is- just a measly 25. She ended up capping everything for me while gold farming, being able to solo maps (that don't have lots of Backups) with 87 HP, 58 LUK, 149 Avoid (up to 179 on terrain), and Lifesphere + Unyielding for healing off stray hits and chain attacks. She can't one-round most enemies at this point of the game though, and High Priest enemies have enough RES to take single digit damage from her Levin Sword, but Tiki can clean those up after clearing out everything else since they can't hit her to begin with. My Pact Ring choices ended up between Saphir and Rosado, tbh.

[@andresalasthemessenger]

Been awhile for the Character Guides for them being Recruitable the last time I watch of theirs so.. That's very nice. Including the DLC Fell Xenologue units..

[@Tuinuiski]

This is such a good guide, easy to follow, better than the other ones I've seen (mostly tier lists).

[@BigKlingy]

I've never been a fan of tier lists, since I don't think they make sense for single-player games. Most units in Fire Emblem do very different things for you and it's hard to compare their roles, like some tier lists rate Thieves extremely high just for the items/chests they steal despite their bad combat. I prefer to show the characters stats, growths and skills and give an overview of their individual strengths and weaknesses. Also I don't like to judge people for using "low-tier" units, it's single-player, you can use whoever you want.

[@Tuinuiski]

​@@BigKlingyAnyway, great guide, thanks for making this.

[@AzureDrag0nKnight]

I started a new playthrough recently, and I chose to use some characters I never used long term or at all in my previous runs. Like Chloe, Etie, Citrinne, and Bunet (…yes him. Also, lol thumbnail!). Citrinne’s been an excellent Sage especially with Byleth equipped. Etie’s tough to use because of her starting rut, but making her Warrior temporarily really fixed her. Chloe’s done…Good Enough? I’ve had to rewind a lot for her because she kept dying, but she’s improved in the later half with the help of a Lyn/Sigurd skill combo. Hopefully that’ll stick. And finally Bunet, I gave him a Speedwing after he joined, and he’s surprisingly gained speed on most of his levels, although his strength is lacking as a draw back. Otherwise, he’s been doing his job well enough as a mobile tank. Even gained some appreciation for him as a character in some of his supports, he’s actually quite wholesome when he’s not wanting to lick everything. Watching your playthrough motivated me to play this game more, and you taught me a lot of neat tricks that have worked wonders for this run. Thank you for this BigKlingy. 👍

[@BigKlingy]

A lot of comments have pointed out that Bunet does have SOME good supports, such as with Jean. I'll need to look more into them.

[@dead_byte]

I was surprised to hear the comments about Timerra. In all of my playthroughs, she always very quickly becomes one of my best units - particularly as a tank. A few level ups in her base class, and she becomes practically unkillable having really good Defense, Resistance, and Avoid. Paired with an Emblem that has Defense capabilities, such as Ike, Corrin, or Hector, she becomes an incredible unit for baiting enemies to their death. I find that she’s especially deadly when outfitted with a Killer Lance and a Spear to switch between depending on the situation. In doing this, it allows her to bait and just absolutely _obliterate_ hordes of enemies, or at least weaken them significantly so that other allies can quickly follow up.

[@BigKlingy]

A lot of people really like Timerra. And I do too, a lot. I've used her in most of my runs. She takes work, and I personally wish her concept was handled a little better. She DOES hold her own in her join chapter on Maddening, which is impressive.

[@donovanhadley2209]

8:05 Man, this line really did age well

[@jaredfayette2567]

The power of #Clanne4Endgame will forever live on thanks to Klingy's LP. Xp

[@megamanzero29]

Clanne the MVP of the playthrough

[@lisasemarron5413]

Clanne is better than Celine xD right me

[@TheJaredPunch]

Clanne, how did he get this strong? In hindsight, I did wish Céline and Hortensia got screentime in this Playthrough

[@Sean_Bird]

Clanne, forever the man.

[@seanchoiselat3237]

Love the use of Xenoblade 3's chain attack for Boucheron's section

[@WatcherOfYoutube]

> Take Over during Yunaka's section ***We love to see it.***

[@BigKlingy]

Hot take: Take Over > Last Surprise.

[@WatcherOfYoutube]

@@BigKlingy Not even a hot take, you're right.

[@matt6888]

While there are obviously units that stand above others, what i really like about this FE, is that all units are viable and can become good for maddening.

[@BigKlingy]

Totally agree. I've used an untrained Anna on Maddening for Chain Attack support in Chapter 10. It's really amazing how balanced Maddening is.

[@humanpotato17]

just want to say that I appreciate your use of the chain attack music from Xenoblade 3

[@BigKlingy]

Anyone who's played XB3 will have already heard it a billion times, but... Chain Attacks are good in Engage and Boucheron is basically "early Chain Attacks, the character."

[@radiantherooftellius1138]

This is awesome what u put out, its a nice guide for everyone, i am looking foreard to the chloé and goldmary one, its nice to see what units skills and bases are and how they will impact the game

[@DiegoG2004]

Behold as we go over the cast again, see who is trying to powercreep who and why Kagetsu is absolutely busted

[@hoshinokirbyenjoyer]

mage knight anna absolutely carried my maddening run during late game with fairly little investment. the extra money was also really helpful!

[@F0rs4k3nR0gu3]

Love this guide! Just getting into engage and this was hugely helpful. Thanks!!!

[@BigKlingy]

Glad it helped!

[@F0rs4k3nR0gu3]

@@BigKlingy I felt overwhelmed with all the units and how best to use them, but this provides such clarity. Im on chapter 10 and reclassing some of my units as you suggested, Im taking etie to axe fighter > warrior, and taking Louis to Lance fighter > halberdier. Really smart suggestions weaning off armor units for a more player-phase focused team, and not doing Anna as a sage because of her horrendous base mag. Overall just a really thoughtful guide that helped tremendously.

[@SonicTheHedgedawg]

It's been a while, but I think I put tiki on seadall since dance is one of the few (if not only?) Class skills you can use while transformed so it lets him dance and put himself in danger to do so with Tiki’s tanky transform

[@LAZERAK47V2]

This is what I've been doing too, it lets Seadall be much more aggressive with his Dancing. He can also still use Chain Guard if he has to. Having a tanky Dancer really helps enable the rest of the team. Sometimes things go South and you need him in a risky spot, Engaging with Tiki almost guarantees he won't be targeted.

[@alexeltroll]

Timerra works when you get her Class ability after level 5 that basically makes her a Critical Hit machine. Her dexterity becomes her chances landing a critical blow. She is a Frontliner that has saved my army a couple of times but I admit it took me a while to understand how she works

[@myst1741]

I am here to tell you all of my lord and savior... Yunaka. It is. INCREDIBLY fun to have such an absurd dodge tank xD Who got blessed by RNG on her growths. She saved my Xenologue clears even without them thanks to Leif and Marth giving her massive avoid bonuses. Along with Lyn's speedtaker. I was able to have her take down one half of the map while everyone else was doing the other side, lol. I'm relying pretty heavily on her in Maddening as well. And if the enemies try to avoid attacking her. Well then they're still getting picked off, it just takes longer. LOL!

[@masterdreamer7848]

Hmmmm. I'm looking at Anna's growths, and seeing that she has high dex and speed, she could pull off being a Sniper or Bow Knight while using the Radiant Bow. I might try that in my next playthrough, along with trying Clanne as a Thief (unlucky magic growths) or a sword Wolf Knight (lucky magic growths.)

[@BigKlingy]

Probably. Anna can do a decent number of builds.

[@Afellowfromfaraway]

On my first playthrough I was messing around with Emblems and gave Celica to Louis it was quite fun to play around with and with a few good level ups and he even got some Magic level ups causing him to hit harder it was quite fun

[@floris1111]

Surprised you didn't mention the busted Framme/Lucina dual guard build. She will have so much evade due to her supports enemies won't attack her while she makes the people next to her completely immune to damage

[@BigKlingy]

I alluded to that, with saying how she supports a lot of really good characters. Basically I was trying not to spoil exactly when Emblems were obtained until after you get them, so I didn't want to DIRECTLY mention the Framme/Lucina build but did allude to it a few times. (Mentions of "the Chapter 11 Emblem")

[@jaimereupert4247]

That's what I went with. 😊

[@donovanhadley2209]

1:32:47 I reclassed her to a sword general and it somewhat fixed her accuracy. Also, all of the winds managed to keep up with my post game team. Even taking 0 damage for post game enemies.

[@BigKlingy]

I hate how someone who's Dex sucks is stuck in Axe General, especially since we already had Jade.

[@Sethg98]

@@BigKlingy fr. At least in the actual game we can patch up her shit accuracy with engravings/sigurd inheritance. In the xenologue itself she's just painful to use.

[@BigKlingy]

@@Sethg98 I struggle finding uses for Madeline in the Fell Xenologue. Thankfully she's only around for two chapters, but one of them is the really long final one...

[@jaredfayette2567]

10/10 Thumbnail. I approve of Bunet getting his own bottom tier. Xp But again though, surreal to think we're at the bio compilations for Engage already. Felt like yesterday when we started this LP. At the very least, it's fun getting to hear these again. Will be keeping all of this in mind come the start of next year when I'll probably be jumping into my Maddening Mode Run. Also those post-edit notes during Clanne's bio. LMAO #Clanne4Endgame In other news, a lot since the last video, but I'll probably break it up all down with the next LP.

[@BerserkerRohan]

The thumb does hurt me a bit but after my Birthright playthrough, I am very eager to use Bunet in my next Engage playthrough. I did learn a good amount around this time mainly because of my brother's Maddening playthrough where I had a better idea of the personal base stats and also the power of Etie due to her strength advantage over Alcryst and Citrinne being fast enough to double as a Mage Knight thanks to Speed + and the Elfire not weighing her down. The information will be nice for theory crafting my builds for my next playthrough since I want to get very creative. I did always think that Clanne was pretty rad in my first playthrough since he could convincedly attack both physically and magically there. It was good to see him go even further in this playthrough but is he better than Subaki? I did a lot but it is easy to recap. I got to 99.4% in R Racing Evolution after going through the story mode on Hard which wasn't too bad. Too bad I can't get to go 100% that easily unless I really want to playthrough the NTSC version instead. Birthright is done and fully uploaded as well and it was a very enjoyable experience that was more fun than I was expecting to play and record. I also figured out what to do for my break where I show off some pretty cool games on my channel as one off videos but I finished recording all of the games I wanted to show so it will be back to recording Fates, this time with Conquest. I have missed talking to you and I will be eagerly anticipating hearing about what you got up to as well.

[@BigKlingy]

It's only like that because when I made my tier list simply for how much I liked everyone as CHARACTERS... Bunet got his own tier at the bottom because... bunet. He's the ONE character who made me think "who thought this was a good idea?"

[@jaredfayette2567]

@@BerserkerRohan In that case, sorry for rubbing salt in the wound with that remark. Xp Yeah between Klingy's LP and Watching your brother's run, you have loads of knowledge and many more obvious ideas to have fun with in your next run of Engage. Seems like your Clanne was trying to foretell of the power of #Clanne4Endgame come Klingy's LP. lol Again, annoying you're not allowed to get 100% completion because of that glitch, but I hope the 99.4% is at least comforting enough. Yeah saw that and congrats on finishing up that LP. And I hope your break will let you come up with some fun ideas for the next LP. Also you weren't kidding about Subaki actually being good in your run where he more or less got third place in your unit rankings. Xp It'll be fun to catch up to you too, though I'll try to lessen the gap and be a bit more active with messages so we don't go through a drought of talks.

[@jaredfayette2567]

@@BigKlingy I do remember that tier list you made about how you like each character, but I still like to think the Bunet tier also applies to his gameplay performance as well. lol But yeah, Bunet is certainly the character who made me go "Why are you like this" the most too.

[@BerserkerRohan]

@@jaredfayette2567 Bunet does stick out really badly in this cast but that kind of makes him more charming to me. It will be a fun playthrough. The question will be when shall I do that playthrough since I have a lot of options of what game I can play next. I did always think he was a fun Mage Knight. Maybe it is time to use him again with my greater knowledge of the game. It will be fine and does give me a reason to check out the NTSC version if I want 100% but that will happen at a later point. Things are all planned out for the playthrough and I hope it will prove a very fun one. Subaki and Hayato proved to be the MVPs in the run which is funny to think about. Again, I will be looking forward to hearing more from you.

[@frankieseward8667]

Nice to see this. Also poor Ian Sinclair.

[@BigKlingy]

Of all the characters he could play... still, every VA has roles like this sometimes. It's still not as bad as Faye Mata (Petra's VA) playing an infamous character from Rising of the Shield Hero, who she hates and the fanbase despises too. But SOMEONE has to voice these characters.

[@TheJaredPunch]

@@BigKlingy I’m not sure if Sarah Emi (Constance’s JP VA) suffered for being Malty’s VA

[@meisterschwert5565]

​@@BigKlingyAt least she also voice acted the single most popular fate characters and the internet's beloved, Astolfo!

[@Airlo-rk8wj]

​@@meisterschwert5565faye mata also played aqua from konosuba, a fan favorite

[@donovanhadley2209]

44:39 the last thing you here before you die

[@megamanzero29]

SO. MANY. BIOS!

[@TheJaredPunch]

Can’t keep track… of any of them…

[@BaselardFE]

using the XC3 Chain Attack theme when talking about Boucheron was so funny lmao

[@BigKlingy]

It's accurate to his role in the earlygame.

[@sonicdragon813]

I’m currently doing my second playthrough where all units are thieves and Framme is just way too overpowered as a thief. She does more damage than everyone else and is already dodge tanking before Chapter 10! Needless to say, Framme is one of my favorite units to use in the Fire Emblem series thus far and that’s saying a lot considering I don’t have a lot of favorites in Fire Emblem. Framme is one of those characters to me.

[@BigKlingy]

Given how class base stats work some people can get interesting when reclassed. Clanne is actually really good in physical classes.

[@kirby1781]

I had the same thing happen with Etie in my current run. Made her a thief as it was rolled as such for a wheel challenge and she was one-rounding (via doubling and an engraved/refined iron dagger) the Corrupted Wrymns in the 12th chapter. Thieves in general are a little cracked in this game, their high avoidance and poison stacking can be insane.

[@tizianopalumbo5192]

my bunet paired with ike could single handled almost every map, he was my strongest unit (thanks also to some perfect level up), so i was very surprised when you started talking about me

[@drew_gon1617]

22:59 one thing that I did on my first lunatic play, was to make him a wolf knight, gave him the steel great lance and he was not weighed down, in fact, I think he wasn’t even doubled on Veronicas’s chapter pre chapter 11 I wanted to play around with the class, he already has enough bulk and can keep growing it, yes, his personal can be a little restrictive, but it’s efficiency, I still enjoy it :3c He was also pretty easy to level up as a knight, when I do another run, I might hold off until after the 2 chapters since I think he’s just good as a wolf knight out of the box

[@LAZERAK47V2]

One quick note about Diamant: His personal skill only requires that he initiates combat and the foe is able to counter attack. It does NOT require the foe be at full health (I believe you were thinking of Xander's Personal skill when you said that, as the two characters are quite similar and their personal skills are both related to honor). This makes Diamant a very good Player Phase unit, as he still benefits from Fair Fight if he Breaks his opponent, making him a good initiator against Lance and Axe foes. If he doesn't kill them, he can then contribute with Dual Strikes when another unit moves in to mop up. Diamant should usually be the first unit you use on your turn. You can also reclass him into Hero to further lean into this strategy with Brave Assist (while potentially giving him Lances, rather than Axes if you so desire, as he joins while you still have the Sigurd ring). Unless you plan on giving him something like the Ike/Hector or even the Roy ring and patching up his Dex with a Skill inherit from an Emblem Ring, it's probably better to straight up ignore Successeur, much like how Alfred tends to perform better as a Paladin, rather than as an Avenir.

[@BigKlingy]

I was thinking about Xander, yeah. And I agree that Successeur isn't a great class, Sol doesn't do much for him.

[@Edgeperor]

If you’re reclassing Diamant, he should be going into wyvern. Brave Assist isn’t actually that good of a skill, and Hero just reduces all of his other stats comparing to Succ

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@Edgeperor The reason I suggested Hero was for Brave Assist, which he gets with Successeur. So if you wanted to use Diamant as intended, Hero is a better class for him. Obviously, Wyvern is literally the best class for all physical units who aren't classing into Warrior. And that's a REAL problem, gameplay-wise.

[@Edgeperor]

@@LAZERAK47V2 he doesn’t get brave assist in Successeur though? Idk what you’re trying to say

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@Edgeperor I'm saying that if you want to keep Diamant as a backup unit, he performs that role better as a Hero than as a Successeur. Successeur gives him Sol, which is extremely unreliable due to the low Dex cap of his native class. Instead, he should be classed as a Hero so he can Brave Assist. If you want to ditch his Backup status, class him as a Wyvern. And yeah, I see where the confusion occurred, I think my brain skipped a sentence while I was writing it.

[@robertcespedes1671]

I just bought the game a couple days ago and am hoping it’s like the older ones where you can turn anyone you like into a beast.

[@BigKlingy]

It pretty much is. Even on Maddening, no-one is truly awful in Engage, and you can make anyone work.

[@uberfiend2544]

For Gregory you said enemies. It doesn't really matter but it makes his ability a bit more better since being surrounded by allies is more common

[@NightRaven5568]

I like to make Goldmary a berserker I find that her growths benefit from berserker the most giving her extreme amounts of HP and makes her strength growth really good

[@donovanhadley2209]

42:28 man, a lot of lines really aged well during the playthrough.

[@saggsman]

I've read once that if you're willing to forge a Hurricane Axe that you get in chapter 14, and give it Ike's engraving, Jade as a General with only 6 base magic and OHKO Griffon and Wyvern Knights. I actually want to try it out.

[@BigKlingy]

That sounds fun.

[@saggsman]

@@pandabanaan9208 That does sound funny. I also found out that you can even give him Vantage+ since it’s apparently a way to bypass the penalty of smash weapons making you go second.

[@skeletonwar4445]

​@@saggsmanVantage works on smash weapons only if the enemy initiates. If you initiate, vantage will not trigger. (Same for Alacrity)

[@MegaPokefan97]

Boucheron makes on HELL of a Mage Cannoneer, too. Plus, it allows his personal skill to come into play super often And My favorite way to make Madeline more accurate is to temporarily make her a sniper for the dex growth

[@FElord-dw1sy]

So somethings I did my first run I reclassed Chloe to Royal Knight. I found this kept most of the perks of Griffon Knight, while only losing flying access which would be a big loss but Sigurd gives enough movement anyways for it to work. It also allows Chloe to be a good mixed attacker, using her magic and the flamelance to be really effective. I also reclassed Anna to Wolf Knight and gave her a levin sword. Really effective unit able to dodge tank most things, retaliate, have good luck, and just be a great money farmer. Getting into DLC here, but Citrinne I kept as a Sage, but I gave her Soren. This combined with Roy's holdout brought back the days of Awakening Nosferatsu tanking and turned her into a big enemy phase clearer. I also gave Camilla to Panette, enhancing her mobility and letting her in a big AOE with a big axe for big damage. Also some minor reclass bits I found useful, Jade really suffers when using axes, so I reclassed her to the sword variant and have had no issues with her. Swords really fix her hit rate issues and make her able to nearly stand equal to Louis. Yunaka did fall off for me on hard, but I did train her back up to be top tier in endgame. In particular, she did really well as a Halberdier when I put her there to patch up her stats. Celine despite being a mixed attacker was my best magical unit until I trained Citrinne up near lategame. Even then she still hit hard and her versatility was always useful. Framme also fell off but then I made her a high priest and she became godly. Final unit I want to mention is Lapis, personally I kept her as swordmaster, and found that by investing heavily into crit on her she was able to keep up, especially with Chrom's skill making crits deal more damage.

[@MommyRexacuse]

Royal Knight and Griffon Knight have the exact same strength (being 7 base and 10% growth) so there isn’t really any offensive benefit to going royal knight

[@FElord-dw1sy]

@@MommyRexacuse I meant it moreso as an alternative option. I also did it because I didn't like the aesthetic of Griffon Knight.

[@KamuiOmega]

Personally, I found Boucheron to be the ideal character to turn into a Mage Cannoneer if you do the Fell Xenologue before chapter 11. His sizable Dex growth, along with solid Bld, means that he can hit decently hard with the cannons and have solid accuracy. And since he's firing from far away, you can very easily have Backup units there to support his personal skill. Chrom actually was a pretty fun character to use with him, since that way I got Robin to chain attack as well, and it bumped chain attack accuracy up to 90%.

[@BigKlingy]

I've always struggled in figuring out who to make a Mage Cannoneer, but that'd definitely work.

[@TheJaredPunch]

Despite what anyone says, I’m a officially a Fire Emblem fan thanks to Engage. This play has been fun. For better or worse, and I want to give my opinions on each unit. 0:00 Alear is the most standard lord, but Alear plays to the strengths of this game really well. Starting with the Marth Emblem and having low SP costs meaning that by getting to Rank 10 with Marth, which is easy to do, Alear can be a great dodge tank. Alear's exclusive class means he gets the most Emblem bonuses out of any character in the game until Veyle. Really their main weakness is their magic stat, meaning that Celica and Micaiah aren't the best choices to boost Alear's damage. If there is any consolation to doing this, more magic for the Levin Sword (the only 1-2 range option they have unitl they get Wille Glanz), and with Micaiah, they give Alear extra range in Staves. Alear is a lot more versatile than one might think because Alear takes full advantage of what the game wants you to do. 4:45 Vander is the Jaegan that will only last you for so long, but his personal skill is actual decent for Alear if they and Vander have the Killer Weapons. But really, the only way Vander can be useful is with Tiki and Edelgard Linage and Starsphere skills. If Vander wasn't a Jaegan, he would have been a great unit... I think. 7:34 You got extremely lucky with Clanne, #Clanne4Endgame 9:44 Framme is surprising useful thanks to being one of the only Qi Adepts in the game. It's just a matter of her getting good level ups is the problem. If Framme is just as lucky as Clanne was here, she can be the best Bond Shield user and Micaiah user. but again, that's if your lucky. I wasn't sadly and I gave her up. 11:58 Alfred. Poor Alfred, out of all of the Royals in the game, he got stuck with the worst class. The final stat cap for Avenir is not bad IMO, but the thing that could have made him better, was if Golden Lotus halved damage for ALL attacks. With Gentility, he would have made for a better tank. But no… That being said, there is a reason why I kept him in my final team over Amber. As an early unit who will be able to use Marth and Sigurd after Chapter 3 that means he has more chances to get their skills while Amber joins around the time where will she won’t have enough time to invest. (Better than Jade at least, but still). Alfred is usable. That’s all I will say and I’m glad I didn’t give up on him. Alas, he could have been better. 14:47 Poor Etie, outclassed by Alcryst is every way. I’m sorry Etie fans, but in all of my Playthroughs, I just couldn’t find use for Etie. By the time I got Alcryst, I saw no point in using her. 16:52 Early chain attack user. I guess… 19:49 A hybrid physical and magical attacking unit with Ignis, and staff utility. Céline has a lot to work with once she promotes, she starts with Celica and has the exact boosts she needs to make use of her starting ring right away. As a Mystical unit she does more damage with Warp Ragnarok (boosted with Ignis). Her real weakness are the lack of build which holds her speed cap (which is not bad) and her stats aren’t nearly as high as others. But her luck makes her a great Byleth user. 22:57 Despite General not being a good class and one too many Lance Users (one of my biggest grips with Engage Gameplay wise), but I think Louis and Chloé does a better job with Lances. Louis with max build means that he can use both of the S Rank Lances better than Timerra since he doesn’t need speed and has more attack power. Louis and Sigurd is master piece of a pair because giving an Armor unit more Mobility is glorious. 25:29 Chloé is my favorite unit from Firene gameplay wise. She has good growths of Strength and Magic which lets her use all of the Emblems well to some degree, and her cap speed as Griffon Knight. It’s a chef’s kiss. Despite being another Lance user, it works because with Sigurd and Marth, they better mobility, attack power, and movement or speed. With a cap of 52, she always double and avoid getting doubled herself. And she has Staff usage. So feel free to use Micaiah on her. So I made my peace. Chloé is the best Firene character as a unit, I wished I like her character and support with Alear more. 28:10 One of the only main chain guards who will get thanks to his starting class. But as a trainee unit with healing, level up is a grind but will gain the boost in stats need to be great at anything. But with the classes he is best known for (Martial Master and Martial Priest), do you make Jean into an another chain guard user, or a magic attacker with an S rank in Staffs? Pick your poison. Other than that, Jean is whatever you want him to be if you’re diligent with him. 31:05 My girl, Yunaka! The Corrin Yunaka build is busted (a little bit too much), but I wonder if I should try a Wrath Vantage combo on her…? Hmmm. As I was saying, Yunaka is great for debilitating or killing. 34:01 Is the investment to get more money worth it? You tell me… 37:28 Alcryst may not be Diamant, but that Dex and Strength is all he needs to be better than Etie in every way. His personal promotional class skill Luna will Pierce through defense like a hot knife through butter. Luna Astra Storm anyone. But part is, Luna works well with most other attacks as well with Crits to boost the damage. But as an Archer, without a mini bow, he’s going to be unable to Counterattack. Overall, Alcryst is the best archer and one of the best units in Engage IMO. 39:48 Poor girl. Horribly outclassed by Kagetsu. But if you want to use her, I won’t stop you. 42:37 Citrinne is only here if Clanne and Céline aren’t making the cut. I will admit that she has potential for being a good Olwen user. 46:50 Diamant comes first here because he is the crown prince of Brodia and the first Roy user. Sadly, his poor Dex. I’m sorry but, Alcryst is better for damage control. Despite that, he is a backup unit, so with Dual Assist, he can be a good Chain Attack assets. My personal favorite use for him is with Wrath and Vantage with Roy equipped. Diamant has better staying power than Alcryst. So that’s a huge point in his favor. 44:38 Amber turned out better than I thought. Maybe I treated him too harshly. But I doubt he will be on my Maddening team… 49:47 Poor Jade. Honestly, you really need to be conservative of Bond Fragments and Skill books if you REALLY want to use her, as to me, being an Axe Armored Unit is her saving grace. If it wasn’t for the Fell Xenologue where use can potentially get a better one sooner… oof 51:38 Ivy… Ivy Ivy Ivy. I really love Ivy, one of my favorites in the game but where as Bigklingy loves Ivy as a unit, I’m personally mixed. Thankfully, she starts with the Lyn Emblem, which fixes her main weaknesses (Speed and Dexterity). But good lord, it’s either focus on giving more power or making sure she herself doesn’t get doubled and killed or needing to hit. Because of her low Dex, I find her unbearable to use most of the time. Speaking of her Dex, Grasping Void is extremely unreliable IMO. It only works with Tomes (so only Warp Ragnarok and Cataclysm will work) and it depends on the magic of her target when she may have the damage she needs to destroy Armor units. That being said, her saving graces prevents her from being far from bad. Unlike Veyle, she has higher build and can fly, she has Staff usage, and is obtained earlier than Veyle. Ivy made me realize how much I underestimated the Surge tomes in their usage. 56:08 Kagetsu. Need I say more? I like using him as Swordmaster, a bad class maybe, but I love that Critcal Hit animation. 54:35 I may *consider* using Zelkov in my Maddening Run *if* he does well… 58:21 Fogado is an interesting unit, he lacks the raw power of Alcryst and his Luna attacks and doesn’t have an S Rank in Bows. But he makes up for it by being a Calvary Unit that can use Swords. And his speed cap is among one of the highest in the game. Also, Back at you is a personal class skill that I don’t think is that good but still has some uses. He might work with a Wrath and Vantage combo when using Veronica as Reprisal will stack with Back at you for more damage. 1:00:29 Kagetsu as a healer. Another character I might consider for Maddening. 1:02:08 By the way, you can’t bring Bento 🍱 to the Fell Xenologue. Sorry Bunet. 1:03:45 Timerra. Ok @Bigklingy. I guess we are rivals now, you think Ivy is amazing while I am mixed, where I think Timerra is a great unit (albeit struggles a lot) while you think she is bad. That being said, Timerra is not the best Great Aether user. Sandstorm is still satisfying to see activate and kill a unit Timerra would have struggled with otherwise. And by the way, I have reached the 400 hit damage with Timerra and Hector vs Wyvern Knights. It’s beautiful. 1:06:54 Merrin and the Wolf Knight, a great class for debilitating, great class for damage and with Sword and Knife usage, Merrin can be really enjoyable when invested in. 1:08:37 unpopular opinion: Panette is overrated. I argue moreso than Yunaka with Corrin. Don’t get me wrong, he is really good, but her Dex… and the trial maps taught me something important: A powerful attack means nothing if you can’t hit. So she needs Hit rate fixing to be at her best. 1:17:12 Her chain attacking Elegance is too strong for mere mortals to stand up to.

[@BigKlingy]

I'm honestly surprised you weren't before, given how often you commented here. I've seen you on TRG too.

[@TheJaredPunch]

@@BigKlingy I was alseep at the time and I need time to give my opinions on each unit with the frame of KZbin’s text limit. I will be more diligent for the Emblem Video. I think talking about the Emblems is much easier than talking about the units.

[@twigz3214]

Etie is just better than Alycryst btw. I agree neither are super great but Etie has a massive strength lead (She comes at level 4 with 1 less than he has at level 10, if you use her at all it will be higher than his). The dex difference often doesn't matter since there are tons of engraves that boost hit and you should be using engraved weapons. For example, when both are 15/10 Etie will have 10 more strength than Alcryst, while Alcryst's only notable advantage is 3 extra speed. The speed lead is negligible since both want Lyn anyway and both don't double reliably without Lyn and do double reliably with Lyn. I'd rather reliably one-round with the massive strenght lead than have to rely on Luna rng. If you want a fast bow unit (on average a 5.5 speed lead when compared at 17/13, only growing more with time) Fogado also has far more power than Alrcryst with the Radiant bows massive base might while also having great synergy with Erika (lunar brace for his massive speed easily quadding with the brave bow and the + 5 raw damage from bravery and extra mag for the radiant bow). Use whoever of course, Alcryst keeps getting overrated though when he doesn't preform great. Thought he was better as well because he feels better on join but that's mainly just his better weapons when he joins (which both can use anyway) and many just ignoring Etie when she joins. When their stats are compared his aren't favorable.

[@TheJaredPunch]

@@twigz3214 this is my personal experience. Etie was never able to keep up for me…

[@BigKlingy]

I admit I use Alcryst mainly for his character, and for keeping Covert in his personal class (while I prefer Etie in Warrior) I'm definitely in the "he and Etie are about the same" boat and don't rate him insanely high.

[@Marz776]

Alright, on Lapis, her on Wyvern using lances is very very good, she has access to sigurd's Early lance power and with Fensalir, She will be then one of the most damaging units you have access to until warrior Kagetsu and Mage knight Pandreo (the literal two best units in the game lol)

[@BigKlingy]

I actually used Wyvern Lapis myself, although less for that and more because her Speed is already overkill so I like to fix her Strength. (Roy helps there too)

[@RitzBritz333]

Love the Persona music for Yunaka

[@BigKlingy]

If I had a nickel for everyone who said that, I'd have a lot.

[@RitzBritz333]

@@BigKlingy gotta feed that algorithm

[@adrianinwonderland7505]

21:04 Céline’s overkill luck might be on purpose to have good synergy with Alm’s Windsweep bond ring skill. (Which can negate the enemy from counterattacking when you attack with a sword unit/ based on luck stat) So windsweep levin sword Céline could be a pretty nasty attacker. Seeing that you can start farming for Alm right after Céline’s introduction chapter. It does take a while to get the levin sword but at least could help make it safer to use her swords. It is kinda charming she has good synergy with both Celica and Alm’s rings 🤭

[@sarasaland4709]

I need to meet the baffling person that decided the buff and strong Archer needed 4 base Bld.

[@BigKlingy]

I have a weird theory that Lapis and Etie's personalities got swapped somewhere during development, because there's a couple of references to Lapis being strong and her first line is really out-of-character for her.

[@yeastarly4268]

My griffin Lapis was a monster, crazy avoid, stupid high crit, and pretty good strength on mine and BOOM

[@metricAsc02]

I'll always find it funny that diamant gets sol with a dex cap of 23. (not that 23% chance is an awful chance, but is much lower than most modern games since awakening). Main thing though is that fair fight is always active when he initiates which does a fair bit to patch up his shaky hit rates. and despite that i found successor to be on the better end of personal class promos given how well rounded it is physically.

[@BigKlingy]

Still not as painful as Meg in Radiant Dawn trying to be the "speedy armour" but having the worst tier 3 speed cap of all of them, while Gatrie has a better cap AND speed growth AND his other stats don't suck.

[@gavinbunting7354]

It feels like Firenne got the short end of the stick with its units, with only 2 or 3 decent units, while the other countries have plenty of good units, especially Brodia and Solm.

[@BigKlingy]

At the same time, Firine's join earlier, and many of them are essential to getting through the early chapters. If you use someone just for Firine before dropping them, they still deserve credit. Chapter 5 in particular is one of the harder parts of the game on Maddening.

[@gavinbunting7354]

@@BigKlingy that’s still no excuse if you’re someone who wants to use some of them to the very end, for example, Etie and Celine, I want to use them, but the others from later kingdoms hold them back

[@rileychan5380]

I've promoted my Chloe into a wyvern knight and she is consistently my best unit doubling every enemy with lots of damage. As well as being extremely hard to hit.

[@JakeMarley-k6g]

In the story they mentioned that timerra and her retainers like to ride wolves for fun and the often patrol too. Maybe the knife proficiency comes from being trained like a wolf knight, which has knife proficiency

[@skeletonwar4445]

Yep, also means Panette gets to have S rank knives as a Wolf Knight, should you choose to make her one.

[@JakeMarley-k6g]

@@skeletonwar4445 I know, she would be a good one too. She has the strength to make it work and wolf knight would fix her speed

[@Nero_Voidstails]

i did a royal knight Goldmary and omg she was s threat x) and often my Rosado got a 2 hp upgrade capping it really fast x)

[@battlecarrier]

I've held firm ever since the well update that Framme is nearly as good as Chloe with Eirika//Martial Master, freeing Chloe up to do some better stuff; Framme just needs a little bit of extra investment, but the well made that way easier. Also, Jean is hilariously swol as a Berserker.

[@neog8029]

I think Chloe's personal skill still edges her out as the best damage dealing Martial Master, especially when adjacent to Alear. +6 damage + Eirika flat damage x4 go brrrr

[@BigKlingy]

I really need to try a damaging Martial Master sometime. The animations are amazing but it's hard to find someone who can really make it work. I tried Warrior Jean on Maddening once. Unfortunately he wasn't that good as got him his first 10 levels as a Martial Monk.

[@MommyRexacuse]

@@BigKlingyIf you’re using dlc then Veronica is hilarious on any martial master thanks to retribution. You can make any unit into a murder machine. I did it with Goldmary who has low strength and magic and she was still one-rounding lategame maddening bosses at low hp

[@BigKlingy]

@@MommyRexacuse Retribution is broken on pretty much anyone, I find.

[@skeletonwar4445]

One thing I like to do is to reclass Louis into a Halberdier when he starts falling off a little and you don't really need a tank anymore. Cause his str is always gonna be really high, so letting him cheat quadruple via pincer attacks and a brave lance.

[@donovanhadley2209]

1:25:01 so something interesting I found about Nel. She has better stats as a halberdier. And this was after a reclass.

[@BigKlingy]

Fel Child (Nel/Nil/Rafal) has fairly bad base stats, if you're staying in it it's for the Dragonstones.

[@MyLux777]

You can pick thief class for alear, inherit marths skill before he leaves. I dont know why no one talks about it but its legitimately busted especially with lyn. He does nothing but dodge, double, and crit.

[@BigKlingy]

There's a decent number of builds you can do with Alear, which is fun to experiment with.

[@Sonic2891]

My Timerra was a monster on my first Maddening run, but I did have a plan for her build (no pun intended) before starting my run. I think she's one of the few units in the game that makes good use of Leif to patch up her build problems and with sandstorm she has the potential to either delete an enemy or do no damage with quadruple hit lol. I also inherited resolve+ and gentility+ on her (obviously heavy investment here) and she ended up being one of my endgame units.

[@BigKlingy]

I've used Leif on her a bit. Once I tried Marth, thinking he'd mean more chances for Sandstorm, but he wasn't that great on her. Also I noticed the Sonic avatar and... for some reason Sonic has lived rent-free in my head for the past week and I see references EVERYWHERE.

[@Sonic2891]

@@BigKlingy 😂 that's pretty funny and hopefully it's more of something you can chuckle at rather than something that's been super annoying

[@BigKlingy]

A few days ago, literally right as I was thinking "Sonic is living rent-free in my head right now, what's happening" a kid with a Sonic shirt walked past. I didn't find it annoying, just hilarious.

[@POKENAR]

If Sandstorm had a higher proc rate or it was the personal skill and allowed reclassing, I could see a meme build working, but right now after 3 attempts she ends up mid even after favoritism on hard, can't imagine it working on Maddening.

[@ivaanlga]

Timerra is the best tank for maddening dude Sandstorm > General, Gk, etc

[@Echoes-dz2ur]

Laugh in Alfred+Ike

[@CaTastrophy427]

Okay, specifically with DLC, Anna becomes arguably the best tank in the game, fearing literally nothing besides the final boss, enemy engage attacks, the fell wyrms with 4 range attacks, and post-endgame tempest trial difficulty units. Oh, and enemy High Priests with their maddening skill. Kinda also enemies with Silence or Fracture staves, but she has such high staff avoid (101, to be exact) that many don't even try to use them on her (since for both of them, the staff's base hit requires them to have 32 dex to have a 1% chance to hit her, which, fun fact, most enemy staff users don't have, since the cap for them is 31). As a High Priest, she caps out at a whopping 100 damage output exactly (96 as a Sage), not including crits, enemy res, or chain attacks. This is with a Revelations-engraved Elthunder+5, allowing her to counter longbows too - and countering is what she does, with Vantage, Reprisal from Veronica's bracelet, and Hold Out. Speaking of crits, she has a decently high crit rate (46% if enemy dodge is 0, meaning it'll usually be above 33%), so she often does over 200~250 damage to enemies. She has even oneshot one of the final boss's HP bars on Maddening despite the gimmick still being partially in play (FB+, IIRC). She can even lean further into the crit side of things with Wrath if you devote a turn or three to chipping her HP with Vein of Flame tiles instead of bringing Hold Out. By doing that, her crit rate goes up by 30, all the way to 76% before support bonuses. She's a consistent MVP alongside Panette (same build but Wolf Knight with Blazing-engraved Cinquedea and Roy's ring) and Spoiler Character 2 (Soren's bracelet, Fates-engraved Spoiler Tome, Divine Pulse+, and Mag/Dex+5 or Quick Riposte). All three of them can and have one-round the Maddening final boss's crystals from full when the gimmick is only half-solved. Now, I will say, anyone can do the same thing as her if given the same class, tome, bracelet, and skills, but her growths in particular make her the best suited for capping the three stats the build cares about (HP, Mag, and Dex, with Luck and Res as mostly an added bonus). She and Spoiler Character 1 are also the only two units in the game who have a positive cap modifier for both Mag and Dex. Since you recruit the latter so late into the game it's hard to really build them into much of anything, she's definitely the better option. Lindon could be better too, since many enemies will have better than B ranked weapons, giving him +20 crit, but... same issue as Spoiler Character 1, recruited too late to do much of anything.

[@GMKGoji01]

I'm working on maxing out everyone, my most used units are already maxed out (except for Alfred and Alcryst's magic), and my least used units haven't been used at all!

[@raikaria3090]

What you do with Anna is reclass her to Warrior or Bow Knight and give her the Radiant Bow to use that MAG. The bow-capable classes have low MAG caps; so their lack of inherent MAG... dosen't matter. And you can still bop Pegs and such with physical bows.

[@BigKlingy]

That's... basically what I suggested here.

[@raikaria3090]

@@BigKlingyYeah I wrote it before getting to that part. Also I'm agreeing with your take.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

I will help you with Timerra. Here is the most brainless way to get her 1 rounding (I have more high skill builds, but we will focus on this) Lance power 5, SPD+5, Sigurd. I run T4 wells all game so I can afford to SP dump in this way to at least 3-5 units a playthrough but you could at the very least suggest this high SP cost build because she will 1 round at base no sandstorm, gets momentum damage, dex/def boost from sig and BLD increase. If you want something cheaper: SPD+5/Resolve+. Fensilar +3-5/Javelin +3-5 Roy OR Eirika. This build can switch between these emblems, the emblems damage fix her, she can function as a main tank on either due to her high DEF and SPD/average res letting her EP a large number of enemies (tested/proven on my channel, also stress tested against 7+ CH23 maddening enemies hitting her per turn, with both emblems). On the Eirika Front it lets her 1 round playerphase and typically on EP. Roy gives +6 STR/+8 when engaged, Roy also gives more SPD/dex/def/res and you can use Binding Blade to proc sandstorm 1-2 range and it is weightless on her as it has 8 WT. I am fine with people not finding her good but you could at least have the game knowledge to share when going over units THIS LATE after release. You also could have just parroted builds from my or other channels so you at least have a build to discuss instead of writing off the unit and claiming she's unfixable when I had her 1 rounding Lumera/Sombron pre well maddning with just Sigurd SPD+5 and a brave lance, using probability math to produce sandstorms (She took off 2 healthbars) If we can get her working before the well, we can certainly get her working afterwards.

[@BigKlingy]

I'll try Roy sometime. Most of the times I've used Timerra I've had someone else in the army who needed Roy more. I used Eirika on her on my first run though.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

@@BigKlingy No worries, it is like with most units. They will want good forges, engraves if relevant to build, good passives and a good emblem. I recently just did a thief only maddening run (no dlc) and I was able to get 13 STR hort 1 rounding on Eirika so we have the technology :)

[@starmaker75]

Oh hey, your back. Well I'm at finals week. So I haven't playing that munch with persona 5 tactica. So far my favorite to use is Yusuke. Seriously Auto-Masuku with a base 7 momvent along with ice being the better elements is strong.

[@BigKlingy]

Yusuke is insane there, though I'm also liking Ann a lot, she's the de-facto powerhouse of the team with Fire being so strong. (And Agidyne has just enough of an AoE to hit multiple foes without risking friendly fire) Ryuji I've also found pretty good, fixed magic damage means that unlike the original game he's a good mixed attacker, and his movement is high.

[@starmaker75]

@@BigKlingy Yeah Ann is also pretty good. She basically fires rockets.

[@JordiumZ]

Timerra was the best unit in my game

[@BigKlingy]

Mine ended up making good use of Tiki later on, Sandstorm + Tiki's buffs to defense does a lot.

[@Coralikespie]

This video made me realize I got really lucky with my Clanne’s level ups… 😂

[@israel120298]

Great vid very informative ❤

[@drew_gon1617]

14:44 now this one, I’ve used Alfred a lot, and I will always say, thief is his best class! It does make most of his growths at/above 50% but because of the low weight of daggers + his personal, he is always my strongest thief (as well as my silliest) Seriously, he always poisons and weakens foes, or in quite a few moments, landing a solid crit and taking the kill, he’ll have decent avoid, but not perfect, which makes it great for lunatic mode! Seriously he is such an independent unit in my runs (though I do get lucky with the well and get the candy dagger eventually XD)

[@francisnguyen6349]

Alear is an male and female the Divine Dragon 🐉 from Fire Emblem Engage.

[@drew_gon1617]

7:34 one thing that I suggest is reassessing Vender to warrior & sticking Veronica on him I find back up units to be my favorite for her, this allows him to go for a more supporting role, with contract, healing, book of worlds if you ever want, Granted, I still don’t use him often, but I have played around with this set a bit and I do like it, just depends if you’re willing to give up a second seal for this tbf

[@Edgeperor]

If you’re giving Vander Veronica then he can do way more than just support

[@FabschOblivion669]

Just make Clanne a Griffon Rider with Swords and hand him a Levin Sword. Problem solved.

[@vava5848]

And time to look through this for what my PMU roster ended up being so far ….and I now have more fear over being given Sage Bunet with that mag growth

[@BigKlingy]

Oh boy, that'll be interesting. Favourite Food Byleth strats could work though?

[@vava5848]

@@BigKlingy he’s probably the…most “feels like I’m getting memed on” pick Regardless, there’s something about these kind of runs making me try things I never would consider using myself (at least this time..,it’s not mage cannoneer Alear)

[@BigKlingy]

@@vava5848 I haven't even tried Mage Cannoneer on ANYONE yet.

[@vava5848]

@@BigKlingy from personal experience, keep it away from anyone you’d usually plan to a make proper heavy hitter, and absolutely keep it away from Alear

[@nekogirlbeth123]

this is a great video, but you made one mistake by suggesting that Anna should utilise her bow proficiency and decently in-line growth rates to become a warrior, because now at least 80% of the fire emblem community will show up at your house to break your kneecaps for even daring suggest she become anything but a magic user! it happened to me once, not a fun experience. but other than that this is a nice video, good work!

[@BigKlingy]

Honestly, I'm more afraid of the community coming after me for saying anything good about Anna at all. Most of where I look, people just go "bad bases, garbage." As I said here, I feel her chain attack utility is decent even if you don't train her (the Maddening anecdote is a true story, it wasn't even that hard to babysit her through Chapter 11). But in general, I really like Radiant Bow Warrior Anna, even if technically a lot of people can hit Endgame flier OHKO thresholds with it. Personally she and Fogado are the easiest to setup with it early and it helps during Chapter 12-17.

[@nekogirlbeth123]

@BigKlingy in my first runthrough, i went in with no knowledge of character/class growths, and Anna and Jean ended up both being my strongest units! Jean was often doing 100+ damage to armoured units just using arts, and Anna was carrying as a warrior (I didn't even give her a radiant bow, just a longbow and silver axe and she was bybfar my most useful backup unit). I feel a lot of people either just look at the growth rates or only take into account their personal experiences (typically a first playthrough for 'bad' units) and refuse to look further.

[@Doodlebirds1]

I’m only playing on hard classic and am nearly finished. My Diamant is an absolute monster. Practically nothing but Mages can damage him and he consistently doubles with ridiculous damage output. I guess I got lucky with RNG. Unfortunately I can’t say the same for Alcryst, he’s suffered a lot of bad level ups and his speed is really bad. Only his dexterity isn’t awful. It’s a shame.

[@mauricesteel4995]

"Goldmary can do decent as a GK or general, but she does the hero assist part so well, its a shame to change her out of it." also she is the only one in the game that doesn't need to wear that horrible hero outfit.

[@111111hakar]

On my first Maddening run right now, I hadn't played the game since launch meaning I had forgotten about Kagetsu and Pandreo so I put stat boosting Items onto Lapis and Celine, so when these 2 showed up the sunk cost fallacy made me skip them, I am just now learning that I'm apparently doing an accidental challenge run lol.

[@BigKlingy]

Lapis and Celine are still usable on Maddening, which is good. There's also no reason you can't ALSO use Kagetsu and Pandreo, if you need more physical or magic fighters.

[@jesusmedina6751]

I made lapis a swordmaster with Lyn's emblem and made her a crit sword unit. She just needs a push getting attack bonuses