How To Make The WORST Children In Fire Emblem 4

[@Mangs1337]

Hey guys, this is a video I've wanted to make for years, but I could never justify putting the time into it since Fe4 isn't a super popular game. However, I decided to say "screw it" and make it anyway, and had so much fun editing this, I hope you'll have as much fun watching it. Fe4 is a game I have so much love for, and I hope we eventually get that remake! A like and a comment on this video is VERY appreciated!

[@pleasantjinx2224]

Ill always love some Fe4 content, thank you mangs!

[@superwario3644]

you could create a sequel video on the awakening and fates child units the worst pairings for them possible

[@rockowlgamer631]

I don't know if you can compare them considering the difference in gameplay Between this and Awakening and potentially even Fates. Out of all the games that have children units which group of children are considered the most broken power wise? Is it Awakening with the ability Gale Force, or something else?

[@byzantiphile7630]

Thank you so much for this, Mangs!!! I love FE4 and your passion really shown through in this video. Thank you and God bless.

[@Wh0re_1234]

This video was really entertaining. It made me want to pick up the game again and try out these pairings. Keep up the good videos and stay safe.

[@SirPaillasson]

My parents when talking about me:

[@sansplayer6254]

Same

[@Jose2019Limpiada]

(1)​@@sansplayer6254

[@lsrrr3857]

Blame them for their lack of holy blood of finance

[@codangarrison1195]

Should have gotten a better husband mom

[@Abundy]

Bethany was probably pretty disappointed when she realized what you meant by "I'm planning for a lot of kids"

[@nikosafer1]

Will like to see a ironman run with the worst pairings children

[@iLegault]

Or no pairing at all

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

​@@iLegault Some subs are better than the actual kids. Even then, All have their strength/weaknesses. While Ayra subs are way worse Arena and Slayer units, the Ayra subs are much more reliable because they can't easily Juggernaut. While Yes, you can always play with enemy ranges to face a fixed number of enemies each turns, Gen 2 is full of mounted squads that can easily swarm and gang up a foot unit without a leg ring (And the leg ring will be a Seliph exclusive if you value your sanity).

[@Prodawg]

​@@ChillstoneBlakeBlastBlake Blast

[@abcisawesome3418]

Mangs and Bethany taking notes on what NOT to do 😂

[@chaosamber7719]

Somewhere, Excelblem is coming up with a new idea for an FE4 run

[@lucg4005]

Pretty sure he already did a play through of this game though. And yes, only the necessary units managed to live till the end.

[@chaosflash912]

@@lucg4005 I first heard about the Berserk staff strategy from Excelblem, it was certainly a first for sure!

[@TranscendedPhoenix]

This is Mangs subtly telling us that he is trying, if not outright expecting an offspring.

[@Vulkypsin]

Its gonna be a War Monk/Cleric with Devil Axe synergy

[@rileyg1307]

Egg Jr

[@FoxEmblem01]

​@@Vulkypsinalso with devil reversal

[@graysideArt]

Mangs making this video to remind himself to raise good stats children

[@DBinitiate]

Max Strength Nanna sounds like a meme waiting to happen. Why try to make a meme build for Flame Swords when you can make a healer become a Sword Cav?

[@rayquazathenoodledragon9630]

I imagine the worst children againts their sustitutes as: Hydrogen Baby vs Coughing Bomb

[@Posby95]

13:09 Crits in fe4 double your Attack stat, not your damage. This can turn a 1 damage hit into 20 damage. 15:17 Four extra attacks, for a total of five.

[@Mangs1337]

you're*

[@firebyrd7933]

​@Mangs1337 double you are attack?

[@MidwestArtMan]

Mangs: What if we made the worst children possible? Bethany: 😞

[@LordTyph]

"Can't make the best if we don't know how to make the worst."

[@magicalcapi9148]

🚫 Optimal strategies ✅ Worst strategies That's the content I subscribed to

[@DourFlower]

the mangs brand

[@nohrianguy]

yooo edited fe content in current year how rare

[@SixJayy]

Fr

[@lsrrr3857]

Arden is surprisingly NOT a very good choice in a run of trying to make the worst children ever. His children's strength growth will just be too high to be bad. And if you make him the dad of the two mages by pairing him with Tailtu, guess what... they have the almighty Vantage+Wrath combo. So at the end of the day, it becomes really hard to make Arden a bad dad

[@lsrrr3857]

Arden scores 0/2 in this video: He's bad even at being bad

[@Vulkypsin]

Arden is an indisputably good dad, which is a pitfall in Fire Emblem.

[@rngsomeone1003]

The funny thing is, even with 5% MAG, Ced is still quite workable. Sage's 15 base MAG is so good that Ced can still fight competently with Light or Elwind (with 29 ATK this is still a reliable 3HKO on physical enemies even into the Endgame, so a single Adept will do), and if anything the extra HP/DEF just makes him a better front-line unit with Shield Ring, better than Hawk by quite a good margin. What you are actually missing out on is status staff utility, as only a Sage (or Dark Bishop or Emperor or Queen or Dark Prince or unit with Valflame) can use a status staff on Endgame Ishtar due to MAG cap problems. Ordinarily Hawk can get to 28 MAG 100% reliably, but this Ced probabilistically will not.

[@Zemuzu22]

I think you hit the nail on the head. I did all sorts of pairings in the game, but these are just laughably dreadful. Which puts into perspective at how insane the kids are because some like Ced may be gimped horribly, but are carried purely by their bases and weapons. Also we love seeing Linda appreciation here, I used her one time and she completely impressed me!

[@Bethany38326]

You should try to beat each FE with the worst units in each game, like fe6 with sophia, wendy, juno, etc.

[@MajorSasquatch]

I did this in Radiant Dawn, it was fun. Basically a self-draft with the bottom half of the tier list. Some units like Astrid and Lyre actually ended up decent. Others like Kyza and Fiona were kinda bad even after babying them for so long. It’s a different experience when you ban yourself from using the good units!

[@SixJayy]

CAN I BEAT FE4 WITH UNWANTED CHILDREN?? (High contrast thumbnail with red arrows)

[@brandonwilliams6119]

Wow it’s been 10 years since the FE4 Subsitute Run? This whole comparison video feels like a follow up to it, I bet this video took a lot of tome and dedication which is very respectable, FE4 is one of my absolute favorites in the series and seeing how you’ve tried making worse Gen 2 units than the Subs really was a fun watch and I bet a fun project for yourself, I love all the beautiful art you showcased of every unit upon introduction, some of the Subs also have funny names such as Radney and Rodlbahn, but I love how Fire Emblem has its own Daisy like Mario does lol.

[@Vulkypsin]

Be neat to see an anniversary sub run or a celebratory run using these dumpster kids

[@brandonwilliams6119]

@ I second that! I’d love to see Mangs & Bethany do a Substitute Run together it would be so romantic

[@chrisf.9595]

Really hope they make the replacement units a bit better in the remake, because doing a substitute only playthrough not only is lots of fun, it saves you a big headache

[@enzoponce1881]

I'm opposed to that idea, the entire appeal of the substitute units is that they are bad compared to the regular children, and seeing a story with your zeroes going down the road of becoming heroes is always something really satisfactory to see (unless you decide to throw seliph to all your problems and call it a day)

[@chrisf.9595]

@@enzoponce1881 Dont get me wrong i dont want them to be good by any stretch of the definition, just not pathetic because they can never reach that hero status, its more a zero to meh, a 5 or 10% growth rate increase would be my ideal fix

[@boredomkiller99]

​@@chrisf.9595 Honestly stats aren't even the main issue, skills are actually a much bigger issue. Their skill sets make most of them useless Combat unless they are either in a class that naturally knows pursuit or are a non-combat class

[@joshuabrant7689]

Soulless

[@DSaC_]

I have a script rotting on my computer that I wrote years ago where I analyzed every single FE4 pairing, and in the process I actually entertained this thought exercise. The main difference between our methodologies is that I didn't disallow weapon inheritance. Sadly, the conclusion is ultimately that almost every substitute is clear cut worse than their non-sub counterpart once you allow weapon inheritance. Here's my findings: Aideen - Dimna is actually quite competent and absolutely better than the worst Lesters, but Mana not getting Staff Inheritance makes unpaired Aideen the definite worst option. Ayra - Substitute = No Astra, instantly worse Lachesis - Substitute = No Charm, instantly worse Lene - Laylea and Sharlow are actually pretty decent. I was thinking pretty similar to you with Jamke, but I chose Midir due to having basically the same shit but with a 15% lower HP and 5% lower Def growth. Does Pursuit even matter with stats like those? Erinys - Yeah, you could probably make a worse Ced than Hawk, but Hermina is unsalvageable compared to the worst Fee. Tailtiu - Linda is actually kinda cracked and may debatably be better than even the best Tine due to unpromoted Thoron access on top of the great skills. Does it make up for Amid being in a classline that doesn't get a mount, unlike Arthur? Lol no, unpaired is the worst. Brigid - Substitute = No Yewfelle, instantly worse. Shoutouts to Daisy, though, because Miracle on a Thief is insanely good and made me realize that Finn!Patty is a genuinely fantastic pairing despite Finn losing his Lances in 2nd Gen if paired. I remember on my FE4 Sub Run I made boatloads of money in Chapter 9 by using Daisy with a magic sword to rob all the Javelin Dracoknights.

[@mysmallnoman]

Lester can easily inherit the silver bow, killed bow and brave bow lol, even if he doesn't have pursuit he's way better than dimna Tine can get pursuit which is much more important than double xp, because thoron wrath strat only really works in the arena, meanwhile tine is good everywhere

[@DSaC_]

@mysmallnoman How does he Inherit the Killer Bow from units who can't use Bows?

[@ristokukk1]

Ah yes child making in fe 4 the darkest game in series but best story in my thoughts never played but watched videos of the story

[@Prodawg]

You should play it, it's the best fe game

[@Mudlink]

You may not like it but Arden x Tailtiu is peak gaming. Honestly I should try a worst pairing run of FE4 one day.

[@ikaerus_1941]

"many of them lack fundamental skills" - Well, good sir, you don't have to call me out like that early in the video😭

[@notZabami]

18:00 You've probably already been told a million times in comments about this, but you can actually exit the arena, then re-enter with another sword equipped, then defeat the opponent, saving sleep sword uses.

[@Posby95]

You can?! Holy shit! Gonna abuse that next time.

[@notZabami]

@@Posby95 Yeah, just sleep them, then exit, and instead of quitting, just equip an iron sword or something and grind your opponent down

[@Posby95]

@@notZabami I was told that Patty can get rich by using the sleep sword in the arena, but I tried and found it unviable because I used half the sword's uses in one battle and repairs were very expensive. I guess this is how they did it.

[@notZabami]

@@Posby95 yeah, just buy an iron sword

[@brandonwilliams6119]

@@notZabami Gotta remember this Arena Sleep Sword cheese on my next playthrough lol

[@carlphilippgaebler5704]

The weird thing with Patty and Faval is because they "switched" the parents - normally, the female child inherits full growths + blood + items from the mother and half growths + blood from father, and vise versa for the male child. But with Patty and Faval, Faval inherits fully from his mother, and Patty's "primary parent" is her father.

[@martianunlimited]

Patty + Faval are not the only ones though.. Leif + Altena also has their inheritance flipped

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

As a Diehard FE4 fan, This is going to make my night after a full day of work

[@SpookSkellington]

Generations of reverse eugenics led to me, i can relate to this.

[@Raventhetophatfounder]

Is this a prequel to mangs jr ???

[@haveyoutakenyourjoymygoods943]

Not what i expected to watch, but you have my attention haha. I do love my glass bone child unit with the power of a burned leaf (Next Time do awakening , (looks at taguel morgan ))

[@Azamingg]

Okay, the Hawke secret event hit me out of nowhere, got a good laugh out of me.

[@nathan7031]

tbf the only Ceds that are better than Hawke are the magical dads lol (that’s just how good Hawks is as a baseline.) There’s also another thing that can make both set of units stronger - lover convos in the lategame. I don’t think it’s that big of a difference but with the secret event + lover convo Hawks gets nearly capped magic from that alone which is funny lol. Individually speaking, there are worst pairings for each kid specifically but sometimes that usually makes the other kid stronger lol (like Adean x Claud making a decent Lena but a horrendous Lester whose only upside is having enough res that he actually get to the threshold to not get status’d at Blaggi Castle in endgame LOL.)

[@ristokukk1]

man this video shows even with the worst parents for holy blod units still can beat subs mostly

[@gigabyte2248]

Wow, yeah Ira's so good I'm impressed that you managed to make Scathach... Skashath... Ulster worse than his substitute

[@makohidari4723]

Honestly. I kinda missed these type of videos from you. Interesting and putting in the research. While it may not be that useful outside of challenge runs. it's just really interesting to see how much a bad parent can mess up a child unit stats and skills. Only one i might disagree with is arthur vs amid. Having a horse in FE4 is so much of a boon. Now we just need a second gen run of FE4 with the worst substitute units + the worst paired second gen units for the ultimate challenge!

[@TwoHeadedMeerkat]

I'm honestly surprised that Midir didn't show up at _all,_ with having some of the worst growth rates in the entire game. I feel he'd be interchangeable with Beowolf on Erinys, but I suppose that 10% extra speed growth he gets over Beo _would_ make the latter the better (worse?) option. Midir'd probably be the worse father for Ced, while Beowolf is worse for Fee; but it's still a tough race there. I _am_ glad that Dew didn't appear here. His growths are pretty respectable by FE4 standards, and Bargain's never a bad skill to have, even if his children can't use Sol. Nihil _can_ be useful on Fee since it removes her bow-weakness, since effective weapons _are_ critical damage in FE4. Either her or a cav unit of some kind if you're just really afraid of Horseslayers for some reason, but mostly Fee. Downside there is that the only option for Nihil is from Alec, and he's actively detrimental to Ced

[@squallleonhart9387]

The perfect opening to a very well made analysis video

[@FireEmbros]

Great vid man! I could tell the passion from the quiz video translate here ahhhaha!

[@martianunlimited]

Oops mistake in the parent portrait for Lana vs Mana (you had Ayra + Azel instead of Aideen + Holyn)

[@CrystalOcecat]

Very interesting video and I can tell you really put a lot of care and effort into making this video Mangs. I really hope they do make an FE4 remake. Hopefully they don't add a base like The Somniel or Monastery (don't like running around a map to pick up a bunch of things or doing minigames). I would like it to be more like the base in Path of Radiance or Radiant Dawn.

[@goroadachi9489]

You have to do the same for Fates kids. People need to know the pain of Gunther Kana

[@alexlee4154]

Mangs managed to play through all of fe4 before i finished chapter 2

[@EzraH214]

this was an interesting video to me cause i don't know much about FE4, i learn something new every video i watch on it, thanks

[@DourFlower]

Now that ive seen the whole video I can safely say you should do a run with only the worst child or substitute unit for each counterpart for maximum terrible

[@voltron77]

Yeah, i accidentally paired Sylvia with Alec instead of Claud, making coirpre unable to use the Valkyrie staff.

[@fuuzaister2117]

Same, btw! And my friend paired her with Lewyn. It was just horrible to look at. He wasted Forseti, i wasted Valkyria (i could use it to ressurect Arthur who i sac in final chapter)

[@voltron77]

I paired Lex with Tailtue and wrath vantage combo is really good, but man, Arthur’s magic growth and his nonexistent doubling capabilities make him almost useless.

[@fuuzaister2117]

@@voltron77 i think this still was fun. To, firstly, use Lex for mage children (thought it might be good, really good, sometimes), then - to use him for vantage. And this, considering his def growth boost... sounds fun. Maybe ill try it next

[@voltron77]

@ Yeah, my Arthur is really tanky with 60 something hip and 20 ish Defense.

[@Pannedcakes-90]

Always a fan of these kinds of challenges instead of "Can you beat the game by not engaging with the game?" challenges. Not that those can't be fun, single class/weapon/etc can be incredibly fun to watch or play, but this makes you play the game in a completely different way while still using everything the game intends you to use. Plus, always fun to see FE content.

[@oof5992]

40 minutes of fe4? Let's gooo

[@peterh2223]

Me, a few days ago: "I think that, mathematically, Azel is the best father for Larcei and Scáthatch" Mbang: "I think that Azel is the worst father for Larcei and Ulster"

[@HanakkoLove]

We need to normalize Lowmaxxing more

[@NieOrginalny]

Maxminning

[@DourFlower]

Yay fe 4 video W!! I hope my silly 10 year dono gave some energy to get this video done, this is a hilarious concept. Before fully watching im going to assume arden tiltyu makes for some truly terrible mages

[@castlevelthomer]

That's a pretty *noish* video Mangs I would disagree with Arthur and Amid though. Sure, Amid is strictly speaking a better combat unit than the worst Arthur, but I feel like you're a bit underestimating the value of the Mage Knight class. This is FE4, cavalry is king, high movement + canto is huge. Even if Arthur's combat is pretty terrible, at the very least he's going to be modestly contributing on the frontlines. Amid on the other hand is is never going to keep up with Seliph, Ares, Oifey and so on, he just never amounts to anything. And on top of that he basically has to sacrifice his chapter 8 if you want to get his special event. Anyway, that was pretty fun, kinda want to try this run now!

[@nomadictrooper1332]

I generally agree with the horses, but late game in FE 4, you move at the pace you can survive at, which is slow in a substitute run, or the somehow worst than subs route.

[@Zyaire286]

Yoooooo, its been 8000 years since I remember this! An Fe4 video ^_^

[@douglascostapinheiro4642]

I got to know this video in the creepy bad endings series, funny to see it pop up again, so cool!

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

Yeah, Creepy bad Endings was one of my first exposures to FE4

[@connorhilchie2779]

Very cool video mangs. I knew the Second Generation could become stupidly broken but even after purposely nerfing them they still managed to come out alright. If we ever get an FE4 remake I'd love to see a feature where we can see orger peoples pairings so you cab compare them to yours

[@cp49100]

The one time you remembered to move Noish and it was to put him in Taillte's bedroom lol Always love FE4 content

[@BusterBeachside]

"Sharlow" and "Charlot" are actually pronounced the same, they just fixed the spelling (It's a French name, which is why the "t" is silent at the end)

[@RandyButternubs17]

still the most underrated YTuber

[@raho500]

Damn I had great hope, the FE4 video would be about clever-mode.

[@slavicsandvich5967]

Hi Mangs, At 19:45, you used Azelle's protraint instead of Holyn's.

[@Mangs1337]

Oops

[@deltaquarayza]

Bro did NOT just call Sharlow horrible 😱

[@ultimapower6950]

Meanwhile in COTBK.

[@SimonSaysDeath]

Just hoping Mangs doesn't tank his kids Magic growth too much since Bethany likely has magic kids, maybe there is a better pairing statwise but this is the Canon pairing. Thanks for the vid, egg, I've been wanting this for a while.

[@thebrazillianguytm2186]

I do have a feeling that someone will find a way to make worse children (and, lets face it, find better ways to measure that), but yeah, that was absolutely fun to watch

[@solidskullz5736]

How to make the worst children in FE4 Step 1: Make Arden the dad

[@Robin-cw5zu]

Here's a longshot request: Please play Rondo of Swords - fairly quick, difficult strategy RPG game, with a pretty interesting story, hardly see any gameplay on it. Very similar to Fire Emblem but also not...

[@saliver5909]

That's why I love baby-making in FE games. The support system and characterizing just bear fruit to this so naturally, and as a strategy gameplay mechanic that takes place in generational main plot, having babies just make sense. I wish the majority of upcoming FE games to have children units. Speaking of generational main plots, I am currently playing Romancing Saga 2 Remake and that game is SO fun. I recommend everyone new to RS series give it a try.

[@83cuicui]

Lex so goated that he is not a father to anyone cuz he just make everyone work 😎

[@greenpoolball5136]

Imagine you can have a harem pairing instead. Arden mating all of the female candidates and that would be fun.

[@DiegoG2004]

Poor Lester, messing him up with Claude to omega boost Lana wasn't the worst thing you could do to him.

[@CrickettoSantalune]

In Lana's screen, you left Ayra and Azelle instead of Edain and Holyn lol

[@jeromeheramis2932]

Wow! thanks for pointing that out. I did not noticed that! 😂

[@Brown95P]

So basically, Raquesis is non-negotiable while Sylvia is not worth it. Duly noted. 😂

[@WanOlDan]

That exp from being not the father took me out. 🤣🤣🤣

[@mads_in_zero]

This is like the opposite of minmaxing. Maxminning.

[@josephzc1832]

It would be great to have a video of the lore of fe4 and fe5. Probably the best story we ever gonna have in fe

[@NichtcrawlerX]

Wait wait wai, BridgetXClaud breaks the way I thought Holy Blood Inheritance works in Jugdral? (I know there are many cases of Dev oversight in these games, just thinks its funny, especially since the sequel/midquel goes out of its way to explain a Holy Blood discrepancy in the plot of the first game, by introducing a new character to explain it away)

[@lsrrr3857]

it is only a break if BridgetXLewyn doesnt follow this. It is more so that Bridget is the abnormaly where the son follows the mother rather than father, similiar to Quan and Leif, but since QuanXEthlyn is fixed we wont know what will happen if we pair Quan with someone else.

[@NichtcrawlerX]

@@lsrrr3857 Been a long time since I tried to figure it out. The implied inheritance method seems to only care about the sex of the parents (Father tries to pass on (Major) Holy Blood before the Mother) and the order the kids are born. (Yes, I know, it is not our Mendelian inheritance genetics, but as a molecular biologist/geneticist I do like to figure out fictional inheritance systems)

[@astralaegis6283]

This is so stupid I'm going to watch it even though I've never played FE4

[@Clockdragoon]

Man, a playthrough with these pairings would be rough... Might try it.

[@lostanimeworld11]

Question: Did you find any funny or interesting support dialogue while making this video?

[@LizardVVizard]

At least none of the parents have to live with the shame of not being able to pass down galeforce in this game

[@lsrrr3857]

Pursuit: hold my beer

[@kloa4219]

if there's ever a remake of this game. i want them to change their hair color and eye colors

[@kefnettheuseless7627]

This video reminds me that heroes needs to add more of the gen 2 and substitution children. But they will just add more oc characters lmao

[@Plantboy07fe]

You see if i did this playing fe4 with the worst child units nothing would change as i use bad characters on purpose because i find it funny. Yes i have never beaten a fire emblem game on the hardest difficulty if you couldn't tell by me intentionally using bad units for the lols

[@babylonsuruk2901]

It's like eugenics, but backwards.

[@benchjuice]

21:51 Pretty sure those are the caps for the unpromoted class

[@nicholasdale2712]

33:52 to 33:57 GOD DAMN THAT WAS INDEED A DEVASTATING WARTH CRITICAL

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

Finally done watching the video. This was really fun, However, I think you are SEVERELY underestimating Accost in you pairings. I disagree that Ced, Tinny , Arthur and possibly Caipre are worst because they have Accost, Which has the small chance to kill units at Range due to how Accost can proc another round of Combat. This is even worse with Ced, who can kill even more easily due to Pursuit. Yeah, Low magic sucks, but it doesn't matter if enemies don't have much Res to begin with. With Caipre, Sharlow will only kill weakened enemies when promoted, but Caipre has a solid chance to kill with his Magic thanks to Accost when conditions are met. Also a small note for Azelle/Ulster: Astra is pretty strong and that would be his clutch, but he will become around Equal footing to his sub, but I do agree that his sub is the better unit in the end, just barely edging out, but not by much I will say that the 5 characters you did not manage to make worst are almost impossible to make worst, so my focus on my list is to make some units even worse than yours, while also making their "Cost" be as high as possible. Here is my list for the TRUE worst Pairings IMO: Ayra/Alec: While Azelle is already a good way to sabotage Ayra's Kids, It's nearly impossible to sabotage them further. While Alec is a physical unit, I will say that he gives NO SKILLS to his children because their children already have Nihil and Pursuit, so it's a waste. Yeah, This pretty much makes Ulster better than his sub 100% (And so will Larcei), but the gap wasn't that big to begin with and it's a small cost to make worse kids. Claude would probably be the worst, but Claude grants good res, so they become MAGE KILLERS. Aideen/Azel: This pairing is trash. Yes, Lester gets pursuit, but unlike Claude/Aideen (Which is meta because:) that can let Lara carry Rescue staff for the entire generation, Lana cannot Inherit it, even though Azelle can still gift it to Aideen in chapter 4. It's like the Devs are trolling unsuspecting players and first timers will be confused on why they lost the best utility staff in gen 2 (You can inherit it with Claude/Sylvia or Claude/Erin, but that's too much effort and you pay for 2 pairing what is normally price of 1). Going back to Lester: Lester will always be behind because of garbage strenght growth. The one argument I could give as to why this is weaker than Holyn is that Lester has high skill with Holyn, which allows higher crit chance with Killer bow and much higher accuracy (Also Holyn is loaded with HP while Azelle has OK HP). Yeah, 2 chance to crit with Killed bow is strong, but 90% Skill growth compared to 30% is huge. Also keep in mimd that Lest has much lower strength (20% over 40%), so the damage will be worse on crit. Biggest issue is that it makes Lana very strong with Pursuit, but it's a small price to pay to make Lester even worse, as it's impossible to make Lana worse than Muirne. Lewyn was considered, but Crit and adept might make Lester have a better fighting edge at times (Remember, Lester can use the Silver bow, which is Higher might than Killer bow, so crits can be much better;I find the Azelle pairing funnier as well. Also Lana will still be strong because she will be thanks to a magic father and her worst magic dad would be Claude). Erin/Holyn: This is pretty much a worse version of Erin/Beowulf because No Accost, which is what I wanted. I could Have Given Claude, but not only will that grant Valkyrie staff to Ced, Ced becomes Busted as well. This is definitely worse than Beowulf though (Except for HP and skill, but hey, Fee gets 5% less strength growth).I think I could have also used Finn or Dew, but Finn gives Miracle, which can be strong with proper math, and Dew grants Bargain, which is insanely broken as this unit can always "Borrow" Rings without losing gold (They sell rings at the same price they buy them). Also did you know that Lewyn Waste Adept on Ced and inneficiently gives it to Fee because Fee would have got Adept in promotion? Tailtyu/Dew: I know I literally just said how broken Bargain is, but hear me out: Dew has the worst survivability for the two children and grants them no offensive skills. Holyn grants Meme levels of skill growth (Over 100% LMAO), but that also affects HP, which is something. 100% growths are meme worthy and all that, but's it's guaranteed stat every level, which is super strong, especially when the tomes (Eventually) have crit. While yes, Holyn should probably be here, The real reason is that I'm writing this in 1AM and getting sleepy, so yeah. (also the whole point is to remove Accost, which makes them decent combat units at range) Briggid/Claude: Yeah, This one is unbeatable, I'll just say why Azelle would be Second place. Azelle's Pursuit is Useless for Febail because Febail has pursuit, so a Bow unit with a magic growth would be uselesd. I will say Azelle does grant a 60% speed growth over Claude's 40% Which is something. Patty with Pursuit would be useful to have two chances to steal, but she still won't kill and it would make her marginally better at the arena, so it's not a good pairing, but Claude is Bottom of the Barrel, except that he is the MAGE KILLER daddy. Lachesis/Lewyn: There is no way to make Lachesis' children unviable thanks to Charm and Hezul granting solid strength, but this Pairing not only (Mostly) Ruins their defenses (Except Nanna), it also forces a player to lose out Forseti (if they were not following the Zero Inheritance rule). Also Dermott only gets Early Adept and Critical, so it's not the most efficient adept Inheritence. Critical is strong, but I will say Every unit can get crit with weapons with 50 kills (And Effective weapons always crit against effective targets), so the Skill can easily lose relevancy. Also Vantage can be a very strong Enemy Phase skill when used in the right hands and with planned out math So I try to avoid Inheriting it if possible for this cause. Conclusion: Overall, I love FE4's inhertence system for how fun it makes Gen 2 feel like a "Choose your own adventure" type of gameplay. You can make bad units that are fun to use or just make god units that makes Gen 2 look like a joke. Even then, some of the worst fathers have their unique niches, which is pretty cool for "Meta discussion". Inheritence adds replayabily to an already unique game which is why FE4 is my Game of All Time.

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

Forgot the Sylvia Kids: so here you go: Sylvia/Arden: While it gives the kids good physical survivability, They both lose out on a lot of useful stuff. Yeah, I did say Vantage could be strong, but to calculate a best case use for Vantage for the kids is nearly impossible because they have C rank weapons, so good luck leaving enemies in such low HP where it matters. I was thinking Finn, but both get pursuit which would be too useful, so I went lazy and went for Arden because Vantage is seen as a weak skill, but can be strong in the right hands, just that these kids don't have good weapon ranks to have such good hands (One can't even attack until promoted). Lex would be almost as bad but Paragon is OP.

[@planescaped]

Funny that the substitutes for both of Sylvia's kids are arguably better. Sylvia is forever alone.

[@slavicsandvich5967]

Mangs made content for me today, and for that, I am glad ^_^

[@pivotkid908]

the sequel to "mangs and mekkah make kids" we never knew we needed

[@AstraProc]

This was a really enjoyable video to watch! You just gotta love FE4 man, what a great game.

[@SixJayy]

I love this, please give more love to FE4 🥰

[@DarkJ1425]

I know I am coping hard right now, but in the off chance IS stopped being a punk and released the remake next year with the new hardware I will play a substitute run right away mainly to see if they changed their look if at all

[@ciontachthecthonicchampion3576]

Man gets married. Starts talking about buying a house. Makes a video about how to influence the growth and development of kids. Man. This sure came out of nowhere.

[@fakesmile172]

One day I want to do a substitute run I'm not sure you can screw up Ced at all. I like pairing Noish with Erin in my runs. Claude might be better though.

[@lukasneo91]

Is this video foreshadowing something? Love FE4 content!

[@ramen1010]

Hold my beer I’m going to quickly play thru FE4 for the millionth time with these pairings

[@Pogma776]

Lester is such an awful unit, he's so easy to make him horrible that I'd be willing to say 9 times out of 10 His substitute is better only because he has pursuit

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

I would actually be interested in trying this; but my console died. Will have to save it for later.

[@lordblobfish1411]

32:34 Leyla wins do to her much larger... charisma.

[@lsrrr3857]

Very charismatic.

[@nawee242]

Man, i hope they remake it plus Thracia as a bundle on modern platform

[@lero4827]

Great video mangs! It's interesting too see how bad you make units in fe4. Here have a like👍