These 5 Early Units have INSANE POTENTIAL! Fire Emblem Engage (SPOILER FREE)

[@Varsona]

Error on my part: Aptitude doubles your Class growths (Thanks for the correction!) I am unsure how that ties into fixed maddening mode (see reply comment for deets) The way in which I referenced it works more similarly to a skill called blossom in FE9&10, which is not how Engage works. Apologies!

[@luminozero]

I can help with this. In Maddening Mode, your character gains their Growth rate in a stat every time they level. For example, let's say a unit has a 75% Strength growth and a base of 5 Strength at Level 1. Level 2: 5.75 (5 actual) Level 3: 6.50 (6 actual) Level 4: 7.25 (7 actual) Level 5: 8.00 And so on. Also, Jean's Personal Skill doubles the Growths from his Class (not his personal bases).

[@banbanthebandit4002]

Actually what aptitude does in double your class growths and does not effect your bases at all. Basically you can have jeans very mediocre growths go from 20 at base to 80 in certain classes. As for starsphere it does actually work that way, giving any unit equipped with Tiki or that have inherited it 15% inhanced growths.

[@Varsona]

@BanBantheBanditMan @Lumino oh wow that's even better

[@BlackRoseThornEtna]

another way of looking at fixed growths is if you have 50% mag growth you'll get 1 Mag every 2 levels.

[@peytonibarra8992]

Louis with Sigurd. It's so insanely broken, he is currently level 12 going into chapter 7, 2 levels higher than everyone else. Mages F him up, but they can't do damage if they are dead, which they will be when he moves 11 spaces in one turn.

[@Varsona]

An Armored knight walks menacingly towards you from a continent away...what do??

[@Fyuz12]

Louis + Sigurd w/ Greatlance = Sentient Ballistic Missile This has basically been a win condition for me in maddening. Once the mages are gone, he can go absolutely ham in the enemy ranks all on his own. The AI tends to ignore him though once it realises Louis is not to be fucked with lol.

[@motivatorsoftheheart0007]

My Louis is often MVP in battles, thanks for that tip it makes perfect sense from some one learning the system.

[@Mirosuke.]

Wild. This is exactly what is carrying me through my first Hard/Casual playthrough.

[@insertenombreoriginal5897]

Yeah, but the game really leaves you naked once you get to certain point. Even then, Louis is still broken af

[@VegaMK2]

It's wild how much Yunaka brings when paired with Micaiah, you'd think it'd be a mismatch but it gives her something to do every single turn.

[@VangolaGear]

I actually opted to put Micaiah on Jean. That ability to heal himself when he heals others is so good. Especially when combined with the Guard skill

[@NeXuS_i_Beyond]

I have her paired with lyn, her speed becomes ludacris and she obliterates everything. Plus the clones you can make actually inherit her avoid, which lets you make 4 avoid units in any spot to surround a boss unit. Actually cracked.

[@VangolaGear]

@@NeXuS_i_Beyond I have mine paired with Lyn as well. Far better match.

[@Xero2534-b4w]

@@NeXuS_i_Beyond same thing I’m running. Literally breaks the game

[@Arutima]

Ynaka with Micaiah is basically an Awakening Trickster. Thief unit that can use staves.

[@just0_]

Yunaka is absolutely busted, all you gotta do is put her on any avoid +30 tile, give her a dagger with Micaiah's engraving, and see her dodge absolutely everything and get tons of crits (currently my yunaka has 98 avoid WITHOUT THE AVOID TILES, with the avoid tiles her avo gets to 158)

[@Levinswords]

i’ve been saying this for a while but… give her Marth. raw Avoid +30+ w high bond level, it’s quite literally broken without even being on an avoid tile, *Spoils* Ivy in Chap (9?) had an 8% chance to hit Yunaka

[@joeericestrada3175]

Love Yutaka. Wish she had an advanced class though

[@Fearienify]

@@joeericestrada3175 its kindve weird the assassin advanced class is gone but others were put in, makes me not even want to run a thief

[@joeericestrada3175]

@Terminal Weeb wolf knight is fun, but the thief class has slightly higher stats so I kept thief.

[@Roggie249]

Also has crazy early game ability because of how stupid cheap it is to upgrade the iron dagger. +2 doesn't even cost steel IIRC and doubles the attack. (commented this before the video got to her.)

[@Roggie249]

Chloe is absolutely insane so far for me. Easily my best unit so far. Doesn't have the standard weakness of old pegasus units (super low starting HP) and just has fantastic stats. Currently on chapter 10. Boucheron is also straight up carrying for me as well. And then of course, Yunaka. Dagger upgrade is super cheap and she's just a powerhouse early.

[@zombehnashun]

It's a shame I benched her so early in the playthrough. She couldn't kill anything and she got killed very easy so it wasn't worth keeping her on the team.

[@nomercy4834]

@@zombehnashun Chloe is one of those units who really suck very early game, but around chapter 4 and after those she constantly becomes more powerful to a point she always outperforms my Yunaka and Alear(with Tiki on top of that), on my maddening playthrough I give her Avoid +15, pair up, killer lance with Micaiah engraving and lastly Edelgard bracelet which make her very flexible and kill 2 units in just 1 turn since her Mag growth is actually better than her STR growth mag weapons are also very viable like Levin Sword

[@BlackRoseThornEtna]

your really not missing out on not using chole, she's honestly a pretty terrible pegasus knight, she only has 25 str and res growths before class growths, with it being 35/40 as a griffon knight. I mean celine would make a better griffon knight than cloie would lol. I mean sure with enough favortism sure, you can make her good. She has good base stats so she's decent early on but will fall off later. I've seen some use her as a martial master because she gets a good combination of str/mag growths.

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

Give her Lyn. I loved having her with Lyn most of the time. Her copies inherit her insane speed which makes them dodge a lot. Also speed taker just makes her even stronger. She's one of the very strongest units in the entire game.

[@BlackRoseThornEtna]

@@eustacemcgoodboy9702 lyn makes anyone good.

[@GoDirectly2Jail]

Haven't seen anyone mention alfred+sigard but man that dude absolutely crushes everyone. Even when i try to get everyone else in on the action he still tears it up and is my mvp every single level.

[@LtSMASH324]

It's because Sigurd + anyone crushes everything. Alfred actually has pretty bad speed, although having a decent defense stat can make up for it.

[@srsgoblin]

Alfred is slept on because of how obsessed this community is with speed. He's not the fastest dude but his glorious muscles and thick defense basically turn him into a mobile Knight. Being on a horse means he can utilize the Momentum skill from Sigurd a lot better than anyone for quite awhile, and he doesn't need to be engaged for it to be useful. Chloé's low strength doesn't let her one shot people with it quite like Alfred can.

[@chadachi3970]

@@srsgoblin His main issue his his bulk starts out as pretty mediocre so having bad speed means he gets hit twice for a lot of damage and his strength early is also pretty mediocre. They balanced his around giving him Sigurd, abusing the defense and bld Sigurd provides and using Momentum to get one big hit in with a Steel Lance or Ridersbane. Because of how they balanced him, literally any unit with better strength or defense can do the same thing (Louis) or any faster units can hit hard with momentum then follow up with finishing blow (Chloe). Alfred is fine, but if you don’t give him favoritism he can feel pretty mediocre. On my hard run he was basically worthless if I didn’t give him Sigurd or Marth to help his stats and Maddening he’s doing fine, but I’m also giving him some favoritism and promoted him at chapter 8.

[@Ethan.]

Clanne turned out better for me than both celine and citrinne the rng screwing is strong

[@sergiosanmuahahaha]

Yeah, same here, my Celine got stuck at 10 mag at level 12 so had to stop using her. Clanne became my nuker

[@gz2548]

Same here dog clanne is double as goof for my team

[@GalacticHeroEtna]

For me Boucheron is killing it. He has the highest HP, DEX and Bld growths in the game but i think he has the overall lowest offensive growths at 20 atk and 0 mag. But thats not stopping him from leveling atk nearly every level for me. Add that to his higher than average speed growth rate and you have a high HP unit who is not slowed down by most weapons and can one round most units and add chip damage as the back-up class. I just beat the Tiki paralogue and i dont think i could have if not for him tanking and KOing the dragons.

[@zachmundy519]

Boucheron is insane for me. Early game I gave him Sigurd and he was easily my best unit. Even midgame (chap 14) he is absolutely annihilating everything without much effort and without an emblem ring or bracelet. He is my second best unit that doesn't need an emblem atm

[@mariehelenajmahn3791]

Yeah! Even without Emblems, he's a powerhouse!

[@hadokenexe]

Clanne with Celica has been carrying me in early game. I may have just been RNG blessed but he's got 13 mag, 13 speed and 7 def at level 8. He just nukes anything with seraphim or ragnarok

[@Fearienify]

Yeah i have Celica with him too and I just teleport him wherever with a Miciah engraved Elsurge and just pepelaugh

[@nevenpatrk9661]

I've got Clanne with Micaiah right now and I've gotta say he's become the defacto healer for my team that also just one shots everything.

[@itsamenl]

I coupled him with Micaiah and niw around chapter 15 he is my best unit. I never see him mentioned, he must be rng blessed. But he is very tanmy and kills everything. I gave him a slightly upgraded bolganone tome, Micaiah let him heal before promotion. Sacrifice akso gave him quite some levels.

[@Shamarthebread]

Another great video thank you for the quick tips

[@POKENAR]

For early-game characters that are carrying (honorable mention to Lapis who is doing really well but I DID give her favoritism focus), Yunaka, Louis, and Anna are ones still on my team at late mid-game. Also, for Yunaka, I think its better to give her the Micaiah mark instead of Marth, it gives a massive +40 avoid, and the damage reduction can easily be made up for with forges. She becomes an amazing dodge tank when you mix this with a bond with marth to get her the +10 avoid skill.

[@TheTyranex]

Do you just inherit the marth dodge chance and go korrin to get the fog terrain?

[@jeanpremier4]

How do you give them marks? Someone said something about engraving

[@TheTyranex]

@@jeanpremier4 after a point in the story you get blacksmith. She can forge your weapons and give them puls stats up to level 5 or upgrade them to the next level. She can also enrage a weapon with a mark of an emblem giving it boosted stats. Each mark is one per use. For example if you give yunaka a marked knife with micias emblem, the knife gives +40 avoid.

[@AgentMulcahy]

I think Lapis’s issue is that she is almost immediately outclassed by Diamant. I think they are like back to back chapters

[@vreeze33]

I haven't used Lapis due to swords being kinda meh and getting a lot of sword users around when you get her. I unlocked her support with Alear around chapter 16 and now I feel bad.

[@thiefpotato2759]

Chloe (with Sigurd) and Yunaka are probably the characters who have carried me the most. Chloe with Sigurd is insane, especially if you build her with avoid in mind.

[@raincastmusic]

Chapter 4 on hard mode killed her in the first round for me so i wont be able to use her anymore But she does sound good with sigurd

[@TheTyranex]

Ya and once she's able to Kanto, inherit it and pass it to Louise. That duo of units are insane

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

@@raincastmusic Ouch...imagine playing classic mode. Imagine letting Chloe be dead.

[@Lrbearclaw]

I think people underestimate Framme. Got her 2 or 3 levels early in and she is a Mage and Archer buster. Come chapter 7, and she is quad-hitting enemies and wiping them out (aside from Heavies). She reminds me of Mist in PoR/RD. Underestimated but with potential to be a top tier powerhouse.

[@Kuljin20]

I ended up using Jean over her, yes he starts at Lvl 1 but you can’t ignore that Expertise perk. He ends up leagues better than her before they can even class change. He’s the guy from awakening with the pot on his head, can’t remember his name. People slept on him too initially in that game as well, only to find out he’s one of the best characters. Not to mention early game you don’t need 2 healers especially after getting Yunaka, but you get another healer later who is PERFECTLY suited to being a High Priest on the front lines healing/attacking. To each his own and all that, but in my opinion Framme is terrible and there are much better alternatives.

[@friendlyelites]

@@Kuljin20 Framme gets better Str growths making her better than Jean for being a martial monk. Give her Byleth in the mid-game and she becomes a phenomenal support flex for healing, buffing, and dancing while still dishing out meaty damage. By late game you really only want 1-2 flex healers and 1 main healer who you give Micaiah to and if you're in late game it might as well be Hortensia. Not to mention Jean's personal skill isn't that great when you can get the same skill inherited from Tiki on anyone. He's an early game trap making you think he has amazing potential when he's outclassed by everyone else both starting out and by later recruits.

[@timm8998]

Jean as berserker (without Tiki) has 110 hp, 80 str and 60 speed. Kinda nice :D

[@noathern]

I reclassed framme into a martial master (since I used Jean to be a high priest) and she is freaking incredible

[@ayrtontrnka1]

Take the time to turn her into a royal knight with tiki equipped asap. You're welcome

[@shadowsonshadowson3929]

I know she’s not early game, but Panette is godly when pared up with Ike. Lots of health, great strength and dexterity, pair her up with a killer axe+5 and she will mow down everyone. Especially with the wrath skill which can further increase her critical hit chance an extra 30 if she’s missing that hp wise.

[@BlackStarCrona]

Louis has been an absolute monster for me so far

[@DigitalxGamer]

Imo Clanne is one of the most slept on units. Idk if my growths were just blessed with him, but he's been kind of amazing. His lack of an actual personal skill is a little annoying, but having an extra Axe (by bonding with Leif), especially a mounted one, has come in handy since I benched Vander and Boucheron and his high Speed growth means he doesn't care about the weight; he'll still double a lot. Throwing him into Paladin for a while does him wonders, getting him more Strength, Defense and Resistance at the same time. Eventually I'll send him back to Mage Knight to hopefully become a mixed, mounted unit capable of dealing with both mages and armored units alike. On the chance he can't get a good enough Magic stat to function even as an armor slayer, then Wyvern is always a strong backup plan. xD I can't count him among the totally amazing units like Yunaka, Jean, Chloe or Louis, but I keep hearing people bench him relatively early and I am just stunned. Personally, I've gotten way more out of him than I have with Celine and Citrinne. Citrinne's Speed is so annoyingly low that the only thing she's good for is using Thunder tomes, and she's largely just weakening distant targets for somebody else to finish. And Celine's Magic is just not good enough for a Mage. Swapped in Anna as a Mage asap. Though I can understand if you feel the need to have the powerful healing combo in Maddening.

[@James.Hill.]

Yunaka is might be one of the best FE units ever. If you're just a little lucky, she gets really bulky and really fast. Stick her in a forest, she'll never die and counter everything

[@Barbaryotaku]

She learns staves which allows her to stave off enemies.

[@adannecaise6273]

My Anna gets strength like every level... I had no idea she was more amgic oriented because she always gets strength and like never mag

[@bruskydu]

To be honest, aside from Alear, Alfred and Celine, it was Etie who has been carrying my team especially after I upgraded her to a Bow Knight

[@nevenpatrk9661]

Ngl I thought that I was going to need to replace Etie because Alcryst just had better stats but after seeing using both of them on Pegasus spam maps I found out just how useful Etie is in those situations as she could reliably one shot all the Pegasus Knights coming my way while Alcryst could not.

[@Deranox]

In my playthrough it was the completw opposite. Alcryst was a absolut beast paired with Lyn, Etie fell off real quick

[@justinkimbrough300]

my Etie is strong. she just had no def or res

[@riznix9237]

Louis is my monster tank. The dude just won't die. He's always in my front line. Lapis is my favorite unit in general and she's my main focus. I made her a hero and have her mowing down people on the front line. Celine is my mage of choice. And I love her design. I'm trying to finish leveling Citrine as well (I level everyone to 20 before I advance them). And Anna... Oh boy. She's so damn adorable and so damn dangerous!

[@xenogaming5997]

Yes but you can call her lady Anna

[@riznix9237]

@@xenogaming5997 yes my apologies 🤣

[@maxentius681]

Leveling to 20 isn't the best way to class change anymore, its based on a hidden, overall level score, you aren't missing stats from leveling early. If anything you are missing stats from not being in a class with better growth.

[@riznix9237]

@@maxentius681 See I think in 3H this was the case but as an old school FE player who would literally grind every single person to lvl 20 in arena I just can't miss any potential on my units. On chapter 14 right now and finally have most of units on their advance classes but this is just the way I have always played these games unfortunately. The idea of changing them at lvl 10 just doesn't work for me lol

[@supermercado6848]

I made Lapis a hero also. She does so much damage when it's not her turn once you give her the Lucina backup skills. "oh you are attacking there now? I still got you!"

[@Smoothiko]

I'm loving Louis with Leif cause I can have him walk up to a bunch of enemies and end his turn and adaptability just let's him counter everything (if he's got said weapons in his inventory) and tank everything, Lapis is another favorite of mine with Tiki as her bracelet Emblem, she's currently the just mopping the floor with everything and avoiding everything, just actually finished the second part of chapter 11 with her killing everyone on the top half of the map (including the 2 wyrms and 4 named characters)

[@raulhessel]

For me it was cloé who carried my run so far. At first she was kinda weak but when I upgraded her to a griffin knight she was destroying entire maps on hard mode

[@westenev]

High Priest Anna + Tiki was a complete beast in my playthrough. She hit a power spike somewhere around chapter 10 or 11, where she just became able to stand in the middle of enemies and just take them all down with el-fire (hard difficulty). This lasted right until the end of the game. Honestly though, Hiya Papaya girl + Corrin paired with a dodgetank crit machine like Alear or Kagetsu was also a potent map clearing strategy that hard carried some maps.

[@malikharper5622]

Clanne has been working wonders for me

[@vreeze33]

Yunaka absolutely carried me. I got her an iron dagger+4 early on and she just tears through enemies. I'm at chapter 16 now and she's still great. Louis is an absolute beast that has tanked many hits for me and Chloe has been very useful as a healer after promoting. Anna has also turned into a very strong warrior in my playthrough.

[@Fuzzlekinz]

my celine got rng screwed hard so she's chilling on the bench rip

[@SwampyHouse]

Damn took the ring from the princess immediately couldn’t get past the dress on the battle field

[@nevenpatrk9661]

It is such a shame that there are so many units with potential in this game because there are so many units I want to use and I can only make room for so many slots.

[@DairunCates]

I would very much like a source on Aptitude working like that, because it's never worked like that before, literally no other source I've seen has said it works that way in this game, and that doesn't even work with how Maddening has fixed growths on your first run.

[@Varsona]

This is an error on my part: Aptitude works in the same vein as Awakening, Fates, and Three Houses. It boosts growth rates by a flat amount; which I am unsure how that ties into fixed maddening mode. The way in which I referenced it works more similarly to a skill called blossom in FE9&10. Apologies!

[@DairunCates]

@@Varsona No problem. Forgot Blossom existed. Weirdly though. Aptitude DOES seem to be different though (at least on Maddening Fixed). Someone posted their fixed level 20 Jean and it appears to specifically double the CLASS bonuses. This is actually worse than a flat +10-20%, but you'll end up with a lot more stats relevant to your final class. It also means a General Jean with Tiki can get a very high BLD stat.

[@jaredkhan8743]

My game comes tomorrow, but my plan is to find a way to make Boucheron as busted as possible cuz he's my favorite character lol

[@justinkimbrough300]

give him the emblem of three houses. that's what I did, and he is in the running for mvp of my playthrough

[@1stCallipostle]

Anna's growths are truthfully wack. I don't know if they were just feeling spicy or drunkenly swapped her attack stats

[@ProductionNobody]

Maybe give her tiki and make her a high priest early?

[@Vyn_HK]

Reminds me of Ronan in FE5 lol

[@magicpegasus2864]

@@Vyn_HK at least with Ronan magic is res

[@Kingdra92]

I think that changing Anna’s class into a magical one is the way to go with her

[@gamester512]

@@Kingdra92 Or just give her any weapon that can exploit her high MAG, like the Levin Sword, Flame Lance, etc.

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

Louis has become busted for me now. He’s basically tanking and killing everyone

[@michaels2077]

louis has been putting in some serious work for me early game, and celine

[@Kingdom-zu6tm]

I made Clanne a wolf knight with the engraved Levin Sword and he's absolutely busted! I had him inherit canter ability from Sigurd and pair that with the wolf knight ability to lower foes movement he is the ultimate hit and run. Hits like a truck too!

[@ceresbane]

I kinda wish growth rates of characters and units are just in the game to easily be referred to. Like why even hide it? We know the system exists. Just give us the rates so we can properly plan.

[@sonicrebelxd6197]

A unit I have been thoroughly pleased with and was surprised on was Lapis paired with Lyn, I opted to go for an avoid build cause of her personal and crazily enough most attacks coming her way have 0-10% chance of hitting every time she also does enough damage to give my other units kills which helps me a ton

[@NicotineBoon]

MVP award goes to Chloe. She's currently a lv 9 griffon knight w/ lance focus. Bond 20 - Edelgard. I'm only on chapter 8, so hopefully this build will last me through late game.

[@fromnaras]

This was such a good video and the comment section is even better. I love the fire emblem community lol

[@KarmaEpsilon]

Okay but anyone else finding picking a niche for Jean pretty weird? Any advanced classes working really well for other people for him I should pick up proficiencies for?

[@Kuljin20]

I made him a High Priest to complement the high Mag stat that he has while still being able to heal and use fists.

[@matthewsimon6170]

Citrinne literally handed off her Thunder tome to Clanne, and...i legitimately forgot about her and Lapis, like, immediately, the next chapter. Alcryst, didnt forget that boy, Luna is godly when he can strike safely.

[@felixma9192]

you dropped citrinne for CLANNE?

[@mobes8876]

Chloe with Lyn, IMO, is the best unit in the game. She’ll need just a little bit of str boost, but afterwards she is a killing machine. Lyn’s skill to allow faster units to attack twice before the foe retaliates. Promote her to Wyvern Knight and the game is basically over haha

[@borjaguillemgallego5497]

Why wyvern and not griffit???

[@mobes8876]

@@borjaguillemgallego5497 better strength growth. Her speed is already incredible, so she will be getting speed regardless of class most of the time. But as a Wyvern, she will have better chances to get strength.

[@borjaguillemgallego5497]

@@mobes8876 ahhh, so I can the grow It depends the class and not the Character?

[@nevenpatrk9661]

I've thinking of giving Lyn to either Yunaka or Lapis. Both of those combinations seem crazy to me.

[@timm8998]

Griffin Knight is to me obviously a lot better than wyvern. Wyvern gives 1 or 2 str more after 10 levels yes, wow. Meanwhile Griffin has better other stat growths and lets her use physic and other staves. Also Griffin has higher base stats.

[@PakDKing]

Comments on each of the units: Celine: When promoted, gets 45 STR 40 MAG 35 DEF 55 RES This makes her passable as a defensive unit [assuming only a couple physical attackers], but a really decent mixed attacker. The way this plays out is to have her during player phase, attack with, say, magic damage, then, when she's holding the chokepoint, have another unit trade to put a sword on top to counter-attack with physical damage. The REAL key is to maximize her dex so that the Vidame-Class Ignis skill procs as much as possible. I.E. Give Celine every secret book Citrinne: Has some of the highest MAG and RES growths in the game, but has some of the worst growths in every other stat. Keep her with Thunder-ranged tomes so she doesn't get murdered. Probably want to go with Mage Knight instead of Sage so you can run away. Unless you want to make her a more-dedicated healer. Anna: Just reclass her ASAP using a Second Seal, so you can take advantage of her crazy MAG growths. 50 MAG, DEX, SPD means that, with a few great levels, she can double-up high magical damage with a not-terrible chance to crit. I even go as far as to try NOT to level her at all, until she changes over to a Mage. She's hard to level up in this way, but use Micaiah's Great Sacrifice multiple times per level [reserving one of the blue-circle refreshes for Anna] and she'll catch up fast enough. You'll probably need a second healer. Mage-knight with an Axe is a hilarious and great way to use Hurricane Axe on your team. Also Radiant Bow, if, for some reason you roll with Bow Knight instead. Jean: Pretty fun to throw Tiki's Bracelet on him [+15 to growths] for ALL the growths. The lower level he is when you start this, the better results you'll get over time. You can turn him into anything and he'll be above average at the least. He'll be a good mixed tank as a Martial Master, but also, mage knight, great knight or paladin will give extra tankiness for BOTH DEF and RES. Yunaka: Works well as a dodge tank, but also, passable as a straight-up regular tank. Thief will give better DEF, but wolf knight will give slightly more speed and HP if you want to really lean into dodge-tanking. You can Second Seal yunaka straight into an advance class when she reaches level 21 as a thief. You want to maximize the AVO stat [DOG is less-important], which is based on speed. Marth is a great Emblem for giving Avoid [also gives sword Proficiency, Just sayin']. Later on, Lyn is pretty decent, since she gives +speed, and receives bonuses based on speed advantages. Yunaka should generally have the highest speed in your crew for the first half of the game. She DOES have a pretty mediocre attack stat, though, so legit consider throwing energy drops at her if you want her to be the star of your team AND not-completely waste Lodestar Rush. Also, FWIW, on Maddening, Enemies will ignore units that they have 0% chance of hitting.

[@redcv6706]

So far, whoever I give Sigurd to basically becomes my best unit, although the two I've enjoyed using it on the most are Chloe (fly across map, strike 4 times with Brave Lance, and Canto to safety) and Louis (invincible wrecking ball of death). Otherwise, my Etie has benefited from blatant favoritism, and Celine has benefited from being the only unit with a decent magic stat for 8 chapters, and so got exclusive access to Warp Ragnarok.

[@VangolaGear]

I dunno. Anna has only held me back in the early game. Her Build stat is abysmal and she wields axes, the heaviest weapons in the game. So her effective speed is severely cut. This means many enemies, even normally slow ones, double her, and her base defenses are just as abysmal so she will typically be killed near instantly. I’d rather use the Axe Knight girl as my axe hero. My top 5 heroes would be (from least to best) 5: Jean. Give this man Celica’s ring and make him bond 5 with her and he can inherit Healing Light, which gives him even more staying power. 4: Céline, all the reasons you provided in the video. 3: Alcryst. Archers are hella strong. Being able to soften up or finish off an enemy from 2-3 range is super good. Plus, dragons, Pegasus, and Wyverns all count as flyers and you can typically one-shot them with a single attack. While you do get Etie in Ch2 and him in Ch7, he has better growths in Dex and Speed, which means he will be better offensively despite having worse strength. 2: Diamant. Ch8 isn’t that hard to get. He has great stats. While he won’t be a crit machine he will be able to weather blows better than Lapis and the main character. Plus that personal skill means he will almost always land his attacks on player phase, making him great even in matchups against triangle disadvantage. 1: THE MAN. THE MYTH. THE LEGEND. LOUIS. This dude has put in nothing but work all game for me and I’m in chapter 13. Anything short of armor effective weapons or magic will not touch him. His growths in everything but HP, Def, and Str are practically non-existent. But you better believe you could throw him right in the middle of the enemy and he will wreak havoc. Hell, even the things he is weak against doesn’t bother him. His health gain is so consistent that eventually it takes 2 of them consecutively to be able to kill him. I’m honestly surprised he was only rated a B rank cause this man can withstand practically anything.

[@Kuljin20]

Anna’s stat builds become noticeably far better than Boucherons and she’s the only other axe weirder you get early on. Yes he has BLD on her but that’s not relevant in the early game, and by the time you start getting Silver weapons, their BLD stats basically even out

[@VangolaGear]

@@Kuljin20 it’s hella relevant in the early game. It only takes 5 higher speed to double a target. Considering her early game effective speed is something like 2 due to her poor Build stat, almost everything doubles her if they have 7 speed which is not that high even in early game, leaving her with low health or outright killing her. And Im playing on Hard mode. Axes aren’t that great of a primary weapon type. Yes, lances are common, but I’d rather have Axes be a secondary weapon type such as promoting Louis to be a Great Knight with Axe and Lance or Successor Diamant. Louis may get doubled, but anything short of magic will at most scratch him.

[@Lucifer-hq5pe]

Louis is GOATED.

[@wilaujau7236]

Clanne is my boy, nuking every one on the map

[@MaliSona]

Same :)

[@ashkald4735]

Yunaka by far is my best unit stat-wise, every other unit on my roster only level up 1 or 2 stats per level but she doesn't go below 4 and she's always leveling str,def and spd, I can reliably use her as a tank or a killer without any sync (You need to upgrade the knife as you said tho). Anna would be even better but she NEVER gets def so she's the glassiest of cannons xD

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

She can't be touched so her def and hp and res are irrelevant.

[@ashkald4735]

@@eustacemcgoodboy9702 Anna? My Anna can't evade shit lol

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

@ashkald4735 I meant Yunaka. But Anna gets pretty good speed and avoid eventually. Yutaka is good from the start, Anna sucks at first but if you Powe level her she's great due to Stat growth.

[@Erst999]

I am planning on using High priest Anna with Tiki and Sage Jean in my maddening run but idk if I can train both.

[@Spartanunit5]

Yunaka Céline and Chloé have been putting in the work for me.

[@RobK0304]

The Divine One it self also SWEEPS. Especially after promotion

[@magegeneral6988]

Louis plus Sigurd is Broken as all Hell

[@Varsona]

Override is so much fun to abuse

[@hinatatomoe7761]

For me the 3 units who ate doing Really Really well for me(one of whom is on this list)is Clanne,Yanaka,and Lapis and surprisingly once I got secondary and Master Seals, Framme (Who I reclassed as into a Archer,and recently promoted to Sniper). Special mention has to go to Sword Master Alear

[@carterprazeres1990]

Framme sniper is unique for sure

[@jessesmith4350]

I love citrinne but mine got hella mag blessed but horribly spd screwed

[@jom.6181]

My best unit might be Diamant. Once I upgraded his class and gave him an engraved Tomahawk he really popped off. I'm running him with pair-up and favourite-food and the Ike ring. He's a bit speed blessed, so I sometimes don't even use aether, but just let him stand there with ragnell and delete everyone on enemyphase

[@InvisibleYogurt]

anna is easily my best unit if you reclass her to Martial Monk into high priest. If you have the DLC, you should also give her tiki

[@cheryl9953]

Here to put in a word for Etie + Marth. I just finished chapter 8 and she has been absolutely tearing it up on hard mode. Promoted her to bow knight before chapter 8 and she’s just insane. Easily me best unit so far

[@OwnD1]

Etie is awful for maddening

[@ChaoticSgt]

How do you change class types? I have some character at lvl 10 from the dlc paralogue and im at chapter 7. Can you only promote ur characters if they have a bond with an emblem? If someone could explain that’d be great

[@timm8998]

On Hard you have randomized levelups, people always seem to forget that. Some units are simply better than others, it is a fact. Etie is in FACT not a good unit when you look at her base stats and growth rates. When she does end up well, it means you got lucky with her (or gave her a lot of stats booster ofcourse) It is as simple as that.

[@cheryl9953]

@@timm8998 I know level ups are random on hard I’ve been playing fire emblem for years I was just sharing my experience with a good early game unit I had :)

[@JeffWilliam-mp9uz]

Also yunaka can be op with stacked avoidance from Marth michaahs engraving and hinge precision to give her like 200 avo

[@weepingblade]

Any info on the unit's BLD growth?

[@Varsona]

BLD?

[@weepingblade]

@@Varsona BLD is essentially constitution, it's the physical size of characters, apparently it has growth rates. . Ah I think it's tied to class growths that's why.

[@Varsona]

@weepingblade ah, build. Okay got it! Yeah serenes has that forest in a google docs in the forums.

[@alosha4321]

Celine has literally been leveling 5 stats every level for me. Shes better than louis in my playthrough now lol.

[@realrealwarpet]

I wonder how well diamante does with marth. All that avoid kinda conflicts with his personal skill

[@davidhuang2545]

Great list! I'm playing on maddening classic and found that I used all of these units a lot early but the only ones I kept going into the late game are Anna and Jean. Avoid tanking isn't as good on maddening (and maybe hard?) because enemy units will ignore you if they have 0% hit rate, plus there's maps without much cover so Yunaka started either dying or getting ignored :( Once I got the rest of the royals, only the high growth units could keep up. Had to bench Celine too because her magic growth rate was too low to reliably ORKO and player phase is too important

[@timm8998]

What did you do with your Jean and anna? I guess Anna kind of has to be sage/mage knight.

[@davidhuang2545]

@@timm8998 Jean on Martial Monk, since chain guard is really strong. Don't think you generally need high priests at all. Anna on sage, the class was made for her. She's actually really strong paired with Tiki since the breath attack is AOE based on Mag

[@timm8998]

@@davidhuang2545 I dont like Jean on martial monk, wastes his double class growth. I would just use clanne then, maybe even Pandreo.

[@nomercy4834]

Avoid tanking is great for Maddening tho, you just have to keep in mind to never hit 0 which is not that hard to do honestly, so far my three dodge tanks can go around 3 different directions and just sweep with no isuues if you also add pair up from Corrin to counter backups, this game does have the tendency to lowball you tho like XOCOM so just something to counter that would be like vulnery/elixir, Tiki Lifesphere or rescue/rewarp staves

[@georges227]

The only reason I don't use Louis in all my battles is for EXP spreading. I can just throw him next to a physical boss and he will destroy it.

[@gianghuynh9570]

Louis with Ike, then use Great Aether is insane, because Louis has insane Str growth, coupled with his armoured class. During your Great Aether stance, even magic cannot one shot, and you can always eat an item to boost Res. Meanwhile physical attacks are useless. So it became a game of yeeting the tank into the enemy’s formation because Louis needs to get into a position where he can draw as many enemies as possible without the rest also attracting the enemy.

[@merciless972]

Lady Anna, she was outnumbered 4 against one. And kept dodging and hacking them down

[@jdenator8145]

Bro i made jean a berserker and with his double growths on maddening he just killed sm as well as my anna, chloé, panette, and some others

[@trankhoa2912]

a pair of main char & Lapis with inherited "pair up" and "avoid+20" are solo-sweeping every map

[@princet.6998]

I made Anna a Thief because I'm so used to her Trickster class in all FE... Her color scheme fits the costume too. Then the Cathedral chapter happened and idk what to do with her high magic stat now prolly I'll reclass her into a Sage at level 21.

[@domin8tor402]

Well I'm glad you agree that Céline is a good unit, because I love her. I would use her anyways regardless of tier list and others opinions but it's nice to hear when people agree with you

[@chronobretz9511]

Anna was putting in so much work paired with tiki that I would literally just put her by herself on skirmishes to grind gold

[@forlineumtosino]

I have been fond of my guardians, the kids and the old man don't seem too strong but I like them. Is there anyone btw that likes Boucheran?

[@chelsdollhousehoney2689]

Boucheron is a mainstay on my team, and anyone who can support with him

[@forlineumtosino]

@@chelsdollhousehoney2689 Ah okay, does he get more interesting? I found him personally very boring in the first few moments and just never interacted with the guy again.

[@chelsdollhousehoney2689]

@@forlineumtosino Follow-up attacks are broken since they are always fixed damage, so even if they would normally deal 0 they deal 2-5 damage if another ally attacks, in addition follow-ups can stack

[@CrowAkechi_The_Luminary]

I have 3 units that constantly put in an insane amount of work, Etie, Chloe and Yunaka, Yunaka is a crit machine, Chloe constantly doubles everything and Etie one shots nearly anything as a warrior

[@paragonnight437]

My Anna is a monster.. I paired her with Tiki and I just kind of send her into everything. 5 Go in and 1 cute red head comes out c:

[@Lucifer-hq5pe]

My Alear probably is my best unit, being strong all around and almost unkillable (she dodges like crazy so barely anything can even hit her), but this is no surprise since i feed her pretty much every stat encancing item, because she is the most important unit, and it means game over if she dies. But other than her, there are 2 units that stand out a lot: My Louis is a monster when it comes to melee combat, tanking all the hits while hitting ridiculously hard, even critting more often than not. He pretty much only fears one thing - mages. And that's when my other most powerful unit comes into play: Ivy. Holy hell, she has so much firepower, and due to the fact that she's a flying unit, she can easily maneuver around and nuke whatever she needs to. There's a mage threatening to kill Louis? Ivy will take him down with little risk, and he can continue demolishing the rest. These 2 were pretty much doing all the heavy lifting in chapter 17 today. ;) And the best part about it is that they are not only 2 of my best units, but also 2 of my favourite characters in the game. Love 'em. Sommie too, the cute little guy.

[@mariehelenajmahn3791]

Alear, Boucheron, Diamant, Chloe, Kagetsu, Merrin, Louis, Yunaka, and the Twins are my personal faves, but Merrin, Kagetsu, and Boucheron never disappoint! They're major powerhouses and I can never resist including them in every battle!

[@BlackRoseThornEtna]

how do you build Clanne if i may ask.

[@mariehelenajmahn3791]

@BlackRoseThornEtna I usually like to pair him with Tiki. They're a really good duo! I just recently changed his og class to a mage knight and he's got great stats even without Tiki

[@ryanhammond2403]

sage clanne with celicas ring is carrying me so hard

[@Shikatsuyatsuke]

Lapis and Diamant are my 2 main carries. I raised Lapis to Swordmaster as soon as I got her and refined her Blade straight up to a Silver Blade+3 Engraved with Celica for the massive Avoid/Dodge chance. She’s become a fantastic dodge tank and is only weak to backup attacks from hoards of enemies, which weakness can be circumvented by pairing her with Tiki’s engage ring (DLC) for the 20-40 free heal when using “wait” instead of taking an action. Diamant with Ike is just broken. The dude is indestructible and easily kills everyone around him. Especially when baiting a bunch of enemies with Great Aether. Send Lapis one direction and Diamant the other and I usually have most of a map covered while I safely position the rest of my units.

[@drspaghettios988]

Louis and sigurd are hard carrying my hard run they can only be harmed by mages

[@EastOfEden96]

I kinda got into the series with 3 houses. I played birthright afterwards. This game is more similar to birthright but has me more confused than either of those games got me before combined. I'm not sure what I should be doing with my classes. In 3 houses it was advised to train everyone to their max class whereas in this game it looks like for example Yunaka comes as a thief and every video I am seeing doesnt mention her being anything but that. So are some classes best left alone and not ranking to another? I also just learned that in order to learn proficiencies, you have to level it up strictly by rings which is odd that I cant just give them a weapon to use and they could start leveling that up themselves in combat

[@mackmzle]

Y’all gotta try Clanne with Sigurd. Thank me later. He’s a beast. One of my best units. Definitely gotta level Clanne up tho.

[@RuijsNL]

Bro rly pinched his nose every time to say 'zjyahh' in the most weird way possible lmao

[@TheBoodercg]

Put Clanne on a Horse last night and it’s hard to find a unit that can survive him with Bolganone. Alear can’t remember the last time he recieved a blow from an opponent it always seems his Avoid is so high. Yunaka was always destined to be good. Her name has Yuna in it and doesn’t that reference the little bird that Micaiah is always with or do I have my names mixed up? Either way she stole Zelkov’s weapon and upgraded it to a peshkatz and I KNOW that is a weapon from Path of Radiance. So it seemed to fit with her obvious affinity to PoR since she came with the emblem of Radiance.

[@Esiaa]

That little bird is called Yune, so close enough :)

[@javi8133]

Céline and Sigurd have been nuts for me early on. Mounted mage? Yes please!

[@WxnderXfU]

Personally, early on, Louis with Sigurd carried me HARD. Then, I invested some time in exp farming for alear and Anna, which got them both on steroids. Now I’m on chapter 14 I think and my Anna can pretty much solo every chapter on auto mode. All of her stats are maxed out, she is superior monk, with the S-Tier martial art refinement +4 and does at least on average 40x2 damage everytime. But I still want to use other units so besides her, all my team is doing pretty good. I’ve got a pretty awesome zelkov that destroys anything at any range, my alear is an avoid tank with really high physical atk, etc etc. I am having a ton of fun playing the game

[@jayguthrie262]

Alcryst and Louis are the best early and mid game units for me. Alcryst is a living breathing Barret .50 cal who when paired with tanky units like Louis his passive can trigger a ton giving him mad strength for a bow user (plus give him Lyn and he double with a longbow and Astra Storm will 1 shot any flyer or mage who doesn't have multiple health bars) and Louis when mages aren't a factor is nigh on immortal especially with either Sigurd or Ike's emblem rings for either more mobility and flexibility or going all in on tankiness with a bit of extra res with the 2nd engage weapon to patch over his weakness a bit

[@videogameenjoyer9651]

After just getting Yunaka I'd still say my best unit is Alfred with Sigurd. Completely unstoppable at present

[@BlindingDragon]

Yunaka and Marth goes CRAZY

[@pezaroo1234]

I'm surprised there's not more love for the twins, Framme and Clanne. I absolutely love their characters as a whole and for me they've also been absolute game breakers. Framme with Macaiah and Clanne with Celica can really come in clutch! I just love their personalities and idc if other units get better natural stat boosts or whatever, they can definitely pull their own weight and they're so sweet on the battlefield

[@Controlled_Khaos]

unfortunately I was attmepting to use Clanne on Maddening and he is just outclassed by Ivy in pretty much everyone conceivable way, especially when I lost access to Celica's ring

[@pezaroo1234]

@@Controlled_Khaos I can imagine on maddening he'd unfortunately fall off, Ivy is a great unit! I'm currently up to chapter 16 on hard and he's starting to slip a bit for me too sadly, but hes surprisingly got the most resistance! So he's currently my magic tank lol. I'm determined to keep both the twins in my team till the very end - they're for sure not the best but they still get kills and support the team well. I can't help but smile seeing them contributing too 😆 I love their positivity

[@iamergoproxy3476]

I started over on Hard/Casual and Louis is running everybody's pockets

[@AleXand4life]

I was under the impression the first maddening run is fixed growths only, so no rng involved

[@Varsona]

It is, sadly 😥

[@AliciaWhimsicott]

It looks like Conquest where unit growths *are* randomized, but they're randomized on a unit joining instead of on level up.

[@Ryodraco]

@@AliciaWhimsicott does that mean growth rates are different from the numbers given in the video? A bit unfamiliar with what is meant by fixed growths here.

[@sakutaro3musik486]

@@Varsona then the passiv of the little boy doesn´t work?

[@Varsona]

@@sakutaro3musik486 Not for 1st run Maddening; no. It will for Normal, Hard, and Random Growth Maddening (2nd playthrough onwards)

[@matthewthomas8505]

Surprisingly, Clanne & Celica. The average crit damage is 243 about mid to late game

[@CYLok]

I find thief really useful. And Yunaka is one of the must unit I deploy in maddening. And enemies thieves too .. their throwing dagger and insane dodge make it a hard time for me too.

[@annibo4807]

So far Celine is a beast of a mage, im wondering if i should just progress her into her lord class or a more focused magic class like sage

[@Fearienify]

Well you can always snag her lord specific skills then swap over, no? Or vice versa

[@annibo4807]

@@Fearienify yeah you’re right, at the time i thought seals were limited lol

[@Valevwong]

What do you mean by snag her lord specific skills? Are u able to select skills in a class that you’re no longer using? Thought selectable skills were only from Emblem rings

[@Samiiruu]

Chloe with Sigurd ... That engage form... Oh man she is an angel xD

[@archieprime]

Chloe, starting out on Sigurd, switching over Eirika when you can, is an absolute monster of a unit.

[@Aliyaaaa]

Idk what I did wrong but my chloe became useless...

[@covfefe5884]

Yunaka is a freaking monster!!!

[@hexmaniacciaran]

Chloe stayed for me with the Edelgard ring, the strength was much needed but her mag was about even so she became a great Griffin Knight with staff support with physical and magic ranged chip damage/break support. Louis with Ike is a solid counter to physical units but he needs Ike's ult to keep him going if he gets warmed because chain attacks will eventually burst him down. Yunaka had Micaiah initially but, giving her the Corrin emblem for +60 avo and +15 crit for enemy phasing is so silly, she also gives +30 to allies in the radius to give more consistency when dealing with reinforcement spam. Draconic Hex and Dreadful Aura to lock down dangerous enemies or debuff bosses is also excellent utility Anna was reclassed to mage ASAP, she basically became Lysithea offensively - mowing down enemies and consistently doubling, near end game she would do 100 damage+ across both attacks

[@sootythunder3111]

So quick question does the passive you get from emblem tiki that is basically Jeans personal trait stack with Jeans personal trait so you basically roll 3 times on stats

[@DairunCates]

The video made that up, and I REALLY don't know where he got that idea. Jean's passive seems to double the class growth bonus. So, if you make him a berserker, he gets a +60% to strength instead of +30. It actually works out to worse than even Fates' version (which was a flat +10% to all growths), but it means Jean will get high growths in stats important to a class. As for Tiki's, it does appear to stack.

[@sootythunder3111]

@@DairunCates any idea if Jean with Tiki skill can break the 100% growth threshold on anything or is there a hard cap on growth rate?

[@DairunCates]

@@sootythunder3111 No clue, honestly, but weirdly enough, only Dex and HP COULD do that due to Jean's bad base growths.

[@lochlanwilson230]

My Celine hit magic/str I think twice in the first 20 levels, very sad. On the flip side Alfred is a legitimate god and doesn't even take damage anymore so at least I have that going for me

[@yuiop8567]

The timestamp for yunaka’s section has a grammatical error

[@Varsona]

You da best

[@Nauriek]

So i was curious about Jean's passive and did some research... might as well share the results here For starters, it doubles his class growth rates, which, TLDR, means Jean will have pretty good growth rates for whatever class you put him in. In fact, he''ll have better growths than Louis as an Armor Knight, with higher dex and significantly higher speed. Same for the Berserker Class, altough he'll be merely comparable to Chloe as a flier, and is outperformed quite a bit by Anna as a mage/sage. However, we also need to take his bases into account! So i did the math, taking class base stats, personal bases, growth rates and Jean's extra 5 level up into account, and... well, Jean did end up being slightly better, BUT that's not taking into consideration the fact that he's stuck as a monk until he can reclass, and that he effectively has no personal skill. Taking all that into consideration, he's... about average. He's got slightly better bases than Alear, though, with comparable growths. (Oh, and Tiki's passive does not get multiplied by his personal - it just stacks additively for an extra 15% growth). TL:DR - Jean is basically just a regular unit without a passive.

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

Hmm with random stat growth he seems far superior in overall growth potential.