Panette is INSANE! Maddening Brave Axe Build

#fireemblem #fireemblemengage #feengage
In this video I outline a Brave Axe build for Panette that absolutely farms and requires almost no investment on the players part as Panette starts with good stats :)

[@dspellcaster1027]

I don't understand why Three Houses allowed us to keep the unique appearances and Engage took that amazing feature away. Can't decide if I want Panette to have Hector or Ike but I love having Vantage, Wrath and quick riposte. But her with a killer axe is fun but with a brave axe...4x attack is so good to see.

[@deatherage9458]

Panette Ike is great. Another Panette build that I have tried that is good is Wyvern Knight Panette with Roy emblem. The gimmick is using the over level from Roy's engage to easily boost her str and dex and hold out lets her have an defense measure in case she gets mobbed by enemies. Air raid lets her avoid being doubled by some enemies. The other skill I ran on her was vantage, that way she could possibly one round enemies with her lyn engraved tomahawk if she was in vantage range, if that failed she could get out of trouble thanks to hold out.

[@ansonwong1087]

Panette is disgustingly good pretty much however you want to run her. My first maddening run, she solo'd all 4 health bars off the final boss in one turn with dance>goddess dance> dance, without using the engage+ mechanic because I didn't read its effect. You can run her with Ike ring and inherit vantage, and her tomahawk will one shot enemy mages all the way into endgame, leaving you only vulnerable to thunder tomes. Or if you want her more player phase focused, you can do any kind of crit build, or run Lyn on her if you want her to double at 2-3 range too.

[@Blaze0070]

Panette is what made me think that Speed was overrated. What use is doubling, if Panette can just one round Wyrms with no investment.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

I think speed on average is still very good, not many units have such high STR

[@xcman93]

now i know you dont run dlc emblems but pannette with wrath+vantage and hectors ring is probably one of the most broken enemy phase units ive seen. you can probably use roy/ike on a non dlc run but hector lets u double on enemy phase

[@The_Hoss]

I ran her on warrior then moved her to bow knight and she was insane

[@High-Say]

Would this still work if you you make her a wolf knight?

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

She would lose STR on wolf knight so probably not

[@plentyofpaper]

Brave Axe +4 alone is 16 silver ingots. That's more mineral investment than the full arsenal of any endgame unit I've ever run. Engraving of Radiance nets +6 damage on the brave axe, in exchange for her being doubled by everything, and 1 rounded by anything with 45 P Attack or 34 M attack. Bonded shield won't keep her safe, so you need to either clear out every enemy that can attack her, or trade the axe off. The Silver Axe is her most suitable weapon for enemy phase, and she won't be nabbing kills with it. Adding a killer axe to the mix would work much better, as even failing to crit, it should still but the enemy into kill range for her allies. And when it does crit, 1 enemy down. I've run weapons you need to trade off a unit before. But never as a primary weapon, and never with such little payoff. Yes, she can reliably 1 round just about anything with the Ike Engraving (please don't tell me she can't 1 round great knights.) But remove the Ike Engraving, and she's still doing 60 damage to the featured enemy, 11 points overkill. And that was a Paladin, which has pretty decent bulk. I'll stand by Panette being one of the worst units in the game. She can kill stuff, yes. But lets take this build and work on it: Brave Axe, remove Ike, make it +2. It deals 10 less damage, which is still 7 points overkill to that Paladin. You save 12 Silver. Next up, what doesn't she 1 round with this new Brave Axe? Generals, Great Knights. Give her a Hammer+2. She can (hopefully) still double those targets. She'll take a counterattack, but won't be doubled by everything. She can also use this to kill them during enemy phase, which she cannot with the Brave Axe. Equivalent of 2.3 Silver. Next up, general purpose enemy phase. Killer Axe +3. Another equivalent of 2.3 Silver, and should kill about 40% of the enemies attacking her from 1 range. More if you want to give it a crit engraving. We've now got her an enemy phase, while maintaining her ability to 1 round just about everything, and saved ourselves 7.4 silver ingots. As a downside, she now takes counterattacks against generals and great knights. But she kills things on enemy phase, only gets doubled by somewhat fast enemies, can get decent protection from Bonded Shield/Chain Guard, and doesn't need nearly as much support. Also, this new and improved Panette is still bottom tier. She's got a strong player phase, and a not hopeless enemy phase. But she still has low mobility, and can only handle... maybe 2 enemy phase engagements, and is still overexposing herself without Canter.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

What is your ideal team and why do you think Panette is bottom tier even though she can consistently 1 round? Is Aggression not objectively strong in this game? Only a few lategame maps are super drawn out turtle maps with most maps favoring player phase initiative/using engage abilities to nuke/displace enemy formations. Arguably the game rewards aggression and punishes passivity, so being able to dive and 1 round is always useful and being punished for doing so can be mitigated with positioning and ability use. As for Brave axe vs Crit build, both are strong and do similar things but Brave Axe is easier to run while Crit is cheaper and requires you to fix her HP to get consistent crits.

[@plentyofpaper]

​5. Do so all of that in a resource efficient manner. Evaluating this Panette set: 1. Panette is atrocious at this. She can safely survive 1 round of combat during enemy phase. Generally. This means, even if she can kill one enemy with 100% certainty, if there are 2 enemies that cover it, she needs allies to address at least one of them, or she can't attack. 2. Panette deals damage while attacking very well with this set. So, flying colors here. 3. With only axes (and bows in this case) any group of enemy with a sword user will shut her down entirely on enemy phase. Her best option for killing on enemy phase is the killer axe, which will have 1 opportunity to deal triple damage and nab a kill. Since she's so frail, she's probably only got 1 shot at this, possibly 2. 4. With 5 mobility, and no additional tricks (Canter, Advance, etc.) she's going to quickly find herself at the back of the pack. A dancer can help, but every turn dancing Panette so she can keep up is one less turn dancing somebody that can deal damage right now. Now, we'll compare this with say, Alacrity Canter Rosado with a Killer Lance as his main weapon on Wyvern. 1. Rosado rarely gets doubled, so he can reliable survive 3 rounds of combat. If there are 3 enemies and he can get Alacrity off one of them, double another, and single strike the last one, he can attack (and most likely kill) the first without taking damage, then on enemy phase, likely kill the one he can double, and possibly kill the last one, but at least deal decent chip damage. In the event Rosado fails to kill the first one, he can probably Canter out of the range of one of the others and remain safe to finish off the first one, and take a shot at the second. Panette can't even enter this engagement. And if she can't safely enter, she can't safely advance, and is more at risk to fall behind, robbing her of even more opportunities to attack. 2. With an alacrity killer weapon, plus a good hammer, Rosado will have a high player phase kill rate, but struggle most against Wolf Knights, Paladins and Heroes. Panette will likely outperform him here, but he can still aim for the 1/1 crit against a wolf knight, a ridersbane for reliable damage against the wolf knight or Paladin, or just go for a weapon break so he can safely attack that enemy and maybe a couple others again during enemy phase. Not as good as a reliable kill, but he's still got options. 3. Rosado will often be doubling with a killer weapon during enemy phase, leading to a high kill rate, and failing that, good enough damage to put other attackers into kill range. Additionally, Rosado should also be carrying an axe so he can function during enemy phase unless the enemy group has a surviving sword AND axe user. Having both is much less common than having one. 4. Flying, 6 movement and Canter. Rosado can reliably lead the pack, forge ahead, or pick off some stray enemies without falling behind. Do I think Rosado is the gold standard for offense? Well, I think he does everything I want a good offensive unit to do reasonably well. Sort of a B+ across the board kind of guy, which is substantially better than an A in one area and Ds in the others. He's my best unit this run, but, I DO play favorites. Also, this is an iron man run, so some of his main competition is kind of... dead. Now, I'm also the kind of guy that is willing to rate characters based on their performance for any part of the game. Rosado I'd say starts off as a mild underperformer. Panette, a severe underperformer. She's busy almost dying right off the bat in her starting chapter, and getting left in the dust whenever I try to use fer for the following ones.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

Iron man does drastically change unit tiering. Being able to pulse away a careless positional mistake changes how effective things are. I can see your case for Panette being lower in Iron man runs, arguably you could run a crit axe ike vantage build on her and with HP fixing she could slap, alternatively holdout would be a good option when you get Roy back. Enemy phase tanking is important and helps clear maps effectively, I have done runs where I relied on things like bonded shield/fire, or runs where I relied on tanky units to enemy phase DPS. I think the game hands you enough mechanics to turn most team comps into viable or even very strong. On a normal maddening Run I find that Panette goes online on brave axe CH14 onward with little investment, she doesn't need the brave axe+4 right away, she can use 1-3 for a while or even stay on +3 on Erikia for example.

[@plentyofpaper]

@@IcedCoffeeGaming Tiering does change depending on what you're looking for. My previous runs were not iron man (2 hard, 1 maddening.) I'm happy that the rewind mechanic is present, but the development team took careful measures to make sure it isn't necessary. I was actually really surprised how smoothly this iron man went. I just finished yesterday, and actually had less trouble than any others I've tried (FE7 Hector's,Hard, Sacred Stones Hard, Path of Radiance Hard.) I'd recommend giving it a shot. Engage really seems designed with iron man in mind. It gives you a steady supply of viable units throughout the game, meaning mistakes made aren't as punishing. In addition, the inventory of any lost units returns to the convoy at the end of battle, which is kind of important considering the investment that gets put into refining weapons. Being able to reclass units and reassign Emblems also makes it easier to replace the role of fallen allies. It's also a bit interesting balancing whether to do paralogues or not.More exp, better Emblem abilities, but you may lose a character. In any case, consensus seems to generally be that Panette is good. I have a really hard time seeing it, but I've certainly been wrong before, and will be wrong again. As a general rule though, across most of gaming, I've found units are allowed to be slow or frail, but not both. I've got Citrinne, Panette, and Etie pegged as the big offenders this time. Although I've found some interesting utility with Etie. Sigurd really helps her reach fliers, and bringing her and Alcryst along for the Brodia Castle defense map, one with Sigurd, allows you to fire off 2 ballista rounds a turn, which is pretty cool. The following map also had a north south split, both with fliers, but after that, I think Etie's done.

[@raikaria3090]

She has a Dagger Affinity because she used to be a Wolf Knight in the past. It's outright stated in her supports she learnt to ride wolfs.

[@yes1667]

That's the canonical in universe explanation. That doesn't devalue the potential meta choice of doing that to nerf her.

[@jonunciate7018]

And yet Timerra has no proficiency in knives despite talking about wolf riding in several supports.🤪

[@aidanderson53X]

I skipped all supports cuz the story for this game is trash so I never got attached to the characters as characters, just as units 😂😂😂

[@jackmanleblanc2518]

I love using Ike on her. Great Aether just deletes enemies. The high defense being engaged with Ike gives lets her take some hits to get into Vantage. Then wrath+vantage shenanigans can get her a 100% crit chance thanks to engravings and her personal. She's so strong.

[@timothydalton2388]

i personally opt for roy, load her up with vantage+ wrath and roy gives her hold out, just be careful of long range

[@Adyen11234]

Ya, Great Aether is amazing on her since it's an AOE 100% accuracy attack on a bunch of stuff. Just drop an engraving to increase the brave axe's accuracy and you can just leave her on berserker even with the low DEX.

[@jackmanleblanc2518]

@@timothydalton2388 I'm sure she's great with Roy but there's so many other characters that I feel would appreciate all the extra strength he gives more. Kagetsu, Lapis, Merrin, and Chloe to name a few. 6 more strength at bond rank 20 and even more strength when engaged is really good and feels just a bit overkill on Panette.

[@espeonscottie]

Wrath Panette with Lyn and Killer Axe+5 with Lyn's engrave goes ham

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Nah -- warrior definitely looks better because it's asymmetrical. It starts with low base drip but has high drip growth. It should improve with time.

[@mysticspark2694]

I always use her as my dedicated axe user. Used her every play through. I enjoyed her as a axe tank perfect for her skill

[@AnimeSquirrel]

100 Hp 65 str 50 dex 40 spd 40 def 20 build. Yea, that seems awesome. Some characters look good in warrior, but Pannette doesn't seem like one of them. It's a bit too plain on her.

[@Neucher]

You should make a new video where you say that Timerra is F tier and trash while showing gameplay where she absolutely solos the map 🙃

[@Neucher]

Saphir looks like she's 60 💀

[@thatoneguy78228]

Honestly all of the Solm characters can be pretty good outside of Bunet. Padreo is a good mage, Fogado has similar growths to Chloe as griffin, comes with good bases and can make a good wyvern or Paladin too. Pannette consistently is able to one turn and comes with good bases along with Merrin (Merrin also has a good personal), Timerra is a good tank unit and helps reduce crit.

[@xveluna7681]

Its just unfortunate they come so late into the game. They come 3/5 the way through the game and miss out on many of the early ring options that many of those other unit get.

[@thatoneguy78228]

@@xveluna7681 Def hurts first time playing the game no canter having to be more careful with positioning. On my second playthrough no canter is much less annoying until you get it and I think is overhyped but that might just be off experience.

[@dent5672]

You’re right about bunet but I turned him into a good unit by giving him that Erika skill that adds 20% to damage then gave him the corrin skill that lowers enemy stats after battle. Took him a while to get going but his res maxed out and his defense was like 40+. He almost never killed enemies in one round but turned into a good support unit

[@magegeneral6988]

Yunaka Supports with her makes her auto S Tier. In addition the support they give enhances what they both need and do well

[@BuffPomsky]

My fav unit in the game and the MVP BY FAR. Crit goddess with an awesome personality lol so many clutches with this unit

[@BuffPomsky]

The only downside is like you mentiones, you have to switch out of berserker meaning bye bye dress :(

[@trevor749]

Ike on Panette IS crazy. Ike allows Panette to solo chunks of the map. Then you inherit vantage and dex. So with Panette’s personal skill, and wrath vantage combo she just crits everything and attacks first on enemy phase.

[@rubenfortunato3810]

Like most people in the comments, I run her with Ike for the easy access to Wrath and grab Vantage(+) from Leif to make her a dual phase nuke. She just slaughters everything. Halberdier is also a good class option with better Dex and Pincer attack, but no Longbows.

[@VangolaGear]

Have you tried Alcryst with Brave Bow and Erika? It’s insanely good at killing tanks when your mages are too far or out of actions.

[@blitz091]

Panette is an animal!! Reclass to Warrior is the play (despite the crappy outfit). I'm on my first Maddening run (ch23) , I put Ike and Vantage+ on her and never looked back. The Wrath + Blood Fury combo is insane, I gave her Killer Axe+5 w/Lyn Engrave and she 1 rounds pretty much everything except very heavily armored units. I just park her in the middle of enemies, engage, and watch them walk into the Panette blender. I'm am trying to figure out a way to make Diamant similar for my next playthrough so I can have two tanky demons on the field.

[@LuteSuperiority]

I actually switched her to axe wolf knight on my first maddening run and it helped fix her speed issues once I switched her back to warrior after she hit level 20. She kept reliably doubling with speedtaker and had her massive strength to just kill everything. Her being on wolf knight actually works because you couple her strength + the insane might of a forged silver dagger and a peshkatz + a massive health pool and she can tank and one round anything.

[@pietrom.4846]

Panette with Lynn is pretty good too, she is a very strong unit overall

[@DavidMMC1420]

Te quiero mucho Pannete

[@SwedenTheHedgehog]

While extremely expensive SP-wise; giving her Vantage+ and Wrath; and also putting her in the Axe Paladin class made her pretty much unstoppable for me; at a constant 68% crit. MINIMUM

[@SwedenTheHedgehog]

I forgot to mention that I gave her a Killer Axe +5 with Lyn’s Engraving too; but that’s just icing on the cake to get those numbers 😇

[@melon42301]

If engaged with Ike you can get wrath for free, and for 2500 SP you can get vantage + pair up. Wrath combined with her personal skill gives +40 crit and thats not including engravings or killer weapons. I imagine this combo would be deadly with either a crit engraved greataxe or a Mt engraved killer axe due to her monster strength stat

[@mitrettavrednik]

Yeah, this is exactly what I did, it's incredibly effective. Ike also works for general enemy phasing and doesn't shoehorn her into vantage strats. She can safely take hits with Ike, so she can take on groups of enemies with 1-2 range with tomahawk, Ragnell, and great aether. As a warrior she can also use a longbow for 3 range. I still use vantage + Lyn engraved killer axe situationally and it completely trivializes groups of enemies locked to 1 range. But it's just a tool in her toolbelt, she can do so much more. Imo her biggest value is that she's extremely flexible. She can player phase, enemy phase, tank on chokepoints, she's a good boss killer, as a warrior she can contribute to chain attacks from 3 range with longbow, she gets reposition for free from Ike for support utility, etc.

[@Piratederp]

Ike for wrath with a crit engraving on killer axe = 100% crit rate. Give her sigurds +hit to make up for her stinky accuracy. Giver her a silver great axe for Great Aether and she will nuke everything within 2 tiles of her.

[@nathanmolinari7825]

Currently running Panette as an Axe Griffin and the extra speed is really fun

[@thepurge7964]

Doing this loses the backup utility, which is sad, but I made my Pannete a paladin on my current playthrough after she hit the dex cap on a crit build. It's a pretty insane player phase unit, honestly. I did more of a crit build with Killer Axe and she's consistently around 78% crit or higher, and her Paladin outfit is pretty great too. She's like a black knight.

[@gjfwang]

Don't need to overthink it with a brave axe, she can ~100% crit with killer axe and physical attack of 55 by end game will kill one hit kill on maddening anything other than great knights and generals (achievable even on reclass to paladin/hero/wyvern/warrior without starsphere, stat boosts or overleveling). Only three things she needs is wrath (ike emblem or skill inherit), +5 killer axe and engraving with +20/30 crit. End game maddening enemy paladin is next tankiest after generals and great knights at 33 defense and 66 hp. 55 physical attack crit will kill it. (55 physical attack - 33 defense ) = 22 damage x 3 for crit= 66 . Even reclassing from berserker down to paladin or hero will be enough (drops her to 20 strength and by end game, she will have 32-34 base strength with 20-23 levels (60% total strength growth). Add emblem with str bonus and 16 mt from a +5 killer axe and that's 52-54 physical attack. Warriors have higher str base and growth while wyverns have same base higher str growths than heros and paladins. To get 110+ crit, ike's wrath and her personal passive gives up to 40, +5 killer gives 40, engrave can give 10/20/30, and her half her own dex is added on top of all that.

[@xuanathan]

I just go for Ike Ring with Silver Greataxe for Great Aethers and easy boss kills, Killer Axe for killing Wyrms (She usually does 11x2 with a 100% crit rate so easy kill) and any old bow for flier kills. Skills are Def+ and Hp+ just for as much bulk as possible, leaning into a crit build really is not necessary, she can easily get 100% crit even without wrath, and she is really tanky since her massive hp synergises with Ike really well, so I don't find vantage to be useful or necessary at all.

[@Musicvayle]

I had her as a vantage crit enemy phase delete machine in my maddening playthrough and let me tell you watching her just delete hordes of enemies with crit animations is beyond great to watch

[@feripuu]

Panette SSS best maddening carry. Ike Pair Up Vantage. Give her all Seraph Robes. Killer Axe. Brave Axe. Killer Bow. Longbow. Silver Greataxe.

[@seangrant8871]

Saphir is not 35. The ages were scrapped; hence why they show up nowhere in game. Partly because time doesn't pass the same way in thie game as it did in 3H. Partly because characters clearly got some redesigns. Alcryst and Hortensia having a 3 year age gap would make absolutely no sense, as both read very clearly as Late Teen Early Adult. Framme and Clanne aren't only one year younger than Citrinne by anyone's imagination. Some ages are about right, like Anna, some are just WILDLY off for the character's final pass

[@OneKlicKill]

Wyvern, vantage, ike ring killer axe. She literally does more damage than this brave build (3x crit vs 2x brave, and higher base might) and it works in enemy phase which this build doesn't. She also doesnt need to worry about most doubles because she one shots any non ranged unit with vantage. Ikes passive is 50% reduction and +7/7 def res under 75% which pushes her def to high 30s and res to near 30 which is the ideal range to be in to bait attacks without being ignored. you also can just use a smash weapon to take damage round one for easy setup. I've literally not found a better enemy phase unit in maddening than her because the AI doesn't account for vantage unlike avo/high def units so they always attack her. She will literally solo any group of units outside of double archers.

[@Zwei-II]

I really loved her Goth Lolita Mexican style but the Berserker Class sucksss but I still loved her Crit Tanking Machine on Great Knight, and she looked like FE3H Death Knight

[@chainoundjanged8731]

Just fyi, Eirika's brother's name is Ephraim pronounced eff-rum. Nice video!

[@leoerus]

For panette I'm attempting a the vantage wrath build except with ike and a maxed out killer axe I may also try it with Hector because I can go into + 20 crit immediately, but idk about her survivability

[@uchihajunior5648]

I made her a wyver knight, with ike's ring, speadtaker and vantage + with either a tomohawk with corrin's engraving or a killer axe with erika's engraving, she litteraly double crit everything on both enemy phase and player phase, (when there are 2 ranged enemies that will attack on enemy phase i use the tomohawk, and if not i use the killer axe, the tomohawk have less crith but have 2 range, while killer axe naver miss and always crit), altough she gets attacked before trigerring both wrath and vantage, you want to lose hp to trigger these skills, and then everything that isn't 3 range dies before they can attack her.

[@zombizblood]

Panette with ike as a great knight is absolutely insane. Ikes abilities pair so well with her skill and I have easily hit 100% crit in my runs. She's insane.

[@sphyxsairiss]

Try running a killer bow on her, longbow is better but killer axe+bow has been hilarious for me.

[@EazyMac]

I'm so glad you validated Panette as a potential S-Tier character. I'm not a Fire Emblem veteran by any means, and many guides - especially yours - are helping inform my build decisions in my 1st (Hard Classic) run. I didn't see the value in keeping her as Berserker longer than necessary and quickly went Warrior. I saw someone counter-argue that Ike could be good for Timerra but Ike also works VERY WELL on Panette. I ran Ike on her for the past few maps and her damage output is STUPID. Making the decision to run Panette/Ike yields the kinda results that make you glad you did it 🔥🔥🔥 I suppose the only thing I need to do now is get her a Brave Axe, *stat* .

[@aaravkhemani2391]

I have my panette with Ike and inherited with vantage+ and I just can just solo entire stages.

[@SparkBlazeWarriors]

I think Warrior Panette looks ok, now Warrior Fogado I hate. I’m legit about to change his class because I hate how he looks.

[@ivaanlga]

Do you still think Dagger affinity is pointless, now that you have more experience with the game

[@josephcoleman9448]

i have my panette with ike and pair up corrin skill send her in synced with great aether gets swarmed takes no chain attack damage tanks all hits and then nukes back to full health

[@hailcaesar3171]

I use IKE on warrior panette and she slays EVERYTHING

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Axe proficiency is made to be used with Ike because it's only downside is that it lowers evasion -- but if you're running Ike you've already swapped out evasion for extra defenses.

[@ejinathan]

My dragonrider panette is beast. She keeps critting with her killer axe and tanking like a madgirl.

[@markdavies9634]

Panette gave me faith in ax user's after all the other ax user's let me down. She may be an auto deploy for me

[@GiganticTOFU]

Panette/Ike, Great Knight, Speedtaker, Killer Axe. Give that a try.

[@Fenriren]

I loved Panette on Hard mode, I'm excited to properly build her in maddening.

[@banriswirl6414]

What's nice is Panette will be a death machine on almost any physical class, so you can pick your favourite look.

[@SweaterPuppys]

Not really a fan glass cannon esque characters but I’ll actually try this out because she’s my me of the more tolerable characters in this game

[@C5Dynamite]

yeah Panette is a great warrior, too bad her berserker outfit is much cooler.

[@solismax65]

Told you the Ike engrave brave axe is stupid crazy. Used it on my first run. Use it every run now

[@RaidenKaiser]

I put pannete on paladin and she's now the most evil killer axe user lol

[@Demonic0Jester]

the base berserker outfit on panette is easily one of the best designs too bad it's a bad class

[@okyki]

Say it with me: EFF - REM. You're welcome

[@JimHamiltonIII]

"Psycho axe killer"... HAHA! The ironic thing is that Panette is actually very prim and proper. I don't speak Japanese, but I use Japanese voice in my playthrough. I can recognize keigo (Japanese polite) speech. It sounds dignified and it makes her appear that way, like almost excessively so. Viable contender for best girl (although I'm on the fence about her face makeup).

[@shadowfate05]

Did you...not listen to her in combat? She speaks in a very brash manner compared to her normal demeanor. In English her crit quotes are things like "You lookin' down on me?!" and "I'll beat you to a pulp!" She also has level up dialogue such as "Get in my way and you won't get home alive! Ahem, I mean...goodness, what pleasing results!"

[@JimHamiltonIII]

@@shadowfate05 I did... sort of. As I said, I listen in Japanese, of which I know about 50 words (all derived from watching anime). She IS prim and proper... outside of battle. In battle, she becomes an absolute lunatic, which makes her quite funny. The few quotes I've seen are from YT videos and cites like yours. There's a battle quote or two in Japanese in which, although I don't understand the words, the guttural tone transcends languages. It seems to be a video game trope where they give a diminutive female (no offense, Panette!) a monstrous axe. For instance, Edelgard is frequently referred to as "smol," but she wields enormous axes and is probably one of the best units in the game (if not THE best). Hilda is the same. Here, Panette and Anna (I think this Anna is the youngest in the game) are the candidates. I don't think Anna is particularly powerful as an axe wielder, but Panette is a monster. So, to contrast with her savage abilities, she's proper and polite... off the battlefield.

[@JakeMarley-k6g]

I have had a warrior panette do 309 damage before

[@WitcherSoda]

Would just giving her Dexterity +5 be sufficient to patch up her hit rate? According to the formula you multiple Dexterity ×2, so +5 Dexterity would be equal to +10 Hit. In the example you gave it would have upped her hit rate to 96%.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

Dex can help, there are likely better passives though

[@jom.6181]

With Ike every decent physical unit becomes cracked. My mediocre Diamant got MVP for the entire late game because of ike. It's just so good and so easy to use

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

WE. LIKE. IKE.

[@warpuppy4528]

Is there any merit to leveling as berserker and then switching to halberdier? That would take care of some of the accuracy issues that axes have and let her quad with a brave lance.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

10% more STR growth and 5% more BLD on Zerker

[@ominix]

If using DLC, Edelgard could be good on her. She boosts Str, Dex, and def all stats she need. Eldegard gives +5/7 damage from Weapon Sync 2/3 of the time when unengaged depending on weapon/who is out, or when engaged she always gets this bonus. You can do 3 attacks with her in one turn by using Houses Unite+ next to Byleth, followed by Raging Storm for another attack, then either Atrocity for double MT attack or Fallen Star to safely avoid a attack. If you break a opponent you get 50% damage from Warrior ability. If you pair her with Byleth's goddess dance and Dancer she could attack 5 times in a single turn. Plus the other benefits like 1.2 exp or gambits and any skills you put on her, such as Wrath, Canter, or Vantage. She would be more fragile then having Ike but I feel it ramps up her burst damage and utility.

[@Neucher]

Panette secretly S rank 😎👀

[@licota11]

My Panette on Maddening uses an Eirika engraved killer axe, vantage +, AP2 and Ike Emblem for the stats and wrath. Completely INSANE enemy phase unit. I just had her stand in one spot for the Leif paralogue, and thanks to the ballista it was easy to get her into the basic vantage threshold. She was able to solo every single reinforcement that spawned... think she got around 8 levels and 500 SP in one map

[@ThePandaByte]

I opted for halberdier with brave lance. It might be an unnecessary amount of dmg but we shall see how it goes

[@SolidusSheep]

How is it feeling? While watching this video and seeing her with 0 speed and no axe prof I instantly thought the same thing!

[@ThePandaByte]

@@SolidusSheep I haven’t even upgraded my brave lance yet and she’s murdering things. She also looks way cooler as halberdier than as a warrior, and everyone knows the most important stat in FE is drip

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

I kind of like Panette's design. The existing one feels off because even though it looks great I can't quite see the connection between the gothic look they went for and being an axe murderer. If she had more of like a punk rocker type of gothic _heavy metal_ look then I'd be all for it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqGvZZmOqd12rKc Yeah. Like that. So I might actually prefer the warrior look overall.

[@vitor102]

dude this game has some stuff i hate, like the wyrmslayer resistant wyrms, but the single worst shit is not having a internal level showing. I always leave someone behind exp wise because i cant keep track of everyone's lvl pre-promotion. Can't tell how many lvl ups should i give someone to catch them up.

[@topazbennett95]

Panette is so stacked in terms of raw damage it's insane. She absolutely helped damage carry in my first maddening run as a Warrior after Boucheron fell off, and I ended up running her, Timerra, Chloe, Alear, and Saphir as my main damage units and they practically swept the competition once they had all the skills they needed to succeed (+Avoid and Vantage+ on Saphir, Wrath/Vantage and a good crit axe on Panette, Lance Power and Build+ on Timerra, etc). If anybody is wondering what rings to pair with Panette, I've found Lynn and Lief are good options to keep her from getting doubled. Obviously Ike is the one a lot of people run on her, and he's probably her best, but Ike wants to be worn by a lot of different units (like Timerra) so the fact she can synergize with a few other kits helps that spreading of the load. I saw somebody insisting you run her with Roy, but I have yet to test if that's actually viable on Maddening, but if that's true that's like four or five emblems she could have on at any given moment and still be great, so she has a shocking amount of versatility for an axe unit which are notorious pains in the butt to get working on higher difficulties. (Side note, if you want her to be a Berserker and make use of that two space smash skill that Berserkers get, Strong Arm from the Deick ring on Roy's bond ring list gives her +20 hit when she has a Smash weapon equiped, which can help her abysmal dex cap. Not sure how useful that is, but I just got the ring on my current run and Jade has been using it to great effect so I thought it might be good on Panette when I get to recruiting her in a few chapters)

[@Savialan]

I've been running Vantage/Wrath + Roy + Killer Axe on her. She gets to 100% crit with even slight HP loss, can take hits with her large HP pool and Hold Out, and if there's a group of enemies with no ranged units they'll all suicide on her in enemy phase. Ike and Eirika have more competition from other units so you get the best overall team benefit by having her on Roy imo.

[@TheJaredPunch]

Oh Panette. I wish I got to use me more, character, personality and gameplay wise, she definitely rivals Yunaka.

[@dent5672]

My panette was lyn ring for speed taker + alacrity, axe power 2 and Canter. Fucking absolute destruction. Liked that I could get away after a fight if I didn’t trust her to take hits (even with all the HP). I also liked that lyns engage attack would delete enemies at a far distance. I didn’t realize lyns engage attack was kinda weak until second play through because panette is so strong lol

[@davidmeredith1263]

I had Corrin on Pennete, not optimal, but ya the brave axe is what does the work. You could also give her speedtaker and convert here to a flying class. Then give her avoid from marth. Dont get hit and do damage, that is the goal. So I fly in, kill, get speed, dont get hit, rinse and repeat.

[@chesspwn7457]

I love axe users in fire emblem. So I was hard training boucheron, so sad to see how weak he was compared to panette but I immediately dropped him and slotted panette to just wreck face for the rest of the game

[@javierromero645]

Ike is insane on Panette, I'm running it on my first maddening playthrough, and she's carrying me. I switched her to warrior immediately just becuase it had better bases. Berserker just gives so little in comparison to warrior, imho.

[@SaunaQueen69]

Im actually running my Ike on Panette Right now, she'd roll with Eirika but that ring was claimed by my one punch man Yunaka.

[@mitrettavrednik]

Please try Panette + Ike for a whole playthrough at some point. At high Ike bond levels, she becomes deceptively tanky and incredibly good at enemy phasing. Here's a clip from my playthrough where she tanks 2 wyrms, a celica warp ragnarok, an elfire mage, and 4 axe wyverns and kills them all with great aether : kzbin.info/www/bejne/inXEk4RrhKaEmZY She's absolutely insane and without question my best unit.

[@FROGxDELIVER]

I initially used her with silver axe, but after finding the killer axe wholly molly she one rounds so many things. With Ike's 30% increase, her base 10% increase, and a refine it get's to 90%+ on some enemies. Brave axe could definitely be a good alternative so your not always relying on crits. But smacking a dragon or boss with a 100+ damage is satisfying lol

[@lordtartaros3738]

Panettone and Merlin is my favorite duo ! Also Wyvern Knight Panette is the best looking one as well as a beast of a unit. Turns out that fighting in the sky against other flying units where no mage can reach is a pretty good thing for a vantage crit build. You do lose the brave axe utility though.

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

I hate that she doesn't have axe boon, she has DAGGERS but joins the team as an Axe Only unit. Very strange

[@JimHamiltonIII]

@@IcedCoffeeGaming There's a short YT video that you may want to watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/il6qhYNsZZyrqa8 . It's Panette set to dubstep music. And it proves your point that she's a monster.

[@Elvenoir69]

that's why i use her in my first game in maddening. Panette berserker with Ike and somebody with lucina using bonded shield.

[@dvdjkaufmn]

I ignored Panette completely on my first playthrough, because I have always had terrible luck with axe users in every FE game. Tried her out this time around, and shocked how good she is, right of the bat.

[@sympathism]

Made my alear a warrior very early and im not dissapointed. Alears my best unit now by far. Growths are stupid and killer axe is such a good weapon. Ike is also insane because of the even increaded defense when she is low health, and she got wrath somehow aswell.

[@no_life45678]

I made pannete a sniper and crit stacked her to the point where she doesn't need wrath to have an 80%crit on the average enemy. Longbow will also have insane crit with wrath so she just crit one shots everything

[@Demonic0Jester]

i've been using her in a crit build with killer axe if she's even a little below max hp she has 100% crit most the time and hits for 100 damage usually

[@MegaSpides]

I had no idea saphir was 35 lmao, thought she was supposed to be the near retirement elite warrior in her 40s/50s. IS must be on some serious anime crack if 35 to them is a foot in the grave. I'm stoked to run a lot of pannette and timerra in my second run personally, timerra only finally saw a ton of use in the last 5 chapters as I struggled through my first and pannette was benched while merrin carried me. Such a good trio of units

[@bradypinnell7782]

if you just want to use her for brave axe, lyn is probably the best option. clones to tank, her spd is not the highest, lyn allows her to quad rather than double, having access to mani kati isnt horrible when shes fighting sword users

[@Danscrub]

Panette has always been my core 8, and loved using her since my first run. Warrior and berserker classes are blind as bats in late/postgame, so that is probably the only major gripe I have about her. Thankfully, Alear fixes her hit rate when they're adjacent.

[@theolong6689]

I think its hard to rank a unit S tier when they have that low speed and defenses. But I guess her high hp kind of makes up for it. Either way though she is a pretty bad defense phase units which in my opinion a unit needs to be strong both attacking and defending to really be S tier. However if you were to give her wrath and vantage with roy and give her a tomahawk with a high crit engrave then she could become a god tier defense phase.

[@kylek1894]

Currently building a panette with lyn emblem ring, vantage++ and resolve as a warrior switched from lvl 8 berserker

[@AllMinty]

Hey I see your Etie is a warrior, does that fix her fragile stats?

[@IcedCoffeeGaming]

Not really, some claim she pops off but using her as a normal unit on my team that goes for kills as often as possible she still has low SPD and defensive stats/low max HP and tends to die to most enemies from full HP

[@danp6658]

Tomahawk with a Hit Engrave is kinda nuts, you lose some might but the base might makes it bonkers and it became one of my most accurate weapons some how. I'm running a Warrior Jean for ultimate troll on Maddening with that but any axe unit like Panette will hit hard with it.

[@jonunciate7018]

Panette berserker dex caps at 23. On fixed growths she hit the cap for me at lvl 9.

[@VaniG91]

I had a similar build with my Cittrine, gave up any hope of doubling even generals, got nova with Ike engravement and she one shotted everything. But it does take much longer to get nova than brave axe.

[@ThePandaByte]

Halberdier panette with Ike and wrath+vantage equipped with a high crit brave lance could be ridiculous

[@MasterStacona]

give her corrin engrave to her core weapon with her passive she basically guarantees to kill everything

[@brandondodson2954]

Ike is the go to for her. The crit vantage setup is monstrous. I think you're late to the party with the panette love mane

[@slightlylost4602]

I put my panette on halberdier. She wrecks everyone

[@ffttossenz]

Pro tip: if u make panette a wyvern her outfit looks awesome