Personality Trait Tier List - Crusader Kings 3

Ever wondered what the best education traits were for your kids in crusader kings 3. Well this is how you properly educate your kids to have absolutely broken heirs in your dynasty family line.
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Table of Contents
Ambitious 0:52
Arbitrary 1:10
Arrogant 1:38
Brave 2:20
Callous 3:05
Calm 3:20
Chaste 3:39
Compassionate 4:38
Content 5:50
Cynical 6:46
Craven 7:00
Deceitful 7:42
Diligent 8:30
Fickle 9:45
Forgiving 10:15
Generous 11:00
Gluttonous 11:50
Greedy 12:50
Gregarious 14:10
Honest 15:40
Humble 16:30
Impatient 17:30
Just 18:17
Lazy 19:09
Lustful 19:50
Paranoid 20:30
Patient 21:40
Sadistic 20:16
Shy 23:00
Stubborn 23:49
Temperate 24:19
Trusting 24:47
Vengeful 25:16
Wrathful 26:10
Zealous 26:48
Shroom Boi NT 27:30

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[@Zieley]

plz buy our NFTs

[@brandonsims7105]

When bingo 2 coming out?

[@wsw2291]

Love both you guys' content, keep it up! Great video.

[@jonathanallard2128]

Brave in D tier are you kidding? A tier for me. I practically NEVER die in battle. If I have the brave trait, I don't involve myself in them. Like one of you pointed out, decent commanders aren't exactly rare, especially at higher ranks. It's also virtuous to Asatru and other religions. Humble A tier is also weird to me, it's stress machine to the one who wishes to expand.

[@SwordEncarmine]

Tuskular made the same video id like to see a discussion kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKvCo4Ggn5idr9U

[@cptobvius]

Gregarious is S tier in my opinion. That feast stress loss is so good and it pops up as a good modifier for a lot of event decisions that you would want to take anyway.

[@OttawaWelshman]

Facts ey! Maybe that one should be bumped up!

[@harveysaavedra6309]

You gain stress if you fail a sway or friend scheme if gregerious, my alfred the great campaign died because the pope wont like me and stress keeps piling up and i never noticed where it came from

[@JacoDeltaco]

@@harveysaavedra6309 it on you not on Gregarious Gregarious dont give you stress at random YOU CHOSE to sway even if you are bad at it even if close of dying it your misstake dont shift the blame I have lost my first king ever to stress I did not know max stress kill lol but it still my fault because it was my choice

[@deusvult6920]

Until you need to sway the Pope

[@I_Use_Soap]

@@JacoDeltaco Having a trait that basically makes Swaying a non-option is definitely a net negative.

[@ludwigvangaming1822]

Brave is really good in my opinion. The +100% death or capture thing is I think neutralized by the +3 prowess because I have never been captured or killed whilst leading my army as a brave ruler, which makes a flat +2 martial (really helps with the amount of levies you get) and a flat +10 opinion from all your vassals.

[@OttawaWelshman]

Yeah when you're bigger it's not too bad! And how often are you really losing battles? And how often are you really loving battles and not reloading the save?

[@ludwigvangaming1822]

@@OttawaWelshman I never reload my saves, I always play Iron Man.

[@z_ro4818]

@@ludwigvangaming1822 fr

[@MYPSYAI]

Exactly. It really shows how limited Ziely and the Welshmans playstyle experience is. I always see them play stewardship and learning style characters, but if you have a strong leader and use direct command you will become a living legend in your 40s

[@ZMorri]

Also 1pt in chivalry makes your death almost impossible. If you're brave you're probably going heavy martial and in the case it's extremely good. You become famous so fast. A at least. D is CRIMINAL.

[@johnnyzhu9867]

Sadistic is A tier for me, S if not catholic. The stress loss from executing prisoners is huge. You never need to worry about stress

[@OttawaWelshman]

Yeeee you gotta love it!

[@primoxanthous511]

Not to mention the huge dread.

[@thomasw9587]

Murder everything

[@forevergamer1374]

And you can murder your own children witch makes it easier to manage the succession

[@joeelmergreen5121]

downside is your heir goes on a court murder spree and is extremely hated on succession

[@anthonycarver971]

Funnily enough, I took paranoid on one of my kids because I preferred the younger child and knew my character was about to die. Once my paranoid child came into power they literally died of a heart attack within a month letting me pass the kingdom on to their younger better sibling😂

[@Chadius_Thundercock]

I made my younger, bastard son have paranoid, the little bastard murdered his older brother(the heir) then probably killed my wife(it’s very convenient who she died while 5 months pregnant) to make sure he got the throne. I guess he was afraid of having no power I guess

[@laszlobandi6456]

played as dyre and either martial or learning for your useless son Halfdan who has no genius trait even tho you are a genius and even your useless wife might get one other genius. that guy never dies, I marry with pox girls, choose bad traits, impriso nand torture him, force him to be a knight, nothing works :D

[@ayyyyylmao]

I think Impatient is really underrated because it unlocks a decision that allows you to execute a scheme immediately. If you have a 95% success chance anyways there is literally no reason for you to wait 12 months and click away all the events on every scheme so it can be quite handy on an intrigue character

[@yoanawramow8809]

Wow I didn't know that, I really never pick impatient but this changes things a bit...

[@homocatphenomena7168]

Also with the new update you can rush to events to get there sooner, so you won't be late and miss events as often.

[@laszlobandi6456]

I think in pairs and patient/impatient is a really good one, both decent and mild punishments with good rewards. I think there is one hunt/travel event for impatient that might cause some harm for a courtier, had some king vassal whose caravan master was bit like 4x by mosquitoes :D rushing things for a bit of stress is ok, only bad if you rush low percent events.

[@arnodorian3548]

one reason to choose paranoid: you are trying to see how far you can get with the worst traits.

[@OttawaWelshman]

Video idea 💡 🤔 hehehehe

[@Amibingus]

@@OttawaWelshman and dont forged glass monument its very good when you play tall

[@laszlobandi6456]

paranoid + sadist or callous and it's not that bad, honestly the event options are usually good, if you are cautious about plots.

[@benjamin5370]

shy is just as bad as paranoid I think bc you gain stress when you feast, I think you gain more stress with shy than any other trait

[@OttawaWelshman]

Facts ey, but you do get plus 1 learning, but other than that, yeah I feel you!

[@Kingedwardiii2003]

I love shy when I’m going for an Octavian type ruler. Always learning and ruling like a competent ruler but totally socially autistic.

[@meneldal]

Shy is 5 points you can put somewhere else in the ruler designer.

[@benjamin5370]

@@meneldal this is about when you picking traits for your kids, if you are in the ruler designer it doesn’t matter what points things are bc you have access to all the best ones

[@athras8822]

@@benjamin5370 For kids, shy is usually grouped with impatient and gluttonous, and both of those are better than shy.

[@mirrormonkey2]

Arrogant can be really crucial if you start tribal and as a tiny chief. 1 prestige/month can really make a huge difference. It gives you men ar arms, you need it for those early conquests etc

[@KleptomaniacJames]

Strong + arrogant + scarred is incredible for norse

[@laszlobandi6456]

facts. arrogant is free prestige and only ever gives stress for lowborn related events. if it's high skill it's worth, if not then why bother. you can also land lowborns to make them house members of their own house if their skills are decent. arrogant wife is a bit harder to handle.

[@TheFinnfluencer]

21:28 okay I accept your challenge I would take paranoid in a situation where the character already has 2 bad traits and they’re next in line to the throne, and so they die faster from stress and I can just play the next character (eg their son)

[@OttawaWelshman]

Hmmm the only thing is though, you wouldn't know who the next ruler would be until AFTER you took paranoid!

[@TheFinnfluencer]

@@OttawaWelshman 🤓

[@gimmethegepgun]

@@OttawaWelshman Sure you do. Don't marry them to anyone (or, if they're male, marry them to an old lady) and the next in line will be your next child.

[@tabletbrothers3477]

No, because paranoid would decrease hostile scheme success chance.

[@TheFinnfluencer]

@@tabletbrothers3477 no as in when I play the character they will get more stressed from everything and die faster

[@brookb5890]

Now that you know each other's least favorite traits... I feel it's time to create rulers for each other to play as😂

[@OttawaWelshman]

Brook, are you not the same person that commented we should do a succession game together? Days you are FULL of good ideas! I love this!

[@brookb5890]

@@OttawaWelshman I am! And I'm so glad you think so 😂

[@michaelneely123]

Brave is amazing on a martial character, if you have good prowess and lead your troops you are not likely to lose unless you make a big mistake

[@OttawaWelshman]

Hehe I do be making mistakes! You make a great point though!

[@minnumseerrund]

@@OttawaWelshman Your mistake seems to be not putting a point into the Gallant tree

[@darkc2656]

I think that sadistic is one of the best traits , especially early in game to easily deal with succession

[@jackochainsaw]

My favourite for intrigue play. Love it!

[@TheKillaShow]

killing your own children because of succession is small brain behavior.

[@MYPSYAI]

I play vikings, so I use my leader as a commander. Brave is A tier my dude. You take the first perk from chivalry lifestyle, and negate any penalty. I never lost a brave leader in battle. Just saying, brave wrathful vengeful are all A/S tier for the direct command style, which is a really strong playstyle.

[@laszlobandi6456]

with genius you got 30% learning any tree, accolades on tactician can give up to 60 (realistically 40-50 but if you fight a lot you get it maxed) and books, well, for learning my max was 100% for martial maybe 40-60%. could clear strategist or absolver and 4-8 gallant (technically the marriage acceptance might worth early) and still do other trees. as a piety is a good trait, and it's a piety for most tribals, not just asatru, depending on location, you could swap to Táltosism for example and vengeful is not piety, wrathful isn't either but brave and honest and gregarious is so a bunch of norse have those. vengeful feels bad for the crazy amount of rival events which lead to house feuds then a loop of assasinations. especially that rivals are competitors but also enemies, I don't really want to bother with a bunch of wandering nobodies but I do get killed by their plots.

[@wsw2291]

A brief case for Brave: I often make custom characters as a Tribal count and give my character huge prowess and martial to gobble up land quickly. If you take Brave and use your first perk point in Chivalry, you cancel out the death likelihood. Also you get an attraction bonus to get your dynasty going early.

[@alffe7038]

Gregarius is A maby low S tier. Because of the stress loss from meeting peers

[@iulianju7893]

Paranoid combine with Sadistic is super fun for an intrigue / torturer character. You can literally profit by torturing the people you are paranoid about. Overall you end up with a huge intrigue buff and a ton of flavor.

[@misfitmismagius692]

Exactly! That's the joy of being a Paranoid Sadist 😆 but, if you were to have Ambitious, that's an all round good stat pool, with Sadistic for the stress loss!

[@leofled4474]

I lost money and sent my heir to the university, then i unintentionally got both of them. It was very bad for me

[@laszlobandi6456]

one bad one good is great with high prowess and irritable. I had a 4 diplo and 66 prowess character. I had shy or honest or something so I could take bits of stress by starting plots, then bonk someone with irritable, bonus if it's a rival and do it twice. I ended up killing or maiming rulers I didn't like. gives a lot of tyranny if you stress a lot but otherwise it's a good option to raise stress just to reduce it.

[@jcritzz7837]

Forgiving has the abandon hooks decision which is minus 50 stress so a lot of the stress gain from it can be megated

[@greekfoxgod5611]

Yes, but as a wise goose once said: "Peace was never an Option"

[@user-ed7ji1br7d]

Forgiving allows you ALWAYS to keep stress level at 0. You must have prisoners, then free them for hooks and then forgive. If you have forgiving you will never care about your stress level. Forgiving + diligent is powerful combination.

[@Tortellobello45]

@@user-ed7ji1br7d Ck3 is easily the most exploitable Paradox game

[@laszlobandi6456]

with house head you got a lot of hooks that doesn't worth much money. also I tried the tenet which gives strong hooks on the recruit, pretty good. with fornicators I use imprisonment when they are 45 but might as well forgive them.

[@ethancash7735]

Finally I needed this I’m doing a India campaign and I need the best traits for my ruler

[@OttawaWelshman]

Honestly, after we recorded this I started paying more attention to my kids and it helps so much

[@ethancash7735]

@@OttawaWelshman Can you do a video where you play as Munda in 867 a nation with one county in India and is surrounded by powerful nations like really powerful you can barely get anywhere especially when your character is 57 years old and with like a five year old son and everybody else plays dirty and for your goal you can figure it out for yourself

[@whosneekoh]

Surprised at the brave rating. I think the chance of death increase is pretty overblown, and it often gives great options in certain events. At least an A for me

[@Domith81]

Sadistic is triple S tier, just war non-stop and kill everyone that isnt worth money for stress reduction. I would take this trait and not have the other two traits its so powerful.

[@Joram647]

Forgiving is the most under rated trait in the game, imo. Yea, it has a lot of stress events attached to it, but the abandon hooks ability more than makes up for it. I find in all of my games with all of my characters I always have extra hooks laying around not good for anything else that can be thrown away to the abandon hook decision. Basically, if you have the forgiving trait, you will never have to worry about stress ever again

[@Honey-zt4lg]

Love it! 22:07 I mainly don't take sadistic because I run schemes on the grandkids instead of my actually kids for generations to come. Stay one step ahead after the first life.

[@OttawaWelshman]

Ahhh you be playing that long game!!!! Smarrttt

[@fishy4560]

Paranoid is ok to put on your childen who will not inherit, so when you marry them off they dont die. So that the alliance gets nullifyed

[@OttawaWelshman]

Interesting!

[@mohamedjear8917]

The worst traits are: lazy, craven, impatient, gluttonous and paranoid. Which are basically how I define myself 🙂

[@laszlobandi6456]

lazy genius is ok, still 4 on all, generally you would take the stressful events tho, but it can be quite mild, on learning is not that bad. for a steward is kind of bad. but since it swaps often to the opposites on grandkids, I would take lazy just to get a diligent grandkid.

[@cavveman]

Generous is actually good for loosing stress for loosing parties. Combine it with gregarious and you can loose quite a lot of stress from the diligent descision.

[@OttawaWelshman]

Yeee that's what I been saying! @zieley is just a cheap bastard 🤣🤣😉😉

[@digitaljungle7154]

No way, generous gives you stress for revoking titles

[@gimmethegepgun]

Generous is undoubtedly either the worst or second worst trait in the game. The only thing that can compete is Paranoid. You realize that it reduces your income from vassal taxes as well, right? And the lower income means that cash events give you less money? Besides which, in the child event to get the trait, it competes with Diligent and Patient. Diligent, of course, being one of the best traits in the game, and Patient being one that doesn't delete your money for no reason (also, +2 learning is decent)

[@vincentgaming1619]

Zealous is a easy S tier because you can execute heretics for stress loss.

[@Tortellobello45]

Sadistic too but with everyone which makes it even better

[@laszlobandi6456]

@@Tortellobello45 sadist is fun for you, not fun if courtiers or vassals have it. they might randomly kill people on feasts and hunts, often your best councillors. I had 2 sadists, killed 1-1 people during hunts, my ruler died and they killed 1-1 people again in 20 years time, exact copy. burning down the feast hall needs sadist trait and rivals next to you. I killed like 80 people, lot of kings and dukes. my vassals still came to my next feasts.

[@pondiker7366]

paranoid just has so many things going against it, like often when it pops up during education you get to choose between it, ambitious and sadistic, further disincentivizing picking it

[@Chihiro_Furua]

Laziness is the most underrated trait. For minus one skill point (which is very little), we don't pay attention to stress. Moreover, since this is a negative trait, we can set it and also get points.

[@pork_on]

Your guys’ humour is class and you bounce off each other very well

[@SkibidiSigmaOhio420]

Wrathful should be an A tier maybe even S tier. Being able to arrest anyone who's wanted without starting a civil war is pretty nice.

[@OttawaWelshman]

WOWOW I actually did not even know that was the case! So cool!

[@FeelFree2RateMyENG]

Forgiving is quite useful in my playthrough Because it have an option to "Abandon Hook for stress Loss" And my character have Shy trait which mean he can barely do anything without gaining stress . So i just go to the prisoners list and negotiate release some of them with weak hook on, then i just Abandon it for 30 stress loss each

[@OttawaWelshman]

yeah facts! That is actually OP!

[@James-712]

Arrogant is probably lower because it leads to stress alot

[@Flappmeister]

Best collab duo for strategy games, keep up the great work guys!

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

I find it difficult to truly rate the personality traits, because a lot of it depends of the religion/culture of your character. Personally I see Brave as an S-tier trait in most cases. Especially as I absolutely love playing Norse, where Brave is a virtue and also adds piety. Leading your troops on raids, getting viking trait and becoming filthy rich, definitely great.

[@laszlobandi6456]

it's a combo of stress reductions and other traits and education. medicine has the time between mental breakdowns and getting athletic/journaller/flagellant basically removes all stress anyway. then as you get older, stress seems to give less and less.

[@cosubo8509]

My two favourite creators, also brave is great if you are building a martial character because if you have decent prowess and martial I find you never get captured.

[@OttawaWelshman]

Ahhh see I never thought about it like that! Also thanks for such a nice comment, I will pass the info to Zieley!

[@itsjess012]

Lustful isn't that bad to play with if you don't have a confederate partition as your succession type. The easiest way to farm renown and gold is by having lots of kids, marrying them off to neighbouring rulers, and then getting the stewardship perk of getting paid for hooks.

[@OttawaWelshman]

You're going to like the next video I think!

[@TheGrunaldi]

Arrogant is very good for Tribal that +1 Prestige help you keep stay out of the negative and helps in managing Men at Arms cost also Just gives a lot of stress for executions so no free piety :P

[@OttawaWelshman]

ahhh Just would be quite brutal if you were playing as Norse

[@laszlobandi6456]

@@OttawaWelshman no difference to slovaskian pravda or Táltosism or other tribal faiths. you can swap and keep the good parts. technically asatru is the only tribal that also gets a holy order with jomsvikings but otherwise based on the location you can swap to other tribal faith to raid.

[@anghelutavictor543]

Awesome video man, keep it up, love ur content 💯

[@anghelutavictor543]

Brave in D tier?? Still a great video, but still...

[@stanke1488]

Why is no one talking about Callous? Its so underrated but is easily A-S tier. Stress loss is HUGE, never had a mental breakdown while having Callous.

[@dimitrioskoliousis1122]

He deserves a lot more subsribers!!! Keep up the good work

[@Igetit-vq5jk]

Love the vids man. Keep em up!

[@OttawaWelshman]

Thanks! This was quick and dirty but I have a few already recorded that I am PUMPED for!

[@Igetit-vq5jk]

@@OttawaWelshman Hope you start streaming man! Would be awesome to just see a full campaign with no editing.

[@Mr92094]

Underrated part of wrathful is the punish criminals decision. Since you usually are high martial/prowess it’s an easy way to capture vassals to either cull factions or revoke a title without civil war by winning the duel. Paranoid is a good way to kill a bad first heir if nothing else from stress

[@TheSolarium18]

The best trait by far is „generous“ (especially in endgame) in combination with creating your own religion where you are the pope in combination with communions where you will get gold presence every 3 seconds ranging from 100 to 1500 gold and the cultural tradition where gold presences are more common and if you do them you get +20% opinion bonus. Combine that with a good diplomatic education and the skill where you get more opinion bonus on presences. Now you have nearly infinite money and you can get every character to +100 opinion no matter how he hates you in addition you get stress relief every time you make a money present through generous which basically means stress is no longer relevant and you also get the money back immediately. Combine that with „diligent“ and the development option which comes with it and you are very OP. (stress is really no problem at all now, money too and you can make everybody love you through money) It’s the most effective way in endgame to create a very stable kingdome and very stable character

[@David_Bower]

I'd like to see CK3 personality traits ranked 1, 2, and 3 for all 12 of the in game trait events which always gives you choice between. 1) Craven, Lazy, Arbitrary 2) Arrogant, Compassionate, Callous 3) Deceitful, Honest, Humble 4) Generous, Diligent, Patient 5) Wrathful, Forgiving, Fickle 6) Vengeful, Chaste, Stubborn 7) Just, Cynical, Temperate 8) Greedy, Gregarious, Lustful 9) Brave, Calm, Zealous 10) Ambitious, Sadistic, Paranoid 11) Content, Fickle, Trusting 12) Impatient, Shy, Gluttonous.

[@Brayslayer]

If I recall it's actually 8) greedy, gregarious, lustful

[@laszlobandi6456]

since the pairs often swap for grandsons, if you don't educate them directly, good traits are the ones with good opposites and mild debuffs on the negative ones my personal choice would be 1 lazy (to get diligent), arbitrary ok 2 arrogant or callous 3 humble except if intrigue, honest in taltosism or sami 4 diligent best trait both steward and martial but all good 5 fickle for diplo or intrigue but forgiving for stewards except norse wrathful 6 stubborn 7 temperate 8 greedy cause great pair with generous just different perspective (vassals don't build with greedy) gregarious good for feasts and now the leisure palace with small bonuses better for capital than tax office, especially with grand marriages 9 zealous, except for tribal martial then brave 10 ambitious except for nepfews, sadistic ok for you or your heir but he can't be landed and you need to rush inheritance 11 content and trusting for vassals and non heir kids, fickle just for intrigue or diplo 12 impatient best but shy ok for artificers overwrite any if it's a piety for your faith rulers that can both gain and lose stress with activities are pretty good(also a 'bad' trait which is ok, but the opposite is good, is great for the above reason getting it a different setup on grandson), learning education can handle bad traits, as the stress reductions are better. check wiki for hidden traits on the traits, basically sliders, they all come with 2-4 extra stats, would go for rationality and greed. I play steward, bossy is better than pensive, basically the more tyrannical style. you can influence that by having more stewardship and martial, and your wife too. I focus on genius trait, that increases stats a lot and education in any tree. so I wouldn't care about stats from the traits too much, also it won't count for education stars, also the focus either, won't take opposite but neutral is fine to force a path at first if you know what you going for. 12 learning is minimum for the mystic event line but requires a specific trait setup, not sure what. good trait combos can trigger events in specific learning combinations, like steward/domain/duty focus with diligent and either stubborn or temperate or some buffs and I had every year a road/aquaduct/cattle/improvement event line and finished stewardship 3 trees by age 42, without book artifacts. on learning you can have similar if you befriend your priest, steal his book and ask his help for reading, get 1-1-1 learning, swap your priest and repeat. if you start on learning and trigger stress, you can get the better reductions. 12 perks and swap to other tree then go back later when you get older, you can get around 10 years to live with iron constitution and another perk and finally the whole body. with books you clear learning way too fast so then you can't use the last points.

[@TopSoulMan]

Stubborn has a hidden weakness.. I like to bribe my vassals when they join factions. My stubborn character gains a TON of stress when i gift people money. Makes managing vassals very difficult. Edit: Everyone is correct that it is Greedy I am thinking of

[@rileykiller5]

It’s greedy that gives you stress from gifting not stubborn.

[@OttawaWelshman]

yeah, im like 98% sure it is the greedy trait that does that, but I could be wrong.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Stubborn doesn't do that, you're confusing it with Greedy - though since they're both green it's an easy mistake to make

[@codexaeterna]

I actually played a character who was paranoid for RP, but she was also sadistic and I had no issues with stress because I always kept a stable of captives for torturing. She was also a lunatic which really made some funny events in that playthrough. Good times.

[@lucariofan6500]

From my experience there are only 12 childhood trait events and seeing as there are 35 personality traits this means that only one of the traits appears in two of those (it's if I remember correctly fickle). This means that in this video the traits are judged upon in a vacuum. Which is not really that much of a problem, but it also means that some traits probably could swap places

[@gimmethegepgun]

Yes, it's Fickle. Fickle/Content/Trusting and Fickle/Wrathful/Forgiving.

[@schwingedeshaehers]

they come sometimes with different traits for the same event

[@laszlobandi6456]

there are 17 pairs and 2 of those are 3x, with eccentric being the new one. gives -200 rationality but people seem to love it for the skills. there are like 8? sliders and hidden traits for each of them. also the fact that a trait often swaps to it's opposite for your grandkids, makes ok pairs better than cherry picking one trait then having a horrible opposite. had to search for the 12 you said but I'm certain that there are others that give traits. there were differences in traits between faiths, I saw zealous in different ones. gotta compare to wiki for sliders, see which event adds what, might be a pattern. when I got a wife/prisoner that has a piety trait, I don't ask them to convert. for example wise man on max level for Táltosism (born as mystic) was instant winner for the election, even being my smaller kid, he inherited a kingdom while I was ruling, lost it, gained it back, became my heir and no one ever tried to kill him. it's a low cost tenet with a high roll random trait, but it's better than the varangian adventurer prestige and skills. they judged traits based on asatru and catholic. asatru gets weaker if the scandinavians convert, jomsviking fails and cultures split. catholic is a lazy choice that is not great and too big to control it, reforming it is a bit unrealistic. especially considering how good insular is for uk, or krstjani for balkans or other holy sites, and tribals with catholic syncretism get the marriages without giving up the other bonuses.

[@ludwigvangaming1822]

Your videos really helped me step up my play in CK3. Thanks

[@OttawaWelshman]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for such a nice comment!

[@Twiska]

Sadistic is S tier for the Norse. Stress loss for executing prisoners. Combined with piety gain with their religion and you have a way to keep stress low and piety high by constantly raiding, capturing then executing.

[@RuinnTheGreat]

i have never been so disappointed in you mr Welshman

[@JohnSmith-bs9ym]

I love how if you are ambitious and diligent, you're almost as good as a natural born genius...kinda like in real life.

[@TwinHypeBack]

The idea of a Chad commander that runs away had me dead

[@Riphagen1902]

super chill video pls do a traditions tier list guys !

[@PompousBigelow]

Awesome tier list. Would love to see one for traits we want/wouldn’t want on vassals. Such as ambitious or vengeful being something you wouldn’t want

[@OttawaWelshman]

Damn that's a great idea!!!

[@VivaChandles]

Love the colab

[@tfljmartis7681]

I take paranoid because I'm worried about what the voices would do if I don't

[@ArcticKrampus]

Something I consider when picking traits for my heir is how the AI is going to control them. I would rank Compassionate higher since that character will make friends and stay out of trouble making succession a smoother process.

[@fryenchill2817]

With forgiving, you can just release lowborn prisoners for a hook, then forgive the hook for stress loss, which makes it the best stress loss trait in the game if you're playing in a way that gets you tons of prisoners.

[@simoncodrington]

Both you guys are S rank in my books! Another great video ♥️

[@OttawaWelshman]

Wowowowo thanks so much Simon! :D Youre a kind lad!

[@user-tb7ml8kz7h]

A reason to get paranoid: When you want to start with "strengthen bloodline" decision, but also want to stress up to level 3 to get "lunatic" for the glass monument in a single life.

[@NavigatorGamingC]

Brave but go down the gallant tree is a pretty amazing combo without a doubt A tier. The Attraction opinion is also pretty nice.

[@OttawaWelshman]

OOOOuuuuu you know i dint think of combining those two!

[@kakaouette]

I would put Honest higher because it gives stress loss on exposing secrets like Just. As you said discovering secrets is super easy so it's free stress loss. And Wrathful I would lower it because you may end up murdering someone during feasts (maybe hunt as well?), including your best heir or some other important character - than can really mess up your plans and this is not a choice, you only get a choice after the murder to kill some witness as well but it already happened.

[@laszlobandi6456]

once 6 rulers of mine got murdered, then I had a save before a hunt, the lover of my mother (empress, same house both genius why not) tried killing me, after reload he was the witness of a guest and I killed em both. honest is ok, not that bad of a stress, but wouldn't take with just, one of those are fine but together is crazy stres on plots. I lost a game with arpad almos, because I landed my son, had a kid with a concubine, I started a plot to kill her but a pox killed my son and then their kid and she was next in line for the empire, game over because couldn't kill her without killing myself from stress and literally had to delay the plot when she got pregnant which was all the more reason to kill her earier. piety traits btw (honest) for Táltosism which is really good holy sites for east europe.

[@phantomboy9194]

Whenever i wake up and see a Ottawa welshmen my day gets better so keep it up ❤️

[@OttawaWelshman]

Abdul! Youre the man! hope the Tier list helps you :D

[@phantomboy9194]

@@OttawaWelshman its helpful to see someone else’s opinion because it can make your opinion better

[@Iollipop87]

Sadistic is easilly S or high A tier. The fact that you can kill off kids is amazing. Especially if you somehow fucked up (we all have at some point) and have heirs that are outside of your dynasty. It can be the only saviour in an ironman game. Do not underestimate the power of the dark side xD Having one sinful trait is not gonna kill you, even if you work alot with piety. You make it sound way worse than it is ^^ Also trusting IMO deserves to be lowest of D tiers, maybe even F tier. It has like zero benefits other than 2 diplomacy, the rest is absolute trash with it. It's an NPC trait, you love having vassals with this trait, but having it on yourself or kids? Hell no. It's really bad.

[@rrron]

I had a 24 prowess daughter turn down an offer to be a shieldmaiden. From then i never considered humble to be any higher than B tier.

[@ShortRound29]

What makes lustful bad is when your heir has it while waiting for you to die, longer you give them time as npc the more likely they’ll get the adulterer trait. If you quickly go through succession it’s pretty good.

[@khou0]

craven is a really good trait for your vassals because of the boldness penalty they'll basically never join factions against you

[@LilGamingYes]

Fun point about Paranoid; you can't hire knights, but you can recruit them from prison. I think this is an oversight and it SHOULD give stress, even more than the normal hiring. But it doesn't. Just Paradox things. EDIT: Stubborn should have a stress gain mallus in some occasions. Like when you're forced to "concede" or admit you're wrong. No events come to mind to represent it, but I'm sure you understand what I mean.

[@Mr92094]

Surrendering a war?

[@Silverhand404]

+100% death or capture chance means nothing when you are NOT commanding your troops, and if combined with certain things that allow you to duel people (criminals or rivals) to death it gets really OP.

[@electricVGC]

tbh I actually don't mind impatient cuz expedite schemes is funny asf

[@electricVGC]

my favourite thing is that you didn't even link Zieley in the description and tbh I don't think anyone will be able to guess that spelling by ear

[@OttawaWelshman]

@@electricVGC yeee been busy! Will link him in 2 seconds :) great catch

[@OttawaWelshman]

True ey!I have only don't that once but it did go Hella quick

[@AndPennyThought]

I think Craven and Paranoid have a hidden effect that makes you immune to random death events.

[@greekfoxgod5611]

Just as side note I have ~900 Hours in this Game so I think I know quite a bit about ck3: -Ambitious: A -Arbitrary: B -Arrogant: B -Brave: A -Callous: A -Calm: C -Chaste: D -Compassionate: F -Content: A -Cynical: A -Craven: D -Deceitful: B -Diligent: S -Fickle: C -Forgiving: F -Generous: D -Gluttonous: D -Greedy: D -Gregarious: B -Honest: F -Humble: A -Impatient: B -Just: C -Lazy: F -Lustful: B -Paranoid: F -Patient: S -Sadistic: A -Shy: F -Stubborn: A -Temperate: S -Trusting: F -Vengeful: B -Wrathful: C -Zealous: A

[@Brayslayer]

Ok as someone with 1000+ hours how Is compassionate worse than Paranoid

[@greekfoxgod5611]

@@Brayslayer Thanks for the Hint, that was a typo

[@OttawaWelshman]

DAMNNN! Dude went out and made their own tier list for the comment! Respect! Thats some serious effort right there!

[@greekfoxgod5611]

@@OttawaWelshman I even wanted to make an explaination for each trait, but I didn't want to write a whole Book.

[@Crispebakein]

Generous can work very well with diligent. If you have more than enough money than you’ll ever need, you can develop your capital and then gift gold to reduce stress with generous. Plus you don’t even have to gift a lot of gold. You can gift to your courtiers or random family members and you only give them a little bit of gold, and still get the same amount of stress loss from generous.

[@koiosdamocles1090]

content has a beautiful +20 same opinion bonus which is pretty useful for keeping your realm peaceful even if you don't have a good diplomat ruler. also gregarious is A for me because it has no downsides.

[@reflex9375]

I pretty much agree with the list with one exception, the Brave trait, I would definitely rank that higher

[@MrVentches]

I would have loved if youd also talked about some of the most common events maybe, that are based on your personality. some of these traits have some very good/bad events that can make or break them.

[@PauperJ]

I'd like to see an episode with all F & Brain Damage traits then one with all S traits. I wager that the F & Brain Damage episode is a higher level of success for your empire.

[@jackthehat1093]

Brave is one of the best traits. The positives far outweigh the negative. As well as the martial and prowess boost you get a +5 opinion modifier and it's a virtue in most of the European pagan religions.

[@snapwilson316]

Really enjoyed this. I like giving Chaste for my kids because I find that after they're grown and they're on their own while I'm still ruling, I find that it keeps them out of trouble until I can take control of them. By the same token, that's why I try to avoid Lustful.

[@forevergamer1374]

Forgiving is one of the best for stress release, if you have a strong hook and abandon it you bet about 120 stress release. And you can get easely a strong hook using the lovers secret and blackmailing the woman. And astrong hook can be used from time to time, so you only need some strong hooks and dont need to always get new ones.

[@ribbonwing]

Yeah I agree with the other comments about Paranoid - it's for 'live fast, do lots of intrigue, die young' builds, on the occasions you want those.

[@KalisaFox]

big one for me is brave, i would at least rate that c, but would probably put it B personally, if your character is not leading the 100% doesnt matter and it only really matters if your losing, that or using it strictly for that 100% increased chance to kill off unwanted children since u can easily control the armys and encourage them to lose. Sadistic is an S for me as well as A for vengfull for viking or any group that can raid. Being able to clear stress anytime by exicuting afew prisoners is amazing and you should always have a stock of prisoners if your raiding.

[@vovasyhin7219]

Brave 100% capture or death is completely negated by high prowess, it is extremely easy to get prowess in this game especially after tours and tournaments. As some events increase your prowess by +1 or 2 permanently. If you have over 20 prowess your chances of dying is practically non existent. It's bare minimum of A tier trait, as it has absolutely no downsides, and extra popular and attractiveness opinion is a cherry on the cake! Its also pious with the Asatru Faith which is easily the best faith in the game! Not only will it let you raid as a kingdom it will also give your knights the Berserker trait every time they kill on the battlefield, given that they are also of a North Germanic descent.

[@jimothyworldbuilding3664]

"I love how you can kill your kids" CK3 is such a wonderful game.

[@The_Crimson_Lion]

Thank you Ottawa, now I know which traits to put on my heir using console commands 👍

[@gothstralia1545]

the Arab throne looks so comfy bro I want one so bad

[@swipe7917]

you and zieley are the best ck3 KZbinrs!

[@OttawaWelshman]

Zieley is the Goat!

[@swipe7917]

@@OttawaWelshman he is!

[@LeFilayMignon]

I love Brave. Good Martial for troops. Prowess for duel and power move. Free opinion bonus from vassal. And it makes the hunting decision so good! I’ll take that -50 sometimes -70 stress for 50 gold every month! I see no downside having this trait at all!

[@ridewoodsam]

The stress from diligent can be good sometimes aswell, like when you prock that athletic trait first breakdown

[@AmmoniaClouds]

Paranoid actually saved my game once. My character didn’t have an heir and everyone in my empire hated me and since he was paranoid he was able to find and stop a bunch of murder schemes with high success chances until he had a child. It could’ve been our luck but I wouldn’t know.

[@NomeDeArte]

Great video! I never understand how being stubborn gives you more stewardship, do you have any thoughts on the matter? I really like the trait though, I almost always take it.

[@foursided4916]

Pretttay prettay prettay good video

[@arbikiuszelemelek3347]

Obviously a lot of those placements can change depending on if your religion has this trait as a virtue/sin, or if your culture has maluses to them etc. the really fun thing is that your placements can heavily vary on your playstyle which is pretty great, for example hostile schemes are pretty much my last resort, so traits like Honest and Forgiving are much more valuable to me than any of the intrigue ones. overall I would mostly agree with the tier list except for Brave, its an overall really good trait, I almost never lead my armies except for start of game where I can restart if I perish, or I actively want to die, but it still is a very well liked trait with a lot of positives so I would say its B for me

[@OttawaWelshman]

Interesting! You must have a kind soul, because given the chance I will be hostile AF against digital people.

[@armhelc7501]

You can cancel out the Brave penalty almost immediately. I love pairing it with Wrathful, especially for Asatru characters.

[@sammcoin8430]

i’ll watch this later tn but for now i gotta skip to the end and make sure i don’t fuck up my entire Dynasty’s future

[@PugsleyThePear]

Just is one of my new favourite traits. You always end up gathering so many secrets you have nothing to do with - might as well air them out and reduce your stress. It's the just thing to do, after all!

[@Ed-et5zu]

Bleurgh nft shilling outro 😂

[@chrispratt3666]

Sometimes being able to gain stress on demand is good. There are several mechanics in game that give bonuses per stress level. Getting Athletic or Journaller from a mental break is always nice. As long as you have a bit of disease resistance you can camp out at level 2 stress relatively safely. To me that makes Honest and Just very good traits. You can blackmail and get money if you want some stress. You can reveal secrets to reduce stress. I think there's an argument for Just being as high as S tier and Honest being as high as A.

[@VarjoFilosofi]

Paranoid is the best trait there is. It generates so much hilarious scenarios, which you can enjoy and laugh at.