The MOST BROKEN Character in Fire Emblem Engage - Jean and Ike Great Aether Combo Analysis

[@xmaple1x]

Jean's Dad will have the shock of his life after his son returns back from the war with Ike body build and a Jojo pose.

[@happyduke99]

And jean said to his dad....I forget my training as a doctor, now I am the world number 1 fighter

[@gggamer141]

😂

[@Chun712tube]

Nooo, he is a doctor 😂 haha

[@TwilightWolf032]

Dad, I'm a healer (pulls out Ragnell), BUT...

[@yukiizura]

Anything that allows Jean to be the demonic killing machine with puppy eyes that he deserves to be is a good thing. Ike 100% would endorse this too.

[@HeartOfClod]

Aka, anything, really haha

[@destinyshand2049]

I initially took Jean!Tiki High priest for that comical 100 luck, 95 Res, 85 mag to make him anti-armor/anti-magic, then i reclassed to Thief to REALLY get that dex and spd up there with 85 in each. i have since inherited the 15% tiki growths and put Camilla on him, he is putting Yunaka to shame plus nuking armors with camilla bolt axe

[@AutisticJesusGaming]

I made mine a mage hoping he can get a. Shite ton of magic.

[@aishi_rei]

Can he really defeat Red Bowman?

[@morganuhl9992]

@@destinyshand2049 Is theyu any Builds For Jean as a SwordGeneral. Just asking.

[@Zodiacagegaming]

Jean joins the like of muzu, cyril, and donnel of child villagers who are secretly monsters

[@blackstar4494]

Donnelly the OG like my god 😭

[@justascarecrow6988]

@@blackstar4494 He who, in a broken game, is broken.

[@leargamma4912]

But they all require investment when you could use units who are already good. Eh. Not worth it.

[@BigmeechT]

Don’t forget Ross lol

[@DivineNaruto]

​@@leargamma4912 worth it. They become better than everyone else very shortly.

[@zacharytoback7142]

IF YOU GIVE HIM THE THREE HOUSES EMBLEMS HE GETS AYMR BUT THEY MAKE IT JEAN (mini) SIZED ITS SO CUTE I SWEAR

[@LinkKing7]

That's funny, I never noticed that, I have to go take a look!

[@sirajsaunders9967]

He's my Three Houses runner the who maddening run. He's a BEAST

[@hooray4paradiddles]

OH MY GOSH :D

[@magicfish8213]

It sure is good that Edelgard had that feature built into he Crest Weapon

[@iblobtouch]

You can go in the opposite direction and still make a tanky enemy phase monster. Take Jean, put him on martial master, give him Sorens ring and up bond to 14, equip rexcalibur and watch him nosu tank the entire enemy team due to Flares 100% return from damage from tomes.

[@kaptainsalty7335]

My god

[@dambros]

I gotta give this a try... I guess the idea is having vantageor hold out as well so you won't die in one hit before healing, right?

[@iblobtouch]

@@dambros Honestly i'd suggest putting on speedtaker + pair up and using a speed tonic. Combo's, getting doubled or not doubling back can quickly cause you to lose more hp than you gain. Only if the enemies can literally one shot you do you need hold out since you'll always heal back to full after combat anyway.

[@rellix6528]

I just started messing around with Soren, I'm on chapter 15 I think. He seems broken

[@dambros]

I couldn't make it work well so far on my current playthrough even though Jean is stat capped on almost everything. His speed is too low for doubling enemies on ch24 and 1 attack with Rex is around 40 DMG, which isn't enough to kill most enemies.

[@ryang.2907]

I agree that Ike actually works best with slightly squishier units. Laguz Friend just isn't doing much on a tank, and works much better on physical glass cannons. I found success with Ike and Panette which is a very popular build simply for mitigating her weakness of low bulk and allowing her to reach high crit rates with Wrath.

[@conorb.1901]

Especially if you're playing on maddening where the ai will outright ignore any unit they have no chance of hitting or damaging

[@ryang.2907]

@@conorb.1901 I actually find Jade better than Louis for that reason. Because she has worse defensive stats than him, she ironically tanks better than him thanks to having a more balanced spread of Def and Res. She can legitimately tank maddening enemies when engaged with Ike, unlike Louis who either dies to mages, or gets ignored by physical units.

[@Smuggers.]

He really does, he can bulk up squishier but high kill potential units to really get the most out of their power, especially ones you expect to take a hit anyways. He turns Panette into an entirely different unit than she'd be otherwise, but I'm curious who else and what other strats he enables as well.

[@ryang.2907]

@@Smuggers. I know Kagetsu is good on everyone, but Ike works well with him too. High speed prevents him from getting doubled, he has passable bulk, and with a forged killing edge he can also turn into a crit machine with Wrath. Other than that, you can do Ike with Timerra and Diamant as well. Generally, it will work out okay as long as you don't put him on a thief or mage.

[@Smuggers.]

@@ryang.2907 Yeah, I think he'd take worse advantage of great aether and Ike's heavy weapons, but he'd definitely get a lot of crits and has the kind of bulk that I think ike could make tanky, especially when hard to double. I don't think it exactly plays to his strengths though, he could probably be pretty dodgy if you made him that way, so forcing him to eat every hit over a unit who'll take hits anyways seems like a loss of some sort.

[@fromnaras]

I want to do this but it makes me so sad when he’s not a doctor healer like he wants to be

[@LinkKing7]

He's being a doctor by practicing preventative medicine and protecting his allies from damage by killing all the enemies first!

[@fromnaras]

@@LinkKing7 QAQ!!! Is there a certain dialogue he gives when he becomes a non-healer unit?

[@stormnationex4145]

@@fromnaras "Now i can be a doctor and a fighter" something along those lines. lol

[@maliciousheart]

Heal and Kill rhyme. Close enough.

[@happyduke99]

Well there is no need to heal when u can kill all ur enemies before they can hurt ya 😂

[@xgxwills2857]

The one I ran the whole play through was Jean + Tiki. Needless to say, I never had one bad level up and Jean became borderline unkillable after a little bit of babysitting him for a few levels.

[@deathblade32]

I am running him as my healer still, but ran with Tiki until i got statsphere, then switched him into the three lords bracelet until Lyn was available(Yunaka had her until Corrin), but i now just send him + louis(IKE) to solo an area, Yunaka and Anna(Hector originally, switched to Soren, might switch to Cameria to get bonus with Corrin) as a second team, and everyone else just goes where more enemies are to get their scraps.

[@eee-man9545]

For long time emblem fans this is a classic trope the creators make they give a unit a very low base with a ridiculous ability and it can become game breaking, As soon as I saw his personal skill I knew this was the unit they decided on but I chose to go with little Anna seeing a little girl carrying Ike’s weapons and using either is to damn funny lol

[@harrisonriggs8732]

Ah. I completely misunderstood how his personal skill worked. I leveled him in martial monk for a while and then because he had a high Magic, I put him on the Mage path until like level 17 and now he's a Mage Knight. He's still an absolute monster paired with Soren. Just goes to show how good he is. You really can't go wrong with him

[@gianghuynh9570]

I found out that Great Aether will automatically taunt every enemy when you cast it because of the 100% get hit rate you put on yourself. So having someone with Lucina and Bonded Shield will help block most of the damage. The enemies only attack the Lucina unit if the Ike unit is surrounded and they cannot find a position to hit them, which is not likely to happen. This combo is my favourite to clean map and farm exp. It helps to have the unit using Lucina to have high avo so they don’t get targeted. Also helps to have Soren’s skill to force a unit to be targeted.

[@brandondodson2954]

This is essentially the standard panette build if you're not running Lyn for speed taker tbh. I don't like committing Lyn to panette though, since you don't really need to double if you one tap everything, and once you hit vantage range speed is no longer an issue, whereas Lynn can shore up someone else that has a harder time doubling or avoiding doubles like Ivy. (Though I use her on Etie because I have a soft spot for her and she needs the help)

[@geraldmarroquin4085]

If you make Jean a Paladin he can do it all. Tanks every kind of hit (Magical or Physical) and has enough Speed to double most things

[@sambosung350]

The mad lad rises I was waiting for a crazy build video or two given the semi limited slots. This was beautiful

[@alucard-jy8wh]

Damn nice mad respect for builds that dont need dlc, i dont have the dlc so this is gonna help allot, new sub ty

[@AcousticHarmonia]

As a fellow content creator I felt obligated to correct the misinformation present in this video. Stat caps are based both off the class and the unit's maximum stat modifiers (MSMs); you take the maximum stats of the class and apply the MSMs of the unit (this is how it worked in Awakening/Fates as well), which you can find on SerenesForest under characters maximum stats, not that far off from where you found the maximum class stats you showed (which I imagine you assumed was the maximum stats regardless of unit since there were no MSMs in Three Houses). If we're going for the strongest possible build, we'd care a lot more about the MSMs than we would character growth rates, as MSMs affect what the cap of our potential is, whereas growths just affect how long it takes to get there. If you're at a characters maximum stats you'd never have to worry about growths ever again, which would render Jean's personal skill useless at that point, as if he is now the one character in the game with no personal skill. I would assume we're talking about maximum potential here considering the initial goal was to hit the HP cap and then this build spawned from that, so I'll be basing my analysis off of what is the strongest regardless of growths. Calling Jean "potentially the best unit in the game for every class" if we're talking purely from a maximum potential standpoint is just blatantly wrong, he's one of the worst actually. If we're talking about just doing the main game through and then putting it down, never trying to perfect any units, then sure, the argument can be made, but if we're talking the ceiling of potential regardless of the amount of grinding time to reach it, then it is false. All Jean is is the unit who can most *quickly* hit the maximum stats of that given class, but at the end of the day would actually be *worse* than almost any other unit in the game once those maximum stats are hit, as he essentially has no personal skill at that point whereas every other unit does. It's also worth noting that his MSMs are +2 Magic, -1 Dexterity, -1 Speed, +1 Luck, not exactly fantastic MSMs but alright enough if you put him into a Magic class, since he's gaining +2 to his maximum Magic but +-0 to his maximum Strength. This means his best final class is in a magic-based class, where he benefits from the +2. Putting him into a physical class instead just wastes his potential, considering you've now got a physical unit whose only change to stats they care about is -1 Dex, -1 Spd, +1 Lck, gross... Let's call this a -1.5 to stats we care about, -1 to Dex and Spd, and +1 Lck which is the least important stat in the game so I'm adding 0.5 instead of 1. Of the 36 characters in this game, and assuming we don't care about Magic MSMs because we're going for a purely physical class and treating Lck and 0.5, there are only 3 units in the game Jean can do better than (Celine, Citrinne, Pandreo, as most of their MSMs are in Magic). This means that 33/36 characters have a higher ceiling of potential in this build than Jean, or in other words 92% of the cast that's better at this build than him. "The MOST BROKEN Character in Fire Emblem Engage" you say...? It'd be fine if you specified this was for getting this setup online as soon as possible so you can use it for as much of the main story as you can, but since that isn't the case this really is just straight up misinformation. Anybody watching this video who wants the strongest possible builds regardless of grinding time because you want to take on things like the ultimate Tempest Trials, this is a pretty alright build you could go with, but please do not give it to Jean, give it to somebody else you feel is most fitting based off of 1) Maximum Stat Modifiers and 2) Personal Skill (though it's pretty hard to choose somebody worse than Jean for this to be fair) Other notes, yes Lineage from the Rivals can increase EXP growth by 1.2x, but it's just a worse version of a main game skill, being Byleth's Mentorship, which affects both the unit and any adjacent units (although it's 250SP as oppose to 150SP). And this isn't even a thing for this video specifically but just helping with Engage in general, but you mention Ike's Resolve+ has helped make your tank units even tankier, but there's an even better damage reducing alternative if we're talking about what skills to inherit, and that's Eirika's Gentility+. Resolve+ grants Def/Res +7 when under 75% HP, Gentility+ on the other hand reduces damage taken by 5. So take 7 less damage when under 75% HP, or 5 less damage always? I would argue Gentility+ is the far greater boon, and could only really see myself running Resolve+ on Timerra (and one other niche case unit) to boost Sandstorm damage as it's based off defence. Anyway, if you're reading this LinkKing, know that I do love getting to know fellow content creators, so feel free to reach out sometime if you'd like to talk Engage numbers, as crunching numbers of games like this is something I do. Ever since the release of Fates I've been making dedicated excel spreadsheets for each of the FE games I play to compile all relevant information so I can number crunch to figure out what seems to be ideal builds, and turn it into a resource for Fire Emblem fans to more easily visualize the possibilities themselves. I'm not yet done with my Engage sheet so it's not publicly released yet, I'd say I'm a bit more than halfway through, and because of the sheer amount of projects I take on I haven't had a chance to test out my builds properly in game yet, but if things work the way the math seems to imply I'd wager I have a fair few builds plotted out stronger than this. So let me know if ever you want to talk shop.

[@LinkKing7]

Lmao, you leave an absolutely obnoxious comment on my video to "correct my misinformation" when all you're doing is pointing out very minute details that don't matter in the grand scheme of things to try and one up my work and you want me to reach out to you to "talk shop"? I think you need to work on your sales pitch a bit more, maybe worry less about 1-2 stat variations and look at the big picture a bit more.

[@AcousticHarmonia]

@@LinkKing7 Huh? The big picture? My guy you made an entire video about a character whose only selling point is that they're the fastest to hit their ceiling when they have one of the lowest ceilings in the game, that's about as far from big picture as you can possibly get. I hoped I could help you out, but I guess not everyone is capable of taking criticism, my mistake

[@jacklambert6453]

Quick correction to something here that I didn't see in the comments already: You should always, always use master seals to promote a unit before you 2nd seal. If you use the 2nd seal 1st, you have to spend 20 levels in a base class. In Jean's case, you spend 10 levels in monk and 10 levels in fighter before you can be a berserker. The promotion path would look like this: 10 levels in Monk -> 2nd Seal to level 1 fighter -> 10 levels in fighter -> Master Seal to Berserker However, if you promote him at level 10 to an advanced class, you can 2nd seal him immediately to berserker as there is no level requirement for 2nd seal use once you are promoted. This would totally bypass the 10 levels he has to spend as a fighter and because engage moderates exp gains based off an internal level counter, he would actually gain exp faster as a level 1 berserker with this method. Promotion path would look like this: 10 levels in Monk -> Master Seal to Martial Master -> (without levelling) 2nd Seal to Berserker. The change in growths would get him a 20% higher strength growth for the 10 levels he would have spent in fighter and 10% higher growths in HP and Build. It also gets him access to better weapons sooner and an extra point of movement which is nice> This tip is true for every character and not just Jean, so it's useful to know. Small tip for promoting aside, I really enjoyed the video! This is a funny build and it looks like it works great, especially if you get him some forges and engravings on those weapons. I bet a forged tomahawk would be incredibly rude here.

[@nanashivii9237]

At 5:39, he mentions why Jean is the exception to the rule of "promote first, reclass second". It has everything to do with Jean's Personal Skill Expertise, which doubles the growth rates of whatever class he is in. Therefore, if you're trying to optimize his build, it makes sense to reclass him into something that has beneficial growths since Jean joins at Lv1 and needs to gain those 9 Base class levels before promotion regardless. As you can see from the timestamp, he gains an average of 5 HP/2 Str/1 Dex/2 Spd/1 Bld over his default Monk class in that short stint in a Base class, making it more efficient to reclass before anything else. Not only that, he is more effective in the short term this way and doesn't end up with a bunch of redundant stats that could've gone into useful ones.

[@ponyboy696]

You don't have to train someone to level 10 to second seal them to a different base class. I don't know how you thought that.

[@jaimereupert4247]

You do need to second seal because most classes need you to be either level 10 or 20 in a different base class in order to re class into that class.

[@XellosNi]

I feel like Boucheron having his thunder stolen is becoming a reoccuring theme for the character.

[@jaden149]

seems like a pretty fun build will probably try this out when ever i do maddening

[@m.a.dmatt6689]

That was my exact reaction to Ike's Great Aether lol

[@eustacemcgoodboy9702]

Ike is just good I think you put him on almost anyone and you're going to have a good time. I put Ike on Merrin as Griffin Knight with Hurricane Axe and also Geniality+ for ultra tank + flyer destruction.

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Ike once again taking over the protag role as best unit. Is anyone surprised?

[@bfmvbrass]

Most of yall didnt play on maddening CLEARLY. Ike is so damn good in maddening. Some chapters would be extra brutal without him. Easily one of the best emblems IMO

[@LinkKing7]

Most people don't start with the highest difficulty yes, but usually they go back for a second run when they're more comfortable with the game

[@kaidestinyz]

@@LinkKing7 Yet here I am, on maddening classic on my first FE game, 1st playthrough. My friends dared me to go for it and ppl at reddit assured me that it's easily doable. Btw, does Jean's personal skill expertise just doubles class growths? Some website says it's 2x his personal growth or combined. I'm so confused.

[@gokuby]

@@kaidestinyz Jean only doubles class growths, his personal growth is fixed. He also doesn't double Tikis growth boost, tho as explained in the video they are matching very well regardless.

[@holycrapitsachicken]

If you want to make Jean something else but also have something similar to this that's better than Boucheron, Berserker Amber works well for this. Amber's Aspiring Hero skill makes him take way too many hits so having Ike's Laguz Friend completely nullify that demerit while also reaping the massive health growth of the Berserker class is definitely valuable. It lets him take advantage of the large +20 hit from Aspiring Hero to make the notoriously low hit rate axes actually smack them while also activating Aspiring Hero naturally since he's throwing himself into battle. While Amber's health growth pales in comparison to Boucheron and Jean at only a mere 95, his strength growth supplants both of them at 75 throwing in +2 to the Strength cap. Also, Boucheron sucks as a Berserker since he doesn't have high strength but rather has extremely high dexterity. That doesn't work well for Berserker since Berserker literally has the lowest dexterity cap in the game. Boucheron is better of switching to a Wyvern Knight cause of that since it's way too easy to cap out on dex if he stays as a Berserker. It should be a given, but you kinda want the highest strength growth for the highest strength cap and growth class in the game. Amber's stats are more suited to that, and his skill even works well for it.

[@miller1308]

You got great videos dude! Just a tip if you want to improve the quality of vour videos even more: People want it simple, so if you would pack everthing important into a "checklist" at the end of the video or w/e it would be much appreciated, trust me! Cheers!

[@LinkKing7]

I did do a little recap at the end of the skill/build portion because I knew it might be too much, but I do like if people follow my thought process in general, otherwise they might be confused, so it's a bit of a trade off, but I'll keep that in mind!

[@rayreaves]

Love hearing you mispronounce his name the whole video. But I LOVE this build. You're killing it with your vids my guy

[@LinkKing7]

Glad you like them my friend, thanks for the encouragement!

[@TigerMultiGun]

With tiki you can level up jean from 1 to 20 in one chapter, just trap a bowman put one that can't attack from that range and make jean heal him, it will grant him xp + refill fusion gauge allow to use the tiki special, with marth it grants you 30xp each time

[@haloemblemproductions9954]

I made my Jean a Halberdier and equipped him with the Emblem Of Rivals bracelet, and boy he’s amazing! Before I gave him Brionac he was equipped with a killer lance, a Rivals Engraved Silver lance, and a spear, and he usual took out everything that stood in his way. But when I gave him Brionac he was a one man army.

[@Vinylmelody1517]

Well looks like I found my Jean build for my next playthrough

[@scouttengu]

Alright... Who's gonna tell him how to pronounce the name right?

[@EthanPugel32]

Came right to the comments after I heard how he said it lol

[@LinkKing7]

I know how to pronounce it, I even mentioned it in the video itselffff

[@UniGya]

Oh yeah, this was pretty much my first thought when seeing the Ike ring. Not on Jean, I actually kept him as a martial master because I thought it was fun to see him kick the crap out of enemies and he’s one of the few units who can pull off the weird way Arts scale for damage, but I slapped it immediately on Panette and I would warp her into clumps of enemies with a great axe and watch her delete them like it was nothing

[@Axel-wo6qu]

I'm curious how strong you can make a martial artist, since the arts have the unique ability to strike twice, they could regain their engage meter very quickly, on top of doing lots of damage when they get more hits in normally.

[@spencer4514]

So I made my Jean a spear paladin with Ike emblem. I had starsphere for the extra stat growth and he's now my powerhouse. He's more tanky than a general at times

[@mysetlist2118]

Yea Jean is a beast kept him as a martial master though I’ll try this out when dlc 4 comes out with the new maps as of now done with engage until then oddly enough I put tiki emblem on him to without thinking just thought it be fun having the kid transform into a dragon

[@SaramadHill]

Turning a pharmacist into a harmacist

[@mrfathead915]

This is exactly how I set up my Panette. Was one of my best units in late game

[@xVibra]

Afaik every single character starts with 300 SP, unless there's specific exceptions.

[@Locklen]

Dang, that is one meaty Jean. Still not sure where I wanna take him when I do my maddening run, but this is tempting.

[@MrYellowfairy007]

So when you say do level him up. are you meaning do play him until we can do the class change? To keep him at level one? Or can we play him just don’t change anything until class changes? Just stared the game today.

[@Bogarden27]

I would like to know that myself but so far I haven’t gotten an answer.

[@jaimereupert4247]

I think they mean don't allow him to level up before reclassing him out of his base martial monk class.

[@aced3657]

*cue in giorno piano theme* JeanJean! *Piano theme intensifies* Radiant Dawn!

[@jessieslootstash]

"punches like a wet noodle" love it lol

[@masterdreamer7848]

I made my Jean a Swordmaster with the Lyn Ring and gave him a Brave Sword. He has so much speed, that with the Brave Sword and Alacrity, he can attack 4 times before the enemy can even attack once.

[@ArcHourGaming]

So he's the Donny of this game

[@superfrubblez6123]

Don’t characters have personal stat cap modifiers like fates? Who has the highest hp cap modifier?

[@LinkKing7]

Hp doesn't have a personal modifier, but yes, they do have minor ones. Since HP doesn't have one, I didn't bother talking about that

[@superfrubblez6123]

@@LinkKing7 oh I didn’t realize everyone’s max HP is the same. Then yeah Jean is the best choice for this.

[@dobbersanchez1185]

ah just like donnel and his sweet sweet aptitude

[@destinyshand2049]

And now with Veronica, using those seraph robes makes him even more busted

[@archellothewolf2083]

If you're willing to put the time in, the weak lil' healer is almost always the most OP character in any given Fire Emblem game.

[@suenzhong7891]

In my current playthrough Jean is a magic user because I reclassed Clanne into a crit beast sword unit. I would like to try this build in my next playthrough it looks fun

[@borjaarellano9966]

quick question,should i level up jean in the armor knight class or the axe fighter class? i plan on making him into a wyvern rider but i don't know if making him into an armor knight would benefit him as a wyvern

[@apothecary1725]

I made mine a high priest and he's got level-ten bonds with all the other 6 Rings not only can he use magic in fisticuffs but he can heal himself with his own staffs and he has that ability where if someone uses a weapon he can counter by picking the best weapon against there watching this little kid punch armored units been dodging crazy then I gave him a scroll with that seal that gives him avoid 40 +In for a level and mine up I used the rings ability ultimate sacrifice cuz it levels them up buy 1 each time it's used and heals all the other team but you got to let it run out and then run over to a blue circle to re fill it fast

[@eb8232]

What difficulty are you on?

[@exthechickenwing]

i did not get jean chapter 5. how? also where r u getting these numbers ?

[@LinkKing7]

The numbers are all datamined, and you get him in a paralogue that unlocks after chapter 5

[@exthechickenwing]

@@LinkKing7 the ice stage vs Tiki? im on that now. cant seem to win. how do you access these numbers?

[@jamesc7894]

I love Jean’s duel quotes. And then he murders people.

[@sosspeedy]

I literaly found this video, when I was contemplainting the idea of Jean Berserker and type those two words in youtube search :D 60 str growth rate is bonkers.

[@LinkKing7]

The like minded people must be brought together, it's 80 though, not 60, at least when he reaches berserker!

[@sosspeedy]

@@LinkKing7 Yep, I was counting only berserker rates with Jean's passive, without Jean's growth rates. :)

[@sosspeedy]

@@LinkKing7 Also I gotta question. What are your thoughts on Céline sword build, I was just checking her growth rates and her Str growth are Higher than her Mag and she also has quite decent res and luck, Im thinking about turning her into some kind of mage slayer. :D

[@LinkKing7]

@@sosspeedy It definitely works, she's pretty flexible in what you can do with her tbh!

[@billygrimes8825]

Why are you so concerned about growth rates? You can always use a second seal to reset any class to level one and keep getting stat ups until you hit the class cap

[@trikkinikki6843]

Because we want to get the build up and running as fast as possible, there are less skirmishes on hard and basically none in maddening so you can’t just infinitely level somebody, and money gets pretty tight by the end of the game so you don’t want to spend too much on second seals. No use in grinding up a character with bad growths and stats when you can use someone that can get up there quickly.

[@LinkKing7]

Like the other comment said, infinite grinding isn't always fun and some people want things to get up and running quickly without having to spend a lot of time doing it

[@marchell5177]

so i would promote jean to axe fighter from martial monk?

[@feinne7652]

How do you reclass characters and keep them alive long enough to get exp? With how fights scale I have like 2 units that can solo the map, 2-3 that can survive at least 2 turns, then everyone else just gets wiped out on enemy phase. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, just not sure what.

[@jaimereupert4247]

Give that unit either Miciah or something that enables Staves, or (if you have dlc) give them Tiki? Did that for Anna, and now she's a Griffin Knight and can solo maps. (Started as her base class, went to Sword Flier than Griffin Knight, so she could attack with Levin Sword)

[@lanceareadbhar]

Wait, you can loop at level 20? I definitely had most of my characters at level 20 for probably the last six chapters. At least it was hard mode so I was able to beat it.

[@syrusmarks1]

Normally, i dont care for this stuff. I watch it just to see what happens. I also simultaneously get anxity that i "built my character wrong." You're gental reinforcing of "maddening difficulty" helped remind me im playing on a lower difficulty, im doing just fine right now, (my Jean practicly one hits on normal, as mage, with soren) and i should enjoy the show.

[@TheSuperCasual2914]

Everybody gangsta until a little boy executes a Great Aether against 10 people at point blank

[@TheFrio937]

Damian with Sol, Holdout +++ and Vantage is kinda fun

[@sly2883]

Can you please make a video for swordmaster or at least recommend the build for it

[@dexteradams6515]

As someone new to Fire Emblem, and someone who just does not understand the numbers Im glad this explains why this 12 year old doctors apprentice became the keystone to my army. Seriously I had no idea why he felt so powerful. I babied him because he was my healer, made a mistake and a few enemies got too close. Jean proceed to dodge and nuke all challengers. I guess that double stat growth kicked in while I was not paying attention

[@psychicbeagle5106]

Bandits broke into the hospital. The harmacist broke them back.

[@jaimereupert4247]

Like i always say, everyone is good, if you actually use them.

[@letizia_w4934]

It may be a dumb question but I am not that far into the game so there are still a few things i don't understand. Vantage is Leifs skill. You can inherit the "normal" version by getting the units bond to Level 3. I'm at chapter 9 and Leifs max Bondlevel goes up to Level 10. Does it reach another max Level when I have more progress in the game? I'm confused since the Dlc chars can already reach up to Bondlevel 20. So, do I have to inherit Leifs level 3 skill and later on his level whatever skill to get Vantage+??

[@LinkKing7]

Yes, in the second half of the game you unlock their paralogues, and the max bond level increases to 20. I believe if you look at the Ring section in the Reference area it should show them. Not sure if it shows them early on or not but try checking there for more details

[@letizia_w4934]

@@LinkKing7 Thank you^^

[@staxfrancis1002]

How do you fine all of the stat growth info?

[@LinkKing7]

It's all ons Serenes Forest's website!

[@reubenbailey7491]

*leans* *forward* This'll be good

[@JeedthejetDoe]

Love this

[@DonkeyMerda]

@11:34 He said La-GOOSE 🤣😂😂😂

[@JeremiahGosdin]

Now this is some Engaging content!!

[@NewVictus666]

Your my new God now!!!!

[@littlekingbaku5092]

Jean is tailored to be a god

[@jordankihl4773]

Can I level him in qi adept or would that be detrimental?

[@LinkKing7]

It's less optimal, as shown by the stat comparisons in the video, but in theory you can do whatever you want with him

[@Satawolf]

Every trainee since their introduction has always been a beast unit since time in memoriam.

[@ikaros6633]

Honestly give him star sphere and find whatever class you want to build

[@Noasphere]

I much prefer General Jean with Hector. Give him starsphere early. Give him hit+ and a mohawk he will be the go to tank. Unkillable in every way.

[@GoldElias]

thats exactly what i did in my first run but with panette instead of jean

[@Chubblegum]

This may be a stupid question but if the growth is over 100% is there any benefit?

[@LinkKing7]

Yep, you can hit a +2 on level up if it's over 100%

[@TheThe13used]

i do this but on diamant so he heals on non great aether turns no pair up needed

[@emila6]

What difficulty is this? Because thud isn’t viable in maddening unless you come back lategame

[@LinkKing7]

It's viable in maddening, you just need to baby him a bit and it works. I'm doing it on hard for ease of leveling and speed, but the unforged Silver Greataxe can be forged and that will cover for the increased stats the enemies have on maddening, otherwise you use Ukonvasara late game and that one shots everything too.

[@codebreaker9915]

how know the growth rate of each unit in the game?

[@LinkKing7]

Dataminers get us the numbers, but it's also on Serenesforest, which is a great database website for Fire Emblem

[@jhon1406]

Jean just starts so low that I struggle to make him work

[@shadyshyguy4058]

Give him a ring and it can get same kills for exp. If you have the DLC the 3 hauses bracelet is pretty good for him early. It gives extra exp, and he can get some kills from safe distance with the bow combat art.

[@tzuhan]

Since FE Awakening, villagers with the good growth skill are always the most broken characters in the FE series. It’s a promise

[@Saberlost]

Is reset a map and keep xp a cheat in merciless?

[@LinkKing7]

I'm not sure if that's an option in maddening or not tbh

[@Saberlost]

@@LinkKing7 it is, you can select restart battle and keep xp

[@strayingwill]

idgi LinkKing, why second seal him first and master seal him later instead of promoting into martial monk and then immediately second seal him into berserker? What’s the theory behind this? Am I overlooking something?

[@LinkKing7]

As I explained it in the video, because his personal skill doubles the class growths, you will be losing out on a lot of stats in the right areas if you don't second seal him early. It will delay your progression a bit, but it's definitely not make or break completely, it will just take a bit longer for him to catch up to someone who didn't promote properly.

[@strayingwill]

@@LinkKing7 yeah but Berserker has better growths than Axe Fighter. My thought process says if you promote him into Martial Monk you can use a Second Seal immediately afterwards (without leveling him up at all) to go into Berserker and get those 10 levels in Berserker instead rather than Axe Fighter.

[@LinkKing7]

@@strayingwill You don't want to level him as a martial monk at all. The game tracks your internal level and lowers your exp based on that, so level him as an axe fighter from the very start so you make the most of your exp rate and gain the most stats. He needs to change from his base class

[@strayingwill]

@@LinkKing7 ahhh ok ok i get you. My mind was acting as if Jean was already level 10 before chapter 8.

[@captainteemo1264]

Jean and anna are da best.. little kids killing eveyone 🙃

[@Brelicity]

I'm still on my first playthru and I've almost lost all my heroes. The only champions who have been with me since early game are my boy Louis, Carminn, and Yunaka.

[@aced3657]

Jojo part 10's looking nice and jeanjean looks like a decent jojo

[@SvanEsch123]

As a Boucheron simp, this hurt

[@trager94]

Jean's father would be so disappointed...

[@psychicbeagle5106]

I took Laguz Friend to be cover for a knight's generally weaker resistance. Even Jade, who has a pretty decent res for her class, will be utterly bopped by a doubling mage in the late game. LF let her stuff those Bolg tomes back down the nerds' craws with a (glaring lack of) quickness.

[@elpanda7789]

Jean apretiation, let's go

[@chaozgaming8565]

What about Royal Knight Jean though..?

[@LinkKing7]

It works, but it depends on whether you want to optimize his magic or physical attack

[@BlackRoseThornEtna]

Ike makes anyone good.

[@chaikagaz]

How is it broken when ur just camping the heal plate? Get off of it and maybe we have something

[@LinkKing7]

There are other clips where he's not on the heal plate. You know, like the one RIGHT after it? I don't see how it affects the damage he's doing or the tankiness he has from Ike...

[@simpingzhonglie5257]

What Jean. I only see John and Ike

[@georges227]

Alcryst and lyn is broken too.

[@gunnersmith543]

I think a broken combo is Jean and Tiki Jean will end up having a base stat total double your other units of the same level and the difference is exponential the more he levels up

[@gunnersmith543]

If u ignore the fact that stat caps exist

[@LinkKing7]

You use Tiki to level him up, but once you're done leveling, Ike is much better on him

[@beaksters]

Louis was my god character.

[@DarknessDpa]

The way you say Jean feels very weird considering how his name is actually pronounced.