The MOST BROKEN Character in Triangle Strategy - Quahaug Guide

[@billsutherby]

His ability "In Due Course" does proportional damage to the target based on their health (Like Demi in most Final Fantasy games), so his magic attack makes no difference. It does a LOT of damage to bosses or other high HP characters though.

[@Gullington]

Thank you! I had no idea what proportional damage meant and the units I targeted were taking under 200 damage and I had no idea how it worked.

[@cleenash]

not only that, but it also costs only 1 TP !?

[@lx7766]

This one and a good counter for his mom ability the. time stop is very annoying specially on hard.

[@nathanlevine4727]

For example was fighting Trish and Travis who have around 800+ hp and he was doing around 400hp of damage!

[@rpgfanatic9719]

demi does % of HP and usually cannot kill, it's basically gravity, or super fang. There are moves that calculate on Max HP alone and not current HP in some rpgs, which is actually fucking broken. Both witcher 3 and elden ring have these problematic status effects with bleeding and poison which is hilarious as high HP bosses absolutely get screwed over.

[@ASquared544]

I had no idea Quahaug could swap places with enemy units. That’s insane!

[@razorsharp5643]

He really is powerful, especially if you use his Time Stop ability. I mostly used him for the teleport and Turn Back Time and the occasional non-elemental magic and he still felt incredibly useful. Feels like he could've broken the game for me even more than he already was doing.

[@kevindimas253]

It's been a while but today I finally finished the golden path and I must say I'm so glad there was this the fourth option because I absolutely loved it and it really showcased serenoas genius where he came up with a plan that actually made everyone happy, that's a rare thing to accomplish

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

The thing I love about this game is that there's so many tricks and synergies cuz every character is unique and does something useful on the battlefield. Quahaug is an amazing character who probably has the most impactful and potentially powerful ability in the game. He's not my favorite though but he's definitely incredibly useful in a lot of ways

[@Nechronus]

I always said this in private too... His versatility in insane. I immediately called him the Chessmaster because he can just sit back and move people in and out of danger at will. He is a healer by reverting time, Just so many things. One of the maps I used his warp skill is when you are have to stealth to the top of the tower, avoiding the lights at the vineyard estate, helping Anne get into position to win this map with just 1 kill.

[@Gullington]

I'm learning a ton of ways to break the game with Quahaug from the vid and the comments here. I was just using him with Julio to constantly use his reverse space time every turn while slowly killing enemies.

[@vongolaprimokhr]

I never knew distorted space affected enemy units as well, omg. I feel like i've missed so many opportunities, as i'm nearing the end of the golden route, but still quahaug has been a great unit in all the maps i've used him

[@LinkKing7]

Yeah, it's TOO good haha

[@BaufenBeast]

Stop time is also super broken because your units are generally faster than the enemy, which means your faster units basically get a free turn. Also, it gives EVERY UNIT +2 TP, which is better on you than the enemy. Not to mention abusing it to land charge spells like thunderstorm or sunfall. There's like 3 ways you can use him and they're all busted.

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

People Always talk about how Strong Warp is in Fire Emblem, but people really undermine Entrap as well...

[@LinkKing7]

Yeah, this stuff is just plain NASTY

[@Bert439]

I could just slog through this chapter or I could just use the warp staff!!!!

[@seven_8434]

Quahaug can just be used for so many things and he has like 5 ways to cheese bosses. One thing I like to do is grouping up a bunch of enemies, using stop time, and reversing Fredrica so she can get a guaranteed max TP sunfall on 13 enemies. My favorite strat is just to have Quahaug use stop time and then reversing the boss every turn so the duration of stop keeps rewinding and the boss just can't do anything.

[@alexrababah9500]

At 1600 Utility, he's one of the hardest allies to get. Most folks don't get him til the New Game+.

[@TheDidierSachs]

Whoa, he's that hard to acquire? I just got him on my first playthrough in Chapter 13. I do a lot of mock battles.

[@olimac82]

That's for the better. By then you can get him at a big level.

[@handhelder823]

Ah, ok

[@timce9220]

@@TheDidierSachsyou must be playing triangle mock battles dang

[@Bingbangboompowwham]

Late to the convo. Quick question: I was of the understanding that you can stop time and then turn back time a friendly character to unstop them. It didn’t work. I’m wondering whether you can’t turn back time a character on a character on Quahog’s first turn if they didn’t go before him because they didn’t actually have a turn before Quahog.

[@wilhelmisaac]

Since his damage ability only takes 1 TP, you can use stop time and then damage an enemy twice before anyone can act. You can also pair him with Anna and Milo really well. Poison units with Milo/Anna, then have him cast stop time. A stopped, poisoned enemy will still take damage from both poison and In Due Course. It also basically gives every unit on the field 2 TP, which almost always benefits you more than the enemy since most enemies don't have any high TP moves. Example 1: Have Anna sneakstrike an enemy with her first action, then poison them second action. Then have Quahuag cast stop time. He gets 2 turns to cast In Due Course, doing MASSIVE damage (because damage is proportional). That plus poison usually kills any difficult units super quickly. Example 2: It also gives a unit like Ezana or Giovana the 2 turns they need to max out her TP and cast their ridiculously OP weapon skill move. Imagine starting a battle with all the enemies at half health and 60% of them paralyzed. Throw 2 magic bracelets on Ezana and she murders pretty much all the heavy units right out of the gate.

[@aaronglazer4173]

Yesssss! I was waiting!

[@LinkKing7]

And now your wait is over!

[@tawfiqreza175]

following your last couple of videos, keep up the good work man! and i would love to see some broken character combo😄

[@LinkKing7]

I'll probably talk about a few more down the line as they come to me haha

[@sympathism]

Im using reverse space time with julio TP giving skills. As reverse space time returns all the TP, you can reverse julio which you can then use to give his TP to quohaug. It's busted. You kill a bunch of units, reverse time and undo the damage that is (or would be) dealt in retaliation, and repeat.

[@kylekraus6722]

Add in rejuvenation spam and mass lightning, and reverse time is incredibly broken.

[@lx7766]

Honestly i hate this kind of tactics in games (specially in strategy games) because it dumbs the game down i normally play on hard to get that clutch moments and this game give me that moments often.

[@ElkaPME]

@@lx7766 It is quite mandatory to use tho if you wanna do deathless run on hard

[@lx7766]

@@ElkaPME theres a lot of ways to do it maybe not to obvious at first but its plausable. And if your doing this trick you might as well turn down the difficuly on very easy because the tactics saps almost all the risk in the game. My advise on playing hard is keep in mind the order and placement of the enemy, if the enemy can be killed on your turn or can be disabled using slumber, immobilized, temp, silent(on mages) or provoked. Blind is also also viable but it feels like a coin toss. I feel like most people doesnt really disabled enemies and just go for the kill without considering there position being compromised. Probably not paying attention that the next 4 turn is the enemy. Hard is very hard specially in my first playthrough enemies only need 2 hits to kill one of my player me on other hand need 4 to 5 hits not to mention enemies have number on there side and i hate grinding. Its ovewhelming but its plausable.

[@heroicvileplume7184]

That’s a real funny way to spell Lionel

[@christianlovato8088]

Underrated opinion

[@LinkKing7]

I love me some Lionel, but he's no child, that is an ALPHA MALE right there

[@heroicvileplume7184]

LinkKing7 Oh yeah, I’m meming. Obvi he’s not as good as Cow Hog

[@terence7009]

Lionel's coin purse grows heavier

[@tiensimon1263]

It's a shame this game didn't have more to the skills section customisation

[@Evilmuffin86]

I got almost everybcharacter besides Travis because I can't ration giving away the Roselle then going back to defend the empty land from bandits. This character is broken AF lore wise and gameplay wise. He talks about seeing the past and future, wouldn't that mean he could see that the goddess was a lie or when the goddess came to existence.

[@kadenelson1469]

Lol Travis is the only reason im doin it this playthrough and never again! I wanted to recruit travis since chapter 1 and accidentally got trish instead haha

[@alexherreria3362]

Reverse is actually the most broken skill. Bring Julio, Geela and Quahaug in that order and you can infinite loop Julio’s inheritance skill to Quahug, Geela’s resurrection, and reverse and you can pretty much cast it on your entire party. Reverse doesn’t affect deaths and revives already casted.

[@jfei64]

So I made a rule for myself on my most recent run that I had to kill every enemy present on every map to avoid cheating them like this. Still found many ways to cheat maps with him. There was a situation where Quahaug was able to swap positions with Avlora to a position that was so far away, I'm pretty sure that she would have needed around 10 turns to get back to the front lines.

[@LinkKing7]

Yeah, he makes things SO cheese it's unreal, I don't know if they really properly tested him or not

[@unitlonda4925]

Thank you so much for the tips! I'm really excited to try him out! Just a quick question, what convictions do you need to recruit him?

[@d.altounian244]

1600 Utility

[@unitlonda4925]

@@d.altounian244 Thank you! No wonder I didn't get him on my first run then when I fully went into morality /liberty

[@thecursed_1lordofcats738]

@@unitlonda4925 so did I. Now I'm doing a full utility run.

[@quickpawmaud]

Well I have every character except the bandits, the second healer, and the golden route character. Also Accuracy definitely does matter on NG+. I have had many a Roland and Serenoa die after whiffing an attack. Rudolf misses the most so I gave him the Accuracy Bracelet but even WITH that he has less than base Archibald! Least accurate archer by far but he also has the most strength. I think all in all Archibald is the best archer since he has the most range and his commands are very useful. Rudolf has a hard time with accuracy and knowing when to use traps rather than shoot. Hughette just deals no damage and is just a debuffer. I still field all 3 when possible though.

[@LinkKing7]

Accuracy matters, just not on Quahaug

[@quickpawmaud]

@@LinkKing7 in other videos you said accuracy doesn’t matter in this game though.

[@LRrealest]

I used him yesterday to cheese a potentially rough fight. A battle that would've took 20+ turns turned into a 6-7 turn battle.

[@mikeoxlong3676]

Let me guess.... Last battle in frederica's ending?

[@Februarys]

Best thing about this character is you’ll notice a certain female boss have the same weapon and abilities as him 😢

[@brianbalcer]

Turn back time can be broken as well. The way you can charge someone in to do damage, and then pull them back giving them full HP, like having Roland charge in do damage and when he takes damage, pull him back resetting his HP. Also, it's fun if you use Erador's invincibility move, and when it wears off, use Turn Back Time on him and it will revert him back to having invincibility for yet another turn. so many cool combos you can use with his abilities. Or, you can Stop Time for 2 turns, unfreeze Medina, use her to give Quahuag more TP, where he can unfreeze another unit so you call can just go ham for free for 2 turns. Or can spam Reverse Space Time. Send units in to kill some enemies, use Reverse space time to pull your guys back restoring their HP and TP while leaving the enemies dead, and then have Julio use Inheritor to fully restore Quahugs TP so he can Reverse Space Time again. So many broken abilities. So many stupid things you can do with him.

[@Bingbangboompowwham]

The one thing to be careful of in the Erador example is that Quahog can go so fast that he can get 2 turns in for each one of Erador’s. So if Erador gets smacked and on Quahog’s next turn he doesn’t have enough TP to TBT him, you won’t be able to reverse the damage on his second “pre-Erador” turn. He’s also generally much faster than Julio so you have to be aware to keep some TP in reserve when a character is venturing into enemy territory.

[@thoughtprism2963]

Time Stop is why I think he's broken. All your other units with skills that trigger on not moving on their turn starting will still activate. Flanigan gets his health regen, Rudolph gets his accuracy, Decimal gets all his TP back, etc. And the turn count on enemy buffs will also still deplete. AND you can fire off like 2 or 3 In Due Courses and kill things as this is happening.

[@pul0y]

Time stop is good. But the thing is that if you're placing units correctly, you'd only need the emergency stop when fighting really tough bosses..who all tend to have crazy speed and will use up those 2 turn stops and start moving before many of your units even thaw, leading to a massive massacre. You could turn back one of your units, but they won't be able to do much unless the boss was already dying and/or you're playing in the lower difficulties. But I gotta admit that I have been forced to use it once when surprise reinforcements came in terrifyingly close to my backline units and i didn't have enough tp for reverse sapcetime.

[@LinkKing7]

Yeah, it's nice, but I actually play rather aggressively (as seen in this video), so I pretty much was never using it since it ends up stalling my progress when I could be picking units off with Distorted Space instead 😜. But yes, everything you said is right, for some reason they thought it was a good idea to let all that stuff restore, but so does enemy TP as well!

[@pul0y]

So broken that I rarely use him now. Reserved for Avlora style bosses. Though I do use him as a warper in maps with heavy terrain elevation changes. Woops..I lied. Erika and Thalas aren't Avlora-scary..but I despise them too much that swapping Thalas into the waiting arms of Ezana and Narve, and Erika to Corentin and Roland is a must do just for personal satisfaction.

[@LinkKing7]

I used him in one run because of the sheer lack of support units on that squad, but I don't think I'll ever use him again. He made even Hard a total joke and I'm not sure how much I liked that. Though if I ever decide to speedrun the game, he'll be great to use for that!

[@pul0y]

@@LinkKing7 in my golden route, I placed him in the team with hosabara thinking that that group would have weaker healing so he could save people from emergencies..turns out having two warpers at play was even more broken!

[@gnerkus]

10:27 So you spend 3 quietus points to trap a single enemy? I'd really like to see this tactic applied in an actual battle on Hard mode.

[@LinkKing7]

This tactic WAS used in Hard mode my man, on every single battle in NG+ to kill bosses. I wouldn't make a video about it had I not confirmed it myself on the hardest difficulty. I used it to cheese the final bosses on every route as well, tried and tested.

[@gnerkus]

@@LinkKing7 I see. I'll try it out myself. To be fair, I couldn't tell it had been tried in 'Hard' given that the video itself demo'ed it in Very Easy.

[@Bert439]

The grind to get this dude..,....

[@LinkKing7]

Fairly easy to do in NG+

[@drparadox7833]

Peter Griffin is living inside him obviously he is OP

[@crunchy_wafers]

I just faced your team on FEH Arena recently! I am the Galle that added you

[@LinkKing7]

Haha nice, I don't really play FEH much any more besides the occasional log in tbh, but that's always interesting to hear!

[@sjoerdhogervorst]

Loving all the Triangle Strategy content! When I get Quahaug I'm definitely trying this! Note: you did show the super spoiler units portraits in the character bar for most of the video, maybe you can blur it out like in the character video?

[@LinkKing7]

Oh damn, I totally forgot, luckily YT has that feature so that has been fixed! Good call!

[@TheGreatDiegini]

I was going to say on some maps hes an excellent healer also, of course warping a dps unit or saving someone is great too. Wild unit.

[@hafizidonya8356]

how to get this character? what level wuahog joined you?

[@nathanlevine4727]

1600 utility!

[@kingj521]

i want to watch but i must hold off because super early in the game. still liking the vid

[@LinkKing7]

Thank you for the support, it is very much appreciated

[@JohnRambo1947-July-6th]

Peter must be proud

[@Muuhiro1]

5:38 you are a villain that did nothing wrong?

[@fulan6231]

I died on first battle in Ng+ hard diff, any tips for me?

[@LinkKing7]

Get behind the bridge and chokepoint!

[@Ed-1749]

Man, that skill has +-10 height range too. You could easily get stuff onto some spots they wouldn't be able to get off of easily with that too.

[@azaleaadair9053]

Is this game like fire emblem a whole lot and do y’all like it? I’m on the fence

[@p0oka261]

Its really fun. As far as if it's like FE. Yeah, the choices also make a bigger difference in general

[@LinkKing7]

I love this game, but it's VERY different to FE. I have a few other games that directly compare it to Fire Emblem if you're interested in checking those out instead for a better idea!

[@mikeoxlong3676]

I like it better then fire emblem.

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

It borrows a lot from fire emblem, but the combat is better cuz of the diversity of characters. No character plays the same as any other and everything is pretty balanced.

[@ZandatsuGaming]

@@GlobalWarmingSkeptic Quahaug is definitely not balanced lol

[@adventurepotato8631]

Honestly its even funnier that Quahaug is like 8 years old LOL

[@xcaluhbration]

Oh wow, I never got him on my playthrough. Guess I'll have to try again... Plus I hated the ending I got 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@chaster8337]

You forgot to mention how his “In due course” attack deals massive damage to boss units (especially for a non-crit 1TP ability).

[@LinkKing7]

Yeah, I just never really used it on them because most of the time they never got a chance to act before they were dead tbh. 95% of my usage of this guy was Distorted Space or he was just waiting to recharge TP.

[@nicolasflamelflamel]

Hello, LinkKing7. I've seen many of your videos regarding Triangle Strategy. However, I had avoided some of them because I'd like to complete the game at my own pace, without spoilers. (For instance, one of the videos I saw from you, a while ago, was that pre-release tier list). And as such, ever since I got Quahaug on my team, he's perchance one of my strongest characters ever. I'd like to give an example: SPOILER WARNING for those who haven't played the game or got this far. On my first playthrough I followed Frederica's route. And, as such, I had to face Lyla. Which had been one of the toughest battles I had ever faced (it was way harder than the ultimate battle, you know which one I'm talking about). Probably because my characters weren't lvl 50 at the time, I haven't all their gear, maxed out stats, etc. I had always been playing on Hard mode btw. Anyway, I had to retry several times before I finally beat Lyla, but she still managed to take out Rudolph, for instance (he suffered quite a punch from her Delay Casting, which blew him up). Much later, then I faced Lyla again, following "you know who" route. And this time with Quahaug. Lyla was a piece of cake. She didn't kill a single party member and I even managed to Turn back time to simply deny her Delay Casting. Quahaug is awesome and he is one of the support characters that actually has an interesting story. But I have to agree. He is way too op. Probably the most op character of all the 30 playable characters (even more than Av... *you know who*).

[@ianamor14]

How do I get this dude?

[@poodlep.9719]

dunno whether due course scales some on his magic attack, but it for sure scales some on the max HP of the target. I assumed it scaled entirely off of it? Looks like he does around 20~25% of their max HP, cuz he does about 250 damage on bosses. Makes him quite nice for dealing big damage to them, especially as both bosses and quahaug(i usually gear him for speed) get more turns than anyone else.

[@rpgfanatic9719]

Man square enix fucking outdid themselves with that character. It's kinda shameful that he's broken and the shit he does is not a normal part of the game in relation to other normal enemies, but this game has a lot of cool Pokemon-esque fuck the rules levels of strategy and that character is definitely part of that reason with teleportation and time reversal. The other things I like about the game are the dynamic terrain elements. Creating puddles from ice with fire and then using electricity or burning dry grass and basically developing your own natural traps with the terrain situations at hand. Disgaea is also a second favorite but it doesn't go quite as deep as this I don't think. There's one character that stuck out to me that revives enemies and turns them into allies in his rage mode, and yeah there's a lot of unique abilities in disgaea but nothing really like I've seen here, and they use such a small cast of characters to make this happen, which is of course do-able by just making your small cast like this as unique as possible and making the basic mechanics interesting, but it's weird that disgaea being like the ultimate board game rpg doesn't have these elements, and on that topic, fire emblem just doesn't hit it for me. Fire emblem is so hell bent on making passive shit the entire variety of the gameplay, the terrain system consists of basic statistical buffs, the weapons are basic too, with little variety in secondary effects, the best they got is warp staff which is just safety warp out, you can't control it and I don't even believe it's in any newer fire emblem games past the wii. And three houses is even more basic, like there's not even any customizable offspring or the pairing system, or even fucking beast units. I just hate it when game series drop content for different content to feel like a different fresh game. Like no dude, do what Pokemon did and add everything with your new shit, balance be damned, it still makes the game fun.

[@SolMrBadGuy]

Anna can solo every map on hard difficulty first playthrough, so if it aint that broken, Idk what it is. Legit, 1 unit solo every map

[@quickpawmaud]

Where is the content? It has been 3 weeks! Somebody else beat you to a tier list.

[@SilentVinyl]

Nice

[@poloy4288]

After watching this, I'd say Medina is still the most broken

[@nathanlevine4727]

Medina is pretty broken, but an expensive unit to run!

[@firenze6478]

Linkking7 this is completely unrelated but, I just beat the true true final boss in kirby and the forgotten land and I have to say it’s one of the best games on switch. The true true final boss is absolutely magnificent. Shes fought at the end of a guantlet after getting the final sword upgrade and I would love to see a playthrough of you in this game. ( ps the game does start off way too easy, but endgame to postgame it gets plenty hard enough, make sure to get all the stars and waddle dees.)

[@jonathanblaqk]

I see this a lot, big fan here so don't get me wrong, but Quietus is pronounced; Kwhy- EE - tuss.

[@Silverie_VII]

Nice explanation, but i don't see why literally half way into the video you are trying to avoid spoilers where, the unit and the level itself is technically spoilers.... LUL might as well just put Spoiler Tag on the get go and call it done.

[@aliceeeeeeee-r10t]

I'm afraid I won't unlock It because my pragmatism is too low :'(

[@thevioletbee5879]

Ah yes. Triangles. The third gender.

[@LinkKing7]

The ONLY gender tbh

[@longtong9039]

Medina

[@LinkKing7]

Medina is really good too, but she ain't got nothing on Quahaug

[@laurellee6674]

😉 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙢

[@LuisEduardoArcos]

I think something is wrong with my game guys cus its just like a light novel game with no gameplay 😴😴😴

[@tiagokang639]

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