Who Is the WORST UNIT in All of Fire Emblem

[@aweirdanalogy]

I haven't seen a comment like this, so here are the timestamps for the video: 3:51 Bantu (New Mystery of the Emblem) 6:34 Fiona (Radiant Dawn) 10:46 Sophia (Binding Blade) 14:15 Gray (Gaiden) 16:59 Setsuna (Fates: Birthright) 20:46 Robert (Thracia 776) 25:34 Wolt (Binding Blade) 30:00 Vika (Radiant Dawn) 36:15 Lucia (Path of Radiance) 42:00 Rolf (Path of Radiance) 47:13 Amelia (Sacred Stones) 49:50 Est (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light) 56:19 Bunet (Engage) 59:10 Arden (Genealogy of the Holy War) 1:00:10 Bors (Binding Blade) 1:02:09 Jubelo (New Mystery of the Emblem) 1:03:36 Flora (Fates: Conquest/Revelation) 1:04:25 Brady (Awakening) 1:10:19 Jagen (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light) 1:12:06 Nyx (Fates: Revelation) 1:13:56 Ashe (Three Houses) 1:22:03 Karla (Blazing Blade) 1:24:40 Astrid (Radiant Dawn) 1:26:56 Asaello (Genealogy of the Holy War) 1:29:11 Gunter (Fates: Revelation) 1:33:24 Mist (Radiant Dawn)

[@skeletonorchestra1504]

My biggest Rolf memory was playing an iron man, losing Titania, pulling Rolf off the bench, and at the end of the game, despite being missing for over half the game, Titania still had more kills than Rolf.

[@DaniDoyle]

Based

[@bodhidaruma2824]

I must've gotten really lucky with rolf in my playthrough, he actually capped str really early and was an mvp in a lot of levels lol. Specially ones with birds.

[@holschermarc]

Well i didnt lost my Titania but .... she refused to go over 14 Strenght and after Mist decided that she really liked working out (19 strenght on the last chapter) she kinda overtook Titania as my Frontline Paladin .... with staves..... and more dodging than tanking ..... but yeah. Was funny to see here destroy enemy units on the front lines.

[@dooooooook3610]

“I just eaked by” - Ashe

[@Oceanic587]

I think you nailed the Ashe description, he's not bad per say having both axe and bow boons means he gets super valuable death blow and hit+20 earlier than most others, but when that is your most "unique" quality in a game with Raging storm Edelgard or battalion wrath+vantage Dimitri, it pales in comparison.

[@BeautifulGaston]

I think my favorite "bad" unit has gotta be Marty in FE5. He literally comes with ZERO speed and skill, like Kaga himself is laughing at you to just try and build him. He's so bad that when he actually does get a kill its super hype. That and his awkward portrait facing the player just make him so endearing, and when you finally promote him to Warrior he's actually kind of a beast! Just remember, it ain't a party without marty.

[@crysosisback7115]

He captures decently well all lance units you face early on, that's what redeems him imo If capture wasn't a thing, then i'd think he's one of THE worst, but since he can net you money this way .. I dunno, it's not the worst thing (also i like to conserve that fucking brave lance on Finn), and yeah the promotion gains are HUGE on marty, BECAUSE his base skill and speed are atrocious.

[@BeautifulGaston]

@@crysosisback7115 Yeah capture is really his redeeming factor here, his skill is so poor that his hit is basically still the same during it lol. All in all due to his availability and strong niche I'd rank him above meh units like Robert, Alva, Mareeta, Troude ect.

[@crysosisback7115]

@@BeautifulGaston Mareeta ain't that bad tho, her join chapter is one of the easiest, full of brigands she will absolutely murder, with a busted sword, and astra (If shannam, but i always want to get shannam, because of the meme) Not much investment to get a unit that's going to hit 20 times, murdering any boss outside of the last Troude is just meh yeah, completely Meanwhile Robert and Alva are utter garbage, and imo were designed to die during their join chapter, for people to manage reaching the fort if they can't tank the south armies

[@arceuskiller115]

So Brady is one of the better awakening kids, he can get gale force from his mom and by the point you get to him you will have plenty of seals to reclass him and rescue staff spam is a pretty good way to grind levels while helping clear maps

[@starmaker75]

Also if you wanted he starts at level 10, meaning he can be promoted right off the bat. Given that awakening level is infinite, you don’t have to worry by missing levels. I would put Brady in “not actually bad”.

[@EmissaryOfSmeagol]

Kid units in awakening can be whatever you want them to be, so it must be hard to tier them. All of them have the ability to become unstoppable player-phase demigods, except for Yarne, Gerome, and Laurent.

[@kain1799]

At least berseker yarne is low key kinda crazy. But in ability to get gale force does inherently put him below all the rest unfortunately.

[@arceuskiller115]

@EmissaryOfSmeagol dont sleep on gerome. He makes a great rally bot w access to 4 rallys res from his mom, luck and magic from priest and Sage, then I belive troubadour turns into Fighter and gives him rally strength, then have his father past down gernal for rally defence

[@EmissaryOfSmeagol]

@@arceuskiller115 that's all true but you can just download a unit for a rallybot as well. Gerome is a good backpack if he's in Berserker if you're playing Apotheosis. Otherwise, you can go nuts and do absolutely whatever you want.

[@OkMakuTree]

I recently did a Setsuna + Corrin backpack solo of Birthright Lunatic, so yeah, I can confirm it’s possible. Of course, that doesn’t make Setsuna good, it’s just further evidence that Birthright is super easy haha

[@DaniDoyle]

IMO good and bad units in BR don't make it easier/harder just more/less boring haha

[@OkMakuTree]

@@DaniDoyle lmao yeah, 100%

[@diogenes26]

Mr. Tree, please have mercy for Maribelle, she has just married Libra in my save file

[@OkMakuTree]

@@diogenes26 I saw you change your answer 👀

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

Satsuna my beloved 🙏

[@sparkleprizm199]

I knew Sophia would be sent to worst of the worst. Icon!!! 💖 I love that you mentioned Fiona’s utility. I think she’s so pretty but it’s hard to make her a good fighter.

[@Grey-i2o]

Sophia is one of the original and greatest Girlfailures I’ve ever seen and I stan her for it tbh

[@leargamma4912]

She also comes in at chapter 7. You can use her in the prison break map. Well. Rescue utility

[@MythrilZenith]

Instead of talking about how the units you love are bad, we're talking about how the units we all say are bad are actually good. Let's go! Thanks for having me on, I had a great time and can't wait for part 2.

[@chrisrose4703]

so that's why shannam and samuel weren't here

[@biandanxious3438]

I’m so sad to see Mercedes on this list. When it comes to her attack magic she has no extra range spells or effective damage and with her good but not Constance/Lysithea level magic growth she ends up being not so great offensively. When it comes to her support magic spells she can basically full restore your whole team 2 maybe 3 times a battle. And she has physic and can take off all negative effect offs your units but the sad thing is that you usually don’t end up needing to use her support spells other than physic which makes her sadly the most meh of healers. Her full restores do come in useful on the last map in Crimson Flower though! And since she does have a good magic growth, you can put her in Valkyrie and she is decent.

[@zdelrod829]

To be fair, I use Lysithea as a Dancer/Mortal Savant Hybrid.

[@mehmemeh5285]

also, she's the only in-house healer who can't get Physic before Chapter 2, lame

[@fatcthulhu4904]

Fortify in crimson flower is often an active detriment because it ruins Bernadetta's vengeance damage. And if you aren't running vengeance on Bernadetta then you are still gonna rather use physic to top up Edelgard while she's in Timbuktu getting picks.

[@plentyofmagoes1143]

Counterpoint for using Setsuna: Takumi annoys me and I will never deploy him

[@SweaterPuppys]

I think vika is a very funny unit in this context. She’s not actually “bad” but on top of the game not letting you train her there’s only 3 playable ravens and one of them is better than half the playable cast stat wise and the other is nealuchi.

[@DaniDoyle]

Judging radiant dawn units is so weird tbh

[@SweaterPuppys]

@@DaniDoyle Fiona is probably the best example of that because until now I thought she was pretty decent she just has horrible chapters

[@LLL417]

Radiant Dawn was my favorite game for a tiny bit but looking back it has so many flaws. One of the glaring ones being an unfairness to half the cast.

[@maxyaju4293]

Fun fact about Bors utility! In chapter 4 he can survive alright vs nomads and iron sword cavaliers so if there is one of those enemy types alive (maybe even two!!) and someone defensively weak like Elen or Lugh are in range of that enemy he can rescue them without being in a lot of danger.

[@SnakeManvsArbok]

I used to play Fates online all the time, in terms of building as many optimal units with capped stats for destroying enemy castles and winning battles against friends. In that specific scenario, where growths and bases are not a factor, but the cap modifiers are, Setsuna is actually just a mid-tier archer. Better than Takumi when capped, funny enough, because she has a +3 Speed, and Takumi has -2. Which means that if both players have them as the same class and the same number of statues, Setsuna will always double Takumi. That being said, Shura is a top 5 unit in all of Gen 1, and also commonly runs a bow set, so Setsuna has stiff competition. Still a very fun unit, I’d say!

[@kobiemartinbose6126]

I paired Setsuna with my MU in a birthright lunatic run because funni fast archer and I wanted to try a Sniper Kana. Ended up going for Kinshi Knight early then changed back to Sniper around chapter 16 cuz crit go brrt. Needless to say it was a fun iteration of Kana I never expected to do so well.

[@henrygutierrez3243]

I used her in my last BR run. I tried making her work as a combat unit, so I did a skill path where I put her into great knight with swordfaire and other damage boosting skills. she did fairly well, but still wasn't really a frontline unit into the endgame due to her poor survivability. I kinda wanna use her as a swordmaster in another run. Her dodginess is pretty good then.

[@ellunaafton13]

another thing with ashe is if you want to make him a wyvern, he isnt awful by any means. i prefer bow knight build, but if you give him a rapier as a wyvern knight he can be a flying armor shredder

[@effluxi9587]

Bunet is so bad that the Fell Xenolouge joke when he talks to Evil Fogato is legitimately just "Man you were such a good unit"

[@DaniDoyle]

LMAO

[@slanax]

The only stat difference between Ashe and Bernadetta that matters when it comes to spamming Deadeye is that Ashe has +1 base Dex. Their base Str and Str/Dex growths are identical. If both use Deadeye with the same build, Ashe has 1 whole extra Hit on Bernadetta, while she can still get herself the +5 Atk from her personal that Ashe can't. I see the point how Ashe can be useful with it, but if Bernadetta supposedly doesn't have the stats for Deadeye then neither does he, she is just as capable (and honestly better thanks to her personal) at pulling off that build than Ashe is.

[@cryguy0000]

Thank you, Bernie is honestly just better. Sure she has a bane in axes but she doesn't need it since she can just go falcon knight if she needs to fly.

[@slanax]

@@cryguy0000 tbh if you want her to fly you might pick Falco over Wyvern for her anyways even if she didn't have the axe bane so Lancefaire boosts Vengeance (or the based option, Dark Flier for flying Rescue :V)

[@wowitsportal5225]

Hey I used nyx in a revelation playthrough got her to 20 in both premotes and she had 20hp by the end of the run

[@madeleineevelinaguekguezia550]

I’m glad y’all were nice to Ashe, he deserves it. He’s a good boy :3 (literally nothing further than him being a boy who is good, I think he’s a good kid with a good heart and it fucked me up to kill him on my blind playthrough of Three Houses)

[@DoktorVicTim]

The case with Fiona is so dumb. Ingame she's portrayed as a really strong unit being the daughter of one of Daein's former four riders and as a gameplay unit she is so incredibly bad with her bases. I think it's due to some programming error that gave her level 1 base stats instead of level 9 base stats because those base stats are NOT Level 9 stats. Then add to the fact you only get to use her for TWO chapters the first part BOTH of which are INDOOR whihc gives her a -2 to movement. Such a shame too because she has a few good things going for her. Earth affinity and TWO free skills. But her base stats... yeah you'll need some incredible babying an d cheesing to make her viable. And bsides, the Dawn Brigade is already incredibly starved for EXP to begin with. At least she gives you another Thani tome later in the game.

[@ieatvirgins]

I remember training Fiona to Paladin. My brown Imbue queen. What a gimmick.

[@harm991]

It's ironic as this race is usually athletically the fittest.

[@samuelflores2219]

Brady's viability is really dependent on how Maribelle and her husband's stats are like. Since his base stats are Maribelle's + her husband's stats + brady's base stats /3. Him also being able to get galeforce does make him amazing for the dlc maps where they expect you to have maxed out units so having another galeforcer can come in real handy. For a normal playthrough though, I can see him being rather forgettable. He could be quite th magic powerhouse if Ricken is the father and gives him tomefaire so he can promote to sag right away. Even as a level 10 priest, his stats are just depended on his parents in the end. The same could be said for all of the Awakening kids.

[@willbill6942]

One thing you missed about Robert is that he has 3 PCC (x3 crit rate on follow up). Not that it makes him good, but when trained up he can become a crappy Fergus, which is pretty funny

[@DaKrimch]

Crappy fergus with no Beo sword? Acceptable

[@TerminaFE]

My mom isn't on this list. Incomplete research.

[@DaniDoyle]

She's in part 7 actually

[@michibiki6798]

Honestly it feels so weird seeing Ashe get called a "bad unit" in general because every run I've done of 3 houses with him, he's been an invaluable MVP of my team, like playing without him feels so weird for me personally because he just always ends up really well-leveled and strong he did better than my sylvain for my first few BL runs anyways LOL

[@naotoueda2838]

Oh well, here we goo because I have a lot to talk about those units. Fiona: My favorite use of her is rescue droping Yellow units in 3-13 to block the higher grounds. Sophia: The greatest thing I've seen one person said about her is using ch14x and ch15 to baby her and promote for another staff user, good in an ironman context. FE2 Gray: (I don't know if this is his portrait lol) A good use is sacrifice him and choosing mage as his class to chip damage for your mercenary Kliff in chapter 1. Setsuna BR: Fine because it's BR, I used her a lot due to my girl archer bias Setsuna Rev: like half of the cast, bad availability Roberto: ... Can be captured to access the special Gaiden, I guess. At least scrolls can fix him Wolt: decent filler. Can be Marcus' support partner and gives 1 defense, 5 hit, 5 avo , 5 crit evade. They start with 20 points and are +2, so 20 turns left to build C support. The best thing about Wolt Marcus is both can be fillers, meaning that they don't wate support slot in long term units like Allance. And Wolt can be a good bait in ch 4 because at base he is ORKO by cavs, a perfect sacrifice when someone miss 80 hit. And yes, you can get 2 Orion's bolt in one of the Western Isle map because one of them is from a village and the other is from all Klein's NPC Vika: for some people is "we had Jill at home(swamp map) meme", to me is must use unit in the swamp map. Lucia: At least she is good in RD lol I honestly think that FE9 Wolt is better than FE10 Wolt because RD isn't a game that I want to train a unit in a part that has a lot of ready to use great units FE1 Est: Actually fun to train, specially with triangle attack set up when one of the other sisters does the chip damage to set a crit kill to Est Bunet: I love Bunet and hate Alfred, but sadly Alfred is better. SAD Arden: haven't used yet because I'm lazy to move him across the map except for the pursuit ring to Noish FE12 Yubello: ... I can't think of a way that he lives after the first few turns in ch 4 lol FE1 Jagen: He does Jagen things pretty well with iron sword. And decent bases with 10 mov Nyx: For a moment I thought it was CQ Nyx because I think Rev Nyx is ok lol. Rev Nyx has time to grow and build supports unlike other nohr units who joins later. CQ Nyx ... her hit rate is a big problem, usually used as mother. Ashe: good boon choices Axe and bow are what matters to him. Brigand-> Sniper and that's it, hunter's volley death blow build ready. He will never be a good option to recruit, but he works fine in AM as a weak sniper who can non tanky units with crit karla: her recruitment is her personality, good unit RD Astrid: Even Paragon can't save her. F Asaelo: I like him but I usually just use him on arena and to chip damage some ch8 wyverns. F RD Mist: I don't remember if she can promote with a normal Master crown. The last time I promoted her was in 2018

[@pksprite6401]

??? How on earth is Sophia good in under an Ironman context?

[@felicepompa938]

@@pksprite6401 she is another staffer, you need a couple, and if you somehow manage to lose most of them Sophia can be trained to 10 and promoted in 14x, so she is "good" in that sense. Not combat wise obviously

[@pksprite6401]

@@felicepompa938 she’s not even good in that context. She has easily the worst staff utility in the game, needing to gain a brutal 9 levels off combat just to reach E rank, which just gives you heal. If you really want an emergency E rank staff user, Raigh even joins a bit earlier. She’s good in an Ironman context in the sense that every unit is better when they might be the literal only option you have.

[@Juanferyg]

Brady can get Galeforce from Maribelle, it is a lot of grinding and usually not worth it but is broken solely on the galeforce

[@hapi4714]

(Want to talk about some of the Fates units since I do have some experience with some of them) With Flora I do think she's otherwise worse than generic Maids on Lunatic along with no partner personal unlike Gunter, Jakob and Felicia so she's marginally worse. She can still grant Felicia Dark Mage through their support (which is a fast one) so I guess if you want Felicia as a magic user and need Odin or Leo to marry someone else, she has that (though being a backpack for arguably the worst version of Felicia since no Vantage is definitely not great) With Setsuna she can pass on Archer to any child units or Gen 1 units that want it either through marriage or friendship, which is a plus I suppose. Marrying her to Takumi gives her Spear Fighter which you could mess around with in it's skill selection for Kinshi since Takumi wants Sniper more. Ninja reclass also worth bringing up since Mechanist lets her use bows and separate herself from Takumi to some degree but I'd argue he's still outright better. She's still definitely outclassed by Takumi but she's definitely not as bad as people make her out to be, and somewhat fun in Revelations since she gets access to classes like Berserker for crit builds or Bow Knight for utility With Nyx you only mentioned Rev Nyx so idk if it's worth bringing up her Conquest stuff since she's more mediocre to underwhelming (outclassed by Odin, Leo, Ophelia and even to some extent Camilla as a dark mage) in Conquest compared to outright bad. Noteworthy things being she's one of few units who can get Vantage in Conquest thanks to Odin alongside Leo and Ophelia, and she has access to Archer from Mozu. Because of this she can weirdly work well with Conquest's magic weapons since she has access to every -faire skill through supports (Swords from Odin, Bows from Mozu, Axes from Arthur and Keaton and Shurikens from Kaze). This is pretty niche though but definitely could be funny to mess around with if you like her enough With Gunter... yeah Gunter is just kinda ass in Revelations, both in regards to no supports and worse stats. He's significantly better in Conquest thanks lower internal level and higher level cap allowing him to get pretty ok skills but otherwise he's still mainly a stat backpack that can carry on his joining chapter and works as a marriage bot for female Corrin. Still if we're just talking about Revelations only, then he's pretty much worse than his Conquest counterpart in every way and a bench warmer past the early chapters

[@southpen4558]

I'm surprised Ashe is seen as a bad unit, he carried my Blue Lions route as a bow knight I guess 3 houses is just one of those games that lets bad units get better, i dunno, ez-crit arrows that can hit almost anyone on that map in 1-2 turns seems pretty good

[@someguy1ification]

oh, lord. I got near the end of the video and was like, "they're only halfway through"

[@DaniDoyle]

There's a part 2 AND a part 3!

[@philippuente4322]

48:42 Journeyman2 promotion options are Super Journeyman or Hero. Recruit2 promotion options are Super Recruit or Paladin. Pupil2 promotion options are Super Pupil or Sage. And they all share the same +0 Con promotion bonuses.

[@venomoussocks1017]

It's such a shame that archers aren't that good in Awakening. I like Virion as a character. If he were more developed, he could easily be a foil or mentor figure to Chrom ( showing the sacrifices and hardships that being a leader of a country entails, even more so when you consider that Chrom was never brought up to inherit the kingdom). I think two simple things changes would make archers, including Virion, more viable outside of Lunatic runs due to their extra hit rate skills. One, have them learn a skill that hits at 1 range or just have their weapons hit at 1 range. It's criminal that Awakening doesn't have that and Fates does. It nerfes the potential of this class into the dirt. Second, make archers resistance tanks. Make their niche into mage killers. This would already work with Virion considering one of his reclasses is to the Mage line. It would also work with Noire since Tharja is her mother and a mage. It writes itself.

[@angel-ts1lz]

brady’s section is funny because it’s a random mashup between laurent and brady himself with no warning

[@hansgretl1787]

14:40 Darn, that was my opportunity to simply add the comment "hate speech", but I double checked and you did pick out the right portrait. Edit: Apparently, all Yumi have one additional might relative their Bow equivalents, with about 10 less hit. Not noticably worse tbh.

[@val_halla7768]

Why did y’all use Alva’s portrait for Robert? Don’t disrespect my boy Alva like that! 😭

[@DaniDoyle]

I'll disrespect the Thracia scrubs all day

[@OmegaTyrant]

FE11 Bantu is definitely a Worst of the Worst unit too. He gets one-rounded by enemies in his joining chapter on Hard 5, while he has all the problems you described he has in FE12 of nearly nonexistent growths, no reclassing nor promotion, and being stuck to using Firestones (of which you only get one of by the time he joins in FE11 from a difficult-to-reach village, and you won't get the second and only other Firestone until many chapters later from an enemy Manakete that is absurdly strong on Hard 5, so you can't even try to grind him up to make him usable even if you wanted to). He doesn't have to deal with all enemies having Vantage+ like FE12 Bantu does, but that turns him from being the worst unit in the series... to the second worst unit in the series.

[@LoudWaffle]

Mist requires Holy Crown and cannot use the Master Crown. She can, however, just hit level 21 to promote like any other unit, and that is what was changed from Japanese to English versions. In Japanese versions you need a promo item to reach Tier 3 classes (but not Tier 2).

[@judgmntready1028]

MERCEDES IS CONSIDERED BAD? she carried me singlehandedly through all 4 of my 3h runs

[@felixma9192]

there's no truly awful units in 3H except Anna

[@nightwish1453]

Dedicated Healers in three houses aren’t really amazing where in theory everyone can be a healer, she lacks warp along with an eh reason spell list. Fortify is very situational compare her to lindhardt and he is a vast improvement

[@jacksonhorrocks4281]

@@nightwish1453 I don't think falling short of amazing should count as being bad.

[@grantsheep2774]

maribelle get darkflyer and thus can give bradi galeforce the problem with him is that he have no weapon mastery + staff locked

[@sirbradfordofhousejones]

1:05:15 as a member of the Brady Collective (my real name is Brady), this hurts my soul. “No amount of skills can help him.” 😭

[@sirbradfordofhousejones]

1:10:20 “this is probably the most enjoyment Brady has ever given anyone.” I’m DYING

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

Well at least my man Bunet is at the top of the tier list for once

[@DaniDoyle]

Delicious

[@DavidKyokushin]

Brady slander when he's a part of the Maleforce :(

[@sirbradfordofhousejones]

Haven’t watched one of your vids before and was pleasantly surprised by both your content AND by your guest (who I love). Great video!

[@DaniDoyle]

Awesome! Thank you! I'm also a fan of Zenith's content :)

[@absol-utezero2942]

I have played PoR once, and by some Miracle, I ended up using Lucia because my Mia got stat screwed, benched her, my Zihark got stat screwed, and I didn't want to use Stefan because he was blatantly broken. So - his Vague Katti was passed to Lucia, who had better stats than Zihark and filled out my supports perfectly. Gave her the PoR special of Resolve + Wrath and she became one of the best Pre-promotes I had ever used. I do acknowledge I JUICED her with those tools, and was only relevant because my other swordmastets came out bad, but probably one of my favorite units I've used.

[@-pinky.]

Revelations Setsuna is nice during the chapter you get her, since she can help other units your forced to use that chapter like Ryoma attack for a second time safely. She can also double quite a few enemies that chapter in Lunatic, which can be nice for building dual guards. Haven’t really tried using her much after that though.

[@airtempest8945]

1:13:19 Honestly, the reason I think Nyx is better than Odin is really simple: Nyx can just get 1 level, promote then you can make her an adventurer who can use Rescue. That requires barely any investment 'cause you get so many seals in Rev (Mainly due to having both shops) that you can have 2 seals to burn. Odin actually has to use his awful stats, so even when he can promote right away unlike Nyx, Nyx can actually do something with her promotion that makes her low stats not matter at all.

[@carlolson932]

I think Lynn and Eliwood are arguably some of the worst units in the series. Because they're force deployed on some maps and are game over conditions, they are an active detriment if you don't train them. But they're such a pain in the ass to train that it's even more of a detriment if you do train them. With most bad units, even if they suck, you can just not use them and they won't hurt you. But with Lynn and Eliwood, they hurt you no matter what you do. I know you could argue that other "bad" lords have the same dynamic going on, but I disagree. With other lords, they're force deployed on EVERY map in the game, not just some of them. This means that in almost all cases, it is worth it to train them (only possible exception is Roy, but most people would say he is still worth it to train, at least for new players).

[@renren5660]

Lindon with dire thunder + wrath is good and funny

[@GaiusTulliusCatallusXXC]

Ashe is fine but Deadeye does not make him valuable. I’m doing an AM LTC where the only units I recruit outside of story recruits are Dorothea for Opera House and Lysithea for Warp and Ashe’s only niche outside of one Deadeye in Ch. 4 is Smiting in Ch. 12 which anyone can do. Even in CS Ashe is a meme. Paragon can’t be removed from Astrid in Part 2 to pass through to the GM’s via Marcia (or maybe it’s just Geoffrey you can’t get Paragon off of) I’ve tried.

[@evansteinberg2337]

my fondest fe6 meory is that the gods decided bors would be a monster and by the end of my playthrough he capped speed, strenthg and defense

[@gabrielbitencourt1879]

I too, had a speed capped bors. But in all honesty even when he don't get much speed I still use him. Uses axe and can tank anything. I don't care if he doenst double. Bors is a beast

[@kenho-wr5ul2rh7m]

lindon is very deadly +20% cri from skill, 1 extra thunder hit from rings if u stack cri on him, he always kills ppl

[@DarkSoulsSauron]

in my last fe8 draft, i decided to make neimi my project and was genuinely surprised at her performance. i fed her a few kills and promo'd her post chapter 6 and despite not having reliable 1-2 range she had plenty to do.

[@jacksonhorrocks4281]

There really is a trope about the 'bad archer' who actually becomes the best archer

[@jorantheamazing]

I wanted to use jade jn engage when I got her and when I did - 0 HIT - Got 1 shot by most units for some fkn reason - hits like a wet noodle Now shes my strongest unit, this also happened with Gregor(awakening), Ignatz(3 houses) and fukin peri(fates)

[@madeleineevelinaguekguezia550]

I’ve developed a soft spot for Johalvier in my last few Genealogy playthroughs, like it really does save on Running Seliph out to the west of the map so you can get Julia Nosferatu… I mean he’s no as camp as Johan but he’s very sincere :)

[@biandanxious3438]

Bernadetta actually has a combat art that only her and Claude have which lets them keep one enemy in place without a gambit. I didn’t wanna kill Hilda in my CF play through so I brought Bernie with a training bow to keep her in place for like, ten rounds lol

[@DaniDoyle]

Yeah Bernie's kit is kinda stacked. Encloser, Vengeny, Persecution Complex, Pass, heck even rescue if for some reason you don't like her combat. I love Bernie

[@biandanxious3438]

@@DaniDoyle I’d definitely describe Bernie as an A tier character tbh. Honestly a lot of black eagles are pretty good from my memory. Edelgard is obviously S tier Hubert is prolly B tier because his best class (Valkyrie) is unavailable to him 💀 Ferdinand is just swift strikes A or B? Petra has one of the higher strength growths out of the speedy units and she gets into flying classes easier than most A tier imo. Dorothea has a great spell list and makes for a pretty good Valkyrie (she is lucky her dmg targets res 😅) B tier Lin is pretty good with flier effective dmg and warp and physic (he is quite literally worse Hapi in every way though 😭) A tier Caspar is definitely the worst out of them but still can do pretty nice dmg as a grappler C tier prolly

[@samkeiser9776]

@@biandanxious3438FE3H units tend to give good impressions when invested into, the golden deer are all pretty amazing as well. Claude is S tier just because his stats are good an unlike the other lords his personal class is very good. He’s probably the worst house leader but he’s still very good. Lorenz can go either mage or cav, and he’s mediocre at either, and then he promotes to dark knight to be mediocre at both at the same time. B tier Hilda is basically Petra, except a little bit slower but with more charm, both go into flying classes well, and are fast, strong units. Raphael is if caspar consumed his speed growth to become more powerful (in strength and defense.) which is fine on maddening because caspar isn’t fast anyway, C tier. Lysithea is the best mage in all of FE3H no contest, she has boons in both magic types and has a personal skill that increases the gains in those weapon ranks in combat, and makes her master classes faster, and she learns warp at B, compared to everyone else who learns warp learning warp at A she has swarm which can help with speed checks, Luna, which is useful vs high res units that’d normally give her a hard time, and dark spikes, which makes all cavalry a joke and is very strong otherwise as well. S tier. Ignatz has hit +20 as a personal skill which means he can become crazy accurate and stack hit +20 with itself, which makes him very reliable, and he has an authority boon, and he’s more than capable of being a good bow unit. A or B tier. Marianne is a solid healer who trades Mercedes’s “overkill” healing for Silence, Frozen Lance, and a good reason spell list. A or B tier Leonie is a very good unit, she can go into a lot of different classes and her personal skill makes her very nice in the early game, she also learns point blank volley. A tier

[@biandanxious3438]

@@samkeiser9776 I agree that Lesotho’s is busted but my personal opinion is that Hapi is the best mage. She is the easiest character to get (because she is an ashen wolf dlc character lol) and her support is insane. She has an amazing spell list offensively and defensively, she can use warp potentially more than usual thanks to her crest, and she does more dmg against demonic beasts but if she is within their atk range she will basically get attacked guaranteed. So basically effective beast dmg for free lmao.

[@samkeiser9776]

@@biandanxious3438 recruiting in FE3H isn’t extremely hard because any student you get to a B support has a 10% chance of asking to join your class every week, which can be save scummed, so basically only a handful of them can’t be recruited super early by speeding through a support, like Ferdinand and Leonie (Ferdinand’s B support is locked to post time skip and Leonie’s is locked to after Jeralt dies.) So Lysethia can be recruited pretty early via this method. I think the main reason that Lysithea is better than hapi is because she has warp at B and a faith boon and her personal skill boosts her ranks. Lysithea also has an authority boon as well. in comparison to Hapi being neutral in faith, having warp at A and an authority bane. As far as I know, Crest of Timotheos cannot activate on warp, and even if it could I’d think Lysithea’s warp being B rank is better than Hapi having an 20% chance to save a warp use. Hapi’s personal skill is really good if you know how to take full advantage of it, but both lysithea and her learn Seraphim vs monsters. And Lysithea on the other hand learns dark spikes to delete cavs. Also it’s still really really good that lysithea has an authority boon. But that’s just my opinion.

[@topazlight1586]

Amelia is potentially the only "Halberdier" in GBAFE which makes her extremely cool as far as I'm concerned

[@SoupWizard776]

weakest shit unit enjoyer vs strongest S tier unit enthusiast

[@juicyjuustar121]

My inner demons are fighting again

[@MrGombaonfire]

I will make a small case for fiona if you can get her up to your other units she is usually pretty tanky and her magic is good enough that renewal will usually get her close to max hp so it let's your healers do more or even her since she doesn't need to use healing items as often

[@felikatze]

me training wolt and using him with murgleis in endgame. following my heart 💕 i agree that sophia is garbage tho and i never used any armor knights in fe6 cuz cavaliers are just bulky enough lmao

[@IWestrada]

I modded RD once. The only way to salvage Fiona was by changing bases and growths only is to just give her incredible stats so she can master seal and snowball into part 4

[@giraffedragon6110]

Brady is among my favorites of the awakening kids. He’s a meme for me because I can pass down dedmosielle to him from mirabelle. I like making Henry the father so I can pass down counter to him. Because the idea of a cleric who retaliates with his words and kills you is hilarious to me.

[@SonicTheHedgedawg]

I found Henry father Brady to be an amazingly good War Monk because he can get very high magic AND axefaire for bolt axe. It's a niche, for SURE, but it's a niche that made him unique because nobody could do it quite as well as him. It still doesn't make him that useful for a regular playthrough, but it would DEFINITELY move him to "fun meme unit" for me.

[@depressoespresso9748]

I am a massive Vander supporter, and I will say, he isn’t awful, he’s got good growths and decent build. His big problem is his awful bases and his massive internal level (Level 15), so he can’t even take advantage of his pretty good growths until later edge game

[@depressoespresso9748]

Paladin also doesn’t help him, I recommend shifting him into a different class as soon as possible

[@DaniDoyle]

TBH I don't think you reclass Vander because in a vanilla playthrough you don't use him after chapter 8 (which is when you first get access to second seals)

[@depressoespresso9748]

Fair enough honestly. I’m a bit biased cause I’m a Vander simp so maybe that’s why I think he’s really good

[@johnzin6447]

I wouldn't count his growths as good either unless you're comparing it to jagen or that type.

[@altruisticcomputer4706]

[I am Altruistic-Computer, but have embraced my true form and become MS paint Midir] The main thing I remember about Robert is that when you put the official thracia website through google translate it calls him 'a little bit of a motherfucker?' Maribelle can pass down Galeforce to Brady (she has pegasus knight in her class set), so I guess he has that in a hypothetical situation where you managed to get Maribelle to reclass, promote and reach level 15 - but then again, Yarne is the only child unit to be unable to get Galeforce.

[@joelkasik8409]

One thing Bros kind of has is that in a negative growths playthrough he can get rid of his weapons and divert the attention of enemies with his large defense stat while not gaining much exp. In chapter 1 I distract pretty much all the initial enemies with him while other units sneak past. Chapter 2 he can choke enemies at the first fort so Shanna has enough time to carry Marcus and Roy near the gate. Chapter 3 you can go the top route and use him to choke the top right corner from the soldiers that give chase. Chapters 4 and 5 he isn’t that useful due to a lack of good points for him to choke. Chapter 6 he can choke a few hallways if need be. Chapter 7 onwards he kind of just falls off as simply better units join and Barth can be used as a better wall.

[@joelkasik8409]

To be fair though I haven’t gotten past chapter 8 yet due to running out of the armorslayer in one of my runs making chapter 8 a lesson in futility.

[@DaniDoyle]

interesting...

[@PinkEnby]

I feel like the thing of Ashe vs. Bernadetta is that Bernadetta, like y'all said, only really works in the context of persecution complex + vengeance. Like overall Ashe has equal better growths for most stats (5% higher magic, 15% higher luck, 5% higher res, 10% lower charm in the battalion game tho) but doesn't have the same sort of win condition that Bernadetta has. Imo Bernadetta is kinda like Cyril in that their stats are perhaps lower than they should be to compensate for a strong personal ability. Bernadetta's damage is just fine at full health and Cyril doesn't have a single base growth at or above 50% without aptitude before class bonuses.

[@DaniDoyle]

I mean, stats are kinda at their least important in 3 houses, which is the point i was making. Bernie and Ashe have nearly identical stats in all the areas that matter, but Bernie has Vengagnce + Peg Access + Encloser + PC + Pass + Rescue (I dont think rescue matters for her tho) which is why they lie at near opposite ends of the tier list under most criteria. See also Cyril actually being quite good in 0% growths

[@warrockenjoyer2170]

I have a love/hate relationship with Nyx... I love to use her as a unit and hate when I don't.

[@val_halla7768]

1:28:36 Asaello does have access to the killer bow on an all-subs run, and Deimne is usually better off using the brave bow, so he doesn’t really need it. The killer bow isn’t even necessarily better than his silver bow, however, so it doesn’t make much difference either way.

[@DaniDoyle]

Imo the biggest upside to killer bow is the extra hit (crit is nice but 100% hit is poggers)

[@val_halla7768]

@@DaniDoyle I don’t know any exact doubling thresholds, but the killer bow is also much lighter than the silver bow, so it might allow him to double a bit more often as well. Even then, he has the same problem as Jamke where his pretty good combat doesn’t do much due to low movement, and you don’t even need him to deal with wyverns since you get Hawk around the same time.

[@SpookifyVA]

Super late to the party, but Jade should have definately made the list over Lapis for the worst units from Engage. Lapis has decent prospects as a wyvern knight for the mid/ late game AND has a great personal skill. Meanwhile Jade has possibly the worst join time in the game, weak growths, bad stats, meh personal skill, and even if trained you just get another Bunet. Lindon also shouldn't be here either, I think bouch or clanne make better options.

[@DaniDoyle]

I agree that jade is AWFUL, the reason I included lapis was this video was made at the height of "Lapis S tier" mindset and I wanted to push back because while she's workable she's still just... Really mediocre after heavy investment. We made a "revisiting" video a few months later, and I have my engage tier list if you want more specific thoughts on Lapis

[@SpookifyVA]

​@@DaniDoyle I actually do think Lapis is pretty average as well, I was just amazed that Jade was able to slip by.😂 Its interesting that Waifu hype can change how people see units though, Marisa and Lyn come to mind.

[@roboscout64]

18:40 ish Yumi are actually stronger than bows. They are basically to bows in this game what axes are to lances. Considering the archer class (the primary people you are going to be using yumi on) have a bunch of bonuses to hit through skills, I’d say Yumi are actually fine.

[@jierdareisa4313]

Indeed, especially so if you promote to Sniper and get the innate boost to accuracy / if you take advantage of Air Superiority as a Kinshi Knight

[@deinoccocuschoroy7312]

Brady with Libra as his father was fundamental for me to complete apotheosis, the hardest chapter in the game. Every children are above the fathers but if you don't play the highest difficulty you don't need them

[@YozoraHeart]

My Wolt at 13 was +1 HP/+3 Str/+0 Sk/+1 Sp/+3 Luck/+1 Def/+0 Res on his averages. Ahead or average at literally everything. Klein was still better. So like...why am I gonna bother using an Orion's Bolt on him? Especially since Shin's right there too. Deeply unfortunate cause I wanted to root for my boy. He just fell off.

[@DaniDoyle]

That's a classic wolt moment

[@ThatResidentEvilfan]

1:16:12 This claim is absurd. Ashe and Bernadetta have identical growths in STR, DEX, and SPD and the same STR base. Ashe has slightly higher base DEX and SPD (by 1 and 2, respectivley) but this difference is negligible. Ashe's boon in axes making it easier to go into Brigand is not that substantial either when compared to an In-house Bernie or a recruited Bernie in Fighter as D+ axes is easy to get. When it comes to averages, they'll be identical in the same Classes, but Bernie has her personal skill which makes her stronger than Ashe on average which, when comparing them as Deadeye spamming Bow Knights, is the main factor of comparison. So, even without vengeance, Bernadetta would be equal, if not slightly better, than Ashe in the same role.

[@DaniDoyle]

That is the point that I made, they have virtually identical stats, and are a good demonstration of why stats are not a defining point in three houses.

[@byronh7760]

Where does nil from fell xenologue go on this list? I had to turn down the difficulty because protecting him was too much of a chore in ch 1

[@DaniDoyle]

We recorded this before Fell Xenolouge came out, but he's pretty worthless yeah

[@someguy1ification]

to be fair, that one is intentional. he's deliberately pretending to be weak and is a liability on purpose. He's trying to screw you over.

[@ActuallyReid]

I don’t need sleep. I need answers.

[@lilsunny7399]

I do not understand why Mercedes and Lapis were on this list. Mercedes' biggest flaw is that healing magic isn't amazing in 3H and other units have healing magic second (Marianne, Lysithea, Coco, Hapi) But lapis? I'm sorry but i just cant call a unit with enough speed and atk to double a fair few earlygame enemies, upgrades into arguably the best individual class in engage and even (barely) out classes one of the games 4 lords, who is supposed to be her but better a bad unit

[@DaniDoyle]

What is your opinion on Diamant?

[@some_guy117]

1:04:37 I’m gonna say it, I like brady, reclass him into anything else but a healer

[@zavinzagg]

Super recruit has 29 speed cap but you get 0 con from either of the promos

[@Quackra]

Don't know if anyone said it, but Catria and Est have equal growth totals which are 7 higher than Tiki's.

[@JaDX243]

I mean... what part of the deadeye build mentioned for Ashe bernie doesn't just do better? the only thing that he has over her is easier axe access but even then it's not unreasonable to get it on her before like chapter 6, even if you're unwilling to gamble certifications. besides that, she has the same dex growth with 1 less base, same strenght base and growth plus persecution complex, which means that even without her skill or vengeance, she does the same damage as him with deadeye with the same accuracy. Besides, unlike him, she actually has encloser so she's actually better at it than him bc she has the utility of freezing a dangerous target for a turn

[@DaniDoyle]

I agree they're identically started and so theoretically if you wanted to do that build they would both be equally good at it, but I also don't think that I is a particularly good build so I don't see it as a selling point

[@JaDX243]

@@DaniDoyle makes sense. Personally I got great use of Bow Knight Bernie on my maddening SS run for the maps where I didn't skip with flier vengeance Bernie bc she could safely freeze dangerous targets for a turn while still being able to delete stuff with vengeance when needed

[@shewithwings]

this video made me realize there are many different ways to play awakening because when yall were like “can brady even inherit good skills from maribelle?” I WAS LIKE GALEFORCE?! then i realized apparently not everyone is galeforcemaxxing

[@DaniDoyle]

Galeforce is 35 levels away (10 of which are stuck staffing). It comes far too late on brady to be worth it IMO (I go more in depth on this in my awakening tier list)

[@metalgamer21]

Not even finished with the video and I'm loving it. 100% right about Lucia too. I only use her because she is very pretty.

[@DaniDoyle]

The best reason to use a unit tbh

[@allanpardogarrido9064]

Priscilla always turned out amazing for me, she was my dark banisher/healer to go at almost every FF8 run, she holded in fact the light tome and was a monster tbh, Marisa too was almost a must-use for me, she used always the Adhulma or whatever the name of that blade is, for some reason, she ended up better as Joshua 3/4 times, Joshua had only 3 or 4 points more in strenght but Marissa outclassed him in everything else. Sophia i liked her and did try to make her work, but she was just so slow, weak(low Might) and with almost non existent skill that it was impossible.

[@SharurFoF]

The problem with Vika is that she's not great at either shoving or rescuing due to low Con. She is, however, able to shove Tormod across the swamp, which is her biggest contribution. Her second biggest contribution is probably carrying Micaiah up the map in 1-E, though you can just use Volug and Nailah for that and get better combat and more movement, and the lack of Canto doesn't really matter, especially if you use Pass.

[@DaniDoyle]

I was definitely overrating Viika at the time of recording, it had been a while since I had played RD hard mode and for some reason I though she could do more than she realistically can.

[@thomask4538]

I do have a dumb arugment for Astrid. I tried using her for a randomized tower run and her low strength actually can help spare the revolters since at least on normal mode (jp hard mode) they prioritize their health over killing enemies. So if you want to have the enemy not focus on Geoffery you could use her to chip damage. In general though I do prefer her stats over Fiona who a nightmare to train in the same challenge. Also Astrid has a free paragon so you could get double experience along with more skills. Again she a fun meme tier for me, but I could see the tiniest argument to help her. Still no retaliation and can't use crossbows does suck.

[@DaniDoyle]

On hard Astrid is one rounded by every unit she cam face. That's not the sign of a strong unit

[@colgado693]

Dire thunder Lindon with the Balenciaga drip copium.

[@priestessii]

Bunet is bad relative to Engage characters but tbh he's still a better unit in Engage than like 30% of the FE6 roster

[@priestessii]

I'd put him in greatly outclassed or outclassed but still fine tbh personally

[@sinisterdesign]

I'd definitely say outclassed but still fine.

[@clintwaki6936]

Most of the effectiveness of engage characters are defined by what ring their using more than what the individual unit brings to the table. Even if they had no ring, Bunet could just reclass to hero and dual assist + chain attacks to contribute to the rest of the army.

[@mr_yoru5834]

I honestly hate how much meta-gaming for these SINGLE PLAYER games have taken over the fandom, but at least we can admit that some characters are fun to use even if they aren't the best or require some extra investment.

[@aclashoffireandice4084]

The dragonstones actually aren't locked to Tiki in New Mystery. You're thinking of how they were in old Mystery, I think. Also, thanks for making me replay half of New Mystery to find this out for certain. :-p

[@DaniDoyle]

Oh, whoops! Thanks for correcting me. Fe12 is the game I have the least experience in so I should have spoken with less confidence

[@aclashoffireandice4084]

@@DaniDoyle For what it's worth, it doesn't really change much. Bantu is still terrible, even in Normal mode with a Magestone. I like to argue that Maria is worse, though, because she exists for half a turn and does nothing.

[@SharurFoF]

Ashe isn't good, but he's merely underwhelming, not outright bad. Anna... is trash.

[@DaniDoyle]

Anna is surprisingly useful on maddening mode for a few early chapters. She gets Heal, Curved Shot, and Wrath Strike for free, as well at level 5 for free (at a point when exp is quite tight for your long term in house students), meaning she can gets full spell casts in monk. While she's not good long term, I think having all of these upsides on a single unit without needing to invest any tutoring is more than Ashe offers, as both of them in the long term are really only useful in generically good builds that anyone can run (like vantage wrath). She theoretically has rescue pass too but I'll be honest I thin rescue is overrated in 3h, you get so many other powerful movement tools it feels unnesicary.

[@shezviolet]

So there're a few things about two archers. Setsuna and Roberto are actually quite fun in their own ways - Setsuna takes the advantage of her class. Though Yumis are inacurate, she compensates for with Certain Blow from Sniper. Her strength is not much of an issue, because of the Quick Draw(she gets Bowfaire as well from Sniper, but that's a really far way). So generally she can hit hard and thankfully she doubles rather reliably. She's still mediocre, but those things I just wanted to mention, because there're units even in Birthright who are just too weak(Rinkah, Hinata are the first who come to mind) - Roberto is a funny unit, because he's one of the few characters in the game who can 2RKO(with the dance of course) the final boss on 0%, because of his support with Selphina and Glade, Brave Bow additional crit and his 3 FUCC. This doesn't give him any additional points to rank him higher, but this is some fun fact

[@isadoraximenes9430]

I love these kinds of videos because no matter who ends up at the bottom, I can always say "that's not even the worst character in their own game let alone the series" and at least three madmen will agree with me

[@Outshinedsg]

Arden is definitely up there. He's the slowest unit on your roster in a FE game that has the largest maps in the entire series. Even if you try to use him, most of the time, all the enemies will literally be dead by the time he finally catches up with the rest of your group. You have to intentionally play in a sub-optimal manner in order to even get him involved in combat, and even then he's greatly outclassed by other foot units in the game that have powerful personal weapons and skill combos. Mist and L'Arachel don't deserve to be on this list, IMO. Sure, they are not strong combat units, but that's not why you bring them. As mounted healers, they provide a lot of non-combat utility to compensate for their poor offensive skills.

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

Robert is a favorite for me, the limited dialogue he gets just really endears him to me. I do agree though, he's the longest training project of the horse boys, and not being able to interact with the capturing mechanic is rough. He becomes very crit and avoid happy after the training montage, I definitely prefer his fun factor to Alva, Cain, and even Callion, who is obviously post-training a better unit, but in a more, idk, boring way after a while. Fun fact though, Callion and Robert are the two horse trainee-esque types who have an FCM above the standard 1. I forget what Callion gets, but Robert gets 3 FCM.

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

Also, if anyone was curious, his death quote was what made me like him. It just suggests a pretty complicated messy scenario with very little text, and that's what I like about it.

[@DaniDoyle]

Oh thats interesting! I wonder why Kain and Alva got such low fcms :(

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

@@DaniDoyle Right? It feels like they each could have gotten something like it, I mean that or a different skill for each, so as to let Cal and Rob have their thing

[@takeyourheart1]

Astrid was one of my strongest units in PoR but I didn’t play RD because I got really bored really fast. I can’t believe she’s so bad in RD because she had such amazing growths in PoR.

[@xakuray5522]

How is Mercedes on this list for 3 houses, but not Manuella, and especially not Hanneman? These 2 join late with terrible bases, no training and have basically nothing going for them in term of exclusive aspects. At best Manuella has warp but with the most laughable range possible, and Hanneman can support with meteor equipped but has a terrible support list. Truly 2 terrible units in 3H

[@DaniDoyle]

I made an entire video on Mercedes that explains my issues with her (as a unit) if you're curious why I think shes the worst 3h unit. I agree that Hanneman and Manuella are bad as well, but I cannot fit every bad unit on this list (it already took us like 3 hours with just the ones we have) and they're kinda boringly bad which is why I didn't include them.

[@michaelgum97]

Journeyman 2 promotes to either Journeyman 3 or a Hero. Recruit 2 promotes to either Recruit 3 or Paladin. Pupil 2 promotes to either Pupil 3 or Sage.

[@SharurFoF]

Yubello is really good. At dying in his join chapter. Holy shit is it hard to protect those little gremlins.

[@zavinzagg]

Nahhhhh vika is only useful for 1-2 shoves on the swamp map tormod can reach the boss and fight that entire area on like turn 2 with a pure water it cuts off the wyvern rider as well. So greatly outclassed at best

[@henryreturns1397]

Personally for me the worst of the worst is Sophia : - You get her in a desert chapter and gotta protect her - She is a lvl 1 Shaman and you just got Milady and will Percieval will join you next chapter lmao - You can feed her all the kills , promote her at 20/20 and she still gets one shot/two shot and double - Furthermore she does not even have hard mode bonuses , so sucks more to be her - Foot lock unit with tomes that weight her down big time , who would have thought it was a great idea? - The other units like Bantu can have small uses on like stalling or chip damage even on a 0% growth while Sophia is just so terrible on every category - To put more salt to the wound , there are far better mages that you get , Lugh has availability, Raigh is decent with hard bonuses , Cecilia and Niime have insane utility , Clarine is your only mounted healer early game , Saul is pretty good early game , even the first cleric you get in chapter 2 has way more utility. EVEN HUGH COMES with decent stats LMAO.

[@maxyaju4293]

Raigh does not have hard mode bonuses

[@the9thmoose]

Raigh doesn't have hard mode bonuses but he still has better stats at base and at 20/20 than sophia

[@pksprite6401]

Guiding Ring tho

[@v0idvice640]

i’m pretty sure that sophia would get one-rounded in chapter one with her bases

[@utatanepiko7087]

Oh I didn't actually see Ashe there until you guys started talking about him. I find it strange he's there at all when it seems that the common consensus I've seen in the 3Hs communities I'm in that the bad units are Raphael, Ignatz, Cyril, Anna (who I do see there), and Alois Kinda makes me wonder what your opinions on Ignatz are since he's the bow user for Golden Deer (and therefore I think its easier to compare him to Ashe, who's the obligatory bow user in Blue Lions even though the class system was entirely redone for 3H anyway lol)

[@DaniDoyle]

Cyril was previously believed to be bad because people didn't understand a few things about his kit, but it's pretty common concensus that he's a very good unit, she's actually able 1 round every single enemy in his joint chapter and continues to be a very strong delete button throughout the entire game thanks to his access to vengeance and point blank volley

[@naiRISE766]

Ignatz is way better than Ashe in that he has better personal skill, he has authority boon so faster good battalion access and at D rank auth(which he starts at E+ so you can get it at chapter 2 if you want) he gets rally speed which is insane early game. He also have breakshot that's also really good. He starts in a house with Hilda who in the early game wil almost always give him +3 damage with good positioning and Ashe doesn't have that in his house.