Uh sorry if the video is potato quality...is it a rendering issue or yet another (early) Mekkah ripoff?!

Straight up, do more FE Tier Lists. It's super clear how much fun your having in this video and I'd love to see more.

I thought he’d put the immortal lich Merlinus as S-tier because he just cannot die. Dude technically also saved the world twice and shares retirement home with Marcus

1:37:08 Minor Correction: If your assuming Roy's canon mother is Ninian, he should in theory be Quarter-dragon, since Ninian herself is only half-dragon. (also, amusingly, in that case Nergal would be Roy's grandfather) Also, iirc Karel is really funny in reverse recruitment, where he replaces Roy in placement

I am Wrys, a humble curate. I cannot fight, but this staff I carry can heal your wounded. Take me with you, and you'll be very glad you did.

Now this will be The Imported Cheese Premium Tier List ever, if not The Binding Blade tier list ever. Roy's our boy (but we still have to baby his entire existence)

Big positive for Roy, it taught developers that if you want an MC to not be OP you make them great utility characters.

I love Mekkah's content but I loved this too! Your passion is self-evident. I'd love to see you do more videos like this one, and maybe even fun challenge runs!

Love this channel, been enjoying the sudden switch to Fire Emblem stuff. Never realized how fitting that was for a Pokémon channel. I keep missing the fresh streams, but I got to see this one premier at least!

I had an absolute blast with this video even if I haven't played this Fire Emblem entry in particular, your mix of good info and hilarious comedy never fails. I really hope we get to see a Blazing Blade video in the future, I loved that one a lot and got me to play more of the series, plus it has best husbando Hector!

After hearing all your allusions to fire emblem and Mekkah I've been excited to see you cover the series more. Great premium edit, keep up the good stuff. I'm sure Mekkah will see your stuff one of these days.

Thank you Mr. Cheese for the content! Will we be getting another FE tier list in the future? Hoping to hear your thoughts on the rest of the GBA trilogy with FE 7 and 8!

Man how could I have missed this. Love your channel and love FE, keep em coming!

When you were talking about Lot getting E bows after promoting to a warrior, the wires in my brain got crossed and I was like "well if he's a warrior at least he gets STAB against wyvern riders." And then I exploded. RIP

I came here after playing chapter 4 for the first time, getting ambush spawned by Rutger, and now seeing that he is S tier. Thank you Rutger's University 🙏

Hey thanks for crediting the music you used!!

Just finished this game last night. Excited to watch this, your tiers are funny

Never played a fire emblem game but I got own tempo and it’s a Cheese video so I’ll be happy never the less

Recently decided to play FE6 for the first time and what a good game it is! Thanks for covering it in a video.

Don't think anyone mentioned this, but Niime is even better at staff botting because she can use Apocalypse to get a free +5 Mag.

oh boy a video about my favorite FE game I actually agree with a lot of your points! And I'm genuinely surprised you didn't do obvious moves like place some of the infamous units like Wolt or Wade at F tier. One thing I think you didn't note is how important Luck is in this game. Units like Saul get a pass for his abysmal luck base/growth because he's not gonna be a combat unit unless you put max investment in him, but combat units like Lot, Echidna, Lance, and even Milady and Rutger suffer from a very low base luck. It's not uncommon for those units to receive an unlucky crit that can absolutely ruin someone's iron man run. Other than that, I pretty much agree with your rankings apart from some nitpicks (like Marcus actually can be viable up to chapter 13 ish given he gets a lucky speed level) and biases I have (Bors for life), I honestly expected a usual FE tier list but this is pretty solid and aligns with my belief that Wendy and Sophia are arguably unusable on HM. Good list bro

I really wanted towatch this one live, but unfortunately I was out at the time. Looking forward to watch now at my own pace now though. Also, I'd like to make a confession here: despite my favorite FE game being FE7, which I've beaten 10+ times, I've started playing FE6 twice in the past and I've never finished it. The maps towards the end are just SO LONG I kinda sorta got bored. Maybe if I give the game a new chance in the future I will Warp cheese a bit more freely. (Also thanks for the Xeno3 reference at the beginning)

This is a great vid, and I love that you’re introducing new people to this series! I actually largely agree with the important placements here, but I do have a few things I think are worth noting: - I think Barthe specifically is way too high. Barthe’s bulk, even physically, is actually quite unimpressive. He’s getting doubled by everything, and while his defense is solid, he’s got 25 base HP. This is going into the axe heavy Western Isles, too. You can fix this by instapromoting him, but Barthe is unsurprisingly not using that Knight Crest better than Allen, Lance, or Noah (hell, even trained Bors/Treck are better users, even if training Bors is… questionable.) His offensive presence is also quite bad owing to his low Skill and the lack of an Axereaver going into Isles. I think Barthe over Dorothy really indicates that he’s too high. At least Dorothy can kinda do things 60% of the time in one map. - Fir is also quite high, especially in a tier list aimed toward somewhat newer players. Fir is definitely an investment. She’s not hard to train, but you do have to be careful. The payoff, however, isn’t really amazing imo. There isn’t really a world where a frail, crit-reliant, underleveled myrmidon is worse than Echidna, Klein, or Bartre. I understand the idea is thet Fir holds up all game, but Klein and Bartre really benefit from lategame Wyvern spam, and can both be deployed late without much trouble. Echidna’s lategame is definitely mediocre, but she’s also the most immediately powerful Isles prepromote. - I feel like Geese is a unit that’s easy to call ok/solid if you haveb’t used him, but holy shit he’s actually miserable. He’s barely more accurate than Gonzo, and he has no offenses, no constitution, mediocre all arounder growths, and competes for Hero Crest (spoiler, unless you fly or use bows, there is probably heavy competition for your promotion item.) Geese has a 2-4 point lead in all non Luck/Res stats when compared to LOT, a unit who you recruit 7-8 chapters earlier. His main draw, his weapon rank, doesn’t matter because his Skill is awful, and both Bartre and Echidna can yoink his Brave Axe and use it better (Bartre’s hit won’t be great either, but his Strength is over double that of Geese’s so at least it does more when it hits, and Echidna’s Skill is just straight up good lol.) On the whole, I still very much agree with the general points, and the top two tiers (probably the most important part in any tier list to get right,) is pretty spot on, Marcus > Rutger especially. Lowkey, i kinda just wanted to rant about how fucking awful Geese is lol

I enjoyed this. I would like to see you do tier lists for the other FE games.

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for introducing me to Mekkah and getting me to go back to Blazing Blade for the first time in 14 years. I like the Pokémon content, but I’m definitely a fan of FE cheese too :)

I've watched this like 4 times and since beaten the game and I just wanna say this vid is awesome, your excitement for the game is just infectious ❤

While more FE stuff would be great, I think FE6 is the most fun to talk about for the stuff you mentioned during the stream. After this game, every unit is either "Train them and they'll be good!" or "They're already good and dominate the game!"

When discussing the poopy axefighters of this game and comparing them to the others, you forgot the best axefighter of them all! Osian (Othin?) with his "yes I crit" skill and his 1-2 range killer axe with 60 uses! Other than that, great video/list. Always happy to see other people discussing some of my favorite games!

I think another point for clarine and Rutgers is their avoid. Fe 6 throws lots of strong enemies at you, many of which fly, so you have to be very careful with unit placement. Both clarine and Rutgers have amazing speed which translates to high avoid, but they also boost each other's avoid when supported. In addition, clarine has a huge luck growth. Luck is often looked at as the dump Stat in a sense, but when you have 15-20+ luck, it really makes a difference. Clarine is one of the few healers who can actually run in and heal on an unfortunate miss and dodge counter attacks (before you have physics of course). In the late game, I believe an A support and trained Rutger-clarine only face about 25% display hit against many enemies. Give them terrain bonuses and they'll never be touched.

Hey Mr. Cheese- if the only fire emblems I have played are Awakening, Fates, and Three Houses- which would you suggest I try for a more "traditional" fire emblem? You made it sound fun!

It makes me happy to see Shanna in the higher tiers. She's my favorite GBA Pegasus Knight.

The Virgin giving the first Knight's Crest to Alen or Lance because they're objectively better units vs. The Chad grinding Wendy until she reaches level 20 and then giving her the Knight's Crest and then grinding her for 20/20 stats because funny meme unit

Commenting for engagement. I'd love to see a sacred stones list!

No love for my boss Ross, the best GBA axe user 😤

Idk if you realized but this vid maxes out at 360p. Could've just been an intended joke that flew over my head.

Now I'm fully prepared for the Ironman stream

As a fun sort-of sidenote to Rutger, while he is hilariously above average in terms of swordmasters in the main series, he pales in comparison to the swordmasters from Kaga Saga. In no particular order, we have: -A myrmidon that passively takes half damage from everything because of his personal weapon, has sol at base, and is virtually required to get a legendary-ish sword in the lategame (he can use that sword too, and it has 80 crit, so it's pretty nice) -A myrmidon that revives themselves automatically if they die and they are using their personal weapon, and still doesn't die if they die without it -An early game swordmaster that can attack 5 times in a turn in a game where doubling basically doesn't exist -An early game ranger (swordmaster with bows too) that has an innate +1 move, a prf brave sword, and immunity to crits and crippling blows (which are a terrible status condition that halves your move and makes you unable to use weapons/magic)

This is my second or third time watching this one. I really like it when you cover FE related stuff.

01:37:06 What? Roy as canonically half dragon? I demand the sauce! (Because that would mean his mother would be Ninian right?) Thanks for covering my favourite FE game thus far! I really enjoyed the plot and the politics behind all the major events during the depicted war. I'm currently on Ch. 17A and I didn't know that the Clarine>Rutger>Dieck support triangle existed until literally earlier today as I tried to patch up my beated Dieck (LOL) with Clarine and the "Support" option came out of nowhere! Best regards ☺

I really enjoyed this, but I'm confused by Karel. What makes his availability D-tier bad? Are there 0 maps remaining?

Really fun watch!

I've just finished Binding Blade whole consulting this video as a loose guide, was very fun to watch before and after I had the context of this game. I'd be really interested to see a tier list for FE7, especially because the enemies are way weaker and the units less broken (for better and worse)

I might have to become a Patreon if you do another Fire Emblem tier list. This is one of my favorite things to watch lately.

I learn two things in this Stream, when I'm 4 hours out of sleep I'm esencially drunk and I have terrible takes.

The 👉🏾👈🏾-ness of the "Mekkah, please notice me" sent me😂

Never touched a Fire Emblem game, guess I'm going to start now! Roy is our boy

I really want to give this game another try. I played it for the first time last year after years of loving the other GBA FE games, and I had a pretty bad time with all the boss crits and ambush reinforcements, but perhaps I just wasn't used to player phase-style gameplay

That bit with your coworker was perfect.

19:43 Marcus didn't stab Roy with a Silver Lance. He impales him with an Iron Lance! This is proof base stats matter in this game.

good tier list but if theres one thing I think you forgot to mention its how valuable promotion items are in this game.FE6 has a very large and very frontloaded cast which means a lot of your units join unpromoted and the promotion items are also very sparse since you usually get 1 earlier on by around chapter 8 and then you dont get another one until like chapter 12-15. the knight crest is the most infamous example of an item that has a ton of candidates although imo its not that bad because most of the units who want it kinda suck and your really only picking from 2 maybe 3 candidates but the hero crest for example has multiple viable users with rutger being the most obv one. this is why i rate units that either join prepromoted like garrett or units whos promotion items arent very contested like shanna and sue higher than i normally would although tbf im not very well versed in fe6 compared to other games

Good video! I actually laughed at many of your dumbest jokes lol

Started the game as my first fe partially because of this, and imo "with wolt you can do thiiiiiiiis" ; "this" must be dying in 2 hits to the first enemies XD

Genuinely love how Roy places high in probably every videogame he’s featured in, yet in his own he’s just barely the benchmark if not bottom teir.

Chad was ok in my Thieves only run of FE6. Ya know, where I throw every stat increase at him and Cath so that they can deal any damage and survive a single round? Honestly their speed caps and support gave them enough avoid that they could tank Percival in Chapter 15 while Astore, an actually good combat unit, went to go win the game

I recently read through Melth's entire FE6 playthrough on LPArchive, and came back here to share some interesting differences i noticed in how their opinions compared to yours. Keep in mind that this was a Max Ranking playthorugh, so he did do stuff like minimize turn counts, maximize funds, and get as many level-ups as he could feasibly cram into his units (Seriously, he even got SOPHIA to [unpromoted] level 20!). So, without further ado: - i was surprised how quickly Marcus fell off. He was still vital for the earlygame, but still, i expected him to last a little longer. - Surprisingly, Alan turned out to be far better than Lance in the lategame, who ended up pretty weak despite having roughly average stats. Still, both carried for almost the entire game. (Although Alan also got a bit lucky with his STR and SPD gains) - Gonzales was an absolute BEAST of a unit, instantly becoming the army's top combatant and never falling below #2, making even Rutger look weak in comparison. The only unit better than him was... - Lilina! She ended up becoming THE best and most powerful unit of all, hands down. Although she also got a huge SPD blessing. - Niime was deemed to be "terrible". Although she was still way stronger than lv20 Sophia, who was used for the sake of both EXP rank and memes. - Miledy and Zeiss were predictably amazing, with Zeiss quickly becoming better than his mom. - Even more surprisignly, Ogier (Oujay?) ended up eclipsing Rutger and Dieck, although that was mostly due to a string of lucky level-ups.

My favorite memory of this game was in chapter 21 fielding Niime at the back in order to protect Merlinus from reinforcements. She was dodge tanking every enemy, to the point that she capped to level 20 even though the enemies only gives like 5 exp, and eventually even broke her tome so she's literally there to only dodge tank.

wow that was literally OJ, famous fire emblem HERO. (loving the fe content btw)

Honestly, I'd say Astolfo's stats are good enough when he joins that he can dodge tank pretty damn effectively if need be, Especially since he joins so close to the Axe Boi Isles section of the game. He can even give anyone that tries hitting him a decent black eye so that your actual fighting units can score themselves an easy kill or two every once in a while. Definitely stop horsing around with him before the route split though, by the time you're at Ilya he's definitely comparatively as fragile as Chad was when we recruited him. I also make it a point to save up every skill book I get for Gonzales to use, because it just isn't an true FE6 run without the Great Gonzales around to crit literally everything to death at the drop of a hat...and that's BEFORE he even becomes a Zerk, cuz it also ain't a true FE6 run without getting to listen to that majestic brigand roar a few times before switching over to MLG Axe Spinning Inc.

Can't wait for you to do another FE Tier list. Especially if you do my favorite FE game Seth Emblem The Sacred Seth. P.S Before anyone comment about me being casual. My 2nd favorite FE Games is Conquest.

idk anything about fire emblem but still watching cause i like your content

Cheese PLEEEEAAAASSSEE do a FE7 and FE8 tierlist :)

I actually think Wade and especially Lot's bow use on promotion is a good point in their favor. If you train their bow rank it'll eventually be way more reliable than a handaxe, especially if you get to C rank and start using Killer bows. Plus, Warrior strength + triple effectiveness on fliers = big damage and big number good also Chad gets one shot in his joining chapter lmfao

Lol, I had that exact same experience with FE4. Somehow ended up with the game, couldn't read a lick of Japanese, and somehow managed to get to chapter 2 with everyone but Sigurd dead.

Lol I love the special awards idea 😂

"Barth? More like Barf!" That joke never gets old. People were using it in the early 2000s and still are. In all seriousness though, I tried him out in a hard mode run once and I was surprised he was better than any of the other armors (not that that's saying much) just due to his reliable growths (by FE6 standards) and he can wall the 24632473 nomads on the Sacae route and 246342 dragon knights on the Bern maps. Like seriously just let him go off on his own and distract the entire enemy army, he won't kill many if any of them, but they go after him anyway. That said he will still auto-die to magic users and still deserves a low ranking. As for the triangle attack. The run I used Wendy in I actually used that to level her up, since it has 100% hit and 100% crit which makes it like she is doing normal damage and it was really easy to get her to a usable level by the end of 8x. Not recommended outside meme playthroughs though.

Bors may not be an S tier unit, but he does have an S tier chin. As always, the premium edits are always a fun time. Looking forward to more FE content.

Cant wait for the next one

I share the same opinion with most of the units, but Clarine is a force of destruction with Rutger at her side. They are two pieces of the ultimate weapon.

When I did my successful Ironman run of FE6 Sue and Shin carried the run. Their support gives them the avoid to reasonably dodge most enemies so they would just run out front with Shin leading and they would massacre enemy squads. This was especially in a run where I got Rutger killed.

Intro reminded me of the Simpsons when all the old folks miss-hear the phrase “be like boy” and instead chant “we like Roy, we like Roy”

Regarding Roy: I definitely think you put him in the correct place for this game, but I don't think he's anywhere close to the worst Lord in the series. The rapier having high hit for accurate attacks early on (as long as you don't use it against Lance enemies) and Roy's fire support make him much more usueful than trash lords like fe9 ike, fe11 marth, or fe7 Eliwood. (Micciah is also underrated but thats unrelated)

I mentioned it in the chat but I have to say again that I love that Wendy is so bad she didn't even get the ominous Sephiroth theme in the background.

A Fire Emblem Path of radiance, radiant dawn, awakening, or 3 houses tier list would definitely strike my fancy

You going to do blazing blade?

when do you stream pokemon again?

While Rutger is the known the most for his massive crit rate, it's actually very possible to get over 100% crit rate in many other games of the series (like for example, Bernadetta can easily get 100%+ crit rate when fully set-up). The reason why Rutger is the most known is because only GBA FE display above 100% crit rate, the other just lock it to 100. And he's the best swordmaster in FE6, making so that he's the prime target for those memes. And while it's possible for FE7 and FE8 swordmasters to get over 100% crit rate (Guy can reach it for sure, don't know about the others), it's also needs more investment since they have a 15% crit bonus instead of 30%, making so that Rutger is just the easy one to point out since it's the easiest to replicate.

I can't wait for the fe7 teir list

Do Rutger and Stefan really make Swordmasters seem better than they are? The only hard mode FE game I've done is Path of Radiance and I was able to use most characters without much difficulty, even if I've heard that it's one of the easier games in the series. I even got Mia max leveled without using a Master Seal, since I thought it was a waste of levels since you're sacrificing 10 levels of potential stats for an early promotion.

This was the second Fire emblem game I ever played, I played after Sacred Stones. I was amazed by it and it was one of my favorite fire emblem games ever, I had no clue about all the dislike people had for it until I got older

Echidna is actually not the only female hero. In Awakening you got Flavia before the last 2 chapter. Nobody remember cause she can't fly or nos tanking. Which automatically mean you're bad unit in Awakening.

Will you do FE7 or FE8?

If you get lucky training him, chad is like a baby dodgy rutger and thats my hill to die on. Them growths are uh pretty good.

Shout out to Mekkah. I like both of your channels, I hope senpai notices you

If you're wondering why the defense growths are so low... look at the HP growths. For most units, they're well over 50%. (Barth even has 100% HP growth.) So basically, if they wanted to make defense growths higher, they'd have to make HP growths lower, or they'd risk making everyone way too tanky. This is true for most games in the series.

I'm fairly certain Creidne and Machyua promote to hero too, so Echidna is not the first one.

1:25:10 Machyua was also a female hero after promotion She's from fe5

Don't know how I didnt watch this for so long. As someone that just cleared the game one time this matches what I remember. I played the game mostly blind only checking recruitment requirements and when I saw sophia I thought A- she is cute b- she is level 1 on her base class she must be the est of this game. I don't remember when but I gave up on her at some point

Do you think Chimchad should have been in smash instead of the weak greninja weeb?

Thank you for these Premium tier list edits. They're some of my favorite videos to listen to while at work. Would love to see a Fates tier list one day because I'm a massive part of the Fire Emblem Fates lobby :^)

My favorite of the pre switch gen is genealogy of the holy war but after is sacred stones

I pick my fire emblem units by personality. That’s why Amelia is SSS++ tier. No. Shut up. She’s great. Make her a general, use her speed wing, give her boots from the desert, and she becomes a tank that doubles. Is it better to make her ride a horse? Yeah, but you get like, ten cavaliers. You have to shovel so much shit already, do you really want to add more horses? You can send her in the middle of the fray once she becomes a general and tear them to pieces. Make her support Franz as a great knight for beautiful blonde babies, and they’ll match speed. If this hasn’t convinced you that Amelia is the best unit ever, she’s also like, a young naive 18 year old girl. That’s peak fire emblem unit. The people who recruit her mistake her for a civilian, and she (accidentally) gives you a torch earlier in the game! Best unit ever. No, she’s great, shut up.

binding blade is my fav.... :3 just happy to see a video on it dont care if i disagree with you

Underrated content creator smh

Tier list edits slap harder than a Devil Axe crit to my face.

I personally believe Lyn is worse than Micaiah because the Lyn has a tiny problem... she's very pointless, she doesn't offer anything, in fact using her is an active detriment unlike other lords because of the opportunity cost, Micaiah is a forced deployment, and while is technically a worse combat unit than Lyn, she has some great utilities, like having Thani (the most overkill weapon that could ever exists... it existed in any other game, because RD hates magic, but Thani is still very strong and there exists good analysis of it's utility destroying key enemies), having access to Staves since Part 3 (and even she starts at C) and Sacrifice, Micaiah's weird niche that while usually superfluos, can save the day in the most unlikely of scenarios. --- About the Tier List itself, I love it, not really any complain, in fact I was happy to see how your opinions were very thoughtful, considering several aspects of the meta and what makes an unit good. Though, seeing this Tier List makes me wish more for a Binding Blade remake xD

I beat this game last week Percival is THE chad

I wonder how many Cheese Fans are here from the FE community? Cause I sure as shit picked up on Cheese being a (funnier) Mekkah rip off when it comes to ranking from like day 1 but that feels so narrow and specific

Man, I didn't know your Pokémon Waifu Tier List was also ripping off Mekkah's Waifu series! ;)

You should do one for FE 7

Heads up for the potential future. But please don't ever accept a Raycon sponsorship. The product is honestly trash and has a high chance of malfunctioning. They delete bad reviews and any buyers outside of the US have a close to 0% chance to get your warranty money back. Never felt so badly scammed and any time I see a sponsorship it's just sad.