Felix's ability doesn’t impact beyond the early game but it allows him to hit insane benchmarks in that time

The pros and cons screen adds a lot. Glad I’m rewatching!

Something that's worth mentioning about Mastermind is that makes it much easier for her to get Hit +20, Uncanny Blow, and/or Darting Blow when playing with a very restricted EXP pool (especially Hit +20 earlier on when she has the most issues with her Hit, granted you can also patch this up with Soulblade), allowing her to function much better when she is sniping/Nosferatu tanking (very funny that she can occasionally actually do this without the wasteful Armour Knight cert btw) instead of warping or using Heal or whatever. Even if you could argue that any magical unit could feasibly get these by endgame, it also has the benefit of reducing the burden of needing to feed attacks to Lysithea as she can functionally get the same amount of SP from fewer battles, reducing the burden of her needing to stay behind the front line on enemy phase to an extent and synergising well with her extreme growths, which also let her get away with levelling up less when she needs to be used offensively. Freeing up a Knowledge Gem if you're not looking to just crack her skill growth out is also a great boon, as is increasing her propensity to access off-meta (i.e. bad) builds if ur feeling like being a nonce is nice, too. It patches up her banes to an extent, making it less of a chore to get into those weapon-based intermediates (specifically Pegasus Knight). It also carrying utility when Lysithea is an adjutant is fantastic too, making her an appropriate pick for a front-line adjutant earlier on if you don't mind trading up the defensive utility a brawler/armour adjutant provides in the early midgame. It's extremely handy whether you decide to take her down the path of Bishop -> Gremory or Valkyrie -> Dark Flier/Gremory and in general just overall improves Lysithea's funny potential beyond just map skipping with Warp and lets her get a huge amount of mileage out of Thyrsus regardless of whether you are trading it around or just keeping it on her. I think saying it falls off a lot is doing it a bit of a disservice because its ultimate payoff beyond just earlier certifications/mastery is vastly improved flexibility in late game when compared to other magical units, which generally need to specialise heavily into non-traditional magical offence or (more likely) back-/mid-line utility to stay relevant later on. It lets her function as a magical attacker that can compete with physical attacker competition without needing to spec into a weird combat art playstyle or an awkward-to-maintain magical weapon build or whatever.

I will say Hapi is really good on the Leonie/Linhardt paralogue bc Saint Indech uses magic and she has high res, so it lets you hide low res units right in front of him and be fine

I held my breath when it got to Cyril, good to see you giving my boi some respect.

Cool vidéo, solid edit btw with the pro/con

Good list and a fun watch. I do think this list (and people in general) overrates the +exp gain on Byleth and house lord personals, but honestly most personals don't have a huge impact so maybe they do deserve to be S tier. The rest of the list is really good and I like it a lot.

My favorite thing about Yuri’s personal is that it works well with Windsweep which is kind of Yuri’s early game. Some of my favorite kills in the game have been a split phase Brave kill with Windsweep followed by Batt Vantage with Honorable Spirit.

27:50 this is what the Rafail Gem was MADE for

I was looking for this video a week ago, I knew I watched it before but couldn't find it lol

Lysithea’s mastermind is the best in my opinion cause it allows easy access to certifications of classes she wont actually be using without harming the progress in her main classes why this is helpful is quite simple you can use early certification for stat boosts In my case cause she always struggles with defence just being able to pass the armour knight exam brings her defence up to 12 regardless of what it was at previously Seeing as she starts at 3 defence and the basic magic classes won’t increase her defence by much that boost helps a lot

The sheer power i feel when i adjutant lysithea while she holds a knowledge gem and i can master archer in a single auxiliary battle without grinding

27:40 The Rafail Gem! It also nullifies crits and therefore makes things easier to plan!

99% of the time Manuela's personal is awful but at least for me (I've done Silver Snow 4 times) it feels like it deserves a higher ranking because of how truly life-saving it is against the final boss of Silver Snow. That boss is so damn tanky and has pretty decent crit chance. I feel like I usually get crit 3-4 times by it. Granted I'm always playing for fun, never with a team full of fully optimized units, so I suppose if you had an optimal team you wouldn't take so many hits. But I'm always thanking the stars for Manuela's personal at the end of that fight, because that's one fight where you actually have to be careful about bleeding pulses, and her personal can be the difference between having to redo that fight or not. The fact that you can pulse after getting crit and then move her in to avoid the crit is also nice in a couple situations where any other shuffling of attacks is awkward.

Transmute gaming real Thank you for mentioning it on Constance

Before even watching if I had to guess persecution complex is number 1 right?

if you take the percentages of all the growths in all the stats of all the characters, Byleth and Claude has 370, Dimitri 375 and Edelgard 385, while other characters are lower. Without the passive, Cyril would have 215, which is horrible. But with it, it goes up to 395. Higher than all the main characters. Not to mention he gets both point blank volley and vengeance. As long as you recruit him as early as you can, he's OP.

50:50 I do think it has a use in the ranged magic build cause it actually makes it viable to attain dark magic range +1 at a reasonable level and during my run as it I even got dark tomefare towards the end. Which stacked on top of the +1 range of Valkary and the +2 range from the relic made her one shot almost anything from any range. Without mastermind S and S+ reason ranks would be totally out of the question. It's still quite an investment but it is attainable.

Solid tier list. In my humble opinions, i strong disagree about Felix and Catherine being so high, Anna should be lower too and I would put dorothea and flayn a bit higher. Apart from that I don't think I would rate them much differently. That was a very interesting and very informative video. I really liked it

Mariane's would be better if it included her being mounted that way you can get a guarantee heal every time.

45:32 don’t you mean RAPH/vantage builds? (Sorry lmao)

is hit +20 really that needed? i completed VW maddening non NG+ with nobody running hit +20 and a dead ignatz (reunion at dawn). I feel like having good supports (support grinding + heal spamming) overcomes the need to certify every single person as an archer haha.

I think Mercedes' personal skill is quite good since Fortify gives so much more experience points, double that of physic. She can intentionally tank a hit, chip it back with Fire, and then just shrug it off completely with her big level lead. It makes her solo 1 enemy on enemy phase over 2-3 turns, like two to three times a map, or just help chip/delay something. Her equip skills (and her skill ranks other than white magic for that matter) as a healer also don't really matter, so you can just defensively load her up with +2 def, speed, mag, hp +5 and reason 5. It's like Byleth's where you get more value for trying to get value out of it intentionally, just a bit smaller in scope.

Bernie supremacy!!

Wait, what ? Forgive my casualness, but why is pass good ? Especially on a flying archer, why would you care about being able to go through the ennemy line ?

Mariannes ability is 20 not 10 , and in the verdant wind fort merceus chapter , i had lorenz and leonie (who were both cavalry) either side of her and when she was targeted by the ballistas she fully healed at the start of the turn, that was fun to play around with.

Very cool, now do Budding Talent tierlist🔫

Re: Aptitude, I get why people complain about him not just having +20 everywhere else and another personal instead, but at the same time, it's purpose from a game design PoV isn't just to give him better stats: it is also to communicate to a player (who can't see growth rates without looking them up online) that this character, while not necessarily immediately stellar, is going to have very high stats later on and is thus worth investing time and experience into. It is very much a unit feel choice as much as it is a game balance/unit design choice: forgoing a "real" personal skill in exchange for growing much faster than other units is much more interesting from a game design PoV than just making a normal character with high growths.

Animal Friend > Catnap It's 20% heal not 10%, Marianne sees more combat than Linhardt, she can easily position for it to proc, it stacks with Renewal, she can actually use her turn instead of using Wait... Was kinda sad your determination was based upon 10% instead of 20%. Oh well, her not having a personal for 1/4 the game potentially does suck though, I'll give you that.

Great list, I agree with most placements, except balthus. I understand the logic of Balthus having the anti synergy with his crest, but the fact that his personal singlehandedly trivializes the early game and is one of the few personals that will continue to be really impactful later on means it's, in my opinion, the best personal in 3h

It's bizarre that perfectionist is finally great, and not because of avoid XD

Ingrid’s personal should be a little higher it actually makes her one of the more reliable gambit users on your team as her charm is decent and the flying battalions you give her on blue lions boost it even more

14:30 Ture Lindhardt

Flayn's personal would be decent if archers and 1-2 range melees didn't double and oneshot her when adjacent to anyone. Her speed growth is 35, which is just atrocious. She needs imp wall casted on her just to use the skill commonly. It's fine at pushing player fortress knights down to 0 incoming MT, so they can't be crit nor lose quick riposte threshold. Not amazingly applicable due to her stats though.

49:00 "Ignatz would be Ashe tier without it", right, remove all three of the House Archers signature abilities and keep them as a bow user and Ignatz would be still be the best hands down

Mercedez C and Dimitri A on maddening? They basically carried my just house members blue lion maddening Run

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Felix B? Petra C? DEDUE in A!? iight im out correction: Felix is an easy S tier unit. Petra is an A MAYBE B and Dedue is a C arguably a B unit. imo

In terms of aptitude it gives Cyril the highest total growths in the game at 395%. But really the only stats that matter is Strength, speed, and maybe defense. So that's good. He's alot better then most units when trained except Leonie or Petra because their growths are also really good. If Cyril just had these growths like normal and another personal skill he'd probably have a different opinion among others. Still Growths are not too impactful. For some reason my Cyril had a boon in magic because he had 20 strength and 21 magic. Bruh...