Uh just noticed how in the tutorial Marcus's "advice" is to stab Roy and insult him for being swordlocked. What a unit!

I graduated from Rutgers and I can 100% tell you. This was a real class. My professor never emoted and for some reason her naturally blue hair and eyes became green at some point.

Mekkah be in fear, there is a new Fire Emblem dude in town

Ah Fire Emblem, my favorite RPG Series of all time. I absolutely love just about everything about this series. However, I don't think it's quite as easy as first described. This is just one of those game series where it's hard to see things from a beginners point of view once you have thousand of hours logged between it's many entries and fan games. I say this, knowing the disaster of having IRL freinds try this game series out for the first time.

How to play Fire Emblem > Build an Army > Trust Nobody > Poison Dorcas But seriously, i hope this means more FE content, my absolute favorites have to be the NES titles with all their jank and bullshit mechanics.

Thanks, i already knew the basic rules, but this really helped me understand better how the game works in more detail

Very comprehensive guide, nice work. The GBA games are definitely the best place to get into the series, imo. Only thing that's kinda important that you didn't really go over is using javelins and trade equipping, but that's also might be kinda advanced for beginners. Love the FE content though. (here's to hoping for a Genealogy of the Holy War or Thracia video eventually)

Good guide! Mekkah left me with lofty expectations, but you mentioned him in many of your in-game tierlists to explain why availability matters, so the expectations were met. One thing I think you didn't touch on is, don't fall on the durability pitfall either! Your silver sword will lose durability if you use it, but if you don't, you lose the battle and you die and lose the silver sword anyway. Whoops. Fire Emblem, or turn based strategy game in general like chess and sister series Advance Wars, are a lot about tempo: do the most you can in the least time. If that same Silver Sword isn't letting you kill the dude in one less turn, or even one less attack, then just don't use it! It's not the idea to be wasteful either. Same goes for speed, you don't need 99 speed, you just need [fastest enemy] +4 and you're good. Same goes for Attack, and Defense, etc. Once you get past a certain benchmark, it's all just flex so don't worry about minmaxing, Fire Emblem games were designed around screwing you over but still being possible to beat!

Bro, the comedy in this video was so good, I think I laughed at least twice in every section, the improvised comedy was great. This is definitely one of those videos I can rewatch time and time again. The tutorial was excellent too, you explained some stuff that I never understood even after playing all 3 GBA Fire Emblems, so thank you for that! It makes me wish you do one for Advance Wars in the future, if you're interested in that series.

Looking to make an original Fire Emblem Tabletop System and this vid helped explain a bunch about the mechanics while also being entertaining! 10/10

Bro idk why these videos dont get as much views; they genuinely mad entertaining

Duuuuuude this is the freaking tutorial that I was crying for. There’s still good that want to try this oldie. Thanks for the great video.

When I heard "Except Ice, Ice sucks" I cracked! Amazing, the reference was also amazing to see! Great video. The Class isn't locked to just swords, Ephraim is there to tell that LANCES BEATS SWORDS!

Number one underrated channel, you will get the subs you deserve someday. Keep it up

I really like fire emblem, I am glad you are talking about it :) One thing to note is that status conditions last for 5 turns not the whole battle that would be pretty insane tho lol

I quickly found in Path of Radiance, the first FE game I ever played, that most classes aren't good. I felt that there were only a handful of useful units and used them the entire game. Mainly the mounted units, swordmasters, and laguz. The rest were a chore to use because they had bad move, couldn't double attack consistently, low accuracy, or just too squishy to kill things. I know I suck at the game, but what use is there in a unit with 5 move that can kill in 3 turns when I could use a unit with 9 move that can kill in 1 turn? I was happy when I learned that Mist promoted into a mounted unit, as mounted healing is very good, especially in the one map you're forced to use her.

GBA Emblem, my own entry point to the series way back in 2005ish 💛

I started playing fe7 again a couple days ago and it's nice to know these games still get some love:) gonna play through 6 again when I finish then 8 (I haven't beaten it since it released back in the day)

Hey huge fire emblem fan welcome to the series man

I hope you are proud of yourself for making me interested in the GBA games. I liked the video =D

Really great guide, it's nice to get more people into Fe, especially fe6. Though smh just use Barth and you will win lmao

Nice, I've been looking forward to this. Let's! Unequipping steel weapons!

Im convinced, fire emblem sounds fun, as an absolute beginner I'm sold. 😊 Thanks for making this video, now i know that Roy is the onix of this game😂😂😂. Keep up the good work.

you actually taught me new things i didn't know before like how Con stat gets affected by weapon weight, or how flying units don't get terrain bonuses.

Alright! Nice to see this video come to fruition. Thank you for the lesson Fire Drag- *ahem* Charizard!

Just finished the Tierlist, time to go to Rutger's University with Cheezard!

Nicely done! It would have been nice if you showed some other units like lance and Alen's stat screens a little more, to demonstrate the differences between them, maybe even showing their growths. That would have been a way to show newcomers how the stats actually differ between characters. Or actually marcus' stats and weapon stats, showing how he has the iron sword and the silver lance intended for different purposes Funny enough, fe6 is the GBA game where bows are actually decent, because even on normal mode, the enemies are kind of threatening, or at least bulkier. Wolt still sucks though. It's mostly Shin, potentially Sue, Klein and Igrene who are decent, mostly because accurate chip damage where you don't get countered is nice in fe6, as is the ability to kill wyverns which are basically just flying armour knights but with an actual speed stat too. (Seriously, look at the enemy stats!) Another thing about rescuing which is useful is rescuing units with a flying unit like Shanna means you can just carry Roy straight over terrain that Cavaliers and paladins still have to walk over. Glad that you showed it off! Another thing you can do is to, after your unit attacks, you can place another unit next to them, then have them trade - but instead of trading weapons between them, you can just reorder the weapons in the inventory, and then the unit will equip that. So you can have Marcus use the silver lance to kill a threatening enemy, the have Alen trade with Marcus, and put an iron lance at the top of Marcus' inventory. That way, he won't use up the previous silver lance on enemy phase! (Yes, I learned this from Mekkah's pitfalls)

pogging out of my mind on new FE content, thank you based charizard

I love this let's learning! Was this a stream?

Love the video! My FE hot take is that Fates is my favorite. It was my stress relief during college, my first job, and moving in with my gf. My 3 save files had over 300 hours each by the time I got rid of my 3DS for a Switch.

So glad charizard has finally made a fire emblem video , especially of one of the (fair) hardest (and my first) game Excited for the tier list

Hoping this gets Pokemon fans on your channel into Fire Emblem! Even if they start with Binding Blade (one of the harder games in my opinion), it's a great time. The characters in the older games aren't the most interesting or eccentric, but the gameplay will win your heart. If I have to recommend a first game, it would be either Fire Emblem 7: The Blazing Sword, Fire Emblem 8: The Sacred Stones, Fire Emblem 9: Path of Radiance, or Fire Emblem 13: Awakening. All 4 of these games are pretty easy, and often don't punish the player for mistakes as hard as every other game. Enemy stats are generally lower too, meaning you won't get walled as hard by a high threat.

Pretty great beginner's guide, the only error I really noticed was your thing about status ailments. In the GBA games they wear off overtime generally they're not too bad (unless you're berserk). The only game in which they don't is FE5 where they have to be healed or you end the map to restore it (except for petrification which doesn't wear off after map completion which ultimately doesn't matter because only one enemy can even inflict such a status). I do like that you even mentioned stuff like dancers and rescue strats.

As a fire emblem rom hacker from a more than a year, i loved this video

I’ve been playing fire emblem for many years but still rather enjoyed this video 😂

You roasted Roy a lot more than I expected. Thank you. Although, this isn't base FE6? Haven't watched the whole video yet, but was immediately confused when Bors was in the wrong place, and even MORE confused when Roy's Rapier had 7 might.

My parents were soo happy when i told them i got accepted to Rutger's university :)

I've played a lot of gba Fire Emblem over the past 10 or so years, and I think this is a really great tutorial. You explain all the important stuff without getting too bogged down in the details. I personally disagree about bow units, I find that in FE6 especially they're extremely good due to their high hit rate, frequent flying enemies, and frequent indoors maps where they can attack over walls; but I acknowledge that the FE community as a whole thinks they're trash. One thing I'd at least mention is support grinding. In FE6 and 7, supports develop extremely slowly, so it's a pretty common practice at the end of a chapter to just end a few turns to help develop supports. I'd also mention gaiden chapters, which are extra chapters that you can get by fulfilling certain requirements, some of which are nearly impossible to know beforehand. In FE6 they're important for the true ending, and they come after every major castle chapter, so you should make an effort to look up how to get them unless you're looking to replay the entire game.

Pre-promote here! Just wanted to stop by and say I love the video title. Boosting the algorithm and looking forward to more FE content.

i clicked on this video knowing damn near everything there is to know about GBA fire emblem and I still enjoyed it

Fire Emblem 6 is a good place to start since it's the first "normal" Fire Emblem. The games before it were more experimental, but everything from FE6 onward is pretty consistent. It was never officially released in the West though so you need to make sure you get the English fan translation.

its actually incredible how much of an impact this video has had on marias life because it got maria into fire emblem

I recently started Fire Emblem this summer and I did start with FE6. And I had a great time! Edit: I am also currently Playing FE7. I am almost done with the game. Edit 2: Yeah no I just saw the final boss of FE7 and im not even 30 seconds in. I aint watching this til I finish. Sorry. I hope there are not any other spoilers.

This is probably one of if not the only Fire Emblem I haven't played yet.

9:54 oh boy do I have to do this *Ahem * 🤓 AKTCHUALLY the brutal sleep mechanics you're talking about are present in Thracia 776 which is the previous installment to this one, in FE6 sleep is the same as the other GBA games

Some extras not mentioned in the video: Crits: different in different games. FE7 English/fe9 is double damage instead of triple i believe. The gba games have random other differences - like base weapon accuracies (see steel axe) and warp staff range is different formulas. Differences from newer games like 3h: there is more of a premium on prepromoted levels/weapon levels - there are no external trainings or infinite optional battles, so you can't take time out to grind up some units. Also i must protest that Bow units suck at least in fe6 ;) but i guess I'll wait for the tier list. Long awaited since i first learned you were a mekkah viewer:)

Finally a Fire Emblem one 😭

More Fire Emblem plz

Is your tier list gonna have Normal or Hard mode in mind? Because some units become a bit better or worse depending on which mode you are playing.

I wonder why you chose Binding Blade rather than Blazing Sword, aka the one with a built-in tutorial for us westerners since it was our first FE.

Oh? An entertaining pokemon youtuber wants to do another series I really like? I'm down for that

Other tips to keep in mind: -In the North American version of Blazing Sword, effective damage is only 2x. -For some bizarre reason, rapiers don't do effective damage against Nomads and Nomad Troopers in Binding Blade. -Beware of reaver weapons; especially with Battle Before Dawn. -Lances and axes have usually wonky accuracy in Binding Blade -Don't bother trying to level up Merlinus in Binding Blade; the method of leveling him there is far less convenient than in Blazing Sword. -FE7 Luna is broken as heck; FE8 Luna is practically useless. -In regards to Hector Hard mode chapter Genesis; ONLY do that chapter if you are going for the full ending and you have a backup save in the chapter before it. -Swordsmaster + Killing Edge = broken in Binding Blade (especially since swords fare far better in Binding Blade than in Three Houses). -Treat Summoners as a primarily supportive class in Sacred Stones. -Silver weapons have a low usage of 20 in the GBA games; save them up for the last few chapters! (They are ironically a bit too good in the GBA games; though Fates gave them too harsh of a penalty even for my own liking). EDIT: It's important to note an exception can be made for the silver lance that comes with Marcus or Seth. -EDIT: Continuing from the previous point; While you still need to be careful not to burn through that early game silver lance, don't be afraid to use it in a pinch. That especially is crucial in Binding Blade hard mode and Blazing Sword hard modes, where Marcus himself will be at his most important. -Steel weapons weren't really the mainstay type of weapon till the Tellius saga; they have been generally been reliable since then. In the GBA games, they are usually heavy; though they can still be decent for slower classes. Not to mention their durability is a tad bit too low during this era. -There are two Wolf Beils in Blazing Sword, but don't use the first one up too quickly. -Sol Kati is extremely heavy for Lyn. -Binding Blade only has one type of spawns; AMBUSH SPAWNS; meaning they attack on the same turn they show up on! -Normal mode in Blazing Sword is more akin to the hard modes of games since Shadow Dragon. -Normal mode in Binding Blade is akin to hard mode in Blazing Sword. Hard mode in Binding Blade is truly tough. -It's generally recommended to level up some units in Lyn hard mode even after the first time; to be better prepared for the unlockable Hector hard mode. Don't bother with Lyn normal mode after making it through Eliwood normal mode. Lyn hard mode doesn't constantly railroad your actions. -In Lyn hard mode, save that knight crest for someone other than Wallace in that mode; crest does not carry over into the other modes. -BEWARE of any 1% critical chance!. -Enemies have ABYSMAL luck in Sacred Stones and Blazing Sword (though it makes sense lore wise for morphs to have no luck; they are born unlucky). -Enemies are smarter on the GBA hard modes -Hand axes are your best friend on Hector Hard Mode (this was long before they were nerfed heavily by the time of New Mystery of the Emblem). -Heal even for one HP to get experience for healers. -Paladins have access to lances, swords, AND axes in Binding Blade and Blazing Sword! Talk about broken! In Sacred Stones, Great Knights were introduced to nerf paladins; Paladins only now use lances and swords. However; unlike in later games, Great Knights have rather low movement.

I have a playthrough of 8, with a lord like her, nothing can go wrong right?

I see Roy somehow has the buffed Rapier from Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones. His normal one is a lot shittier.

if i finish the game in the Zephiel´s chapter in normal, i wil be able to play this at hard difficulty??

The specifics of the damage and hit formulae can be good to know. This is just off the top of my head, so citation needed. Generally, Damage dealt = unit attack - enemy defense/Resistance (+1 if weapon triangle advantage, -1 at disadvantage, supports and terrain may also factor in) The (displayed) hit rate is calculated by taking the attacker's hit value, and subtracting the defender's avoid stat, as can be viewed on the stat screens. However, the hit and avoid stats themselves have already extrapolated from the unit's stats. Every point of skill increases Hit by 2 points, and increases crit by 1/2 a point (rounds down, so every 2 points increases crit by 1. This is why units with 0 luck face crit by any enemy with 2 or more skill.) Every point of speed increases avoid by 2. However, it calculates this based on attack speed, not the speed stat. That's why when lance wielded the javelin, it decreased his avoid, because it weighed him down, decreasing his attack speed, and his attack speed is then doubled as the avoid bonus. By the way, attack speed (AS) = unit speed - (weapon weight - unit con). However, if unit CON is greater than or equal to weapon weight, then AS = speed. This actually lets faster units who have excess speed stats 'trade in" those extra speed stats to wield a more powerful, but heavier weapon, and if they have enough extra speed they might still double! Shanna especially. So you can essentially trade in extra speed for power. Every point of luck increases critical avoid by 1. That is to say, attacker's critical chance in a combat is the attacker's total crit stat (can be seen on their stat screen) minus the defender's luck stat. (So if the enemy has 20 skill, you need 10 or more luck to mitigate the critical chance.) Additionally, every point of luck increases Hit by 0.5 and avoid by 1. (half-points are rounded down). So that means that for a unit with 10 luck, they will have +5 to hit, and +10 to avoid. It doesn't seem like much, but it adds up, especially if you get a unit with around 20 luck. 20 avoid? yes please! factor in true hit/2RN, and that can be equivalent to much more avoid and hit. And canto/move again also applies after every command that isn't attack, heal, or wait. So if you're mounted, you can rescue then move (Or move, rescue then move to reposition units), take and move, take then drop then move, trade then move, use an item and then move, visit a village, then move, buy items then move. And they're units who already have tonnes of move. It's a seriously amazing and versatile skill once you know how you can use it. Anyway, good guide! Of course there's always more that can be explained, but anyway. (Also, fe6 is probably the only game where using a wyrmslayer on a non-dragon enemy is not a bad strategy because the effective weapons have better stats than most of the regular weapons, especially the armorslayer and horseslayer!)

Is the FE6 Tier list going to assume Normal Mode, or Hard mode? Lots of units change between difficulties and Hard mode is a brutal difficulty. Reguardless, I have a unit to vouch for: Lot's not horrible. He's got decent, balanced growths with very high bulk and a top of the line 40% Defense growth with good support options to work with to help his primary weakness: Hit rates. Warrior Promotion speaks for itself, and Bows are decent in FE6, added with the fact it's a secondary instead of a primary? If he gets a few good levels off the bat he can contribute quite fairly.

I hate to be that guy, but I'm pretty sure the 2 RN system only applies to hit rates and not critical hits. I'm pretty sure that status staves use a single RN as well.

Here how “I personally Play the GBA fire emblem games” on hard mode - Binding blade you use Marcus to carry you to Rutger and then have him around until Miledy and Percieval joins. After that its easy game. - Blazing sword , you use Marcus to carry you thru the early game and have Oswin as the boss. You get good units like Raven , Heath , Hawkeye , and its gg. Also slam there Harken in case Raven gets RNG screwed or use both like I do - Sacred Stones , Seth … that is all

While you may not be a dragon, I can still get you with wind magic and bows.

NOICE

Safe to say that when weapons have weight, I much prefer having that subtract from strength (STR); as it's not as rigid as with CON in the GBA games.

I just tried to play main entry after heroes😮

I love GBA FE except for 6. I played it on real hardware with no savestates last year and I can't tell you how many times I had to reset because of a boss killing a vital unit with a lucky crit.

Looks like it's time to..... Let's engaging!!

Sleep in FE does not goes away if you get attacked, this is not the Garden Variety sleep from Final Fantasy. Your unit is useless for 5 turns.(but they can still dodge normally lol).

Its finally picking up in he west? What do you mean?

never played a fire emblem game (I've always personally preferred advance wars lol), but exp only going up to 100 reminds me a lot of paper mario, which is another intelligent systems series. also being able to move and attack ranged units on the same turn feels illegal to my advance wars brain

wyrmslayer would also be effective on charizard seeing as its just effective on scaly creatures and mounts and besides i can just use a blessed weapons cuz its effective against monsters and pokemon are pocket monsters

I hope that the Fire Emblem vids about the "later" games, will be themed like a dating simulator, due to the "enhanced" support convo system. Like, you can literally breed your units to make OP children, starting Fire Emblem Awakening, so its not even far fetched to say that its at least a way to make an easy game even more of a joke. I still love (almost) every games in the series tho, just like pokemon

This wasn't so bad at all! (I skipped the stats part)

Fire emblem has permanent death? I thought that when a characters HP hits zero you go to the title screen

Any more green glitches videos?

As someone who tried out a gba fire emblem game blind last year, this makes it a whole lot understandable why all my characters just died lmao

It's kinda like Final Fantasy Tactics (featuring Cloud Strife from the Kingdom Hearts series) but with Super Smash Bros.™ characters and without mathematicians that can nuke the entire battlefield, including their own team, out of existence in one turn. With the power of math.

why does Roy's rapier have 7 might? It's supposed to have 5?

I'm 100% a bench the Jeigen type. Seems so natural. A shame because if I recall, Titania was supposed to be good.

9:50 that's only in FE5 and they don't wake up even when attacked. In FE6 most status effects last 3 to 5 turns. That said berserk is propably the most punishing status effects in all of Fire Emblem and it shouldn't be understated how unfair it can feel for a new player. It's worth mentioning that there's no real reason to preserve Roy's rapier, since A) You can get another one and B) Roy will become obsolete long before you run out of both rapiers. Archers in GBA being generally understated is small issue compared to map design giving them no favors. It wouldn't be untill Fates where archers can take advantage of the maps layout and their stats resemble actual units. Advocating using a dancer for begginer players is ill advised. While they greatly reward good positioning, they also severely punish bad positioning (most dancers die in one hit), so it's important to first get the basics of how to move and create safe zones for your frailer units where they can't get attacked by enemies. Otherwise they'll only be a source of frustration. Jagen (or in this case Marcus) is new player's best friend. He's like a kindergarten teacher - Roy, Alan and Lance can play around with bandits and if they would get slapped too hard, he can come in and ensure they won't get killed on enemy phase. "Stealing" exp is not a thing unless you play LTC (low turn count) and try to seize every map as quickly as possible. If you play casually there's more than enough exp to get whoever you need (or like the most) up to speed. And it's not just in FE6, that's the case in every FE game. Marcus can take 10, 20, 30 kills and that's fine, especially in FE6 which doesn't have many stand out units. And finally FE6 is not a game i would recommend to begginer player. Between low hitrates, weak player units, ambush reinforcements and some absurd difficulty spikes, it is propably second most new player hostile FE game after Thracia.

I think that the 2 rn s started in Fe7 and is not in Fe6. I could be wrong but I believe Fe6 has a different hit rate than other gba

My #1 piece of advice is that if you're planning on using hard saves and not save states, don't make any at the very start of the game on accident. And if you do, for the love of Marcus, do not forget you aren't using states load it when you're 14 chapters into your hard mode playthrough and doing really well

Pre-waifu-era fire emblem THE TUTORIAL. Yay

I dont have enough time for fire emblem, I already have Utawarerumono

My favorite part of FE6 is how they sideline their best character. Cecilia.

Well...frick. i guess I have something else to use that emulator for other than Pokemon and Dungeon Dice Monsters.

My wyrmslayers might not get you, but I have something better... A mine and an off button!

Charizard is the final Boss of the entire Fe franchise except for Fe10 where you send God to horny jail and Fe5 and 1/4 of Fe3H where you beat down a old man.

Wow! I didn't know the GBA has mouse cursors! Such technology, not even the Switch can match it!

Question, do you think Roy is the worst lord in the franchise or not? I personally say yes. At least Micaiah can heal.

I don't suppose you know anyone able to hack raident dawn. I desire true pain and suffering and want the final boss modded

16:55 "arguably"

Btw sleep is not permanent in fe6 it only lasts 4 turns. And it doesn't reduces all of your stats to 0 like in th**cia.

I took everything I learned here, dusted off my DS lite and shadow dragon copy and somehow got jagen and shiida killed within 5 minutes. I am an incompetent. :')

Green Glitches?

The ai really likes attacking things it can kill even it can't hit like the almighty theif in a forest or the 1 true God among men the 1 hp phantom but to get him you're gonna need some stones you need to have some sacred stones

Unless if your Seth from Sacred Stones. Dear God that unit could solo the game I bet 🤣 “ dancers can’t attack” unless if you Azura with 60% Atk.

not even gonna lie, the first time I played FE6, I fought the Ch2 boss for 17 turns bc my Dieck and Marcus couldn't hit the boss and he couldn't hit them for 16 turns.

I played fire emblem once in 5 fps on a horrible ds emulator. I got through one encounter and that took probably over an hour. Never touching it again!

I don't mind more FE content, it's probably a nice break for you & you get to talk about something different

Build an army! Trust nobody! Fire emblem!

It is sad that Roy Skill is 50%, that should be at least 55% and Speed 45%