This challenge took me so long to beat but my god was it fun! Let me know if you guys have any other Fire Emblem Challenge ideas!

"not even a single one of his soldiers had lost their lives" Rodrigue: Then what am I? Felix: A true knight

i always save before i choose my dancer when i play blue lions just so i can hear dimitri voice his anger "What?! curse you, Professor. I will of cource accept, but know that you have damned us all"

No physical damage maybe. Emotional damage still critical. Thankfully Gatekeeper is there to heal all wounds.

"I taught them the only thing I could... genocide" -Byleth probably

“A bunch of fifteen year olds” Actually most of them are older except for Lysithe- Lysithea: STOP TREATING ME LIKE A CHILD!

I remember doing a funny challenge where I played blue lions but literally used everyone who WASN'T in the Blue lions. And then wanting to kill myself in the first post timeskip battle

Its worth mentioning that its not just the increased growths that buff Dmitri's stats - each class has a set of "base" states, and when you unlock a class if your stats are lower than that class's base they get increased to the base. High Lord's base stats are pretty good. And then Dmitri gets 19 levels of good growths.

Man’s really said “can’t touch this”

When I first heard he wasn’t gonna be training dimitri, my first thought was “Is he relying on post timeskip auto level up?” And lo and behold, I was right.

I was going to ask why Dimitri wasn't at full hp, so I'm glad you explained it. Well done!

The fact you struggled to say Ladislava and ultimately called her lasagna had me dead 🤣

Dimitri is literally the most broken unit in the game. Broken mentally, yes, but I mean unit wise. It's been a while since I've played this game, but I played Black Eagles route first, then did the Abyss. The Abyss quest gave me a Chalice Item that allows melee units to counter attack, regardless of distance. I played Blue Lion next, and I kid you not, Dimitri straight up bulldozed through the whole game. He had the Chalice, with a high crit weapon (any weapon mind you- didn't even have to be a lance), his signature Battalion at 35, and I think Battalion's Wrath, and Battalion's Vantage? He'd crit counter attack before the enemy could even think about attacking. The game from that point on just became less about strategy and more about just deploying Dimitri in the square that aggros the most enemies and skip to end turn. Afterwards I couldn't replicate this with any other unit as they were missing either the skills, or high personal damage(?), not sure. But suffice it to say, Dimitri truly is broken. Which is a shame because other Blue Lions are so good as well. But you are less incentivized to invest in them, since why would you when you don't need anything other than Dimitri?

How quirky of Edelgard to start a war

I love FE3H and it’s mechanics so much that it made me interested in doing challenge runs- someone who often gives up on hardest difficulty runs of games midway through. I applaud you for doing something so time consuming and difficult! Blue Lions gang!

New Game+ can lead to shenanigans that you can create with multiple NG+ runs stacking. For example, give Byleth gauntlets and watch the enemy just die.

The story you can craft with this run is hilarious. Love it.

“But f*ck it, we ball.”

"Lasagne" fucking killed me. Thank you.

Shoutout to Dedue for being based

Man and here I thought I had nothing better to do with leveling Malos to Level 99 in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. My deepest respect for you, Pal.

If maddening mode poison archers were normalized, this challenge would be impossible

This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen done in this game if not the single most impressive, that’s a subscribe from me. Great work man.

Awesome job! I did the same challenge myself on Golden Deer Hard mode, and I'm excited to see how our strategies differ! I can't imagine this being possible against Hegemon Edelgard, but clearly it is! Edit: Oh my god I actually got a shoutout in the video lmao thank you so much! Edit 2: Oh interesting, Hanneman and Manuela don't move on Normal mode. They were the one obstacle I couldn't figure out how to clear without using DLC, so I ended up allowing it for my challenge in the end. > Chapter 3 Sucks Totally agree, I only managed to beat it because I got mega lucky. Regarding not getting Lysithea in time for Chapter 6, I wonder if it would be possible to get Hapi to learn Warp by then? She's a guaranteed recruit no matter what route you pick so it would become incredibly reliable. I'm surprised you didn't use Cyril considering how powerful Point-Blank Volley is, but I guess that's hardly necessary when you have Swift Strikes from Sylvain and Seteth! I used my Cyril so much that Sylvain and Seteth just couldn't catch up when they finally learned Swift Strikes. Oh jeez, so much dodgetanking required in the final chapter. I forgot that Royal Lineage+ gave an avoid boost though! Certainly makes it more reliable that way. I might try doing the challenge again on Black Eagles Maddening with Ferdinand von Aegir, who has a similar personal skill. I'll probably use NG+ if I do, though. Hard was already Maddening enough!

Glad you chose Blue Lions Hands down the best one of the stories :)) Keep up the good work mate

Thank god you didn’t try maddening with the numbers and poison strike alone it would be impossible

thanks algorithmic overlord for showing this to me & thanks jbr for the fun content

Challenge runs are always so fun to watch. Especially when they're down to the wire in those last few moments. You're amazing, have my like and my sub!

This is probably the most powerful fire emblem player I've ever seen

A bit of planning he says... Just a bit. O. o (You're going to be reloading an awful lot, huh?) Thank you for that man; I needed the laugh. Personally when I played this I tended to go either armored knight for def gain, or assassin for speed. (I only play games on the easiest difficulty anyway - I'm not a masochist, or I'd play Dark Sols ; ) ) Pair that with a bit of time in Bishop for Renew and you're pretty hard to beat. I also tended to like unarmed. [Yes, I am one of those crazy bastards that likes to use my fists whenever a game will actually let me... so maybe I should amend the above statement? Oh well...] * It sucks that the sword of the creator only got 20 uses. I would have perferred it was the one item that had unlimited durability. {I know you could build Corrin to get there in Fates, but it was REALLY niche to pull off, and frankly of course you could in the one game that had unbreakable god weapons}

Now do it again, but with only using Faith magic! It's okay to start this challenge after the prologue, as it's LITERALLY impossible to beat that map with Faith magic... Not only does none of your characters know a single spell, Jeralt isn't even able to kill the boss!

This was AMAZING. I was on the edge of my seat at the final map and definitely have some info to help me with my newly reignited wish to finally actually beat Three Houses lol. Just have to get my switch charger back from the roomie(you can only hook it up to the tv if it's plugged in with the charger and his is elsewhere most of the time). Congrats on such an awesome run! And I was absolutely giggling over "Uwu Kawaii Sensei" Byleth.

Decided to comment since you chose Blue Lions/Azure Moon, my favorite 3H route for challenge runs. The early maps of this challenge were quite interesting to watch. Unfortunately, 3H itself just devolves into a warp skip, stride, 1 turn game very quickly on, so it feels much easier to beat a challenge like this when about half the maps can be cheesed this way. Even so, bravo on the dedication to your challenge. At first I was surprised you didn't use the broken Dimitri battalion wrath/vantage combo to cheese this route. Especially considering how helpful that strategy would have been for your goal of never taking damage. But I suppose you didn't even want to damage the battalion even off screen on a grind map, so that strategy wasn't possible.

I have not really paid attention cause I still have to play this game and don't really wanna be spoiled, but still listened to it, and it's amazing what you did. Great Job!

This was so fun, yet stressful, to watch! The last attack against Edelgard (Without Divine Pulse!!) was insane! You did amazing. I would never have the patience XD

Ya know, I subscribed to you when you said how hard you worked to make this video. I did enjoy it, and I hope you get something for the fruit of your efforts! Being a good entertainer is hard, and I wish you the best.

New viewer here! This is such a brilliantly crafted video, and I enjoyed every minute of it! Looking forward to your future projects! :D

Wow! I thought for sure Myson at least would get you. This is awesome! Not even DBD could stop you. Impressive.

Props for killing the death knight. Great video man

11:35 I just know you intentionally said that wrong 🥹

Hot damn! Well done!

I surprised by how little views this has considering the effort that went into it. Its a good video!

Honestly love the content it’s such a vibe ☺️

at exactly 8:21 on the video I caught a shiny absol and named it after you and it was on my first day hunting for it too. i was like 2 hours into the hunt and got it at like 146 encounters.

What difficulty did you play on? :D Edit: based on HP values from chapter 1, it was Normal. You can check with HP for anyone interested; for example, Dorothea having 24 HP means she's a level 3, based on her growths and class.

Ik you won't see this, but with regular use, Constance learns bolting around chapter 10, letting her cheese pretty much any boss kill map.

you competitive homie

This Makes Me want to Play Blue Lions/Azure Moon Route Again. This was my first route so my Builds were..... Not Fantastic. XD But Now, Thanks to your Pro Gamer Skills, I'm Getting back into it While giving Dimitri Broken Dps Skills. XD

that was rad. Great work

Insanity doesn’t even begin with this bro, good fuckin shit

In the Great bridge chapter, you can ignore the dude and all the guys he spawns with behind you, fucker flees if you take it Ladislava

9:00 I was scared remembering maddening archers always do 10% chip damage.

My Dimitri got to lvl 50 in my Blue Lions playthrough Felix and Sylvain were also really good.

Holy crap! I also love fire emblem three houses, we have so much in common we should like totally get married

Fun challenge and commentary

I have beaten Chapter 16 in one turn before. It’s a pain, though, mostly because Ladislava has a ridiculous avoid rate and the Aurora Shield she has negates bonus damage from bows unless you have a Thief steal it (and good luck getting more than one unit to her). I don’t blame you for not one-turning it. Even the unit positioning was tough for me to figure out, let alone pull off.

My go to unit has always been Bernadetta. She hits EVERYTHING and smokes even heavy armor units (WTF). Everytime I always get her… also, best girl. But that’s barely a factor when she can literally carry half the battles if you level her correctly.

"I forgot chapter 15 but its a one turn warp skip" Ah yes, the Fire Emblem classic.

Lmao Byleth surviving a war without scratches. What a mockery to that

At 30:07 doesn't Petra use Poison Tactic to damage Dimitri? Unless I'm missing something? Amazing video regardless, I hope there are plans for more!

Sacred Shield actually negates damage from ALL ranged attacks, magic included. The description for it is wrong for some reason.

Algorithm manipulating comment

19:07 I've said this to myself waaay too many times my friend, way too many times

19:03 plt accurate xD

2:22 correct me if I'm wrong but is the user in the top left referencing PBG?

29:29 Ayo?

Hey!! Great job with the challenge run, was very entertaining and congrats on all the creativity. Quick q, I just wanted to ask why it shows at 27:00 ish Yuri taking dmg from a gambit

I think black eagles would be easiest for this. Ferdinand can be the best dodge tank in the game with his personal, sword prowess, and access to dancer with sword avo + 20. Put some work into flying to get the extra dodge from alert stance. Basically unhittable. Edelgards relics combat art basically allows her to cheese a ton of maps. Also no reunion at dawn so you don’t have to deal with elaborate cheese or insane luck

That last map absolutely broke me on my maddening run. I managed to reach Edelgard after hours but could for the life of me not complete it without people dying. Had to resort to cheats and felt tainted

Im just cavemanning Maddening as in ooga booga battalion wrath vantage ive never realized why Dimitri's avoid rate ranges. I forget that the lords skills evolves after timeskip.

9:10 Is it stupid that I assumed this was Maddening mode until this point and realized the archers don't have Poison Strike?

Ladislava's a real name. Bless all you lasagnas out there!

2:00 "and other 16 year olds" Mercedes being 22: 👀

5:13 i'd say hilda and lysithea (ik I spelled it wrong but shh)

For demonic Edelgard, I used gremory's teleport on my Byleth next to her then One shotted her with a Crit resulting to a 1 turn Victory on this map ! (My Byleth was under steroids 😂😂😂😂)

19:01 JBR Channel - 2022

You want a real fight? *N O W, D O I T O N M A D D E N I N G*

Did you collect the March Ring from the Flayn's Missing chapter?

I breathed an audible sigh of relief when you beat Edelgard

How did you mess up so many names when this game has voice acting?

If the percentages are to be believed, this is theoretically possible without much effort if you're really lucky

Cool, now try it in Shadows of Valentia

Chad

goddamnn

Had to have taken damage when losing an eye.

now do it on maddening 😎 cool vid tho

God damn

No damage runs are brutal. Pokemon says hello. 👋

I wonder why i didn't see poisen Strike in your gameplay. Cause you sad it's maddening but I could see archers hitting and don't activate it.

What difficulty was this on?

This is probably addressed later in the video but I think only 3 characters are minors before the time Skip LMAO

10:24-10:26 me. ❤😊

They are all 18 at least except Lys

Did you say what difficulty it is?

13:00

I think I missed something...what difficulty was this done on?

So what. Do awakening with zero growths on lunatic plus. I did. I only lost 4weeks of my life.

LIES! I know we all choose Blue Lions because of Mercedes!

I know this is petty, but they're not 15 years old. Only Lysithea is. Everyone else is 16 and up! Mercedes is the oldest one, being 22 at the beginning of the game.

You absolute madman. I always wondered if this was even possible without god RNG. Now do it on maddening.