loved the tier list !! would you ever consider doing something like a team comp/build review video or series? We could submit screenshots from in game or a google sheet of the units we use, their class, emblem, weapons, and inherited skills?

Looking forward to the DLC version of this :)

Keeping the Engage train rolling - lets goooooooo 🎉🎉

Great video as always.I agree with your meta game analysis. I have 4 maddening clears and one build I think you should try is mauvier reclassed to hero with Michaia and dual assist + and levin sword. He becomes a heal bot with great chain attack range and can do some decent magic damage in a pinch. Great utility unit

You forgot to mention Blue Skies +. When the Erika user is engaged Gentility and Bravery is combined for all users giving them attack +5 AND incoming damage -5. This is great if the Erika user is a Martial Master or a brave weapon user because that means they will be engaged for most of the map. This makes the Erika user also a party buffer depending on the team comp. I think I would bump up Gentility to S tier because of that.

Draconic Hex is 100% S tier!

Feel like favorite food is at least C tier. Giving it to your Byleth user then having the ability to get another goddess dance after using sedall to restore their turn after eating to give your units another turn is pretty big I feel.

i happen to really like alacrity, even on maddening ive seen alear able to proc base alacrity on a lot of mages and mounted units, and its really made the difference allowing him to one round without taking damage from the counter attack. not game breaking, but i'd personally put it at least in B

Alacrity++ inherited with Eirika ring equipped on a Flashing Fist user is insanely good actually, ensure you can kill your target and never get hit.

Bow Focus IS MASSIVE to hit those endgame Swordmasters and Griffin knights, its a must for Fogado imo

A fun build would be hold out+++, Nosferatu on Hortensia and have her as a utility unit who can survive anything and give her holy stance++ for extra damage. Her love defense makes it so that the enemy deals high damage to themselves. Not sure if it is the most effective, but it is alot of fun.

Healing light is at least good. Letting your Qi Adept chain guard into heal, and back to chaining without having to use a vulnerary is great.

Arms Shield++ is kind of funny to me actually, considering that I had it inherited to Framme. I learned that since Martial Masters have weapon advantage over all ranged weapons, you’d be able take 7 less damage from all ranged attacks, and I was right lol. Only problem is she can’t counterattack at range, but Elsurge and 1-range daggers are niche yes, but not a problem at all for Framme

holy shit its finally here

Me commenting on a video earlier: "We must be nearing the end of the Engage content." Coffee: *Has released 2 Engage vids since then*

On ch 25 or bow team maddening run. Found that leif is great with alcryst bonded sheild on dmg boosted mini bow for up close and longbow/silver bow. Player phase uses lunar brace, enemy phase uses solar brace or whatever the flat dmg buff is with luna

Luna/gentility is really good if you have your eirika user enemy phase tank its almost always blue skies eclipse brace. Both of those skill should be high s tier when proced. Speedtaker is deffo the best skill in game but limited to 1-2charas only but its really all you need in maddening.

Resonance is actually mostly there for the Echo engage ability and combos with the spell Nova, which has a Brave effect and only 5 base might. Using Echo and Nova with Resonance’s +3 damage, assuming you have enough speed to double, will yield 8 attacks with +3 damage for each attack, for a total of +24 damage. It’s not something you’d inherit simply because it’s already on the emblem that has Echo.

Tried to do a favorite food build with my bonded shield qi adept framme but the problem was she would never take damage unless i attacked someone with the fists. Then at that point i would be building up meter anyway

So overall there isn't much I would change in this. The main thing I'd argue is putting Draconic Hex in S tier for the sole reason of completely negating certain bosses. Like Evil Alear on Chapter 24 in theory should be a really hard and difficult boss, but because they only have 1 range weapons, draconic hex just immediately makes them irrelevant and you can just attack from 2 spaces away and not fear them revenging you. Also, this is specifically for the fell xenolouge, but tome stance (i think thats what its called) is kinda broken in the fell xenolouge because every enemy is corrupted so you just get insane bonus damage all the time. but again, thats in a very specific situation so it still probably belongs in C tier, but its arguably A or S for just the fell xenolouge imo

Maybe it is just bias or my playstyle, but out of 3 runs, advance has been used all 3 times and it never felt like a waste. With the fact that a lot of units have 1-2 ranges, I find myself ending turn just outside of their reach, and advance closes that gap, especially to mages and archers. It also ignores movement debuff on special tiles, so one more plus. 500 is also low enough that it doesn't feel like a loss when it inevitably gets replaced in end game. Mainly because you spend a ton of sp putting one good skill on them, that you end up not being able to afford another, so I just default to advance.

divine pulse actually synergies well with the micaiah ring, since the chances for it to activate increase with a higher luck stat (which micaiah emblem raises). it came in clutch on my maddening run ch 21 when i was able to entrap zephia thanks to DP activating and made the rest of that chapter extremely easy. sooo imo divine pulse definitely A tier, or B tier at the bare minimum

I get that Panette crit builds aren’t your thing, but I just want to talk about enchanter being broken for a sec: weapon surge gives you +20 crit on axes. So you weapon surge an engraved killer axe, she gets hit once, and she’s at 100% crit with wrath. I’m running Rafal right now, so I gave him another killer axe since his passive also boosts crit. Slap speedtaker on them and they’re a perfectly fine choice for bonded shield enemy phasing, and will kill things instantly on player phase. Honestly, isn’t 3x damage from 100% crits better than 2x damage from consistent doubling? I’m half joking because it’s not as flexible at all but it is very fun

Do you ever play Advance Wars By Web? I feel like you would make some killer content.

i'd definitely advocate for dual support on alear - it's much more cost effective than avoid+30 in terms of SP and simutaneously much more efficient and this enables units like alear to just sink into the ground and be unhittable while proccing their passive on an adjacent bonded shield unit

I barely use most of these skills besides Canter, Spd + X, Weapon power. A few underrated skills: Favorite Food. Give it to whoever is the Byleth user, getting another Goddess Dance active fast is great, you can intentionally take dmg by standing on a Corrin Flame tile when idling. It's super cheap 200 SP for Alear or Yunaka Bylethbot. Divine pulse+: this works even on staves like Entrap, you can turn a 0% Entrap on like Micaiah in her paralogue to suddenly 70%+ chance and cheese the map. Not all bosses are immune to Entrap, you can even Entrap Sombrero. It's fairly cheap at 250 or 500 for the + version compared to +30 hit absurd 2500 SP cost. A few skills that I don't know if you would inherit it. Speedtaker, usually +5 spd is already enough to reach important doubling benchmarks, whoever equips Lyn already gets speedtaker. Inheriting it on more units puts a strain on the player, as that means you have to feed more units a kill every turn to even match +5 spd. Another advantage to Spd + X is that you don't have to spend 2k SP all in one go, you can first buy Spd +3 for 500 SP and later upgrade it to +4 and +5 spd after you cleared the easy Lyn paralogue and farmed enough SP. Dragonic Hex, it's too expensive and it doesn't help one rounding. It's good against bosses, but whoever has Corrin has it for free. Dragonic Hex doesn't stack. So having more than 1 user feels redundant.

When should you use gentility be strength?

for Eirika passives: Moon mode is damage based on enemy DEF as bonus damage and flat damage reduction Sun mode is healing based on a % of damage dealt during player phase and flat bonus damage And engaged mode gives both. Moon mode is S tier and Sun mode is B tier. That damage reduction and insane damage boost is wild!

As an Ephraim fan, it is nice to see bravery above lunar brace.

Your sleeping a bit on divine pulse, yes the bond fragments cost a lot but it’s dirt cheap for sp and it basically makes you never miss. I’m running it on pannette who has a around 55% hitrate with Ike engrave on brave axe and it rarely doesn’t activate. Her luck stat isn’t even good so I would image with a high luck rate you would always proc it

i’ve been waiting for this 🫶

So I rarely use armored units. Do they stay at 4 move after promotion? If they do advance might be okay for them over other units The other thing I noticed was with resolve+. I know you love ike on timerra so you likely didn't notice, but I prefer edelgard on timerra, so inheriting resolve+ on timerra is +7 damage toward sandstorm. So having her inherit it and use a different emblem (edelgard/maybe hector or lief) its def a big help

I was in the middle of typing a comment that you should have had ok/sit in the same bracket as opposed to bad right when you decided to change it.

How do you even inherit bravery and solar brace? I check Eirika inheritance only gentility and lunar brace available to purchase. Are we getting bravery as well if we purchase gentility and solar brace with lunar brace?

hi, if i want to inherit axe 5 for rosado, I need to have the bond lvl of Roy of the skill on Rosado right ? lvl 5 isn't enough ?

mister coffee going for the highest amount of truths spit in 1 hour world record with this video

I gave weapon shield to seadal for tomes bows and dagger defense

Why is Bravery and Solar Brace in this video? Unless I'm missing something you can only inherit Lunar Brace and Gentility and can't switch without Eirika equipped.

this game really needed ore skills slots , since there are so many situational skills that cant make the cut with only 2 slots

I give Advance to sword units because the only non engage sword that has 1-2 range is the levin sword

Gentility only flips with Eirika

inheriting skills is cool

Using a dragon vein definitely triggers Quality Time, I run Corrin on Yunaka for fog spam and she quality times every time. Time with Yunaka is quality time every time my guy.

Brave Defenses is from marth lol :P which u seem to know but said "from ike" at first haha. I think Unyielding is actually terrible. It sounds good on paper, but when I ran it (on most of my units) on maddening. (You know, in its "environment") it literally did nothing. It may have procced like 3-5 times at most. And maybe was what Id call "useful" at like 1-3 times maybe. Useful being "Oh, that unit has HP now that I couldn't heal on my player phase, nice." Otherwise I just healed on my own, making the skill pointless and a waste of skill points lol Divine Pulse is also essentially Staff Mastery except basically better. Anytime you want staff mastery for hit fixing, you should just go with Divine Pulse+. Ive used Pair Up a few times, and it essentially allows your "true tanks" like your general or great knight to sit at a choke and never get chain attack'd to death, which can be good for holding off an entire group of enemeies until youre ready to deal with them. Also, crit Panette is incredible, even on maddening she can solo half the map for you lol And yes, on enemy phase, so shes nearly a second bonded shield all in one unit. Thats insane. You can have one real bonded shield on one front, then Panette on the other and everything dies.

If you like or have no problems doing so getting Reposition as an inherit skills means you can just spam it in a map without pulling a boss and go from level 10 bond to 20 bond in 1 map with any character, save you a ton of Bond Fragments, personal preference though.

I realised thid became organizing these based on if they were "Good" or "Bad" and so the middle tiers ended up pretty empty.

Ok, but what about the bond ring skills?

I’m not really good at this game but isn’t build + being slept on a little? Enabling slower units to not get doubled and faster units to one round easier just seems like the most useful thing in this FE. Not to mention bld + 3 is cheap at 500 and can be gotten early game and is useful on every combat unit. I just in theory don’t see any downsides. I ask because I just reset my run and I’m about to put it on a few units.

Divine pulse needs to be higher. Insanely cheap to inherit, and it affects offensive staves. I always run it on ivy and i never need to use engraves specifically for her because of it. Dont sleep on divine pulse

This basically feeds in to how damage dealing units should be evaluated these days. If a unit, up to the end of a maddening run with endgame stat creep, cannot consistently reach one round benchmarks (62 phys attack with non brave, 45 phys attack with brave, your one unit with Corrin engrave, 56 Magic Attack, 37 speed) even with both skill slots dedicated to stat fixing: Unit = Bad. This benchmark is for non speedster enemies so not Wolf Knights, not Swordsmasters, not Griffins, not Wyverns. You should ideally have a unit that's also a super speedster to deal with these types of enemies (Already fast unit with Lyn/Speedtaker), but speaking in a more general case. Oh, and for some reason Halberdiers are slightly too tanky and fall outside of this benchmark too by a couple of damage points iirc. If a unit can, up to the end of a maddening run with endgame stat creep, consistently reach one round benchmarks provided that both skill slots are dedicated to stat fixing: Unit = Mediocre If a unit can, up to the end of a maddening run with endgame stat creep, consistently reach one round benchmarks but with only one skill slot dedicated stat fixing (meaning you're free to take Canter/Avoid/or whatever for the second slot): Unit = Good If a unit can, up to the end of a maddening run with endgame stat creep, consistently reach one round benchmarks but with only one skill slot dedicated stat fixing that is not Speedtaker which you have to build up: Unit = Great If a unit can, up to the end of a maddening run with endgame stat creep, consistently reach one round benchmarks but with 0 skill slots dedicated stat fixing. Unit = Busted (These don't exist outside of starsphere and Divine Paralogue EXP). Numbers for the interested: www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/11pgc9t/fe_engage_weapon_analysis_how_to_orko/

Why use hit +30 when divine pulse+ halves your miss chance so you can land impossible hits?

its missing the skill Wrath.

If your getting alacrity plus plus to already proc speedtaker is literally worthless

So I beat the game once, and I'm on chapter 23 maddening on my 2nd run and I only just learned that these inheritable skills are not passive skills you can get by equipping emblems....ugh.

Dual Assist is S Tier for me because it works with knives. Everytime you get a Dual Assist, you get one more poison.

YOU FORGOT "X SKILL"

If Lindon's personal skill weapon Insight (if units weapon is of a lower rank than foes, gain +20 crit) was on a more physically oriented units, than Killer Edge, sword power combos would be insane!😃

You forgotten Veronicas skills

This guy just said atacking twice first (Alacrety) is ok... The one skill that lets you always ohko anything in the game with speed taker..... CoOL you know what your talking about.

Draconic Hex on 2-3 units makes Maddening 10000000 x easier

Momentum is C ? It's good damage, often more than power skills early on Hit +N and Divine Pulse are not bad, maddening hit rates are pretty low Advance is really useful, it's a cheap skill that can give you a lot of utility Wtf would you ever inherit hold out or vantage ? Both are situational skills that only come up in (pretty bad and unreliable) enemy phase builds. Just equip the relevant emblem on whatever poor soul will have to rely on this shit Canter and Reposition should be right there at the top of S with speed +N. Those are the most powerful skills that you will inherit on everyone 99% of the time. Speedtaker is mid and constrains your gameplay too much Draconic Hex and Dual Assist are also too low. Those are almost mandatory and extremely powerful skills that make your life much easier Power skills are fine in S but still a bit expensive, even with the well. Realistically only 1-2 of your best units will get them at high level, and they are only worth it if you commit hard Mentorship is ultra filler but D tier is too low. It's splashable on a juggernaut who will get a level lead anyway, and works on arena XP

I would put speed +5 in C tier, but above Build +5 You only get 2 custom passive slots and there are much better passives to run over speed increase. I rather just give someone a ring that gives speed as its stats and make use of better passives on the character. Also, avoid +30 is B tier, you really only need one dedicate dodge tank and one true tank like a General, and the dodge tank is solved with a high speed user on a fast class with Micaiah engrave; like Lapis on Wolf Knight using a Micaiah engraved silver dagger and a passive that gives +10 avoid just for standing next to any ally and has good supports for even more avoid. Give her Lucina ring and call it a day, frees up room for other, better passives to run.