> be fiona > best stat is speed > gets doubled by everything

“The first PoR character Ilyana” … poor Sothe being bullied for never being deployed in PoR

Looking forward to the discussion on Gatrie's 60% speed growth

I just gotta say, been listening to this series out of order and the music choices have been amazing, good game taste

Really goes to show just how bad most of the units in the Dawn Brigade are, which makes sense given they are just a bunch of kids who picked up weapons. I like that basically all of the good units in Part 1 are experienced soldiers you meet throughout the journey or Sothe/Nolan who are experienced fighters.

That was an amazing video. I can tell the amount of time you've invested into this game. Can't wait for the next parts.

I wished the bad units like Meg, Leonardo or Fiona would "compensate" by them having like a bigger Skill points pool to give them more skills or "unique" skills only them can have but that's really awful. I did tried to get Meg to like her 3rd tier and she was unable to do anything in the tower at the end game, it's just that awful how this game is so unbalanced with the units. Like the Dawn Brigade has absolutely zero advantages on actually focus and train them to the end aside from Micaiah and Sothe and these two are simply because you are FORCED to bring them out in the end. However perhaps Ilyana does some good as an Archmage because she is a natural counter to Dragons and she is the only unit that is able to use Rexbolt. But that's it, she's still a somewhat glorified healer. The Dawn Brigade characters are mostly good for one purpose like Aran is able to tank fairly well, but that's just it they're all terribly one-dimensional.

Aran is probably one of those units in Radiant Dawn, who benefits the most from BEXP.

Tauroneo underrated. as marshal, he carries the dawn brigade through the tough part 3 maps EZ 💯

Okay but for Ilyana have you considered that I love her and she deserves to eat all the Speedwings because she's my hungry little Blorbo? (Okay the Greil Mercs may not need the items but they DO appreciate the gold you can sell those items for. Especially for the chapter where you get the Silver Card.)

lol. Me waiting for the next Fe6 ironman video only to get this video. A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one. Edward S tier lets get it!

IT IS TIME. BEGIN THE MADNESS.

Personally I'm a big fan of promoting Leonardo at level 10, then just using him as a chip and Crossbow bot. He also does well in 1-E thanks to the Ledges. I don't think you can get any more value than that out of him. I personally put him at the very bottom of C tier when used like this, because it's next to no investment for a unit that is okay, similar to Edward in early game. Edit: also think Ilyana should be at the very bottom of B, because with an early promotion, Resolve and a Forge she can reliably one round most enemies in part 1. You'd want a forged Thunder anyway for Part 3, so it's not taking up any resources. If you want to use Resolve on Zihark instead, then she can use Wrath for a 60-70% chance to one shot everything. She's around for so much of the game, and can do something in almost every map she's in with just a little bit of investment.

Since you mentioned it, there IS a patch to get enemy ranges (and other things) into Hard Mode via the FE10 randomizer. It has a standalone program that just adds Hard Mode changes without any randomization, so you should try looking for that, IMO.

I can be incorrect but there's a conversation between Ike and the black knight during 3-7 where black knight explains that his blessing on his armor is gone.

Back in the day, i was insane enough to deploy some very weak Units on Chapter 4 maps, that i barely used until that point and i also used some very bad ones during this playthrough. Some journeys were wild. My Lv.4 Swordmaster Zihark for example, could actually tank a Tiger attack(Izuka chapter, normal mode) with 1HP and he also managed to kill it. I left him there, healed him, he went on to a training arc against more Tigers and this chad turned himself into a Lv.6 Trueblade after a while, who was very reliable at killing Tigers.

THE DAWN BRIGADE! Lesgo!

Whilst I generally like the Radiant Dawn scaling system its shocking just how badly some of the cast get screwed for caps. They couldn't have just unlocked Meg's speed or something so that 90% of her levelups weren't literally useless?

1:17:51 Jill gets overrated because people just dump all of their BEXP and stat boosters on her as soon as she joins and somehow don't call that favoritism

Love the use of FF12 music

God finally the question if its the dawm brigate is answered

I mostly enjoy normal mode in RD. Hard mode to me isn’t really more challenging, just more frustrating. I’d say you underrated Leonardo (he’s C tier to me) and underrated Sothe. Leonardo has no growth prospect (even in normal, without crazy investment). However, he’s always useful until part 4. He does solid chip damage in part 1, where he will get tons of free XP (less in hard). This lets you feed Nolan kills (or Jill, or whoever). There’s almost no enemy 2 range to retaliate in part 1. I’m part 3 his bow will let him 1 round hawk laguz, untransformed laguz, or just hold ledges really well. I end up using him until part 4 most playthroughs (he has no 2-range comp). Sothe is the most important unit in the game. He just sucks part 4.

Aran is underrated, he is one of the few DB members with high def growth and can get a real tank over the course of part 3, I even rate him good as Nolan.

I 100% disagree with the placement of Nailah. Although her availability isn’t perfect, every time she appears, she will 99% of the time kill anything in her path. I thinking anything less than high A tier is a crime, and she should be put into S tier imo.

Hi, ARAN should be D tier near E. Always dying and not accomplish anything and missing also easy hits. Edward in normal mode or hard mode should be B

FE10 is also my favorite game too although i only finished it once while I beat GBA 3 games more than 20 times

I need part 2 😢

Meg is heavy enough to shove Sothe, which by itself is more useful than anything Leonardo can do in part 1.

psyche of the average 3h fan greater than one of engage fan but not by much

Leonardo its amazing in hard-lunatic early game no cope no joking ni meming its the best investment prologue to first part of the game

Definitely gonna disagree with that Jill placement, 2nd best unit behind Haar no questions asked. You said S tier was for people who are nuts without investment but even people like Haar and Titania need investment to reach their potential. Haar’s base speed is only 20, and his cap is 24 which is definitely iffy on hard mode. He needs a swift promotion to double and one round everything. I usually give him the speedwing from 2-3 by giving it to Marcia and then having Haar use it in 2-E, and then all the bexp from 2-3 usually allows him to cap his speed in tier 2. Once he gets his hands on the master crown from 3-3 he is an absolute beast but it takes a lot of investment to get there. Without all that he doesn’t double much and his value is severely decreased. I’d still give him that investment every single time because he easily makes the best use of it, but at that point that’s roughly on par with what Jill needs to get good. Titania is in the same boat, she can get the speedwing from 1-E via Illyana and a boatload of bexp to get to tier 3 to double and one round. But again without that she doesn’t double much and is fairly mediocre. There’s only one unit in this game with ridiculous combat with 0 investment in my opinion, and that unit is Ike. Even then he has other issues to deal with such as a late promotion and lack of good 1-2 range weapons until he gets Ragnell since unlike hand axes and javelins, wind edges cannot be forged for some reason. I think you should reassess your S tier criteria because there’s not many units that are good for a significant portion of the game without heavy investment. I think it’s better to look at how people perform with the same investment, for example Nolan can get similar stats to Jill but can’t fly, Aran has some serious speed issues, Edward and Zihark have durability issues, and Lameonardo can’t counter at 1 range. Jill has none of these issues, she’s basically perfect with investment. Something else to keep in mind is Jill’s part 4 performance is probably the best out of any unit save the herons and laguz royals (even that’s debatable due to their lack of 1-2 range). In part 4 Haar kinda needs either another speedwing or resolve to double reliably, Titania starts to have some speed issues again, and Ike is unmounted. Meanwhile Jill is flying around doubling everything with forged hand axes and pretty much never dying, along with having much better resistance than Haar so she won’t get put to sleep in 4-3. I think despite her blowing Haar’s speed out of the water Haar is still the best unit in the game due to his availability but I don’t think anyone else touches Jill. Other than that though I only have small nitpicks about people like Nolan, Tauroneo, and the fact the Leanne is above Rafiel. Rafiel should be right below Reyson IMO because of how much better he is in the tower but this comment is long enough lol. This tier list is pretty solid so far, looking forward to your next part. You’ve definitely earned a sub. (Sorry for the long comment I love this game and this unit.) Oh btw there’s an Action Replay code that enables enemy ranges on hard mode! I dunno if you play the game on emulator or on console but the code is 04191BO8 28000003 04052CD8 28000003 04067C9C 28000003. This code has been a life saver, I encourage everyone to use this. It doesn’t make the game easier, it literally just saves your time.

alright i have been waiting years for this, i must defend my boy Edwards pride and why i think he is the 2nd best non ike sword unit in the game usually. the man has 6 chapters of more or less uncontested combat xp before zihark exists. Nolan only needs 1 level to master seal him and he still does his job in part 3 then you bench him anyway. Zihark is there but honestly Zihark is not good earth affinity great but whos he gonna support nolan? the guy who is decent in the early game because of his bulk and starting steel axe which slows him down by 2 at base and on average takes 5 levels worth of xp to be able to wield. zihark in chapter 3 regardless of his chapter 1 investment is getting 2 rounded at best by tigers in 3-6 and even with a rank double earth supports his luck and nolans luck and speed are so low 45 base avoid isnt enough to dodge tank. Edward on the other hand is quite possibly the best candidate for all of this experience as his only real other kill taking competition for endgame viability is aran prior to jill joining. so you have 1-p through 1-5 where you can power funnel edward the lions share of the kill xp. then he kinda sits there and does what he can in 1-6-1 1-6-2 and 1-7 to feed jill. then in 1-8 you can give edward the entirety of the northeast side of the map since jill cannot be there. by this point he quite reasonably can be around level 17-18 and if he has leveled poorly you didnt really lose anything because the only dawn brigade unit that actually matters is jill. but if he leveled well bxp him to the next level then seal him. you have 3 SS swords 2 of them are the single best weapons in the game and then the vague katti is the highest might weapon in the game iirc. Ike is required with ragnell, stefan is fully capable at base with no investment required for the tower with the vague katti. then you have 1 of edward, mia, zihark, meg, lucia, or makalov for the Alondite which once again is arguably the best weapon in the game. 2 units out of that list is viable to bring into the endgame mia and edward. Zihark possibly ONLY if you a rank supported him with Ike otherwise he dies to a swift breeze because unlike mia and edward he cannot dodge tank. then if edward grows poorly just use mia, shes slightly worse than edward but not enough to matter 1 more speed means nothing but 1 less str can sometimes maybe? and still you lost nothing of value by feeding edward where if you feed nolan unless youre forcing him into the tower team just doesnt cut it. that said a bad Edward is exceptionally bad. so i would say high C low B tier in Hard mode, but honestly still the best dump for xp his early chapters, and if he fails dumping him means you lost literally nothing.

I think sefienr is The wost unti n the game you have to fighht the black kinht to get him he comes with the asehra staf but michay is atou depoyed and she can alsou unti if she is unsign stha he cnat eve n dmaen the finel bosse i thisnk firoa is beter and the bery lest she give you skils for free i thinkin sefirna is the wordt becoe he dosnt' even apre in the fis t playthro

Bro Edward is A tier.

nolan is quite literally always trash for me. there is no good nolan. even with heavy training and bonus exp, there is no good nolan.