9:08 this part is actually wrong. Decimals round up in Radiant Dawn. Leo C support gives +1 Attack and Defense which is extremely helpful in the early game, and his A support is +2 to both. In a multi game ironman (where Jill died in PoR to a misclick), I A supported him with Zihark for the +2 damage, which let Zihark hit some one round thresholds in 3-6.

My poor boy Edward catching strays for no reason.

The fact that Leonardo would not exist in a modern fire emblem is the entire problem. Give me more bad units with interesting and *nearly* useless niches. This makes me want to use Leonardo for the first time since I was in High School.

On the one hand, as an Edward Enjoyer, I very much have a unit to train early on instead of Leonardo. On the other hand, Leonardo does come with that free Dracosheild - which might be the most impactful Dracosheild in the entire series, when you think about it.

I can’t explain how much I wanted this to secretly be an entry to SRPG Sapphics. Jokes aside I’m really interested in seeing this one since I love Leo.

Always love to see Leonardo propaganda, one of those units that really exemplifies the weird shit that makes me love Radiant Dawn

Here's my 5 cents for yet another interesting though ultimately inconsequential tidbit about Leonardo: as his personal bow gives him +5 Speed and the Marksman cap is 34, he can actually double the auras in endgame without the need for White Pool support, if you can somehow get him all the way there! Probably not as difficult as it sounds, given a little favoritism and how Bonus EXP works. This came up in my last run of Radiant Dawn and it was a fun novelty, if nothing else. Granted, I don't think that actually does anything for him. The Double Bow has +6 might over his personal, other archers are much more likely to reach their offensive caps and it's not like positioning 1~3 range marksmen to hit stationary enemies whilst making use of pool skills was ever difficult to begin with. In most realistic scenarios, he will not outdamage your other options... but he is still so fun. EDIT: I forgot the Double Bow gives +3 Strength, giving it a lead of effectively 9 damage per hit... yeah Leo's cooked 💀

Leonardo being the most uninteresting interesting unit is some interesting number paradox shit

My first thoughts on Leonardo were that he was made to be an odd mage-killer archer of some sort. After playing the game some more, my thoughts settled on him being a decent benchwarmer.

I like using boss abuse on Jarrod to get the entire Dawn Brigade to tier 2 in part 1 endgame, myself. Jarrod is enough of an asshole to deserve it. It's not even close to efficient, but it's very satisfying to me treating the main villain of part 1 as an EXP piñata. So the difficulty of getting Leo to sniper isn't really as much of a factor for me. Sadly, he still doesn't do much in part 3, and I don't think I've ever let him off the bench in part 4. It's not even like he's equivalent to the rest of the Dawn Brigade once trained. Meg is harder to train, but even a trained Meg massively outclasses Leo. Just disappointing.

my takeaway from this is that Leonardo is the unit ever. great video

Leonardo do be having one of Diaen’s sacred treasures (which is a bow) working for him so off course he’s not like other archers….. Unless you playing JP version where the dev didn’t give him the bow OvO

Your conclusion at the end is interesting. From a game design perspective, there is a lot to unpack here. It's like they tried to make him powerful through non-traditional means, which is refreshing. But even then, he's outclassed by pretty much everything else. It's a shame because I really like the Dawn Brigade units and they have some of my favorite maps. But there's no practical way for those early units to keep up.

I love this not-even-trying-to-read-it pronounciation of Lughnasadh lmao There's not even a D in it until the very end, where did Ludaslaga come from!!

The big takeaway from this for me is that Crossbows were a fun idea and should be explored again in a future game, since they give bow users an interesting option and make it so that enemies could have them as a way to deter fliers from dominating maps if positioned well. Just... maybe make them so they actually work on Wyvern Riders next time, please?

Radiant Dawn really is that game with the “Units of all time” kinda like the Archanea games, Thracia, and Binding Blade

"maybe try him out" I can't be the only one that wanted to use all of the dawn brigade just cause those low level ding ding dings are too good to pass up

fun fact, Lugnasadh itself is strong enough to OHKO every pegasus in 3-12 even before factoring in leo's stats. Now, at baselevel his hitrate may be a bit shaky though -although a quick meg support can fix that-

jagen is indeed an est

Leonardo is an archer i've sometimes shown favoritism to. I did a run where i was determined to bring every member of the dawn brigade to endgame and i was surprised at how good he was. I actually decided to make Lughnasadh his holy weapon instead of the double bow because i found that it helped him reach a speed tier that Marksmen couldn't reach otherwise with their middling speed cap. I'll admit i did do some RNG abuse and BEXP abuse to get his speed up to near the cap, but i didn't need to do nearly as much as that 35% spd growth suggested. It was a fun project and i was surprised at the level of performance i got out of Leo, but do keep your expectations low.

Slight correction, it's transformed laguz that can only move 1 tile at a time through the water. Untransformed laguz can move 2 tiles, as demonstrated at 5:30.

14:35 you mention volugs need for strike, but you can simply have volug and meg support each other and have volug fight while rescuing meg, this shackles volugs speed enough that he doesnt double anything enabling him to attack but not kill everything, and the support raises his hit/evade to counter the speed/skill penalties. thats right, the actual optimal use of meg is as a training weight for volug.

The best thing I can say about Leonardo after watching this is, he's certainly a unit in a Fire Emblem game

Joke's on you. You actually think you need to convince me to/can stop me from using bad earlygame archers? I'm into that shit.

Joke’s on you. A 20m Dani ramble is exactly what I wanted to listen to while on the road.

I'm glad that there's finally a grounded video that appreciates Leonardo's upsides without gassing him up like crazy. I've seen a few different vids now of people talking up this blonde mfer and then having him never actually perform.

I love ALL Dani Doyle videos!!!! ❤

neat. seems like he might be fun to give a go next time I pick up the game!

Leonardo is the true potential man and a lot of the dawn brigades units are investments like Edward carried the dawn brigade part 3 i think a fix to the scrub brigade is to give them more maps

One thing about Leonardo that always stood out to me is that because his skill and res are likely to cap after just a few levels, meaning that bonus xp is likely to give him a bunch of free strength and speed level ups. Granted I know this doesn't actually matter because good players just give all bonus xp to Jill or we whoever, but it makes me feel smart to exploit the sysyem for additional number go up

My one RD playthrough had an incredibly blessed Leonardo, and he Killed Ashera twice when I was trying to weaken her. He was one of my best units.

I recently finished my first Radiant Dawn playthrough, and Leonardo got the most kills, even more than Ike and Haar, who I used a lot. To be fair, for Haar, I tried to avoid feeding him kills because I wanted to try and train funnier units (he ended up almost soloing half the desert map anyways, lol) Leo's high ranking actually confused me, because outside of some Act 1 chapters I don't remember especially feeding Leonardo kills. I took him to the tower only because he and Rolf had similar stats and levels in the end, so I decided to bring Leonardo for the funnies. So according to the unit records... somehow my best unit??

I almost always supported him with Edward for that +3 attack +2 defense & some accuracy in their A Support. Leo benefits more as an archer, while Edward can still get to Wrath range and deal more damage per crit & overall

I really like this video, ty for making it

This video is like if a politician made a unit analysis video

This is a great video; Lughnasadh is pronounced Loo-nah-sa btw

While I do think this was a good video and I liked a lot of the points you made, I cannot and will not accept any Edward slander. He was my mvp in my first run of this game back in college. I just started a new run again after all these years so maybe I’ll give Leonardo a try. But I will not be benching my boy Edward.

Leonardo makes me so sad He has a neat lategame class, gets an excellent prf weapon and brave weapon in part 3 He could've been genuinely okay if he didn't have the leonardo growths

I "used" him on my last hard run. Got him to 10/1 by 3-13, at that point jill and zihark could 1round everything so i tried a new strat. Send leonardo to top left with beastfoe, he can hold the chokepoint there while 1rounding enemies

Society if Leonardo replaced Wolt in FE6 and skilled all over FE6 enemies 🏙

So, I actuallyvhad godly Leonardo for the first time, I'm playing on hard and took him to the tower. It's kinda wild, first time in over 100 playthroughs, and with most on normal mode too lol yet the first time he's godly is hard mode lol

Marksman Leo was a process and not worth it but I’ve done it

Can't use Leonardo sorry, too busy having Fiona and Meg solo part 3.

Fun fact, Leonardo has the same name as my younger brother lol.

it kinda makes me uncomfortable to think of our lord and savior aran in the same category as edward

Hell yeah, I love Leo. I use him every chance I get

Finally someone talking about my boy

he got the most kills in my iron man tho, wasn't even on purpose he sniped my Rhys from getting the number 1 spot. That sure was a run

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This video is the most value leonardo has ever provided

I wont lie you kinda became the "fire emblem KZfaqr i respect but dont agree with" but you made fun of edward enough in this video to win me back over

Leonardo is kind of robbed of a niche by the balancing decision to give melee units, especially first tier ones, much lower Res caps in RD.

10/10 Logic. HOWEVER. Where is your proof? It's not in the footage! 7/10 not enough Leonardo.

Wish I could play RD.

Leonardo is my favorite ninja turtle

Radiant Dawn really may have the funniest bad units in all of FE

EDWARD

I think you posted this video a little early, April fools isn’t for another two weeks

Edward and leonardo are pretty okay tbh. Arran sucks balls lol

srsly remove silent hs. its lug-nasad

I think sihion is beter is like and 1ke that cna pormot erlier and dos efective dameg on fiers and has the terid back that his paeinr wepron is 2 range and has a bounos that when pormouded he can ataka at 3 ranga if you don't belibe me shinon has the smae speed as mia ho has 28 fi you asow think that shinon has a pronbm with one to renag the sniper crit bonues canid of meks up of the fdiefnece in athak i aneie durein the time where ike gets he rngenle he has vert 21 to to rnag but shinos is beter when he has tha dobel bow

Must say I'm not the biggest fan of making fun of oppressed minority languages.