Wait does that make it cultural appropriation or does Silas have a pass since he needs to support Kaze or Kagero to become a ninja?

Honestly, Nohr is what if that one mercenary country in most FE games was just a whole kingdom. It makes sense most Nohrians would perform well in battle, even in Hoshidan classes.

Nohrian Supremacy!

@@finleycream1937the fact that he has to have the support points to him having a good understanding of the Hoshidan ninja tradition and not just using it as a costume.

sucks that you have to fight him in rev tho. makes no sense.

Exactly Even the worse units of Conquest are relatively on brand for the average Birthright units power wise and much better than the bad ones. Like look at Arthur, he's not one of the units I'd typically stick to in Conquest once the other options start popping up, but he's far from bad and can be pretty good with a limited amount of investment, compare that to his equivalent in Rinkah which is ...... I mean, you can make her work ig, but man, I'm not sure I'd be willing to do that. Seriously, when your "barbarian" type character has only 55% Str growth even once factoring in it's class, that stings so bad, and it's not like her other growths are much better either. The growth of Birthright units in general is kind of an inside joke between a friend and I

@@sephikong8323 rinkah is a magic unit not physical. it sounds wierd but with orochi friendship and her personal skill she can be a high defense 1-2 range enemy phase sweeper who has no trouble doubling AND killing.

the like dark red hair looks so good in the art.

Not to mention the other great capturable units in that paralogue as well

​@@TheLonelyNihilego Sadly you can only get 2 before chapter 10, but Nichol and Generic W.Lord are more than enough. Besides CQ is full of awesome capturables as well, Haitaka, Life or Death Samurai and Rallyman are all lowkey top units

​​@@maverick5169We can't forget the man, the myth, the frickin LEGEND Gazzak.

@@neog8029 Virgin inaccurate Arthur/Charlotte vs Chad Certain Blow 39 base str Gazak

If Silas is unmarried, a Kagero marriage still works.

I don't think I've ever had a run of any Fates path where Silas wasn't one of my best Gen 1 units.

Silas I'd argue is a better unit than every gba cav, Silas's early game performance isn't outdone by anyone (other than Camilla in Conquest anyway, as well as potentially Corrin) and he stands out in his late-game role.

@@twigz3214 Honestly, I would argue just the opposite. I've never seen anything Silas and ONLY Silas could do, even in earlygame. Also, his personal skill does NOT help his case; Corrin is one of the few reliable units I have early on, no matter the route, and having him at least half dead does absolutely nothing whatsoever for me.

@@user-wl5jt7vz2u I’d argue the opposite for vow of friendship, because you want to fight a lot with Corrin they will get low hp, and with the dragonstone they are more than bulky enough to live 1, maybe 2 hits while low hp so activating Silas’s personal is really easy. Additionally Silas can even hit one shot thresholds on squishy enemies early in Conquest with all his damage stacking vs enemies like the Peg knights and Ninja’s in chapter 10. When planned around I found tons of instances where his personal greatly helped and Corrin was still able to easily contribute with one shots of their own in attack stance with the dragonstone. It’s harder to activate later on when Corrin wants to also be doing 1-2 range enemy phase combat of their own but early game it’s easy to activate and incredibly reliable. Early game he is one of the best combat unit in both Birghtright and Conquest, you just need to take more care to give him more str or speed pair ups (either to oneshot squishy enemies or to get him reliably doubling) or attack stance for more damage and activating Corrin’s personal while keeping them alive isn’t hard with the massive bulk bonus from the dragonstone.

@@twigz3214 Really now? Because with Corrin being one of, if not my best unit early on, leaving them half dead to boost a worse unit is a negative, no matter which way you slice it. It sounds much closer to "risky to activate and incredibly moronic to keep active" than "easy to activate and incredibly reliable".