Healing Light is for Framme. It lets her top off her HP for Chain Guards without having to spend a whole turn just healing her. It’s really nice.

I feel like skills like Momentum and Build +4 are must haves for some early game units that have low build and struggle in offense, but there are much better skills later that will replace them especially now that SP is so widely available. Since SP is widely available, I think Mag+5 should be in Big Damage as there is no way to get +5 Mag attack using tomes on enemy phase since Weapon Sync only works on player phase and Reprisal relies on you getting hit. Getting +5 magic from turn one on both player and enemy phase is really nice and nothing is stopping you from having both Magic +5 and Reprisal for some really big damage assuming they don't need any other skills. I personally don't think $5,000 is too much for your big damage tome user since they don't have access to the Power skills or Lunar Brace. Lastly, the weird Boots+1 skill icon appears to be Movement + 1 since it comes after Momentum and before Pair Up alphabetically, but I've never seen that symbol before nor could find it on the Wiki.

I think the tome guard is decent enough as basically a cheaper way to get Res+5 with a few exceptions. Bow guard could be a little nice on fliers. The others are kinda hard to work with though

Geosphere is always active on the one who has it it just gives it to adjacent Ally’s on player phase I like it on framme with bonded shield just makes her and everyone tankier I have it on seadall and framme 5 def and res to like 10 ally’s if set up right is amazing works perfectly on qi adepts with chain guarding

Am I crazy or was Silence Ward not listed? For how cheap it is, it definitely has its uses.

To Geosphere’s credit I find it to be useful to have on Rafal to work in unison with his class ability. Recharging adjacent allies engage states by 1 and buffing defence and res at the start of a turn can be pretty helpful.

Happy FE day!! This + “Your fave is bad” really makes me think “just go crazy with it” Like, +25 Hp & +10 luck is so mental I love it, Str/dex +5 & Spd/dex +5 on a Claude bond ring Warrior is probably the most expensive build you could make function (but maybe a cannoner would do better with it lol) On a serious note, I’d say Jade & Alfred would do good with Book of worlds, I reclassed my Alfred into a thief and he’s been putting in incredible work, but with his Str he normally kills everyone lol, if I could get Veronica early then I’ll try it again

I would put Hit+30 in situational and here is one specific situation with a spoiler for late game: Veyle + Soren + highest crit Engrave where her survival depends solely hitting on enemy phase especially during the Tempest Trials to heal herself when engaged with Holdout+++ taking up her other inherited skill spot. Hit +30 isn't affected by the stat boost cap of 20 so you could give her meals, tonics, special dances, instruct, rally spectrum, engage boosts to add more hit and crit without needing as support next to her. Plus, there's nothing better than seeing 100 hit/100 crit on a unit that has a magic cap of a 51, plus at least 4 additional magic that Soren provides at Bond rank 17+.

I assumed that last skill was Movement +1, but I looked over the entire skill list on FE Fandom, including enemy only skills, and didn't see the icon anywhere

Holy Stance I think has a couple of situations where it is useful. Number one is on Corrupted Wyrms. It essentially reflects half of their attack back onto them and ignores their very high defenses (my Celica/Mauvier made good use of this on my first Maddening run.) The second is on Nos/Flare/Runesword tanks on maps with Corrupted. Holy Stance is very cheap, these types of tanks rely on healing and often Hold Out to stay alive so they’re probably taking big damage and reflecting half of it will still be pretty meaningful on enemies, and it will push them to be able to kill more often.

I think you’re missing the value of a few of these, especially as you wave off the cost of the Power skills. Dex+5 is valuable for units with dex proc’d skills; it’s a 5% increase to the rate of sandstorm, Luna, etc. StarSphere is the only skill to provide PERMANENT impacts. Even mid-game units like Ivy, Merrin, and Kat are going to earn 25-30 levels before the end of the game. If you pop SS on them from the start, that’s +4 might, dex, speed, build, and health. Then when the difficulty spikes, you give them another skill.

This is the first inheritence list that ive seen that actually makes sense. I dont think Canter deserves to be a whole tier above all the other Super Helpfuls, but otherwise yeah, this makes sense to me

Alacrity is only 1000 SP. it’s great for Brave Weapon Eirika setups, but yeah it’s pretty niche overall

Holy stance should be a if nothing else corrupted foes make up the bulk of enemy units and is the entire end game so its always working for you and with how big you can make enemy phase for units it's definitely a good use of maddening bloated stats against the foe

What is that ost playing at the 30 minute mark it's driving me crazy how I recognize the tune but can't remember the game it came from 😅

Totally agree about Arts Focus. I have appreciated Bow Focus on Etie in Sniper and Mauvier in Bow Knight with Radiant Bow. Snipers especially aren’t really taking attacks anyway so the -dodge isn’t an issue I’ve found. Bow Focus is super cheap and then you don’t need to use a hit engraving on that unit’s weapons. Admittedly I wouldn’t recommend this for iron mans. And maybe with the DLC bracelets you have enough engravings to go around. But for the base game in standard play without the DLC or well abuse, I think Bow Focus is a good deal. Arts Focus however sounds terrible because your punching units will absolutely take hits and usually don’t have accuracy problems.

I think the Guard Skills could’ve been better if they lowered enemy weapon might. Like. As it stands, Bows are terrifying for your flyers. But if the Bow Guard skill lowered bow MIGHT instead of reducing damage by 5, your actually be lowering the damage you receive by 15.

I think you're undervaluing the Dex stat skills especially dex/spd +5. In a game where most of the Lord unique class has terrible dex caps with their dex based skills the Dec +5 is decent and everyone likes speed so the dex/spd is even better on units like Diamont, Ivy and Celine. It helps Alcryst and Timerra proc their cheese passive even more, and it helps the classes like warrior, berserker and mage Knight hit more consistently. Canter is overrated, just putting that out there

Basically "Canter and what else-"

Adam: "Oh my god; these takes are bad." Nothing like a bit of hot takes to motivate you into a video discussion.

Griffin Knight Chloe with sword +10 can do heavy magic and heavy physical damage. It's sweet. I've never used Lunar Brace on a character with +10 attack for whatever reason. But that seems like the best way to really destroy units with brave weapons.

Happy fire emblem day

I gave Anna bow defense and I regret it massively lmao

Happy Fire Emblem Day

I think the stat booster skills are worth it if you convert items in the well for those sp point books. For instance, in my beginning I gave my Ivy the Dex and Speed one and it helped her out A TON in maddening. Overall great vid!

Healing light is a must for all healers. It completely changes how you use chain guarders.

You are hardcore sleeping on keen insight. On maddening mode where defenses are so bloated effective weaponry cant kill, keen insight makes all the difference. It shouldnt be anywhere near F tier

why isnt geosphere in S tier >:(

I'd argue in favor of the agility and precision skills. I'm not saying they're anything close to the best in the game, just that they work well in certain set ups.

I snagged str/dex for Diamont for extra damage and sol proc chance on my playthrough so I'd argue putting it in for fun since it adds proc chance for the dex skills while adding damage at the same time

I think "Just use the emblem" should be a tier. The stat boosting skills are good but expensive, so just use the emblem. However, some skills like demolish, lost and found, etc. just don't need to exist so the "No" tier is perfect for them.

unyielding over resolve my heart ahhhhh, lineage aka + half a stat in everything over resolve, just why, the anti freeze skill over resolve, i am crying. The food skill is also a wasted skillslot in like 60% of the game. The rest of the list tho is pretty correct imo.

Complains about bad takes while having bad takes. Shrug

The way I use “Gentility” is that I just don’t use Eirika and instead use Ephraim so that “Gentility” is always Bravery. It turns out having +3/5 true damage on your entire army at all times is really funny, which can also turn into a global -3/5 damage taken too.

Dual assist works on any unit, basically turns them into a backup, Mage Canonneer for example, is very good, a lot of range and always assisting

It's almost depressing that they celebrated FE's anniversary with this crappy game!

Dual support is op on Alear (force deploy) and Framme (...should be force deploy)

Happy anniversary FE