Anything that allows Jean to be the demonic killing machine with puppy eyes that he deserves to be is a good thing. Ike 100% would endorse this too.

Jean's Dad will have the shock of his life after his son returns back from the war with Ike body build and a Jojo pose.

Love the thumbnail, I was always convinced that Ike could pass for a Jojo character (especially part 1-3) and him being Jean’s stand just proves it

Jean joins the like of muzu, cyril, and donnel of child villagers who are secretly monsters

IF YOU GIVE HIM THE THREE HOUSES EMBLEMS HE GETS AYMR BUT THEY MAKE IT JEAN (mini) SIZED ITS SO CUTE I SWEAR

You can go in the opposite direction and still make a tanky enemy phase monster. Take Jean, put him on martial master, give him Sorens ring and up bond to 14, equip rexcalibur and watch him nosu tank the entire enemy team due to Flares 100% return from damage from tomes.

I agree that Ike actually works best with slightly squishier units. Laguz Friend just isn't doing much on a tank, and works much better on physical glass cannons. I found success with Ike and Panette which is a very popular build simply for mitigating her weakness of low bulk and allowing her to reach high crit rates with Wrath.

As a filthy casual I just stuck Tiki on Jean right from the get-go and didn't think about it much until I realized a number of chapters later that Jean was hitting stat caps all over the place and that he's simultaneously a dodge-tank and res-tank. You go, little man.

I readd somewhere that the way Tiki's ring works is by adding 15% to all class growth and that it also gets doubled by Jean personal skill , although I am not sure how true that is

The one I ran the whole play through was Jean + Tiki. Needless to say, I never had one bad level up and Jean became borderline unkillable after a little bit of babysitting him for a few levels.

Saw a review, don't remember who, but they said Jean should be left on the bench because his weak starting stats. The moment I saw him and realized he is this game's Donnell, I realized they knew nothing about Fire Emblem.

I want to do this but it makes me so sad when he’s not a doctor healer like he wants to be

The mad lad rises I was waiting for a crazy build video or two given the semi limited slots. This was beautiful

Ah. I completely misunderstood how his personal skill worked. I leveled him in martial monk for a while and then because he had a high Magic, I put him on the Mage path until like level 17 and now he's a Mage Knight. He's still an absolute monster paired with Soren. Just goes to show how good he is. You really can't go wrong with him

I found out that Great Aether will automatically taunt every enemy when you cast it because of the 100% get hit rate you put on yourself. So having someone with Lucina and Bonded Shield will help block most of the damage. The enemies only attack the Lucina unit if the Ike unit is surrounded and they cannot find a position to hit them, which is not likely to happen. This combo is my favourite to clean map and farm exp. It helps to have the unit using Lucina to have high avo so they don’t get targeted. Also helps to have Soren’s skill to force a unit to be targeted.

That's a subscription for me. This is cool. I look forward to any other builds you make.

For long time emblem fans this is a classic trope the creators make they give a unit a very low base with a ridiculous ability and it can become game breaking, As soon as I saw his personal skill I knew this was the unit they decided on but I chose to go with little Anna seeing a little girl carrying Ike’s weapons and using either is to damn funny lol

This is essentially the standard panette build if you're not running Lyn for speed taker tbh. I don't like committing Lyn to panette though, since you don't really need to double if you one tap everything, and once you hit vantage range speed is no longer an issue, whereas Lynn can shore up someone else that has a harder time doubling or avoiding doubles like Ivy. (Though I use her on Etie because I have a soft spot for her and she needs the help)

If you make Jean a Paladin he can do it all. Tanks every kind of hit (Magical or Physical) and has enough Speed to double most things

Damn nice mad respect for builds that dont need dlc, i dont have the dlc so this is gonna help allot, new sub ty

Was literally about to ask if warrior would be more viable when you confirmed my thinking 😂

Jean is basically a must deploy on maddening

Something I learned with pair up on my maddening run the AI will attack a unit if they can back up attack them as well even if they do 0 damage, I did this with my Jade and had a blast just letting her wall/distract problem fast units like sword masters and Griffin Knights on the last map

Quick correction to something here that I didn't see in the comments already: You should always, always use master seals to promote a unit before you 2nd seal. If you use the 2nd seal 1st, you have to spend 20 levels in a base class. In Jean's case, you spend 10 levels in monk and 10 levels in fighter before you can be a berserker. The promotion path would look like this: 10 levels in Monk -> 2nd Seal to level 1 fighter -> 10 levels in fighter -> Master Seal to Berserker However, if you promote him at level 10 to an advanced class, you can 2nd seal him immediately to berserker as there is no level requirement for 2nd seal use once you are promoted. This would totally bypass the 10 levels he has to spend as a fighter and because engage moderates exp gains based off an internal level counter, he would actually gain exp faster as a level 1 berserker with this method. Promotion path would look like this: 10 levels in Monk -> Master Seal to Martial Master -> (without levelling) 2nd Seal to Berserker. The change in growths would get him a 20% higher strength growth for the 10 levels he would have spent in fighter and 10% higher growths in HP and Build. It also gets him access to better weapons sooner and an extra point of movement which is nice> This tip is true for every character and not just Jean, so it's useful to know. Small tip for promoting aside, I really enjoyed the video! This is a funny build and it looks like it works great, especially if you get him some forges and engravings on those weapons. I bet a forged tomahawk would be incredibly rude here.

seems like a pretty fun build will probably try this out when ever i do maddening

Sombron: I have an army Alear: We have a Jean

Ike once again taking over the protag role as best unit. Is anyone surprised?

If you want to make Jean something else but also have something similar to this that's better than Boucheron, Berserker Amber works well for this. Amber's Aspiring Hero skill makes him take way too many hits so having Ike's Laguz Friend completely nullify that demerit while also reaping the massive health growth of the Berserker class is definitely valuable. It lets him take advantage of the large +20 hit from Aspiring Hero to make the notoriously low hit rate axes actually smack them while also activating Aspiring Hero naturally since he's throwing himself into battle. While Amber's health growth pales in comparison to Boucheron and Jean at only a mere 95, his strength growth supplants both of them at 75 throwing in +2 to the Strength cap. Also, Boucheron sucks as a Berserker since he doesn't have high strength but rather has extremely high dexterity. That doesn't work well for Berserker since Berserker literally has the lowest dexterity cap in the game. Boucheron is better of switching to a Wyvern Knight cause of that since it's way too easy to cap out on dex if he stays as a Berserker. It should be a given, but you kinda want the highest strength growth for the highest strength cap and growth class in the game. Amber's stats are more suited to that, and his skill even works well for it.

Yep, this is very very similar to the Panette build I was running by the end of hard classic. I saw he had the potential to become something like this near the end of my hard playthrough, but by then my Panette was already like this. Though he doesn't get the benefit of her really high base strength and hp, and doesn't have the extra 10 crit and maybe some personal stat cap modifiers. In my case, I had +6 extra attack with axes as well, instead of vantage. Since I didn't have quite the group killing potential yours does with vantage/pair up I was using her for great aether, some longbow snipes (she was classed as warrior), and as a kill this unit button with the ~80-100% crit triple digit damage attacks she was getting. Nice to see other people finding things like this, though I think I'll be making my Jean a halberdier or maybe mage knight for cutting through defenses, since there's only one Ike.

"We have an army!" "We have a pissed off med student. :) "

Ike is just good I think you put him on almost anyone and you're going to have a good time. I put Ike on Merrin as Griffin Knight with Hurricane Axe and also Geniality+ for ultra tank + flyer destruction.

Most of yall didnt play on maddening CLEARLY. Ike is so damn good in maddening. Some chapters would be extra brutal without him. Easily one of the best emblems IMO

I made my Jean a Halberdier and equipped him with the Emblem Of Rivals bracelet, and boy he’s amazing! Before I gave him Brionac he was equipped with a killer lance, a Rivals Engraved Silver lance, and a spear, and he usual took out everything that stood in his way. But when I gave him Brionac he was a one man army.

Love hearing you mispronounce his name the whole video. But I LOVE this build. You're killing it with your vids my guy

"You're going to have to put up with it." Bold of you to assume I'm not watching with captions to spare my ears

You got great videos dude! Just a tip if you want to improve the quality of vour videos even more: People want it simple, so if you would pack everthing important into a "checklist" at the end of the video or w/e it would be much appreciated, trust me! Cheers!

With tiki you can level up jean from 1 to 20 in one chapter, just trap a bowman put one that can't attack from that range and make jean heal him, it will grant him xp + refill fusion gauge allow to use the tiki special, with marth it grants you 30xp each time

As a fellow content creator I felt obligated to correct the misinformation present in this video. Stat caps are based both off the class and the unit's maximum stat modifiers (MSMs); you take the maximum stats of the class and apply the MSMs of the unit (this is how it worked in Awakening/Fates as well), which you can find on SerenesForest under characters maximum stats, not that far off from where you found the maximum class stats you showed (which I imagine you assumed was the maximum stats regardless of unit since there were no MSMs in Three Houses). If we're going for the strongest possible build, we'd care a lot more about the MSMs than we would character growth rates, as MSMs affect what the cap of our potential is, whereas growths just affect how long it takes to get there. If you're at a characters maximum stats you'd never have to worry about growths ever again, which would render Jean's personal skill useless at that point, as if he is now the one character in the game with no personal skill. I would assume we're talking about maximum potential here considering the initial goal was to hit the HP cap and then this build spawned from that, so I'll be basing my analysis off of what is the strongest regardless of growths. Calling Jean "potentially the best unit in the game for every class" if we're talking purely from a maximum potential standpoint is just blatantly wrong, he's one of the worst actually. If we're talking about just doing the main game through and then putting it down, never trying to perfect any units, then sure, the argument can be made, but if we're talking the ceiling of potential regardless of the amount of grinding time to reach it, then it is false. All Jean is is the unit who can most *quickly* hit the maximum stats of that given class, but at the end of the day would actually be *worse* than almost any other unit in the game once those maximum stats are hit, as he essentially has no personal skill at that point whereas every other unit does. It's also worth noting that his MSMs are +2 Magic, -1 Dexterity, -1 Speed, +1 Luck, not exactly fantastic MSMs but alright enough if you put him into a Magic class, since he's gaining +2 to his maximum Magic but +-0 to his maximum Strength. This means his best final class is in a magic-based class, where he benefits from the +2. Putting him into a physical class instead just wastes his potential, considering you've now got a physical unit whose only change to stats they care about is -1 Dex, -1 Spd, +1 Lck, gross... Let's call this a -1.5 to stats we care about, -1 to Dex and Spd, and +1 Lck which is the least important stat in the game so I'm adding 0.5 instead of 1. Of the 36 characters in this game, and assuming we don't care about Magic MSMs because we're going for a purely physical class and treating Lck and 0.5, there are only 3 units in the game Jean can do better than (Celine, Citrinne, Pandreo, as most of their MSMs are in Magic). This means that 33/36 characters have a higher ceiling of potential in this build than Jean, or in other words 92% of the cast that's better at this build than him. "The MOST BROKEN Character in Fire Emblem Engage" you say...? It'd be fine if you specified this was for getting this setup online as soon as possible so you can use it for as much of the main story as you can, but since that isn't the case this really is just straight up misinformation. Anybody watching this video who wants the strongest possible builds regardless of grinding time because you want to take on things like the ultimate Tempest Trials, this is a pretty alright build you could go with, but please do not give it to Jean, give it to somebody else you feel is most fitting based off of 1) Maximum Stat Modifiers and 2) Personal Skill (though it's pretty hard to choose somebody worse than Jean for this to be fair) Other notes, yes Lineage from the Rivals can increase EXP growth by 1.2x, but it's just a worse version of a main game skill, being Byleth's Mentorship, which affects both the unit and any adjacent units (although it's 250SP as oppose to 150SP). And this isn't even a thing for this video specifically but just helping with Engage in general, but you mention Ike's Resolve+ has helped make your tank units even tankier, but there's an even better damage reducing alternative if we're talking about what skills to inherit, and that's Eirika's Gentility+. Resolve+ grants Def/Res +7 when under 75% HP, Gentility+ on the other hand reduces damage taken by 5. So take 7 less damage when under 75% HP, or 5 less damage always? I would argue Gentility+ is the far greater boon, and could only really see myself running Resolve+ on Timerra (and one other niche case unit) to boost Sandstorm damage as it's based off defence. Anyway, if you're reading this LinkKing, know that I do love getting to know fellow content creators, so feel free to reach out sometime if you'd like to talk Engage numbers, as crunching numbers of games like this is something I do. Ever since the release of Fates I've been making dedicated excel spreadsheets for each of the FE games I play to compile all relevant information so I can number crunch to figure out what seems to be ideal builds, and turn it into a resource for Fire Emblem fans to more easily visualize the possibilities themselves. I'm not yet done with my Engage sheet so it's not publicly released yet, I'd say I'm a bit more than halfway through, and because of the sheer amount of projects I take on I haven't had a chance to test out my builds properly in game yet, but if things work the way the math seems to imply I'd wager I have a fair few builds plotted out stronger than this. So let me know if ever you want to talk shop.

That was my exact reaction to Ike's Great Aether lol

Alright... Who's gonna tell him how to pronounce the name right?

Boucheron will actually be faster in ax classes thanks to his build advantage. That is assuming you want to use anything other than Iron and Hand axes.

Well looks like I found my Jean build for my next playthrough

Oh yeah, this was pretty much my first thought when seeing the Ike ring. Not on Jean, I actually kept him as a martial master because I thought it was fun to see him kick the crap out of enemies and he’s one of the few units who can pull off the weird way Arts scale for damage, but I slapped it immediately on Panette and I would warp her into clumps of enemies with a great axe and watch her delete them like it was nothing

So I made my Jean a spear paladin with Ike emblem. I had starsphere for the extra stat growth and he's now my powerhouse. He's more tanky than a general at times

I'm curious how strong you can make a martial artist, since the arts have the unique ability to strike twice, they could regain their engage meter very quickly, on top of doing lots of damage when they get more hits in normally.

Wish I knew this about Jean- I reclassed him as soon as I could but would’ve put more thought into it if I realized how the skill really worked. Will absolutely look at this guy differently on future playthroughs, thanks

12:02 yeah, Ike isn’t an Emblem for tanks. Tanks appreciate the mitigation but don’t particularly care because if they’re doing their job right they shouldn’t be taking much, if any, damage already. He is an emblem for an archetype called Bruisers. Bruisers are typically more durable than damage dealers but less durable than tanks and do more damage than tanks but do less than damage dealers (like nukers or DPS). These are characters like Diamant and Pennet.

Afaik every single character starts with 300 SP, unless there's specific exceptions.

Yea Jean is a beast kept him as a martial master though I’ll try this out when dlc 4 comes out with the new maps as of now done with engage until then oddly enough I put tiki emblem on him to without thinking just thought it be fun having the kid transform into a dragon

In my current playthrough Jean is a magic user because I reclassed Clanne into a crit beast sword unit. I would like to try this build in my next playthrough it looks fun

This is exactly how I set up my Panette. Was one of my best units in late game

Dang, that is one meaty Jean. Still not sure where I wanna take him when I do my maddening run, but this is tempting.

If you're willing to put the time in, the weak lil' healer is almost always the most OP character in any given Fire Emblem game.

Hey man, great build! I'm enjoying myself a lot with it 🤣 Was wondering, have you tried it inheriting the double counter from Hector ? Was wondering about it...

As someone new to Fire Emblem, and someone who just does not understand the numbers Im glad this explains why this 12 year old doctors apprentice became the keystone to my army. Seriously I had no idea why he felt so powerful. I babied him because he was my healer, made a mistake and a few enemies got too close. Jean proceed to dodge and nuke all challengers. I guess that double stat growth kicked in while I was not paying attention

So when you say do level him up. are you meaning do play him until we can do the class change? To keep him at level one? Or can we play him just don’t change anything until class changes? Just stared the game today.

That intro got me like "Yo Jean, drop that beat!"

Jean was my most OP Unit, I wasn't even trying. This was in maddening.

I made my Jean a Swordmaster with the Lyn Ring and gave him a Brave Sword. He has so much speed, that with the Brave Sword and Alacrity, he can attack 4 times before the enemy can even attack once.

I didn't read the entire title before clicking the video and immediately thought you were gonna call out Jean. Side note, I remember being subbed to your channel back when 3H came out, but for some reason I was un-subbed?

My Anna is currently breaking the world with 294 damage crits and 119 hp

Everybody gangsta until a little boy executes a Great Aether against 10 people at point blank

quick question,should i level up jean in the armor knight class or the axe fighter class? i plan on making him into a wyvern rider but i don't know if making him into an armor knight would benefit him as a wyvern

I'm just curious why you pronounce his name "jeen" and not "zhaun", when that's how he says it (like Jean-Luc Picard). I mean, I can see that it reads as "jeen", but it does also read as "zhaun". Like, I have yet to ever hear anyone pronounce Sean as "sheen". Awesome video though, and it's stuff like this that makes me want to do a second run sooner (sorry to most of my backlog that I've promised to get to).

I made a mistake with Jean and he’s a level 4 Martial Monk. Is it better to second seal now and do 10 more axe fighter levels, or get to 10 and promote before second second sealing. (I did the latter on Anna, and she’s running Dire Thunder to be viable until I can snowball her)

Turning a pharmacist into a harmacist

You pronouncing Jean as gene is a hate crime lol. Great build 👏🏻👌🏼

Don’t characters have personal stat cap modifiers like fates? Who has the highest hp cap modifier?

Happy birthday to me Link posted a video great day so far!

Normally, i dont care for this stuff. I watch it just to see what happens. I also simultaneously get anxity that i "built my character wrong." You're gental reinforcing of "maddening difficulty" helped remind me im playing on a lower difficulty, im doing just fine right now, (my Jean practicly one hits on normal, as mage, with soren) and i should enjoy the show.

*cue in giorno piano theme* JeanJean! *Piano theme intensifies* Radiant Dawn!

why does equiping tiki give all those extra stat growth percenteges? is it from starsphere?

What if I have my Jean already stat capped as a sage? Will it be too late for him to be reclassed to berserker for this build?

I literaly found this video, when I was contemplainting the idea of Jean Berserker and type those two words in youtube search :D 60 str growth rate is bonkers.

And now with Veronica, using those seraph robes makes him even more busted

How do you reclass characters and keep them alive long enough to get exp? With how fights scale I have like 2 units that can solo the map, 2-3 that can survive at least 2 turns, then everyone else just gets wiped out on enemy phase. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, just not sure what.

Breaking news; Donnel’s British Cousin carry’s on his legacy of mauling the entire endgame with nothing but a massive fuck-you axe and growth rates

It may be a dumb question but I am not that far into the game so there are still a few things i don't understand. Vantage is Leifs skill. You can inherit the "normal" version by getting the units bond to Level 3. I'm at chapter 9 and Leifs max Bondlevel goes up to Level 10. Does it reach another max Level when I have more progress in the game? I'm confused since the Dlc chars can already reach up to Bondlevel 20. So, do I have to inherit Leifs level 3 skill and later on his level whatever skill to get Vantage+??

I love Jean’s duel quotes. And then he murders people.

I made mine a high priest and he's got level-ten bonds with all the other 6 Rings not only can he use magic in fisticuffs but he can heal himself with his own staffs and he has that ability where if someone uses a weapon he can counter by picking the best weapon against there watching this little kid punch armored units been dodging crazy then I gave him a scroll with that seal that gives him avoid 40 +In for a level and mine up I used the rings ability ultimate sacrifice cuz it levels them up buy 1 each time it's used and heals all the other team but you got to let it run out and then run over to a blue circle to re fill it fast

When you say + Tiki does this mean with her ring equipped or with an inherited skill from her? Or does either one work, I don't remember what the skill is called but I'm thinking about the one that gives a bonus to stat growths, which is what I think you're talking about here, just want to verify because sometimes this stuff seems to have like hidden requirements that I always seem to misunderstand or misinterpret.

Thought; Micaiah ring during leveling up just to burn staves for exp so he needs less babying

Wait, you can loop at level 20? I definitely had most of my characters at level 20 for probably the last six chapters. At least it was hard mode so I was able to beat it.

So you could do the same thing with Pannete without the investment… no sealing required and much less babying. I don’t see the point of berserker Jean when there’s Panette ready to go or Saphir ready to reclass

Can you please make a video for swordmaster or at least recommend the build for it

Why are you so concerned about growth rates? You can always use a second seal to reset any class to level one and keep getting stat ups until you hit the class cap

Every trainee since their introduction has always been a beast unit since time in memoriam.

"punches like a wet noodle" love it lol

So he's the Donny of this game

ah just like donnel and his sweet sweet aptitude

That thumbnail looks like Jean's about to say: "Star Platinum! Za Warudo!"

I am confused. How did you promote him from Martial Monk at level 1 to Axe Fighter? Did I miss something?

Since FE Awakening, villagers with the good growth skill are always the most broken characters in the FE series. It’s a promise

this whole time i thought i his skill doubled his base growths like cyril

Like i always say, everyone is good, if you actually use them.

i did not get jean chapter 5. how? also where r u getting these numbers ?

so i would promote jean to axe fighter from martial monk?

I honestly underestimated jade, 2nd playthrough and she might actually top Louis so far lol.

What difficulty are you on?

Damian with Sol, Holdout +++ and Vantage is kinda fun