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Mekkah	Oct 22 2007, 04:43 PM
Posts: 667 Group: FEFFer Member #1,400 Joined: July 24, 2007	NOTE: Characters are not in any order within tiers. It's impossible to do that properly, since there's a lot of disagreement on them anyway, not to mention there's a lot of "triangle comparisons" where A beats B, B beats C and C beats A anyway, in which case it just doesn't work out. Excluded Athos Hector Karla Legault Matthew Nils Ninian Renault God Guy Kent Lowen Marcus Raven Sain High Eliwood Erk Geitz Harken Oswin Pent Priscilla Serra Mid Canas Dart Dorcas Fiora Florina Hawkeye Isadora Lucius Rebecca Low Bartre Farina Heath Jaffar Karel Louise Lyn Nino Rath Vaida Wallace Wil Explaining some upsets: Excluded Tier is for people who - come so late they don't matter - are Hector - cannot be compared to other units And by the last one, I mean Legault, Matthew, Nils and Ninian. S-Ranking funds rests on Matthew's shoulders alone - that makes him the most essential unit in the game hands down. Even compared to Hector, who you could theoretically rescue and drop on the gate/throne and still S-rank, without Matthew you could never S-rank HHM. Legault is less "amazing" in that sense, but still you cannot really put a finger on how useful thieving is compared to battling, especially when Matthew is capped and you want a thief that doesn't throw EXP in the bin. I'm not entirely sure of Legault here though. Nils and Ninian basically let other units move again which again nobody else can do, yet is a very treasured ability. They have uber avoid even without supports, and while they cannot counterattack they can let another unit move again on player phase anyway to compensate for it every time, and their slip-ups should happen rarely. Again, nobody can really compare to them. Nils joins late anyway so he deserves to be here. I put all Paladins except Isadora in God because they are the best class in the game. Nothing, and I mean nothing else has 8 move AND 3 weapons. All of them are good units in their own right, Marcus in a different way than the other three. They all have good supports and good stats too. Guy is in God because his offense with Killing Edge is unmatched. I think Priscilla and Serra should always be in the same tier, if Serra is not higher. There's a good chance you want 19xx and a chance you are even abusing even further, which means Serra gets such a huge level lead on anyone else it's not funny. Or even normally she promotes pretty quickly. Her supports are pretty slow but are with good units, and unlike Priscilla she can dodge and take more than 1 hit when she joins. And she has a defensive affinity unlike Priscilla. Which one is better is up to debate, I personally prefer Serra and if anyone should be moved to God I think it's her. Mid Tier should have little surprises...they're kinda all "units that would be good if it weren't for <x>". Rebecca has awesome supports and endgame stats but horrid earlygame performance, Lucius has good supports and offense but horrid defense and avoid, Dart is awesome in every regard except for promotion cost, Isadora is a Paladin but not a very good one stat-wise, etc. Lyn is so awful, I don't get why I ever liked her. Lucius-like defense but with more Luk in trade for hardly any Def from supports, awful affinity that gives no evade, no ranged attacks until her promotion, which gets in the way of Eliwood's already late promotion or is even later and is also twice as costly as that of a normal unit. She's required training to at least L10 to get Geitz and she's on a few maps and has Mani Katti, but that's doesn't offset all above imo. The only unit I'd move out of her is Louise because of her guaranteed auto-A with Pent and just being a decent prepromote and all, but then you could also say the same about Jaffar and Vaida and stuff. It's really mostly her joining time and class that hurts. What do you guys think? Again, units aren't in any particular order within tiers.


A tier list up for discussion · Fire Emblem 6-8