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fire emblem: waifu roulette

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fire emblem: fates except with even more weird gimmicks

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fire emblem: who even knows

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Total Members Voted: 12

[JoshuaFH]

I'm not sure if anyone picked up on this gem from the Serene's Forest thread that was posted a month or so ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDEvpaNBT_k

[Tawa]

I remember that one! Ryoma proc-ing Astra killed me.

[Twinwolf]

Has anyone else noticed that Astra does not prevent critical hits? Once in an online battle I had Ryoma bring a 40+ health enemy to 0 in one round because he proc-ed Astra and then crit on all 3 hits it took to bring them down.

[JoshuaFH]

Astra also guarantees atleast 1 damage on all five hits, so even if a normal attack would do 0 damage, Astra will do 5.

[SOLDIER First]

The best feeling is an Astra with one crit at the end. Say'ri, Lon'qu, you make me so proud.

[Nighthawk]

Astra also charges the shield gauge of defense formation support with every hit.
This leads to some hilarious shenanigans where Swordmasters will never die because they either vantage->crit their enemy into oblivion instantly, vantage->astra them and dual-guard the counterattack, or any combination of the two.

A Swordmaster with the Awakening skill (learned by Great Lords in Fates) is damn near unkillable.

[Tawa]

A Swordmaster with the Awakening skill (learned by Great Lords in Fates) is damn near unkillable.

B-by Eliwood's red hair... It's like Resolve all over again... :O

[EnigmaticHat]

Got fates, on chapter 5.  I understand, in-universe, why Corrin might feel some attachment to Nohr.  But holy crap is it obvious who she should side with.  Nohr's king is one step away from being Sauron, and the circumstances of Corrin's upbringing are pretty shitty in general.  On top of that Nohr is a terribe place to live and Hoshiro is lovely.  And, again, Nohr is Mordor.  This is one of the few Fire Emblem games to have monster enemies and they're introduced not as "Faceless" or "Monsters" but "Nohrians".  If that isn't telling I don't know what is.

In terms of Nohr's royalty, the two brothers seem like cool characters.  I only like Leo as a person, Xander seems like the kind of person who's decent to people he likes and horrible to everyone else.  The two blood princesses are terrible characters, like bad fanfic quality.  At least so far.  So glad we know that the 10 year old looking one is technically an adult within 2 minutes of meeting her.  And the other one is essentially down to one single line of dialogue reworded endlessly for all of her lines (which is too similar to most of what Xander says to distinguish her as a character) and a giant rack.

On the other hand, Nohr has the butler class, which is amazing.  If I ever play Conquest, or if I get that Butler guy even during Birthright (don't spoil me bro), I'm going to try to arrange things so as many people as possible reclass into butlers and I have an army of servants seeing to my every need while killing my enemies and healing each other.

[SOLDIER First]

if you don't want to be spoiled on jakob i highly advise you to stay away from even non-spoiler worthy information on the wiki because it is extremely common knowledge

[EnigmaticHat]

My question was answered pretty quickly

[SOLDIER First]

I was arguing with myself about whether I should tell you or not.

[JoshuaFH]

Butlers and Maids are great classes I love them, but they tend to have low DEF and DEF is just DEFinitely the most important stat. Due to the game's rebalancing though, they're one of the (many) hard counters to mages and magic classes in general.

[SOLDIER First]

And therefore being a mage (class) killer means DEF doesn't really matter.

[Tawa]

Yeah, Jakob is a godsend against wizards. He also makes a good replacement for Saizo, Kaze, and/or Kagero if none of those turn out, or for Sakura and Azama if you want a battle healer right off the bat.(Although, I'd say Speed is godstat until generals get involved.)
I've been working on getting the kids lately. Though the explanation for their presence will always be patently ridiculous, the kids themselves are more of a hit-or-miss affair. Some of them--Shiro comes to mind--are some of the best-written characters in the game, and really good units to boot. Others (cough, Soliel, Nina) are just... no. Then there's a few who just look way too young to be fighting in a war at all, even by FE standards (hack, cough, Midori, Percy, Kana...)

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Is it just me, or does it feel like IntSys assigned the old Advance Wars writers to FE? It feels wrong to have characters like Kaden, who has maniacal, gleeful laughter as a crit quote, and Kiragi, who giggles and cheers after he kills people be portrayed as more-or-less mentally-balanced, positive people.

[SOLDIER First]

I would really interpret it as more the fact that an enemy is down, and therefore the battle is marginally more in their favor, rather than "murder is fun". Except, you know, um, Rhajat.
And Kaden, because he.. literally presents you with bones / a skeleton at one point. But beast races get a pass because beast races.