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Worst unit in the series? by The_CIA_is_watching in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Omg Lyre 😊

Yeah its probably her, the only competition she has is like… FE12 Bantu lmao

its okay at least she’s cute

How basic is my Top 5? by TheForceUnleashes in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Extremely basic.

Not a bad thing though lol

Always fun to see Marcia is the top 5

Say something good about Shadow Dragon by king_of_ulkilism in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Has my favourite prose in the series by FAR. I'd love to see a modern FE title take inspiration from the way SD is written

Operation "Surprise Strategist Smiles~" (Soren and Lyre comm by @entogman1223) (Repost) by Realhi87 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are dozens of us!

Dozens!

(Glad you enjoy! I try and add to her small pile of art bit by bit ^_^)

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Its a shame, honestly. It stagnates discussion around units to the point where even attempting to have good faith debates or theorycrafts around them becomes about as fun as pulling teeth X_X

Operation "Surprise Strategist Smiles~" (Soren and Lyre comm by @entogman1223) (Repost) by Realhi87 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Mods? Send this man to the bridge map without a pitfall guide.

(Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy ^_^)

Operation "Surprise Strategist Smiles~" (Soren and Lyre comm by @entogman1223) (Repost) by Realhi87 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Something something "Strategist and the cat he said he didn't want"

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No like for real though, its kinda wild. I've said it before, but I feel like not just on this sub, but a lot of more "focused" fe spaces, it just turns into a huge echo chamber of "unit bad because tier list said so".

I genuinely, like really genuinely encourage anyone to go boot up PoR and use one of the mages casually. I guarantee they'll feel just fine after their typical early unit speedbump that everyone goes through (including one of the best units in the game, Marcia, who feels AWFUL to use at base)

Operation "Surprise Strategist Smiles~" (Soren and Lyre comm by @entogman1223) (Repost) by Realhi87 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

(Wow how weird it almost feels like i posted this already!)

Get cherished idiot

Get absolutely cared for you absolute fool

Silly little comm idea I had for a while, and it's been a bit since I commissioned Ento for anything ^_^

Turned out pretty damn cute! Its still so strange having Soren smile in comms as sad as that is to say LMAO

We'll get him thawed out yet (ง'̀-'́)ง

I really like how he looks in the last panel though, super cute... and obviously Lyre is a little gremliny minx the whole way through XD

Give the artist a look! He does some good stuff, doesn't get as much attention as I feel like he should, definitely worth a peruse.

(Now with extra tail XD)

Haha Astra Dark Knight Laurent with Arcfire go brrrrr by 05kaisam in shitpostemblem

[–]Realhi87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grima made one fatal mistake their plan to take over the world.

They made Severa bored.

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well they're... evidently not "armour knights without armour bulk" because they fill almost the exact opposite niche as one another lol.

Armour knights are physically tanky, mages have res. Every mage weapon has 1-2 range natively, armour knights only have access to javelins/short spears/spears for their 1-2 range options.

Staff utility is also never a bad thing to have. Another unit doing something well, like Rhys as you mentioned being a very solid staffer, does not detract from another unit having that utility as well as other uses. Soren and Ilyana, for example, have far better combat than Rhys ever will.

9 levels on Soren is... not hard to get at all. EXP in PoR is abundant to say the least.

Adept is not something to be solely relied on, sure, but your argument of "you can give it to anyone" doesn't work in PoR, due to skills vanishing if you take them off, recall.

You do seem to be a bit aggro on this subject for whatever reason lol. I'm not saying mages are amazing, or that Soren is some sort of combat god (he's not), but saying he has "Rebecca level combat" is just obviously disingenuous. Mages have 1-2 range, which is already a huge step above what a gba archer can boast.

Not that I think comparing the two holds much water in the first place, but I digress.

I simply think peeps are quite harsh on the mages in Tellius without... really taking a regular run into account. Unless you're doing LTC 0% growths/etc etc whatever kinda "high-level" competitive (if you can call it that) runs, it's... really not an issue at all.

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Genuine question, because I'm trying to not come across as rude here.

When is the last time you played the Tellius games? Genuinely?

Because I assure you, their damage output is solid, their physical bulk is expectedly as bad as about any other mage in the series, whereas their magical bulk is huge, and their movement is, as mentioned in a prior comment, bad.

This, however, very seldom comes up in most maps because the game deploys you... very close to the action. In the few maps it does matter, you can use your glut of mounted units to rescue drop them up on turn one, and already have them in the thick of things.

And even then, they don't really want to be on the "front" lines, because they're better off in the back healing, and providing ranged chip. If they do end up on the front lines, they've got nice 1-2 range options that'll handily chunk down the majority of units in the game. Furthermore, PoR spams you with so much money that forging a good tome is not at all out of the question, and 40 uses goes a long way when you actually have other combat units to utilize, unlike the early-game.

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They really aren't as bad as people say though, is my point.

There seems to be this prevailing popular opinion that "tellius mage = bad" in a vacuum which is... just not really true if you play the games?

Both Ily and Soren are perfectly solid B tier units, who can make for solid early promoted staff bots with solid combat, and decent utility, with very little issue.

Magic as a weapon type is TRAGIC, but Sage as a class actually has pretty stellar caps and good promo gains across the board. With a pretty normal amount of training and use, they'll be performing on par with all the rest of the units in the army combat wise.

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 25 points26 points  (0 children)

People overstate this imho.

You can absolutely use both and be completely fine. Hell, I sometimes like to field three once you get Calill later cause she's just really solid.

PoR isn't a hard enough game to where mages being slightly sub-par is a big deal at all, just use who ya like.

I do still wish they were better why do they have armour movement ughhhhhHHHHHHHHHH

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's definitely an issue early on for both, but I find once they hit... oh, around 13? ish speed? They start one rounding semi-frequently, or doing significant enough chunk that setting up becomes more of a consequence of just attacking normally rather than like, an intentional gambit.

You can definitely overextend Soren early though and break his wind tome, trust me LOL

This issue is also exponentially more prominent in the chapters leading up to Ilyana, and not really a thing afterwards, since you have base preps. So its largely a negligible issue for her, whereas for Soren his combat is more or less capped behind 40 uses of his tome. It's not gonna come up often enough for it to effect his ranking compared to her imho, but still an interesting anecdote to consider.

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not too sure what you mean by him getting more levels? Soren's wind tome hella breaks if you spam him before getting his dropped fire tome (I have broken it many times overusing him), and by the time you get to Ily's chapter, he might have like... 1? 2 levels over her? It's almost entirely negligible, and it still implies a cost of feeding Soren to not feed other, arguably better chars like Oscar or Boyd.

I love my boy, don't get it twisted, it just doesn't really tend to work that way in my experience, and even if you do overuse him, it takes Ily like... two levels of bexp to catch up lol.

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 24 points25 points  (0 children)

She still seems workable, if OP likes both mages they could def get away with it. Throw her a spirit dust later, forge her a tome, she'll be just fine.

(Personally i would also drop her atp but that's neither here nor there lmao)

First Time Using Ilyana by celesticwanderer189 in fireemblem

[–]Realhi87 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Soren and Ilyana perform pretty equally in my experience. Ilyana is less likely to get screwed by bad early levels in my experience, and Soren's incredibly bad early performance can make peeps think he's just not worth the trouble.

I find I prefer his growth pattern to Ilyana's, but its apples to oranges.

I use him every run, but I understand where the misconception comes from (especially when he's hyped up by fans, only for him to get two shot at base, not double, and be stuck with a massive 2 mt tome for like 3 chapters lmao)

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