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Obviously, I think Rath is one of the best. Not because I think he's cool. He's utter pwnfulness.

I'm being repressed! Whatever happened to the First and Second Amendments? D=

I think the best ones I've seen have been Priscilla, Canas, Oswin, Hector, and... I think that's it, but Kent gets points for being so very useful in the Lyn chapters. Marcus (yes, Marcus) is definitely a good unit, if only for a little while.

Priscilla's a beast once promoted. Plus she's a good healer.

Canas+Luna=Dead Nergal and Fire Dragon (Aureola my foot!), plus he's the only dark magic user you get, which is very useful against bosses like Limstella and Sonia. Oh, and Ursula.

Oswin's the group tank. True, he's slow on the battlefield, but with 30 or so Def, even Uhai at the very end has trouble doing much damage.

Hector's similar to Oswin, except he gets Armads.

I don't think Lyndis' Legion would've got far without Kent. Not that Sain's worthless in comparison, but Kent's speed gives him those oh-so-useful doubles against anything and everything.

The same could be said of Marcus, too.

I've said this somewhere before, but there's an amazing debate on FEP about how Marcus beats Heath in usefulness.

I love Raven and Harken both. The chapter where you fight Limstella, I had Harken go the bottom path, Raven go the middle path, and everyone else rush across the top to Limstella. Raven still got there first. Heh.

@Fire Dragon: I stop using Marcus eventually, so I wouldn't know. But, I think the only Paladin I never ever use is Isadora. You already have so many horsemen by the time she comes in that I just don't use her...

@Kent: I remember you mentioning that. Heath comes in at a TERRIBLE time, almost as bad as Nino or Renault. He might've been much better had he come in earlier in the game.

@Amelia: Last time I played HHM (which I haven't finished and most likely won't), Serra actually had decent stats. It's the only time I've used her instead of Priscilla, save the very first time when I stuck Priscilla right in front of Erik.

I'd say Florina's likely the best out of the flyers. Fiora comes in at a bad time, Heath's timing is awful, and Vaida comes in too late in the game to be of much use. Farina's pretty good, though, if you can stomach the 20,000 (which I can because I arena abuse). My big complaint of the Peg Knights is that their Con is god-awful, and they can't wield anything heavier than a Slim Lance despite having 20 Str. (I love how they fixed that problem in Path of Radiance. 3nodding I hope to Paggy they kept PoR's system for Radiant Dawn.)

Rebecca can be good... if she gets decent Str boosts early on. >_> At level 6 or so, she only had 4 Str one time. Compare this to Will (and probably Rath), who is (are) pretty consistent with this stuff.

@Anyone in general: I think Florina vs. Farina would be interesting. Yeah, Farina requires a lot of cash, but if you arena abuse, it's chump change. Plus, when I used her, she wound up going into the final chapter. Florina, although free, requires much babying to get to godly status.

Kent was good earlier on, when you had swarms of bandits coming at you and the only other person who could double was Lyn, who couldn't kill them in one round.

Once you got Wallace, though, all you really need to do is just sit back and let the big guy handle everything. Rath comes in strong, but he's not nearly as pwnful since he's a bow unit and therefore can only do so much.

Heath comes in a time where you've got enemy mages and ballistae all over the place. The level after that's the Nabata Desert, right? That place has a couple of nasty axe-wielding bosses and again, pleny of mages. Not much there for Heath to pick off. Rath, at least, doesn't need to worry about ballistae or mages as much, plus unlike Heath, he's got Speed to spare, not to mention he won't be bothered with Con problems.

Huh.... I've found no problems using any unit in any level, so long as I wanted to level them up.

I never get Nino into the final chapter. I think I managed to make her a Sage once, but that was with a crapload of babying/arranging enemy units so she could finish them off.

Actually, other than Canas, I don't care for the magic units. Erk's never been good for me, Lucius seems too weak, and Pent I just never use. It's nothing against him, but I just don't use him.