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@ Linda: Sure, she may come at low stats (I guess Est archetypes ain't your cup of tea? If not, Ellis phoned, she said inb4endgame locked to staffs. Etzel too, but I hung up because he only had a D rank in staffs), but she is NOT the worst Mage in FE biggrin S. I mean, look at Boa for the love of God, his stats are just a hair better than Linda's, but his stats are almost permanently like that, unless you're crazy, he doesn't have a special wtfhaxx weapon (that being said, I usually reclass Rena and give her the Aura as her LCK and stellar MGC growth makes Aura into a Deathstar). Oh yes, and Linda has the highest MGC growth out of everyone in the game, and Ellis too, but Ellis is mainly just another A ranked staff user.

To be honest, I didn't really remember some of the mages. However, my displeasure with Pent came back first.

I like Lugh, he's an amazing Sage and available early. Lilina can grow to be a powerful Sage too. I never use Hugh (though I do buy him), but I assume he's not terrible. Ewan comes out decent (but not worth the trouble that went into raising him). Nino is powerful for obvious reasons if you take the incredible effort to somehow level her up at that stage in the game. I didn't even think about Saleh, but I do remember I hate the guy.

And i've played 6, 7, 8, and Shadow Dragon. I started playing 4, but it was painstaking to play it on a ZSnes emulator and I hadn't expected such long campaigns and complicated unit marriage systems involved in it. I'd have to use a guide to figure out who goes with what and in the end I just flaked out (don't judge me XD)

Well the results are in and the new topic is up. Best/Worst Fighter/Warrior. I'm doing this earlier than normal because I have to do some things.

Best: Ross (obviously when taking the fighter/warrior path) - I like him because you can level him up early in the game and get him to be a fighter at an acceptable rate. Once he's trained up, he far surpasses his father. I liked Ross better than Gonzales, but Gonzales is strong too.

Worst: Lot. I hate him...though his defense is okay when levelled, I suppose.

I'll do things different and go Worst Best mainly because the Best is obvious (not Maji) and I had to think hard for the Worst.

Ugh, this one is haaaaard, you all know my apparent axeman fetish, and I put a lot of thought into this one, I even thought about putting an FE1 Saji who has absolutely no Spd growths whatsoever and doesn't promote, I was going to put Dagda, but he has his early game uses (ie: capturing, weakening the hilariously powerful first two bosses without Evayle Fire Sword ORKO'ng, etc) I've decided to go with Johalva.

Worst: Johalva (FE4)- This guy may get the honour to say he's the only Axe Fighter in the entire game (1st and 2nd gen), but he is completely unnecessary especially when his brother is a mounted unit and all your guys are already foot soldiers. Also, axe users in general are outclassed by a promoted Leaf if you really want to use axes and save some much needed EXP for your other guys.

For best, Barts was up there because he's the only Axe Fighter in FE1/3 who can hurt things in a reasonable time frame so he got the merit (IMO) of being the only Axe Fighter who can do things without favouring (although a favoured Maji is always good~), Leaf and Lachesis were up there, but most people are happy giving them swords, Lex is top tier too mainly because Elite and his Brave Axe, and ranking second place would be Havan with his PCC of 4, higher growths than Othlin, Ambush + Brave Axe and being able to use swords upon promotion, but Othlin is still better IMO.

Best: Othlin (FE5)- Anyone who played this game (again, it's my favourite in the series) will know this guy (you know, the guy who makes FE5 tenfold easier?) He comes in the first chapter, has the Deathstar of Wrath, gets his own death weapon (Pugi), is the Maji archetype, a respectable PCC of 3 and for the icing on the cake, when he promotes, he gets to use swords to balance out/kill the weapon triangle more than it already is in FE5.

Um, have you even played FE10 (that sort of statement makes me wonder)? Nolan comes in Chapter 1 and has basically perfect availability for a Dawn Brigade unit after that point. How is that late?

Best: Nolan.

It’s really close between him and Othin, but Nolan is more valuable in RD than Othin is in Thracia 776. Consider: Nolan has basically perfect durability thanks to Earth support and all of Part 1 to develop it with either Volug or Zihark, which guarantees the Dawn Brigade’s survival in Part 3. And upon promotion to Warrior, Crossbows allow him to rape anything that flies, and combined with Beastfoe let him rape any Laguz he comes across in those Part 3 chapters with no effort whatsoever (this also makes him a really good choice, even without Beastfoe, for Tibarn’s army and the Izuka chapter which is where all the easy experience is at). He also gets his own personal axe which lets you take more than one axe user to endgame should you desire to. So he basically becomes untouchable until the final, final chapter (because Ashera has an insane hit rate) thanks to Earth affinity, has excellent offense, a personal weapon, and as good availability as is possible for being in the Dawn Brigade. Micaiah’s team would be so much worse off without him. Othin has the fabulous Pugi Axe, Wrath, and 3PCC, so he has instant incredible offense from the beginning of the game onwards, but he doesn’t become easily invincible like Nolan does, and he isn’t as necessary or valuable as Nolan to the game he’s in. I suppose Othin has access to scrolls, but Nolan has access to bexp – and bexp>scrolls. Perfect defense+great offense>Perfect offense+pretty great defense. There are other good options out there as well (FE9 Boyd, Lott, Barst, etc...), but Othin and Nolan are better by a significant margin.

Worst: Quite a few candidates, but I think Marty takes the cake.

His class is technically called “Mountain Thief” (fancy word for what’s basically a Brigand), but it’s mono-axes and he promotes to Warrior rather than Berserker, so he’s just as close to the category as Othin is (who promotes not to Warrior but basically to what’s Hero in the game). Starts with 0 Skl and Spd, and growths of 10% and 15% respectively, and is locked to the least accurate weapon type. Not promising. He comes with a rather impressive Str of 9, but his growth in that category is only 15%, so isn’t going to remain attractive for too long. The guy has really high amounts of HP and Bld (Bld should cap in just 7 levels), so it looks as though his purpose is to capture things, but with such horrendous Hit, how the hell is he supposed to hit anything to capture? Not to mention he has practically no shot in Hell of doubling, so he basically has to be set up for unless he one-shots (not likely unless he’s Hammering an Armor) so he can just attempt to capture something. Dagda captures better early on, and Havan and many others do better later on (or you could always use a mount). And since he’s going to cap Bld so fast, he can’t be transported by other units or mounts, which quite severely limits his transportation options for some chapters. Trash =/. Ward, Dorcas, and Bord are all quite bad, too, but I’ve ranted enough on Marty that I’m not in the mood to discuss them in depth.

@Lolwut: Liked your choices but pretty sure Leaf/Lachesis/Lex don’t count towards this category anyway- it’s best Fighter/Warrior, not best axe user.