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Best: Shiva
Worst: Shanam

Best: Gonna have to go with Shiva from FE5. He's been the best myrmidon/swordmaster I've ever had in any FE game that I've played. There's been other myrmidon/swordmasters that I do really like too. Zihark, Stefan and Ayra/her kids are a few that come to mind. I have used Mareeta a bit and while I do think she can be pretty good(Especially with that mareeta sword of hers) she kinda comes in little late.

What I like about Shiva is that he comes with Sol skill which can be very great in lots of moments. His stats are insanely good, he'll cap strength, skill, speed, and defense will most likely cap. His magic won't really grow very high, so magic attacks probably will hurt a bit.. Though that could be fixed with the holy water, but he could still use the fire or wind sword just pretty well!

Worst: I haven't actually used Shanam, since for some reason I missed recruiting him by mistake. >.> From what I seen of him, he does come with Bargain which reduces the cost of items in shops. And that's kind of useless in FE5 as you don't need to buy things in shops, you have capture and stealing to get stuff. But I don't think it'd be fair to vote him since I never tried him myself, but I think I'll go with Karla from FE7. Why? Because she requires a specific requirement just to recruit her. And it's like three chapters left until endgame that you get her to join you. Even then once you use her she's actually not even that great, she'll mostly turn out just okay. It's a lot of effort just to get one character.

FE5 is Leaf's favorite game. Though, I'm sure he's played the later games, maybe? -shrugs-

I guess because of Fir? Probably the only reason I can think of.. sweatdrop

I've liked Barte as a unit. It's pretty easy to survive that one battle if you give him an Iron Rune. It's just that it's having to use him to get Karla becomes tedious. Even Karel has better availability than her. >.>

Best: Rutger.

I find the lack of faith in the Rutger disturbing. The guy is CLUTCH in FE6.

Worst: Karla. Forcing you to use Bartre (and costing a promotion item for Bartre on top of that) to join for fractions of chapters left in the game is fail. At least Shanam provides something with Bargain and doesn't even have to be deployed to let us use it before a chapter starts.


I also think Owain and Edward are definitely far from best (the former for joining too late and having a mother that will s**t on his physical potency if you're not grinding, the latter requiring you to build him up and not having great durability for a good long while) although both have the potential to be really strong and want to give honorable mentions for best to Shiva and Ayra.

Best: Linoan, 5 PCC mofo with mad tanking Rezire skillz who supports Leaf magnificently and Dean. She also doesn't require a scarce Knight Proof to promote, can fight, unlike most future staff bots, and is a rank away from negative staff spam, if I'm allowed to talk about staves in a light magic vote.

Worst: Dierdre, she silences some guy who doesn't even need to be silenced, gives Ethlin her lightsaber and goes away forever after the next chapter. In terms of her actually USING light magic for FIGHTING, lol.

Best: I think I'd have to give it to Linoan for this one. Though, Lucius is also a great light magic user too, great availability for sure. He'll cap out Magic and Resistance. Artur is also quite good too.

But for now, I'm sticking with Linoan. Rezire/ Nosferatu is just an all around handy tome in general. And she supports with Leaf and Dean so that makes her even more useful to have around with you!

Worst: Really it's kind of toss up between Dierdre or Renault here. But I'm gonna have to go with Dierdre in the end. As she really has only one use in the whole entire game and that's to silence the boss, Sandima.(I think that's his name...) And if you still have that staff with you, it can be used against the chapter 2 boss with the sleep staff. She also gives the light sword to Ethlin... But really that's all she's good for, she can't really fight with light magic very well. Dierdre's only usable for like 2 chapters so her availability isn't very good. It's true that Renault is thrown in at the last minute, and getting those supports of his is a pain to do. But he does come with the Fortify staff at least..

I think we're slowly shifting to staff users, as much as I hate to minimod (sorry Mel!) I tried to base my votes on who was more horrible with light magic, even if I did end up talking about staffs for a third of both characters.

That being said, it is very much so true that central to the beauty of light magic users is their utility to use staffs AND defend themselves. So in many ways, staffs are required to talk about, as that is what light magic users are probably going to end up doing, FE5 especially.

In terms of Renault VS Dierdre: at least he HAS a Fortify staff, access to all the endgame goodies and A's in light magic and staffs. Dierdre is locked to whatever low grade staffs you have gotten hitherto, stuck with the same horrible heavy tome, and on top of it, has to compete with Ethlin, who is like Christ with tits on a horse* and the recently gained Aideen, who is going to stick around for the whole generation.

*Am I even allowed to talk about my mom like that? Like FE4, right? There's been creepier things in that game than me talking like that about my mom.