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Best: Kent and Sain. I love their dynamic with each other.

Worst: Alec and Noish. Kinda boring... they're very similar to Kent and Sain, but not as relevant and executed (poor choice of words) as well.

I guess I have to explain that I am talking about the Abel/Cain duo. I should have clarified. Sorry Tibarn.

yo imma let you finish but pokémon had the best red/green duo of all time

I think the best was probably Kent/Sain. Firstly, they were two units that tend to not become completely useless later in the game, which is a lot more than I can say for some other cavalier pairs. Secondly, they have great personalities, both with each other and with other units. Kent was duty-bound and was more than eager to grow exasperated at Sain's bullcrap, while Sain was content to go around flirting with all the ladies and being a generally crazy guy.

Worst: Sully/Stahl. Kudos for making one of the cavaliers a girl, but did you have to make her quickly useless three chapters later?

I would go consider it into your vote Rath.

Some weeks I feel like asking this just going by what people are voting and saying. I'm under the assumption it's always supposed to be based on their performance as units.


Best: FE11, FE6, and FE9 have the pairs I'm considering. There are other really good pairs in the series but these entries have the red/green duos among the best units in the entire game. I think I'm going to vote FE9's Oscar/Kieran, where Oscar can become invicincible, and both get awesome Canto, and a mastery skill that lets them act even MORE autonomously without needing healing (of all the classes to give a Mastery Skill scroll to, Cavs are the most justified easily), and the weapon of their choice upon promotion. It's good to have a horse in FE9. Cavs rule the roost there. I may change my vote later in the week, though.

Worst: Alva and Kein. The FE5 duo you'd never know exists, and might as well not. At least Alec can safely help you recruit Ayra, but Alec/Noish gets dishonorable mention

Well with a tie for a winner lets see what you guys think about this topic.

This weeks topic is: Staff User (Note: Must start with ONLY a staff to be considered for this topic)

I'm always annoyed when people praise Natasha over Moulder. I think someone voted him for worst in something in the old thread and I flipped my s**t. He comes sooner and at a higher level than Natasha. Not that people can't prefer Natasha, but almost always, the people praising Natasha haven't even ever seriously tried using Moulder because "ew, old guy compared to pretty young blonde girl" despite the fact that objectively speaking Moulder is considered the superior of the two in tier lists and such.


ANYWAY, let's play the "Who has and hasn't played FE5" game! Here's how it works: if you've played FE5, you will inevitably vote Safy for best. And if you don't vote Safy for best, you haven't played FE5.

Best: Safy

Worst: Laura

I really had to think upon this one. At first, I figured it would be the latest joining healer you receive (which would be FE11 Elice), but then I realized anyone in a game with Warp where it lets you go ANYWHERE can't be worst. The staff is THAT good (plus Elice's A rank lets her spam Fortify and she can use Aum for shiggles). Of the remaining entries, I considered Laura and Brady, but even with Brady's potentially shaky start and joining situation, he has the potential to promote or reclass immediately and also has the potential to be a zero-effort needed Rally-bot, which can be very useful.

Which leaves Laura. Normally, I wouldn't hold having another healer around against a healer because you're not required or limited to using only one. And in a lot of playthroughs, particularly on harder difficulties, adding more healers is one of the best decisions you can make. But Laura is an anomaly for this. She exists in a game where healing with a staff is less impressive because a Vulnerary heal 20 and a Concoction can heal 40, making staff-based healing far less impressive. Plus, the non-healing staves aren't as exploitable. Plus, for being your first staves-only unit of FE10, she actually doesn't have awesome availability because of how FE10 plays out (not that she has bad availability; it just doesn't work in her favor like it would in other entries where you'd have just one group that kept growing). She also levels too slowly just limited to staves compared to other games and even moreso when you're focusing on raising just a few DB units to kick a**/survive in Part 3 and doesn't benefit from Bexp Abuse to great success because of shitty caps for her class tree (further inhibiting her is that the DB really wants it's fighters to be as good as possible so they should get Bexp priority). There's really little reason to seriously use her after a certain point, but even if you do, she doesn't impress. She's usable, sure, but difficult to make worthwhile even and not worth the effort. Almost all other healing people can be considered worthwhile when used.

My mind immediately considered that quad as well, Tiki. But they're all technically Bishops and can use tomes when you get them and the topic specified they had to be able to ONLY use staves this week.