Eyvel gets to bosses more quickly and is much better at killing them. You don't need a lot of money in thracia and there isn't much worth capturing early on so I don't weigh capturing very highly.
Is the best unit in both games he is in
Nolan Harris
Julian Carter
>A glass cannon is a better healer than Mrs. Healslut the prostipriestess
Serra's only redeemable quality is that she's a brat.
Thomas Sullivan
Havan's shit the entire game, Dalshin's shittier for most of the game but clutch during Manster. C Tier's a bit high, but I get it.
Matthew Morales
Aaron Reyes
Oh, I understand now. In your eyes, a character's rating should be formed by adding up their value in every chapter. Whereas the way I listed them just looks at their peak state and doesn't account for all the time Eyvel is bad. That makes sense, and if the individual contributions add up to more than what Eyvel does then it might make sense to rate her below them. But I think if someone looks at character ratings and sees Leaf > Eyvel they'll be misled about how good Leaf is on any given chapter.
Wyatt Turner
Halvan is better in the long run if you decide to train both but I rate Dalshin higher since he helps out when you really need him whereas Halvan is never particularly valuable.
Halvan
- Somewhat helpful in chapters 1-3 as he can kill weak enemies and contribute to rescue chains.
- After being re-recruited he is a subpar combat unit that cannot kill strong enemies or deal reliable damage at 2-range. Nevertheless he can still kill mooks with the brave axe.
- If heavily trained (including odo scroll use for many levels, promotion, and 90 axe wexp) he will be able to use master axes effectively. This will keep him safe from enemy dark mages because his ambush (vantage) skill lets him ORKO before taking damage. He can also fight master weapon armors in the final chapter.
- Enemies with wrath will crit him even on the enemy phase.
Dalsin
- Very valuable as a combat unit in chapters 4, 4x, and 5 as long as you take the brave axe into Manster. His speed prevents him from quadrupling (unless he eats the speed ring) but even a single hit from the brave axe can deal heavy damage or even OHKO enemies. His defense is also quite nice as he can endure a lot of hits from armors and soldiers (if they even attack him). The support he receives from Leaf is important as his hit rate is quite low.
- If you don't take the brave axe into Manster his damage output suffers greatly.
- Typically left behind during the Manster escape as he weighs down mounted units and is not worth the trouble it takes to escape with him.
- Even if left behind in chapter 5 he can fill in as a master/brave axe user in the endgame. However he has low accuracy and needs some leveling/promotion/statboosters to quad with the master axe.
- Promotion and the elite sword bring his defense to 20 before even considering growths. He also gets more accurate 2-range attacks from E-rank bows. However he won't kill much unless given the wrath manual and can't accomplish anything that justifies the effort.
Joshua Flores
I miss when FE wasn't a waifu simulator
Austin Brooks
If the purpose of a tier list is to help a player pick characters for their team, then I'd say a grade system really just doesn't work. Instead, probably the tiers should just be named accordingly: "Useful from start to finish", "useful for some time", "useful with investment", and "never useful", and then ordering them within those tiers. It's easy enough to say that Sain is better than Kent, but it's a lot harder to compare either one of them to Athos, they function so differently.
Blake Ross
That would probably be even more confusing since it wouldn't give you a sense of who to use when if the start-finish units aren't compared to the temporary units and the investment units could be well worth the investment.
Actually I was initially asking about which type of tier list is preferred. Aside from telling someone which units they should consider using, or counting the number of turns saved in a very specific setting, what options are there for making tier lists and which do you prefer?
Andrew Hernandez
I've been thinking of playing an older FE after 3H. Which should I play?
I've played 7, 8, 9, and Awakening onward. I've played 6 too but never beat it.