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Medina struggles on first play trough though. As you likely not have the gold to buy many idems and she is also very slow at first. She falls flat combared to Gaele and her "revive" skill or Cordelia, later who can provide the most potent healing as long as she not moves. On my pov Medina's strengh was more the Option to actual having some attack option while the other healers are just healers. My lis: 1: Anna, having base 2 turns is just very strong and she is also one of the quicked units. Her ultimate also helps to set up kills on stronger enemies, as it cuts away all def/res. 2: Maxwell, same reason as you. He is just a very good unit overall 3: Achibald, i mean this sniper really is one of the strongest range damage dealer you get and he can fight from save range. 4: Hughette, flying archer that can reach every place and can become a auto canon for one turn is also very good. And her two dbuffs are also helpful most of the time. 5: Benedict, dancer that can give two turns. Fun 6: Cordelia, she is the most powerful healer. As long as she can stay in one place her high TP cost also never matter. (besides she can increase max hp of units!) 7: Frederica, she may only knows fire magic. But she can reach very high damage numbers and each kill refreshes her tp. (and its not hard to kill with her). Her ultimate is also a very strong Aoe if you manage to set it up properly. 8: Serenoa, he is one of the most reliable close combat units you get. There is no reason to not use him! 9: Erador, He is a tank and does tank stuff. And he does it very good. 10: Piccoletta, her overall skills are not very good. However her "clon" skill is very useful. As her clon pulls aggro and is able to pick up items. So she basicly can create a free tank to distract enemys.
Gameplay wise I would say Anna is my favorite, a lot of units become broken later on but she is one of the few who is amazing pretty much from the get go
Anna starts out as the best unit in the game, but by chapter 10 or so, I often don't field her. She's not nearly as useful as many of the other units and certainly not enough to be worth deploying on most maps. In this game, units should be either doing LOTS of damage, or playing a key support role on every turn. Anna does neither. I can never justify using her over one of my mages, one of my strong physical damage dealers, or a great support unit like Medina. Lategame maps aren't big enough for Anna to be of much use, on hard mode anyway. (Every unit is fantastic on Normal and below.)
@@rpg_haven I mostly agree, but I what I usually do is either use her ability to hide to mess with the AI and cheese maps or use her double ability to take advantage of follow up attacks and technically give someone else with high attack multiple hits. Also if she gets Benedict’s double attack she ends up doing 4 actions in one turn giving her really good adaptability overall. She isn’t the BEST unit, but she is my favorite gameplay wise to use; always great to have and doesn’t completely break the game
@@rpg_haven Since she auto wins every map in which you can kill the healers (assuming no extra failure conditions such as dont lose X, or win in X turns). She does struggle in the later smaller maps where she can't easily get the the back line to kill them. She auto win non healer maps as when no units are visible the enemies will just stand around and with no healers to heal them anna can chip them down slowly. She would have to eat alot of healing items when killing enemies with melle counter though. She can also do intresting effects with items due to her permanent double action. Examples include oil into fire gem. I am curious who your valuing over anna. I'm guessing a 4th mage? or a 4th archer depending on recruits.
Anna was the only unit I never wanted to take off my team, except occasionally when grinding exp, because she was almost always my strongest and most leveled unit. Her damage output wasn't necessarily the highest, but she has so much utility. She's great at setting up follow up attacks, which in most cases makes up her lower base damage. She can pretty reliably cc enemies with sleep. Traverse heights to reach places most non-flyings can't. Cover makes her effectively invulnerable in most scenarios. Her ult does very solid damage and lowers def/mdef to kill tough enemies quicker. And her double actions means she can reliably take advantage of items to buff/debuff or heal or even throw out some magic items without feeling like I was wasting her turn. Anna, Erador, and Geena/Medina were consistently the cornerstone of winning almost every battle in the game for me.
Keep in mind, I've only played hard mode so far Characters I loved using are: Erador - Provoking healers is funny as shit Piccoletta - Decoy has the best mobility in the game. Sure it's a bit costly, but with Julio or Medina it's pretty constant. Also buffing the decoy with Bulwark is funny too Cordelia - Regen on any tank is really good. Especially paired with a Regen ring. Hughette - Sights set is so fucking cool and is the coolest move in the game. Paired with her passive, insult to injury, and crit rings/bracelets/amulets let's her pump out some massive damage. Also blind is a broken status effect Anna - perfect for taking down pesky healers and mages as those are the only things she can deal damage to in hard mode. She can dodge pretty consistently
Both Piccolette and Anna kind of suck on hard mode, at least in the later chapters. Anna's... fine, but she's a waste of a slot when what you really need on Hard mode is is damage output. Same with Piccoletta-distracting enemies is nice, but it's better to just kill them. Also, dodging in this game is too inconsistent to be worth it. It ain't like Fire Emblem.
This wasn't a tier list. Just a ranking of characters I found fun to use on my playthroughs in hard mode. I am in no way optimal and we'll aware of both characters shortcomings
@@rpg_haven finally some true words, all the Anna praise while she is just dead weight when she needs like 10 strikes in the back for a regular soldier, these guys are all playing on easy mode that praise her
Honestly I love using Roland. He is so weak but does such a good job at killing mages and getting to the back to get those crit hits a nuke down mages. Give him back protect and resurrection earring and he is able to duck in and get that mage kill and move out before he dies that 2nd time.
I know she’s not the best, but Picoletta is such an interesting character for me. A circus character is not a super rare concept, and neither is the decoy(even though it’s still fun and great). What makes her really fun and fascinating is that she’s a damage item based character which I think is something very interesting. I really like the range of characters in this game both in what they bring in combat and the diversity of people in age and background. I think it’s something fire emblem should take notes on.
Thats one reason I really like the item management in this game. It fully encourages you to use your items every map if you choose to do so. Picoletta, Medina, and Lionel are hard to use in the early game, but once money becomes less of an issue, these 3 can become really powerful.
Glad to see some Picoletta love! I really liked her design and story but then I used her in battle and was fully sold. Her decoy is actually really useful and her mastery of attack items helps quite a lot. I feel like she's really underrated.
@@evanmax717 I often used her decoy to drain bosses of their TP. Combined with Medina and Julio, I had Avlora sitting in a corner, playing with dolls while being pelted by lightning.
Decimal is my favorite to use. The combo with the Obsidian Anklet is fun, for one. Hitting things from across the map is intrinsically satisfying, especially getting a lucky OHKO with 5s. Landing 4s in combination with some ice patches slows enemies down almost to a stop. 7s are unreliable, but really funny to just pop someone across the map. Hitting enemies seems to aggro them (although TS AI is funky so idk), which makes Decimal a selective lure as much as an AOE damage dealer. But nothing compares to his use on the bridge maps. First, hitting enemies across the closed gates is possible and fun. But more impressive, despite what it might seem, archers can't hit you at the base of the ladders going down to the water. Decimal can deal over 1000 damage in a single blow, spread across 8 or more enemies at once, and that's just silly.
Anna was easily my fave to use, there’s something SO satisfying about being able to attack 2 times per turn, plus I love thief styled classes in general so that helps. Also, Frederica also gets a mention cause sometimes all you need to be happy is to just kill multiple enemies with a single scorch
I combo Anna + Serenoa for massive backstab damage. I also love her cover skill to get behind enemy line and kill archers and mages. And since poison throw can trigger follow ups (and is ranged), she is pretty good to stack those kudos in mock up battles.
Thank you for making Triangle Strategy content. I feel like this game got buried by other releases and most other FE tubers aren’t covering it for some reason (only you and Linkking7 as far as I know). Any TS content you make, I’ll watch.
I haven’t finished the first play through on my copy, but Medina was literally my favorite from the first demo even though I didn’t use her on the first map she was available in the demo. So glad to hear you like Medina as well! I have yet to make her that great of a unit, but I will in due time at this rate! Excellent video, and looking forward to whatever’s next in your channel!
I love archibald. I used archibald + medina + julio combo to cheese roland route final boss. It's fun to see archibald just sniping the boss from across the map
Ezana is probably my favorite character. I love just nuking people with lightning, plus her design is awesome. Other than that, Frederica is another I love using.
With Fast-Acting Medicine and In-Tandem I was able to halve the HP of the last boss of the Frederica route on hard difficulty and NG+, because Anna was able to hit the boss from behind 6 times (with Obsidian Anklet and Critical Anklet equipped). Medina is so unfairly broken with her tools. Corentin is also nice with his Passive "TP+ on Ice". So he can regenerate 2 TP each Turn, when he's on an Ice Field. So he can use Frosty Feathers or Icy Breath each Turn without Throwback.
Yeah I'm 100% convinced Medina is the 2nd best character in the game, tp physick alone is beyond busted. Add in fast-acting medicine (like you mentioned), her movement and speed, and yeah...busted char
I love Medina, Frederica, Julio, Serenoa,Roland (no I haven’t gotten Maxwell yet, why do you ask?), and anyone with a bow the most. I’d love to see more content from you regarding this game.
I don't have all the characters but I gotta say I really enjoy using Medina in terms of gameplay characters for support the fact she can so easily bring HP and TP up at a range is so good and satisfying. Offense characters would be a bit more varied, probably Frederica cause I like nuking but I feel like she's probably not the best really. Character-wise I'm not so sure here, I've liked a lot of them, maybe Flanagan
I'm a simple man, I see Medina and Ezana in thumbnail, I click. Right now I'm early in my golden route playthrough and I've got to say I've loved every moment of this game, but if there's something I would like to be added is expanding the stories for the secondary characters. I would've loved to explore more of some of this characters specially backstories and epilogues.
Alright, I’m now convinced I need to try and use Medina I’m still in my first playthru And I like using Frederica a ton, and Hughette’s utility has made maps a thousand times easier by blinding an archer to just nullify them for a bit I love Lionel but I don’t have his AoE yet so I’m just using him for what I can
I have to say Avlora is my favorite character. Risky Maneuver with Twofold Turn is absolutely astounding. Slap the Red Scarf on her and Risky Maneuver is not only free, but gives you back more than you lose. You can’t say no to that. I always had a soft spot for Trish and Act Again cemented it. Also my boy Rudolph and his Straight Shot is basically pointing a glock to the enemy’s head. It’s always a treat.
It's great seeing Medina appreciation since I feel like a lot of early tier lists keep putting her in D tier and I thought I was going crazy, lol. Though my biggest neverbench on NG+ normal was Trish. Leap + Act Again meant she was basically Hughette's range/mobility with Anna's versatility and action economy, she could easily clean up map spoils by late game in a turn or two, and her passive item collecting helped keep Medina stocked.
Medina is BY FAR the best unit in the game. That includes Quahaug. She's the only unit who is ALWAYS useful on every single turn on every single map. Quahaug has several broken skills, but he's often just sitting there, passing his turn, while my other units actually _do_ something. If you're reasonably skilled at the game, you'll never need (or want) to use Quahaug.
I agree. Medina is awesome. I love her playstyle and lover her overall character equally. Funny thing though, I laughed when I looked at the credits and say that she has the same English VA as Namine from Kingdom Hearts. :D
Medina is the only reason I managed to win against the final boss on Benedict's path. I kind of kept her leveled since she reminded me of Tressa from Octopath, but that TP build skill and good healing turned out to be super useful in most situations. Sorry Julio, Medina has stolen your job >:D
Medina - quite possibly - saved my final battle on Benedict's path on my first go. I lose half my units and have only Geela, Hughette, Frederica, Ezana and Medina left (RIP Corentin). Hughette hit and runs the final boss while the rest sit at the bottom fending for themselves. That was until I started to run out of items and yolo'ed the final boss. Hughette landed the final blow but the others softened the final boss.
Jens and Medina are the main two characters i go with when fighting a defensive and tough battle Medina with TP psychic can be so useful when your team are low on tp while jens can effectively delay the advancement of the boss so I can have extra round or two to cut the number down
I'm stalling my finishing my first run because I want to get the remaining non-route-related characters due to me being in the golden route. Also the fact that I still need to get my levels up. Medina support is definitely needed for a good number of characters to wreck maps. I really enjoy trolling enemies with Jen's traps like tossing them in corners and keeping them there until they go down to slam damage. It's not practical but it's a real hoot to do.
I personally liked to also use Medina, Cordelia Frederica and one I really liked when I got her is Giovanna it's nice when a lot of enemies are in one line and I can just hit them. But I think it felt really cheap using Anna since you can solo with her 80% of the maps on the hardest difficulty.
I am happy to see apreciation for Medina. I also think she is the best, and was absolutely baffled when I saw a tier list put her as the worst character.
What? She is? I'm new game plus currently ( only after one story completion, though i started on hard ) and medina was by far my best character. (I'm relatively spoil free)
A lot of people who think she's bad just look at "Oh, she just heals, but there are healers that heal without using items, why would I use her?" because the most obvious use for healers is to heal. Those people just don't think about all the other advantages Medina has, such as HOW she heals and what other utility she provides in addition.
There are people who don't like farming or take it as a challenge to not overly farm for resources. We then prefer to invest our coins first on permanent weapon upgrades. Playing this way, it's not until very late NG+ that you have enough disposable currency to throw items around to consistently use her and lionel unless you really just focus resources on a small group of units to have a larger cash pool. There are units ranked lower in tier lists just coz they don't fit a player's style but are still perfectly good units, then there are units that totally cannot be used unless a player has a certain style. If you don't farm at all in optional battles, medina cannot be used for more than a battle or two.
@@pul0y In those cases, it's better to just make that specification known at the beginning of the tier list. No grind/low money runs are entirely different than other metas not only with regards to money intensive characters, but the fact that it's less worthwhile to use ANY character with overly conditional uses due to lower XP and being unable to pool weapon upgrades. People just assume grind heavy playstyles for normal tier lists because there's nothing in the game that stops you from doing so (unlike in a lot of FEs where it's not really intended, but more a consequence of being able to hit a boss with regenerating health repeatedly). TS arguably makes grinding more intended than a lot of other strategy RPGs even because its balancing is much more strict around it (harder XP clamping in particular and very obvious "this is what level you should be").
@@ancientspark375 that's why in my actual comment to the video and not a reply, I did state that I am waiting for a listing with the qualifiers he mentioned at the beginning. Here I am just trying to elucidate to some how their fave unit wouldn't be liked by a certain group of people beyond basically assuming that they are all stupid people who don't know how to play. And tbh, this game doesn't make grinding = farming. You can grind much faster if you do not farm at all and just use your highest level map, spam your turn order shenanigans, and then retreat. Hell, most farming protocols do not use grinding maps at all as most would use rapid clear mental battles to farm which aren't at all efficient grinding maps.
I got so giddy when you mentioned Lionel. ruffle feathers was a massive for me on my hard playthrough. it saved me so many times, because chasing him down was always a huge chore for the enemies. His aoe talk skill is quite good as well. his attack is decent enough, nothing special, but gets the job done. Also, he has the silliest lines.
Only did a new game playthrough. Anna was my favorite throughout. She helped me cheese Avlora when I didn’t want to burn down the Wolfort Demesne. It was a matter of hitting, hiding, and healing
Milo is hands down my favorite character to use. Tempt is not only extremely useful and game-changing but also just very fun because of watching the enemy attack each other or having an enemy healer heal your units. She also has great mobility with Moon Jump + Evade Detection, making her do whatever she pleases. While trying for the Golden Route, I did the map where you fought Avlora in Wolffort, and despite only having Milo left with about 10+ enemies, I managed to cheese it by jumping to the roof while recharging my TP and then Tempting the enemies. I got her 1st between the 4 optional characters and I would lie if I said I didn't choose based on the fact that the game seemed to hint towards which path allowed me to keep her, I mean, just look at her >_>
I love Milo, too. While tempt is awesome and shouldn't be underrated, neither should her defenses-she's a monster. I like putting the Resurrection Ring on her so she just never dies. It seems like she _should_ be a frail unit due to how great temptation is, but nope, she's a wall.
I'm on chapter 10 so this might change later on, but right now, my main team is: Serenoa, Roland, Anna, Hughette, Frederica, Geela, Narve, Corentin, Benedict, and Hossabarra. It's a good combination of physical and magical damage plus healers. I like mages who can also function as healers too, which is why I used Narve rather than Ezana. If I can have 11, then I'll add Erador back into the main team, since I've been keeping him up to par thanks to the grinding at the camp base. Hopefully the game will give more unit slots, because 10 isn't very much to use. But I'm definitely enjoying the game thus far. 14 hours in by chapter 10.
On my first playthrough I picked up Rudolph and he was my mvp on multiple maps because I was able to use his trap laying to control maps and bait melee units in range of mages and him
Benedict is really fun but I’ve started to bench him on my New Game + due to not enjoying him as a character. Now the character that is a must-deploy in every map for me is Trish, she’s so fun to use and really good with her Act Again skill
Ehhhh, one extra action for 3 TP cost (it's not actually 2 turns, since you waste the turn you cast it)? Might as well just use Benedict, who can pay 3 TP to give one extra action to _any_ unit, not just Trish, or Medina, who only needs 2 TP to do the same thing. Trish sucks.
@@rpg_haven except it is two actions, the casting turn doesn’t count?? Like I’ve literally used her every chapter since recruiting her I’d know. Your next 2 turns after using Act Again she gets to act twice
Medina is a beast. I suspect she probably won't get used by too many first-run players as you'll be strapped for cash and resources without doing an absurd level of farming, and by the end you'll likely have access to at least two magical-based healers who are less costly. But I've played enough strategy RPGs to know that chemist/apothecary types very frequently outdo your more conventional healers, but man if you give Medina a full pantry she's just absurd. Jens is kind of an unsung hero of my playthrough. There aren't too many instances where he's really useful but when he is he is heaven sent. He completely changed the flow of those touchy bridge fights with the twins. Early on in one I managed to throw one of them off the battlefield and basically remove them from the fight while I handled the other one. He turned an arduous map into one I was doing victory laps around.
After two full playthroughs on hard the characters I most frequently deployed: Serenoa, Medina, Quahuag, Anna, Hughette, Erador, Milo, and Corentin. So much utility and power.
My favorite units are Frederica and Trish. Frederica's tp on kill with the Blazing Chains buffs means she can basically attack every turn even without Medina or Julio being a tp battery for her and I just love hopping around the map with Trish plus fire arrows. She's not the best archer but she is fun. I'm only playing on Normal without all units on my first NG+ though so no one is fully upgraded yet.
my absolute top 1 fun character is honestly Giovana I love her so much, she can turn into a healer with Ezana or a Sweeper with Corentin, in some maps into a hard CC god and she's fun to play since shes never static, such a great character that is generally very unpopular
I liked medina because of her looks and personality, but in first demo she instantly died on the map with that archer lord(whicill I feel is the coolest character in a game, too bad he wasn't recruitable) and I didn't really think I would use her much in the full game. Thankfully she really is amazing unit and she does decent damage when necessary, can heal twice in one turn, can rcover tp twice in one turn, can poison enemies and make aaly turn come faster. There is simply no reason not to use her.
Nice ranking! Mine is: - Anna (very 1st) - Hughette (her Seiyuu omg) - Archibald - Maxwell - Serinoa - Roland - Ezana - Erador This game is soooo fantastic, adictive! far far away from others, tremendously powerful story and battlses, so many unique characters, etc
Flanagan is one of the best units in the game with his weapon skill that reduces all damage to units surrounding him, you can literally just bait enemies into your mage's that surround him, he can even attack with aerial assault and return to tanking for them, i like to have tp batteries like Medina in there to keep the mages killing, Decimal seems to do very well in that group as well as he will constantly be able to use his abilities while being tanky himself
In terms of characters not mentioned here, I think my votes would go to Trish and Giovanna Trish may not be as powerful as Archibald, but don't under estimate Act Twice. She can easily run in, take a shot, take another shot, then run away to safety without worry. She essentially gets 4 turns at the cost of 1 turn to reactivate Giovanna I fully admit is very situational and suffers greatly when many maps lack non-rocky terrain, but I just find her fun to use. Her ridiculous movement def helps her TP hungry skills with Terrain Trekker, and said skills hit HARD. She's just honestly a fun character to play with.
I've found some units are way better in this game depending on if you are in New Game+, on a first play through on Normal, or are on a first play through on Hard. On my first play through on hard, going for the Golden Ending, Julio was absolutely indispensable. Being able to use him to enable Benedict's Now!! is super clutch in the first Avlora map if you are trying to avoid setting the houses on fire. He also supports Corentin a lot in the early game enabling Ice Wall to always be up when I needed it to be. Medina replaces him later on with TP Physick but until you can unlock it for her as well as get your money up to pay for all her items, Julio is stupid levels of clutch.
Seems Avlora is the only character on this list I didn't get on my first playthrough. I would have expected Narve to make it onto the list if Ezana was too. I consider then relative in usefulness. And I agree with Medina at the top. When I first got her, she wasn't exactly contributing very much because due to her lack of decent damage, and poison pallet honestly didn't help with anything significant. And then she got fast acting medicine and TP physic and all of a sudden she was like getting a Generation of Miracles onto your basketball team!!
Medina is so broken, easily my fav support unit, I only used her on new game + for cost reasons. Very interesting list, it's giving me ideas for my hard playthrough, thanks.
I hate Medina because of how broken TP physic is lol. I know that it’s deeply suboptimal that I run Benedict, Julio, and Geela at the same time instead, but I just hate how broken she is. I never use her.
Just finished my first playthrough, got true ending and normal difficilty and only missed the 3 one sided conviction recruits, Medina was definitely the best unit along with my single target nukers Frederica, Corentin and Archibald. Special thanks to Benedict for buffs and immunity and Erador for keeping unita off my squishies with the 1TP Provoke
2:48 Boy does 'Rite of Thunderstorms' miss a lot! I stopped trying to get it to work in NG+ & NG++. 3:49 Jens' Turret was such a let down. I ended up using it in a way similar to Pico's clone. 4:55 Lionel! Prior to unlocking his weapon skill, I used him as a tank. He has one of the highest def coupled with his HP; he taunts from range, with great effectiveness, so can disable mages. 7:08 Made Maxwell (and Milo) my archer hunters thanks to their jump abilities. 8:13 Yes! I almost attempted killing the final boss on Benedict's path with the shield counter (had it on 7 of the characters) but I got bored. 10:23 In NG+, Medina turns 'useless' regular healing pellets into TP. She's way too strong!
Roland sucks until you get one of his later skills, which by the lategame isn't useful, since you'll have so many other better units. He's just garbage.
i see that being bad at tactical games has his perks, because i know quahaug is broken, but because i'm not good i cannot use him that well therefore it doesn't feel bad using him
I need to start playing Medina. I held back because of hoarder instincts, but hard mode sure does make you really want to use pellets and rocks so you can, like, not lose.
i just started the game and am 3 hours in sooooooooo i basically have no clue. as it stands i like Anna the most :D i know 3 hours is not much but i wanted to comment because i liked this video :)
Honestly I love Julio. I'm still pretty early on but like. Idk he's useful and fun and not bad at damage. I'm excited to see which characters you consider bad lol
Flanagan isn’t the flashiest character, but man he helps out your back line. With Rampart, your mages and healers can become tanks, and he’s got enough movement to easily keep up with everyone as they move. He’s also got the coolest design in the game don’t @ me.
favorite units list without hossabara? proof opinions can be wrong. who needs a weapon when you can just pick up your friends and huck them at bad guys
This is my GOLDEN ROUTE PARTY: Serenoa (of course) Julio (my favorite, Ezana's battery, I dont use medina as battery. yes hate me) Archibald (main damager) Medina (single healer) Quahaug (turn back time skill op) Narve (Element skill item thrower if TP is zero) Geela (AOE healer) Picoletta (invinsible shield breaker) Ezana (ult op with debuff) Benedict (Twofold turn, bulwark)
I think you didn't mention the best thing about our lovely ice mage. TP on ice. That passive makes him easily most consistent mage since he does not need tp battery to keep on casting.
its a great passive but he does struggle early to keep his TP in check since his aptitudes are relatively costly. It also requires set-up for ice terrain, but yeah its definitely a great option
@@Faerghast I do agree with him being not so good before he gets that ability, but I don't think setting ice terrain is a problem. In most of the map you have a free turn before enemy gets to the range, so just ground target frost breath and it is done. After that he can usually walk to places where he blasted enemies to keep up with terrain.
@@Faerghast that's just weird for you to say given how medina and clearly lionel are very expensive and late game and are ranked highly on this list. i just throw a single cheap ice stone at corentin and he's set for the early turns and then he just stands on his own ice for most of the rest of the game. That's just 200 coins vis-a-vis 700+ coins for even a single ranged pellet.
@@pul0y I'm not arguing that it's expensive to use corentin. I'm just saying iirc he doesn't come with TP on Ice out the gate and so he can struggle to keep his TP up until he gets it. Also gold is given away like candy in this game and I don't literally spam Golden Opportunity every turn
Frederica's skill that gives +1 TP after a kill also lets her not need a TP battery, without having to stand on special terrain. Corentin's skill is _worse_ than hers, not better. Plus, you should _always_ have a TP battery, so this is a non-issue. TP batteries are useful for practically every unit, not just mages.
It's also just... true. Being able to give +1 TP to 10 units on the first turn completely breaks this entire game, and I love it. Everyone who says Quahaug is the best character doesn't understand the game's mechanics. You shouldn't ever need Quahaug, and while he IS great, he takes up a slot that could be used for a damage-dealer instead. He's overrated. On maps where I did field him, I ended up using his warp to get units into the action ASAP.... and that was about it. Not worth it.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Trish. Her archery might not deal as much raw damage as Archibald, but let her learn "Act Again!" and remove her "Leap" cost with weapon upgrades, and she becomes the most mobile unit on the battlefield.
I know it's your personal choice but I really prefer Milo to Lionel her movement and dodge let her get in and do what ever you need be it shut down a mage, poison someone or use charm and survive the end turn.
Well if we're talking personal favorites I like using Rudolph on average his damage is greater than Hughette's and his kit has some useful utility his steel trap damages and stops the enemy's turn and he's the only character with a ranged shove move you could say his weapon skill Rain of arrows is a bit simple but it can hit multiple enemies unlike Hughette's and it doesn't take a turn to charge like Archibald's.
I barely finished my first playthrough of the game and I used everybody I could recruit just to try and keep the levels the same. But out of all the characters I liked using the most, I do think Archibald came in handy as well as Hughette. Their range completely trashed the AI in the game and sometimes in those desperate situations when all you have is an archer with good movement and range, it really saved me because I could just keep flying away and attacking. Medina was hard for me to use sometimes because she doesn’t have the TP Physick you’re talking about here and also I found myself not focusing so much on buying items until almost the end of the game when I actually had money lol But I have to disagree with Benedict…I never enjoyed using him 🚮
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Amen brother; Medina supremacy
Medina struggles on first play trough though. As you likely not have the gold to buy many idems and she is also very slow at first.
She falls flat combared to Gaele and her "revive" skill or Cordelia, later who can provide the most potent healing as long as she not moves.
On my pov Medina's strengh was more the Option to actual having some attack option while the other healers are just healers.
My lis:
1: Anna, having base 2 turns is just very strong and she is also one of the quicked units. Her ultimate also helps to set up kills on stronger enemies, as it cuts away all def/res.
2: Maxwell, same reason as you. He is just a very good unit overall
3: Achibald, i mean this sniper really is one of the strongest range damage dealer you get and he can fight from save range.
4: Hughette, flying archer that can reach every place and can become a auto canon for one turn is also very good. And her two dbuffs are also helpful most of the time.
5: Benedict, dancer that can give two turns. Fun
6: Cordelia, she is the most powerful healer. As long as she can stay in one place her high TP cost also never matter. (besides she can increase max hp of units!)
7: Frederica, she may only knows fire magic. But she can reach very high damage numbers and each kill refreshes her tp. (and its not hard to kill with her). Her ultimate is also a very strong Aoe if you manage to set it up properly.
8: Serenoa, he is one of the most reliable close combat units you get. There is no reason to not use him!
9: Erador, He is a tank and does tank stuff. And he does it very good.
10: Piccoletta, her overall skills are not very good. However her "clon" skill is very useful. As her clon pulls aggro and is able to pick up items. So she basicly can create a free tank to distract enemys.
@@mrcaos999 this is the first video i saw mention medina... She is incredibly incredibly OP in game... hard mode is easy with her.
Ive pretty much picked her only because I like her optics but now I'll try out some of the things you've mentioned
Jens is one of my favorites, just his spring trap is fun to use to knock enemies off buildings and cliffs.
Gameplay wise I would say Anna is my favorite, a lot of units become broken later on but she is one of the few who is amazing pretty much from the get go
Anna starts out as the best unit in the game, but by chapter 10 or so, I often don't field her. She's not nearly as useful as many of the other units and certainly not enough to be worth deploying on most maps. In this game, units should be either doing LOTS of damage, or playing a key support role on every turn. Anna does neither. I can never justify using her over one of my mages, one of my strong physical damage dealers, or a great support unit like Medina.
Lategame maps aren't big enough for Anna to be of much use, on hard mode anyway. (Every unit is fantastic on Normal and below.)
@@rpg_haven I mostly agree, but I what I usually do is either use her ability to hide to mess with the AI and cheese maps or use her double ability to take advantage of follow up attacks and technically give someone else with high attack multiple hits. Also if she gets Benedict’s double attack she ends up doing 4 actions in one turn giving her really good adaptability overall.
She isn’t the BEST unit, but she is my favorite gameplay wise to use; always great to have and doesn’t completely break the game
@@rpg_haven Since she auto wins every map in which you can kill the healers (assuming no extra failure conditions such as dont lose X, or win in X turns). She does struggle in the later smaller maps where she can't easily get the the back line to kill them. She auto win non healer maps as when no units are visible the enemies will just stand around and with no healers to heal them anna can chip them down slowly. She would have to eat alot of healing items when killing enemies with melle counter though. She can also do intresting effects with items due to her permanent double action. Examples include oil into fire gem.
I am curious who your valuing over anna. I'm guessing a 4th mage? or a 4th archer depending on recruits.
Anna was the only unit I never wanted to take off my team, except occasionally when grinding exp, because she was almost always my strongest and most leveled unit. Her damage output wasn't necessarily the highest, but she has so much utility. She's great at setting up follow up attacks, which in most cases makes up her lower base damage. She can pretty reliably cc enemies with sleep. Traverse heights to reach places most non-flyings can't. Cover makes her effectively invulnerable in most scenarios. Her ult does very solid damage and lowers def/mdef to kill tough enemies quicker. And her double actions means she can reliably take advantage of items to buff/debuff or heal or even throw out some magic items without feeling like I was wasting her turn.
Anna, Erador, and Geena/Medina were consistently the cornerstone of winning almost every battle in the game for me.
@@rpg_haven I always use her because as soon as all enemy healers are dead, Anna can solo the map.
Keep in mind, I've only played hard mode so far
Characters I loved using are:
Erador - Provoking healers is funny as shit
Piccoletta - Decoy has the best mobility in the game. Sure it's a bit costly, but with Julio or Medina it's pretty constant. Also buffing the decoy with Bulwark is funny too
Cordelia - Regen on any tank is really good. Especially paired with a Regen ring.
Hughette - Sights set is so fucking cool and is the coolest move in the game. Paired with her passive, insult to injury, and crit rings/bracelets/amulets let's her pump out some massive damage. Also blind is a broken status effect
Anna - perfect for taking down pesky healers and mages as those are the only things she can deal damage to in hard mode. She can dodge pretty consistently
Both Piccolette and Anna kind of suck on hard mode, at least in the later chapters. Anna's... fine, but she's a waste of a slot when what you really need on Hard mode is is damage output. Same with Piccoletta-distracting enemies is nice, but it's better to just kill them.
Also, dodging in this game is too inconsistent to be worth it. It ain't like Fire Emblem.
This wasn't a tier list. Just a ranking of characters I found fun to use on my playthroughs in hard mode. I am in no way optimal and we'll aware of both characters shortcomings
@@rpg_haven finally some true words, all the Anna praise while she is just dead weight when she needs like 10 strikes in the back for a regular soldier, these guys are all playing on easy mode that praise her
Narve with his final pormotion was my favorite, the long range wind magic plus Roland or Maxwell for backstabs was so fun.
Honestly I love using Roland. He is so weak but does such a good job at killing mages and getting to the back to get those crit hits a nuke down mages. Give him back protect and resurrection earring and he is able to duck in and get that mage kill and move out before he dies that 2nd time.
I know she’s not the best, but Picoletta is such an interesting character for me. A circus character is not a super rare concept, and neither is the decoy(even though it’s still fun and great). What makes her really fun and fascinating is that she’s a damage item based character which I think is something very interesting. I really like the range of characters in this game both in what they bring in combat and the diversity of people in age and background. I think it’s something fire emblem should take notes on.
I use her Decoys to kill Bosses because when they blow up it's a guaranteed 20% HP loss.
Also giving her a massive supply of ranged magic stones are an effective replacement for mages.
Thats one reason I really like the item management in this game. It fully encourages you to use your items every map if you choose to do so. Picoletta, Medina, and Lionel are hard to use in the early game, but once money becomes less of an issue, these 3 can become really powerful.
Glad to see some Picoletta love! I really liked her design and story but then I used her in battle and was fully sold. Her decoy is actually really useful and her mastery of attack items helps quite a lot. I feel like she's really underrated.
@@evanmax717 I often used her decoy to drain bosses of their TP. Combined with Medina and Julio, I had Avlora sitting in a corner, playing with dolls while being pelted by lightning.
Decimal is my favorite to use. The combo with the Obsidian Anklet is fun, for one. Hitting things from across the map is intrinsically satisfying, especially getting a lucky OHKO with 5s. Landing 4s in combination with some ice patches slows enemies down almost to a stop. 7s are unreliable, but really funny to just pop someone across the map.
Hitting enemies seems to aggro them (although TS AI is funky so idk), which makes Decimal a selective lure as much as an AOE damage dealer.
But nothing compares to his use on the bridge maps. First, hitting enemies across the closed gates is possible and fun. But more impressive, despite what it might seem, archers can't hit you at the base of the ladders going down to the water. Decimal can deal over 1000 damage in a single blow, spread across 8 or more enemies at once, and that's just silly.
Anna was easily my fave to use, there’s something SO satisfying about being able to attack 2 times per turn, plus I love thief styled classes in general so that helps. Also, Frederica also gets a mention cause sometimes all you need to be happy is to just kill multiple enemies with a single scorch
I combo Anna + Serenoa for massive backstab damage.
I also love her cover skill to get behind enemy line and kill archers and mages.
And since poison throw can trigger follow ups (and is ranged), she is pretty good to stack those kudos in mock up battles.
Thank you for making Triangle Strategy content. I feel like this game got buried by other releases and most other FE tubers aren’t covering it for some reason (only you and Linkking7 as far as I know). Any TS content you make, I’ll watch.
Good news it has sold a million copies
I haven’t finished the first play through on my copy, but Medina was literally my favorite from the first demo even though I didn’t use her on the first map she was available in the demo. So glad to hear you like Medina as well! I have yet to make her that great of a unit, but I will in due time at this rate! Excellent video, and looking forward to whatever’s next in your channel!
This team is now 2 for 2 on making Chemists their most likable characters. First Alfyn from Octopath now Medina lol
*Apothecaries, they’re Apothecaries.
Three for three now with Castti in OT2
I love having Erador provoke enemies then having him ram them into each other when they start crowding.
I love to ram enemies into traps with Erador.
Also, frederica fire shield + provoque is so much fun.
I love archibald. I used archibald + medina + julio combo to cheese roland route final boss. It's fun to see archibald just sniping the boss from across the map
Medina seems to be following in Alfyn from Octopath’s footsteps. The ability to take items and go absolutely nuts.
Probably a little weird, but my favorite class in Final Fantasy Tactics was Chemist, so i really love how Medina is in this game.
Ezana is probably my favorite character. I love just nuking people with lightning, plus her design is awesome. Other than that, Frederica is another I love using.
With Fast-Acting Medicine and In-Tandem I was able to halve the HP of the last boss of the Frederica route on hard difficulty and NG+, because Anna was able to hit the boss from behind 6 times (with Obsidian Anklet and Critical Anklet equipped). Medina is so unfairly broken with her tools.
Corentin is also nice with his Passive "TP+ on Ice". So he can regenerate 2 TP each Turn, when he's on an Ice Field. So he can use Frosty Feathers or Icy Breath each Turn without Throwback.
Yeah I'm 100% convinced Medina is the 2nd best character in the game, tp physick alone is beyond busted. Add in fast-acting medicine (like you mentioned), her movement and speed, and yeah...busted char
I love Medina, Frederica, Julio, Serenoa,Roland (no I haven’t gotten Maxwell yet, why do you ask?), and anyone with a bow the most. I’d love to see more content from you regarding this game.
I don't have all the characters but I gotta say I really enjoy using Medina in terms of gameplay characters for support the fact she can so easily bring HP and TP up at a range is so good and satisfying. Offense characters would be a bit more varied, probably Frederica cause I like nuking but I feel like she's probably not the best really. Character-wise I'm not so sure here, I've liked a lot of them, maybe Flanagan
She traffic's my ranged hp pellets
I'm a simple man, I see Medina and Ezana in thumbnail, I click. Right now I'm early in my golden route playthrough and I've got to say I've loved every moment of this game, but if there's something I would like to be added is expanding the stories for the secondary characters. I would've loved to explore more of some of this characters specially backstories and epilogues.
Idk, the game is already so dialogue heavy. By the end of the game I ended up skipping a lot of the side stories.
Alright, I’m now convinced I need to try and use Medina
I’m still in my first playthru And I like using Frederica a ton, and Hughette’s utility has made maps a thousand times easier by blinding an archer to just nullify them for a bit
I love Lionel but I don’t have his AoE yet so I’m just using him for what I can
Frederica's final abillity is a pure disappointment compare to what Corentin gets
I have to say Avlora is my favorite character. Risky Maneuver with Twofold Turn is absolutely astounding. Slap the Red Scarf on her and Risky Maneuver is not only free, but gives you back more than you lose. You can’t say no to that. I always had a soft spot for Trish and Act Again cemented it. Also my boy Rudolph and his Straight Shot is basically pointing a glock to the enemy’s head. It’s always a treat.
My top 10 favorites to use:
10. *Roland*
9. *Hughette*
8. *Corentin*
7. *Geela*
6. *Erador*
5. *Serenoa*
4. *Frederica*
3. *Benedict*
2. *Maxwell*
1. *Anna*
Haven't unlocked/used all the characters yet, but so far my favorites have been:
1 - Anna
2 - Hughette
3 - Milo
4 - Erador
5 - Archibald
I hate milo, her betrayal after we can use her is unforgivable.
It's great seeing Medina appreciation since I feel like a lot of early tier lists keep putting her in D tier and I thought I was going crazy, lol.
Though my biggest neverbench on NG+ normal was Trish. Leap + Act Again meant she was basically Hughette's range/mobility with Anna's versatility and action economy, she could easily clean up map spoils by late game in a turn or two, and her passive item collecting helped keep Medina stocked.
Medina is BY FAR the best unit in the game. That includes Quahaug. She's the only unit who is ALWAYS useful on every single turn on every single map. Quahaug has several broken skills, but he's often just sitting there, passing his turn, while my other units actually _do_ something. If you're reasonably skilled at the game, you'll never need (or want) to use Quahaug.
Interesting video :) Haven't gotten around to running Medina but it looks like she's worth trying
I agree. Medina is awesome. I love her playstyle and lover her overall character equally.
Funny thing though, I laughed when I looked at the credits and say that she has the same English VA as Namine from Kingdom Hearts. :D
Aye glad to see others like Jens, he’s so much fun to use on certain maps!
Medina + Julio + Decimal
Name a more iconic trio.
Medina is the only reason I managed to win against the final boss on Benedict's path. I kind of kept her leveled since she reminded me of Tressa from Octopath, but that TP build skill and good healing turned out to be super useful in most situations. Sorry Julio, Medina has stolen your job >:D
Medina - quite possibly - saved my final battle on Benedict's path on my first go. I lose half my units and have only Geela, Hughette, Frederica, Ezana and Medina left (RIP Corentin). Hughette hit and runs the final boss while the rest sit at the bottom fending for themselves. That was until I started to run out of items and yolo'ed the final boss. Hughette landed the final blow but the others softened the final boss.
I'm glad others share my love for Medina! Sat on the bench for a while but that TP gain and fast acting medication are just too good!
Jens and Medina are the main two characters i go with when fighting a defensive and tough battle
Medina with TP psychic can be so useful when your team are low on tp while jens can effectively delay the advancement of the boss so I can have extra round or two to cut the number down
I'm stalling my finishing my first run because I want to get the remaining non-route-related characters due to me being in the golden route. Also the fact that I still need to get my levels up.
Medina support is definitely needed for a good number of characters to wreck maps. I really enjoy trolling enemies with Jen's traps like tossing them in corners and keeping them there until they go down to slam damage. It's not practical but it's a real hoot to do.
Playing as Quahaug feels like cheating sometimes and I love it
I personally liked to also use Medina, Cordelia Frederica and one I really liked when I got her is Giovanna it's nice when a lot of enemies are in one line and I can just hit them. But I think it felt really cheap using Anna since you can solo with her 80% of the maps on the hardest difficulty.
Now do a tier list?
Great video, I haven't finish the game but I like it a lot.
I am happy to see apreciation for Medina. I also think she is the best, and was absolutely baffled when I saw a tier list put her as the worst character.
What? She is? I'm new game plus currently ( only after one story completion, though i started on hard ) and medina was by far my best character. (I'm relatively spoil free)
A lot of people who think she's bad just look at "Oh, she just heals, but there are healers that heal without using items, why would I use her?" because the most obvious use for healers is to heal. Those people just don't think about all the other advantages Medina has, such as HOW she heals and what other utility she provides in addition.
There are people who don't like farming or take it as a challenge to not overly farm for resources. We then prefer to invest our coins first on permanent weapon upgrades. Playing this way, it's not until very late NG+ that you have enough disposable currency to throw items around to consistently use her and lionel unless you really just focus resources on a small group of units to have a larger cash pool. There are units ranked lower in tier lists just coz they don't fit a player's style but are still perfectly good units, then there are units that totally cannot be used unless a player has a certain style. If you don't farm at all in optional battles, medina cannot be used for more than a battle or two.
@@pul0y In those cases, it's better to just make that specification known at the beginning of the tier list. No grind/low money runs are entirely different than other metas not only with regards to money intensive characters, but the fact that it's less worthwhile to use ANY character with overly conditional uses due to lower XP and being unable to pool weapon upgrades.
People just assume grind heavy playstyles for normal tier lists because there's nothing in the game that stops you from doing so (unlike in a lot of FEs where it's not really intended, but more a consequence of being able to hit a boss with regenerating health repeatedly). TS arguably makes grinding more intended than a lot of other strategy RPGs even because its balancing is much more strict around it (harder XP clamping in particular and very obvious "this is what level you should be").
@@ancientspark375 that's why in my actual comment to the video and not a reply, I did state that I am waiting for a listing with the qualifiers he mentioned at the beginning. Here I am just trying to elucidate to some how their fave unit wouldn't be liked by a certain group of people beyond basically assuming that they are all stupid people who don't know how to play. And tbh, this game doesn't make grinding = farming. You can grind much faster if you do not farm at all and just use your highest level map, spam your turn order shenanigans, and then retreat. Hell, most farming protocols do not use grinding maps at all as most would use rapid clear mental battles to farm which aren't at all efficient grinding maps.
Thank you for acknowledging the great strengths of all characters. I like to see the strengths of what they have.
I got so giddy when you mentioned Lionel. ruffle feathers was a massive for me on my hard playthrough. it saved me so many times, because chasing him down was always a huge chore for the enemies. His aoe talk skill is quite good as well. his attack is decent enough, nothing special, but gets the job done. Also, he has the silliest lines.
Only did a new game playthrough. Anna was my favorite throughout. She helped me cheese Avlora when I didn’t want to burn down the Wolfort Demesne. It was a matter of hitting, hiding, and healing
Milo is hands down my favorite character to use. Tempt is not only extremely useful and game-changing but also just very fun because of watching the enemy attack each other or having an enemy healer heal your units.
She also has great mobility with Moon Jump + Evade Detection, making her do whatever she pleases.
While trying for the Golden Route, I did the map where you fought Avlora in Wolffort, and despite only having Milo left with about 10+ enemies, I managed to cheese it by jumping to the roof while recharging my TP and then Tempting the enemies.
I got her 1st between the 4 optional characters and I would lie if I said I didn't choose based on the fact that the game seemed to hint towards which path allowed me to keep her, I mean, just look at her >_>
Not to mention her character is amazing as well, particularly for a side character
I love Milo, too. While tempt is awesome and shouldn't be underrated, neither should her defenses-she's a monster. I like putting the Resurrection Ring on her so she just never dies. It seems like she _should_ be a frail unit due to how great temptation is, but nope, she's a wall.
I'm on chapter 10 so this might change later on, but right now, my main team is: Serenoa, Roland, Anna, Hughette, Frederica, Geela, Narve, Corentin, Benedict, and Hossabarra. It's a good combination of physical and magical damage plus healers. I like mages who can also function as healers too, which is why I used Narve rather than Ezana. If I can have 11, then I'll add Erador back into the main team, since I've been keeping him up to par thanks to the grinding at the camp base. Hopefully the game will give more unit slots, because 10 isn't very much to use. But I'm definitely enjoying the game thus far. 14 hours in by chapter 10.
On my first playthrough I picked up Rudolph and he was my mvp on multiple maps because I was able to use his trap laying to control maps and bait melee units in range of mages and him
Benedict is really fun but I’ve started to bench him on my New Game + due to not enjoying him as a character. Now the character that is a must-deploy in every map for me is Trish, she’s so fun to use and really good with her Act Again skill
Ehhhh, one extra action for 3 TP cost (it's not actually 2 turns, since you waste the turn you cast it)? Might as well just use Benedict, who can pay 3 TP to give one extra action to _any_ unit, not just Trish, or Medina, who only needs 2 TP to do the same thing.
Trish sucks.
@@rpg_haven except it is two actions, the casting turn doesn’t count?? Like I’ve literally used her every chapter since recruiting her I’d know. Your next 2 turns after using Act Again she gets to act twice
Medina is a beast. I suspect she probably won't get used by too many first-run players as you'll be strapped for cash and resources without doing an absurd level of farming, and by the end you'll likely have access to at least two magical-based healers who are less costly. But I've played enough strategy RPGs to know that chemist/apothecary types very frequently outdo your more conventional healers, but man if you give Medina a full pantry she's just absurd.
Jens is kind of an unsung hero of my playthrough. There aren't too many instances where he's really useful but when he is he is heaven sent. He completely changed the flow of those touchy bridge fights with the twins. Early on in one I managed to throw one of them off the battlefield and basically remove them from the fight while I handled the other one. He turned an arduous map into one I was doing victory laps around.
oh yeah Ezana's art is amazing
After two full playthroughs on hard the characters I most frequently deployed: Serenoa, Medina, Quahuag, Anna, Hughette, Erador, Milo, and Corentin. So much utility and power.
My favorite units are Frederica and Trish. Frederica's tp on kill with the Blazing Chains buffs means she can basically attack every turn even without Medina or Julio being a tp battery for her and I just love hopping around the map with Trish plus fire arrows. She's not the best archer but she is fun. I'm only playing on Normal without all units on my first NG+ though so no one is fully upgraded yet.
my absolute top 1 fun character is honestly Giovana I love her so much, she can turn into a healer with Ezana or a Sweeper with Corentin, in some maps into a hard CC god and she's fun to play since shes never static, such a great character that is generally very unpopular
A lot of this doesn’t make sense yet since I haven’t gotten to play the game yet but I am very excited to!
Archibald gang rise up
Anna, Medina, and Ezana are my favorites from first playthrough. Starting a new game+ so we'll see who I get this time
I liked medina because of her looks and personality, but in first demo she instantly died on the map with that archer lord(whicill I feel is the coolest character in a game, too bad he wasn't recruitable) and I didn't really think I would use her much in the full game. Thankfully she really is amazing unit and she does decent damage when necessary, can heal twice in one turn, can rcover tp twice in one turn, can poison enemies and make aaly turn come faster. There is simply no reason not to use her.
Nice ranking!
Mine is:
- Anna (very 1st)
- Hughette (her Seiyuu omg)
- Archibald
- Maxwell
- Serinoa
- Roland
- Ezana
- Erador
This game is soooo fantastic, adictive! far far away from others, tremendously powerful story and battlses, so many unique characters, etc
As of right now, I would say my favorites are Anna, Rudolph, Serenoa, Benedict with Vanguard Scarf, and Maxwell. I'm currently on chapter 5 of a NG+.
Flanagan is one of the best units in the game with his weapon skill that reduces all damage to units surrounding him, you can literally just bait enemies into your mage's that surround him, he can even attack with aerial assault and return to tanking for them, i like to have tp batteries like Medina in there to keep the mages killing, Decimal seems to do very well in that group as well as he will constantly be able to use his abilities while being tanky himself
In terms of characters not mentioned here, I think my votes would go to Trish and Giovanna
Trish may not be as powerful as Archibald, but don't under estimate Act Twice. She can easily run in, take a shot, take another shot, then run away to safety without worry. She essentially gets 4 turns at the cost of 1 turn to reactivate
Giovanna I fully admit is very situational and suffers greatly when many maps lack non-rocky terrain, but I just find her fun to use. Her ridiculous movement def helps her TP hungry skills with Terrain Trekker, and said skills hit HARD. She's just honestly a fun character to play with.
I've found some units are way better in this game depending on if you are in New Game+, on a first play through on Normal, or are on a first play through on Hard. On my first play through on hard, going for the Golden Ending, Julio was absolutely indispensable. Being able to use him to enable Benedict's Now!! is super clutch in the first Avlora map if you are trying to avoid setting the houses on fire. He also supports Corentin a lot in the early game enabling Ice Wall to always be up when I needed it to be. Medina replaces him later on with TP Physick but until you can unlock it for her as well as get your money up to pay for all her items, Julio is stupid levels of clutch.
Counterpoint: Use all four and cover the entire field in ice.
Seems Avlora is the only character on this list I didn't get on my first playthrough.
I would have expected Narve to make it onto the list if Ezana was too. I consider then relative in usefulness.
And I agree with Medina at the top. When I first got her, she wasn't exactly contributing very much because due to her lack of decent damage, and poison pallet honestly didn't help with anything significant. And then she got fast acting medicine and TP physic and all of a sudden she was like getting a Generation of Miracles onto your basketball team!!
Medina is so broken, easily my fav support unit, I only used her on new game + for cost reasons. Very interesting list, it's giving me ideas for my hard playthrough, thanks.
I hate Medina because of how broken TP physic is lol. I know that it’s deeply suboptimal that I run Benedict, Julio, and Geela at the same time instead, but I just hate how broken she is. I never use her.
Archibald solo'd Gustadolph from a roof. He trivializes so many maps and bosses.
Great content bro!!
Just finished my first playthrough, got true ending and normal difficilty and only missed the 3 one sided conviction recruits, Medina was definitely the best unit along with my single target nukers Frederica, Corentin and Archibald. Special thanks to Benedict for buffs and immunity and Erador for keeping unita off my squishies with the 1TP Provoke
2:48 Boy does 'Rite of Thunderstorms' miss a lot! I stopped trying to get it to work in NG+ & NG++.
3:49 Jens' Turret was such a let down. I ended up using it in a way similar to Pico's clone.
4:55 Lionel! Prior to unlocking his weapon skill, I used him as a tank. He has one of the highest def coupled with his HP; he taunts from range, with great effectiveness, so can disable mages.
7:08 Made Maxwell (and Milo) my archer hunters thanks to their jump abilities.
8:13 Yes! I almost attempted killing the final boss on Benedict's path with the shield counter (had it on 7 of the characters) but I got bored.
10:23 In NG+, Medina turns 'useless' regular healing pellets into TP. She's way too strong!
Hmmm so what you saying. The money merchant is worth using. Welp guess I'm grinding them
Yes I'm loving the Triangle Strategy content! Please keep it up :)
Medina gang right here. Loved her since the demo, and wasn't disappointed at all. Truly best girl
I have a fondness for Flanagan. He’s tanky, he’s decently mobile, and I like his grizzled but caring veteran personality.
I definitely agree that some characters are "too gimmicky." Picoletta (think that's her name?) does literally nothing besides her unique decoy skill.
During my first play-through I decided to only play in hard mode and Roland was never useful. He really got the short end of the stick
Roland sucks until you get one of his later skills, which by the lategame isn't useful, since you'll have so many other better units. He's just garbage.
@@rpg_haven Fitting for the character though! No matter what he does he just can't measure up...
Personally Anna is my favorite. Cover is sweet and so is spreading poison to enemies. On top of that, she's fast and gets to act twice for free.
i see that being bad at tactical games has his perks, because i know quahaug is broken, but because i'm not good i cannot use him that well therefore it doesn't feel bad using him
I love this game, I'm hoping that final fantasy tactics gets the hd remastered treatment
When I first got Medina I was like "she's so cute and wholesome, I kinda wanna use her but she seems sooooo bad." Aha. Ahahahaha.
I need to start playing Medina. I held back because of hoarder instincts, but hard mode sure does make you really want to use pellets and rocks so you can, like, not lose.
i just started the game and am 3 hours in sooooooooo i basically have no clue. as it stands i like Anna the most :D
i know 3 hours is not much but i wanted to comment because i liked this video :)
Honestly I love Julio. I'm still pretty early on but like. Idk he's useful and fun and not bad at damage.
I'm excited to see which characters you consider bad lol
You should do a tier list colab with LinkKing7!
Flanagan isn’t the flashiest character, but man he helps out your back line. With Rampart, your mages and healers can become tanks, and he’s got enough movement to easily keep up with everyone as they move. He’s also got the coolest design in the game don’t @ me.
favorite units list without hossabara? proof opinions can be wrong. who needs a weapon when you can just pick up your friends and huck them at bad guys
Considering this game so subscribed! Enjoyed the video! Anyone think you can play through without using magic based characters? Just curious! Thanks!
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This is my GOLDEN ROUTE PARTY:
Serenoa (of course)
Julio (my favorite, Ezana's battery, I dont use medina as battery. yes hate me)
Archibald (main damager)
Medina (single healer)
Quahaug (turn back time skill op)
Narve (Element skill item thrower if TP is zero)
Geela (AOE healer)
Picoletta (invinsible shield breaker)
Ezana (ult op with debuff)
Benedict (Twofold turn, bulwark)
I think you didn't mention the best thing about our lovely ice mage. TP on ice. That passive makes him easily most consistent mage since he does not need tp battery to keep on casting.
its a great passive but he does struggle early to keep his TP in check since his aptitudes are relatively costly. It also requires set-up for ice terrain, but yeah its definitely a great option
@@Faerghast I do agree with him being not so good before he gets that ability, but I don't think setting ice terrain is a problem. In most of the map you have a free turn before enemy gets to the range, so just ground target frost breath and it is done. After that he can usually walk to places where he blasted enemies to keep up with terrain.
@@Faerghast that's just weird for you to say given how medina and clearly lionel are very expensive and late game and are ranked highly on this list. i just throw a single cheap ice stone at corentin and he's set for the early turns and then he just stands on his own ice for most of the rest of the game. That's just 200 coins vis-a-vis 700+ coins for even a single ranged pellet.
@@pul0y I'm not arguing that it's expensive to use corentin. I'm just saying iirc he doesn't come with TP on Ice out the gate and so he can struggle to keep his TP up until he gets it.
Also gold is given away like candy in this game and I don't literally spam Golden Opportunity every turn
Frederica's skill that gives +1 TP after a kill also lets her not need a TP battery, without having to stand on special terrain. Corentin's skill is _worse_ than hers, not better.
Plus, you should _always_ have a TP battery, so this is a non-issue. TP batteries are useful for practically every unit, not just mages.
Great video. I subscribed.
Medina as number one is based
It's also just... true. Being able to give +1 TP to 10 units on the first turn completely breaks this entire game, and I love it.
Everyone who says Quahaug is the best character doesn't understand the game's mechanics. You shouldn't ever need Quahaug, and while he IS great, he takes up a slot that could be used for a damage-dealer instead. He's overrated. On maps where I did field him, I ended up using his warp to get units into the action ASAP.... and that was about it. Not worth it.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Trish. Her archery might not deal as much raw damage as Archibald, but let her learn "Act Again!" and remove her "Leap" cost with weapon upgrades, and she becomes the most mobile unit on the battlefield.
Right now my favorite character is Groma
Erador, maybe because I'm an old guy too.
Nice video ghast. If you had the time, would you ever make a tier list for Triangle Strategy's units?
I know it's your personal choice but I really prefer Milo to Lionel her movement and dodge let her get in and do what ever you need be it shut down a mage, poison someone or use charm and survive the end turn.
Well if we're talking personal favorites I like using Rudolph on average his damage is greater than Hughette's and his kit has some useful utility his steel trap damages and stops the enemy's turn and he's the only character with a ranged shove move you could say his weapon skill Rain of arrows is a bit simple but it can hit multiple enemies unlike Hughette's and it doesn't take a turn to charge like Archibald's.
I love Medina!
Just wanted to say Maxwell isn't route exclusive he joins based on convictions and any time after chapter 14.
Good vid!
Fav is Milo
I barely finished my first playthrough of the game and I used everybody I could recruit just to try and keep the levels the same. But out of all the characters I liked using the most, I do think Archibald came in handy as well as Hughette. Their range completely trashed the AI in the game and sometimes in those desperate situations when all you have is an archer with good movement and range, it really saved me because I could just keep flying away and attacking. Medina was hard for me to use sometimes because she doesn’t have the TP Physick you’re talking about here and also I found myself not focusing so much on buying items until almost the end of the game when I actually had money lol
But I have to disagree with Benedict…I never enjoyed using him 🚮
Anyone else didn't know mock battles were a thing until they finished the game 😅
Hugette is just best character
She is stronger than other archers
And she hits so hard
Only on chapter on first playthrough ln hard but so far i like piccoletta correntin and ezana