Ah dang it, I must've missed that in my second pass through this. I DID learn that, but I should've fixed the bio with that info. It does affect a lot.
Leif's Adaptable skill, in particular, makes a series of 6 checks to decide which weapon is the """best""". Each check increases the priority in which Leif will choose the weapon. 1) Weapon must allow counterattack against foe 2) Weapon must not be at disadvantage against foe (avoid break) 3) Weapon must have advantage against foe (gain Arms Shield bonuses) 4) Weapon must be effective against foe 5) Between the weapons with the highest priority so far, choose the weapon with the highest sum of *Might + Hit + Avoid + Crit + CritAvoid* 6) If somehow there are weapons that still tie in priority, pick the one higher in the unit's item list Earlier checks are considered more important than the later ones example 1: a weapon that allows counterattacking will have a higher priority compared to a weapon that is not at disadvantage. So yeah if you're attacked by a ranged hand axe attack and did not unlock the Light Brand and don't have other 2 range weapons, Leif will choose to equip the Master Lance because it can counterattack, and get broken as a result LMAO example 2: If attacked by an armored foe with an Axe and Leif can pick between an Hammer and a Silver Sword, Leif chooses the Silver Sword, because having Weapon Advantage is considered more important than having effectiveness.
Yeah that sounds about right. (Especially Weight/Attack Speed not being a factor, explaining why he can GET YOU DOUBLED AND KILLED) Though it's often said that if you have a 1-2 range spear better than the Master Lance that'll stop that being forced on you.
Honestly. Lief would be so, so, so, so much better if he specifically just didn't have Engage Weapons. The mechanic is messy, but fine in an environment where you know the rules, and can carefully select an inventory accordingly. You could use some of the less valuable engravings to tweak stats for priority in that last slog, and be careful to omit selections that will result in bad switches, like forgoing a handaxe on a Warrior going for vantage/wrath, so they never choose to use it over a Killer Bow. The Killer Axe is... fine, but thankfully will never ever be pulled over a store bought killer axe, let alone an upgraded one, but the Master Lance and Light Brand are absolutely horrific weapons, the Light Brand has high enough soft stats that it's a ridiculous weapon to try and stat over, and the Master Lance specifically has antisynergy with Vantage/Wrath Warriors, which are otherwise Lief's best use case, because he will whip that piece of crap out any time a sword unit you'll just oneshot with your axe walks up. The fact the best way to use Lief is to specifically not raise his bond rank really shows how awfully he was designed. He's also basically unusable on a mage, who might actually really appreciate his stats, because they're getting pulled over to terrible weapons. God. So much stuff is messed up in so many ways for Lief, it pisses me off. I'd expect this kind of stuff from like, Bethesda, or Pokemon.
I mean if you know how Adaptable works exactly you can try to work with it, but still, it might be more effort than it's worth. Also considering that I literally couldn't find info on how Adaptable works anywhere online. What you see written here? Was my own research.
Honestly the most important thing I've found when it comes to using Leif is just, your Leif user should be a lance character equipped with a javelin (or flame lance). The only real stinker he has as far as weapons goes is the Master Lance.
Ahh, that's why you can't use a crit engraved longbow on wrath panette when you have an eirika engraved killer bow. The avoid and crit avoid are too low for the eirika engrave, so it switches you to longbow even though its might, hit, and crit are worse. I will use this information for nefarious purposes.
Some notes I think are worth bringing up: Augment also applies to healing staves, and if you heal yourself via Augment, you gain a TON of EXP, and what you gain is not affected by your level. This is the main way to get Vander to a usable state. Great Sacrifice on Armors also gives the +1 def boost to your _entire army_, not just anyone healed. It's actually kind of nutty on low-level characters, but Great Sacrifice EXP falls off quicker than you'd think. Re: Adaptable: The way it swaps weapons is predictable and exploitable. Counterintuitively, Leif is best on a unit who can hold, for instance, Spears, as the game will recognize that a Spear is better than the Master Lance. Engage+ also overwrites any rings, including bond rings, which... is kind of lame.
lol Vander. But yeah that tracks. I'd heard that the +1 defense on everyone = armours level up fast with Great Sacrifice, but Louis tends to get a lot of exp in the early chapters anyway. And like you said, it does fall off eventually. I guess since you can't use Bond Rings when you have an Emblem Ring, that makes sense.
Thankfully, because Master Lance has a horrendous hit, its weapon value is always lower than a base Javelin and a base Spear. So if a Lance yser equips a Leif, they can at least be safe from the curse of enemy phase Master Lance. This is why Timerra usually synergies well with Leif in multiple levels. Meanwhile, I say Micaiah is easily one of the best Emblems in the game, along with Lucina and Byleth. Like Camilla's Decisive Strike, Veronica's Book of World can also kill if they have the "deal 10 extra damage after combet" effect. Not that it's that helpful since it does require at least 3 turns of wait to see this.
Man those bios were crafted so well both the description the colours and especially the background granting a stunning visual effect...can't wait for how the bios are in Strikers...also the fitting musics makes it even better
I originally struggled with how to do this and then was like "lol I can just use screenshots from the Emblem awakening scenes". Just goes to show how good the art in this game is.
2:17:13 Not sure if you're going to see this, but apparently there's a funny quirk about the double Robin chain attack due to shenanigans caused by the Japanese names. Since Robin's Japanese name "ルフレ" is contained within Alfred's Japanese name "アルフレッド", if a dragon unit is Engaged with Chrom and Alfred is in range and is capable of chain attacking (via being a Backup or Dual Strike), Alfred will ALSO chain attack twice. This will also occur if you have a Veronica summoned Robin in range, implying that the game searches for characters whose names contain "rufure" and are able to chain attack, and just lets them chain attack once more. I ought to test this with Brave Assist, see if that does anything.
@@BigKlingy Brave Assist doesn't seem to do anything, meaning one or both skills simply sets the number of Chain Attacks to 2, rather than being either +1 or x2
I just wish Leif's Engage Skill let you capture enemies and steal all of their stuff, but oh well. The ways to use these guys is -engaging- really fun regardless.
I will put this here, Quadruple Hit can do actually pretty decent damage against tanky enemies by, weirdly enough, inheriting Momentum. Engage attacks have this weird property that will make all hits count as the first one for the sake of Momentum procs, but this is mostly counteracted by the fact that basically every Engage attack that multihits has a pretty severe damage penalty, except for Quad Hit, which has no damage penalty at all. This means that any unit with 5 move can just add 20 True Damage to it with momentum (5 for each hit). It actually is a pretty low cost (1k SP is the entire cost of this) true damage "nuke" that is very easy to use, with it breaking any weapon triangle user as well. I used this as an opener against a lot of tanky enemies/bosses
Ike makes me wonder if you were intended to have corrin rank 10 before bothering with his map cuz the swarms are so nuts it feels near impossible without luck or cheesing using Lynn to aggro Ike.
Corrin's Quality Time is pretty solid on Seadall, a small heal is a nice bonus on top of the turn refresh. It's not gonna break the game or anything, but it can save a unit from dying every now and then, and it's not like you're going to be putting combat abilities on him anyway.
I don't like Corrin's ring itself on Seadall, but inheriting that skill sounds like it could work. Side note but the "it's not like you're putting combat abilities on him" reminded me how criminal it is that Seadall has some of the coolest crit lines in the game. Who's going to see those??
So I found out that Quad Hit boosted by Divinely Inspiring is kinda stupid. That flat +12 damage makes untrained Fell Xenologue units go from not killing anything to instantly wiping chapter 20 enemies. Well then.
Ike is insane. You can also use him on units without engaging, granting them health, damage, insanely more bulk and wrath which is the best soup to give to your heavy fast axe hitters. Kinda like roy does he makes your best melee units become god tier.
Or not even fast. I used him on Great Knight Jade and she was surprisingly good with Eirika engraved Revanche because she always had at least 40% crit at full health. Even the dodge penalty could be turned into my favour since she wouldn't die to crits anyway, but instead gain more crit and Resolve+. And when she would fall into dangerous HP levels I'd just pop Engage and the enemies would stop targeting her altogether.
2:10:18 Actually it's a plus 2 to their actions if Veronica's user has canto so Byleth can also use Goddes Dance on them and the user of the Emblem of Rivals
I'm just gonna put who I give every Emblem to in the Comments, here. Marth: Mauvier Celica: Clanne, or Vayle. Sigurd: Merrin Leif: Louis Roy: Rosado Lyn: Ivy Eirika: Zelkov Ike: Diamant (He literality solos) Micaiah: Goldmary (I don't know why I do this) Lucina: Alear Corrin: Chloé Byleth: Alcryst (Mostly 'cause Failnaught)
One detail from Emblem Veronica that I believe wasn’t pointed out in this video is the name of each Book of Worlds skill. It is a direct reference to the first five books/stories in the Fire Emblem Heroes. Of course the name of each book in Engage being named after the main theme or weapon of the final boss of each book. When I first got Veronica and used the wait command I didn’t notice the reference until I saw that death was after flame. Referencing Surtr/Flame and Hel/Death.
This is real late to mention, but i want to share my story of Chloe Mage Cannoneer, because of the weird ways they work her accuracy is actually not bad. Paired with Lucina, so basically every combat occuring on the map has her joining in
There is no greater joy than casting 5-way mends to power level would-be benchwarmers. I was able to use that, along with Mercurius, to give the vast majority of my then current chapter 10 canter with books to spare.
I find it funny/interesting that every emblem that as more than one character in it works differently I think the 3h bracelet did it best though. It would be cool if Byleths lost and found skill gave you a unique item for every character.
1:21:24 one thing I haven’t seen mentioned by anyone is Putting DHex on a Celica user for Echo debuffing 2 foes for every turn, use this on a tome user for extra range w/ thunderThoron &/or dance them up to attack the same foes for the kill or target new foes!! Great job on the video!! This is a pretty useful guide, and I’ll be sure to reference it and look through it more now, the only other comment I’d throw is around 40:49 since one thing I believe you could do is throw him on a bow unit so they could counter with one instead of the lance, a Sniper could be funny, or just have an actual lance unit use him & toss em a javelin/spear/flame lance lol
-if you use dlc, i really enjoy using lucina on a mage cannoneer with the venom blast equipped! doesn't suffer from the lower hit rates at longer ranges since they're chain attacks, and applies poison. if you're facing loads of high def/res units, i like doing this, sending out some walls/dodgetanks to proc the chain attacks, and then clean up with your damage units. also provides the cannoneer an emergency "oh god a random flier sneaked past my units to attack me" plan with the noble rapier or parthia, and bonded shield if you're surrounded. makes it much easier to protect your cannoneer who can't really counterattack as well up close using your units. also, as an armored unit, it guarantees bonded shield! only issue is movement, but you're really looking for the poison application more than bonded shield if you do this and the range more than makes up for it.- EDIT: super sorry, tested stuff out and found that pretty much ALL of this is misinformation. to make up for it, here are some other emblem tips: - Lucina is still a great Emblem choice for MC's simply for the range + chain attacks, but I've also seen them used for big damage via Lunar Brace, Reprisal (or the Veronica ring), and Divine Pulse (or the Byleth ring). Veronica and Byleth are the two choices for rings in this build (pick whichever fills the flavor of support you want in your MC: Goddess Dance/Summon Hero, Instruct/Book of Worlds, etc.) - Micaiah's Augment is great for the Warp staff, but it's even better with the Rewarp staff! This brings the Micaiah user along for 5 units total warped, and can set up for warps from your new position (all in the same turn if you warp a dancer or Byleth user!), all for cheaper than the Warp staff! - Celine has an interesting niche with Soren in that Cataclysm procs Ignis, which can allow for an extra smidge of damage for groups of enemies. I'll have to fact-check this part, but it seems to have a chance to proc with each individual "attack", so theoretically it could proc thrice for one enemy. Consequently, this means it could also let you kill one extra enemy and deny a kill with another that would die with even one Ignis. Still something to note! - Ike's Great Aether apparently clears miasma and fire wherever it hits an enemy according to a loading screen I got the other day! Great option for those miasma maps when the enemies REFUSE to leave miasma spaces. - Rivals is genuinely such a crazy option if you wanna make use of a really strong physical unit of yours. Combining Houses Unite+, Raging Storm, Seadall, Goddess Dance, Contract, and Canter for your "dancers", you can THEORETICALLY get up to 8 total actions on just one unit: Houses Unite+ -> Raging Storm -> Attack -> Contract + Attack -> Dance + Attack -> Goddess Dance + Attack (with Canter, this can also hit Seadall and your Veronica user) -> Contract + Attack -> Dance + Attack. If Tiki gave two extra Engage turns via Divine Blessing+, that would be another Raging Storm but alas she gives only one from what I've seen. Could be useful for some big bosses, or even maps if enemy unit placement is just right. Sorry again! I'll add more here if I think of any. :3
Roy was critical to my Vander challenge run. Roy is the champion of glass cannons. Vander could take double crits from sword masters and hang on with 1HP then swing back and with Roy's extra strength absolutely clobber them
@@BigKlingy hahaha I'd say they're pretty bad. He's lower than alear in like every stat I think. But with stat boosters and some strategy he can do wonders even in maddening.
I also find it really strange how Emblem Robin's Levin Sword looks different from the version found in Engage, because it lifts its design from Awakening. Fates, Echoes, and Three Houses all made slight alterations to the sword's design, and Engage was the first to fully revisit the Awakening design. Usually Emblem weapons resemble how they do in their home games, even if Engage has an equivalent. Robin is kind of an exception, then, because his sword actually looks more like the Lightning Sword found in Echoes, with the longer, curved cross guard.
Quality time with canter is one of the best combinations in the game because it allows you to consistently use chain guard, specially on Seadall, who doesn't care about combat anyway.
So this comment will mainly be about aspects of Emblem I didn’t note before. So talking about Leif, I feel he’s more niche than he is downright bad as an active Emblem when used as intended. I don’t entirely now whenever or nit what makes him niche comes from how some aspects do not work together that well, On the reference side of things you have the Weapon Triangle gimmick, he comes from the games which introduced that and since he was a Master Knight i Geneology he can use a variety of weapons, despite being locked to Swords in Thracia 776 and from what I heard bosses could change weapons to counter yours in atleast one Jurgdal games. It makes sense. But then you consider the type of weapons they gave him while engages, a Killer Axe, a Master Lance and the Light Brand, they make a lot of sense if your trying to refence Thracia 776, the former two debuted in that game and the latter two are -1-2 range options, something that can be useful for a defensive Emblem, the Master Lance isn’t as antithetical to getting a lot of units to use it as I feel the Light Brand is, it’s a 1-2 range Brave weapon and hence something that IS would want to nerf somewhat, the funny is that it’s hit and weight are accurate to Thracia 776, They could have used the Long Lance but as many people have likely said the Light Brand being a magic weapon means that most defensive units, that are likely physically inclined will end up doing little to no damage with it. The latter is however Leif’s personal weapon, something that I feel they wanted to keep in both his kit and his Rank 15 weaponi, even though with Lyn they where willing to ignore the Sol Kati. Otherwise I feel like he could work for a wide range of physical users rather than requiring being somewhat of a mixed attacker to make the most of him. And talking about mixed attacking Emblems, while I don’t feel there is that many, you have Celica, Byleth, Corrin, Eirika, Camill and Chrom and Robin, All of them either focus focus on support or offence. Whenever or not your using the Levin Sword or Falchion on Chrom is your choice And thinking about Byleth’s, I wonder how exactly the weapons that every unit type gets where decided, While most of them makes sense either as a reference or gameplay wise some of them are admittedly weird The Aegis Shield, Thyrsus and Rafal Gem are in a game where equipaabls items are very rare, compared to Three Houses where it was a widely used mechanic. Thyrsus makes the most overall sense, unless the user uses Magic your nit getting anything out of it in Three Houses and the three Tome Relics are only in Three Hopes. And this is entirely Three Houses Luin, Areadvahr and Failnaught are likely defences to connections their original users had with those kind of units, Ingrid’s canon class is a Flier, Dimitri has Riding as a budding talent and Covert includes the games Infantry Bow using classes, which Claude starts off as. And interestingly any character in Three Hopes with a unique Intermediate and Master tier classes will have a regular advance class that’s considering their default class line, Dimitri’s is Paladin and Claude’s is Sniper. Aymr, I find peculiar as the dragon weapon. While it could be so that every Lord Heroes Relic was in the game this is Edelgard’s Heroes Relic, being used by a Dragon, Something that I’ve realised is somewhat weird, Erika and Ephraim does damage based on a % of the opponents Defence and restores HP based on damage dealt, Which makes sense thematically those two having connections to the Moon and Sun and hence have Luna and Sol as skills. But then their damage related Sync Skill, Gentility and Bravery are the exact opposite, the one with the entirely offensive effect reduces the damage her user is taking, While Solar Brace and Bravery have some synergy, extra damage done = more HP resorted but it’s still a entirely defensive effect combined with an entirely offensive effect.
I love the format of the information on screen! Really well made video. The comment about early units access to early Marth due to Mercurius is just wrong, however. Mercurius XP doubling is not worth very much due to requiring bond rank 10 and heavy xp throttling. Canter is worth significantly more and equally difficult to get on units.
I like that you say the Boost to sigurd’s gallop (a sync skill) with Coverts (they ignore terrain) is useful in chapters 12 & 16, both chapters where Sigurd is not available… :) really good video tho!! Just one tiny thing I noticed haha
To this day I still question the thought process behind giving backup units Blutgang when engaged with Byleth. Seriously, what were they thinking!? Thunderbrand was sitting right there!
Even worse in that if you want to use a magic sword that badly, you can easily just use a Levin Sword instead, with comparable damage and 1-2 range. I could see Warrior Anna and Fogado making use of it thanks to their respectable magic even in that class. But even then, they have Radiant Bow with its ridiculous 19 Might.
I had some success with it on Mauvier when I classed him as a halberdier, but even then, I mainly stuck with the flame lance. Thunderbrand would have been so much more helpful, even without the brave attacks. It also would have made more sense from a historical standpoint, for lack of a better term.
@@UnlimitedMrXlevin sword is great but blutgang is a dang good great knight destroyer due to magic effectiveness against armor and blutgangs cavalry effectiveness, had a lot of fun with it on an off meta Anna berserker build, would not recommend though lol
2:14:05 I’d like to…try to defend Veronica’s staff weapon, since it’s based on her Brave version in FEH. In that game, it doesn’t allow counterattack because of a skill in her base kit that prevented it. If they’d given her the actual weapon stat swing effect, it would be utterly absurd. If I remember rightly it’s like a -4, -5 to atk, speed, defense and resistance while also boosting those stats for her and Allies in 2 spaces? 3? I can’t remember anymore.
Gotta say I love the thumbnail for this video because of how painfully accurate it is. Poor Leif, overlooked by the fandom and now destined to be seen as the "Worst Emblem". My favorite Emblem in this game has to be Micaiah because 1) She's broken and 2) She's your best way of grinding EXP in Engage through Great Sacrifice. Also anyone else find it ironic how in past Fire Emblem games, Dragon Effectiveness was an awesome effect to have but in Engage it's borderline useless without help from the 13th Emblem.
Honestly, I personally think Hector is probably the worst... no, let's go with "least good" instead. Every Emblem is usable, but I feel like I need to go out of my way to find a reason to use Hector. For me personally, I love using Lucina as great support with Bonded Shield and chain attacks, Micaiah for warp shenanigans, and I'm also a fan of Chrom and Roy as great stat stick Emblems (with Chrom being a very good magic Emblem while engaged, giving both speed and an astounding +10 mag)
@@conorb.1901 Yeah I can see what you mean with Hector. He just feels like "Ike but worse" and with his being Enemy Phase-focused clashes with Engage's gameplay which is heavily Player Phase Focused.
I had to give Leif some love, because Vantage inheritance, all his proficiencies and Sword Power Quadruple Hit all make him a lot better than he seems. Micaiah is one of those things that's broken but also extremely fun. Though I'd personally say my favourite is Ike, I love how he turns someone into a one-person-army either defensively or offensively. Honorable mention to Byleth, because Goddess Dance and some really fun Engage Weapons. It's also funny because there's a lot of very strong Wyvern enemies in Engage... but you have the Radiant Bow and Lyn for them. Hector... yeah I'd kind of agree. He's basically Ike but not as good, and as I said here, Engage's maps are not designed around enemy phase luring.
@@bradleyharris774I feel like Ike transform a unit into a Tank but Hector make a tank a lot dummier...And Pegasus/Griffon Kinght even better. Ruin Sword seems bad but give this to a Pegasus/Griffon Knight and she become a front line unit. Percing Glare (I think it's called like that) is kinda against his kit bc Quick Riposte work above a threshold while Piercing Glare take a bit of that Treshold but it's very good still bc it work like an X shape unbrekable Ice Wall that block only the enemy
Dropping in to say Louis + Hector as a great knight with resolve and a forged tomahawk shuts down absolutely any physical threat and is absolutely amazing to bait large groups of enemies my squishy player phase units would die to. Prob wouldn't work in maddening but in hard even in endgame he can consistently two shot most enemies in the game and thus avoid being chain attacked to death, something Ike can't do
Chrom and Robin is also deceptively strong on mixed units, like a lucky Clanne (i would know, mine was a force of nature) Might backlog the LP now that its done, I've hit an engage mood recently and got a few of my friends to pick out my army. Swordmaster Framme is gonna be... interesting.
Actually yeah I could see them working on Clanne. Being the "last" DLC Emblem they're one I haven't experimented with much, though +10 Mag on a Sage for 3 turns is hilarious.
Happy to see this finally up. Again, a very helpful resource for many, myself included once I start my Maddening Run next year. Thanks Klingy, both for this bio and for the entire Engage LP once again! In other news. Been spending most of my time recently playing DQM3. Overall, having a great time despite some minor issues and can't wait to talk more about the game in full another time. Though I might need to annoyingly give it a break soon since the Duelist Cup in MD is active, I need a lot of gems, but I still want to keep playing DQM3 so badly. Xp
I would also like to take on Maddening at some point but I do want to do another Hard mode playthrough first. That will be a while since I am in a very Fates mood at the moment. It makes me very happy to hear that you are enjoying DQM3 since you were so hyped for it and I will be looking forward to hearing about it. I wish you the best with MD as well. As for myself, I got both of my Christmas games, one game I am currently playing with my brother and another for myself. I think I will reveal what those games are later since I probably will talk about them a little bit for my New Year's Eve video. My Conquest playthrough has started uploading and it is proving pretty fun to record as well. The next map I need to record is going to be something since it is Chapter 10 and my practice for the map was interesting to say the least.
@@BerserkerRohan Whether it be the Maddening or the other Hard Mode run that you decided to do, hope you'll have more fun with Engage once more. Many thanks. So far, the game has been great and has thankfully been better than I was hoping for. The only persistent criticisms still left are performance when in the over world (game should have gotten a better budget/more time to work out those issues... At least it's just frame drops and slow downs and not nightmare glitches at least) and Psaro being silent in this game when he REALLY should have been allowed to talk like he normally does (even more so since I got to a point where that decision makes the story jarring for a moment, even more so if you don't have some basic knowledge of DQ4 to understand the sudden jump there), but nothing to ruin or sully my experience with the game. The DLC and how that impacts online functions is also annoying, but the base game is still pretty fun and great. And thanks for the good luck with MD, but man I REALLY don't want to go back to it, even more so since it's a Duelist Cup (i.e second ranked mode instead of a monthly event), but I really need to gems (especially since I want to get the Alt art work for Ra before that's gone for good). Nice to hear Christmas came early for you guys. Will be fun hearing about that come the end of the year. Yeah saw that earlier. Hope you're recharged from the break and having fun so far. Best of luck to you with that LP, even more so since you're playing Chapter 10 right now. Hope your interesting method pays off against one of Conquest's most iconic maps.
@@jaredfayette2567 Engage will always deliver regardless of what I decide to do with it next. Despite those hiccups, still sounds like a very fun experience and once again, I am very happy that you are enjoying playing it. That probably means they are using annoying meta decks as well so makes sense you would feel that way. The game I am playing with my brother is proving a very fun one. The break has helped me out a good amount. Despite it being Normal, doing everything on Chapter 10 is no walk in the park so hopefully I can prevail for the main playthrough.
Unrelated to the video but I just wanted to say how much I love Engage, the break mechanic is genius, the emblems are super fun, the units themselves are great and the weapons feel much better to use than Fates who also had no durability, the only small gripes I have are that I wish certain units and classes were better (for example I wish Swordmaster's class skill was something critical-related instead of Run Through) but overall even on Hard this game feels incredibly fun and it feels like the devs had a lot of fun making it, it feels like there's a lot of childlike joy thrown into it
I keep saying this, but this is the most fun I've had in a Fire Emblem game since Radiant Dawn. Easily some of the best gameplay in the series, only Conquest comes close and its difficulty knocks it down for me. Engage's difficulty is just right imo: Normal is pretty easy, Hard is perfect for experienced players, and Maddening is difficult but not unfair. (And doesn't demand you use only the OP characters, most units ARE Maddening-viable)
@@BigKlingy Besides it has a TON of possibilities thanks to the emblems, and the animations are absolutely fantastic, the best they've ever been for me since GBA (Yes I know everyone says the GBA animations are the best but I can't find myself thinking any other game has animations as consistently good as those) so you really feel the hits too, and I feel like it's a neat way to bring back characters from previous games, it definitely does feel like an anniversary title
Dunno how many people have done this but having Leif on a Dragon (except Veyle) with Reprisal+ makes him really good on enemy phase and makes his engage attack actually do ludicrous amounts of damage
While you don't get the broken crit rate as Celine or Ivy it's actually worth slotting on them if you need an aoe engage attack because cataclysm can actually proc ignis and grasping void. Yeah low dex under normal circumstances makes these skills unreliable but don't forget soren does a ridiculous number of hits while engage attacking so there's a high change these 2 can go from leaving an enemy with 40% hp to multiple one shotting enemies in a row to its nutty. You also can use soren to help boost the radiant bow damage and accuracy for output for fogado if you're the kind of person who refuses to move him away from cupido and griffin knights love soren too.You can turn griffins into leech tome gods and unlike miciah rexcalibur shreds other griffins so it makes leech tome shenanigans even more silly.
Just some notes: Aymr is pronounced uh-meer (source: smash bros) and goddes dance is a reference to how byleth is the only unit who cannot reclass to dancer (LOL)
Is it said in voice acting there? Tbh I only ever used Byleth in Smash for their Classic Mode and Spirit Board. (As a big Fire Emblem fan, I was just sour over their inclusion making Smash fans hate Fire Emblem even more.) From what I hear, Goddess Dance references a specific Battalion Skill from 3H. It's just a very obscure one, since I think it's only on the Blue Lions Dancers (route-exclusive) and the Mittenfrank Opera Volunteers (requires moving Manuela or Dorothea onto one specific, unmarked tile in the Enbarr map with no indication this does something).
Leif is actually not bad for combat with the proper build. A low HP Panette with Bond Level 9 Leif, inherited Wrath (and ideally Hold-Out to safely reach HP thresholds), a crit-engraved Killer Axe and Killer Bow can strike first on EP with 100% crit chance, switching on the fly between 1 and 2-range weapons for great coverage, I've seen literally dozens of units on single turns suicide themselves on her. Given how harsh this game can be with its reinforcements at times, units that can endlessly kill stuff on enemy phase are invaluable, and using Leif for this build frees up high-value Emblems like Ike for other units.
Two fun things to note, one for Soren and one for Chrobin. Soren's Reflect staff lacks in usefulness for its actual effect, but it's surprisingly good at being a mini Great Sacrifice for the midgame chapters where you lack Micaiah- getting staff EXP from four units all at once is usually a hefty chunk, depending on the levels of your units, and unlike GS it's not dependent on those units being below full HP to actually affect them. Second thing is that I've found Chrom's emblem to be shockingly good on, of all things, gryphon knights- my experience largely coming from using Clanne as a sword one. Boosting both physical and magical combat by a fair margin for a solid hybrid unit that can use Levin Sword, AND has the mobility to make good use of Rally, is pretty bonkers, it turns out. The one thing that's really missed out on is Surprise Attack, but that can be fiddly to position for anyway so I don't count it as the biggest loss in the world, personally.
Celica and Veronica and be used on a great knight Mauvier for some hilarious shenanigans cuz of his high base magic you can still make use of the emblems themselves and also revenge tank.
37:18 goddammit I was drinking water when this showed up. As someone who made her basically solo a bunch of maps including the final boss, I'm guilty as charged.
Note about Soren, he can absolutely break the game when it comes to exp. If you get a full reflect off, them you can easily get a level out of it. I have raised several units this way, and Solm Palace is the best chapter to do it in.
My favorite way of using Roy is throwing him on Panette. Panette Leif is interesting but I am not a fan of the fact that she's stuck with the 25% hp range vantage. Hold out makes it much easier for her to get into her personal and max wrath range and makes it so even if the enemy crits her because she's using a dodge decreasing crit increasing killer axe, she's guaranteed to survive. As for Leif he can at least patch up your unit's build if you want to wield certain weapons like levin sword without getting weighted down by them. I also do pass level 10 mainly for her to use light brand cause that 10 luck boost helps her activate her personal skill in getting more money. While it does require her using the heavy master lance, it's not like she's gonna be dealing damage with it anyway given her low strength growth and I don't Really intend to make her an enemy phase sweeper anyway unless the only thing that can attack her are axe units.
These bio videos are always fun to watch. Checking out how neat every Emblem functions is great for planning what builds you want to try on your characters. I’m currently nearing the end of my third play through, and with better knowledge of how the game works, chose to try out a couple “Wacky Builds” on a couple of my units this time around. If you don’t mind, I’d like to share them. First, I went with General Alear. The way I like to build Alear is as a frontline support unit. Divinely Inspiring is very self explanatory, and then Swap is an ok skill for helping keep Alear in the front and maybe getting someone out of danger. Then I gave them Canter+ and one Boots stat booster to make them more mobile, and also Break Defenses since they won’t be doubling everything, it’ll give other units a safe enemy to finish off. I might give them a Speed+ skill later. As for Emblems, I went with Corrin. While it is a bit less effective to use her on Alear while they aren’t in their default class, the vines effect preventing breaks on you was still helpful, plus Draconic Hex and Dreadful Aura are just nuts, easily gets you out of a jam. Second, (and this one is pretty silly) I’m calling it War Mage. I wanted to try a frontline build that was decent in both Strength and Magic. Despite joining late I chose to do this with Mauvier and reclassed him to Sage. Mauvier has pretty good Strength and Magic despite Sages low Strength cap, but that’s where his Emblem comes in. I gave him Roy, who significantly patches up his low HP and Strength caps, plus the Binding Blade is pretty strong, provides extra defenses, and can attack at range. There’s also the Mystical effect from Blazing Lion creating a large fire area, and Hold Out+++ to help with survivability. As for skill inheritance, Vantage+ and either Unyielding/Speedtaker/Lunar Brace/Resolve+. This will take some grinding to see what works best, but since I plan to attempt max level tempest trails for the first time soon, that amount of effort pretty much goes for anyone. That’s that I guess. It just shows how fun it can be to plan out your builds. And I’m sure Engage will keep bringing me back for its fun mechanic for quite awhile.
I've never seen what their model looks like, but Alear's menu sprite as a General is AMAZING (it looks like their armour is made of fire) and for that alone I'm glad to see someone use it. Also huh, Break Defenses on a General is pretty nice.
Just a warning. If you do the Hector paralogue and attempt to Lyn cheese you get some of the most overpowered wolf knights ambushing near your Lyn user so i hope you have some good luck with bond shield lol.
I just concluded my third Engage run, had a lot of fun with it. I had a lot of powerhouses such as Jean, Panette, and Madeline, though everyone was pretty solid. I also romanced Gregory, and he's p sweet.
@BigKlingy I used Alfred and Etie on a run, never used Boucheron beyond early game tho. Lol, I just finished Engage, and now here I am discussing another run.
Dual Assist from Lucina is very annoying when you try to max engage meter in order to be able to engage again at the earliest turn, because the back-up hit doesn't count toward the engage meter, especially when it kills an enemy, so it takes longer time to charge up.
If I’m not using an offensive Leif build, I like to throw him on Seadall. Breaking quad hit that does minimal damage is nice to set up a kill for another unit. Also if you give Seadall the defense scroll, he effectively gets 15 extra defense (+5 from scroll, +3 Leif, +7 arms shield++) against archers and thieves due to weapon advantage and 7 more res against mages so you can go for slightly riskier dance plays.
I often have a hard time thinking which Emblem to use on him but that sounds pretty good. On my first run he ended up getting Sigurd because all my offensive units had better options.
@@BigKlingywhen it comes to better offensive options call me crazy but I believe Sigurd is worthy - best emblem availability - his paralogue is not too hard to do earlier compared to Roy and Eirika meaning more bond levels earlier - ridersbane, tyrfing, and brave lance are underrated engage weapons -frees up a skill slot due to having sync canter -crazy movement, good synergy with many types of units - build bonus lets you use weapons like tomahawk, spear, levin without worrying about spd -dex and def bonus also nice Ik you prolly don’t care lol but I just love advocating for Sigurd as an offense emblem. I’ve ran WK Merrin with Eirika, Roy, and Sigurd and while the former 2 have crazy dps and good EP, Sigurd isn’t that far behind and instead lets me go for hype and versatile plays
@@xde_ I guess what I meant was my other offensive characters had specific Emblems they really needed (Ike for Diamant, Roy for Lapis, magic ones for Jean) It wasn't that Sigurd wasn't good, I just didn't have anyone else free for him.
Even though I already watched all of these from your let's play, I still watched this. Why? Because you voice is nice, And putting this in the background is nice to me. It's also good to thsoe that didn't play Engage, Although, I'm not one of them. Still, All of these guides(Or bios) are amazing, And they give good and precise information. So, Thank you.
I used leaf with my warrior jean. I had promote to breserker until he hit dex cap then reclass to warrior. He’s fast enough with enough build to handle master lance. So couple arms shield with Ike’s inherent ability makes him pretty tanky.
I tried Warrior Jean once but I should've reclassed him before promotion. Got him his first 10 levels in Martial Monk and his Strength suffered. Physical Jean is pretty much the only character I recommend using a Second Seal on before promotion.
For you, which one between Micaiah and Lucina is better off given to an Enchanteur ? I tend to give the edge to Micaiah but I'm thinking about it because Enchanteur are pretty good with both : - With Lucina : Enchanter become a 6 Range (Chain Attack) Dagger Backup with 100% trigger rate on Bonded Shiled - With Micaiah : Enchanteur have access to Dagger, Arts and Staff, they can have infinite staff acess due to convoy, are pretty accurate on Offensive Staff and Heal A LOT of HP due to Staff Mastery and Augment and cure status with Great Sacrifice
Both are pretty good, but I'd personally give the edge to Lucina because Micaiah on an Enchanter basically does the same thing she does on any Staff user, convoy is the only unique aspect but Alear reclassed to a staff class can do that.
A very min-max note about Leif on Maddening runs; If you have extra rewinds to use than the covert bonus is really nice, especially in the few early game chapters where you have him. Put him on Yunaka, Etie, or Alcryst (Yunaka works best), and use quadruple hit to finish an enemy every turn until you get the gold proc. The chapters are slow paced enough for you to get away with this, and the extra gold can really come in clutch considering how scarce gold gets on Maddening. I also reccomend puting off Anna's recruitment until after you get Leif just to use this strat. Even if you intend to use her, she only loses out on one chapter's worth of EXP, which I personally find to be a worthy trade (as there's plenty of tricks to help her catch up).
54:20 Or, the doubles can trick you into thinking an ally is safe, and then when the double dies, the AI then kills that ally, because in fact, they still prioritise killing your units over fake ones.
I've had the AI get stuck fighting a dodge-tanking double before. Though it's best if you have no real units who can die near the enemy, in the first place.
I have played Fire Emblem since the early 2000s on my Gameboy Advance, DS/3DS and now a Switch Oled. The only Fire Emblem game I didn't like is Warriors. I liked Three houses and Engaged. If an other game comes out I will buy it!
I m the only one thinking that the sacrifice of micaiah in radiant should be the same as engage in the last chapter of radiant dawn. Besides, sacrifice in Radiant dawn heals status ( only adept for engage)
I find that just like in 3H, I want to just use Dimitri's gambit and just leave Edelgard behind. Her gambit isn't bad but Aymr being a smash weapon is just aweful. Smash weapons can have some niche use beyond engage attacks but it takes work and likely will get you very little gain.
Another note on Leif, while i agree his real strength is utility and skill inheiritence, but what if you want to use him for combat and still max his bond level? Or more importantly, who should Lief end the game with after he has given his skill inheritance to everyone who wants it? In short, Alcryst in his unique promoted class is Lief's best partner, and Leif is one of Alcryst's better (though admittedly not his best) emblem ring options. Starting with the easy thing to understand, in the same way the Luna is a good pair with Astra Storm, it is a good pair with quad hit. In mt experience, Luna will trigger 1-3 times on quad hit, which effectively fixes it damage, even if Luna only triggers once. Additionally, Alcryst is acovert unit with ok luck, so it can be a nice supplement to your income which is otherwise sporadic in this game. Ok now for the big one, Adaptable and the Master Lance. Adaptable will chose the Master Lance most often because you need a ranged counter for that combat. Alcryst in his unique classes, will always have a Range 2 option in his bows and a Range 1 option in Leif's own weapons, so the only time the Master Lance shows up is if a sword unit attacks you, which is something to look out for, but here is the best part. because Alcryst is a covert unit adaptable give him +20 Aviod on enemy phase, so put him in terrian (or create Fog w/ Corrin to really take advantage of this) and suddenly Engaged Alcryst can consistently get
The fact that you didnt mention celicas best part, Recover giving a ton of exp even on maddening. Its in the top exp pool for staves and with vander having a high personal level + favorite food, it basically grants any user of it free exp before chapter 11. Its a 2nd micaiah basically
@@BigKlingy Fair and understandable, i also didn't use recover in my first run, but then in my next maddening Ironman i found how busted the exp gain was, like a level 17? internal celine (6 promoted) was still gaining 22 exp per recover use healing other non vander units. It's very busted and allows you to have a third exp project early game.
Thanks for the background audio while I was crunching through chapters 20 & 21. Though rewatching this, it really struck me how... ̶b̶o̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ basic most early emblems are and how absurdly all-out powerful the DLC ones are. As you've said quite a few times, the main game's balance and progression in complexity is quite nice but the bracelets really feel very overtuned even for end- or postgame. Not exactly pay-to-win or anything but it does feel on the same level as things that would be NG+ or postgame rewards in past games. Oh well. I'm doing my first playthrough without DLC for the sake of balance, but I plan on going all out for my second one. I feel like I've already gushed enough about the game and your playthrough, so unless you plan on doing any additional bonus videos for the game, it's been a real nice ride :) Excited for Tactica, but I understand if you'd rather take a break over the holidays and wait until January to begin with a new series.
This is one reason why I prefer saving them for later. Some, like Hector and even Camilla, aren't too bad, while Edelgard and Veronica are insane. And Tiki throws stat balance out of whack with Starsphere.
Ooof that was such a good and helpful video. Really thankful for that and I definitely will use this and the unit overview video if I ever do another run on maybe higher difficulty (I am usually more casual). Tho there is one thing I never really understand or understood. So is it right, that a character equipped with an Emblem ring "only" receives the extra stats, the sync skills and while engaged the Engage Skill and Engage Attack and of course the Emblem weapons, for some of those depending on the bond level? So the other inheritable skills aren't automatically active as long the Emblem is equipped on that unit, right? They are only accessible through inheritance no matter if or what rind is equipped on a certain character, right? Also I don't know if you would be willing to do this, but what I actually would find interesting is probably another video, that deals with certain gameplay mechanics that can make units stronger, most notably imo: everything about forging weapons (how to get the "most amount" of forging material, which types of weapons should be preferred when using forging weapons and also all the engravings that could be given from the Emblems with their pro/cons and on which weapon types they would probably find best use) and also ... gold management, cause Elyos seems to be in a big recession based on how the hell everything costs tons of gold in Engage (how to gain as much gold as possible, on which things gold should always be spent and on which things better never) and maybe also a ranking/overview about the classes existing in Engage? If feel like those to topics next to understanding the characters and their strengths and weaknesses and also the Emblems are/would be most beneficial to get the most of a run, especially for sth like Maddening for example.
To me, it depends on how much you like Engage's maps. The DLC Emblem Paralogues are all, ESCEPT CAMILLA'S, really fun, and can be done at any point in a playthrough since their levels scale to your story progress. The Fell Xenologue is very hit-and-miss though, since you're using fixed characters. Some people don't like that, but if you like games like Advance Wars I think it's fine. The main problem is you have to beat it separately on every file in order to recruit its characters.
It depends on what you like. Three Houses DLC characters are better integrated into the main game (besides Anna, who barely has any content) and beating Cindered Shadows once unlocks them for every playthrough afterwards. Cindered Shadows is also, I feel, broadly better of a DLC story than the Fell Xenologue and lets its characters level up, unfortunately it's also not canon. (Fell Xenologue IS canon, well, if you do it) But I never bothered with any of the other DLC in 3H's pass, like the sauna or other extra monastery things and outfits. Meanwhile I got a lot of use out of Engage's DLC Emblems. Really it just comes down to which game you like more. The DLC is basically just giving you more of the game, which is why I bought Engage's. (For 3H's I just wanted Cindered Shadows)
Dude, you just need someone with enough speed/build to use the master lance(the unit i found is rosado), i even improved the hit rate with crystals just so he could quad with it, thats a range 2 brave weapon on a flying unit(i use lunar brace+ and break defences, so i can use multiple weapon types)
I haven't kept up with your stuff in quite a while, I think I dropped out when you started Advance Wars and didn't, come, back... Oh well, I've got a lot of stuff to catch up with...
I've considered it a few times, but I'm afraid of the sheer amount of grinding needed for the postgame content. Disgaea is infamous for, like, having the main story require levels below 99 while the level cap is something like 9999.
Just for the record, Night and Day doesn't use up your action
Ah dang it, I must've missed that in my second pass through this. I DID learn that, but I should've fixed the bio with that info. It does affect a lot.
@@BigKlingy Why do you say they & them when referring to corrin? She can only be female in this game
@@nessdbest8708probably people that played fates, habit
@@brubie7584 makes sense
Leif's Adaptable skill, in particular, makes a series of 6 checks to decide which weapon is the """best""". Each check increases the priority in which Leif will choose the weapon.
1) Weapon must allow counterattack against foe
2) Weapon must not be at disadvantage against foe (avoid break)
3) Weapon must have advantage against foe (gain Arms Shield bonuses)
4) Weapon must be effective against foe
5) Between the weapons with the highest priority so far, choose the weapon with the highest sum of *Might + Hit + Avoid + Crit + CritAvoid*
6) If somehow there are weapons that still tie in priority, pick the one higher in the unit's item list
Earlier checks are considered more important than the later ones
example 1: a weapon that allows counterattacking will have a higher priority compared to a weapon that is not at disadvantage. So yeah if you're attacked by a ranged hand axe attack and did not unlock the Light Brand and don't have other 2 range weapons, Leif will choose to equip the Master Lance because it can counterattack, and get broken as a result LMAO
example 2: If attacked by an armored foe with an Axe and Leif can pick between an Hammer and a Silver Sword, Leif chooses the Silver Sword, because having Weapon Advantage is considered more important than having effectiveness.
Yeah that sounds about right. (Especially Weight/Attack Speed not being a factor, explaining why he can GET YOU DOUBLED AND KILLED)
Though it's often said that if you have a 1-2 range spear better than the Master Lance that'll stop that being forced on you.
Honestly.
Lief would be so, so, so, so much better if he specifically just didn't have Engage Weapons.
The mechanic is messy, but fine in an environment where you know the rules, and can carefully select an inventory accordingly.
You could use some of the less valuable engravings to tweak stats for priority in that last slog, and be careful to omit selections that will result in bad switches, like forgoing a handaxe on a Warrior going for vantage/wrath, so they never choose to use it over a Killer Bow.
The Killer Axe is... fine, but thankfully will never ever be pulled over a store bought killer axe, let alone an upgraded one, but the Master Lance and Light Brand are absolutely horrific weapons, the Light Brand has high enough soft stats that it's a ridiculous weapon to try and stat over, and the Master Lance specifically has antisynergy with Vantage/Wrath Warriors, which are otherwise Lief's best use case, because he will whip that piece of crap out any time a sword unit you'll just oneshot with your axe walks up.
The fact the best way to use Lief is to specifically not raise his bond rank really shows how awfully he was designed. He's also basically unusable on a mage, who might actually really appreciate his stats, because they're getting pulled over to terrible weapons.
God. So much stuff is messed up in so many ways for Lief, it pisses me off. I'd expect this kind of stuff from like, Bethesda, or Pokemon.
I mean if you know how Adaptable works exactly you can try to work with it, but still, it might be more effort than it's worth.
Also considering that I literally couldn't find info on how Adaptable works anywhere online.
What you see written here? Was my own research.
Honestly the most important thing I've found when it comes to using Leif is just, your Leif user should be a lance character equipped with a javelin (or flame lance). The only real stinker he has as far as weapons goes is the Master Lance.
Ahh, that's why you can't use a crit engraved longbow on wrath panette when you have an eirika engraved killer bow. The avoid and crit avoid are too low for the eirika engrave, so it switches you to longbow even though its might, hit, and crit are worse. I will use this information for nefarious purposes.
Some notes I think are worth bringing up:
Augment also applies to healing staves, and if you heal yourself via Augment, you gain a TON of EXP, and what you gain is not affected by your level. This is the main way to get Vander to a usable state.
Great Sacrifice on Armors also gives the +1 def boost to your _entire army_, not just anyone healed. It's actually kind of nutty on low-level characters, but Great Sacrifice EXP falls off quicker than you'd think.
Re: Adaptable: The way it swaps weapons is predictable and exploitable. Counterintuitively, Leif is best on a unit who can hold, for instance, Spears, as the game will recognize that a Spear is better than the Master Lance.
Engage+ also overwrites any rings, including bond rings, which... is kind of lame.
lol Vander. But yeah that tracks.
I'd heard that the +1 defense on everyone = armours level up fast with Great Sacrifice, but Louis tends to get a lot of exp in the early chapters anyway. And like you said, it does fall off eventually.
I guess since you can't use Bond Rings when you have an Emblem Ring, that makes sense.
Thankfully, because Master Lance has a horrendous hit, its weapon value is always lower than a base Javelin and a base Spear. So if a Lance yser equips a Leif, they can at least be safe from the curse of enemy phase Master Lance. This is why Timerra usually synergies well with Leif in multiple levels.
Meanwhile, I say Micaiah is easily one of the best Emblems in the game, along with Lucina and Byleth.
Like Camilla's Decisive Strike, Veronica's Book of World can also kill if they have the "deal 10 extra damage after combet" effect. Not that it's that helpful since it does require at least 3 turns of wait to see this.
Man those bios were crafted so well both the description the colours and especially the background granting a stunning visual effect...can't wait for how the bios are in Strikers...also the fitting musics makes it even better
I originally struggled with how to do this and then was like "lol I can just use screenshots from the Emblem awakening scenes". Just goes to show how good the art in this game is.
@@BigKlingy i don't know about that
2:17:13 Not sure if you're going to see this, but apparently there's a funny quirk about the double Robin chain attack due to shenanigans caused by the Japanese names. Since Robin's Japanese name "ルフレ" is contained within Alfred's Japanese name "アルフレッド", if a dragon unit is Engaged with Chrom and Alfred is in range and is capable of chain attacking (via being a Backup or Dual Strike), Alfred will ALSO chain attack twice. This will also occur if you have a Veronica summoned Robin in range, implying that the game searches for characters whose names contain "rufure" and are able to chain attack, and just lets them chain attack once more. I ought to test this with Brave Assist, see if that does anything.
Okay, I suddenly feel compelled to test this.
@@BigKlingy Brave Assist doesn't seem to do anything, meaning one or both skills simply sets the number of Chain Attacks to 2, rather than being either +1 or x2
I just wish Leif's Engage Skill let you capture enemies and steal all of their stuff, but oh well.
The ways to use these guys is -engaging- really fun regardless.
I mean, technically there's his bonus that gives you a chance of getting gold.
Lief's engage skill could have just been leadership stars or break on enemy phase.
2:11:43 One of my first summons with Veronica was Sigurd with his SUPER-ICONIC SILVER SWORD!!!!
LOL. Probably not intended but that's amazing.
@@BigKlingyI once summoned Micaiah after chapter 11. I was just like "How are you here? I don't have your ring." I was legit confused.
I will put this here, Quadruple Hit can do actually pretty decent damage against tanky enemies by, weirdly enough, inheriting Momentum. Engage attacks have this weird property that will make all hits count as the first one for the sake of Momentum procs, but this is mostly counteracted by the fact that basically every Engage attack that multihits has a pretty severe damage penalty, except for Quad Hit, which has no damage penalty at all. This means that any unit with 5 move can just add 20 True Damage to it with momentum (5 for each hit). It actually is a pretty low cost (1k SP is the entire cost of this) true damage "nuke" that is very easy to use, with it breaking any weapon triangle user as well. I used this as an opener against a lot of tanky enemies/bosses
Quad Hit continues to be way better than it seems.
Corrin Emblem: Will save your ass when it gets swarmed
Dreadful Aura and Draconic Hex are incredible together
I keep hearing people say this much AoE Freeze is broken, and to that I say "maybe, but it's also really fun."
Its not an "If" but "When" you get swarmed in Engage.
Ch. 21 sends its regards.
@@neog8029 Or you just beat Veyle before the 2nd reinforcements reach you. That's what I usually do.
Ike makes me wonder if you were intended to have corrin rank 10 before bothering with his map cuz the swarms are so nuts it feels near impossible without luck or cheesing using Lynn to aggro Ike.
Corrin's Quality Time is pretty solid on Seadall, a small heal is a nice bonus on top of the turn refresh. It's not gonna break the game or anything, but it can save a unit from dying every now and then, and it's not like you're going to be putting combat abilities on him anyway.
I don't like Corrin's ring itself on Seadall, but inheriting that skill sounds like it could work.
Side note but the "it's not like you're putting combat abilities on him" reminded me how criminal it is that Seadall has some of the coolest crit lines in the game. Who's going to see those??
So I found out that Quad Hit boosted by Divinely Inspiring is kinda stupid.
That flat +12 damage makes untrained Fell Xenologue units go from not killing anything to instantly wiping chapter 20 enemies.
Well then.
Ike is insane. You can also use him on units without engaging, granting them health, damage, insanely more bulk and wrath which is the best soup to give to your heavy fast axe hitters. Kinda like roy does he makes your best melee units become god tier.
Or not even fast. I used him on Great Knight Jade and she was surprisingly good with Eirika engraved Revanche because she always had at least 40% crit at full health. Even the dodge penalty could be turned into my favour since she wouldn't die to crits anyway, but instead gain more crit and Resolve+. And when she would fall into dangerous HP levels I'd just pop Engage and the enemies would stop targeting her altogether.
2:10:18 Actually it's a plus 2 to their actions if Veronica's user has canto so Byleth can also use Goddes Dance on them and the user of the Emblem of Rivals
And now a bigklingy production: Emblems the movie
I'm just gonna put who I give every Emblem to in the Comments, here.
Marth: Mauvier
Celica: Clanne, or Vayle.
Sigurd: Merrin
Leif: Louis
Roy: Rosado
Lyn: Ivy
Eirika: Zelkov
Ike: Diamant (He literality solos)
Micaiah: Goldmary (I don't know why I do this)
Lucina: Alear
Corrin: Chloé
Byleth: Alcryst (Mostly 'cause Failnaught)
One detail from Emblem Veronica that I believe wasn’t pointed out in this video is the name of each Book of Worlds skill. It is a direct reference to the first five books/stories in the Fire Emblem Heroes. Of course the name of each book in Engage being named after the main theme or weapon of the final boss of each book.
When I first got Veronica and used the wait command I didn’t notice the reference until I saw that death was after flame. Referencing Surtr/Flame and Hel/Death.
This is real late to mention, but i want to share my story of Chloe Mage Cannoneer, because of the weird ways they work her accuracy is actually not bad. Paired with Lucina, so basically every combat occuring on the map has her joining in
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There is no greater joy than casting 5-way mends to power level would-be benchwarmers.
I was able to use that, along with Mercurius, to give the vast majority of my then current chapter 10 canter with books to spare.
I find it funny/interesting that every emblem that as more than one character in it works differently I think the 3h bracelet did it best though.
It would be cool if Byleths lost and found skill gave you a unique item for every character.
The 3H one being random is annoying though, since often when you really want flames or shield the right person isn't active.
1:21:24 one thing I haven’t seen mentioned by anyone is Putting DHex on a Celica user for Echo debuffing 2 foes for every turn, use this on a tome user for extra range w/ thunderThoron &/or dance them up to attack the same foes for the kill or target new foes!!
Great job on the video!! This is a pretty useful guide, and I’ll be sure to reference it and look through it more now, the only other comment I’d throw is around 40:49 since one thing I believe you could do is throw him on a bow unit so they could counter with one instead of the lance, a Sniper could be funny, or just have an actual lance unit use him & toss em a javelin/spear/flame lance lol
Chrom can be used well by Celine in her personal class or any mage knight with both good Str and Mag
-if you use dlc, i really enjoy using lucina on a mage cannoneer with the venom blast equipped! doesn't suffer from the lower hit rates at longer ranges since they're chain attacks, and applies poison. if you're facing loads of high def/res units, i like doing this, sending out some walls/dodgetanks to proc the chain attacks, and then clean up with your damage units. also provides the cannoneer an emergency "oh god a random flier sneaked past my units to attack me" plan with the noble rapier or parthia, and bonded shield if you're surrounded. makes it much easier to protect your cannoneer who can't really counterattack as well up close using your units. also, as an armored unit, it guarantees bonded shield! only issue is movement, but you're really looking for the poison application more than bonded shield if you do this and the range more than makes up for it.-
EDIT: super sorry, tested stuff out and found that pretty much ALL of this is misinformation. to make up for it, here are some other emblem tips:
- Lucina is still a great Emblem choice for MC's simply for the range + chain attacks, but I've also seen them used for big damage via Lunar Brace, Reprisal (or the Veronica ring), and Divine Pulse (or the Byleth ring). Veronica and Byleth are the two choices for rings in this build (pick whichever fills the flavor of support you want in your MC: Goddess Dance/Summon Hero, Instruct/Book of Worlds, etc.)
- Micaiah's Augment is great for the Warp staff, but it's even better with the Rewarp staff! This brings the Micaiah user along for 5 units total warped, and can set up for warps from your new position (all in the same turn if you warp a dancer or Byleth user!), all for cheaper than the Warp staff!
- Celine has an interesting niche with Soren in that Cataclysm procs Ignis, which can allow for an extra smidge of damage for groups of enemies. I'll have to fact-check this part, but it seems to have a chance to proc with each individual "attack", so theoretically it could proc thrice for one enemy. Consequently, this means it could also let you kill one extra enemy and deny a kill with another that would die with even one Ignis. Still something to note!
- Ike's Great Aether apparently clears miasma and fire wherever it hits an enemy according to a loading screen I got the other day! Great option for those miasma maps when the enemies REFUSE to leave miasma spaces.
- Rivals is genuinely such a crazy option if you wanna make use of a really strong physical unit of yours. Combining Houses Unite+, Raging Storm, Seadall, Goddess Dance, Contract, and Canter for your "dancers", you can THEORETICALLY get up to 8 total actions on just one unit: Houses Unite+ -> Raging Storm -> Attack -> Contract + Attack -> Dance + Attack -> Goddess Dance + Attack (with Canter, this can also hit Seadall and your Veronica user) -> Contract + Attack -> Dance + Attack. If Tiki gave two extra Engage turns via Divine Blessing+, that would be another Raging Storm but alas she gives only one from what I've seen. Could be useful for some big bosses, or even maps if enemy unit placement is just right.
Sorry again! I'll add more here if I think of any. :3
Roy was critical to my Vander challenge run. Roy is the champion of glass cannons. Vander could take double crits from sword masters and hang on with 1HP then swing back and with Roy's extra strength absolutely clobber them
More evidence that Vander's growths aren't THAT bad, his only problem is getting levels.
@@BigKlingy hahaha I'd say they're pretty bad. He's lower than alear in like every stat I think. But with stat boosters and some strategy he can do wonders even in maddening.
chrom and robin seem the be quite a match up if playing a mage knight i believe with both magical and physical power
I once used them on Mage Knight Jean, for 50+ Magic with Levin Swords.
Thank u for putting out this video, my personal fav emblems are eirika camilla lyn and corrin, they r so cool
I also find it really strange how Emblem Robin's Levin Sword looks different from the version found in Engage, because it lifts its design from Awakening. Fates, Echoes, and Three Houses all made slight alterations to the sword's design, and Engage was the first to fully revisit the Awakening design.
Usually Emblem weapons resemble how they do in their home games, even if Engage has an equivalent. Robin is kind of an exception, then, because his sword actually looks more like the Lightning Sword found in Echoes, with the longer, curved cross guard.
Because Robin is built different
Quality time with canter is one of the best combinations in the game because it allows you to consistently use chain guard, specially on Seadall, who doesn't care about combat anyway.
So this comment will mainly be about aspects of Emblem I didn’t note before.
So talking about Leif, I feel he’s more niche than he is downright bad as an active Emblem when used as intended. I don’t entirely now whenever or nit what makes him niche comes from how some aspects do not work together that well,
On the reference side of things you have the Weapon Triangle gimmick, he comes from the games which introduced that and since he was a Master Knight i Geneology he can use a variety of weapons, despite being locked to Swords in Thracia 776 and from what I heard bosses could change weapons to counter yours in atleast one Jurgdal games. It makes sense.
But then you consider the type of weapons they gave him while engages, a Killer Axe, a Master Lance and the Light Brand, they make a lot of sense if your trying to refence Thracia 776, the former two debuted in that game and the latter two are -1-2 range options, something that can be useful for a defensive Emblem,
the Master Lance isn’t as antithetical to getting a lot of units to use it as I feel the Light Brand is, it’s a 1-2 range Brave weapon and hence something that IS would want to nerf somewhat, the funny is that it’s hit and weight are accurate to Thracia 776, They could have used the Long Lance
but as many people have likely said the Light Brand being a magic weapon means that most defensive units, that are likely physically inclined will end up doing little to no damage with it.
The latter is however Leif’s personal weapon, something that I feel they wanted to keep in both his kit and his Rank 15 weaponi, even though with Lyn they where willing to ignore the Sol Kati.
Otherwise I feel like he could work for a wide range of physical users rather than requiring being somewhat of a mixed attacker to make the most of him.
And talking about mixed attacking Emblems, while I don’t feel there is that many, you have Celica, Byleth, Corrin, Eirika, Camill and Chrom and Robin, All of them either focus focus on support or offence. Whenever or not your using the Levin Sword or Falchion on Chrom is your choice
And thinking about Byleth’s, I wonder how exactly the weapons that every unit type gets where decided, While most of them makes sense either as a reference or gameplay wise some of them are admittedly weird
The Aegis Shield, Thyrsus and Rafal Gem are in a game where equipaabls items are very rare, compared to Three Houses where it was a widely used mechanic. Thyrsus makes the most overall sense, unless the user uses Magic your nit getting anything out of it in Three Houses and the three Tome Relics are only in Three Hopes. And this is entirely Three Houses
Luin, Areadvahr and Failnaught are likely defences to connections their original users had with those kind of units, Ingrid’s canon class is a Flier, Dimitri has Riding as a budding talent and Covert includes the games Infantry Bow using classes, which Claude starts off as. And interestingly any character in Three Hopes with a unique Intermediate and Master tier classes will have a regular advance class that’s considering their default class line, Dimitri’s is Paladin and Claude’s is Sniper.
Aymr, I find peculiar as the dragon weapon. While it could be so that every Lord Heroes Relic was in the game this is Edelgard’s Heroes Relic, being used by a Dragon,
Something that I’ve realised is somewhat weird, Erika and Ephraim does damage based on a % of the opponents Defence and restores HP based on damage dealt, Which makes sense thematically those two having connections to the Moon and Sun and hence have Luna and Sol as skills.
But then their damage related Sync Skill, Gentility and Bravery are the exact opposite, the one with the entirely offensive effect reduces the damage her user is taking, While Solar Brace and Bravery have some synergy, extra damage done = more HP resorted but it’s still a entirely defensive effect combined with an entirely offensive effect.
I love the format of the information on screen! Really well made video.
The comment about early units access to early Marth due to Mercurius is just wrong, however. Mercurius XP doubling is not worth very much due to requiring bond rank 10 and heavy xp throttling. Canter is worth significantly more and equally difficult to get on units.
I like that you say the Boost to sigurd’s gallop (a sync skill) with Coverts (they ignore terrain) is useful in chapters 12 & 16, both chapters where Sigurd is not available… :) really good video tho!! Just one tiny thing I noticed haha
Oops. Nice catch. Chapter 16's bad terrain just sticks in my mind.
@@BigKlingy it is def true that the covert boost is really nice on certain chapters
To this day I still question the thought process behind giving backup units Blutgang when engaged with Byleth.
Seriously, what were they thinking!? Thunderbrand was sitting right there!
Even worse in that if you want to use a magic sword that badly, you can easily just use a Levin Sword instead, with comparable damage and 1-2 range.
I could see Warrior Anna and Fogado making use of it thanks to their respectable magic even in that class. But even then, they have Radiant Bow with its ridiculous 19 Might.
I struggle to think of a good use for it in Engage. As stated, most people who WOULD like it prefer Levin Swords.
I had some success with it on Mauvier when I classed him as a halberdier, but even then, I mainly stuck with the flame lance.
Thunderbrand would have been so much more helpful, even without the brave attacks. It also would have made more sense from a historical standpoint, for lack of a better term.
@@UnlimitedMrXlevin sword is great but blutgang is a dang good great knight destroyer due to magic effectiveness against armor and blutgangs cavalry effectiveness, had a lot of fun with it on an off meta Anna berserker build, would not recommend though lol
2:14:05 I’d like to…try to defend Veronica’s staff weapon, since it’s based on her Brave version in FEH. In that game, it doesn’t allow counterattack because of a skill in her base kit that prevented it. If they’d given her the actual weapon stat swing effect, it would be utterly absurd. If I remember rightly it’s like a -4, -5 to atk, speed, defense and resistance while also boosting those stats for her and Allies in 2 spaces? 3? I can’t remember anymore.
Watching this video made me play the game again. Thank you!
Gotta say I love the thumbnail for this video because of how painfully accurate it is. Poor Leif, overlooked by the fandom and now destined to be seen as the "Worst Emblem".
My favorite Emblem in this game has to be Micaiah because 1) She's broken and 2) She's your best way of grinding EXP in Engage through Great Sacrifice.
Also anyone else find it ironic how in past Fire Emblem games, Dragon Effectiveness was an awesome effect to have but in Engage it's borderline useless without help from the 13th Emblem.
Honestly, I personally think Hector is probably the worst... no, let's go with "least good" instead. Every Emblem is usable, but I feel like I need to go out of my way to find a reason to use Hector.
For me personally, I love using Lucina as great support with Bonded Shield and chain attacks, Micaiah for warp shenanigans, and I'm also a fan of Chrom and Roy as great stat stick Emblems (with Chrom being a very good magic Emblem while engaged, giving both speed and an astounding +10 mag)
@@conorb.1901 Yeah I can see what you mean with Hector. He just feels like "Ike but worse" and with his being Enemy Phase-focused clashes with Engage's gameplay which is heavily Player Phase Focused.
I had to give Leif some love, because Vantage inheritance, all his proficiencies and Sword Power Quadruple Hit all make him a lot better than he seems.
Micaiah is one of those things that's broken but also extremely fun. Though I'd personally say my favourite is Ike, I love how he turns someone into a one-person-army either defensively or offensively. Honorable mention to Byleth, because Goddess Dance and some really fun Engage Weapons.
It's also funny because there's a lot of very strong Wyvern enemies in Engage... but you have the Radiant Bow and Lyn for them.
Hector... yeah I'd kind of agree. He's basically Ike but not as good, and as I said here, Engage's maps are not designed around enemy phase luring.
@@bradleyharris774I feel like Ike transform a unit into a Tank but Hector make a tank a lot dummier...And Pegasus/Griffon Kinght even better.
Ruin Sword seems bad but give this to a Pegasus/Griffon Knight and she become a front line unit.
Percing Glare (I think it's called like that) is kinda against his kit bc Quick Riposte work above a threshold while Piercing Glare take a bit of that Treshold but it's very good still bc it work like an X shape unbrekable Ice Wall that block only the enemy
Dropping in to say Louis + Hector as a great knight with resolve and a forged tomahawk shuts down absolutely any physical threat and is absolutely amazing to bait large groups of enemies my squishy player phase units would die to. Prob wouldn't work in maddening but in hard even in endgame he can consistently two shot most enemies in the game and thus avoid being chain attacked to death, something Ike can't do
Chrom and Robin is also deceptively strong on mixed units, like a lucky Clanne (i would know, mine was a force of nature)
Might backlog the LP now that its done, I've hit an engage mood recently and got a few of my friends to pick out my army. Swordmaster Framme is gonna be... interesting.
Actually yeah I could see them working on Clanne. Being the "last" DLC Emblem they're one I haven't experimented with much, though +10 Mag on a Sage for 3 turns is hilarious.
Happy to see this finally up. Again, a very helpful resource for many, myself included once I start my Maddening Run next year. Thanks Klingy, both for this bio and for the entire Engage LP once again!
In other news. Been spending most of my time recently playing DQM3. Overall, having a great time despite some minor issues and can't wait to talk more about the game in full another time. Though I might need to annoyingly give it a break soon since the Duelist Cup in MD is active, I need a lot of gems, but I still want to keep playing DQM3 so badly. Xp
I would also like to take on Maddening at some point but I do want to do another Hard mode playthrough first. That will be a while since I am in a very Fates mood at the moment.
It makes me very happy to hear that you are enjoying DQM3 since you were so hyped for it and I will be looking forward to hearing about it. I wish you the best with MD as well.
As for myself, I got both of my Christmas games, one game I am currently playing with my brother and another for myself. I think I will reveal what those games are later since I probably will talk about them a little bit for my New Year's Eve video.
My Conquest playthrough has started uploading and it is proving pretty fun to record as well. The next map I need to record is going to be something since it is Chapter 10 and my practice for the map was interesting to say the least.
@@BerserkerRohan Whether it be the Maddening or the other Hard Mode run that you decided to do, hope you'll have more fun with Engage once more.
Many thanks. So far, the game has been great and has thankfully been better than I was hoping for. The only persistent criticisms still left are performance when in the over world (game should have gotten a better budget/more time to work out those issues... At least it's just frame drops and slow downs and not nightmare glitches at least) and Psaro being silent in this game when he REALLY should have been allowed to talk like he normally does (even more so since I got to a point where that decision makes the story jarring for a moment, even more so if you don't have some basic knowledge of DQ4 to understand the sudden jump there), but nothing to ruin or sully my experience with the game. The DLC and how that impacts online functions is also annoying, but the base game is still pretty fun and great.
And thanks for the good luck with MD, but man I REALLY don't want to go back to it, even more so since it's a Duelist Cup (i.e second ranked mode instead of a monthly event), but I really need to gems (especially since I want to get the Alt art work for Ra before that's gone for good).
Nice to hear Christmas came early for you guys. Will be fun hearing about that come the end of the year.
Yeah saw that earlier. Hope you're recharged from the break and having fun so far. Best of luck to you with that LP, even more so since you're playing Chapter 10 right now. Hope your interesting method pays off against one of Conquest's most iconic maps.
@@jaredfayette2567 Engage will always deliver regardless of what I decide to do with it next.
Despite those hiccups, still sounds like a very fun experience and once again, I am very happy that you are enjoying playing it.
That probably means they are using annoying meta decks as well so makes sense you would feel that way.
The game I am playing with my brother is proving a very fun one.
The break has helped me out a good amount. Despite it being Normal, doing everything on Chapter 10 is no walk in the park so hopefully I can prevail for the main playthrough.
Unrelated to the video but I just wanted to say how much I love Engage, the break mechanic is genius, the emblems are super fun, the units themselves are great and the weapons feel much better to use than Fates who also had no durability, the only small gripes I have are that I wish certain units and classes were better (for example I wish Swordmaster's class skill was something critical-related instead of Run Through) but overall even on Hard this game feels incredibly fun and it feels like the devs had a lot of fun making it, it feels like there's a lot of childlike joy thrown into it
I keep saying this, but this is the most fun I've had in a Fire Emblem game since Radiant Dawn. Easily some of the best gameplay in the series, only Conquest comes close and its difficulty knocks it down for me. Engage's difficulty is just right imo: Normal is pretty easy, Hard is perfect for experienced players, and Maddening is difficult but not unfair. (And doesn't demand you use only the OP characters, most units ARE Maddening-viable)
@@BigKlingy Besides it has a TON of possibilities thanks to the emblems, and the animations are absolutely fantastic, the best they've ever been for me since GBA (Yes I know everyone says the GBA animations are the best but I can't find myself thinking any other game has animations as consistently good as those) so you really feel the hits too, and I feel like it's a neat way to bring back characters from previous games, it definitely does feel like an anniversary title
Dunno how many people have done this but having Leif on a Dragon (except Veyle) with Reprisal+ makes him really good on enemy phase and makes his engage attack actually do ludicrous amounts of damage
Quadruple Hit is one of the best boss killers if you set it up right.
Reprisal makes anything broken, admittedly. But there's a lot of ways to make Quad Hit insanely strong.
While that is true i feel thanks to Leif HP boost + Vantage and build it makes Reprisal alot safer to use
@@Sunny_Day8007 The fact that with the right class like warrior you can also counter at 3 range makes a build like this even better
While you don't get the broken crit rate as Celine or Ivy it's actually worth slotting on them if you need an aoe engage attack because cataclysm can actually proc ignis and grasping void. Yeah low dex under normal circumstances makes these skills unreliable but don't forget soren does a ridiculous number of hits while engage attacking so there's a high change these 2 can go from leaving an enemy with 40% hp to multiple one shotting enemies in a row to its nutty. You also can use soren to help boost the radiant bow damage and accuracy for output for fogado if you're the kind of person who refuses to move him away from cupido and griffin knights love soren too.You can turn griffins into leech tome gods and unlike miciah rexcalibur shreds other griffins so it makes leech tome shenanigans even more silly.
Just some notes: Aymr is pronounced uh-meer (source: smash bros) and goddes dance is a reference to how byleth is the only unit who cannot reclass to dancer (LOL)
Is it said in voice acting there? Tbh I only ever used Byleth in Smash for their Classic Mode and Spirit Board. (As a big Fire Emblem fan, I was just sour over their inclusion making Smash fans hate Fire Emblem even more.)
From what I hear, Goddess Dance references a specific Battalion Skill from 3H. It's just a very obscure one, since I think it's only on the Blue Lions Dancers (route-exclusive) and the Mittenfrank Opera Volunteers (requires moving Manuela or Dorothea onto one specific, unmarked tile in the Enbarr map with no indication this does something).
@@BigKlingy yes there is, and no, that was a joke
I used Corrin on a mage for most of my first game. The fire saved me a ton
Leif is actually not bad for combat with the proper build. A low HP Panette with Bond Level 9 Leif, inherited Wrath (and ideally Hold-Out to safely reach HP thresholds), a crit-engraved Killer Axe and Killer Bow can strike first on EP with 100% crit chance, switching on the fly between 1 and 2-range weapons for great coverage, I've seen literally dozens of units on single turns suicide themselves on her. Given how harsh this game can be with its reinforcements at times, units that can endlessly kill stuff on enemy phase are invaluable, and using Leif for this build frees up high-value Emblems like Ike for other units.
Two fun things to note, one for Soren and one for Chrobin. Soren's Reflect staff lacks in usefulness for its actual effect, but it's surprisingly good at being a mini Great Sacrifice for the midgame chapters where you lack Micaiah- getting staff EXP from four units all at once is usually a hefty chunk, depending on the levels of your units, and unlike GS it's not dependent on those units being below full HP to actually affect them.
Second thing is that I've found Chrom's emblem to be shockingly good on, of all things, gryphon knights- my experience largely coming from using Clanne as a sword one. Boosting both physical and magical combat by a fair margin for a solid hybrid unit that can use Levin Sword, AND has the mobility to make good use of Rally, is pretty bonkers, it turns out. The one thing that's really missed out on is Surprise Attack, but that can be fiddly to position for anyway so I don't count it as the biggest loss in the world, personally.
Chrom definitely sounds good on Griffins.
Celica and Veronica and be used on a great knight Mauvier for some hilarious shenanigans cuz of his high base magic you can still make use of the emblems themselves and also revenge tank.
37:18 goddammit I was drinking water when this showed up. As someone who made her basically solo a bunch of maps including the final boss, I'm guilty as charged.
I knew I had to put that in, since there was no reason not to be vague about her at this point.
Note about Soren, he can absolutely break the game when it comes to exp. If you get a full reflect off, them you can easily get a level out of it. I have raised several units this way, and Solm Palace is the best chapter to do it in.
My favorite way of using Roy is throwing him on Panette. Panette Leif is interesting but I am not a fan of the fact that she's stuck with the 25% hp range vantage.
Hold out makes it much easier for her to get into her personal and max wrath range and makes it so even if the enemy crits her because she's using a dodge decreasing crit increasing killer axe, she's guaranteed to survive.
As for Leif he can at least patch up your unit's build if you want to wield certain weapons like levin sword without getting weighted down by them.
I also do pass level 10 mainly for her to use light brand cause that 10 luck boost helps her activate her personal skill in getting more money. While it does require her using the heavy master lance, it's not like she's gonna be dealing damage with it anyway given her low strength growth and I don't Really intend to make her an enemy phase sweeper anyway unless the only thing that can attack her are axe units.
great video honestly
These bio videos are always fun to watch. Checking out how neat every Emblem functions is great for planning what builds you want to try on your characters. I’m currently nearing the end of my third play through, and with better knowledge of how the game works, chose to try out a couple “Wacky Builds” on a couple of my units this time around. If you don’t mind, I’d like to share them.
First, I went with General Alear. The way I like to build Alear is as a frontline support unit. Divinely Inspiring is very self explanatory, and then Swap is an ok skill for helping keep Alear in the front and maybe getting someone out of danger. Then I gave them Canter+ and one Boots stat booster to make them more mobile, and also Break Defenses since they won’t be doubling everything, it’ll give other units a safe enemy to finish off. I might give them a Speed+ skill later. As for Emblems, I went with Corrin. While it is a bit less effective to use her on Alear while they aren’t in their default class, the vines effect preventing breaks on you was still helpful, plus Draconic Hex and Dreadful Aura are just nuts, easily gets you out of a jam.
Second, (and this one is pretty silly) I’m calling it War Mage. I wanted to try a frontline build that was decent in both Strength and Magic. Despite joining late I chose to do this with Mauvier and reclassed him to Sage. Mauvier has pretty good Strength and Magic despite Sages low Strength cap, but that’s where his Emblem comes in. I gave him Roy, who significantly patches up his low HP and Strength caps, plus the Binding Blade is pretty strong, provides extra defenses, and can attack at range. There’s also the Mystical effect from Blazing Lion creating a large fire area, and Hold Out+++ to help with survivability. As for skill inheritance, Vantage+ and either Unyielding/Speedtaker/Lunar Brace/Resolve+. This will take some grinding to see what works best, but since I plan to attempt max level tempest trails for the first time soon, that amount of effort pretty much goes for anyone.
That’s that I guess. It just shows how fun it can be to plan out your builds. And I’m sure Engage will keep bringing me back for its fun mechanic for quite awhile.
I've never seen what their model looks like, but Alear's menu sprite as a General is AMAZING (it looks like their armour is made of fire) and for that alone I'm glad to see someone use it.
Also huh, Break Defenses on a General is pretty nice.
Just a warning. If you do the Hector paralogue and attempt to Lyn cheese you get some of the most overpowered wolf knights ambushing near your Lyn user so i hope you have some good luck with bond shield lol.
Silly Leif build: Anna with high luck as a Sniper. A chance for 500 gold each turn, and a chance of 1000 gold on the engage attack.
Imagine the sheer insanity that would be Speedtaker +/++
Lucina Emblem: I'll save the world for 12 Emblem Rings from Fire Emblem Engage.
You can get up to 6 actions on one unit with dancers goddess dance and rivalry emblem bracelet
Actually, all units 1-2 spaces adjacent to the user of Lucina’s engage attack all attack first before the user. The user attacks last!
1:59:55 gotta love *FORSHADOWING*
Zero regrets with Soren!Veyle, for both that and her battle quotes.
I just concluded my third Engage run, had a lot of fun with it. I had a lot of powerhouses such as Jean, Panette, and Madeline, though everyone was pretty solid. I also romanced Gregory, and he's p sweet.
I really need to do one where I actually use Zelkov. He seems pretty good.
@@BigKlingy I used him in my second run, where I also romanced him. He's very good, and is also a really sweet guy once you see his support.
In the same run I also want to actually train Boucheron. Maybe Alfred and Etie too.
@BigKlingy I used Alfred and Etie on a run, never used Boucheron beyond early game tho. Lol, I just finished Engage, and now here I am discussing another run.
Dual Assist from Lucina is very annoying when you try to max engage meter in order to be able to engage again at the earliest turn, because the back-up hit doesn't count toward the engage meter, especially when it kills an enemy, so it takes longer time to charge up.
They should have let us use Demonic Dance with Byleth just for giggles (maybe make it harder to charge up his bond meter after using it)
If I’m not using an offensive Leif build, I like to throw him on Seadall. Breaking quad hit that does minimal damage is nice to set up a kill for another unit. Also if you give Seadall the defense scroll, he effectively gets 15 extra defense (+5 from scroll, +3 Leif, +7 arms shield++) against archers and thieves due to weapon advantage and 7 more res against mages so you can go for slightly riskier dance plays.
I often have a hard time thinking which Emblem to use on him but that sounds pretty good. On my first run he ended up getting Sigurd because all my offensive units had better options.
@@BigKlingywhen it comes to better offensive options call me crazy but I believe Sigurd is worthy
- best emblem availability
- his paralogue is not too hard to do earlier compared to Roy and Eirika meaning more bond levels earlier
- ridersbane, tyrfing, and brave lance are underrated engage weapons
-frees up a skill slot due to having sync canter
-crazy movement, good synergy with many types of units
- build bonus lets you use weapons like tomahawk, spear, levin without worrying about spd
-dex and def bonus also nice
Ik you prolly don’t care lol but I just love advocating for Sigurd as an offense emblem. I’ve ran WK Merrin with Eirika, Roy, and Sigurd and while the former 2 have crazy dps and good EP, Sigurd isn’t that far behind and instead lets me go for hype and versatile plays
@@xde_ I guess what I meant was my other offensive characters had specific Emblems they really needed (Ike for Diamant, Roy for Lapis, magic ones for Jean) It wasn't that Sigurd wasn't good, I just didn't have anyone else free for him.
@@BigKlingythat’s understandable lol
Even though I already watched all of these from your let's play, I still watched this.
Why? Because you voice is nice, And putting this in the background is nice to me.
It's also good to thsoe that didn't play Engage, Although, I'm not one of them.
Still, All of these guides(Or bios) are amazing, And they give good and precise information.
So, Thank you.
damn, this video is awesome
Thanks!
I used leaf with my warrior jean. I had promote to breserker until he hit dex cap then reclass to warrior. He’s fast enough with enough build to handle master lance. So couple arms shield with Ike’s inherent ability makes him pretty tanky.
I tried Warrior Jean once but I should've reclassed him before promotion. Got him his first 10 levels in Martial Monk and his Strength suffered. Physical Jean is pretty much the only character I recommend using a Second Seal on before promotion.
Why reclasing for dex? Just give him an awakening engrave
Ahh yes emblems
Basically fire emblem heroes's broken units and skills if they were added into a normal fe game
Lyn is such an amazing emblem. I hope she's a great unit in her own game. 😅
Ehhhhhh😅
She's fine if you do Lyn mode. Like not spectacular but she's not roy bad.
Lyn is a good unit, her and eliwood are so overhated its not even funny. Try playing the game instead of parroting youtubers shitty opinions
@@SwaxMain4u she's extremely mid not bad but not good
@@SwaxMain4uI don't have a Gameboy. How am I supposed to play it?
Might have to do a 2nd engage playthrough after this
I never slept on bonded shield cuz im the goat
For you, which one between Micaiah and Lucina is better off given to an Enchanteur ?
I tend to give the edge to Micaiah but I'm thinking about it because Enchanteur are pretty good with both :
- With Lucina : Enchanter become a 6 Range (Chain Attack) Dagger Backup with 100% trigger rate on Bonded Shiled
- With Micaiah : Enchanteur have access to Dagger, Arts and Staff, they can have infinite staff acess due to convoy, are pretty accurate on Offensive Staff and Heal A LOT of HP due to Staff Mastery and Augment and cure status with Great Sacrifice
Both are pretty good, but I'd personally give the edge to Lucina because Micaiah on an Enchanter basically does the same thing she does on any Staff user, convoy is the only unique aspect but Alear reclassed to a staff class can do that.
Ah. The 12 Rings & 7 Bracelets as Emblems with their Guides.. Completely. Been a very long while. Now that Engage Players saw to check on those.. 🤔
A very min-max note about Leif on Maddening runs; If you have extra rewinds to use than the covert bonus is really nice, especially in the few early game chapters where you have him.
Put him on Yunaka, Etie, or Alcryst (Yunaka works best), and use quadruple hit to finish an enemy every turn until you get the gold proc.
The chapters are slow paced enough for you to get away with this, and the extra gold can really come in clutch considering how scarce gold gets on Maddening.
I also reccomend puting off Anna's recruitment until after you get Leif just to use this strat. Even if you intend to use her, she only loses out on one chapter's worth of EXP, which I personally find to be a worthy trade (as there's plenty of tricks to help her catch up).
And months later we know so much more.
54:20 Or, the doubles can trick you into thinking an ally is safe, and then when the double dies, the AI then kills that ally, because in fact, they still prioritise killing your units over fake ones.
I've had the AI get stuck fighting a dodge-tanking double before. Though it's best if you have no real units who can die near the enemy, in the first place.
I just realized this video about 19 emblems than the video about 30+ units in the game.
I guess I just had to go more in-depth with the Emblems, since each one has so much to them.
Thank you for the video its such a detailed one
Emblems, Emblems, everywhere, but can they save Bunet?
Probably.
I'd still like to see a Bunet Favourite Food Byleth setup once, the issue is Bunet can't inherit Celica's skills until after Chapter 20.
Is he supposed to be bad? I haven't had any real problems with him.
It's time for the very looooooooooong showcase of all 19 Emblems!
Cough cough
20
i just realized micaiah is doing linde's pose
Great comprehensive video!
I have played Fire Emblem since the early 2000s on my Gameboy Advance, DS/3DS and now a Switch Oled. The only Fire Emblem game I didn't like is Warriors. I liked Three houses and Engaged. If an other game comes out I will buy it!
I'm an OG GBA Fire Emblem guy too.
I m the only one thinking that the sacrifice of micaiah in radiant should be the same as engage in the last chapter of radiant dawn. Besides, sacrifice in Radiant dawn heals status ( only adept for engage)
If they ever remake the Tellius games, I hope Sacrifice gets buffed.
Thanks. I needed this.
I find that just like in 3H, I want to just use Dimitri's gambit and just leave Edelgard behind. Her gambit isn't bad but Aymr being a smash weapon is just aweful. Smash weapons can have some niche use beyond engage attacks but it takes work and likely will get you very little gain.
There's SOME good Smash weapons but I agree Aymr isn't the best when both Byleth and the 3H Emblem have better options.
Another note on Leif, while i agree his real strength is utility and skill inheiritence, but what if you want to use him for combat and still max his bond level? Or more importantly, who should Lief end the game with after he has given his skill inheritance to everyone who wants it?
In short, Alcryst in his unique promoted class is Lief's best partner, and Leif is one of Alcryst's better (though admittedly not his best) emblem ring options. Starting with the easy thing to understand, in the same way the Luna is a good pair with Astra Storm, it is a good pair with quad hit. In mt experience, Luna will trigger 1-3 times on quad hit, which effectively fixes it damage, even if Luna only triggers once. Additionally, Alcryst is acovert unit with ok luck, so it can be a nice supplement to your income which is otherwise sporadic in this game.
Ok now for the big one, Adaptable and the Master Lance. Adaptable will chose the Master Lance most often because you need a ranged counter for that combat. Alcryst in his unique classes, will always have a Range 2 option in his bows and a Range 1 option in Leif's own weapons, so the only time the Master Lance shows up is if a sword unit attacks you, which is something to look out for, but here is the best part. because Alcryst is a covert unit adaptable give him +20 Aviod on enemy phase, so put him in terrian (or create Fog w/ Corrin to really take advantage of this) and suddenly Engaged Alcryst can consistently get
The fact that you didnt mention celicas best part, Recover giving a ton of exp even on maddening. Its in the top exp pool for staves and with vander having a high personal level + favorite food, it basically grants any user of it free exp before chapter 11. Its a 2nd micaiah basically
I've almost never used Recover, so no wonder I didn't know that. I'll take note of that for next time I play.
@@BigKlingy Fair and understandable, i also didn't use recover in my first run, but then in my next maddening Ironman i found how busted the exp gain was, like a level 17? internal celine (6 promoted) was still gaining 22 exp per recover use healing other non vander units. It's very busted and allows you to have a third exp project early game.
i mean
arts focus downside is negated by byleths luck boost too
I guess that's true. It just takes a lot of work and very specific characters to make an Arts build work.
Thanks for the background audio while I was crunching through chapters 20 & 21. Though rewatching this, it really struck me how... ̶b̶o̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ basic most early emblems are and how absurdly all-out powerful the DLC ones are. As you've said quite a few times, the main game's balance and progression in complexity is quite nice but the bracelets really feel very overtuned even for end- or postgame. Not exactly pay-to-win or anything but it does feel on the same level as things that would be NG+ or postgame rewards in past games. Oh well.
I'm doing my first playthrough without DLC for the sake of balance, but I plan on going all out for my second one. I feel like I've already gushed enough about the game and your playthrough, so unless you plan on doing any additional bonus videos for the game, it's been a real nice ride :) Excited for Tactica, but I understand if you'd rather take a break over the holidays and wait until January to begin with a new series.
This is one reason why I prefer saving them for later. Some, like Hector and even Camilla, aren't too bad, while Edelgard and Veronica are insane. And Tiki throws stat balance out of whack with Starsphere.
Ooof that was such a good and helpful video. Really thankful for that and I definitely will use this and the unit overview video if I ever do another run on maybe higher difficulty (I am usually more casual).
Tho there is one thing I never really understand or understood. So is it right, that a character equipped with an Emblem ring "only" receives the extra stats, the sync skills and while engaged the Engage Skill and Engage Attack and of course the Emblem weapons, for some of those depending on the bond level? So the other inheritable skills aren't automatically active as long the Emblem is equipped on that unit, right? They are only accessible through inheritance no matter if or what rind is equipped on a certain character, right?
Also I don't know if you would be willing to do this, but what I actually would find interesting is probably another video, that deals with certain gameplay mechanics that can make units stronger, most notably imo: everything about forging weapons (how to get the "most amount" of forging material, which types of weapons should be preferred when using forging weapons and also all the engravings that could be given from the Emblems with their pro/cons and on which weapon types they would probably find best use) and also ... gold management, cause Elyos seems to be in a big recession based on how the hell everything costs tons of gold in Engage (how to gain as much gold as possible, on which things gold should always be spent and on which things better never) and maybe also a ranking/overview about the classes existing in Engage?
If feel like those to topics next to understanding the characters and their strengths and weaknesses and also the Emblems are/would be most beneficial to get the most of a run, especially for sth like Maddening for example.
Would you say getting DLC is worth it? I have enough to get it, but I could also get 3 Houses DLC for slightly less
To me, it depends on how much you like Engage's maps. The DLC Emblem Paralogues are all, ESCEPT CAMILLA'S, really fun, and can be done at any point in a playthrough since their levels scale to your story progress.
The Fell Xenologue is very hit-and-miss though, since you're using fixed characters. Some people don't like that, but if you like games like Advance Wars I think it's fine. The main problem is you have to beat it separately on every file in order to recruit its characters.
@@BigKlingy is TH Pass better? I am just starting Engage on maddening blind, and on TH I have beaten CE and am most of the way through GD
It depends on what you like. Three Houses DLC characters are better integrated into the main game (besides Anna, who barely has any content) and beating Cindered Shadows once unlocks them for every playthrough afterwards. Cindered Shadows is also, I feel, broadly better of a DLC story than the Fell Xenologue and lets its characters level up, unfortunately it's also not canon. (Fell Xenologue IS canon, well, if you do it)
But I never bothered with any of the other DLC in 3H's pass, like the sauna or other extra monastery things and outfits. Meanwhile I got a lot of use out of Engage's DLC Emblems.
Really it just comes down to which game you like more. The DLC is basically just giving you more of the game, which is why I bought Engage's. (For 3H's I just wanted Cindered Shadows)
I mean Lyration us just Libération shortened as well, they have the same icon
Would say friendly rivalry is fine since its their part 1 school looks things did not relay become air quotes till the war kicked off
Dude, you just need someone with enough speed/build to use the master lance(the unit i found is rosado), i even improved the hit rate with crystals just so he could quad with it, thats a range 2 brave weapon on a flying unit(i use lunar brace+ and break defences, so i can use multiple weapon types)
I really wished I used this resource when I started engage. So much SP lost to skills I don't need.
this game is so.. fucking good.
I wish more people agreed.
Lyn's bows can also scale off magic for mysical units
11:50 Shiskabob enemies 😂
I haven't kept up with your stuff in quite a while, I think I dropped out when you started Advance Wars and didn't, come, back...
Oh well, I've got a lot of stuff to catch up with...
You ever play Disgaea? It got me into Strategy Games, and 7 has been a blast.
I've considered it a few times, but I'm afraid of the sheer amount of grinding needed for the postgame content. Disgaea is infamous for, like, having the main story require levels below 99 while the level cap is something like 9999.
@@BigKlingy fair, but the games also make grinding easy in the post game
Marth: good for like 6 chapters, absent for most of the game, worthless after coming back.
*Which one of them are more unique, Fire Emblem or Fate Series?*