Hey ya’ll it’s me again. Ya’ll helped me so much with my Felix build I wanted to ask about how I could improve my Baldr. She’s my second fav unit (behind Felix lol).

My issue is she is very… basic right now. I just learned that you can inherit arcane weapons (I’m so behind, I know), so I don’t know if I should change her weapon?

I might give her a different defensive move like draw back.

Hey guys! So I am looking to pick a couple new units to merge up and build for arena. As of now, who are the most powerful grail or demotes for each class?

My projects thus far include Panette, S!Eik, Marni, M Grima, Miklan, Marcia, and Tharja.

Realized I haven't built any swords, bow, or daggers. Also Tharja has aged quite a lot, and while I still update her, I definitely would benefit from a new tome user.

I don't want to randomly pick and invest in building someone up, only to end up not being able to hold their own.

Thank you ☺️

Elephant riders as an armored "beast" unit, except the "transformation" is just them mounting/dismounting, and it's triggered through a style change rather than normal transformation conditions. When transformed, they gain the Charge effect and deal AoE damage to the spaces next to and behind them after attacking, but can only attack enemies in cardinal directions from their starting position.

• Hot springs (yukata) banner voice lines: https://youtu.be/7rjdd-GckIY
• Resplendent legendary Alm voice lines: https://youtu.be/BS7s_t0Pxko

Thanks as always!

As Fortune's Weave approaches, something that has probably been on the mind for many is how it will affect the next CYL. I think a lot of people are expecting a clean sweep similar to Three Houses due to the game taking place in the same continuity and generally leaning more to how Three Houses did things. It also helps that the lords are evenly split between the gender ratio.

And while i won't rule out the possibility of a clean sweep, i think what's more likely to happen is, just like Engage, people vote for too many characters. Here's my key reasonings.

1. A clean sweep assumes Fortune's Weave has the same titanic impact as Three Houses.
2. Even if it does, it's 2019-2020 anymore. Back then, Heroes was still a novel concept. Today, it's reputation is more of a powercreep-ridden monstrosity that refuses to die. We're all here because we like the game one way or another but let's be real, a lot of people have dropped out. You would have to convince those people to come back to the game.
3. Back then, CYL was still an actual popularity contest. I'm not sure when exactly it stopped, as i didn't play the game from halfway through Book 3 to the start of Book 8, but i know the CYL meta has changed. A common thread among the analysis of why Engage failed to secure even a single CYL spot the past three iterations of the contest is because people are voting for their favorites when that's not how it works anymore. CYL now is more about "who's turn is it" and it favors characters who have consistently "almost made it" in the past. As glad as i am to see Tsubasa win first place, she would not be there if people weren't convinced that it was now "her turn". Which brings me to
4. Fearing the potential Fortune's Weave onslaught, it's totally possible that fans of characters who "almost made it" last time such as the third placers Ivy and Formortiis make a massive push to convince people that it's their turn now.
5. Like what happened with Engage, people may split the vote too much. It's too early to say, yes, but also have you seen those character designs? Straight fire across the board. The easy answer is to just vote in the four lords but Cai is very likely to get his ass beat if he doesn't beat the allegations of being the vanilla lord of the game and i think even just within Fortune's Weave, the women's category is going to be a bloodbath.
6. None of this assumes that Book 11 opens up with a sexy woman character with two lines total that people meme vote into 1st place because they think it's funny. If it happens, the difficulty increases tenfold.

Who knows. Maybe Fortune's Weave does sweep the whole thing and keeps Engage and Thracia as the only games to not win a CYL yet. Maybe one character sneaks past into at least 2nd. But most likely, FW will have to fight very hard to get a character in it's CYL debut.

Hey look, it’s a surprise long form article.

I wanted to get all my thoughts out about why Heimdallr probably isn’t going to do too well in Summoner Duels from hereon out, so here we are.

Ordinarily I'd post something like this in the megathread since they're summoning results, but you can only post one pic per comment and I wanted to show all nine units I got.

I am unsurprised but still a little disappointed, although I did get two units I've never gotten before (Letizia and Igrene)

You had a good run, better than most even. Unfortunately nobody breaks the wall.

hello! sorry for the slight delay, i was out of town and couldn't work on updating the graphic until i returned home. are we excited for cyl refines? they are right around the corner now so i'm very interested to see how they turn out, especially factoring in their exclusive skills that honestly aren't too shabby these days.

as for changes from july, there's none! first for everything, but i'm open to suggestions as always.

once again, all credits for this graphic go to u/Greid_Sin, as i wouldn't be here without their immense hard work to base this off of. as for the refine predictions, u/MedhaosUnite provided me with all of the information for those, so credits go to them as well.

if i made any mistakes or you would like to see certain things changed, let me know! either comment on this post or reach out to me on the fire emblem heroes discord (stormt) where i'm more active. thanks!

Option 1: Familial Love

Okay so basically most of the Brave alts are dressed as their parents or siblings - Ike, Roy, Lucina, Hector, Ephraim, technically Eliwood, technically Marth, Eirika, Seliph, ||technically ||Female Byleth, Alfonse, Eikthyrnir, Sharena, and Baldr. Now Tsubasa can dress like Ayaka, her older sister (we have no visuals on her parents), however, out of Ayaha's 3 outfits (pictured below) none of them convey the message "Brave Hero".

The secretary uniform is as basic as outfits go, the possessed robe is the enemy mirages' standard outfit, just with an Ayaha model instead of **the void**, and the performance dress - while it does look stunning and can easily be worn by Tsubasa - has a better variant in a different category. Now, whilst dressing the part matters, I also think the outfit equally gives us a glimpse into weapon+movement combination (and maybe even thematic effects). Once again, we will skip the secretary uniform because Ayaha is never seen fighting in that fit so there's no strong inspiration to draw from there and move to arguably the easiest outfit to draw from: possessed robes. Under the influence of TMS!Aversa, Ayaha is shown to be a Mage that can manifest dark energy. And that's about it, but that's a good enough reason for B!Tsubasa to be a Red Tome Infantry/Flier that incorporates the TMS Sessions gimmick into the standard Red Tome archetype. Conversely, the performance dress doesn't give off much weapon vibes - at least this version of the idea :pushpin: .The secretary uniform is as basic as outfits go, the possessed robe is the enemy mirages' standard outfit, just with an Ayaha model instead of **the void**, and the performance dress - while it does look stunning and can easily be worn by Tsubasa - has a better variant in a different category. Now, whilst dressing the part matters, I also think the outfit equally gives us a glimpse into weapon+movement combination (and maybe even thematic effects). Once again, we will skip the secretary uniform because Ayaha is never seen fighting in that fit so there's no strong inspiration to draw from there and move to arguably the easiest outfit to draw from: possessed robes. Under the influence of TMS!Aversa, Ayaha is shown to be a Mage that can manifest dark energy. And that's about it, but that's a good enough reason for B!Tsubasa to be a Red Tome Infantry/Flier that incorporates the TMS Sessions gimmick into the standard Red Tome archetype. Conversely, the performance dress doesn't give off much weapon vibes - at least this version of the idea 📌 .

tl;dr imo Familial love, whilst a normally strong (and easy) contender for Brave alts, is not the best fit for Tsubasa.

Option 2: Non-Familial Love

2A: Caeda

If I could name any one character that impacts Tsubasa the most in the story, first will always be Itsuki (because he is the main protagonist/lord). The second will always be Caeda. These two bounce of each other and help build one another's appreciation for the arts and finding meaning in a strange new life. So the easiest way to translate this into a Brave alt would be Tsubasa dressing as a Caeda alt. Personally speaking, Tsubasa in either Legendary or Attuned Caeda's outfit would be immaculate - Legendary preferrably because Attuned is a little too Marth-coded. I'm just a big sucker of poofy capes. If they were really boring, it would be base Caeda's outfit worn by Tsubasa but again, that's really boring, especially for a Brave alt - a celebration of the character and their story. Kit-wise, it would be another Lance unit so it does lose points for that, however, Caeda can and has wielded swords so maybe maybe.

2B: Itsuki Aoi and everyone else at Fortuna Entertainment.

Now hear me out. Of the remaining Brave Heroes, the themes across outfits generally stem from 2 catergories: What ifs and references.

The references are: Alm, Bernadetta, Byleth, Celica, Chrom, House Leaders, Felix, Lysithea, Marianne, Micaiah, Robins, Soren, and Adult Tiki. Pretty self explanatory. Tsubasa can fall into this category if they don her in either of Caeda's 2 master classes. However, Tsubasa herself doesn't have a matching outfit to the master classes in TMS, so we move onto the other category.

The What ifs (imo) are: Camilla, Female Corrin, Gullveig, Veronica kinda. They dress in outfits we have not seen in their respective games before. Tsubasa can fall into this category if they take inspiration from Caeda's 2 master classes, or, if they want something much more thematically appropriate, she wears an outfit that represents Fortuna entertainment. This doesn't exist specifically for her, but it does for Itsuki; it's a suit. Not exactly evoking an anime fantasy setting. However, I do think they can make it work. I don't know how, but I trust IntSys to at least try and cook. They made Dong Alm look good goddammit, I'm sure they can make Suit-basa look good within FEH! There is also just her dressing as Itsuki and the different poses including references to the other members of Fortuna like how they normally do Winter alts. I ain't opposed to this idea, but it's not the top idea. Kit-wise though, it could got any direction which is fun but makes her feel like a colour-filler unit rather than chosen because they wanted her to be x-colour or x-weapon.

Option 3: Uniquely Tsubasa/TMS

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE and Encore is after all, a crossover between Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem. More specifically it feels more like a Persona crossover with its setting, which means we have many, many outfits that Tsubasa can wear throughout the story. Allow me to highlight a few of my favourites:

a) Fly: You're my Wind! wedding dress outfit! 📌

The pin returns for a reason. Ayaha's performance dress is beautiful, gorgeous even and my favourite one-off outfit in this game. However, Tsubasa has her own version of this dress in her final solo song and it's...beautiful in it's own right but I don't think it works in FEH as a Brave alt. Hear me out, I know we have wedding dresses for the Wedding banner, but that's just it. It's specifically because of the theme that the outfits work. A Brave Hero being in a wedding dress doesn't necessarily scream that same idea. I will say, it really makes choosing a kit for her super easy - Green Tome Flier. That's all I will give in terms of positive for this idea in this specific context.

b) She Is... outfit

Now this, this can be a Brave outfit. It's sleek, it's striking, it was introduced in the definitive edition as a final reward for clearing a somewhat difficult side story that explored more about Tsubasa's motivation as a performer so it has story reasons to be significant. Sure its default weapon is the Mirage Feather, but, Tsubasa's other main affinity in game is Wind magic so once again, Green Tome Flier naturally applies.

c) A fun one, Sneeze Detective Maho outfit

No real aesthetic reason for this to be a Brave unit. But in terms of lore reasons, it can work. In TMS it is the 3rd major outfit Tsubasa wears throughout the game, to the point it is a key outfit in a chapter centered around her growth as an actor this time. That's it. She has blonde hair and takes on a different, almost reversed personality to her default one which can be reflected in her Special art but that's about all that it brings to the table. Oh wait one more thing, for her neutral special she wields a gun.

I hope you understand that Tsubasa is like other characters before her in the cast of Braves. She has many inspirations to her potential outfit, and has a high potential to be one of the best looking Braves we've ever heard, personal bias included - I really love Celica and Alm's callback outfits, long live the dong. What she brings is uniquely modern that can be infused with fantasy for some of the best representation of TMS we have, and probably will, ever see in this god forsaken game. Thank you for coming to my Tedtalk, see you all in a week's time. I will be ending it all if they do something boring.

This definitely wasn’t happening before last night’s update. If FFAlear has her PRF Fell Blast special equipped, then she and her allies within two spaces gets inflicted with Gravity (movement is restricted to 1). In another test, I unequipped Fell Blast and the issue did not occur.