Frieren's Weakness? | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…

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[FirstLast-cgnk]

Basically, it's the same as closing your eyes when pulling the trigger of a gun. Most people do it instinctively when they start out, and have to train in order to stop doing it. Frieren still "blinks" when she pulls the trigger, because she's basically a scholar first and a combat mage second.

[ClaudioProductionsX]

I love how literally the whole community, including myself, seriously thought for a moment they were going to use a Mimic against the clone.

[oldmanonyoutube]

Mimics. Frieren's one weakness is mimics.

[onesmileybaldy]

Notice how the barrier is a bit to the side, Fern purposefully missed but Frieren still blocked it. Shows how precisely Frieren is always monitoring everyone around her and, of course, that Fern didn’t want to actually hit her, just prove a point.

[Alwayz]

I love the idea that Frieren is actually pretty inexperienced and flawed in the grand scheme, relatively speaking. Like if she were a human, she may have never been all that powerful in the end

Really drives home the "Era of Humans is Here" idea

[gaborviragh]

Funfact: It took me some rewatches, but Methode and Denken noticed Frieren not being able to detect mana for an instant. They became First Class mages. Kanne and Lawine did not notice. They did not.

[sibsart]

I had to go back to get exactly what the issue is. But it was literally something so minor as she’s bad at multitasking.

[victore.garciasardaneta]

Basically, during fights, Mages rely on detecting mana to know the position of their enemies. Frieren can't multitask detecting mana and casting, so during a fight if there's 0 visibility, she effectively becomes blind to her surroundings for a split second. A fast enough opponent can exploit that opening.

[ItsChevnotJeff]

Basically, Frieren is that one friend who carries the whole team and by the end they discover that they had a debuff that lowers their stats this whole time, in Frieren's case split second Perception lag

[eliasnilsson]

Really shows why Frieren is such a good character. Shes an insanely powerfull mage thats been alive for 1000+ years. It should be impossible to relate to her but all these small silly things with her makes her both likeable and relateable. They are presented so well and naturally too with her interactions during their journey.

[override]

as shown in the fight with Frieren, it's not that much of a weakness, she loses her mana detection for a split second but she still has amazing instincts and reflexes and a thousand years of experience. Even if Denken had noticed it, it wouldn't have helped him any (especially because he flavors longer casting flashy spells), she still blocks everything throws at her while she's casting other spells, to actually hit her it requires Frieren to have to be concentrating on defending from another attack (Fauxren went in for an opening Frieren left for the killshot, Frieren positioned her staff so that both of them would die in the ensuing spell blast, Fauxren was focused on casting the spell she was doing and defending against Frieren and missed Fern)

The strategy would not have been possible for anyone who isn't as incredibly stealthy and fast as Fern AND Frieren already being locked in mortal combat with an equally powerful opponent to herself

[rage_]

0:34 this change in mentality right here is what allowed him to pass

[CoyotesOwn]

I've just realized that Frieren managed to train Fern not to copy her weakness, since Denken wouldn't have the same preconception about experienced mages when watching Fern.

[LadyHannelore]

Love how they make it sound like such a grave flaw, and then they get in there, and she is tossing around magic that can level landscapes.

[Steve_]

literally her biggest weakness is just migically blinking for a split of second so you have to be insanely fast to exploit it XDD

[PoopJeem]

it's funny how elves still progress like humans. elves can live thousands of years but frieren is comparable to a 19 or 20 year old in human years, probably. the reason why she's so powerful is because of her experience and the amount of years she's trained at least in human years, but in elven years, she still has work to do. also in this episode, frieren tells fern to use zoltorak because she shoots it faster than her. this is because fern has used her entire life with that spell while frieren hasn't used it for that long.

[Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

That's a longwinded way of saying "Mimic".

[iwannaplayssbb]

I was half expecting to see mimic chewing on her head after the smoke cleared

[SubZerosHat]

Makes sense that Frieren would have a couple of bad habits like this. She's mostly self taught, outside of her initial training from Flamme, and has been training on her own for most of her life.

With no teacher around for CENTURIES to correct you, these kinds of little quirks would develop and be pretty hard to notice or break.

[Blade_Corps]

Her biggest weakness is her curiosity. Always opening those mimic chests even though she has a spell that tells her it's a mimic. Why even use the spell then???