EVERY Gender Difference in Fire Emblem (FE1-Engage)

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Fire Emblem as a series has put both male and female characters into a wide variety of classes and roles both in gameplay and story. But while their roles have always overlapped with each other, there have always been some unique differences between the genders that keep popping up. This video isn't a Pokemon gender video where we compare sprites side-by-side (there is some of that too), but this video is concerned with how FUNCTIONALLY they are different more than anything.
We go over the differences in the NES era, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, Binding Blade, Blazing Sword, Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn, the DS remakes, Awakening, Fates, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Three Houses and Engage.
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Script Writers:
@MythrilZenith, Faerghast

PoR, RD and Fates Footage:
YedKnowsAll
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Intro 00:00
FE1 2:49
FE2 3:22
FE3 3:43
FE4 4:40
FE5 5:47
FE6 6:32
FE7 8:09
FE8 8:35
FE9 9:01
FE10 9:38
FE11 10:05
FE12 10:43
Awakening 11:40
Fates 13:05
Echoes 15:56
Three Houses 16:41
Engage 18:18
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#fireemblem #fireemblemthreehouses #swordofconvallaria

[Faerghast]

Join the Sand-made Scales event and uncover a brand-new chapter in Spiral of Destinies! Team up with Acambe to build the Convallaria Trading Post and become a commerce master.

[LittleMisZorua]

18:40 small correction there! Rosado wasn’t the first man to use a female base model, Forrest was! His troubadour and strategist models both use female base models. He just uses the male model if reclassed into anything else. Because he uses the shortest fem model at base, he suddenly jumps in height if he’s ever reclassed into anything outside of troubadour or strategist

[kityanokurane]

There are actually more gender-locked DLC classes than were mentioned in this video!
Awakening has Dread Fighter for males and Bride for females.
Fates has Ballistician, Grandmaster, Vanguard, and Lodestar for males plus Witch and Great Lord for females.
Interestingly, Fates also has Dread Fighter and Dark Flier as DLC classes and while they were gender-locked in Awakening they are no longer gender-locked in Fates.

[TheWanderingLPer]

It's so silly that the Dark Mage line is male-locked in Three Houses, and then the best actual user of Dark Magic (which very few characters even get at all) is Lysithea.

[skaparinn]

Great video Ghast! But small inaccuracy at 5:57 : Machuya isn't the first female axe-wielding unit. Lachesis can wield axes after promotion in FE4. Granted, there is absolutely no reason to ever do that in a game dominated by swords, but still.

[schmae]

I still find Houses makning the base game brawling classes gender locked pretty ridiculous. Even with War Cleric it always feels weird trying to use a character like Catherine as a Brawling unit outside of just using gauntlets with unintended classes.
Oh and also welcome back, glad to hear the land lord boss battle was successful.

[ivanbluecool]

Charlotte doing her best to wear the "fighter" attire to be all inclusive. Charlotte best girl for that.

[Kwang_Ko]

15:39 I believe Siegbert, Xander's son also has a personal based on gender, and it's called Gallant. "When user is the support unit, if the lead unit is female, the lead unit’s damage +2."

Speaking of Fates... technically speaking Felicia and Jakob join time being based on the Avatar's gender is also a gender difference... even though both will join you eventually... that counts, right?

[fiendishcaterpie]

Male Pegasus Knights actually exist in fe3, but only as enemies. They have a different sprite than the female ones and wear a helmet. This is notably a bit weird since there are no named characters at all that use it.

[mattinsula]

It's ironic how the "definitive" dark mage class in 3H is objectively the worst male-locked blass and is just a stepping stone for Hubert to reach Dark Knight

[Arkholt]

One notable difference in Gaiden and Echoes that wasn't mentioned is promotion levels. In general, melee classes can promote starting at level 7, then 10, then 10, and magic and flyer classes can promote starting at level 12. However, female mages are different. In Echoes, female mages can't promote until level 14, and in Gaiden they can't promote until all the way to level 20. This is, of course, unless you use some kind of patch (the Echoes remove gender lock class patch is really good).

[Faerghast]

I AM BACK WITH A BIG TRIVIA VIDEO!! Thank you all so much for your support! What is YOUR favorite gender quirk/difference in Fire Emblem? Any of yours I didn't mention in the video itself? I hope you learned something fun!

[audreyschicksalholmwiltz]

This discussion made me realize that Idunn was the first female dragon/Manakete to become a final boss. Until finally Rhea comes in and continues this long forgotten "archetype"

[neog]

Slight correction about Fates' personal skills around 15:20. Siegbert's Gallant anf Forrest's Fierce Counter are also gender depemdant. Gallant requires a female as the lead Pair Up unit, and Fierce Counter requires a male enemy to initiate combat

Can't say I blame the oversight since Fates' kids' petsonal skills are often overlooked, but I figured it should be pointed out since you remembered Sisterhood and Daydream.

[MythrilZenith]

Glad to finally see this script make it through! The editing is class as always 👌

[kmon]

Ooo a randomized engage playthrough sounds fun to watch, hopefully there's a way to randomize the emblem rings too somehow

[crysosisback]

In FE5, it's not that "male archers" have +1 mov, it's just ronan having a bonus of +1 mov at base, to make him a tad different.

if you randomise the game, the male archers you get have 5 mov.

And said randomiser also specifies that some units can roll with a +1 move, which is what some specific units have in the game.

Edit : Kinda wrong, added context down below

[legacytag]

I think the gender differences in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes are also a pretty big thing to note as there are some pretty stark differences, though it is a spinoff and not mainline, and also the wikis SUCK for this, so I don't expect anyone to talk about it lol

In terms of classes, the Pegasus Knight, Falcon Knight, and Gremory are locked to female units. While the Brawler, Grappler, War Master, Dark Mage, and Dark Bishop are all locked to male units. The unique classes of Saint (though it is just a female variant of Mortal Savant with unique skills), Armored Lord, and Emperor are exclusive to female characters. And the unique classes of Death Knight (A version of Dark Knight with enhanced abilities), High Lord, Great Lord, Wyvern Master and Barbarossa are exclusive to male characters

Due to how the weapon ranks work in Three Hopes, you unlock a class as you unlock the next level of weapon rank depending on what weapon that class uses. (IE, an advanced class that uses axes will unlock B rank axes). However female classes don't learn any classes that wield gauntlets aside from the beginner Fighter class, so instead they will automatically be given A+ in gauntlets when unlocking Great Knight, Wyvern Lord or Bow Knight.

This also means that the skills learned in these classes are gender exclusives:

For Pegasus and Falcon Knight: Their class abilities of Alert Stance and Alert Stance+, and the learned skills of Pegasus Knight's Ploy, Pegasus Knight's Wisdom, Darting Blow, Harmonious Specials, Sol, Speed Catalyst, Tableturner, Muster and Item Expertise. However, the two lance combat arts learned exclusively by that class, Stormblade and Lance Jab, can be taught to any male character by Ingrid.

For Gremory: Their class ability Bow Breaker 4 is exclusive purely to their class, and their learned skills of Flare, Magic Attack Range+, Defiant Magic, Ice Assist, Fire Assist, Dark Assist, Lightning Assist and Light Assist.

For Dark Mage and Dark Bishop: Their class abilities of Miasma Δ, Impair, Cavalry Buster 3 & Lv 4 are exclusive, with Miasma Δ also being exclusive to male characters excluding Lysithea. Their learned skills are Dark Mage's Ploy, Dark Mage's Wisdom, Essence of Darkness, Poison Strike, Transmute, Lifetaker, Impossible Feat, Covenant, Absorb Strength, Absorb Magic, Absorb Dex, Absorb Speed, Absorb Luck, Absorb Defense, Absorb Resistance, and Absorb Charm.

For Brawlers, Grapplers, and War Masters: Their class abilities of Tome Buster Lv 2, 3, & Lv 4, and Shatter are exclusive, and their learned skills Brawler's Ploy, Brawler's Wisdom, Brawling Prowess (All 3 levels), Concentration, Underdog, Apex Gauntlet, Rejuvenation, Boost Critical, Piercing Cry, Piercing Gaze, Quick Reposte, and Tomebreaker.

The combat arts learned by Raphael and Balthus, Draining Blow, Mystic Blow, Lightning Fist, Steady Stance, Frozen Fist, Fierce Iron Fist, Mighty Blow, and Flamewhorl Kick can be taught to any character. As well as the 3 combat arts, Rushing Blow, Dual Devastators, and Battle Trance can be learned by all characters. The combat art Whirlwind Kick is exclusive to male characters however.

Leonie's Rivalry skill also is back, but instead of giving her damage and damage reduction, it will boost her Warrior Gauge fill rate when a male ally is nearby or her adjutaunt. Sylvain's Philanderer Skill (Renamed to Adept Flirt) is the same, accept it fills his Awakening Gauge.
Hilda's Advocate skill now fills her Adjutant, aptly named Adjutant Gauge and increases the Adjutant follow up damage she does when paired with a male ally as their Adjutant back up support.
Seteth's Gaurdian skill however has been changed and no longer has anything to do with the gender of the characters, instead healing other units nearby when picking up healing items regardless of their gender.


I believe that's everything in Three Hopes. I have...Way too much time in this game but I might've missed something.

[rhododendron]

Siegbert’s personal skill, “Gallant, ” boosts a female ally’s damage by +2 when she is the leading unit in a pair with him (when Siegbert is backpacking).

[SodaCrab]

Definitely didn't have "Ghast video with SEX in thumbnail" on my 2024 bingo card