The WORST units in Fire Emblem (All Games)

There may be some minor spoilers, so please watch at your own peril! Also all the choices are based on the highest difficulty for the games.

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The 1 k special on the BEST UNITS in Fire Emblem!

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
01:04 - Shadow Dragon and The Blade of Light
01:25 - Gaiden
01:47 - Mystery of the Emblem (Book 2)
02:10 - Genealogy of The Holy War
02:56 - Thracia 776
03:48 - The Binding Blade
04:30 - The Blazing Blade
05:12 - The Sacred Stones
05:57 - Path of Radiance
06:28 - Radiant Dawn
07:13 - Shadow Dragon
08:00 - New Mystery of the Emblem
08:37 - Disclaimer
08:56 - Awakening
09:39 - Fates
10:37 - Shadows of Valentia
11:21 - Three Houses
12:21 - Engage
13:36 - Outro

[dimik]

let's be real, the worst unit in fire emblem is you, the player

[Yarharsuperpirate]

Legit surprised you didn't list Anna for 3 Houses. She has no supports, bad stats, bad growths, and her skill affinities basically force her into underwhelming classes.

Her only contribution is giving you paralogue access which has some good items to grab.

[Zev]

The worst unit in all of FE is the unit that You (the reader) like best, clearly. Yes even that one.

[Nexusspeeth]

I love Ashe unconditionally, but he definitely feels like they thought “oh, we need a BL archer” and slapped him in there. I still love using him, due to his strength in axes and can easily become a cavalier, sniper, or wyvern lord, but you do have to put a ton of work into him.

[hadoukenfighter]

Seeing Marisa on here reminded me of my recently failed FE8 ironman where Marisa died from axe units due to having only 18 speed...on promotion...

[something]

Marisha just being base Joshua but basically worse in every way really have me be questioning the balance in these games sometimes

[Speedwinghere]

Donnell does have the mild benefit of super high luck and arm thrift so you can at least train him with forged weapons at less of a cost than most others and will outpace the rest of your army after the initial pain of getting him going. Also eventually if you're looking into taking a team into the DLC like apotheosis he can hit the funny number where his weapons stop degrading at all which is kind of nutty. I don't think he's particularly great but if you are willing to put up with it the return is pretty notable.

Setsuna has some of the best critical quotes in the game which has to be worth points (right?) The irony of Setsuna is if she was in conquest she would actually be pretty good honestly, she's just in the wrong game. She does have the benefit of being able to pass quick draw and certain blow to the male characters which Takumi can't, although those skills are more valuable in rev than in birthright really. If nothing else she has a pretty free access into kinshi for ferrying and decent enough backpack stats, so like you said post awakening no unit is truly bad really as you can always find a way to use them in some form

Jade is trying her best, mage knight jade sweep (ignore every other viable mage knight).

Congrats on 2k man, well deserved for the amount of effort you clearly put into your videos, see you at 3k soon!

[MidwestArtMan]

I consider Hayato to be the worst in Birthright. He joins at level 1, at the end of the chapter, when you already have Orochi. On top of that, I think he has the unfortunate join time of being the guy who pushes you over the deploy limit if you haven't lost anyone, meaning someone gets benched for the first time next chapter. I have never given him a single EXP point.
I've never seen a video where someone looks at which character joins on the first "bench someone" chapter in each game. It would be interesting to see how much play time they usually get and who is often the first to sit out.

[celestialspirit]

Actually crazy how hard they shafted Jade with her recruitment timing. Walked into a promotion drought immediately followed by a skill drought from chapter 10 😭

[gameregression]

I think it's funny that Anna was even in consideration for the worst unit in engage considering she one-shot sombron during the enemy turn in the final chapter for me.

[bificommander]

I actually really relied on Ashe during my Maddening run. Deadeye shot was one of the ways I could chip at enemies and not get hit back.

[kylemanocchio]

Who thought New Mystery Of The Emblem Bantu was a good idea?

[Lee-vjmi]

Always love to see my girl Lysithea lingering in the background of a blue lions run.

[GreyBokoblin]

Karla is the worst unit in Fe7, because she is a pain to get, and kind of sucks.

[nigini]

In what UNIVERSE is Sophia worse that Wendy. Yes this is a trash vs Garbage situation but Wendy doesn't offer you ANYTHING. The guiding ring is optional, but it's SOMETHING. Wendy, instead, is absolutely worthless

[celess]

Oh you know a video is going to be fire when the vid starts with The GBA Castlevania music.

[Rennnix]

I still remember my Hero-class Donnel 1-man army an entire map with Sol.
I always saw Jade as a powercrept Louis, armors are good in Engage and their movement can be patched with Sigurd's ring, at least she has better Res than Louis, so she won't be 1-tapped by mages.

[buddyjesus]

I've always been a big believer than Fiona is much worse than Meg. Meg starts behind but is only 2-3 levels from being productive and if trained up can be pretty valuable in part 3 due to her solid mixed defenses. Fiona's bases are so awful that many enemies threaten to one round her and it's difficult to train her up because her accuracy is so miserable. She has the better endgame, but at that point you have a ton of options. I don't think her being a cavalry unit is worth that much cause so many of her maps are indoors or have significant amounts of cavalry hampering terrain.

[SultanHardin]

While i'd probably agree with most of these, I was actually blindsided by the Forsythe pick. I'd agree he has a difficult time getting the ball rolling, but I find to really only last until he promotes (just into Knight). And while sure, he competes with Lukas, the openness of Alm's maps I actually find to work in his favor, as I could have him tank one side, while Lukas tanks the other flank. I feel like his growths lead him to feel a bit less of a traditional armor: he gets more speed and res, while sacrificing a smidgeon of defense.

[Hamantha]

12:21 okay but hear me out… he’s a cinnamon roll