Three berserkers with different personalities. Let's start the crit & miss fest.
Is it a coincidence that all their names start with the letter "G"? Wow, reading that gives me a flashback of Lao G screaming "There's the "G"!!"
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Anyways, here are the rules:
1) Roy must capture all the thrones with the shortest time possible, without the help of other units, meaning he has highest priority when it comes to moving the units.
2) Roy/Fa cannot engage in any battle (not even dodging) unless they are the showcase characters.
3) Unpromoted units are trained in the way so their stats matches the 10/20 with 100% growth rates, with just minor differences due to statboosters used, or the variation of hard mode bonuses given by RNG.
4) All other units are trained as if they had 100% growth rates, also with just minor differences due to statboosters used and hard mode bonuses given by RNG.
5) No supports so everyone had their own solo ending for consistency purposes.
6) [New!] After a battle scene for each character, disable animation to reduce the video duration, then turn back on right before the boss battle.
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Gonzales: His strengths and weaknesses are determined by the player's gameplay preference.
If you often abuse RNG for successful hits, Gonzales can be one of your best attackers. Given his high Str base/growth, along with his high Con, he can take down most magic units with a single hit without getting weight penalty from axes with high Mt.
However, if you are the type who prefer playing using your own "luck", Gonzales can be one of your worst nightmares. FE6 is known to have extremely low hit rates, especially for axes. Along with one of the lowest Skl growths in the game, Gonzales could rarely hit anyone, especially against sword units.
Gonzales' base level is also affected by the path you take in chapter 10, his stats remained the same though. Those who prefer to fully train their units to 20/20 (in the arena?) will prefer path A as he starts off as level 5, while those who would rather promote immediately (LTC?) would prefer B, although I don't think a player would use a non-mount who has a low hit rate in a LTC run, oh well.
Regardless, if you like really like Gonzales, remember to add Lilina into your party in chapter 10.
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Geese: A not-so-extreme Gonzales. Geese evens out his damage/accuracy ratio with his lower Str but higher Skl bases/growths. In fact, he has near-identical growth rates with his brother, Geitz from FE7, with Geitz having 10% higher Res growth.
Despite Geese not having hard mode bonuses, he does have something special. That is, he is the ONLY non-promote who starts off with B axe rank, not even Hugh or Zeiss, your latest additions to the party had a base weapon rank that high.
He also starts off at level 10, meaning that you can choose to promote him immediately after recruitment, and he won't suffer much from early promotion with his decent weapon rank. So, if you prefer axe users with more stability (less risks involved), give Geese a try.
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Garret: He starts off with similar bases (slightly higher in hard mode) with Hawkeye, who is really useful in FE7. However, hard mode enemies in FE6 have ridiculous speeds that most of your units could rarely score a double, let alone Garret with his late appearance in the game.
Even with decent bases, especally on hard mode, Garret still had his issues with low growths, long-time investment on him is not preferred as the only stat he could cap is probably HP.
Still, units with high bases are much appreciated given how RNG treats your growth rates. He could be a decent ally for a while, remember to bring Lilina along during chapter 15 to recruit him.
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Lessons learnt:
1) For a berserker, killer axes tend to be more useful than any other axe that isn't Armads or brave axe.
2) Armads is quite bad against Idoun, due to the lack of effective damage.
3) Hit rates for axes in FE6 is really low, costs 2 extra turns in this run.
4) Even with animations off, the video is still over 30mins long. I'm worried about the Lalum/Echidna/Cath trio too.
So how's the run? Is it better with the animations off? Leave a comment!
