During the start of Elincia's gambit; someone thought it'd be funny to attack her. suffice it to say they made a mistake; and she crit killed them with her Mend Staff. probobly my favorite bit that Clerics can attack back; even if it's just simple chip damage.
When my Soren became an Archsage, I put her next to the boss in the lava chapter and equipped a heal. With 0 hit from the boss, I got his staff rank from E to A in 5 minutes :D
@@jimmyfe6746 I think some of the melee interactions look a bit clunky (armor knight slow walk for one lol) but the mastery skills are all really awesome looking. Better than 3H's combat arts if you ask me Magic looks especially good in RD. Idk what happened with 3H's but the effects just look....low res? Not sure if it's the artstyle or if the assets truly are lower quality despite being 2 gens of hardware ahead, lol. I was really disappointed tbh The camera work in RD is also really good. I think that could be a big part of why they still look so good as well. Even early spells like Thani and Ellight look epic thanks to good angles. Heck even the map animations are still pretty to see even for melee Perhaps the devs felt that RD's magic dragged on too long so they started shortening them all in the later games. But I still think they could look a little better in 3H...
@@rickster6755 i guess it's sort of a stuck feature; i guess they still like the feel of "walking Appocalypse" for their Armored knights; but seem to like meming on them as well. (I.E; just look at Meg)
I knew there was a reason I brought her to the tower. Wait, the reason was that I just love mages in general. Soren came too... But hey, Ilyana is by far the best one-dimensional gimmick character in the franchise, so it’s all right.
@@theleftfootedsultan Though I would say building Ilyana for being able to survive one attack from the Dragon King himself will need lots of RNG. It's safer to Bolting him from afar instead (lol siege tomes)
@@ryanprjgamingchannel9437There's a few tiles near Dheginsea that awards +10 Def, so if you let Ilyana stand on a Def+10 tile, and have Ilyana's Def maxed out(25), you can make her Def 35, so she will take 40 damage instead of 50 damage. That's how I did it without support. With support, you can have "Black tide" from Kurthnaga and make the damage received be 35 instead of 40. And than there's elemental bonus from support buddy so you can either let Ilayna's Rexbolt do a bit more damage (fire affinity is a good option), or you can use Defence bonus from one of the other elements (light affinity at A rank gives +3 defence, since Ilyana naturally has light as her affinity).
For real though, Ily got screwed on availability in Radiant Dawn. Either you use her for the Dawn Brigade chapters, which leaves them underlevelled and their chapter 3 maps nearly unbeatable... Or you wait with using her until she joins the Greil Mercs, at which point she is *the* lowest levelled unit in the army, even worse than freaking Rolf and Mist
@@kairyan6115 The Dawn Brigade is famously weak compared to most of the other units you get in the game. Problem is, during the first part of the game where you play exclusively as them you get two types of units: The underleveled and weak Dawn Brigade units, and then some strong Path of Radiance units like Ilyana that collectively can trivialize most maps. Problem is that many of those units leave the Dawn Brigade following those first chapters, which means that if you poured all you exp into those guys who left like Ilyana, the Dawn Brigade is left with an underleveled shell of an army, that can't even scratch the lategame foes. You need to use those weak units, because there comes a point in the game when Ilyana, Tormod, Nailah and several other strong units can't help Micaiah and her scrub crew, so they need all the exp they can get
@@Anonymos185 Ohhh right thanks for explaining. I’ve been playing fire emblem for years and I never got a chance to play Raidant Dawn after POR. Hoping it gets ported to new consoles at some point. Would definitely like to have Ily on my team again I enjoyed using her in POR. Is it possible to let her get some kills early without busting the game? Or is it that when she re-joins later it’s too late to make her a good unit?
The thing about the Dawn Brigade is that about half of them are actually pretty useable, IF TRAINED. Nolan/Edward/Volug/Aran are the big ones, Nolan especially. Their issue is the tact that you have to build them up from the bottom while the returning characters usually start prepromoted with good stats, except Jill but she has potential transfer bonuses and being the best class in the game helping her lol. Typically the optimal thing to do is to pick like 2-3 Dawn Brigade units to train up+Sothe and Micaiah and completely leave the rest in the dust lmao
I actually like the no battle animations more, as you get a feel of the unit actually doing something compared to just having the character "move into the target and watch their health go down." With the magic coming down or the unit actually hitting the target it just is more satisfying (and also attack skills have their extra animation in there as well for added bonus)
I always use Ilyana for Radiant Dawn. Not that I have any kind of illusion that she is an S tier unit; but she is the only one who can weird the SS rank lightning tome. As a result she has a unique niche that no one else can fill.
But that's the beauty of Fire Emblem - it's not about what units are objectively good, it's about how much effort and care you're willing to put into the units you want to raise. I always take Iliyana, Mia and Nephenee to the Tower simply because I like them the most, not because they're S tier units. Raising them from plebs to legendary warriors is the fun of the game for me.
@@Nico-hk8eq Except Meg. She is objectively bad. She can become a good unit with stat enhancing items and Bonus EXP, but given her character (or lack thereof), design, availability, growths and initial hurdle to overcome in comparison to the rest of the 70+ characters, especially the mandatory ones in the Tower, why bother with Meg of all people?
I love that in Radiant Dawn, you can basically pick your super soldier and they become insane just based on the amount you dump into them, I saw a video of a dude's "main" being Meg, anything is possible with friendship and hardcore drugs
Ilyana is so fun of a unit to use in PoR. She became my best unit there and destroyed every boss for me after chapter 20, save for the Black knight and Ashnard for obvious reasons. Hell the priest chapter became a call walk with double meteor Ilyana on the boss. Nothing else could withstand her power tho and I plan on doing the same thing with her again in RD (so far she still proves to be amazing for me)
just beat radiant dawn for the first time a few weeks ago with ilyana at level 20 fully promoted, having all stats but luck capped, and being #1 in battles and victories 🙏
Two things I learned: 1. Keep (player) Dracoknights away crom thunder magic 2. Ilyana can counter one of the hardest bosses in this game, Dheginsea the Dragon King (who is weak to thunder like all Dragon laguz)
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa now! Ur telling me.....that Ilyana when built probably can use staffs as melee weapons, and deal from 4 -to- 12 DMG! Oh kay now I gotta replay this game game to test it out.
I wish we could attack with staves, that way we get to save up on their uses while benefiting from the fact they're equipable now. If we can't have the staff users heal our units and still have their swords or tomes to defend themselves, at least let us play with the smashing sticks, Intelligent Studios!
I really love these! Your editing skills are godlike I'd love to see Leonardo, Tormod, or Aran if you were interested in any of those units. If not I'm curious what you use for recording so I could maybe try to do something for them sometime in terms of strats and viability
Hey thanks! I just use OBS to record because its free and for editing I use adobe premier pro because its a one time purchase instead of monthly payments. I most likely will end up doing another Radiant Dawn run at some point and I do like those units.
In POR: Thunder is strong against Dragons, but you don't come across many dragons in this one. In RD: Same thing, but thunder is also strong against draco lords, but thunder tomes are more heavy and a bit less damaging than fire and wind tomes.
I've gotten Ilyana, Fiona, Astrid, Aran, Laura, Rhys, Pelleas, and Meg to the tower and they're all pretty decent in top tier. Double Bow Astrid and Rexaura Laura (although I forged a 20 crit 8 mt light tome for her that is great with wrath as well) were standouts with all the magic and ranged enemies.
i brought her into the tower in my first ever playthrough of RD. i think having done the whole save carryover thing from PoR gave her the beef she needed to have enough bulk to take one hit from dheginsea i let her have the final hit
Honestly, Ilyana is actually the best person to feed kills to in the Dawn Brigade, she legitimately has the most potential to be useful. If only to call down Gwen's wrath and purging the dragons.
White tide and full damage support with a capped magic illyana wielding rexbolt does exactly 0 damage to Ashera. Sad Day....... Ashera and her bonkers 50 res
@@jimmyfe6746 I don't understand Capped Ilyana has 39 Mag + 5 Mag from White Pool + 1(.5) Atk from Fire/Water/Dark Support + 12 Mt from Rexbolt = 57 Dmg which should be 7 against Ashera unless I missed something...
It was on hard mode, it just turns out the flare healing is just that good with resolve, I was surprised how easy it became when she got going because until she hit tier 3 i could only set her up a kill every turn.
@Brandon Haar easily carries every run for me, he was my #1 unit in my last run of RD. No doubt the best when it comes to stats, movement, and RNG. Only thing is, Haar can't heal allies from across the map like Ilyana can. I like Ilyana a lot because she deals insane damage to melee and casters both.
when u tell ilyana that xp, gained from killing enemies, is a form of food
you're right. This happens x3
she can eat all the ones she kills
"There's a warehouse of meats, breads, fruit, veggies and pastries behind that goddess."
My man really grinded staff rank on the enemies
Staves becoming equipped weapons may be a nerf, but I'll take it if it means mages can slam dunk someone with a staff.
During the start of Elincia's gambit; someone thought it'd be funny to attack her. suffice it to say they made a mistake; and she crit killed them with her Mend Staff. probobly my favorite bit that Clerics can attack back; even if it's just simple chip damage.
And thankfully it doesn’t count as uses for the staff
When my Soren became an Archsage, I put her next to the boss in the lava chapter and equipped a heal. With 0 hit from the boss, I got his staff rank from E to A in 5 minutes :D
I once had a run where Soren beat up a bunch of Swordmasters with a Mend stave in part 4, so not that much of a nerf.
I love the thunder tome animations. The way she brings her arm down with each lightning bolt looks so badass
FE10's Animations have aged very well.
@@jimmyfe6746 I think some of the melee interactions look a bit clunky (armor knight slow walk for one lol) but the mastery skills are all really awesome looking. Better than 3H's combat arts if you ask me
Magic looks especially good in RD. Idk what happened with 3H's but the effects just look....low res? Not sure if it's the artstyle or if the assets truly are lower quality despite being 2 gens of hardware ahead, lol. I was really disappointed tbh
The camera work in RD is also really good. I think that could be a big part of why they still look so good as well. Even early spells like Thani and Ellight look epic thanks to good angles. Heck even the map animations are still pretty to see even for melee
Perhaps the devs felt that RD's magic dragged on too long so they started shortening them all in the later games. But I still think they could look a little better in 3H...
@@rickster6755 i guess it's sort of a stuck feature; i guess they still like the feel of "walking Appocalypse" for their Armored knights; but seem to like meming on them as well. (I.E; just look at Meg)
@@jimmyfe6746I still think FE Echoes has the best animations with how fluid the combat looks. Looks less like they taking turns
For some reason it isn't the same feeling when Calill does the exact same animations as Ilyana
Rexbolt is still the coolest looking magic animation in FE so this is definitely all worth it.
Good choice on the Plok music too.
Personally I feel Rexcalibur looks better
@@Boarbatrice and for me it's rexaura
I just learned that Ilyana has the highest number of chapters to be playable in. She literally IS the main character.
I knew there was a reason I brought her to the tower.
Wait, the reason was that I just love mages in general. Soren came too... But hey, Ilyana is by far the best one-dimensional gimmick character in the franchise, so it’s all right.
Ya I don't find that she overstays her welcome like a lot of other characters do.
"There was a reason I brought her to the tower."
Ah yes, Dheginsea's BANE
@@ryanprjgamingchannel9437 That would do the trick, all right.
@@theleftfootedsultan Though I would say building Ilyana for being able to survive one attack from the Dragon King himself will need lots of RNG. It's safer to Bolting him from afar instead (lol siege tomes)
@@ryanprjgamingchannel9437There's a few tiles near Dheginsea that awards +10 Def, so if you let Ilyana stand on a Def+10 tile, and have Ilyana's Def maxed out(25), you can make her Def 35, so she will take 40 damage instead of 50 damage. That's how I did it without support.
With support, you can have "Black tide" from Kurthnaga and make the damage received be 35 instead of 40. And than there's elemental bonus from support buddy so you can either let Ilayna's Rexbolt do a bit more damage (fire affinity is a good option), or you can use Defence bonus from one of the other elements (light affinity at A rank gives +3 defence, since Ilyana naturally has light as her affinity).
Can’t believe her last spell summoned Ike from the heavens.
This is the best thing ever. I couldn’t stop laughing at the staff bit!
You have fed Ilyana and still face a 5% crit from sephiran?! So this is the hardest difficulty.
I think what's even more impressive was that she could take a singular hit from the dragon god at max HP. For a mage, that's pretty impressive
At 7:28
Too bad Illiana couldn't do the finishing blow on Ashera, Ike always has to take the spotlight.
It would have been interesting if after your first playthrough any character could have deal the the final if they had a blessed weapon equipped.
As an Ilyana fan since 2006, I approve. (:
I even came across a fairly convincing Ilyana in Xenoblade Chronicles X. Too bad I didn't have a capture card back then.
Either she's Garfield. Or she has a stomach parasite
And a wack-ass thyroid too
For real though, Ily got screwed on availability in Radiant Dawn. Either you use her for the Dawn Brigade chapters, which leaves them underlevelled and their chapter 3 maps nearly unbeatable...
Or you wait with using her until she joins the Greil Mercs, at which point she is *the* lowest levelled unit in the army, even worse than freaking Rolf and Mist
Why does it leave them under levelled?
@@kairyan6115 The Dawn Brigade is famously weak compared to most of the other units you get in the game. Problem is, during the first part of the game where you play exclusively as them you get two types of units: The underleveled and weak Dawn Brigade units, and then some strong Path of Radiance units like Ilyana that collectively can trivialize most maps. Problem is that many of those units leave the Dawn Brigade following those first chapters, which means that if you poured all you exp into those guys who left like Ilyana, the Dawn Brigade is left with an underleveled shell of an army, that can't even scratch the lategame foes. You need to use those weak units, because there comes a point in the game when Ilyana, Tormod, Nailah and several other strong units can't help Micaiah and her scrub crew, so they need all the exp they can get
@@Anonymos185 Ohhh right thanks for explaining. I’ve been playing fire emblem for years and I never got a chance to play Raidant Dawn after POR. Hoping it gets ported to new consoles at some point. Would definitely like to have Ily on my team again I enjoyed using her in POR. Is it possible to let her get some kills early without busting the game? Or is it that when she re-joins later it’s too late to make her a good unit?
The thing about the Dawn Brigade is that about half of them are actually pretty useable, IF TRAINED. Nolan/Edward/Volug/Aran are the big ones, Nolan especially. Their issue is the tact that you have to build them up from the bottom while the returning characters usually start prepromoted with good stats, except Jill but she has potential transfer bonuses and being the best class in the game helping her lol. Typically the optimal thing to do is to pick like 2-3 Dawn Brigade units to train up+Sothe and Micaiah and completely leave the rest in the dust lmao
@@hyperkirby0143 Ok thanks for the advice so this gives me the opportunity to train illyana as well :)
1:30 Hold on, you're not supposed to have a Thoron tome in Act 1. They're act 3 bargains.
Yes I know it's a forge...
I actually like the no battle animations more, as you get a feel of the unit actually doing something compared to just having the character "move into the target and watch their health go down." With the magic coming down or the unit actually hitting the target it just is more satisfying (and also attack skills have their extra animation in there as well for added bonus)
She substituted Ishtar as the"Thunder Goddess
Rexbolt has the most extra animation of all time I love it
Another banger vid, I think I love your channel
Ilyana does love it when people feed her after all. It's even canon.
I never knew that Ishtar moved to tellius…
I always use Ilyana for Radiant Dawn. Not that I have any kind of illusion that she is an S tier unit; but she is the only one who can weird the SS rank lightning tome. As a result she has a unique niche that no one else can fill.
But that's the beauty of Fire Emblem - it's not about what units are objectively good, it's about how much effort and care you're willing to put into the units you want to raise.
I always take Iliyana, Mia and Nephenee to the Tower simply because I like them the most, not because they're S tier units. Raising them from plebs to legendary warriors is the fun of the game for me.
@@TwilightWolf032*except Meg
@@Nico-hk8eq Except Meg. She is objectively bad.
She can become a good unit with stat enhancing items and Bonus EXP, but given her character (or lack thereof), design, availability, growths and initial hurdle to overcome in comparison to the rest of the 70+ characters, especially the mandatory ones in the Tower, why bother with Meg of all people?
OK it looks like you had a ton of fun making this. I had fun watching, too!
Can confirm, I did have a lot of fun making this. Glad you enjoyed.
I love that in Radiant Dawn, you can basically pick your super soldier and they become insane just based on the amount you dump into them, I saw a video of a dude's "main" being Meg, anything is possible with friendship and hardcore drugs
imo she has one of the best 3rd tier class outfits in the game
^
Doesn't beat Calill and Lucia imo, but still great. Tbf it's hard to miss with such nice colors!
Ike didn't save this world, It was me, Ilyana !!!
Correct, she didnt cast Rexbolt. She casted Ikebolt.
@@HanakoohTrue :) I had to rewatch the video to understand your answer but its okay ^^
Ilyana is so fun of a unit to use in PoR. She became my best unit there and destroyed every boss for me after chapter 20, save for the Black knight and Ashnard for obvious reasons. Hell the priest chapter became a call walk with double meteor Ilyana on the boss. Nothing else could withstand her power tho and I plan on doing the same thing with her again in RD (so far she still proves to be amazing for me)
I've seen this video multiple times and I only just now realize the joke in the title
That staff section was hilarious. That arc sage +5 str seems excessive
actually, it's useful. the Str increase allow them to hold heavier tomes without losing attacking speed.
someones gotta lift those heavy tomes somehow.
I thoroughly enjoyed this ilyana video. I forgot flare was like Sol
Fun fact: Ilyana has the highest availability in RD. Even higher than Ike.
This video makes me want to play RD again. I miss resolve so much.
You make great music selections for these videos.
Hey Thanks!
just beat radiant dawn for the first time a few weeks ago with ilyana at level 20 fully promoted, having all stats but luck capped, and being #1 in battles and victories 🙏
Two things I learned:
1. Keep (player) Dracoknights away crom thunder magic
2. Ilyana can counter one of the hardest bosses in this game, Dheginsea the Dragon King (who is weak to thunder like all Dragon laguz)
POV: the one guy who understands biorhythms
Ilyana love! 🥰 Seriously though she’s one of my favorite units, so glad we get a video of her!
All in order to wield the mighty rexbolt
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa now! Ur telling me.....that Ilyana when built probably can use staffs as melee weapons, and deal from 4 -to- 12 DMG! Oh kay now I gotta replay this game game to test it out.
I wish we could attack with staves, that way we get to save up on their uses while benefiting from the fact they're equipable now.
If we can't have the staff users heal our units and still have their swords or tomes to defend themselves, at least let us play with the smashing sticks, Intelligent Studios!
@5:14 If "no u" was a definition.
I really love these! Your editing skills are godlike
I'd love to see Leonardo, Tormod, or Aran if you were interested in any of those units. If not I'm curious what you use for recording so I could maybe try to do something for them sometime in terms of strats and viability
Hey thanks! I just use OBS to record because its free and for editing I use adobe premier pro because its a one time purchase instead of monthly payments.
I most likely will end up doing another Radiant Dawn run at some point and I do like those units.
@@jimmyfe6746 Thanks!
I'll be looking forward to any of them if so and other future videos 👀
I got Laura to max level by the end of part 1. It wasn't fun, but I did it.
Watching this in x2 is hilarous
Resolve is a hell of a drug
I forgot that Thunder was effective aggaist dragons.
In POR: Thunder is strong against Dragons, but you don't come across many dragons in this one.
In RD: Same thing, but thunder is also strong against draco lords, but thunder tomes are more heavy and a bit less damaging than fire and wind tomes.
Yo! she is dancing what the freak!
Ilyana was a surprise MVP for me in Path of Radiance, guess I know what I'm doing for Radiant Dawn now.
Yo have fun!
Same but when I played RD she was pretty bad for me :(
I've gotten Ilyana, Fiona, Astrid, Aran, Laura, Rhys, Pelleas, and Meg to the tower and they're all pretty decent in top tier. Double Bow Astrid and Rexaura Laura (although I forged a 20 crit 8 mt light tome for her that is great with wrath as well) were standouts with all the magic and ranged enemies.
I Need Gordon In My Life!
you can use staves to attack in the sequel?? I didn't know that- how interesting!
wtf I’ve never seen Rexbolt
Made me want to play the game again :)
I don't think I have ever seen Rexbolt's animation before...
My Ilyana was absolutely busted once I finally managed to import my saves from PoR. My Sothe is also usually pretty busted as a result lol
Best mage in radiant dawn
O_O
now make her beat the black knight
Shes got that Electric Feel, one of my most favorite characters along with Mia and Nephenee.
i brought her into the tower in my first ever playthrough of RD.
i think having done the whole save carryover thing from PoR gave her the beef she needed to have enough bulk to take one hit from dheginsea
i let her have the final hit
lol the ending
Honestly, Ilyana is actually the best person to feed kills to in the Dawn Brigade, she legitimately has the most potential to be useful.
If only to call down Gwen's wrath and purging the dragons.
Nolan would like to know your location
... Is this a shitpost or a legit comment
She gets +5 def as arch sage????
I really wanna try this out :D
Literally me every Playthrough
I wanna try this
Would ilyana been able to damage Ashera if she had white tide and supports?
White tide and full damage support with a capped magic illyana wielding rexbolt does exactly 0 damage to Ashera. Sad Day.......
Ashera and her bonkers 50 res
@@jimmyfe6746 I don't understand
Capped Ilyana has 39 Mag + 5 Mag from White Pool + 1(.5) Atk from Fire/Water/Dark Support + 12 Mt from Rexbolt = 57 Dmg which should be 7 against Ashera unless I missed something...
If this is on hard mode, that's insane lol. I've used meg and Fiona and some of the bad laguz, but they didn't solo the whole ass game lmfao
It was on hard mode, it just turns out the flare healing is just that good with resolve, I was surprised how easy it became when she got going because until she hit tier 3 i could only set her up a kill every turn.
@@jimmyfe6746 those tier 3 stat boosts were spicy
I can't even get past 1-3 on normal mode..
That can chapter can be pretty rough...
to be fair, cause of traslation error, it should be called hard mode so it is hard nonethenless.
I completed Radiant Dawn because Illyana and Mia mostly carried my teams.
What a meme
Les dejo locos y sin ideas
I wonder if Ilylana has any conversation with dawn brigade units if she has to fight them in act 3? Especially Michakia
Ilayna has a conversation with Micaiah, Jill and Zihark, but I don't think Ilyana talks to most of the other DB members.
@@SilverHunterN does this make anyone change sides?
Did she die a lot when out on the front lines or did she just consistently dodge and heal?
Dodge and heal
BRUH
....why does ilyana gains +3 STR but only +1 MAG on promotion?!
The HP bar position keeps changing and it's confusing me
Wow Deghinsea was 1 damage away from 1-shotting her!
Ilyana best character, sorry Haar.
@Brandon Haar easily carries every run for me, he was my #1 unit in my last run of RD. No doubt the best when it comes to stats, movement, and RNG. Only thing is, Haar can't heal allies from across the map like Ilyana can. I like Ilyana a lot because she deals insane damage to melee and casters both.
What song is this?
Plok - Beach and boss battle
What was the song?
Plok! - Beach. Second song was Plok! - Boss Battle
@@jimmyfe6746 Thanks!
@@jimmyfe6746 the only other time I heard the name Plok was from Whoisthisgit
Is this Ishtar?
Yes
song name?
Plok Beach and boss battle
ok but have you tried Aran?
No way this dude is this active and after 3 years 💀