Ahhhh I can’t believe it’s finally done! Thank you so much for letting me edit this Batta the Beast of a video. Still disappointed that Gheb didn’t get his spotlight, but there’s always next time, right? 👀
I still can't get over my ridiculous luck the first time I fought the Black Knight. It left me with the impression that If you had Aether its activation rate was artificially inflated to 100% for that battle, because I two-rounded him with two successive activations of Aether. Made for a rude awakening on my second playthrough.
@@ElHarmonyV I was talking about in PoR. The Black Knight is a General with Luna in that game. But no, I just had about the opposite luck as in my first run, not getting Aether at all and losing/having to flee the battle because the turn limit expired.
Gomer doesn't always have 12 speed on H5. He has 11 speed 75% of the time and 12 speed 25% of the time. It doesn't make him any less dumb in design, but that 1 point of speed stops him from doubling Jagen, which is a big deal.
@@Skasaha_ i will never understand why enemies growth rates are a thing. That's how half of FE bullshit difficulty originate from. That and poor playtesting. Like, i am supposed to believe that a Beta tester played the first chapters of H5 and said "yea, this is fine, keep it".
@@noukan42 it's a lot easyer to program/design. It's so much easyer to say let's place a lv 5 enemy here, a lv 4 enemy here, and a lv 7 enemy here than to individually enter stats for every enemy. Also when you come back in later stages of design to make higher difficulties you can simply modify the enemy growth rates or lvs instead of essentially designing a new map. Also i doubt any fe game was ever play tested past hard mode but that probably has to do with maintaining a budget. Play testing is mostly for quality control and less so much focused on the game play itself unless it is a glaring issue.
@@gameboyn64 first you don't need to handplace the stat of EVERY enemy, because usually lots of enemies share the same class and level. Hell, you can just give them fixed growths and it would work much better. Second, i would agree whit that if it was a small indie company, but right now FE is printing money for one of the biggest SH, they don't need to cut corners. I repeat, whatever that boss was supposed to doube Jeigan or not on H5 is a very big deal, wich changes a lot how you approaches the battle. Leaving something like that to chance means that the playtest was piss poor.
Insane production quality. I know sometimes these videos may seem unrewarding because of how much work they take, but let it be known that they're thoroughly appreciated.
My favorite part of the Black Knight fight is how right before it Titania and Soren get into an argument about it and Soren says that "sometimes, bravery and good judgment aren't enough" Because there is also RNG
It was satisfying for me to hear him tear into the Black Knight fight from FE 9, considering that it was the game I just finished on Hard Mode 2 weeks ago and Chapter 27 was even harder than Endgame. I didn't expect him to actually put it at number 1, but the way I got stomped in hard mode, even with a nearly maxed out Ike with all his important stats capped (strength, speed, skill, defense and HP, as well as s rank in swords) was just annoying as the Black Knight activated Luna EVERY. SINGLE. GODFORSAKEN. TURN. I couldn't even go on the offense because he got Luna twice and 2KOd me. I shrugged it off as a meager case of luck, but then I went through the whole map again, and the same thing happened. So, 3rd times the charm, went in and finally managed to get two aethers back to back and defeated him. God how this fight was so much better in Radiant Dawn.
Sorry to hear what you went through, I get the issue others see in the fight but I personally can't bring myself to hate it even if it is a RNG fest. At least the buildup and general presentation of the fight still stand strong.
@@ResurgentRaven Just saying, Wrath + Nihil is probably the way to go. Nihil will ignore Luna and you're not killing the Burger King without Wrath, and if you're on Difficult (and not Maniac) Mode, I doubt anyone else needs Nihil. I mean, do generics really get Occult skills? You also want to use the Wrath scroll on Ike anyway because of Wrath + Resolve for the Final Chapter. The fact that without save states you have to replay the entire chapter 27 is total BS though. Replaying the chapter and the time limit are the only things really wrong with it tbh. The battle itself is fine. It's easily beatable if you had more turns.
@@ametaslave7314 Wrath + Nihil is still problematic if you get RNG screwed, since, like I said before, the Black Knight can get double Luna. Plus, unless my math is off, you need 2 perfect wraths and a normal hit due to BK's Renewal skill. Within two Lunas, Ike is dead without proper healing. Which brings me to my next point. Granted you don't get many healers until you promote your mages (because what idiot would promote their mage to use knives instead of staves?). However, having to rely on Mist's healing only is rather annoying especially if she died early on. Point is that, without certain skills, there is no physical way to actually knock out the black knight within the turn limit (which is six turns btw) and even with certain skills, having to rely on pure RNG to win is just appalling. Also, my Ike had only Aether in the endgame and not once did he come close to dying except against Ashnard, and I had five healers by that point, so I wasn't anywhere near as worried about the RNG. Wrath Resolve is a better way since they can be used to easily ORKO most foes with Ike easily, but the Occult Skills in PoR aren't as deadly as in Radiant Dawn. Sol and Deadeye deal any extra damage, Flare doesn't heal. Colossus might as well be (in Feh's terms) a Moonbow with a 10 cooldown). Pretty much the only few occults worth learning are Aether (Ike), Lethality (Volke), Luna (Halberdier and General), and Astra (Mia Zihark and Lucia). And out of these 4, Aether is still the best. Most characters can make perfect usage out of Wrath + Resolve (at least, those that have the skill circle to use it), but only Ike can use Aether.
@@Zastralord Believe me, I don't want to hate it, but it is a poor level design choice. I guess since they decided on its sequel, they planned for a second fight between Ike and the Black Knight, they knew they'd have to make that second fight much easier (and it really is).
Honestly for the black knight battle I always thought they should've done a scripted Aether proc when he was in killing range. You'd probably still have to hit 'em like hell a few times, but it'd at least guarantee you wouldn't get screwed over.
Holy crap Mekkah the production values with this one are a thing to behold. As far the list goes, haven't finished the video yet but I have the hunch a certain endgame Dragon boss from Three Houses is gonna pop up at one point. EDIT: Welp I guess I was right.
Promoted Dieck can actually be a safe way to fight Henning. He is slightly bulkier and has slightly higher Luc than Rutger, so it’s possible for him to either survive a Crit or for Henning to have 0 Crit against him. Dieck takes longer to kill Henning than Rutger does, but he gets the job done.
***SILVER SNOW SPOILERS BELOW*** Yeah, I honestly think that Berserk Rhea at the end of Silver Snow is my least favorite boss of three houses. Not for the miracle mechanic, that was never a problem with me. It's the stupid perma staggering blow mechanic. It makes it straight up impossible to whittle away at her barrier and forces you to alpha strike her if you want any hope of dealing meaningful damage to her. And if you make one miscalculation, or one of your gambits misses, say goodbye to all the barrier damage you just did, because it's all back now.
I remember in PoR there was a conversation Ike had with Nasir (I think?) where he tells Ike that sometimes there are battles where you have to retreat and fight another day, and when I got to the BK fight I thought maybe that was what he was talking about. And then my untrained Mist joined and I was like "nope I'm out"
I think the real salt-in-the-wounds for the Black Knight fight is that you get the Resolve Scroll DURING that Chapter 27. Not before, or even after, but that exact chapter. Meaning, you don't get to visit the Base between chapters where you can assign Skills. Meaning you can't assign Resolve to Ike prior to fighting the Black Knight, but you can have it SITTING IN YOUR HANDS. The Wrath + Resolve combo is a great way to take on Ashnard in the final chapter, but noooooooo. The developers just couldn't let you actually have consistent fun against the Black Knight doing the same method. It would have been the perfect fight to really feel the combo showcase Ike's growth to his dad's killer, too. What a missed opportunity.
Plot-wise, the Burger King fight kinda makes sense. Assuming you beat him and Radiant Dawn happens, he reveals that he decided to go easy on you. The only reason Ike wins is because the Burger King decided to let him win, so in-game, that translates to an rng chance that he lets you win.
I mean, that's pretty cruel on Ike. The reason Burger King does that (at least, by the localization) is because he saw a glimpse of Greil's swordplay in Ike, and wanted to fight him when he reached his peak. If he doesn't let Ike win by that reasoning, then it means he literally didn't consider Ike's skills worth anything. But maybe that's justice for all the Ikes in the world who adamantly refused to level strength ever and tink on the Burger King.
I mean that doesn't even really make sense. Going easy on someone is a conscious effort. If he truly planned on letting Ike win to get stronger, he would just let Ike win to get stronger. The better way to have the Black Knight go easy on you using game mechanics would be removing some of the stats he had in previous fights, being something a shrewd player would notice. Or getting rid of Luna, as if the BK doesn't want to fuck Ike up, maybe he shouldn't use the technique that can fuck ANYBODY up with no remorse. Only way the way the fight plays out makes sense is if BK had a two faced esque demeanor, where he left things to chance or flipped coins/drew cards to determine his next move. As it stands, BK feels more like you get lucky enough to whomp him and then next game he's like "Nice try idiot, didn't count" despite him swinging with intent to kill using Luna.
In the Japanese version, Ike beating the Burger King in PoR was because of a "warp powder malfunction" which left Ike fighting a shade of the man. There are so many things wrong with that it hurts, so they changed it to the BK letting Ike win. It sort of explains why the BK doesn't seem to be going easy on him, but is still weaker overall. That said, the RD version of the BK has better stats all around, but so does Ike. No surprise that he had no chance when Ike fully matured I guess.
@@flamegeyser9781 Only from a story based standpoint though. Black Knight is still a pain to fight in the actual game if you don't cheese it with a Hammer, and may Yune help you if you took Nihil off of Ike for any reason
@@RobinDJoker He's only somewhat hard if you run up to him, because he's on a defense tile. If you don't, and your Ike wasn't super RNG screwed, he's not that tough. Should be able to take 30 damage off him per round with the Ragnell compared to his 19 or so.
I'd love to see more of these top ten videos. I understand they can feel like a creative constraint, but they're such an entertaining format. Also big props to the epic boss battle music at the start. Really sets the mood.
"Listen to these absolute bangers" _immediately_ _opens_ _with_ _one_ _of_ _Genealogy's_ _best_ _themes_ Also, Fun Fact about the Black Knight: Ike's Strength cap is 26. 26 Str + Ragnell's 18 Mt = 44 Atk - BK's 35 Def = 9 damage. If Ike hits during both phases he'll do 18 damage and BK will recover 6 for a net 12 damage - exactly enough to kill him on the 5th turn even without Aether if Ike can land all 10 attacks. Of course, on average Ike will have 20+ skill by that point so it's likely 2 of those hits trigger Aether anyways and Aether striking twice with the second hit negating 50% Def significantly cuts back on the amount of hits required to beat BK.
Even though Indech completely bodied me with that miracle proc, he's still one of my favorites from that game. Turtle dad has a harsh way of showing his love, it's fiiiiine lmao Well done video Mekkah and Em, really enjoyed watching that!~
I personaly fell the same with Gell by Henning is also a absolute mother fucker. I think Gell is worst because you can break his weapons and attack with 9 characters at the time. If you break Gell light brand you actually lose accuracy because lances now aren't a option without WT, if you break that thing you are probably softlock because even if you hit he will regenerate all the damage. He make me reach the highest turn count I ever had, 889 turns.
@@Edgeperor Not really, the only way for Aion to attack is if you attack Kishuna first and don't kill him. You kill Aion first, then Kishuna. HHM Genesis is actually tough because Kishuna leaves, but any other version is below average.
@@RandalfElVikingo That's false. On HHm Kishuna leaves on turn 9 if I recall correctly. You're straight up assuming the player made a mistake instead of thinking that "hmm... maybe Aion dodged his hits too much, and couldn't kill him before Kishuna left". We aren't rating the maps difficulty, we are rating how dependant THE BOSSFIGHTS are on RNG. Genesis is easier if Kishuna leaves earlier, much like how imprisoner of magic is easier if you can kill Aion before Kishuna leaves.
@@MarceloKatayama Turn 12 in HHM, actually. You can reach Kishuna with a full army in 10 turns or less and that means you can kill Aion along the way. I bet you will lose your shit playing a mission like Crystal Calamity in Advance Wars DS because that map requires to take more than one treat in few turns to get an S rank (one of my favorite Intelligent System levels, by the way).
Yooo Danganronpa music To this day I've still never gone Sacae since I like getting all three pegasi, but it looks super interesting and I'll probably do it next time
[RPG] Runaway I was unlucky to get sacae the first two times of me playing fe 6, its not that its brutaly hard or anything, its just so fucking annoying compared to illia, plus the atmosphere is prettier in illia
@@arman_llc624 I went into FE7 thinking the aesthetics of the huts in Sacae were original to that game only to have my world rocked after actually looking at the Sacae maps Gotta give it a shot soon
I think Ursula from FE7 deserves a honourable mention here. Rushing her down and taking her out early is possible, but she can be such a pain if you leave her alive. Starts moving without warning, one-rounds Zephiel with Bolting, and kills Nino if she suddenly decides to step into her range.
If you think about it, Butterfree is the Jagen pokemon of the OG pokemon RBY series. It's essentially a pre-promote, being a fully evolved pokemon at level 10 with high base stats, and low stat growths. It can be very useful against the 1 (no rock moves on those low levels), 2 and 4th gym as a damage absorber, and even later on, it has utility with sleep powder and supersonic. It doesn't do well against the 3rd gym, as Lt. Surge's Pokemon have moves with weapon triangle advantage.
Only problem is you have to train it up from a derpy Caterpie. The last time I played Fire Red I called my Butterfree "Jagest", because it's somehow an Est and a Jagen at the same time.
27:26 Binding Blade thrones grant 5 res and not 3, so it's even worse. But at the very least you have the Light brand to deal some "decent" damage, right?
russian potato rurtgur has like 60 hit on him and with true hit its even higher. He does like 8 or 9 damage on average has a pretty high chance of critting. Rutgur also isn’t frail so he can tank two hits. Thats why I wouldn’t consider henning to be that tough but without rutgur good luck. You probably would need a trained lugh to chip and dip him to death
In doing a PoR play through right now and I'm on the Black Knight chapter, and I agree with you on everything you said. My Ike isn't very strong and I just don't want to continue with the play through because it just feels so bad that I can't defeat the Black Knight because that's the whole point of the game. It's even more frustrating because the follow up fight with him in RD is so underwhelmingly easy due to the cover tiles and the fact that Ike's bases are amazing even with his modest growths. Anyways that's my rant I agree with the top choice.
Hooly mooly this is Chaz levels of editing. This is probably a video I rewatch quite a few times just for the flashiness. Killer combo of fun-to-hear Mekkah advice and some great editing.
I was fully expecting this to be dominated by FE6 and Shadow dragon bosses but I’m pleasantly surprised. This was super well made and whatever your editor got paid to put this all together isn’t enough. Probably the most beautiful video on your channel and I’m hoping you keep this momentum! Thanks for the great watch as always and I’m really looking forward to more of this content.
About the balck knight fight: Yes it is luck based, yes it is unfair to players, especially on hard mode, and yes it is quite punishing to die, but I think that that's the point, it was designed like that. The way I always interpret it is to show that Ike, no matter how much he trains, he cannot truly suprass the black knight, it's still too soon for him, he still needs to train more, it's a decision the game designers made voluntarily since even at his max Ike still has a very tough time throughout the fight. This is even addressed in RD, where if Ike fight the black knight in part 3, the black knight tells Ike that he sees that he wasn't ready yet, and it is shown through the fight, you could call this a forced explanation, but I think it made sense since ike's stats will always be inferior to the black knight, and i think that's the point. They understood it was hard, and they made this boss optional by giving you an escape route. I think the main problem of that fight was the time limit, it didn't have to be there and it really destroyes the fight. that's the only part of that fight that the player has no control over, other than that? luna, renewall, the enemy reinforcements, these complications are manageable if the player handles himself well, like for example bringing elixirs or trying to create the best chances to win. I think that's the real problem, without the time limit this fight would be MUCH more managable. And it does feel forced to put a time limit on such an important fight
I agree 100% instead of a time limit they should have given a specific tile you could step on to flee and it’s not fun to play but for story reasons I think it makes sense in a way it can be more satisfying in radiant dawn where you finally get to fight him and beat for real
@@Ethan-nl2wg Thing is there are 3 tiles you can step on to escape at any time during the fight if you don't wanna chance it or can't win. But the fact that there is a boss you might actually be unable to defeat is a bit much especially after already fighting a boss. And the time limit is absolute garbage
@@domc8089 I agree! Actually I belive Ashnard to be the worse of the two. Story aside yes Black Knight is an unfun rng fiesta but he is optional, you dont have to fight him, unlike Ashnard whom you have to defeat. Unlike most of the unfair bosses Ashnard isnt unfair in the way that he has killer weapon or random procs or too much dodge, however also unlike other bosses his rng isnt selfcontained in his map, rather his rng is the entire game. Every single time Ike gains a level you roll whether he will be strong enough to kill Ashnard. Got RNG screwed? No problem you can always use the old and reliable Tit- oh wait you cant. Because for some god forsaken reason only Ike and Ena (and Nasir but if you have Nasir your ike is strong enough) can deal damage to Ashnard. And Ena isnt very good, without help of broken Wrath and Resolve she cant really do anything. To add the insult to the injury the laguz royals show up after you have beaten him already once, and if you managed then you probably can bully him twice. To conclude yes BK fight is very bad but at least its optional and not required to beat the game.
“Waiting until Rudolf is dad... I mean dead.” Mekkah why must you hurt me in this way Also I love the lil chibis from the Meet the Heroes bits showing up at the bottom of the screen 🥺🥺🥺
I swear to god when i fought the black knight in my very recent PoR run ike only did critical hits and won easily in two turns, so my reaction was "oh, i guess it was scripted to be a fight that can't be lost with automatic critical hits with all attacks with the ragnell, very lame" This realization of my luck is really funny now
Oh my gosh, that was so garbage. Not only did it have multiple health bars, but it had that “ooh let’s send your units all across the map” too. I just realized that the only route in 3H without a multiple health bar final boss is Verdant Wind.
I remember the good ol' 'Use your Canto units to hit-and-run out of the non-moving boss' danger zone while everyone else kills the stupidly weak minion units' boss Honestly the teleporting gimmick is so useless due to the boss itself not moving. You just need to waste another turn to get your units in formation again... and that's about it. I like the ideas presented in that boss fight, but jesus the execution was just so tedious.
@@sir.hopper I kinda liked it on hard. Everything felt like it was on a knife's edge, between victory and disaster. Definitely my favorite map of the DLC (let's not talk about some others tho).
19:13 This is actually untrue. Medeus has 50 ATK, meaning with capped HP, (60) and 21 or higher DEF, you can survive Medeus while being doubled. This means that a capped Marth can safely enter combat with Medeus without it being the killing blow. Though actually doing so is rather pointless.
Now you might be correct, but if we use a binomial distribution to calculate the chance of Marth's 20% Defense growth (yes, you read that correctly, 20%) getting up to 17, which if you give him both Dracoshields you get in the game, is the minimum needed for Marth to survive against Medeus (oh, and by the way, Marth can't get to 60 HP without both Seraph Robes, as well, so you'd have to give him those too for this!), you get a result of between 4 and 5%. So around one in twenty two players will get a Marth that has the Defense to stand up to Medeus - and that doesn't even take into account possibly not getting Marth to level 30, or not getting Marth's HP capped, or missing one of the Dracoshields or Seraph Robes. I think anyone will agree that isn't reliable odds.
@@lefthandedscout9923 LOL chapter 24 secret shop, you are uninformed. The cost opportunity argument isn't really valid either as Marth is a poor investment, It's merely a possibility you could do. Also, growth rates in SD function differently than every other game. If you fail to get a stat via level up your next level will raise the base growth by 10%, this keeps repeating until you have gained a point in that stat. This means that Marth's defense growth will keep increasing by 2% until he gains defense.
@Iroboke regarding the latter point, I was under the impression that shadow dragon only had this "gain growths thing" if you got no level up on ALL your stats, as a similar system to the GBA games rerolling level ups entirely. If there's something you can link me to about that, then I'd like to see it. Regardless, if you needed Marth to level up that many times (obviously, as you said, without Chapter 24's secret shop, although I feel it's fair to disinclude that as that is literally invisible and wouldn't be known to an average player even if they beat Normal mode first, and if you're looking up stuff to find that you're better off just using the well known Aum Warp strategy discussed in the video instead) then you have to get at least 1 in 3 Defense level ups, which means your Defense growth will average at 24% at best over Marth's 29 levels. I don't think this improves your odds much, unless I'm having a math fail.
I hate to be nitpick, but this was honestly throwing me off a lot throughout the video, so I just had to comment for future reference. Pavise is pronounced like "pavis." The ability is in reference to pavise shields, which were _very_ large shields that, unlike regular shields, were not held in the hand when in use but instead deployed on the ground to stand upright independently. They essentially acted as portable cover from incoming arrow fire.
As much as I hate Boldo in Chapter 2 on FE4, I think the next boss, MacBeth, is even worse. With 23 defense, pavise, a leadership star, and good enough offensive stats to threaten your magic-users, he is actually really difficult if you fail to get the armorslayer from the villages mentioned in the video. Yeah, you can also "star" your weapon by getting 50 kills to also help bypass his defenses, but this is not something a first-time player will know to do unless they do their homework.
I don't think MacBeth is as bad as Boldo because there is no rush in killing him and his 2-range is weaker (Javelin instead of Steel Bow). What he adds in defense he lacks in resistance so you can Light Brand him with Ethlin. And because of the lack of a time constraint, you have more time to set up something like a lover or sibling critical on him. He does have a 8% higher Pavise rate though which is super annoying. Think of that entire Boldo segment as a shoutout to all the Pavise enemies in FE4.
I admit I played most of these games on emulator so I guess the pain didn't really feel so real when save scumming exists and since I played these games as a fully grown adult. But my god, when you said "Kishuna" my groans of despair could be felt on the moon. And that number one pick! YEP. YEP. I remember being PARANOID about using Mist religiously after my first playthrough, all because of him.
I remember on my first silver snow playthrough, I was out of divine pulses and had immaculate one down to 2 hp. All my units were dead except byleth. I was about to finish the game and then immaculate’s miracle activated, then she killed byleth. I remember just sitting there stewing in what just happened for like 5 minutes afterward
Mekkah, this is incredible! I'm sure Ryn had a hand in making this video what it is, but you have made some high bar content here. Keep up the good work!
I've always thought that the prologue of fe7 was funny because it tells you to attack batta on player phase, which makes about a 25% chance that Lyn dies in the very first, guided chapter.
The production quality of this video is insane. Keep up the good work! Also: did not expect to hear Katana ZERO music in a Fire Emblem video, glad it was there
I've recently taken up playing through FE9, so I was watching through, nodding my head at the FE11 early game bosses, and watching out to see if I had anything to be worried about in the upcoming chapters. Nearing the end of it, I was a bit relieved that FE9 hadn't come up at all. And then disaster struck.
35:48 I think, and don't quote me on this, but it's worse than negligible. Several weapons in PoR seem to grant crit immunity and Alondite is one of them. (Ashnard's personal weapon and the Laguz Royals' weapons I think are the others) Wrath strangely bypasses crit immunity and I'm not sure why. My theory is that these weapons lower your crit to 0 before Wrath's +50 crit is applied.
The Fire Emblem Warriors music was a real banger with all those heavy layered, thick, guitars. I find it interesting how they are able to blend orchestral instruments with the heavier modern guitar music. Also, no one can pronounce falchion correctly. Not even Matt Mercer. My first FE game was Fire Emblem Sacred Stones, and my God people say its easy, and they aren't wrong, but I had a false impression of how easy it is. Sure you can solo with Seth, but there is a lot to know first and lookout for. Honestly, my biggest gripes were me getting screwed over by bad rng. Whenever I needed to keep npcs alive. One of the enemy myrmidons got a 1% crit... And for the final boss, when you have to kill the big dragon thing, I had to restart the chapter because I needed additional regalia wielding units and the two I had weren't good enough by themselves.
In my case the hardest was Henning, becuase I only had 3 useful units. Lugh could hit him but he mostly was about to die. Rutger was a level 12 mirimidon yet he did like 5 damage and didnt double. The only unit I could deal damage was a promoted Dieck, which was a lv3 Hero, but the fight took like 12 turns
imo, the boss itself is not too hard to be killed, unlike those 3 saints dragon who have dragon skin and miracle, the wandering beast is easy. But if I include the map, yeah that paralogue is annoying fog map + phantom + 20++ beasts, additionally, marianne's starting position is so bad. My strategy for that map is fight the boss as soon as possible after successfully rescue marianne, reclassing marianne into flier also help her survivalbility chance.
Definitely digging the editing and whatever it is you did with your mic here. You really *have* come a long way since the 240p days. And damn, Katana Zero music. Great taste.
Honestly, if the Archanea games have another remake, they should let Marth promote to Lodestar and have his caps at 30. (For design, Shadow Dragon could be the Warriors Lodestar class, and Mystery of the Emblem could be Legendary Marth's design.)
Ahhhh I can’t believe it’s finally done! Thank you so much for letting me edit this Batta the Beast of a video. Still disappointed that Gheb didn’t get his spotlight, but there’s always next time, right? 👀
thanks for editing in a better mic
i don't actually have a new mic she just made it sound good
Great editing! I love your choice of music, especially Katana Zero's three song at the end
@@hubertparent1771 thank you!! I saved the best bops for the end 👌
That was a lot of Dead Cells
it took me a full 30 seconds to realize that was actually mekkah talking
I'm 2 minutes in and I still can't believe it.
@@iloveminicactialot6895 same
Same lmao, I thought he had somebody else do the intro
It didn't take me THAT long, but I definitely did a double take.
Got his hands on a nice audio compressor it seems.
If anyone still doubts that speed is the most important stat, observe how most of these bosses would be way more fair if they just weren’t so fast.
And it still doesn't matter if speed is the most important stat or not. Check mate
Movement is still the most important.
@@azizabdul8914 I doubt it, but you do you
Aziz Abdul Well yeah, but I don’t really think of it as a stat even, since it’s not like it levels up or anything.
@@jonahj9519 just think about it. you need good RNG to cap speed. all you need for getting higher movement is to promote into a mounted unit.
I still can't get over my ridiculous luck the first time I fought the Black Knight. It left me with the impression that If you had Aether its activation rate was artificially inflated to 100% for that battle, because I two-rounded him with two successive activations of Aether. Made for a rude awakening on my second playthrough.
You got eclipsed plus nihil didn't you.
@@ElHarmonyV I was talking about in PoR. The Black Knight is a General with Luna in that game. But no, I just had about the opposite luck as in my first run, not getting Aether at all and losing/having to flee the battle because the turn limit expired.
Gomer doesn't always have 12 speed on H5. He has 11 speed 75% of the time and 12 speed 25% of the time. It doesn't make him any less dumb in design, but that 1 point of speed stops him from doubling Jagen, which is a big deal.
ngl variable boss stats is pretty dumb too.
@@Skasaha_ i will never understand why enemies growth rates are a thing. That's how half of FE bullshit difficulty originate from. That and poor playtesting. Like, i am supposed to believe that a Beta tester played the first chapters of H5 and said "yea, this is fine, keep it".
@@noukan42 it's a lot easyer to program/design. It's so much easyer to say let's place a lv 5 enemy here, a lv 4 enemy here, and a lv 7 enemy here than to individually enter stats for every enemy. Also when you come back in later stages of design to make higher difficulties you can simply modify the enemy growth rates or lvs instead of essentially designing a new map. Also i doubt any fe game was ever play tested past hard mode but that probably has to do with maintaining a budget. Play testing is mostly for quality control and less so much focused on the game play itself unless it is a glaring issue.
@@gameboyn64 first you don't need to handplace the stat of EVERY enemy, because usually lots of enemies share the same class and level. Hell, you can just give them fixed growths and it would work much better.
Second, i would agree whit that if it was a small indie company, but right now FE is printing money for one of the biggest SH, they don't need to cut corners.
I repeat, whatever that boss was supposed to doube Jeigan or not on H5 is a very big deal, wich changes a lot how you approaches the battle. Leaving something like that to chance means that the playtest was piss poor.
@@noukan42
Then what is Sword and Shield's excuse?
Everybody cuts corners. Lol
Insane production quality. I know sometimes these videos may seem unrewarding because of how much work they take, but let it be known that they're thoroughly appreciated.
My favorite part of the Black Knight fight is how right before it Titania and Soren get into an argument about it and Soren says that "sometimes, bravery and good judgment aren't enough"
Because there is also RNG
Mekkah slowly turning into WatchMojo with these top 10’s
Plot twist watchmojo was mekkah the whole time
WatchMettah when?
Lol
More like Mekkah is turning into Blazingknight just needs his level of editing
but better
The difference is is that Mekkah's doesn't have really stupid lists
Man it was so satisfying to hear you tear apart the FE6 bosses, I love the game but way too many of them get obnoxious
It was satisfying for me to hear him tear into the Black Knight fight from FE 9, considering that it was the game I just finished on Hard Mode 2 weeks ago and Chapter 27 was even harder than Endgame.
I didn't expect him to actually put it at number 1, but the way I got stomped in hard mode, even with a nearly maxed out Ike with all his important stats capped (strength, speed, skill, defense and HP, as well as s rank in swords) was just annoying as the Black Knight activated Luna EVERY. SINGLE. GODFORSAKEN. TURN. I couldn't even go on the offense because he got Luna twice and 2KOd me.
I shrugged it off as a meager case of luck, but then I went through the whole map again, and the same thing happened.
So, 3rd times the charm, went in and finally managed to get two aethers back to back and defeated him.
God how this fight was so much better in Radiant Dawn.
Sorry to hear what you went through, I get the issue others see in the fight but I personally can't bring myself to hate it even if it is a RNG fest. At least the buildup and general presentation of the fight still stand strong.
@@ResurgentRaven Just saying, Wrath + Nihil is probably the way to go. Nihil will ignore Luna and you're not killing the Burger King without Wrath, and if you're on Difficult (and not Maniac) Mode, I doubt anyone else needs Nihil. I mean, do generics really get Occult skills? You also want to use the Wrath scroll on Ike anyway because of Wrath + Resolve for the Final Chapter. The fact that without save states you have to replay the entire chapter 27 is total BS though. Replaying the chapter and the time limit are the only things really wrong with it tbh. The battle itself is fine. It's easily beatable if you had more turns.
@@ametaslave7314 Wrath + Nihil is still problematic if you get RNG screwed, since, like I said before, the Black Knight can get double Luna.
Plus, unless my math is off, you need 2 perfect wraths and a normal hit due to BK's Renewal skill. Within two Lunas, Ike is dead without proper healing.
Which brings me to my next point. Granted you don't get many healers until you promote your mages (because what idiot would promote their mage to use knives instead of staves?). However, having to rely on Mist's healing only is rather annoying especially if she died early on.
Point is that, without certain skills, there is no physical way to actually knock out the black knight within the turn limit (which is six turns btw) and even with certain skills, having to rely on pure RNG to win is just appalling.
Also, my Ike had only Aether in the endgame and not once did he come close to dying except against Ashnard, and I had five healers by that point, so I wasn't anywhere near as worried about the RNG.
Wrath Resolve is a better way since they can be used to easily ORKO most foes with Ike easily, but the Occult Skills in PoR aren't as deadly as in Radiant Dawn.
Sol and Deadeye deal any extra damage,
Flare doesn't heal.
Colossus might as well be (in Feh's terms) a Moonbow with a 10 cooldown).
Pretty much the only few occults worth learning are Aether (Ike), Lethality (Volke), Luna (Halberdier and General), and Astra (Mia Zihark and Lucia).
And out of these 4, Aether is still the best. Most characters can make perfect usage out of Wrath + Resolve (at least, those that have the skill circle to use it), but only Ike can use Aether.
@@Zastralord Believe me, I don't want to hate it, but it is a poor level design choice.
I guess since they decided on its sequel, they planned for a second fight between Ike and the Black Knight, they knew they'd have to make that second fight much easier (and it really is).
Honestly for the black knight battle I always thought they should've done a scripted Aether proc when he was in killing range. You'd probably still have to hit 'em like hell a few times, but it'd at least guarantee you wouldn't get screwed over.
And be a cool way to finish it.
Like how Marth will always land a crit as the final blow against Medeus in FE12?
Holy crap Mekkah the production values with this one are a thing to behold.
As far the list goes, haven't finished the video yet but I have the hunch a certain endgame Dragon boss from Three Houses is gonna pop up at one point.
EDIT: Welp I guess I was right.
Promoted Dieck can actually be a safe way to fight Henning. He is slightly bulkier and has slightly higher Luc than Rutger, so it’s possible for him to either survive a Crit or for Henning to have 0 Crit against him. Dieck takes longer to kill Henning than Rutger does, but he gets the job done.
@@barrywiskers283 …did you reply to the wrong comment or am I just being really dumb and missing something?
***SILVER SNOW SPOILERS BELOW***
Yeah, I honestly think that Berserk Rhea at the end of Silver Snow is my least favorite boss of three houses. Not for the miracle mechanic, that was never a problem with me. It's the stupid perma staggering blow mechanic. It makes it straight up impossible to whittle away at her barrier and forces you to alpha strike her if you want any hope of dealing meaningful damage to her.
And if you make one miscalculation, or one of your gambits misses, say goodbye to all the barrier damage you just did, because it's all back now.
I remember in PoR there was a conversation Ike had with Nasir (I think?) where he tells Ike that sometimes there are battles where you have to retreat and fight another day, and when I got to the BK fight I thought maybe that was what he was talking about. And then my untrained Mist joined and I was like "nope I'm out"
I think it’s with Titania.
What the hell happened to Mekkah's mic it sounds so good?
Same here i thought he had a guest reading the script for a second
yeah this. explanation meqquah?
Zachary Brown his editor improved the quality a bunch
I poisoned his mutton
I am watching this on a different computer with different ear buds, and thought it was just me.
I think the real salt-in-the-wounds for the Black Knight fight is that you get the Resolve Scroll DURING that Chapter 27. Not before, or even after, but that exact chapter.
Meaning, you don't get to visit the Base between chapters where you can assign Skills. Meaning you can't assign Resolve to Ike prior to fighting the Black Knight, but you can have it SITTING IN YOUR HANDS. The Wrath + Resolve combo is a great way to take on Ashnard in the final chapter, but noooooooo. The developers just couldn't let you actually have consistent fun against the Black Knight doing the same method. It would have been the perfect fight to really feel the combo showcase Ike's growth to his dad's killer, too.
What a missed opportunity.
Someone actually made a video, along the lines of "If only Ike had resolve during Black Knight fight".
Plot-wise, the Burger King fight kinda makes sense. Assuming you beat him and Radiant Dawn happens, he reveals that he decided to go easy on you. The only reason Ike wins is because the Burger King decided to let him win, so in-game, that translates to an rng chance that he lets you win.
I mean, that's pretty cruel on Ike. The reason Burger King does that (at least, by the localization) is because he saw a glimpse of Greil's swordplay in Ike, and wanted to fight him when he reached his peak. If he doesn't let Ike win by that reasoning, then it means he literally didn't consider Ike's skills worth anything.
But maybe that's justice for all the Ikes in the world who adamantly refused to level strength ever and tink on the Burger King.
I mean that doesn't even really make sense. Going easy on someone is a conscious effort. If he truly planned on letting Ike win to get stronger, he would just let Ike win to get stronger.
The better way to have the Black Knight go easy on you using game mechanics would be removing some of the stats he had in previous fights, being something a shrewd player would notice. Or getting rid of Luna, as if the BK doesn't want to fuck Ike up, maybe he shouldn't use the technique that can fuck ANYBODY up with no remorse.
Only way the way the fight plays out makes sense is if BK had a two faced esque demeanor, where he left things to chance or flipped coins/drew cards to determine his next move. As it stands, BK feels more like you get lucky enough to whomp him and then next game he's like "Nice try idiot, didn't count" despite him swinging with intent to kill using Luna.
In the Japanese version, Ike beating the Burger King in PoR was because of a "warp powder malfunction" which left Ike fighting a shade of the man. There are so many things wrong with that it hurts, so they changed it to the BK letting Ike win. It sort of explains why the BK doesn't seem to be going easy on him, but is still weaker overall. That said, the RD version of the BK has better stats all around, but so does Ike. No surprise that he had no chance when Ike fully matured I guess.
@@flamegeyser9781 Only from a story based standpoint though. Black Knight is still a pain to fight in the actual game if you don't cheese it with a Hammer, and may Yune help you if you took Nihil off of Ike for any reason
@@RobinDJoker He's only somewhat hard if you run up to him, because he's on a defense tile. If you don't, and your Ike wasn't super RNG screwed, he's not that tough. Should be able to take 30 damage off him per round with the Ragnell compared to his 19 or so.
I love the Black Knight fight.
But man, it really is just an RNGfest
I'd love to see more of these top ten videos. I understand they can feel like a creative constraint, but they're such an entertaining format.
Also big props to the epic boss battle music at the start. Really sets the mood.
Joe Mirakian Yea These video’s are amazing
the dislike button must be on a throne, cuz i cant hit it
But why were u trying to hit it
@@Adam-hs9ft It killed their dad with the alondite.
It's on a gravestone for me. God damn, it's impossible to hit, I tell ya.
"Listen to these absolute bangers" _immediately_ _opens_ _with_ _one_ _of_ _Genealogy's_ _best_ _themes_
Also, Fun Fact about the Black Knight: Ike's Strength cap is 26. 26 Str + Ragnell's 18 Mt = 44 Atk - BK's 35 Def = 9 damage. If Ike hits during both phases he'll do 18 damage and BK will recover 6 for a net 12 damage - exactly enough to kill him on the 5th turn even without Aether if Ike can land all 10 attacks. Of course, on average Ike will have 20+ skill by that point so it's likely 2 of those hits trigger Aether anyways and Aether striking twice with the second hit negating 50% Def significantly cuts back on the amount of hits required to beat BK.
Even though Indech completely bodied me with that miracle proc, he's still one of my favorites from that game. Turtle dad has a harsh way of showing his love, it's fiiiiine lmao
Well done video Mekkah and Em, really enjoyed watching that!~
He has such cool boss quotes in that chapter. Also Turtle Dragon is way too cool
The production quality and the editing, oh my goodness, who are you, fake mekkah?
I suggest you use CZcams’s time stamp feature to mark the different Spots on the List
At least for the aesthetics 😄
The second you said "Henning" my mind just started screeching "NO! NO! GOD NO!"
same, at first i didn't recognize him but when he showed the map i had vietnam flashbacks
I personaly fell the same with Gell by Henning is also a absolute mother fucker.
I think Gell is worst because you can break his weapons and attack with 9 characters at the time. If you break Gell light brand you actually lose accuracy because lances now aren't a option without WT, if you break that thing you are probably softlock because even if you hit he will regenerate all the damage. He make me reach the highest turn count I ever had, 889 turns.
When Lugh started crying at 27:36 I actaully felt irl sad for him :(
Me too man ;(
his death quote is sadder tho lol
Ilios from Fire Emblem Thracia 776 thats why you have rutgur, to make sure that the green haired little boy is protected
Okay llios
Kishuna leaving led to Aion giving my Hector the Bolting which ended my first ever ironman... still salty about it.
That was your fault, actually.
@@RandalfElVikingo I hope this is ironic
@@Edgeperor Not really, the only way for Aion to attack is if you attack Kishuna first and don't kill him.
You kill Aion first, then Kishuna.
HHM Genesis is actually tough because Kishuna leaves, but any other version is below average.
@@RandalfElVikingo That's false. On HHm Kishuna leaves on turn 9 if I recall correctly. You're straight up assuming the player made a mistake instead of thinking that "hmm... maybe Aion dodged his hits too much, and couldn't kill him before Kishuna left". We aren't rating the maps difficulty, we are rating how dependant THE BOSSFIGHTS are on RNG. Genesis is easier if Kishuna leaves earlier, much like how imprisoner of magic is easier if you can kill Aion before Kishuna leaves.
@@MarceloKatayama Turn 12 in HHM, actually.
You can reach Kishuna with a full army in 10 turns or less and that means you can kill Aion along the way.
I bet you will lose your shit playing a mission like Crystal Calamity in Advance Wars DS because that map requires to take more than one treat in few turns to get an S rank (one of my favorite Intelligent System levels, by the way).
Yooo Danganronpa music
To this day I've still never gone Sacae since I like getting all three pegasi, but it looks super interesting and I'll probably do it next time
"Interesting."
That's a good word for it.
Two FETuber videos with Danganronpa-material on the same day... Coincidence?
@@mcihay246 I knew someone would reply saying something like this lol
[RPG] Runaway I was unlucky to get sacae the first two times of me playing fe 6, its not that its brutaly hard or anything, its just so fucking annoying compared to illia, plus the atmosphere is prettier in illia
@@arman_llc624 I went into FE7 thinking the aesthetics of the huts in Sacae were original to that game only to have my world rocked after actually looking at the Sacae maps
Gotta give it a shot soon
I think Ursula from FE7 deserves a honourable mention here. Rushing her down and taking her out early is possible, but she can be such a pain if you leave her alive. Starts moving without warning, one-rounds Zephiel with Bolting, and kills Nino if she suddenly decides to step into her range.
damn loving the audio qaulity
If you think about it, Butterfree is the Jagen pokemon of the OG pokemon RBY series. It's essentially a pre-promote, being a fully evolved pokemon at level 10 with high base stats, and low stat growths.
It can be very useful against the 1 (no rock moves on those low levels), 2 and 4th gym as a damage absorber, and even later on, it has utility with sleep powder and supersonic. It doesn't do well against the 3rd gym, as Lt. Surge's Pokemon have moves with weapon triangle advantage.
Only problem is you have to train it up from a derpy Caterpie. The last time I played Fire Red I called my Butterfree "Jagest", because it's somehow an Est and a Jagen at the same time.
And nidoran is seth
Does that make squirtle robin
27:26 Binding Blade thrones grant 5 res and not 3, so it's even worse. But at the very least you have the Light brand to deal some "decent" damage, right?
Geene honestly henning isn’t that bad, as long as you have a promoted rutgur that you gave some levels to.
@@arman_llc624 even Rutger would struggle against aome of them, mainly Hitting them
Light Brand dealing a guaranteed 10 damage at range has saved me in many a boss fight in FE6
@@hues_of_neon henning i'd say its Easier beacuse I can get him to use the Hand Axe and Get WTA With Rutger
russian potato rurtgur has like 60 hit on him and with true hit its even higher. He does like 8 or 9 damage on average has a pretty high chance of critting. Rutgur also isn’t frail so he can tank two hits. Thats why I wouldn’t consider henning to be that tough but without rutgur good luck. You probably would need a trained lugh to chip and dip him to death
That intro’s pretty hot
I prefer the old one but this one's okay too
Beautiful editing and presentation Mekkah, you finally got that Promotion Item huh?
Also 2:03 - 2:07 RIP Poledoo
Oh no!
10:58 - 11:22
Aye didn’t expect to see Poledoo in a Mekkah video
Wtf he sounds so different.
@Merciless Freak he sounds like high production value mekkah
In doing a PoR play through right now and I'm on the Black Knight chapter, and I agree with you on everything you said. My Ike isn't very strong and I just don't want to continue with the play through because it just feels so bad that I can't defeat the Black Knight because that's the whole point of the game. It's even more frustrating because the follow up fight with him in RD is so underwhelmingly easy due to the cover tiles and the fact that Ike's bases are amazing even with his modest growths. Anyways that's my rant I agree with the top choice.
Never played RD but also apparently you can wreck the Black Knight with a Hammer.
Update: yep, you very much can.
@@singlereedenjoyer yup, blessing on his armor is gone, don't have to use blessed weapons anymore, hammer op
Feel like this is the first time CZcams alerts have ever given me a notification the minute a video goes live instead of like 24 hours later
Hooly mooly this is Chaz levels of editing. This is probably a video I rewatch quite a few times just for the flashiness. Killer combo of fun-to-hear Mekkah advice and some great editing.
I was fully expecting this to be dominated by FE6 and Shadow dragon bosses but I’m pleasantly surprised. This was super well made and whatever your editor got paid to put this all together isn’t enough.
Probably the most beautiful video on your channel and I’m hoping you keep this momentum! Thanks for the great watch as always and I’m really looking forward to more of this content.
The production quality here is so good it's jarring. The opening made me feel like I just started a watch Mojo Video, expect with actual substance
About the balck knight fight: Yes it is luck based, yes it is unfair to players, especially on hard mode, and yes it is quite punishing to die, but I think that that's the point, it was designed like that. The way I always interpret it is to show that Ike, no matter how much he trains, he cannot truly suprass the black knight, it's still too soon for him, he still needs to train more, it's a decision the game designers made voluntarily since even at his max Ike still has a very tough time throughout the fight. This is even addressed in RD, where if Ike fight the black knight in part 3, the black knight tells Ike that he sees that he wasn't ready yet, and it is shown through the fight, you could call this a forced explanation, but I think it made sense since ike's stats will always be inferior to the black knight, and i think that's the point. They understood it was hard, and they made this boss optional by giving you an escape route. I think the main problem of that fight was the time limit, it didn't have to be there and it really destroyes the fight. that's the only part of that fight that the player has no control over, other than that? luna, renewall, the enemy reinforcements, these complications are manageable if the player handles himself well, like for example bringing elixirs or trying to create the best chances to win. I think that's the real problem, without the time limit this fight would be MUCH more managable. And it does feel forced to put a time limit on such an important fight
I agree 100% instead of a time limit they should have given a specific tile you could step on to flee and it’s not fun to play but for story reasons I think it makes sense in a way it can be more satisfying in radiant dawn where you finally get to fight him and beat for real
@@Ethan-nl2wg Thing is there are 3 tiles you can step on to escape at any time during the fight if you don't wanna chance it or can't win. But the fact that there is a boss you might actually be unable to defeat is a bit much especially after already fighting a boss. And the time limit is absolute garbage
@@GreatBeanicus dont forget the final boss you might be unable to beat, period, due to how unreliable it is thanks to most likely not getting Nasir
In the inevitable PoR remake, they should remove the time limit altogether.
@@domc8089 I agree! Actually I belive Ashnard to be the worse of the two. Story aside yes Black Knight is an unfun rng fiesta but he is optional, you dont have to fight him, unlike Ashnard whom you have to defeat.
Unlike most of the unfair bosses Ashnard isnt unfair in the way that he has killer weapon or random procs or too much dodge, however also unlike other bosses his rng isnt selfcontained in his map, rather his rng is the entire game. Every single time Ike gains a level you roll whether he will be strong enough to kill Ashnard. Got RNG screwed? No problem you can always use the old and reliable Tit- oh wait you cant. Because for some god forsaken reason only Ike and Ena (and Nasir but if you have Nasir your ike is strong enough) can deal damage to Ashnard. And Ena isnt very good, without help of broken Wrath and Resolve she cant really do anything.
To add the insult to the injury the laguz royals show up after you have beaten him already once, and if you managed then you probably can bully him twice.
To conclude yes BK fight is very bad but at least its optional and not required to beat the game.
“Waiting until Rudolf is dad... I mean dead.”
Mekkah why must you hurt me in this way
Also I love the lil chibis from the Meet the Heroes bits showing up at the bottom of the screen 🥺🥺🥺
my list: Aelfric, the dude from ninja hell in conquest, the bosses from chapter 2 and 3 in shadow dragon, ursula,lago in conquest.
Long range weapon in fog of war is a totally fair combination.
The editing was so smooth and the whole video felt fluid, easy to understand and really fun
Thank you for this, it was a great video!
the funniest thing you can do with H5 medeus is killing him with jagen
I did that
Great vid!
Its really nice to hear you talk about the numbers, I feel like a lot of top 10 lists are just lists. Cant wait for more like this!
Never thought I'd hear DRV3 Beautiful Lie in a Mekkah video...
I swear to god when i fought the black knight in my very recent PoR run ike only did critical hits and won easily in two turns, so my reaction was "oh, i guess it was scripted to be a fight that can't be lost with automatic critical hits with all attacks with the ragnell, very lame"
This realization of my luck is really funny now
Just discovered the channel and man the editing, the script and the overall quality is amazing
Godamn the production values. Awesome choice of music with that Katana Zero OST btw.
I loved your explanations of every placement, truly informative.
Those unit losses at early-game SD ironman did really hit Mekkah's quality membrane this time.
This has to be one of the best produced video Mekkah has ever made he should, like, do it again I think that would be cool
if there was one more fe3h pick on this list i’d want it to be the second to last boss of cindered shadows, that was a miserable time
Oh my gosh, that was so garbage. Not only did it have multiple health bars, but it had that “ooh let’s send your units all across the map” too. I just realized that the only route in 3H without a multiple health bar final boss is Verdant Wind.
@@sammich6257 i thought the teleporting your units was kinda interesting, but i wish it was on a bigger map. Was definitely annoying though.
Aye, I recognize that girl in your pfp! Minako-chan!
I remember the good ol' 'Use your Canto units to hit-and-run out of the non-moving boss' danger zone while everyone else kills the stupidly weak minion units' boss
Honestly the teleporting gimmick is so useless due to the boss itself not moving. You just need to waste another turn to get your units in formation again... and that's about it.
I like the ideas presented in that boss fight, but jesus the execution was just so tedious.
@@sir.hopper I kinda liked it on hard. Everything felt like it was on a knife's edge, between victory and disaster. Definitely my favorite map of the DLC (let's not talk about some others tho).
L. LOVE. THIS. EDITING.
Eecaruz you did an AMAZING JOB HOLY SHIT.
yo the editing on this is really good
it took me 2:42 minutes to figure it was mekkah... You really come a long way, the audio is incredible!
19:13 This is actually untrue. Medeus has 50 ATK, meaning with capped HP, (60) and 21 or higher DEF, you can survive Medeus while being doubled. This means that a capped Marth can safely enter combat with Medeus without it being the killing blow. Though actually doing so is rather pointless.
Now you might be correct, but if we use a binomial distribution to calculate the chance of Marth's 20% Defense growth (yes, you read that correctly, 20%) getting up to 17, which if you give him both Dracoshields you get in the game, is the minimum needed for Marth to survive against Medeus (oh, and by the way, Marth can't get to 60 HP without both Seraph Robes, as well, so you'd have to give him those too for this!), you get a result of between 4 and 5%. So around one in twenty two players will get a Marth that has the Defense to stand up to Medeus - and that doesn't even take into account possibly not getting Marth to level 30, or not getting Marth's HP capped, or missing one of the Dracoshields or Seraph Robes. I think anyone will agree that isn't reliable odds.
@@lefthandedscout9923 LOL chapter 24 secret shop, you are uninformed. The cost opportunity argument isn't really valid either as Marth is a poor investment, It's merely a possibility you could do. Also, growth rates in SD function differently than every other game. If you fail to get a stat via level up your next level will raise the base growth by 10%, this keeps repeating until you have gained a point in that stat. This means that Marth's defense growth will keep increasing by 2% until he gains defense.
@Iroboke regarding the latter point, I was under the impression that shadow dragon only had this "gain growths thing" if you got no level up on ALL your stats, as a similar system to the GBA games rerolling level ups entirely. If there's something you can link me to about that, then I'd like to see it.
Regardless, if you needed Marth to level up that many times (obviously, as you said, without Chapter 24's secret shop, although I feel it's fair to disinclude that as that is literally invisible and wouldn't be known to an average player even if they beat Normal mode first, and if you're looking up stuff to find that you're better off just using the well known Aum Warp strategy discussed in the video instead) then you have to get at least 1 in 3 Defense level ups, which means your Defense growth will average at 24% at best over Marth's 29 levels. I don't think this improves your odds much, unless I'm having a math fail.
The editing and content was all so clean and cohesive. This is my favorite mekkah video ever!
I hate to be nitpick, but this was honestly throwing me off a lot throughout the video, so I just had to comment for future reference.
Pavise is pronounced like "pavis." The ability is in reference to pavise shields, which were _very_ large shields that, unlike regular shields, were not held in the hand when in use but instead deployed on the ground to stand upright independently. They essentially acted as portable cover from incoming arrow fire.
Ironic how the ability doesn’t affect arrow damage
@@alphmain2278 only in 3h
Just gotta say good job Mekkah this is probably the best quality I've ever seen for a fire emblem video
Part of me was really hoping for a bait and switch with the themes into some really bland music.
As much as I hate Boldo in Chapter 2 on FE4, I think the next boss, MacBeth, is even worse. With 23 defense, pavise, a leadership star, and good enough offensive stats to threaten your magic-users, he is actually really difficult if you fail to get the armorslayer from the villages mentioned in the video. Yeah, you can also "star" your weapon by getting 50 kills to also help bypass his defenses, but this is not something a first-time player will know to do unless they do their homework.
I don't think MacBeth is as bad as Boldo because there is no rush in killing him and his 2-range is weaker (Javelin instead of Steel Bow). What he adds in defense he lacks in resistance so you can Light Brand him with Ethlin. And because of the lack of a time constraint, you have more time to set up something like a lover or sibling critical on him. He does have a 8% higher Pavise rate though which is super annoying. Think of that entire Boldo segment as a shoutout to all the Pavise enemies in FE4.
I admit I played most of these games on emulator so I guess the pain didn't really feel so real when save scumming exists and since I played these games as a fully grown adult.
But my god, when you said "Kishuna" my groans of despair could be felt on the moon.
And that number one pick! YEP. YEP. I remember being PARANOID about using Mist religiously after my first playthrough, all because of him.
Mekkah's mike got one hell of an upgrade. Editor did a FANTASTIC job.
I remember on my first silver snow playthrough, I was out of divine pulses and had immaculate one down to 2 hp. All my units were dead except byleth. I was about to finish the game and then immaculate’s miracle activated, then she killed byleth. I remember just sitting there stewing in what just happened for like 5 minutes afterward
Mekkah, this is incredible! I'm sure Ryn had a hand in making this video what it is, but you have made some high bar content here. Keep up the good work!
Ryn made the thumbnail (including the awesome Exeggutor drawing) but the visuals in the video are all done by Em!
seeing my man poledoo in the intro.... hell yes
2:28 was when I realized that Mekkah was the one who had been talking all along. I legit thought Mekkah had someone else doing the intro!
Holy cow, Mekkah's quality is so good.
I've always thought that the prologue of fe7 was funny because it tells you to attack batta on player phase, which makes about a 25% chance that Lyn dies in the very first, guided chapter.
Commenting before watching, Gomer is definitely here lmao
Nice video, also I felt like complimenting your editor, really huge work from her and great aesthetics
Thank you, that’s very sweet of you :D
@@eecaruz I really mean it, keep up the good work!
Every boss after chapter 17 in Revelations
That mic, that production value, that editing, oh god mekkah you are awasome
This is amazingly well made but i miss the classic low quality Mekkah
Nice to see my man Poledoo in this video!
Also Meqqah’s mic is too crisp right now I wasn’t prepared for this
This seems to be really based off of maddening, so it would be interesting to see the hardest bosses when playing on other modes like just hard mode
Ngl
I've always been off and on with your channel but this is the boost in audop quality I needed
Definitly watching more now
"No one can one-round Boldo"
Jamke, laughing: "Hold my bandana."
He just mention that you have a time limit, by the time jamke is in range of boldo, the village problaby are beyond saving
It's going to be weird looking back on your older videos now. It's so cool seeing your videos with such high production value!
2 minutes into the video, I just realize that the voice actually comes from Mekkkah.
The production quality of this video is insane. Keep up the good work!
Also: did not expect to hear Katana ZERO music in a Fire Emblem video, glad it was there
Mekkah, Gomer is easy. All you have to do is get a blessed Marth in a H5 Ironman
Silly Mekkah, I can’t believe that he forgot about that
I don't get is if a refence but that the point, You need blessing (aka lucky) to beat them
This is by far the best fire emblem top 10 I’ve seen in terms of quality and information. Please do more in this format!
I've recently taken up playing through FE9, so I was watching through, nodding my head at the FE11 early game bosses, and watching out to see if I had anything to be worried about in the upcoming chapters. Nearing the end of it, I was a bit relieved that FE9 hadn't come up at all. And then disaster struck.
35:48 I think, and don't quote me on this, but it's worse than negligible. Several weapons in PoR seem to grant crit immunity and Alondite is one of them. (Ashnard's personal weapon and the Laguz Royals' weapons I think are the others) Wrath strangely bypasses crit immunity and I'm not sure why. My theory is that these weapons lower your crit to 0 before Wrath's +50 crit is applied.
When did Mekkah get a budget?
dang, this is the first mekkah video I saw and It still really good, thanks for all your awesome content Mekkah!
The Fire Emblem Warriors music was a real banger with all those heavy layered, thick, guitars. I find it interesting how they are able to blend orchestral instruments with the heavier modern guitar music. Also, no one can pronounce falchion correctly. Not even Matt Mercer.
My first FE game was Fire Emblem Sacred Stones, and my God people say its easy, and they aren't wrong, but I had a false impression of how easy it is. Sure you can solo with Seth, but there is a lot to know first and lookout for. Honestly, my biggest gripes were me getting screwed over by bad rng. Whenever I needed to keep npcs alive. One of the enemy myrmidons got a 1% crit... And for the final boss, when you have to kill the big dragon thing, I had to restart the chapter because I needed additional regalia wielding units and the two I had weren't good enough by themselves.
Great video, Mekkah! And good job to the editor too!
In my case the hardest was Henning, becuase I only had 3 useful units. Lugh could hit him but he mostly was about to die. Rutger was a level 12 mirimidon yet he did like 5 damage and didnt double. The only unit I could deal damage was a promoted Dieck, which was a lv3 Hero, but the fight took like 12 turns
Thanks for listing the music, Mekkah! I was so happy to see the Katana Zero OST in here!
Ah yes, we all had trouble our first time with Hyman when we were young...
Awesome video! It's been amazing to see the quality jump from when I started watching about 9 years ago.
What about the monster boss in Marianne’s Paralogue in FE3H
imo, the boss itself is not too hard to be killed, unlike those 3 saints dragon who have dragon skin and miracle, the wandering beast is easy. But if I include the map, yeah that paralogue is annoying fog map + phantom + 20++ beasts, additionally, marianne's starting position is so bad. My strategy for that map is fight the boss as soon as possible after successfully rescue marianne, reclassing marianne into flier also help her survivalbility chance.
Unless you trained Bernadette's faith skill up to A rank in Crimson Flower, there is no way to have a student with Rescue in Crimson Flower
It's been a while since I last watched one of your videos, but hot damn, the production quality has skyrocketed! Excellent work!
idk man I just have Roy kill Henning usually
How? Roy at that point is a best lvl 15 and he is not the best in terms of stats
Definitely digging the editing and whatever it is you did with your mic here. You really *have* come a long way since the 240p days. And damn, Katana Zero music. Great taste.
Honestly, if the Archanea games have another remake, they should let Marth promote to Lodestar and have his caps at 30. (For design, Shadow Dragon could be the Warriors Lodestar class, and Mystery of the Emblem could be Legendary Marth's design.)
That it would be great
Wow, what a jump in quality! Can’t wait to see more videos like this ^^ keep up the great work!