The sad thing compared to Merrin is that he comes with a higher internal level than her as well (17 vs 15), so the stat difference is amplified even further given he's more difficult to level. I'm planning on using him on my next run where I ignore the absurdly high base stat units (Kagetsu, Pandreo, Merrin, etc.). Compared to the other lords, his base class is probably the biggest bait given how poor his offense is - agree on reclassing to Warrior.
Warrior is the one unit that’s a backup unit that can use bows. I give him Lucina’s ability that lets units back up attack from wherever they can move to. Now he can shot everything as a small damage bonus for all your other units. Also makes Claud’s S bond ring almost viable on him.
If you to run Cupido, it's surprisingly good with the Roy ring, which isn't really a highly contested ring to begin with. It provides a good deal of strength to help him out, gives him the extra mov when engaged for being a cavalry, and Hold Out is basically the only thing that makes the Back at You skill somewhat usable. If you really want to invest in him, you could probably run him on warrior for a while for the growths, and switch him back to Cupido for the endgame after you get Roy back. I don't think he's worth doing all that, but it's certainly possible
The well pretty consistently drops SP books, throwing in 5 steel weapons puts you at 4 starts and nets you 500-600 sp as well as silver weapons. SP is not much of an issue anymore.
First off, loving the content! And second, I would argue Cupido Fogado with Lucina is highly effective. In my mind it’s better than flyer Alear with Lucina since he can get avoid with bow agility and can bonded shield your mage knights and wolf knights during enemy phase, while having insane dual assist++ with the longbow. This theoretically uses the skill back at you, in that the rare times he doesn’t avoid he has a chance to pay back the damage (altho he’s rarely targeted so I don’t see this happen haha). This provides way more utility than sheer damage on Warrior which Panette already offers (on my team anyways).
@@priestessii Yeah fair enough, although that's a waste of Alear in my eyes. His dragon typing bonus isnt worth him completely falling off as a damage unit and shield bonding wastes their player phase damage potential, (I have Roy on wyvern Alear, it absolutely fucks). Fogado isn't doing much damage outside of radiant bow usage and that won' t always be needed. Fogado also has better range with chain attack and dual assist with the longbow than Alear on flyer, since most enemies are the ground anyways and you one can shot flyers. I truly believe Lucina's best pairing is with Fogado, unless you want to waste Alear's potential.
While he doesn't have Chloé's passive, he can also do the martial Master Eirika build thanks to his +3 speed cap and good speed growth. Just make sure to wait until after ch17 for the speed scroll before you switch
I find that Fogado is at his best in either Bow Knight or Sniper with a brave bow and Erika and Lunar brace makes his brave bow hit like a tactical nuke, late game if you picked bow knight and hes fast enough to reliably quad with it, and if you went sniper you can just pick up build +3. And to cap it off, Erika gives some magic to use the radiant bow not that he needs it becuase having Lunar Brace plus an armorslayer will LITERALLY punch holes in armored units An interesting note btw, I see Lunar Brace proc when I shoot the radiant bow but i havent done any testing to see if its actually increasing the damage.
@@priestessii i havent done any extensive testing with the build. it was really just that bow knight and sniper have slightly higher STR but Cupido works also theoretically.
So after trying to find different hosts for Eirika, Fogado is definitely a top contender. You always want her active, and Fogado will be quading with brave bow almost always thanks to his speed. He's a strong radiant bow user, which benefits from Eirika's mag stat increase. And he annihilates the big siege dragons with twin strike thanks to the Calvary boost. Give him Canter and long bow and he's always outside of danger. He won't touch his swords at all. The only other units that compete with his speed is Kagetsu (who's probably using another emblem) or Merrin (I have her on Sigurd right now)
I find that radiant bow fogado ends up scaling pretty nicely, with a few magic dust and inheritting magic+ allows him to actually 1 round a lot of enemies even in end game maddening. Higher speed than mages too which can allow him to kill where someone like anna may not be able to. With Claude he can also attack from 3 range, not sure what emblem rings to use if not S claude ring tho. Although for physical, warrior is the way to go like you said.
I’ve said it before but cupido fogado is very strong with Erika garage bow. Sure, anyone can use it but he has the benefit of being the fastest character in the game, making it easier for him to quad and one round.
You mentioned the ancient well so I'll bring it up, it's based purely on money value: 1 star: 0 2 star: 1000 3 star: 5000 4 star: 10000 5 star: 20000 Mind you it appears to be the buy value of weapons, so it can be a lot more beneficial than selling. It also seems to be returning greater total value, but it's random. In theory if you only have enough for 3 star, you could keep putting stuff back in to eventually have 5 stars worth of item value. There's a spreadsheet in the serenes forest forums, but I suspect they'll add it to the main site soon
Fogado is an excellent example of how Stat Boosters (no DLC) can help customize a unit. Cupido is one of his best options with just one Spirit Dust. Thats not to say you shouldn't feed him the next couple you get because compared to mages hes just got no Mag growth. But thats okay! The Radiant Bow is his Prf weapon. Heres why: After running Maddening and using a Starsphere Anna on Bow Knight all game, I can confirm Radiant Bow Anna with Wind God is absolutely disgusting and wanted to use her in a No-DLC run. Sadly, her noodle-arms without Starsphere helping her Build just won't do compared to just reclassing say Merrin to Bow Knight (we'll get to that). So I found that Fogado actually has great base Mag, Speed, and Build, and a personal class that keeps his Mag and Speed growth going decently for this setup that Radiant Bow's weight won't hinder him, and its Mt will obviously become a powerhouse with his decent Mag. Specifically, one Spirit Dust you can get easily earlier will boost his Mag just behind my Anna by -1. His Speed+Build ends up being +1 over mine at the same level. This means, you can run a marginally worse Radiant Bow build I did with Starpshere Anna with no DLC. This Anna is a unit that could attack 3 range, 1 shot any flier (78Mt +24Mag), doubled just about anything other than Swords/Knives. I only used Starsphere and +3 Speed skill, eventually got Canter in endgame when Build from Starsphere reached about 11. So, Fogado starts with some SP over early units and doesn't need to spend 1500 on Star, can invest in Lyn's Spd+3 right away and get canter from Sigurd a little later or whatever you prefer. Looking at Stats, Merrin and Pandreo and maybe others can run this, too. However, Fogado can promote and use an Emblem ring on the chapter you get Merrin, and units like Merrin have better/different potentials with S Knives on Wolf for instance. This makes him surprisingly low investment for a guy that just needs a M. Seal and Radiant Bow which is easy to early forge for earlier chapters, and cheap to upgrade relative to big tomes you can compare this build to on an MK. Fogado's personal class also has MUCH higher stat caps in Mag and Speed, but these will likely not matter in Maddening so units running this build in Bow Knights may cap out at Endgame while Cupido will likely end the game with their stats.
Imo Warrior is the best class for him. It’s +6 STR and -2 MAG compared to Cupido, so it patches up his damage with regular bows. Radiant Bow access is no joke, as you said. It’s super cheap to forge and starts at 19 Mt. I do agree stat-wise that Merrin basically beats him out in essentially every stat, but she won’t be able to hit high Def enemies anywhere near as well. The only other Warrior that can Rad Bow better than him is Anna, who obviously has the opposite problem though with her terrible strength and build. …part of me does want to try Sage or Mage Knight Fogado though, purely for the memes.
I disagree with the idea that merrin doesn’t hit high def enemies as well as fogado. If you made them both warrior, merrin would still do radiant bow better. Because she has 1 more magic then him along with the same magic growth and is 2 levels lower along with everything else she has that’s better then him. I still think fogado is good since being a worse merrin isn’t a bad thing but she really does do everything better then fogado. Even fogado’s bow prof doesn’t matter since you have lyn to get bow prof and silver bow is worse then radiant bow for fogado. Also she has 1 more build then him so she’s only losing 1 spd from radiant bow as well. So better stats all around including magic and she’s a lower level.
Warrior loses access to brave bow. I’m considering a late-ish reversion to Cupido to enable brave bow after maybe -15 levels in warrior to buff strength.
I find it funny how literally one ch later they make fogado replaceable on maddening. It's like even the developers didn't know what they wanted out of him.
One build I ran with Cupido as more of a meme on one of my Maddening runs was trying to desperately make use of Back at You. Basically I got him Resolve from Ike, gave him HP+ from Corrin as high as I could go, and gave him an engraved Levin Sword. When Celica rejoins the party, I put her ring on him, and in combination with warding stance, he was dealing a fair chunk of health back to enemies that could hit him. Was it optimal? Absolutely not, it is 100% a meme build, and I don't recommend it on a serious maddening run, but it was extremely hilarious. If I could go back and do it again, I'd just save SP for when you get Roy back and get him Hold Out+. I'd do it again on a more casual run, but I don't really recommend it for Maddening unless you want something funny to do on a more tedious map or on a Tempest Trial. To make Fogado good, I'd still follow all the advice in this video, but the Celica/Fogado pairing was actually pretty good all things considered and I'm interested to play with it on future maddening runs even without the meme build. Fogado has a shocking amount of versatility that, while not overtly useful in Maddening, makes him fun to poke and prod at with weird skills and weird builds which is part of the reason he's one of my favorite units to run.
I've never really used him. Doing a no DLC run (minus the items they forced into my box) and him as cupido with radiant bow is saving my arse. Will see how it holds but enjoying him picking off fows with long bow and radiant bow
Ive been using cupido with radiant bow, used lyn alot but now im playing with hector and camilla and he does use them well, but he still ends up struggling more than other units 😭 I hate how they made all the unique classes so hit or miss, just let them be their best option cause theyre UNIQUE!! 😔😔
Something people over look is is magic I ran him on cupido with the radiant bow and he was doing 60 damage and doubling by the time I forged it was crazy
He's a good option if you invest in him correctly; In this case, making use of his Speed. I find his passive pretty useless though, and he's certainly lacking Strength. I kinda wonder what his role was supposed to be; he's a sub-par archer outside of Radiant Bow builds, and he doesn't have enough defence to fill the archetype of "tanky archer" either.
Apparently there's an achievable Mag benchmark that allows an upgraded Radiant Bow user to OHKO any flying unit in the game, and Cupido Eirika Fogado can hit that benchmark pretty reasonably. Might be worth looking into if you like that setup, I read about it on Gamefaq but I havent gotten to test it yet.
On my first run, I kept him on my team, I ended up having a radiant bow as his main weapon, the high might at least least him almost one shot flyers. This didn't really save him, just made him usable. I'm one of those stubborn players that refuses to drop units
Now that I think about it Griffin Knight Fogado with Levin sword flex option as a sword unit with his magic doesn't seem that bad of an option due to innate high accuracy of swords and more staff utility but runs the risk of having similar issues to Chloe's strength down the line. Edit: This assumes DLC at least to run griffin as early as possible otherwise Cupido for Timerra's chapter to deal with wyverns -> Wyvern knight from Ike
For what its worth, one point of dex only gives half a percent in crit and 2 points in hit. Looking at the emblem engravings, there are ones that give 20 or 30 crit and hit, which basically is equivalent to like 10 or more points in dex. I'm pretty confident that dex is by far the worst stat point for point. +3 dex is a 1.5% increase in crit and a 6% increase in hit. Assuming your hit rate is around 80%, this is something like 8% increase in expected damage. Compare that with strength +3 (around 15% increase assuming you're hitting 20's) or speed +3 (let's say it doubled your damage a fifth of the time, so a 20% increase) and it isn't close.
Warrio fogado seems pretty insane. He has higher strength and speed than Alcryst in his unique class. Though he has lower dex and doesn’t have access to Luna meaning it may be harder to land shots on faster enemies and Alcryst can become the better crit archer.
Did you hear about the new maddening bug in 1.3? New game playthroughs are now random growths instead of fixed. It's clearly a bug because if you have beaten a different difficulty to unlock growth selection, you would then be forced to select fixed mode as random is greyed out.
Fogado is the only secondary Royal I didn’t bring with me in the final battle. And I really feel bad about it. What Fogado lacks in attack power and Luna like Alcryst he makes up for by being a Cavalry Unit who is the best user of the Radiant Bow due to his so-so Magic and Speed (which skyrockets with Lyn as his Emblem). And his gets access to Swords, giving him an alternative way to fight.
Warrior is easily his best class. 10 starting build allows him to use silver bow without penalty. He has 10 bld growth so he easily levels bld up to brave bow and radiant bow. 19 base str and 18 base spd are good for internal level 17. And warrior makes his growths 60 str/60 spd which helps him stay relevant. Very low investment imo.
I feel like Warrior is just the go-to for a ton of units if it’s not just from natural progression. Etie? Boucheron? Rosado? Fogado? Panette? Zelkov? Kagetsu? Just toss them all on Warrior, you can’t really go wrong with it.
I kept him on Cupido using the radiant bow exclusively and he was hitting like a truck. I preferred him over rng'cryst for reliability. Alcryst was kinda more fun though. 0+0 =69???
I’ve used him as a warrior so far in my play through. I’ve mainly used Lyn to double things so he’s pretty strong. However, I just hit 2k SP on him and I’m not sure what to inherit. I feel like speedtaker could be great so I can give Lyn to Alcryst. However, I feel like draconic hex is also very tempting so I could use a longbow (or the Claude ring) to safely cripple bosses. Which one would be best? Edit: Another option is to inherit spd +3 so I have spare SP to inherit hit +15 or a bow focus skill (he does tend to have low accuracy against fast enemies).
Honestly I don't think Speedtaker is worth it considering the set up involved to reach it's maximum benefit. Spd +3/4 is def better for way less SP and then u can use the extra SP on Canter or save up for Draconic Hex anyway
It think you should consider in investment the bond fragments needed to get the weapon aptitude to reclass. Like for example if I want to do a mage knight Merrin I have to consider how late I get tome aptitude without DLC and how expansive it gets with DLC if I want to make it when I unlock her.
I used fogado on my first playthrough and he got more magic than strength lmao, he was a decent radiant bow user and useful against the many fliers in late game nonetheless, granted it was on hard mode
@@IcedCoffeeGaming I did try out Anna as a Warrior on hard mode. It’s honestly a fun build to run Hurricane Axe and Radiant Bow on the same set. When I try it on maddening I’m definitely going Sage eventually
Honestly thought this was going to be a Merrin spotlight after the amount of time you spent hyping her up in the beginning - since I can't predict the future I have no idea how much more time you'd spend on her (which makes me not want to watch the video, but I have to if I want to know more about Fogado) I understand we get replacement units and that some units aren't on par with the rest of the team, but if we're coming in to learn about someone, please try to focus on that character. You have a habit of derailing to other characters (your most common is Timerra) which isn't the reason some of us click to watch 😓
Dam they hard nerfed berserkers in this game berserkers usually has high strength speed and hp they hard nerfed there speed in this game and to make them more different from worriers berserkers should have at least got there crit bonus back. And another funny thing is that warriors in past games is usually the slower class of the two but have more def and can use bows but in this game warriors are pretty much way better in just about every stat over berserker I wonder why berserker is hard nerfed there class skill should have been death blow the version that gives 20 crit at least instead of smash+ I would love pannette on berserker cause her outfit is looks good but the class sucks
One small issue I have with your character videos across games, you can't help but compare them to other units and that is bad dude. Imagine if you had a highlight reel, and whoever did it, constantly kept putting other people in your reel to potential recruiters, in a negative light to boot. It's annoying in that way, otherwise you do a well enough job.
The small editing changes you are adding are very nice
Thanks :)
The sad thing compared to Merrin is that he comes with a higher internal level than her as well (17 vs 15), so the stat difference is amplified even further given he's more difficult to level.
I'm planning on using him on my next run where I ignore the absurdly high base stat units (Kagetsu, Pandreo, Merrin, etc.). Compared to the other lords, his base class is probably the biggest bait given how poor his offense is - agree on reclassing to Warrior.
Warrior is the one unit that’s a backup unit that can use bows.
I give him Lucina’s ability that lets units back up attack from wherever they can move to. Now he can shot everything as a small damage bonus for all your other units. Also makes Claud’s S bond ring almost viable on him.
radiant bow is really strong and fogado has the mag to make it work, but so does merrin lol
If you to run Cupido, it's surprisingly good with the Roy ring, which isn't really a highly contested ring to begin with. It provides a good deal of strength to help him out, gives him the extra mov when engaged for being a cavalry, and Hold Out is basically the only thing that makes the Back at You skill somewhat usable. If you really want to invest in him, you could probably run him on warrior for a while for the growths, and switch him back to Cupido for the endgame after you get Roy back. I don't think he's worth doing all that, but it's certainly possible
"Hitting things is good" is the best advice anyone's ever given me
The well pretty consistently drops SP books, throwing in 5 steel weapons puts you at 4 starts and nets you 500-600 sp as well as silver weapons.
SP is not much of an issue anymore.
First off, loving the content! And second, I would argue Cupido Fogado with Lucina is highly effective. In my mind it’s better than flyer Alear with Lucina since he can get avoid with bow agility and can bonded shield your mage knights and wolf knights during enemy phase, while having insane dual assist++ with the longbow. This theoretically uses the skill back at you, in that the rare times he doesn’t avoid he has a chance to pay back the damage (altho he’s rarely targeted so I don’t see this happen haha). This provides way more utility than sheer damage on Warrior which Panette already offers (on my team anyways).
@@priestessii Yeah fair enough, although that's a waste of Alear in my eyes. His dragon typing bonus isnt worth him completely falling off as a damage unit and shield bonding wastes their player phase damage potential, (I have Roy on wyvern Alear, it absolutely fucks). Fogado isn't doing much damage outside of radiant bow usage and that won' t always be needed. Fogado also has better range with chain attack and dual assist with the longbow than Alear on flyer, since most enemies are the ground anyways and you one can shot flyers. I truly believe Lucina's best pairing is with Fogado, unless you want to waste Alear's potential.
While he doesn't have Chloé's passive, he can also do the martial Master Eirika build thanks to his +3 speed cap and good speed growth. Just make sure to wait until after ch17 for the speed scroll before you switch
I find that Fogado is at his best in either Bow Knight or Sniper with a brave bow and Erika and
Lunar brace makes his brave bow hit like a tactical nuke, late game if you picked bow knight and hes fast enough to reliably quad with it, and if you went sniper you can just pick up build +3.
And to cap it off, Erika gives some magic to use the radiant bow not that he needs it becuase having Lunar Brace plus an armorslayer will LITERALLY punch holes in armored units
An interesting note btw, I see Lunar Brace proc when I shoot the radiant bow but i havent done any testing to see if its actually increasing the damage.
@@priestessii i havent done any extensive testing with the build.
it was really just that bow knight and sniper have slightly higher STR but Cupido works also theoretically.
So after trying to find different hosts for Eirika, Fogado is definitely a top contender.
You always want her active, and Fogado will be quading with brave bow almost always thanks to his speed. He's a strong radiant bow user, which benefits from Eirika's mag stat increase. And he annihilates the big siege dragons with twin strike thanks to the Calvary boost.
Give him Canter and long bow and he's always outside of danger. He won't touch his swords at all.
The only other units that compete with his speed is Kagetsu (who's probably using another emblem) or Merrin (I have her on Sigurd right now)
I find that radiant bow fogado ends up scaling pretty nicely, with a few magic dust and inheritting magic+ allows him to actually 1 round a lot of enemies even in end game maddening. Higher speed than mages too which can allow him to kill where someone like anna may not be able to. With Claude he can also attack from 3 range, not sure what emblem rings to use if not S claude ring tho. Although for physical, warrior is the way to go like you said.
Lucina Emblem could be effective if you like for him to inherit Dual Assist. Corrin too if you like Dragonic Hex
I’ve said it before but cupido fogado is very strong with Erika garage bow. Sure, anyone can use it but he has the benefit of being the fastest character in the game, making it easier for him to quad and one round.
You mentioned the ancient well so I'll bring it up, it's based purely on money value:
1 star: 0
2 star: 1000
3 star: 5000
4 star: 10000
5 star: 20000
Mind you it appears to be the buy value of weapons, so it can be a lot more beneficial than selling. It also seems to be returning greater total value, but it's random. In theory if you only have enough for 3 star, you could keep putting stuff back in to eventually have 5 stars worth of item value.
There's a spreadsheet in the serenes forest forums, but I suspect they'll add it to the main site soon
Fogado is an excellent example of how Stat Boosters (no DLC) can help customize a unit. Cupido is one of his best options with just one Spirit Dust. Thats not to say you shouldn't feed him the next couple you get because compared to mages hes just got no Mag growth. But thats okay! The Radiant Bow is his Prf weapon. Heres why:
After running Maddening and using a Starsphere Anna on Bow Knight all game, I can confirm Radiant Bow Anna with Wind God is absolutely disgusting and wanted to use her in a No-DLC run. Sadly, her noodle-arms without Starsphere helping her Build just won't do compared to just reclassing say Merrin to Bow Knight (we'll get to that).
So I found that Fogado actually has great base Mag, Speed, and Build, and a personal class that keeps his Mag and Speed growth going decently for this setup that Radiant Bow's weight won't hinder him, and its Mt will obviously become a powerhouse with his decent Mag. Specifically, one Spirit Dust you can get easily earlier will boost his Mag just behind my Anna by -1. His Speed+Build ends up being +1 over mine at the same level. This means, you can run a marginally worse Radiant Bow build I did with Starpshere Anna with no DLC. This Anna is a unit that could attack 3 range, 1 shot any flier (78Mt +24Mag), doubled just about anything other than Swords/Knives. I only used Starsphere and +3 Speed skill, eventually got Canter in endgame when Build from Starsphere reached about 11. So, Fogado starts with some SP over early units and doesn't need to spend 1500 on Star, can invest in Lyn's Spd+3 right away and get canter from Sigurd a little later or whatever you prefer.
Looking at Stats, Merrin and Pandreo and maybe others can run this, too. However, Fogado can promote and use an Emblem ring on the chapter you get Merrin, and units like Merrin have better/different potentials with S Knives on Wolf for instance. This makes him surprisingly low investment for a guy that just needs a M. Seal and Radiant Bow which is easy to early forge for earlier chapters, and cheap to upgrade relative to big tomes you can compare this build to on an MK.
Fogado's personal class also has MUCH higher stat caps in Mag and Speed, but these will likely not matter in Maddening so units running this build in Bow Knights may cap out at Endgame while Cupido will likely end the game with their stats.
Imo Warrior is the best class for him. It’s +6 STR and -2 MAG compared to Cupido, so it patches up his damage with regular bows. Radiant Bow access is no joke, as you said. It’s super cheap to forge and starts at 19 Mt. I do agree stat-wise that Merrin basically beats him out in essentially every stat, but she won’t be able to hit high Def enemies anywhere near as well.
The only other Warrior that can Rad Bow better than him is Anna, who obviously has the opposite problem though with her terrible strength and build.
…part of me does want to try Sage or Mage Knight Fogado though, purely for the memes.
I disagree with the idea that merrin doesn’t hit high def enemies as well as fogado. If you made them both warrior, merrin would still do radiant bow better. Because she has 1 more magic then him along with the same magic growth and is 2 levels lower along with everything else she has that’s better then him. I still think fogado is good since being a worse merrin isn’t a bad thing but she really does do everything better then fogado. Even fogado’s bow prof doesn’t matter since you have lyn to get bow prof and silver bow is worse then radiant bow for fogado. Also she has 1 more build then him so she’s only losing 1 spd from radiant bow as well. So better stats all around including magic and she’s a lower level.
The good thing about Fogado is he is hot in Sage or Warrior outfits, both are good classes for him if you wanna bring him to end game lmao
Warrior loses access to brave bow. I’m considering a late-ish reversion to Cupido to enable brave bow after maybe -15 levels in warrior to buff strength.
I find it funny how literally one ch later they make fogado replaceable on maddening. It's like even the developers didn't know what they wanted out of him.
Wait, his name isn't Cupido? I've been calling him Cupido for weeks.
One build I ran with Cupido as more of a meme on one of my Maddening runs was trying to desperately make use of Back at You. Basically I got him Resolve from Ike, gave him HP+ from Corrin as high as I could go, and gave him an engraved Levin Sword. When Celica rejoins the party, I put her ring on him, and in combination with warding stance, he was dealing a fair chunk of health back to enemies that could hit him. Was it optimal? Absolutely not, it is 100% a meme build, and I don't recommend it on a serious maddening run, but it was extremely hilarious. If I could go back and do it again, I'd just save SP for when you get Roy back and get him Hold Out+. I'd do it again on a more casual run, but I don't really recommend it for Maddening unless you want something funny to do on a more tedious map or on a Tempest Trial.
To make Fogado good, I'd still follow all the advice in this video, but the Celica/Fogado pairing was actually pretty good all things considered and I'm interested to play with it on future maddening runs even without the meme build. Fogado has a shocking amount of versatility that, while not overtly useful in Maddening, makes him fun to poke and prod at with weird skills and weird builds which is part of the reason he's one of my favorite units to run.
I put him through as a thief and he worked wonders with a Lucina ring, that and he looks good too
I've never really used him. Doing a no DLC run (minus the items they forced into my box) and him as cupido with radiant bow is saving my arse. Will see how it holds but enjoying him picking off fows with long bow and radiant bow
Ive been using cupido with radiant bow, used lyn alot but now im playing with hector and camilla and he does use them well, but he still ends up struggling more than other units 😭
I hate how they made all the unique classes so hit or miss, just let them be their best option cause theyre UNIQUE!! 😔😔
Something people over look is is magic I ran him on cupido with the radiant bow and he was doing 60 damage and doubling by the time I forged it was crazy
from my own experience (and the comments) Radiant Bow seems to be Fogado's main niche which hey, least he has something
The immediate upside of warrior is that his abs are now on full display, quite the unit I’d say 😏
He's a good option if you invest in him correctly; In this case, making use of his Speed. I find his passive pretty useless though, and he's certainly lacking Strength. I kinda wonder what his role was supposed to be; he's a sub-par archer outside of Radiant Bow builds, and he doesn't have enough defence to fill the archetype of "tanky archer" either.
Really like radiant bow Cupido. There's better things he could probably, do but my Alcryst had more trouble one rounding Wyverns than him.
Apparently there's an achievable Mag benchmark that allows an upgraded Radiant Bow user to OHKO any flying unit in the game, and Cupido Eirika Fogado can hit that benchmark pretty reasonably. Might be worth looking into if you like that setup, I read about it on Gamefaq but I havent gotten to test it yet.
On my first run, I kept him on my team, I ended up having a radiant bow as his main weapon, the high might at least least him almost one shot flyers. This didn't really save him, just made him usable. I'm one of those stubborn players that refuses to drop units
Now that I think about it Griffin Knight Fogado with Levin sword flex option as a sword unit with his magic doesn't seem that bad of an option due to innate high accuracy of swords and more staff utility but runs the risk of having similar issues to Chloe's strength down the line.
Edit: This assumes DLC at least to run griffin as early as possible otherwise Cupido for Timerra's chapter to deal with wyverns -> Wyvern knight from Ike
I actually gave him the Radiant bow on Hard mode, and he does just fine, then again I haven't used him on maddening yet so I can't say for certain.
For what its worth, one point of dex only gives half a percent in crit and 2 points in hit. Looking at the emblem engravings, there are ones that give 20 or 30 crit and hit, which basically is equivalent to like 10 or more points in dex.
I'm pretty confident that dex is by far the worst stat point for point. +3 dex is a 1.5% increase in crit and a 6% increase in hit. Assuming your hit rate is around 80%, this is something like 8% increase in expected damage. Compare that with strength +3 (around 15% increase assuming you're hitting 20's) or speed +3 (let's say it doubled your damage a fifth of the time, so a 20% increase) and it isn't close.
Welcome to Merrin BASIC UNIT GUIDE! haha
Warrio fogado seems pretty insane. He has higher strength and speed than Alcryst in his unique class. Though he has lower dex and doesn’t have access to Luna meaning it may be harder to land shots on faster enemies and Alcryst can become the better crit archer.
Did you hear about the new maddening bug in 1.3? New game playthroughs are now random growths instead of fixed. It's clearly a bug because if you have beaten a different difficulty to unlock growth selection, you would then be forced to select fixed mode as random is greyed out.
Weird, hopefully they fix it :)
Fogado is the only secondary Royal I didn’t bring with me in the final battle. And I really feel bad about it. What Fogado lacks in attack power and Luna like Alcryst he makes up for by being a Cavalry Unit who is the best user of the Radiant Bow due to his so-so Magic and Speed (which skyrockets with Lyn as his Emblem). And his gets access to Swords, giving him an alternative way to fight.
You brought Alfred?!
How’d you make him so good, I wanna know.
@@maikayee246 you get Alfred before Celine. Celine is the secondary royal
@@maikayee246 I just reclass him to a more defensive class.
Warrior is easily his best class. 10 starting build allows him to use silver bow without penalty. He has 10 bld growth so he easily levels bld up to brave bow and radiant bow. 19 base str and 18 base spd are good for internal level 17. And warrior makes his growths 60 str/60 spd which helps him stay relevant. Very low investment imo.
I feel like Warrior is just the go-to for a ton of units if it’s not just from natural progression. Etie? Boucheron? Rosado? Fogado? Panette? Zelkov? Kagetsu? Just toss them all on Warrior, you can’t really go wrong with it.
Let me guess. Just put him on wyvern to fix his problems.
Yes, but also *warrior*
I kept him on Cupido using the radiant bow exclusively and he was hitting like a truck. I preferred him over rng'cryst for reliability. Alcryst was kinda more fun though. 0+0 =69???
Same. He killed a lot of armor knight in my run
Same, with Claude's ring and canter+ he's really good
I’ve used him as a warrior so far in my play through. I’ve mainly used Lyn to double things so he’s pretty strong.
However, I just hit 2k SP on him and I’m not sure what to inherit. I feel like speedtaker could be great so I can give Lyn to Alcryst. However, I feel like draconic hex is also very tempting so I could use a longbow (or the Claude ring) to safely cripple bosses. Which one would be best?
Edit: Another option is to inherit spd +3 so I have spare SP to inherit hit +15 or a bow focus skill (he does tend to have low accuracy against fast enemies).
Honestly I don't think Speedtaker is worth it considering the set up involved to reach it's maximum benefit. Spd +3/4 is def better for way less SP and then u can use the extra SP on Canter or save up for Draconic Hex anyway
It think you should consider in investment the bond fragments needed to get the weapon aptitude to reclass.
Like for example if I want to do a mage knight Merrin I have to consider how late I get tome aptitude without DLC and how expansive it gets with DLC if I want to make it when I unlock her.
Question, do you need staff rank to make someone a Griffin? Because if so, Fogado doesn't have access to Griffin outside DLC until Ch 18...
You do need staff access
enemy minus crit rate is not good for passives in engage because of rewinding, you just rewind and do something else if you get crit
I used fogado on my first playthrough and he got more magic than strength lmao, he was a decent radiant bow user and useful against the many fliers in late game nonetheless, granted it was on hard mode
"Granted it was on hard mode" was already implied by the rest of your comment.
@@traceyrice4978
True lmao
Paladin can have S ranks, it's a matter of the unit's proficiencies
Hot guys use fogado
Can we have a guide for jean? =)
Best user of the Radiant Bow imo without making Anna a Bow Knight 🧢
But is that the best use of ANNA?
@@IcedCoffeeGaming no it’s the bench
@@IcedCoffeeGaming I did try out Anna as a Warrior on hard mode. It’s honestly a fun build to run Hurricane Axe and Radiant Bow on the same set. When I try it on maddening I’m definitely going Sage eventually
Mage knight?
fogado is cool 😎
Honestly thought this was going to be a Merrin spotlight after the amount of time you spent hyping her up in the beginning - since I can't predict the future I have no idea how much more time you'd spend on her (which makes me not want to watch the video, but I have to if I want to know more about Fogado)
I understand we get replacement units and that some units aren't on par with the rest of the team, but if we're coming in to learn about someone, please try to focus on that character.
You have a habit of derailing to other characters (your most common is Timerra) which isn't the reason some of us click to watch 😓
Fair! Thanks for the feedback :)
Dam they hard nerfed berserkers in this game berserkers usually has high strength speed and hp they hard nerfed there speed in this game and to make them more different from worriers berserkers should have at least got there crit bonus back. And another funny thing is that warriors in past games is usually the slower class of the two but have more def and can use bows but in this game warriors are pretty much way better in just about every stat over berserker I wonder why berserker is hard nerfed there class skill should have been death blow the version that gives 20 crit at least instead of smash+ I would love pannette on berserker cause her outfit is looks good but the class sucks
Thief???
One small issue I have with your character videos across games, you can't help but compare them to other units and that is bad dude. Imagine if you had a highlight reel, and whoever did it, constantly kept putting other people in your reel to potential recruiters, in a negative light to boot. It's annoying in that way, otherwise you do a well enough job.