/r/fireemblem makes an FE6 tier list - Round 7

He's the leader of the Elite Four! The Dragon Master! The crimson-haired... Oh wait, wrong guy. He's the knight Lance, who won round 6 with 47 points!

He has no style! He has no moves! This knight has a funny face! He's Bors, who was voted the worst this round with 48 points!

Other observations:

• Once again, Lilina keeps being voted for best and worst.
• We've had some more variety, with the introduction of Saul to best and Chad and Yodel to worst.
• I swear if you guys don't vote Lalum and Elphin next round so I can stop having to add countless votes for them every time I will banish you all to Nabata.

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Now, let's go forth!

Welcome to the third installation of r/fireemblem makes a Fire Emblem tier list! This time, we will be tackling Fire Emblem: Binding Blade. I am appropriating the format from the former tier list threads, so credit goes to u/Mekkkah.

Please take the time to read through the rules.When done, please cast your votes for best and worst characters in FE6. Please post your reasoning. Reasoning is fun to read!

Every round, we're going to determine the best and the worst unit left to be tiered. So during the first round, we will determine the best and worst units in the game, then the second round the second best and second worst, and so on.

This time around, instead of one vote, every user gets two votes of different value. You get to hand out 2 points to your favourite unit for the spot in question and then 1 for your next favourite. This way votes more accurately represent everyone's opinions.

Here's what my vote looks like:

Best:

2 pts - Sain

1 pt - Kent

Worst:

2 pts - Karla

1 pt - Wallace

Please make it very clear which unit is being given how many points.

I will only count votes in top comments, not replies to other comments. Everyone’s vote will be counted equally.

Each round lasts roughly 24 hours, after which I will update the list and post a new thread.

Now, far be it from me to tell you how to play or think, but in order to have some sort of consistency I'm going to post the following guidelines. Even though I already know this isn't going to end up as even close to how I would tier units, I'd like reasoning (which I enjoy reading) to follow these principles:

• The game is played on Hard Mode and takes into consideration the HM bonus.

• The game is played somewhat efficiently. No grinding, arena abuse, boss abuse, skirmish abuse, tower abuse, etc.

• Killing enemies quickly is good. Killing enemies slowly is bad.

• Anything that results into either of these directions, be it high offensive or defensive stats, movement, 1-2 range, availability, etc is fair game. Finishing chapters quickly is cool too.

• Personality and other story-related things do not matter. Sorry, everyone's a robot.

• All characters are recruited. Recruitment cost is thus a non-issue. Examples of things that do not matter: having to wait for characters to arrive on the scene, taking extra time to recruit characters, NPCs being hard to keep alive, etc. In other words, rate unit performance from the moment they are player controlled. Characters who are exclusive to paths are subjected to these rules.

• This is not an LTC playthrough, so there's no need to go that extreme. But it's not a completionist one either.

• Some units obviously differ vastly depending on different routes. Ratings should take into account their performance compared to all other route-exclusive characters.

Yeah, it's kind of vague, but that's going to be half the fun.

List so far:

• Milady/Miledy
• Marcus
• Rutger
• Perceval
• Shanna
• Lance

[The rest]

• Bors
• Karel
• Bath/Barth
• Cath
• Sophia
• Wendy

Available characters:

• Roy
• Alan
• Wolt
• Merlinus
• Ellen
• Dieck
• Wade/Ward
• Lot
• Chad
• Lugh
• Clarine
• Saul
• Dorothy
• Sue
• Zealot/Zelots
• Treck/Trec
• Noah
• Astol/Astore
• Lilina
• Oujay/Ogier
• Fir
• Sin
• Gonzales/Gonzalez
• Geese
• Klein
• Tate/Thite
• Lalum OR Elphin
• Echidna
• Bartre
• Raigh
• Cecilia
• Igrene
• Garret
• Fae
• Hugh
• Zeiss
• Douglas
• Niime
• Juno
• Dayan
• Yodel

Please pay attention to the list before voting!

Have fun!