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Yo! Given that the DCC doesn't exist anymore I decided to just post to your profile page instead. :P

Simple reason for this being that after months I randomly decided to check out OUs viability rankings and seeing Mega Latios of all things being pretty good in that meta just made me laugh a little bit.

There are four total in the game, but you only need three to unlock a special surprise after the last boss and get the "true" ending. Sadly, you can progress past the point of unlocking one of them, but you should be able to get the other 3.
Also do everything aside from Chalice dungeons that you want to do before the last boss. When you finish the last boss it takes you to New Game+ automatically with no prompting or way of going back.
Anyways, the locations of the umbilical cords in the spoiler below if you want them:

Thank you for trying anyway XD

You don't have to tell me that. I grind by nature; I'm an over-achiever. Of course, before random battles start appearing (even on hard mode), it was very difficult. Matches could be won and lost on a single critical hit. But once I have free reign with random fights, DLC is pointless.

So how long have you been playing? What was your first game?
I started on Awakening, just because I had heard so many rave reviews and was looking for 3DS games. And then it blew me away so much I knew I had to do more.
Apparently that was the start of modern FE, thus a good place to start.

I'd believe it too. I tried that remake for 3DS... Shadows of Valencia or something? Yeah... I could not get into at all.
I felt, after doing some research, it was more-or-less just a graphical enhance of a much older game. And that's a big deal to someone who's only played the later ones. It's hard to go back, and old FE especially doesn't really look pleasing to me. :/


Perma-death is a staple. If there's no consequences in the battles with characters you care about, then there's no real intensity in the gameplay.

I keep wanting to improve some good weapons in Fates, but for the rarer ones, I don't think you can even get more than one each, so you can't make a +# weapon. And it seems you have to buy probably 12 actual swords to get a +5 one... it's really hard to understand. Oh and ore too or something.... see?
They need to fix this in the Switch game, for sure. Go back to the Awakening forging.


Yeah, that's the Camilla map I was talking about. She stays in a corner and hammers you the whole time, then you have to fight Beruka and Selena. I had been grinding the whole time and was at the level, almost the top, and as I said, it took hours and many, many tries.

Or are we talking about the same levels? I'm pretty sure it was above ground along bridges and what-not. And I don't recall more than one level of her blasting you from safety than that one...? And it was Birthright... hmm.

I think I had more dread fighters than anyone else. I told you I love the shuriken, but I found the ninja classes were too limiting (they only use them), so almost everyone that got training with a shuriken with a decent attack and speed stat became a dread fighter; even someone like Takumi, despite he couldn't use his iconic bow. He was so much more useful that way for me.

Women especially, because they get Gale Force. Talk to my friend who battled my team of shuriken master women with Gale Force, Warp, and Replicate. He got destroyed in his home base in like 4 turns, haha.
Women seem to get more opportunities in FE, for sure.

I think my all time favorite unit was Reina, from Hoshido in Fates. She's a monster once you make her a dread fighter with proper training. All those skills too, etc, and the fact she recovers HP with each kill.... beast.

She's an excellent versatile fighter as a Dread Fighter. Her personality was very enjoyable too. The sweet older woman mother type, with an extremely passionate bloodlust. Very interesting combination.
Too bad she only gets support with Corrin. I wish more characters got support with everyone. I'm thinking of Yukimura too; he only gets Corrin too. Seems like a waste.

What about you? What are some of your preferences in characters, classes, etc? Do you find men or women work better for you?

I'm a fast attacking type, both in FE and even in Pokemon, and it pretty much matches my adamant nature too.
I can't get behind things like tanking in FE because the hit rates and all that is so bad, even with max stats, a wall is barely... anything. And then the massive HP decrease in Fates.... even more-so.

For Awakening, my favorite unit personality wise was Tharja. So much fun to use, but my Henry was absolutely insane with the skills I gave him. A mix that basically made him unstoppable, or at the very least, guaranteed to kill at least one unit, no matter who.

...You sure you don't want to battle? Haha, damn, the more I talk about it, the more sad I am that we can't.


Oh, is that part with the kids only in Revelations? I haven't played it yet, but if it's there, I can wait. I'm glad there is an explanation. All I know is it wasn't in Birthright or Conquest.

Still not sure about how someone like Gaius reincarnates, though. Tharja, as I explained, yes, I get it, but not almost anyone else.
The others seem a bit more transparent.
I don't know; I was hoping for a lot more unique personalities with kids. I had a lot of fun with that in Awakening, to see who each of them were, and how I felt they matched with their parents, etc.
Again, it stems back to my love of hooking them up. I love it when they connected and then could see their whole family life.

So as I mentioned with Kellam and Miriel, you never once had that sort of feeling either? You were pretty indifferent to everyone in that regard?

That is disheartening to hear that Gen 7 removed them.

So much gen 5 really turned me on to triples (all that post game stuff) and now it's my preferred method. I guess I like being able to battle with a full team, which the game inexplicably tries to prevent at any chance when trying to battle. (and always caps at 50 too, which is equally annoying).

It's total nonsense that the mentality is that it's not considered competitive. I'd say the kind of teamwork that is involved to make 6 Pokemon work together with only a trio out at once (and any variation of them too) is the truest test of skill.
It breeds you to make the most fluent team you can.

Well, can't say I'm interested in any of that now. Oh wel.

Next time I play Awakening I'm doing Lunatic too. I grind so hard, hard was only difficult at first, then it got mega easy.
Birthright was pretty easy, but I swear Lunatic on Conquest is literally impossible without either cheating or DLC (which I view as essentially paying to cheat).

I assume you played perma-death on too, right? I don't like using units so I would constantly reset until I did the whole battle right, which is not only good practice, but it's intense to know you might have to replay a round for hours if you mess up.
In Birthright, despite grinding my nuts off, I recall the stage with Camilla on the attack (hiding out and shooting lightning each turn) took me well over 3 to 4 hours to beat, but I did it somehow without losing anyone.
And I'm a mega over-achiever when it comes to grinding in games and it was still that insane.

I'm still not even sure I get the forging in Fates. It's a lot different than in Awakening. Like you need full copies of each weapon to then forge them into +# weapons? I barely saw any difference either.

At least once your units get leveled enough, the minor stat decreases from stronger weapons doesn't matter much.
Did you have a favorite weapon type by chance?

I loved the additions Fates made with shurikens and knives; and those are my go-to weapons for almost any occasion. I love the distance, long or short, the stat damage, and in the hands of a skilled user, the damage. They are pretty much perfect for me, haha.
They were like tomes in Awakening, but better still.
I found myself making most units Dread Fighters just to be able to wield them, in addition to others.

I saw a video for that, hold on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQu9pvGb0Q

Here, check this out. They need to fix this, since a lot of the time (especially on harder difficulties) you just need to make calculations on what you will do if it hits or misses. It's wise to have backup plans if things don't go your way, but sometimes when you do everything possible to lower your opponent's hit and it's barely 10% for them, somehow they STILL hit.
And when you're up against a boss with a 30% chance, it feels more like 3%. It completely fucks your game, really. And takes the fun out of it.
Like, great, so it's not about strategy, but more-so about luck.
I'd rather all moves hit 100%, then it would be really strategic, like Chess or something similar.


Haha, so it seems my gut is the opposite of what they claim? Well, they might just say anything since they have to pick a side, but they made it so open and customizable for a reason; there is no *real* canon.

There are a lot of ships that people swear by that I don't like at all. Like Lon'qu and Olivia. A guy like him hooking up with her simply due to a sword trick is so cheesy.
I think canonically he'd remain single, or at least after his support with Cherche, would possibly choose who I chose, which is Panne.
As she's a woman, but one not so fragile as a human, thus it would alleviate his fears of losing her like before. That and... look at Yarne. He looks exactly like Lon'qu. EXACTLY.
Yeah, not convincing me otherwise, haha.
Even funnier that in this pairing, he's the son of two of the biggest badasses in the game and he's a full blown coward. It just works on every level.

For the protagonist genders, again, I stand by my Awakening proof with Robin, but also Corrin being female doesn't work for me. Mostly because of Camilla. She needs to have a creepy, borderline incestual attachment to him; I feel that was the point of it in the story. It's not present if Corrin is female. Simple as that.

So you're not much of a romantic person like I am, huh? Haha. Well, luckily that's not all it's about. I take it you're not much of a fan of otome games either?
I really like characters in my fiction and even more so when characters meld together, either in friendship or love, so I love seeing that happen. And I am a bit of a romantic in that regard too. :P

Kellam and Miriel oozed that most for me. Miriel was the first person to recognize that Kellam had a gift, which was the first type of any sort of attention he ever seemed to get. And this attachment she had simply from analyzing him began to humanize her more as well. After enough time, she began to see him as not only an experiment, but a friend, and then even more.
Very romantic and touching connection. I could see the chemistry and why they would work together.
Better still, I discovered it by pairing them up, only because in battle they also compliment each other well. His defense boots hers and her special defense, etc, boosts his. They make a great team to fully round each other out.

And not to mention with Laurent, it explains why he's so similar to Miriel and nothing like Kellam; it's the running gag of his. Kellam even laments this in the support conversations with him "Didn't you get ANYTHING from me?"

And I can't think of any other child that is purely like their mother and not the father. So yeah, I'm pretty adamant about my head-canon, haha.

I take it by your lack of response, you also don't know the relation with Awakening to Fates and the children being in it, etc, and all that?

I clicked the one on PC (I generally don't much care for Smogon) and man, I was confused from the first page. All those options; I literally can't make sense of them.

So, I take it there's nothing like a triple battle or something? I certainly saw no type of options like that. And of course, that's my favorite style.

I did use some Java thing once, that was a lot like that, you could make your own, go to different servers, etc, so I have a glimpse of how the interface works... but it looks a million times more confusing...

This was back when gen 4 was the newest one, I recall. And sadly, I have no knowledge on gen 7, since I pretty much skipped that one entirely.

I get just playing around with it would help, but... it's really baffling to me. The longer I looked at it, the more confused I got.

Any reason why you don't want to battle in FE, by chance? You mentioned doing a lot of grinding and whatnot, so I'm curious as to why you'd put forth all that effort and not want to use it? Kinda reminds me of me, when I only emulated Pokemon games, yet still did IV/EV training... just because I'm a perfectionist.

When you mention the story like that, I can definitely see the issues, but I still had a lot of fun with it.
Fates actually pissed me off with those claims at first, where I was almost against it. Like "Oh, you really think you're so great, this better wow me immediately or I'm done with it"... and then it did, so at least there was that.
At first, I remember how offput I was at how they changed weapons and abilities to have all sorts of new variables, etc.
Like the skills in Awakening were very straight forward "Grants another turn if you defeat enemy", but in Fates, it was like "-2 stats if other units are friendly and female", etc.

I got used to it, but it was a learning curve. I did grow to like the new pair up system too; as in Awakening, there was literally no reason NOT to pair, but in Fates, it's more strategic. Now if only they would adjust their BS hit/miss ratios to be accurate, I'd be fine with it.
Pretty sure it's even confirmed the rates are off, hence a lot of frustration.

Fates has a really great story and for the characters, well... they're just as good, but it takes awhile to really get to know them. Like, they feel more human, but aren't quite as memorable.

In Awakening, character designs and little touches (like quotes in the shop) immediately paint a strong picture of who everyone is. Kellam always comes to mind; ironically, given what his shtick is.

And in Fates, you have to delve deeper and slower. For example, I was not impressed by Kagero much at all initially. She was an interesting and pretty cute ninja, but nothing about her was memorable to me at all. But I kept doing support and slowly but surely, I began to get a glimpse of her. Her friendship with Orochi, Saizo, etc; I began to get who she was and grew to like her. She's very subtle, ironically despite her appearance. So I appreciated like that.
I can't wait to do as much support as possible with everyone in Revelations; even those outside the group's allegiances.

I didn't dislike Chrom, but yeah, come to think of it, I can't really say who he is either.

So I take it you also think Robin is canonically female too? :P It just makes the most sense to me; and there are little hints, the fact she can form a relationship with Chrom (even though Sumia is canonical, I believe) and Virion's supports are most telling. Apart from Frederick or whoever his child may be, Virion's supports are only with women. He thirsts big time, so to have Robin included on that list feels out of place if she's a guy. But that's what I think.
I had no qualms in playing Robin as a girl.

And for Fates, I actually feel the character is male, which was a nice change of pace.

When you hook up, be it the avatar or other units, how do you do it? For stats or for who you really think belong together?
For me, it's the latter. I love characterization in writing, games, so when I feel chemistry, I put them together and make whatever their kid is work. I don't think you need to be an ultra perfectionist.
I remember the first pairing wowed me so much in Awakening, I loved it. It was Kellam and Miriel. That was really cute. So, stuff like that. Also, stuff I believe best fits the characters.

I'm actually tied for characters in Fates and Awakening; I can't think of anyone I really dislike. Maybe Laurent, ironically from my favorite pairing, but only because I never got a chance to use him because of the insane qualifications to do so. I had no idea... That annoyed me.

In Fates... I guess I don't like how some of the kids are just recolors from Awakening. The Thajra one makes sense (she reincarnated to be with the avatar, ie, you, which is her character), but I still don't even know how the story of Awakening and Fates even work with one another. Owain and the other kids are in Fates AS themselves with aliases... so I don't know, really.

Oh god, haha, that was no doubt my auto correct. Nice that you turned it around on me, haha.

Oh yeah, so much so the English version even cut out a lot of the stuff that goes on. You're not wrong.

I'm unfamiliar with that Pokemon method. Can you elaborate?

Do you want to try a FE battle as well sometime? I've never done it with Awakening so that alone would be interesting.

Question, before playing Fates, I had heard a lot of criticism for Awakening's story, even the writer of Fates said it stunk. I'm baffled. I thought it was pretty great.
I do think Fates has a bit more unique story, but the characters from Awakening just pop a bit more...

What are your feelings on the matter?

I find interesting people generally don't know they are, haha.

Well, if you want to try it out sometime, I have Birthright, Conquest (not to Revelation yet) and Awakening. Believe me, it is actually very fun.

And or Pokemon, actually a battle with you sounds fun (I'm not a boring opponent, as you could probably guess, haha), but all I have is Y so far. So it'll have to be something that can communicate if we're going to be able.

FE Dates though? What is that? Literally never heard of it. It sounds kinda... yeah, I really hope that's not a thing, haha.

I gotta say, your AMA topic is pretty interesting to read. You may think you're not too interesting, but I disagree. Apparently so do a lot of others, because it's the most popular one.

Do you want to talk more sometime? I can't stop myself from trying to befriend someone interesting. :)

On that note, wondering with how much you love FE and Pokemon, how often do you battle on either? Pokemon is easier, once, but have you ever had a great FE one on one?

I've only gotten to battle one guy (another friend of mine) and gotta say, it's way more fun than Pokemon. I have Awakening and Dates if you ever want to. :)

If not, well, I hope we can at least still chat sometime. I think you're really interesting. And I'd like to say I have an eye for interesting.

Even 300 won't help you girls now :)

Just elaboration :)

In my experience, you can still like or even be friends with someone you disagree with.

Or vice versa. I've never drawn comparison of not agreeing=dislike person.

I'm on ps now if you wanna go ahead and battle

Got it. I'll do that from now on then. :)

also for a specific time maybe between 5-6(central)?

let's shoot for sunday afternoon. weekends are always great so i should be hanging around the server anyways.

When do you want to battle for the tournament? :)

I am available pretty much any day after tomorrow for it. Afternoons and evenings usually work best around my schedule but I can probably adjust.

Although the only game I own is Yellow version, a friend of mine from years ago bought Gold version and I got a glimpse of what Johto and Generation 2 was like(Granted it was very limited). I might be able to give some pointers with respect to the Generation 2 starters, as well as what Pokemon to look out for on each one. Again though, my knowledge of Generation 2 is very limited and based purely on memory. If you want, I can write something up for that.

Dragon I s doing a nice Let's play for Generation 3 that could be considered a visual FAQ but it's of Emerald and not Ruby/Sapphire. Granted, Emerald is basically like Yellow with respect to its generation but with more to offer in the post game like Battle Frontier.

Just curious if you forgot about posting that FAQ for previous Generations? Not that I blame you because that'd be so far on the backburner that it'd be lost in the pit of lost memories(Inside Out reference. Hopefully they don't do a sequel but odds are one is in the works heh).

Anyways, lmk if you want more Gen 1 FAQ stuff ;)

Just wanted to say, I think your post flair is absolutely gorgeous.