The subversion of Dark Mage promotions for Elise and Odin was unexpected, but a huge treat - and it made a lot of sense. Since you’re not using average stats on this run, your Elise!Ophelia needs as many stats as she can amass to prevent the latter stages of the run to go south. Ooooh, promotion guesses? I love it! Let’s see: Pre-promotes: Leo, Xander, Camilla, Shura, Gunter, Felicia, Jakob Have already promoted: Corrin, Elise, Odin, Laslow, Selena, Mozu, Kaze, Silas, Beruka, Keaton That leaves us with Arthur, Effie, Niles, Nyx, Peri, Charlotte and Benny. I think it will be Charlotte, and I will explain my reasons: -It won’t be Effie because you said so in your chapter 17 video; -Arthur is currently an Outlaw, and Chapter 18 is one of the least friendly toward bows - only the Maids wield daggers and there are no fliers; -It most likely won’t be Niles, since there is no one to capture on chapter 18 - the only reason to deploy him is to build supports with Nyx; -Speaking of her, I can’t imagine Nyx doing anything too useful in chapter 18 to justify fielding her. And since she’s one of the hardest characters to train, she has to pick her battles; -Peri could be an interesting choice for deployment, but I don’t think she will be. In your chapter 17 video, you mentioned Silas needing to complete his support goals in the next story missions, so I imagine he will be deployed with Camilla and Kaze to make progress in those chains; -Benny, Nyx and Peri are characters that are kinda hard to justify fielding, so you’ll need to cut their training short ASAP. The best way to do that is training them to level 25, getting them married and then dropping them in favor of Ignatius/Nina. Since none if those three have reaches level 20, I don’t think it will be them; -Charlotte has been largely neglected thus far, but she needs to get her friendship with Beruka (?) and her marriage with Xander going. So it makes sense to field her, especially if Kaze (Beruka’s husband) is fielded too; -If Charlotte promotes earlier, she will still have high enough EXP gains to learn Rally Strength when it’s needed. She would be in a similar situation to Beruka, her friend - she’d be three promoted levels away from the level 15 skill, which could be passed to her kid for great results. I’m not sure if that’s her fate, but it would be nice to see. Anyways, I could be totally wrong, but those are my guesses. Love this series so so so much ❤️
0:48 I can think of one instance where another Malig Knight doesn't have an axe. On turn 12 of Endgame, a group of paired up Malig Knights spawn in. One holds a Bolt Axe and the other one only has Ragnarok. It's a bit of a stretch since it does spawn paired up with one that has an axe but it does exist!
These Invasion maps really let your preparation and game knowledge shine: awesome job! It's cathartic to see you demolish the invaders after struggling so much with my own very suboptimal setups.
It... never even occurred to me to use the fire orb as an obstacle. I just used all three indestructible buildings. Speaking of... can I just say how completely ridiculous it is that the lottery is indestructible and the jail boosts crit? By all logic it should be the other way around!
My guesses for the final two pre-tier 3 shops will go to Niles and Charlotte. Niles is going to have to do a lot of boss killing in paralogues that will probably be played soon after chapter 18, since this means the child character join early enough to build supports amongst eachother. Niles will have some bosses to capture and you wouldn't want to waste this valueable exp. Charlotte is going to want to promote early like you said, and rally strength is a very nice tool to have access to in general.
20:18 you might be able to manipulate the AI by using a grave. The grave has 20 hp compared to a statues’ 10. While both get one shot, it’s worth giving it a try
The storytelling and observational skills in this series of videos are nothing short of amazing. I watch all sorts of "let's plays" for various games. I'm not even the hugest FE Fates fan, but the (seemingly scripted) narration here makes for singularly entertaining videos. I notice you post to Serenes Forest. Did you plan on doing a series of videos for FE Engage? IIRC, you've done some preliminary analysis of FE Engage footage. BTW, "Killager" as a reference to Mozu (in one of your other videos) is extremely clever. I've played Fates, but never finished a run. I saved Mozu, but didn't get far beyond that. Her animations are hilarious, with her looking scared. Anyway, excellent video!
Great vid! To answer your question, I think Benny is getting the master seal because I remember your goal was to promote him in Kitsune Lair. Can’t wait to see the first gen finally getting fazed out, I’ll miss them but there’s so little meta on the second gen and I am looking forward to hearing your takes.
Thanks again for showing that there are some strats uniquely available to Nohr Noble Corrin. This castle setup is brilliant enough I'll have to start incorporating it into my playthroughs for Invasion 2.
It dawned on me a couple of chapters ago that due to the challenge we'd be doing the Ignatius paralogue at some point which I've always viewed as being a bit of a nightmare to do later in the game and at least requires wary fighter being passed down. I thought we'd circumvent this by fielding benny early and getting his s-support asap before the paralogue enemies promote but obviously that didn't happen. I'm very curious to see a late game clear of that paralogue and how you'll go about doing it✌
There is something I am very curious. How do this music (Land Below) is playing instead of the usual music (Road Taken)? I looked in your mod list but nothing says about soundtrack edits.
It’s pretty obscure, but there's an option in the in-game settings to select the background music for castle battles and skirmishes. Annoyingly, you can only change that setting at the prep screens for those battles or during them, not while you’re walking around your castle normally.
It's stat inheritence (no growth), if Elise get more magic thanks to a higher magic growth she can pass down more base magic to her child. It's the same reason why his Percy had +1 Hp and +2 Str compared to a normal Percy the moment he recruited him, he inherited these stats bonus from Arthur and Effie.
Sorry for the oversight! If you upload captions while the video is being processed then they don’t get published automatically when the processing is done, you have to intervene manually afterward. They’re being applied now, so that should be fixed within a couple hours.
@@Zoran501 You da best Zoran. Your captions are pretty meticulous and I imagine it takes a lot of effort on your part (like, uh, everything else about your videos), so I wasn't going to complain if you discontinued them. But I had a funny feeling you might have just forgotten 😉 Your extra effort to accommodate your deaf/hard-of-hearing viewers (as well as your 'noisy commute' viewers) does not go unappreciated.
zoran, my compadre, my amigo, my chum, my little onglydoople. hey, listen, i've seen your videos, yeah your videos! and i notice on these fire emblem fates ones that you have multiple mods installed, it would be amazing if you can film a video of how you install multiple mods at once, thank you!
But she's using the Partner seal to go into Dark Mage? She needs to promote with a Master seal either way since she was unpromoted, but Elise can't become a Sorcerer with a Heart seal since her native classes are Troubador and Wyvern Rider.
I am enjoying this but I certainly don't fight like this. I don't even plan for children characters as I don't really use them. Even if I do, I drop a save before marriage fill out as many supports convos with that child then reload that save (the game remembers the supports convos) and yes this includes any girls that can marry my Corrin and be the mother of Kana
![[Fire Emblem Fates] All Royal Siblings Battle Dialogue](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nJGa8qOr-cI/mqdefault.jpg)
corrin frantically running across the castle, yelling "don't worry guys I can help us stall" before burning down his own bedroom
Canon
I'm sure Zoran will use my classic invasion 2 strategy of parking Xander on a piller tile but then having him die
It's a rite of passage
"Having too much defense is a real problem sometimes."
Selena: *Maniacal Laugher after committing a war crime*
Benny: Looking confused as all the kitsune run past him.
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Takumi: I feel a disturbance in the force. As if I somehow managed to make the life of a Nohrian 10% better.
Oboro won’t be happy
I just want you to know that these videos are super rad Zoran.
I too, think these videos are super rad.
That's rad.
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@@yes1667 ayyyy, someone got it! Nice
41:10 I can't believe Corrin burned down his own house for tax evas-errr, damage manipulation
The subversion of Dark Mage promotions for Elise and Odin was unexpected, but a huge treat - and it made a lot of sense. Since you’re not using average stats on this run, your Elise!Ophelia needs as many stats as she can amass to prevent the latter stages of the run to go south.
Ooooh, promotion guesses? I love it! Let’s see:
Pre-promotes: Leo, Xander, Camilla, Shura, Gunter, Felicia, Jakob
Have already promoted: Corrin, Elise, Odin, Laslow, Selena, Mozu, Kaze, Silas, Beruka, Keaton
That leaves us with Arthur, Effie, Niles, Nyx, Peri, Charlotte and Benny. I think it will be Charlotte, and I will explain my reasons:
-It won’t be Effie because you said so in your chapter 17 video;
-Arthur is currently an Outlaw, and Chapter 18 is one of the least friendly toward bows - only the Maids wield daggers and there are no fliers;
-It most likely won’t be Niles, since there is no one to capture on chapter 18 - the only reason to deploy him is to build supports with Nyx;
-Speaking of her, I can’t imagine Nyx doing anything too useful in chapter 18 to justify fielding her. And since she’s one of the hardest characters to train, she has to pick her battles;
-Peri could be an interesting choice for deployment, but I don’t think she will be. In your chapter 17 video, you mentioned Silas needing to complete his support goals in the next story missions, so I imagine he will be deployed with Camilla and Kaze to make progress in those chains;
-Benny, Nyx and Peri are characters that are kinda hard to justify fielding, so you’ll need to cut their training short ASAP. The best way to do that is training them to level 25, getting them married and then dropping them in favor of Ignatius/Nina. Since none if those three have reaches level 20, I don’t think it will be them;
-Charlotte has been largely neglected thus far, but she needs to get her friendship with Beruka (?) and her marriage with Xander going. So it makes sense to field her, especially if Kaze (Beruka’s husband) is fielded too;
-If Charlotte promotes earlier, she will still have high enough EXP gains to learn Rally Strength when it’s needed. She would be in a similar situation to Beruka, her friend - she’d be three promoted levels away from the level 15 skill, which could be passed to her kid for great results. I’m not sure if that’s her fate, but it would be nice to see.
Anyways, I could be totally wrong, but those are my guesses. Love this series so so so much ❤️
Fates has to be the only game in which destroying your own home is an optimal strategy
False, Kirby also commits tax evasion
That Fire Orb battle station looks so cozy.
0:48 I can think of one instance where another Malig Knight doesn't have an axe. On turn 12 of Endgame, a group of paired up Malig Knights spawn in. One holds a Bolt Axe and the other one only has Ragnarok. It's a bit of a stretch since it does spawn paired up with one that has an axe but it does exist!
There is another group of axeless M.Knight in Birthright's chapter 23, but is Birthright so nobody cares.
I decided to replay lunatic Conquest because of this series, and forgot that this game is hard as hell because you make it look so easy.
These Invasion maps really let your preparation and game knowledge shine: awesome job! It's cathartic to see you demolish the invaders after struggling so much with my own very suboptimal setups.
It... never even occurred to me to use the fire orb as an obstacle. I just used all three indestructible buildings.
Speaking of... can I just say how completely ridiculous it is that the lottery is indestructible and the jail boosts crit? By all logic it should be the other way around!
My guesses for the final two pre-tier 3 shops will go to Niles and Charlotte.
Niles is going to have to do a lot of boss killing in paralogues that will probably be played soon after chapter 18, since this means the child character join early enough to build supports amongst eachother. Niles will have some bosses to capture and you wouldn't want to waste this valueable exp.
Charlotte is going to want to promote early like you said, and rally strength is a very nice tool to have access to in general.
It's your accomplished ability to predict AND control the enemy's actions and movements that I marvel at and envy
Thank you Zoran for your content, i know it can be difficult and tiring sometimes, but please never stop giving us these precious videos
20:18 you might be able to manipulate the AI by using a grave. The grave has 20 hp compared to a statues’ 10. While both get one shot, it’s worth giving it a try
the battle music choice was a great touch
babe wake up zoran uploaded
just when I get home from a long day he arrives, zoran posts when I need him most,
i actually get more excited for this series than i did for christmas this year
Excellent video as always, this series is one of the highlights of the year for me, I'm really glad it still has so many episodes left
The storytelling and observational skills in this series of videos are nothing short of amazing. I watch all sorts of "let's plays" for various games. I'm not even the hugest FE Fates fan, but the (seemingly scripted) narration here makes for singularly entertaining videos.
I notice you post to Serenes Forest. Did you plan on doing a series of videos for FE Engage? IIRC, you've done some preliminary analysis of FE Engage footage.
BTW, "Killager" as a reference to Mozu (in one of your other videos) is extremely clever. I've played Fates, but never finished a run. I saved Mozu, but didn't get far beyond that. Her animations are hilarious, with her looking scared.
Anyway, excellent video!
I have to say, I was not expecting to hear Land Below. Solid choice
This merchant boss is honestly one of the most difficult bosses in all of fire emblem, such a ridiculous enemy.
Great vid! To answer your question, I think Benny is getting the master seal because I remember your goal was to promote him in Kitsune Lair. Can’t wait to see the first gen finally getting fazed out, I’ll miss them but there’s so little meta on the second gen and I am looking forward to hearing your takes.
Thanks again for showing that there are some strats uniquely available to Nohr Noble Corrin. This castle setup is brilliant enough I'll have to start incorporating it into my playthroughs for Invasion 2.
It dawned on me a couple of chapters ago that due to the challenge we'd be doing the Ignatius paralogue at some point which I've always viewed as being a bit of a nightmare to do later in the game and at least requires wary fighter being passed down. I thought we'd circumvent this by fielding benny early and getting his s-support asap before the paralogue enemies promote but obviously that didn't happen. I'm very curious to see a late game clear of that paralogue and how you'll go about doing it✌
Wooo, my patience has been rewarded with the next installment of this series. I uh, now have to wait for 2-4 weeks for the next one, aren't I
Ahh Invasion 2. AKA, why you hate Spendtrift on enemies.
Made my day
Some people play Fire Emblem for the waifu simulator, Zoran plays for the 4D chess
man elise actually looks badass in sorceror
My guess: Charlotte will get the Master Seal. (can't remember if she has already promoted; if so, then maybe Effie?)
Invasion 3 gonna be insane
Zoran upload wooooooooooo!
i have never put elise into the dark mage line before promotion before. fascinating
Came here so fast you can call me kaze
This man is light Yagami but in FE
Ana is the money women
There is something I am very curious. How do this music (Land Below) is playing instead of the usual music (Road Taken)? I looked in your mod list but nothing says about soundtrack edits.
It’s pretty obscure, but there's an option in the in-game settings to select the background music for castle battles and skirmishes. Annoyingly, you can only change that setting at the prep screens for those battles or during them, not while you’re walking around your castle normally.
@@Zoran501 Thanks for the reply! It is nice to learn new things from Fates.
15:26 Wait a sec. Does a parent's current class contribute to their child's growths? There's no way that can be true right
It's stat inheritence (no growth), if Elise get more magic thanks to a higher magic growth she can pass down more base magic to her child.
It's the same reason why his Percy had +1 Hp and +2 Str compared to a normal Percy the moment he recruited him, he inherited these stats bonus from Arthur and Effie.
0:48 Are Invasions shared between routes? Birthright has some tome only Malig Knights. Because it's Birthright.
Yaaaaaay that was fast
38:28 couldn't you have used a hand axe and gained some exp and weapon rank for percy? Just saying
this shit blew my mind. awesome as always z
2 minutes in. Holy shit, was THIS what you needed D rank Tomes on Corrin for? Are you going to use that pillar and Fire orb to dodge tank???
OHHHHH THATS SO COOL
Loving this video after I did this map in the laziest way possible (using Camilla, Xander, Leo and Corrin with their pair up partners)
This invasion ended my iron man yesterday because I didn’t see a maid had counter.
Howdy Zoran! I don't know if you explained this in another vid, but how did you get the chef's hat so early?
I used the save editor FEFTwiddler
@@Zoran501 did you use the same software to give yourself the food and materials as well?
Normally I would, but actually muhmuhten's resource patch basically takes care of that by making all food sources and mines grant 1 of everything
wait, do unit's stats affect their children in this game? I thought that was just awakening.
Elise starts from mage to Wyvern Rider to a Dark Mage to Sorcerer
Is she also going to be Troubadour or maybe a Dark Knight at some point?
Is it just the lighting or is Elise wearing white as a sorcerer?
More research is needed
Probably a mod.
Zoran has cosmetics mods installed. One of them has these cool custom textures for nearly all units
LETS GOO
Hold on! So, you want to tell me, putting Odin on the Throne is not the most efficiant way of clearing this chapter?
Is the music playing in this map being Past Below part of the mods? Normally it’s supposed to be Road Taken afaik
You can change music for these battles in the settings
no captions this go-round?
Sorry for the oversight! If you upload captions while the video is being processed then they don’t get published automatically when the processing is done, you have to intervene manually afterward. They’re being applied now, so that should be fixed within a couple hours.
@@Zoran501 You da best Zoran. Your captions are pretty meticulous and I imagine it takes a lot of effort on your part (like, uh, everything else about your videos), so I wasn't going to complain if you discontinued them. But I had a funny feeling you might have just forgotten 😉
Your extra effort to accommodate your deaf/hard-of-hearing viewers (as well as your 'noisy commute' viewers) does not go unappreciated.
zoran, my compadre, my amigo, my chum, my little onglydoople. hey, listen, i've seen your videos, yeah your videos! and i notice on these fire emblem fates ones that you have multiple mods installed, it would be amazing if you can film a video of how you install multiple mods at once, thank you!
what a good map that i never do
Couldn’t Elise go into Sorcerer with a parter seal instead of using both the heart and master seals for the same result?
But she's using the Partner seal to go into Dark Mage? She needs to promote with a Master seal either way since she was unpromoted, but Elise can't become a Sorcerer with a Heart seal since her native classes are Troubador and Wyvern Rider.
Just saying thank god you can entrap the boss
Wait when did Odin become a dark knight? I may have gotten my signals crossed between this, the relay and my own playthrough
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@@theleftfootedsultan LMAO MY IPAD REWOUND IT TO THE BEGINNING AND THEN I SKIPPED TOO FAR AHEAD trying to catch back up😭😭😭
I am enjoying this but I certainly don't fight like this. I don't even plan for children characters as I don't really use them. Even if I do, I drop a save before marriage fill out as many supports convos with that child then reload that save (the game remembers the supports convos) and yes this includes any girls that can marry my Corrin and be the mother of Kana
Instead of using flame shirrikin why not startigist
Doesn't cost a heart seal
That and maid still has chip and debuffs