User blog:Fargo294/The Best of Myrmidons

Rutger

 * High Points: HP, Skill, Strength.
 * Summary: Rutger is the first obtainable Myrmidon in the game. His most interesting feature is his skill which is 10% higher than his speed, which helps him gain a higher critical hit rate. You can boost this even higher by giving him a support with Clarine or Dieck.

Fir

 * High Points: Speed, Luck.
 * Summary: Fir comes in at level one when others are 10+ levels higher. She has a slightly higher speed than Rutger and higher luck as well. Her low points can be made up for with supports.

Karel

 * High Points: All stats will increase upon level up.
 * Summary: Karel comes in as a pre-promoted unit very late in the game with decent stats, but low for his level. As I stated above he will always get stat boosts, however he can only level up once. He is a Gotoh archetype meaning that he comes in to help out if other characters died or didn’t turn out well, and interestingly must be recruited in a village before the final chapters with Fir or Bartre.
 * Side note: Karel is one of my favorite characters in the series because he is very well developed.

Best: Rutger. He comes in first with stats that I prefer over Fir, and his supports can make it so that he can critical every time with a Killing Edge or Wo Dao.

Worst: I’m torn between Fir and Karel. Fir isn’t a bad unit but her speed is supposed to set her apart from Rutger, and the difference is so small it barely does its job right. If you held a gun to my head, I’d say Fir because of my fanboy respect for Karel, even though Karel will be outdone by Fir.

Guy

 * High Points: Speed, Defense.
 * Summary: Guy is the only myrmidon in the game, the other two being pre-promoted. His speed is very high at 70%, so it will almost always increase on level up. High HP, like Rutger, although not as high.

Karel (Young)
 * High Points: Decent replacement for Guy.
 * Summary: Karel has some very good stats and growths for a pre-promote; and can even manage to max out his skill and speed, an overall very good unit.

Karla


 * High Points: Pretty, Slightly faster than Karel, more room for development.
 * Summary: Karla has similar stats to Karel, but mostly lower than him. With her level lower than Karel, she has more room to develop her stats, though this is held back by her lower growths.

Best: Guy. There isn’t really anyone to rival him in his way of swordsmanship. Karel can be pretty good but Guy will definitely surpass him.

Worst: Karla. Yeah, this one is a bit of easier decision. Karla is overall weaker than the other two possible Swordmasters. She’s worth getting for the Wo Dao.

Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
Joshua
 * High Points: HP, Strength, Defense.
 * Summary: Very similar to Rutger in many ways. Also, Gerik, a mercenary, and L’arachel, a troubadour, can both increase his critical hit rate, like Clarine and Dieck. Overall higher physical attributes. Not much else to say.

Marisa

 * High Points: Speed, Luck, Resesistance.
 * Summary: Like Joshua, Marisa is similar to a Myrmidon in FE 6, specifically Fir. And like Fir, she is similar to her counterpart. She also can have some supports to boost her Crit rate, those being Colm, and Gerik.

Ismaire

 * High Points: Skill, good defenses.
 * Summary: An amazingly good pre-promote with greatly balanced stats and a good amount of room to improve. She can definitely get high skill and speed.

Best: Since they’re all very good stat-wise, I’ll have to judge by time to develop meaning Joshua is the winner.

Worst: Ismaire is the character with the least time to develop, since she has pretty low starting defense and growth so she won’t be able to take hits, but don’t get me wrong, she is still very good.

Mia

 * High Points: Luck, Resistance
 * Summary: Mia is a decent unit; however compared to the rest of the units she may fall short. She is a fun character herself with funny supports, and is still a great unit to have.

Zihark

 * High Points: Strength, Skill, Defense.
 * Summary: Zihark shares the same speed growth as Mia, though with mostly higher stats. He’s more well-defended than Mia, although ironically she might end up having more defense if she is at his level when you recruit him.

Stefan

 * High Points: Strength, Defense, HP.
 * Summary: Now, his high points aren’t his only good parts, the rest of him is kick-A too. He comes in as a pre-promoted unit with beastly stats. Sadly his awesomeness comes with a downside, that being having limited supports; his luck isn’t that much of a bother. Plus he comes with the Vague Katti AND Astra, what more could you want?

Lucia

 * High Points: All stats very high.
 * Summary: Ehh… disappointing. Like I said above, all of her stats are great, BUUUUUUT she comes in at level 12 pre-promoted which gives her little to no room to develop; and coming in with low defense and resistance doesn’t help either.

Best: This is a tough choice. Zihark is really great, but Stefan can cap his skill pretty quick, and his resistance will be higher. So even though I thought at first Stefan might be outmatched by others, he can be possibly the greatest sword-user in the game.

Worst: I think I made it pretty clear that Lucia isn’t very goo- sucks giant lollipops is what I meant to say.

Edward

 * High Points: HP, Strength, balanced stats.
 * Summary: As I researched Edward, I feel bad for not using him. He has incredible growths, just go to his page and look at them right now. 60% strength is the highest for his class, same with his HP; great defense, luck- EVERYTHING. He may not be well-suited to take hits early on so give him a defensive support, like Leonardo, Nolan or Volug.

Zihark
 * High Points: Skill, Speed, Resistance.
 * Summary: O, how the mighty have fallen. For some reason Mia and Zihark switched their talents, Zihark being quicker and resistant, and Mia being strong and defensive. Interestingly enough, Zihark comes in with the same strength as Mia while she is at a higher level. Anyways, Zihark can pick up the slack from Edward while he struggles to level up, though Zihark isn’t a wall either but seeing as how most of the Dawn Brigade has defensive affinities, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Lucia
 * High Points: Skill, Resistance.
 * Summary: My opinion of her from the previous game still holds “disappointing”, although she has more time to develop (what little it is), this time she has nothing to give. Most of her growths are crap (specifically HP, strength, luck and defense), and her speed can be matched by most of the other characters. Her resistance is the best, but that’s not saying anything, really, because it ties with Stefan’s.

Mia
 * High Points: HP, Str, Def.
 * Summary: I still don’t get the role switching thing with Zihark. Basically, she comes in as your secondary swordfighter during Part 3, your tertiary swordfighter being Titania, and primary being Ike. Extra points for her retaining the same amount of cuteness she had from the last game. I say that because I’m trying to make this summary a bit larger because there isn’t much to say.

Stefan
 * High Points: Most stats close to capping.
 * Summary: Damn, this guy one sexy son of a mother lover. Even though he comes in as one of the many Gotoh archetypes, he still manages to be a badass! 50% Str, 60% skill & speed, 40% def, and 50%, AND Astra, AND the Vague Katti! I rest my case.

Best: Not Stefan this time. Though his amazingness makes my love for him burst like something that makes a bursting noise, Edward can probably have a slight advantage over him. Though if he’s not as good as Stefan by the time he shows up and seeing as how the support system is incredibly easy to manipulate, you can switch them out if you want. Basically they share the role.

Worst: Lucia. Do I even need to explain?

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
Note: I will not be posting the best in class changes…yet…

Navarre/Nabarl

 * High Points: HP, Luck, Skill, Speed.
 * Summary: He’s somewhat difficult to recruit, but he’ll be worth it due to his overall balance in stats and high HP (because for some reason myrmidons are able to take a lot of hits in this world). He’s a lot better than who’s going to come next… even if she is hilarious…

Athena

 * High Points: Funny, is a woman.
 * Summary: *Sigh*, is Intelligent Systems sexist or something? Why is it that the female myrmidons are never as good as the male myrmidons? At least they made her comic relief.

Radd

 * High Points: Strength, Defense.
 * Summary: Radd falls into the archetype of sacrificing skill and speed for better offense and defense, the latter stats being 10% higher than Nabarl’s. Though sadly he comes in at level 1.

Best: Nabarl comes in at a higher level and for some reason only has 1 point higher than each of Radd’s stats, and by the time you get Radd, Nabarl will be much better than him. Availability is the key word here. It’s just too bad Radd couldn’t live up to his name.

Worst: Athena. For some reason all the characters you get in the gaiden chapters are terrible.

Samto

 * High Points: None.
 * Summary: I’m being incredibly blunt here when I say he’s the worst. Sorry for the spoilers, but he just has no redeeming features about him.

Radd
 * High Points: Strength, Defense.
 * Summary: Radd and Nabarl share the same defense growth this time. Sadly, our Raddical teammate can’t stand a chance against the swordsman Nabarl. Speaking of whom…

Nabarl
 * High Points: HP, Luck, Defense.
 * Summary: They’re really trying to make him Stefan aren’t they? Well, it’s not working. However, he is very good. His stats are better than the other myrmidons because we can’t have any other well working quick swordsmen now can we, Intelligent Systems?

Malice

 * High Points: Skill, Resistance, Weapons are useful.
 * Summary: She doesn’t really stand out from the others, aside from the eye patch. The Lady Sword and Levin Sword can be useful for other characters to use. It’s kinda sad that they practically force you to use Nabarl, even though you could probably class-change Cecil to myrmidon and get higher skill and speed. I’m sorry, I promised I wouldn’t mention class-changed characters, but seriously, why do they have to make these characters suck? Characters like Malice should be a reward for the character because you made it to the sidequest chapter. However Intelligent Systems proves me wrong next…

Athena
 * High Points: Skill, Luck, Defense, Resistance.
 * Summary: She comes in on a sidequest chapter, with friggin’ balisticans everywhere. And since she starts out with crappy defense and level 10(others may be at 16-19 or promoted), she’ll be pretty easy to kill. Well, after I.S. decided to give a nice reward for making it to this chapter, they thought it was a good idea to make it impossible to partake in this chapter without dying. ANYWAYS, she has the same skill and speed as Malice, EXCEPT higher HP, Defense(higher than Nabarl and Radd even!), and Resistance. If you do manage to get her out of the rain of giant arrows, she may be behind the other characters, but you can use the Training option in the menu to strengthen her up to make her pretty useful.

Best: Nabarl, AGAIN. Athena could be useful, but her low level holds her back. Nabarl’s availability makes him better to use.

Worst: Samto. You know I.S., here’s a new word for you: DIVERSITY. What I mean by this is you should make all of the characters you make worth playing!