I was surprised the DLC characters got timeskip designs, but not being able to see Balthus's abs anymore was a sad day for America.

In all 3 of the CF playthroughs I've done, Jeritza has easily been the best unit every time. It's a shame his availability is so bad, he's extremely fun to use.

Ashe isn't just a lockpick. He can be a FLYING lockpick.

Gilbert: Am I a joke to you?

One problem I really had with Anna is that she has NO supports with anyone so it makes her instantly less useful to not synergize with any characters for link attacks

"yeah Felix and Petra do suffer a bit in maddening" puts them in A+

Felix was doubling endgame swordmasters in my maddening run. Mans a god

Yuri is definitely an S tier, third best dodge tank and he’s get lord like growths. Also windsweep.

I made Yuri my dancer in my current run. He hasn't been hit since. S-tier.

Constance should be S Tier
She has Bolting which automatically moves her up in my book.
Her crest is also amazing. It makes her spells sometimes not take up a use which is really helpful when it happens on Bolting. I’ve used Bolting four times before on a map because of that crest

Ashen Wolves show up
FED's previous Tier Lists: Noooooo!

Dimitri post time skip. His attack stat is insane, the dude does HUGE damage if you trained him properly. It’s honestly frightening, and also in line to how he turned out story wise: a ruthless killer.

I honestly think Felix and Yuri are easy S tier. Felix is a dodge-tank that crits a lot and pops his crest almost every turn, player turn and enemy turn. He's incredibly flexible also but from my experience he makes an amazing trickster. Granted, my Felix has Death Blow and Fiendish Blow to help him out. Yuri, I haven't used him much but he's amazing.

It boggles my mind when people rank Dedue low.  I must have won the lottery with him because he's an absolute monster and can't even be killed by magic.

keep ashe and bows 71839 feet away from eachother and chuck that boy on a wyvern. the guy has insane crits and he has an advantage in axes. hes always one of my insanely great units and on maddening, has an even higher total than claude. also freckles so sss tier.

Cyril is only really bad on the church route because he comes so late. He's meant to be played similar to Claude as a flying bow user  that uses point blank volley.  Yes he has bad bases and is auto leveled as a commoner, but that is more than made up for by his weapon skills and point blank volley. It takes no effort to promote him to armor knight to get his defense up. From there he can go brigand; again with no axe training necessary; to eventually get death blow. Again point blank volley cannot be understated. He gets it way earlier than any other unit gets their version of it. He's the only unit that guarantees a double from early to late game.


Catherine is a better combat unit than everyone in A tier. She's arguably better than a good half of the A+ tier as well.

Yuri is a god he’d soloed the final boss in crimson flower maddening nobody could even touch my boy

Tbh I find Caspar super easy to recruit. Byleth has a boon in brawling, and with a C+ Support, you only need to get it to D+, with the strength requirement being a non-issue entirely. Whether that makes it worth it is debatable, but idk, the recruitment was never a huge deal

NGL, Ignatz is extremely useful in early game maddening mode, which is definitely the hardest part of lunatic. With his personal ability Hit+20, he is one of the only characters that can reliably chip down the plethora of high Avo enemies. And of course, as you mentioned, brining him into sniper for Hunter’s Volley ensures he doesn’t drop off mid-late game. He may not have the best strength, sure, but I think he deserves to be jn at least A tier for his fantastic maddening early game utility.

Dimitri with battalion wrath and vantage is the most OP thing in the entire game it is so fun to just throw him int 10 melee units and he 1 shots all of them with no counter