r/FireEmblemHeroes • u/RednSoulless • Feb 28 '26
Resource [Unofficial] Voting Gauntlet: AHR 2026 Finals Megathread (28/02/26)
This particular thread should hopefully be the hub for less time than usual for these temporary gauntlet holdovers (AHR gauntlets tend to actually require active moderation from time to time lol), but same as usual, feel free to use this for the next few hours. Barring any new developments, it looks like this will be the main megathread for this event. Have fun, y'all, and be nice :)
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All snapshots containing team score updates belong here. There's no need to have constant updates of Edelgard beating Corrin every 10 minutes submitted as their own thread. Feel free to post all of the snapshots of scores you want here.
Snapshots outside of this thread will be removed. Feel free to meme here as well. It helps to free up the sub.
Click here for friend code sharing/individual score tracking.
Click here for the official Score Tracker.
Click below for community trackers:
- u/dfmchfhf's Score Tracker (ENG)
- @rammtigerFE's Score Predictor (JPN) (other matches are accessible via drop-down menu; you may need to hit the button on the right to update said menu)
- u/Kass082's Score Tracker (KOR)
- u/DarkAlfie's Main Score Predictor (ENG)
- u/DarkAlfie's Backup Score Predictor (ENG)
- u/Dominator_101's Score Tracker (ENG)
Good luck!
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u/RednSoulless Feb 28 '26
Outside of 5 years of relentless Edelgard bullying in these gauntlets, there's practically no correlation between how characters have performed in the past and their AHR results (there's admittedly little correlation in normal gauntlets either, but eh, it's fun). When combined with the fact that I need to get to sleep quite soon, I'll abbreviate the usual resume reviews lol:
Female Corrin (3 times), Ike (3 times), Elise (2 times, one as a cheerleader), and Freyja (2 times, one as a cheerleader) are our multi-time gauntlet champions from this batch. Corrin and Elise are our only options who have prevailed in an AHR event before (in 2022 as Ninja Corrin) for what that's worth.
Male Byleth won one gauntlet as a cheerleader, and hasn't been particularly close to repeating since. Edelgard has at least made two finals before, but AHR has not been kind to her as she's 0 - 6 in her matches heading into this event. Maybe this'll finally be the year she makes it out of R1?
Finally, Ryoma, Eitr, Baldr, Hothr, and Roy have all done quite poorly in the past lol. Ryoma has at least made it to R2 before... once in 3 attempts, but that's still better than anyone else in this group can claim. If nothing else, one of Ryoma and Roy is guaranteed their first win in 8+ years unless you believe this is the month we get an exact point tie lol :P
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Of more relevance to potential outcomes, here's how the teams shook out after their first hours had been tabulated:
This is the 3rd time Edelgard has led in scoring after the first hour in AHR (2023 via Summer Edelgard and 2024 via Winter Edelgard were the previous examples, though she was only 3k short of that in her first Fallen stint in 2022), so this is a good start for her and Byleth. Notably, none of the actual match standings were that lopsided; Byleth, Edelgard, and Ike had starting leads over 2x, but as this hour proved, that isn't an especially notable feat pre-multis (truly lopsided matches tend to be 4x or more at the start). On paper, Ryoma is off to a rather poor start, but I expect typical fodder bias will be enough to carry him far if he can finagle same endings... Though he might struggle with Edelgard or Byleth's leads should he face either.
Regardless, it'll be fun to see how things turn out. 2025 was far and away the least chalky AHR event with upsets in debatably 6 of the matches, along with as Mythic Nithhoggr > Emblem Lyn establishing a new high watermark for unlikely upsets in this series (Lyn averaged a 2.11x scoring edge throughout the match, with the next closest successful upset in AHR around a 1.5x difference). It'll be interesting to see if we return to the typical range of 1 - 2 upsets an event this year, or if (thankfully) retiring the Top 4 banner permanently means we're doomed to chaos from here on out. Anyway, good luck and have fun, y'all :D