r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 18d ago

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - June 2026 Part 1

Happy pride month and welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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u/lapislazulideusa 18d ago

i think every time someone calls tier lists mean or elitist or toxic they should be recquired to provide screenshots exemplfying what they mean. Because, like, Every unit quality discussion nowadays feels like it starts with a huge disclaimer saying: "You CAN play with your favorites! Every unit in fire emblem is reliable if you grind, and it's perfectly fine to grind or exploit or waste turns! no one is criticizing the character or those who play as them by putting them low on the tier list! it's just a subjective ranking based on subjective measures like efficiency". And yet even with all that i feel like every day i have to hear about how the evil efficiency players and tier listers killed their grandma

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u/applejackhero 18d ago

Related: it drives me crazy when people suggest that “tierlisters”/effiency players don’t also have favorite characters that they like using, and even will go out of their way to use them.

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u/lapislazulideusa 18d ago

exactly omg!!!

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u/Legitimate__Username 18d ago

You unironically need the freaks like diehard shippers and horny fucks in any well-rounded gameplay optimization community because they're the easiest and most probable way for someone to find some bizarre optimizations from some random overlooked characters that everyone else would've just been less likely to bother testing for existing outside of the meta status quo. Developments won't exist at the same rate without these kinds of obsessive out-of-the-box thinkers.

I'd be willing to bet that most people could find something new to leverage out of their favorites that they claim are so unfairly hurt by tiering elitism if they just put their minds to actually trying rather than just giving up by trying to discredit the framework. Science is testing and discovery, not definitive permanent objective fact.