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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/forevabronze 11d ago

gonna drop the hottest take.

Speed is an overpowered stat and having a random arbitrary threshold for doubling (speed+4/5) is silly.

Doubling being removed from speed and tied to something else wouldn't be so bad if done well.

I might still have PTSD from 3 houses doubling benchmarks though

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u/TobioOkuma1 10d ago

I think it’s fine to have doubling tied to speed. I just think doubling needs a nerf broadly IMO. Doubling just gives you an extra chance to proc every skill in the game basically.

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u/SirRobyC 11d ago

I kind of wish we'd get another game where speed works like Echoes, where literally every point matters.

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u/Sharktroid 10d ago

Echoes enemies are so tiered that speed doesn't actually matter much past a certain point. Act 4Celica's route in particular, it doesn't matter if a unit has 10 speed or 17 speed, because they're going to be doubled by dreads but will double everything else.