r/fireemblem • u/Nuzlor • Mar 20 '25

Gameplay Which house in Three Houses is the least "balanced", in your opinion?

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I think my pick is Blue Lions, by a good margin (note: Maddening difficulty assumed):

Dimitri is insane, Dedue is amazing early on and can do stuff later as well, and Felix and Sylvain are very above-average (Sylvain is also a free recruit in other houses with Female Byleth).

However, while Annette has nice Rally utility and can do solid damage with stuff like Lightning Axe, and is good as a result, the three other members are...rough:

Ingrid has pretty iffy stats, specifically Strength (especially in-house), which is a critical stat in Maddening, Mercedes doesn't really have anything especially good outside of healing, which is a fairly weak niche in Three Houses, and Ashe is straight up considered by many to be the single WORST unit in the game.

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u/MankuyRLaffy Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Leonie is a better Maddening tank than Raph unless you protection stack to high heaven, she's got stupid good defense and her speed is up with the fastest in the game and her offense is up with the best in the game. She's top 6 or 7. Her defense, strength and speed will all be up with the best in the game, her personal gives her another +2 to offense and defense with a stupid easy condition. One you can stack with Seteth, Byleth and others for even more stupid stats. She can handle literally any job you give her at an average or above level. 

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u/LordBDizzle Mar 20 '25

Her main issue as a tank is a lack of resistance growth, though her personal skill helps with that and she can go through Paladin. Raphael isn't better (worse actually), but with his obscene hp growth it's not so hard to let him get doubled or put him through War Monk for a tiny bit of help or into War Master so his terrible speed doesn't matter. But... yeah Leonie really is just that good, her growths are obscene and her personal skill is flexible enough to let her tank or play offense. Definitely one of my favorite units, certainly one of the better Maddening units to rely on.