Clanne BASIC UNIT GUIDE! Maddening 

more likely they wanted to incentivize experimentation with class changing tbh

You can’t even change at the beginning lol

No, Anna is mastery in bows with high magic growth because of Radiant Bow

He is good in any physical class as a sniper in my game is very good

@@MasterStacona So is Anna supposed to be a Warrior with the magic bow?

If u have the feh weapons and max out the sword. It perfectly fits his build and has wicked strength for early game. Allowing him to grow really well without sacrificing his sp for build +3.

@Jamstaro1 If I had been running the FeH weapons that might have been a choice. But honestly I kept build +3 on for the whole run. It didn't feel like a waste since it let him use heavier weapons.

I did the same but I put Sword Power 5 (thanks to the well) and Alacrity on him + Marth ring to boost dex and speed. He can solo hard maps. It's absolutely insane.

Also, Vander is crucial because he sets up kills for the weaker units, i.e. Clanne, Bucheron, Alfred and Etie. Alfred and and Etie and not as worth investing as Bucheron or Clanne, but in this case, Clanne was prioritized. It makes you realize that that's how you're supposed to use Vander and raise Clanne 🤔

What would be the purpose of second sealing Anna into berserker? Just curious

well its not that strange. The main limiter on character using axes is their build. And just like in real life. Swords are less strength intensive so having the correct build to wield a sword was much more common than an axe. Most axe wielding soldiers were larger since it was an almost pure brute force weapon. Smaller axes were used a little differently but even then they still maintained the strength angle. Swords in these games kind of also retain some level of realism as they are faster and often offer high evasion (or rather the classes that wield them tend to be evasive.). Also the sword was not actually the weapon of the nobility. Rather nobles took great pride in training their descendants in official swordsmanship. This was due to the requirement of all nobles to lead in times of war on the front lines. So they all received official training. But almost anyone could wield a sword at a basic level and soldiers were often conscripts that were taught basic swinging and sent out there. And swords were super cheap, not sure where you got the impression they were expensive. They were the most common weapon for most of European history. Order made high grade swords were expensive. But an iron sword used by an army was cranked out in the thousands by royal blacksmiths.

It sounds like a lot of people got lucky with him because I keep hearing about people seeing him gain mad Magic Stats. Is he the one who has Nephenee Syndrome in this game? XD (A character who seems to be unusually RNG blessed in many people's playthroughs)

That ist what i did and he literally destroys Every enemy with double attacks

Yeah I think I've seen someone mention his growths are actually similar to Kagetsu's? If he was just in a physical class from the start he'd probably be a really good unit. It's a shame.

The problem with that is that you cannot afford to not use him especially in maddening. Just like you can’t not use Vander, you need Clanne to even get through the Lythos levels, and he’s inevitably going to get levels whether you like it or not.

I know how you feel! I struggle to not want to separate him and Framme (and I tend to put them in Horse-Mounted classes! Just feels right since Vander, who is the Knight their squired to is "horse mounted" so why not they! They do quite well as Sword Mage Knight and Royal Knight Respectfully! Framme fits Royal Knight since Veyle has Mauvier, so why not Alear, she's royalty! Twice over even) I'm mostly bias to Lapis who ALWAYS is in my party (and I had her as Halbedier once, largely cause I LOVE that class since Path of Radiance and I zero in on character's SIMILAR to a certain "blue haired village girl soldier who got me to LOVE the Soldier/Halbedier class! Timmera might be the "Nephenee" in class. But Lapis is the Nephenee in SPIRIT/Character......I mean Rosado is the first "Trap" character NOT to be in a Staff wielding class! So why not! Plus Neph strength was largely her Speed anyway which Lapis is QUEEN of!) I will admit I hate how they set Clanne growths and bases! Looking at everyone's Natural Growth's it REALLY makes it clear the developers were HEAVILY inspired by FE5 Thracia 776 then any of the other FE games (Bld and Bld growth, Low Natural Growths, even a Retreat chapter inspired by the Main Character biting off more then they can chew! It's freaking Thracia 776 if it had DLC LOL) but if I wasn't the type who's played EVERY Emblem and beat them with "low tier characters" through "learning how to develop them" I'd have skipped Clanne to the very moment Citrinne joined. The fun of replaying a Fire Emblem is playing with a different set of characters and seeing how I do in making them GOD TIER'S (Through this I learned Etie is a Player phase favored attacker who REALLY needs a Unit with Veronica attached to them or Seadell in the Dancer Class to get the most out of her as her defense game is BAD, as a Sniper I noticed this abit more then when she was a Bow Knight or Warrior where she sometimes was able to have SOME defense to survive Enemy Phase attack! But I was use to Glass Cannon Archers and Mages in Blazing Sword and where to place BLOCKS to protect them. If one character misses a kill your DAMN WELL SURE another character is nearby to "finish the job" as that's how you UTILIZE TEAM WORK. Her greatest Bane were Mages and ESPECIALLY Thieves and Wolf Knights with their Nasty Daggers! She was ASSURED to get doubled if she was caught wielding a Longbow) I've found Three Houses and Engage to be the most fun in letting me do that

this is what i did in my first hard run, i didn’t realized how skewed his growths were but when i reclassed him to paladin he had the most strength on my team, he then carried my team with roy for that +strength

So here's what i got for him: Immediately put him on Sigurd at the first chance Frontline him until you get to Ch 6 with Vander setting up kills for him (With DLC) Beat Tiki for eventual Starsphere for Clanne and Anna Beat Anna's paralogue for her and seals Promote him to Mage Knight Beat Ch 7 for second Master Seal for Anna Beat Ch 8 for three Second Seals at the Somniel shop Promote Anna for Berserker Second them both to Swordmaster and Sage respectively Get them enough SP thru Bond (or better) Emblem rings for Starsphere Forge Levin Boom, you just made an insane duo. Is it a lot of work, yes. Is the payoff beautiful, oh absolutely. Kill two birds with on stone. After that, I just have him on Leif

I'll do a guide on how to use Anna from when you get her without any stat boosters, exploits etc.

@@IcedCoffeeGaming nice! Anna felt good to use once she got going, but until then i thought she had really poor unit feel.

You let hm stay at LV2 before that point? I usually got my early units close to the Royal Family AKA Celine and her entourage before Chapter 5 (Vander is technically Level 16 Internally so he's the exception) Yeah in all nine currently of my runs Clanne and Framme always made it to Level 3-4 before Chapter 4 (I've always been good with "sharing" the EXP about to keep the ones not long term viable till they're no longer needed, while still training those "sticking around" till the end! Unless the twins are going to be in my main final party, then their getting trained to Level 10 then promoted for the increased Growths to better optimize them! The one thing of Engage Meta I agree with 100% as I had to get off the "Get to Level 15-20 before promoting" mindset of old....hope the next FE brings that back as it don't feel right doing that method for me! Call me old LOL) And yes you just got better at FE! Back when the WiiU was released (baby brother bought it, then ignored it in favor of his PS4 so I ended up it's "unofficial owner" LOL) I rebought the Fire Emblem's that got me into the Series! Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones (Like Final Fantasy, I had a habit of BUYING every new Fire Emblem on Release Date just as I did Blazing Sword) and with Blazing Sword and Not using Save States, I found the game was WAY easier then when it was HELL for a newcomer like myself back then! Even the "easy" Sacred Stones! The difficulty I found with the games is more on HOW to best win the maps, NOT lose a single character, and if any complete Bonus Objectives and equally level up the character's I've already determined are "coming to the endgame with me!" while keeping those I'm "not taking but are forced to use because forced deploy" alive and tough enough till the character their "placeholding for" joins up. Of course "there will always be those ONE levels" in every Fire Emblem that are hard because of BS then actual difficulty, But I feel Rewind and those "save states" on the GBA FE on the WiiU made those maps "manageable" I just enjoy turning "Bad Units" like Clanne into "Murder Machines! by Mid to Late Game (This came from Nephenee in Path of Radiance on my first run! Fed her a few kills, and she became a MONSTER Battle Goddess, and the reason ANY Character that reminds me of her, Like Oboro, Timerra, Mozu and Lapis are my NUMBER 1 Favorite characters!) What made it difficult for you was more the "how does this work" as they say, keep at it and eventually even a 5 year old will get good at singing the ABC song correctly with no error! It's the practise of "doing the same thing over and over again!" Which is why the best FE are the ones that focus on good map designs and Chapters (hence why Conquest was more popular then Birthright Map design wise! Birthright had one too many Uninspired maps! They had a few good ones, but Conquest had more to offer) And I agree a no DLC run was fun (I basically didn't touch ANY of the DLC on Day 1 despite buying the Expansion at the same time as the game itself back in January) and have adjusted to "keep the balance AND utilize all the DLC at the same time!" I'm mostly a Hard/Classic Player (Like Engage Maddening out of all the FE because it has LESS Bullshit that scared me away from Maddening/Lunatic beyond "1 Time" Happy the Hard Modes are basically the past Emblem's Sans NA Radiant Dawn "Normal Mode" as I'm a "just right" type of player! I want to be challenged, but not "Beaten into the ground the moment I BREATH! That's for games Like "Super Meat Boy/Celeste" to do to me!)

We got a severe case of Binding Bladitis in the endings.(Only Roy gets paired endings there). Kinda puzzles me, since 3H had them for everyone and there's multiple paths too.

even cooler as a swordmaster 😎

I love him and I made him a Mage Knight

Could path levin sword mage knight to paladin. Not the greatest unit but not difficult if you give him marth early game. Gets the sword prof and better utility to gain levels. Can inherent avoid to go along with his high speed too

Correction ment to say don't do jean para until you second seal him

How do you get him into warrior early though? He had a hard time leveling up for me on my 3rd maddening run

@@IcedCoffeeGaming yeah it is chap 8/9 when you get first second seals and a master....that said it is a big commitment for clanne specifically and you probably better off putting those early seals somewhere else. and again to get him 10 you will probably be using him instead of celine more early....which is again a specific decision. overall it's definatelt tedious with these early units...they can be really good in specific growth classes but they start in totally wrong class like Clanne/ Framme.

@@IcedCoffeeGaming i said it in another comment but giving him marth and bond points for the exp sword allows gaining exp from armors, mage killing, marths break skill on axes, and lodstar rushes while okay survivability with the avoid bonuses. Definitely an investment to give up marth though

Lance Paladin is good for him if you don’t want to run his unique.

@@erikbell1723 I just feel like he's so underwhelming

You have to spend SP to get those abilities. You have the abilities when the ring is equipped while the ring is equipped but if you want to use them without the ring they cost 1-2k SP

I have used Tiki so far on Clanne because of his bad magic growth which becomes solid with Tiki Alear because his strength was awfully low Diamant he was just feeling subpar and I wanted to use him Fogado (warrior) because of strength issue Framme to help her Timerra because she just couldn’t kill anything So far everyone but Framme and Timerra are absolute monsters, Clanne and Fogado are the best units in my run alongside Ivy. I am also probably dropping Timerra since she feels like death weight.

What happened on the stream?

Low STR

He would be great on Wyvern with his growths, pretty consistent class overall and can hang out with bond shield bois in the skies :)

I can think of worst units than RD Heather

@Megaspacewaffles not from my experience if you're so bad that on easier difficulties you have the highest suicide rate that's already a sign as to how useless Heather is on higher difficulties. Don't give me the "but but chests opening!" Bull shit because I've never had any trouble getting chests in the part of the game Heather even shows up in so even as a thief her existence is pointless.

@@RaidenKaiser Heather is your only thief for part 3. Hidden items are great, without Heather you miss Rescue staff in 3-End Game the only mobility staff in the game, stealing elixirs and skill tomes off enemies is also great, stat boosters as well. Her base speed is amazing so she does not get doubled on her joining chapter. Its very easy not to have her see combat, so her “dying” doesn’t really matter she won’t get doubled and survive 1 round of combat. If you recruit her she can just hide in a bush for avoid. So I don’t think that matters much. Fiona, Meg, Leonardo are far worst. It’s really easy for Heather to just not see combat. She also doesn’t fight as a recruitable unit, she will flee. So she doesn’t even kill herself. On easy she definitely survives 3 rounds of combat. Also saying she’s a “bad” thief doesn’t mean a lot, she’s your only thief for a big portion of the game

@Megaspacewaffles ok but that's assuming she even lives long enough to even get those items you're speaking of. She will never get those items because again she will die. There is no situation Heather works even sothe as much shit as I give him actually has more use than heather

@@RaidenKaiser why is Heather seeing combat in the first place??? It not that difficult to put her out of enemy range. You don’t have sothe and Heather at the same time, Heather is your only option as a thief for part 3. Heather doesn’t get doubled and survives about 2 rounds on her joining chapter. It’s like saying fliers suck cause they’re weak to arrows, it’s such an a nothing weakness

@@hanzou1238 He also seems to have rather weak HP. He wants a Seraph Robe. Otherwise..

Mine didn't get RNG blessed, having 27 total Mag as a MK after 40 levels and a spirit dust. He starts with 8 Mag, so mine leveled Mag like 17 times in 40 levels. So he got "Higher end of average", not blessed. That said, he was still one-shotting Swordmasters w/ Bolganone on Hard w/ Alacrity. Speed is his real strength.

@@ino_mation Allegedly, internal level determines exp gain, so promoting him to Mageknight early will give him the better Magic growths sooner without any real downside. Was the 40 levels 20(base)/20(Advanced)? Or did you use a Second Seal to reset his level after reaching max once and gained more levels after that?

@@XellosNi Mage and Mage Knight have the same Magic growth of 25%, although I will say, yes, my first playthrough of this game, I leveled everyone to 20 before promotion.

I wrote a thesis on how Lapis is the worst unit in the game. Let me grab it brb.

@@jonahkluger6136 I already know she is, lol. That's why I want to use her. Even if a unit is always going to be worse than other options, you can still use them optimally, and the game hands you more than enough tools to get by with a bad unit.

I have done everything I could. ON GOD. Lapis is worse than Clanne and Framme as a swordmaster and basically every other character as every other class. I genuinely think that besides her passive she is terrible at everything. Worse Martial Master than Framme due to even speed and worse magic and strength. Worse Griffin Knight than Chloe with a worse weapon, Chloe has better bases and a damage passive. Worse Berserker than Jean, 30 less strength growth and only 5 more speed. Worse Swordmaster than Clanne, Framme and Kagetsu. Barely faster than Zelkov/Yunaka as an Assassin but only by a little over the course of a long time, and she still deals less damage. You cannot do anything with her 25% strength growth. At least Boucheron has 20% build growth so he can carry any weapon in the game, but Lapis just cannot contend with anyone who is remotely good at their job. Usually, I would say this is Kagetsu ruining the game for everyone else, but Lapis literally has no niche. Like I said even Framme/Clanne are equally as fast and hit harder. The game makes Lapis out to be this covert unit that you can make good through her passive and availability to Marths' avoid/perceptive skills. However, she just cannot deal any damage. She has a really brilliant lineup of supports to a ton of important meta characters, yet she can never actually do anything besides rub her friend's backs as they do everything and she just sits there like a punk. AND THE WORST PART ABOUT HER SUPPORTS IS THAT SHE IS A DODGE TYPE SUPPORT. That is literally the worst type anyone can have. Avoid is literally objectively better in every single circumstance. The game even says she is deceptively strong but I swear to god she isn't. If she had a 35% strength growth I could justify using her saying that she scales better after 30 level ups, but she doesn't. Even her defenses, HP, build, luck and dex are worse than Kagetsu at even level.

@@jonahkluger6136 I already know all of this, lol. Like I said, the game gives you more than enough options to use a bad unit and still succeed.

I heavily disagree on him falling out super badly. Just take advantage of his high spd & dex growths with reclassing and killer weapons (especially killing edge) and watch him do stuff. There's actually a difference in making him into a different class other than the magic trio because just capitalizing with both of his highest growths means he can take care some of the most annoying units in the game on maddening and he doesn't even need high investment to make him good. Just spd inheritance alone makes him good at what he does. Imo tho, he's one of the most misunderstood units due to the game trying to make later additions viable, only to end up overdoing it. Starting stats don't matter in the face of mercurius, mentorship, lineage, and starsphere.

@@ElkaPME I dont think he is unviable. Literally any character with lineage starsphere will become a carry if you give them a strong weapon, emblem, and level ups. This does not make a unit good relative to the other options. He is just straight up out classed by quite a few other units like Lapis, Jean, and Kagetsu. If he started off as a sword fighter or something else I think he would be better since he is going to have to get 10 level ups at least in mage before you can promote and reclass and that is a ton of wasted spd and str growths. Again I like him and plan on using him next playthrough just for fun but I know he is one of the worst scaling mage units in the game without and requires a lot of investment to use as a physical fighter and there are a lot of better options. But that is just something I love about Fire Emblem. You can take any unit you like and with enough investment you can turn them into a god. Its super fun and something I love. However in terms of ranking characters you have to look at them relative to each other rather than there potential with enough investment if that makes sense.

The way forward for him is use Vander to set up kills for him, all while having him with Sigurd asap, then he can become an incredible swordmaster when you play it right, even with fixed growths

Can't go wrong with Wyvern on most fast units though, fixes their STR and is a solid DPS

No upside to saying pure downside

Trick is use your Jagen's (Louis and Vander) pair Alear with Vander and Louis with Clanne and power level jean and Anna on Jean's paralouge

My current team are Alear Chloe Frame Clanne Anna Jean Timmera Panette Yunaka Seadoll

Forgot to mention give him Celica not Sigurd. And switch of with micaiah with jean

You can feed Clanne and level him up but he's objectively worse than other midgame units and is a waste of XP.

@@IcedCoffeeGaming that is an excellent point now that I discovered growth rates thanks to you. First playthrough I replaced him with Goldmary. But I found I valued speed over tankyness as timmera and yunaka fill that role perfectly. And now with the hero weapons plus running fewer units he's actually on par with warrior panette strength and yunaka speedy for me. Didn't use dlc except powerlevel tiki paralogue him but he only gain one levels as I was priority Alear and Chloe

hell no, go swordmaster

I go for Mage Knight