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78 inches is 6'6" (Walhart) 70 inches is 5'10" (Eliwood) Just some minor details, with no real bearing on the final results, but you might appreciate it. idk
Hey @Faerghast, I'm a bug sucker for the GBA Fire Emblems and I was wondering where you got this English translated FE5 rom? This video was awesome by the way, I got an answer to a question I never knew I wanted to ask.
@@Ed_man_talking9 if i had to guess, i'd say medeus is about as big as dheginsea when he's in his human form, and probably about the same size as dheginsea's dragon form when he's in his earth/shadow dragon form, but we have no way of knowing for certain.
@@takoomer9339 and the tent. remember that in fe7, Merlinus is just a tent. he only gets a horse and a wagon if you get him to level 20, which can take about half the game since he only levels up if you deploy him and he survives the chapter (if he dies, he'll come right back in the next chapter, but he won't get any experience). if you recruit him at the earliest possible opportunity in chapter 13x, deploy him in every chapter, play every possible gaiden chapter, and never let him die, it'll take 15 chapters for Merlinus to reach level 20 and promote, so he won't have a horse until either chapter 26 in Eliwood mode or chapter 25 in Hector mode.
Have you seen the group art of Galzus, Mareeta, and Eyvel? Galzus is the same height as Eyvel... *when he's sitting down.* Man is easily 7+ feet tall. Edit: Nailed it.
Yeah, looking at it again the only, ONLY reason he's shorter in the picture, is because of that posture bro, he's gotta go out stretch more. He'd probably be even taller if he started stretching
According to your calculations, Walmart is 6'6" not 6'4", since 6 feet is 72 inches and he is 78 inches tall. Still not able to get into the biggest boys, but just pointing it out.
Pikapower well they’re they are because they have a human form. Obviously if we let dragons compete they would be dominating but I don’t know if ghast mentioned this or not but I’m pretty sure we’re strictly discussing humans or any other creature that has a human form. Thats why there’s no dragons or laguz mentioned in their beast form
@@prospitdreamer Colloquially, but in official use the USA, Liberia and Myanmar are the only countries that aren't metric. And Liberia and Myanmar are in the process of changing over. Though the official definitions of imperial units are pegged off of metric so technically everything is metric.
Actually I think you are probably right, the fact that the calculation was based on a certain character being average height but that character was like 80-90th percentile in the line-up means that he was significantly above average height. No way is Walhart just 6'4" when he absolutely towers over everyone else in the game by a huge margin.
Joseph James yea, I don’t know awakening’s character design and in game portraits are pretty weird so its hard to measure. I still don’t think he’s that tall or at least not 7 feet like galzus and degenshia
I do think assuming Stahl has an average height, for the modern day UK is a bit excessive of a stretch. Why not average for the Shepherds, or average for the UK in the middle ages? And then in the lineup, he's definitely not near the middle; to an extent, that can be excused with how many children you recruit in Awakening, but still, makes it seem like a very unreliable guess, if you ask me. May as well just claim Eliwood has an average height for a UK/Japanese man because he's a bland main character kind of guy. Either way, I'm like, 80% sure that transformed Myrrh is the biggest anyways, so meh. That FE8 dragon design is BIG. You don't realize it at first, but she's super, super scrunched up, and is still massive.
The first person that comes to my mind for who is the tallest person in that game would actually be King Garon so I'm surprised that he wasn't on the list.
I think Garon may have been taller when he was young, and before being possesed by Anankos, seeing how Xander is also very tall in comparison to most characters it may be possible
Height Guesses: For the record, I actually think Galzus is like 6'4" but the fact that Dedue (204 cm) got booted to honorable mention and Galzus isn't a bodybuilder like Gareth leads me to think he is vastly taller Galzus: 6'9" (205 cm) Hawkeye: 6'11" (210 cm) Dheginsea: 7'5" (226 cm) Gareth: 7'3" (221 cm) Walhart: 6'10" (208 cm) Edit 1:Damn, apparently me knowing Dedue's height screwed everything up, I legit upscaled everyone's height by 5 inches to compensate Edit 2: WHOA GALZUS IS A BIG BOI
Hope Hawkeye gets a mention. They did a good job making him big. His custom sprite and tall portrait really make him stand out. ..also, Dheginsea. I love how they reflected his massive size in feh.
I think that Hawkeye is, simply because Hector - who is a big guy on his own - thinks that he's shade from the desert sun. EDIT: Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about the dragon Laguz... And I had no idea how wonky the Jugdral characters could be... So I can understand why Hawkeye would lose to them.
Before you announced the candidates I thought Surtr since he’s based on a fire giant and has one of the tallest models in FeH but I don’t know if he’d be bigger than 7’3”
Surtr actually has a canon height since the art book contains a height chart. I estimate him at 215cm or roughly 7 feet Though with height lines that is uncertain
For those using a good unit of measure, aka meter, we have : Walhart 1.95 m Eliwood 1,78 m Hector 1,90 m Hawheye 1,98-2,04 m Galzus 2,22 m Mareeta 1,58 m Stalh and the random soldier (is it a pleonasm) 1,80 m Deghinsea 2,20 m Gareth 2,21 m Fun-fact: while Dedue is 2,04 m in game is only 1,92 m (6’4”) in the height chart of the artbook.
I really appreciate the work that went into this video! But I'm afraid to say, you missed a clear candidate - Darros. We know that, after the war, he became sail. Assuming he's the sort of sail to go on a sailboat, he was almost certainly taller than Galzus' 7'3" - I'd put him at a 10' minimum.
@@Jobulejobies In FE Warriors, her dragon form looks like it's around 15 feet tall at least. Idk if you'd consider it canon though because Warriors is a spinoff game.
For those that use the metric system and have no idea how to measure in feet/inches like me, here are all the heights mentioned in the video converted to meters so, spoiler alert: Stahl: 5'9" = 1m 75cm Walhart: 6'4" = 1m 93cm Dedue: 6'8" = 2m 03cm Roy: 5'3" = 1m 60cm Eliwood: 5'8" = 1m 73cm Hector: 6'3" = 1m 90cm Hawkeye: 6'4"- 6'8" = 1m 93cm - 2m 03cm Mareeta: 5'2" = 1m 57cm Galzus: 7'3" = 2m 21cm!! (No wonder why he won as the tallest) Daein soldier: 5'9" = 1m 75cm Dheginsea: 7'2.42 = 2m 19cm Gareth: 7'2.78 = 2m 20cm Mordecai: 6'8" = 2m 03cm Edelgard (Not mentioned in the video, but appears in the thumbnail): 5'1" = 1m 55 cm
Seeing as how Hector said he was getting shade in a beating desert, I think Hawkeye is way more than just one inch taller than him, probably upwards of his shoulders being above Hector’s head. But either way, I’m not really sure that he can beat 7’ 3’’ though it could definitely be possible seeing his custom battle sprite. Dude is built
I assume you’re using modern heights to base height averages off of. Which makes sense. Only reason I ask is because if I recall correctly average heights of people back in the past were different than modern average heights (if I recall they were shorter). If FE character heights are based off of average heights of say medieval Europe then they would probably be shorter than what was found in the video. Either way I’m sure this would still end up with the same outcome just shorter heights.
I had the exact same thoughts. But one must consider that the fire emblem world is invented by modern people, that use their conception of height. Take Roy's "cannon" height for example, they gave him a pretty standart height for a modern teenager. So I guess it is fair to use modern heights... Tho Roy might have also been a fairly tall kid. That would tip all the numbers in Hawkeyes favor.
Duma is hard to compare because there is no reference in game or in artwork to which you can compare, similar to Gonzales, but if I had to guess then I would say that he may be as tall as Dheginsea or Gareth, so yeah, he may also be one of the tallest characters in FE
First height guesses: Walhart 7'0", Hawkeye 6'8", Galzus 7'3", dheginsea 7'5", gareth 6'5" Edit: yoo I actually got two of them right that's cool, way off on walhart and gareth tho lol
the question of how Galzus got so tall could simply be genetics, even if the parent isnt tall, they can still carry the gene for taller growth potentially and if both parents do carry that gene and we assume its recessive (meaning that it wont activate if paired with the alternative more dominant trait), then there is a 1/4 chance that they will have a child with only the tall gene and that would make them alot taller than their parents. Its like the real world's own gacha mechanic in a way.
Drago he could just have genetic defection or something. Also mareeta’s mother is probably short meaning mareeta has no chance in even getting remotely close to his height
@@arman_llc624 which is a possibility and also we don't know what Mareeta's mom looks like or even her height, Eyvel is not Mareeta's mom but rather her adopted mother so you can't use her measurements to scale. For all we know her mother could have been taller or even shorter.
This reminded me of the old game theory episodes. Using official sources and simple maths to deduce something that is mostly irrelevant. But these were the only game theory episodes that I actually enjoyed, mainly because the science was easy enough for the host and the audience to understand.
Now I wonder, who is the biggest dragon/monster in Fire Emblem (not counting Awakening Grima or Anankos, they’d win in a heartbeat, so this would more or less see who’s in third place)
Predicted Heights Walhart: 6ft 5 Galzus: 6ft 4 Hawkeye: 7ft Dhegsinea: 7ft 1 Gareth: 7ft 2 Edit: Ok I was pretty dead on with Gareth, somewhat so with Dheginsea and Walhart and completely off with Galzus
I am going to guess Naesala. Dodging crossbows at close range is a better reaction feat than doing the same whit arrows, and Naesala has the best evasion in the cast iirc. He is also very fast in travel speed, as he move around a lot during the tellius game whitout warp powder. This obviously assuming people aim dodge light spells because otherwise even Marty is FTL, wich is absurd.
@@noukan42 Hot take. Dodging light/lightning is very rarely FTL, and is unduly wanked in powerscaling. You aren't dodging light/ning, you're dodging a person firing it at you. You dodge them, not their projectile. You aren't dodging the light/ning as it is in transit, you are dodging the mage casting the spell. All you have to dodge is their expectation of where you will be when they cast the spell, not react to the spell after it has been cast. If the mage themselves can prepare, cast, and resolve the spell at lightspeed, or themselves have the ability to process at lightspeed and redirect the spell as it is in transit, then sure. But just from the animations, you can see that this isn't the case. Once the mage starts throwing up their hands to cast the spell, or what have you, you just have to not be where they think you'll be. This in itself is overlooking that the animations themselves are an abstraction, and a "miss" doesn't necessarily mean that the opponent dodged, but could also mean that the attacker outright missed without any effort on the part of the defender, or miscast the spell, or tripped on a small rut on the floor instead of attacking, or struck an unfortunate bird or offspring thrown by a hurling squirrel that unknowingly intercepted the attack, and so on.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 this is what i said by "assuming they aim dodge". Aim dodging is the only way people dodge bullets in real life, by moving accordingly to the gun position before it fire. I just was not clear about it, sorry.
@@noukan42 Ah. I just wasn't aware of that terminology. Thank you for clarifying, it's more my fault for not knowing that process has a name, that you used.
This was such a good video to watch lol. These dudes are so tall, it's crazy. Now I want to play around and research the shortest FE characters bc I'm a tiny dude myself and need to know.
Hawkeye - 6'8? Galzuz - 6'4. Probably the shortest. Deghensiea - 7' Gareth - 7'+ Walhart - 6'5 The notable trend is that I'm guessing the characters who are merely human are the shortest. Galzuz being the shortest, Hawkeye and Walhart being similar, and Gareth/Deghensiea towering over both of them. EDIT: Had NO idea Galzuz was such I monster. I assumed he was just a bit taller than average, and that his super high Con was more for gameplay reasons than anything. That's crazy.
Zelgius? He's shown to be about a head taller than his fellow soldiers, which would put him around 6'7" to 6'9" depending on how tall the one he was next to is. That's pretty massive
I dunno. I know you acknowledged it, but I think this method is kinda skewed because of Galzus' freakish artwork. Also it would be kinda unreasonable to assume Mareta would average height considering someone who is clearly huge is her dad. Even if her mom was average height, she'd probably still wind up 80th percentile at least. But you seriously made the best of it! Hot damn i appreciate the work and math that went into this! 😂
Awesome video, another method I used to calculate Walhart's height was his horse. So in the picture where Walhart is marching with his army we see that his horse is somewhat larger than the other horses, and when in combat against the shepherds that they reach around the bottom of the head/upper neck area of the horse which is in line with larger horse breeds today. What we can also gather from the horse is that they can comfortably carry around 20% of their weight. We can also infer that using the calculation from your video that Walhart is around 6'6 or slightly taller and has a massive muscular frame we can compare him to athletes around this height and that he would weigh at least 230-260 lbs. Add his armour which an average full steel armour would be around 50 lbs. So his horse must be able to carry at minimum 280 lbs. If that's around 20% of the horse's weight then the horse weighs at minimum 1400 lbs. I wasn't able to find any European horse breeds around that weight but since they were all relatively the same hand height I've decided to go with the Shire Horse, which can get up to 2000 lbs at about 173 cm average, or about 5'8. If you send in Chrom, who in your picture stands a little shorter than Stahl and Chrom's head is around the area which the top of the horses torso is, we can assume that this horse is also around 175cm - 185cm which if we just pick the middle is 180cm / 5'9 or as you said, Stahl height. I've looked at other horse breeds and most horses that are at least 1400 lbs are around the 16-18 hand height so the horse breed isn't too important. It's kind of important to note though that since we don't have any concrete numbers for Awakening Walhart can be shorter or taller by a few inches. I honestly just found it interesting that I was able to use a completely convoluted and messy way to calculate Walhart's height and came to roughly the same height that you did.
Galzus is definitely the winner, he's a colossal dude. EDIT: I knew he would win, but I didn't expect good 'ol Gort/Gareth to be so close, thought he'd be around 215cm, or just slightly over 7 feet
I did immediately say Hawkeye when the question was posed so seeing him in the top 5 is refreshing. Eager to Edit and see the changes. Edit: Im not sure I agree with the estimate for Hawkeye, I was thinking of the same scene with Hector but thought this would scale him up quite a bit more; In order to believe someone was a random wall of shade
One possible explanation for Galzus could be his crazy holy blood from being Shannan’s cousin but, none of the Od blood people are as bulky as him? It’s a mystery (of the emblem).
Ymir should be another honorable mention. I'm not sure how you could get an accurate size of him since he's a gaiden chapter character from Shadow Dragon, but in-game he's referred to as a giant. Due to his size, he's mistreated as a monster.
Character: Estimates (edited responses to video) ----- Galzus: 5'11 (The explanation for why finding Galzus' height would be hard combined with me believing con was more about muscle than height was a big part of why I underestimated him so much. Ah well.) Walhart: 6'1 (Hahaha. Somewhat close. Guess my interpretation had those 3 inches go somewhere else) Hawkeye: 6'2 (Welp. This was off at best and way off at worst. I had assumed making my estimates that these measurements would be "oh yeah, the top guy is still something humanly achievable" -- which probably doesn't make sense since two of these are Laguz and it's a fictional universe -- but whatever. Funny how far-off I was.) Gareth: 6'4 Dheginsea: 6'6 (These two were hilariously off. This vid was great!)
Murdock from FE Binding Blade is humongous, he is a Human with a Constitution of 20! He should have been on the list, he is perhaps on par or bigger than some of the people included.
For those viewers who have exchanged the romance of Imperial Standard for the cold calculus of International metric, everyone on this list is between 190 and 225 cm. Walhart: 193 Hawkeye: 193-205 (Ghast's only character he couldn't nail down) Galzus, Gareth, and Dheginsea: basically 220-222 with Dhegin being slightly shorter than the big Gs.
Awakening Grima takes first place without much competition. Any other dragon in the series that isn’t named Anankos would probably look like a housefly by comparison. Anankos similarly doesn’t really face any competition for 2nd place. From there, 3rd place is where it gets interesting.
It was a really interesting video and it was very cool to see the how you found out their heights. However it would have bin nice, if you had shown the heights in cm/m too, at least the end results. Besides that I have nothing to complain about and Id like to thank you for the great video.
There was an official height chart for FE4 characters in the Jugdral Treasure book. It's nigh impossible to find on the internet now, but based on the positions of the background height lines, (most likely beginning at 150 cm or 4'11, and ending at 200 cm or 6'6") Jugdral characters are all just really tall. Most of the men go above 180cm/5'11". There was a scan from the book with Eyvels height, but I don't have that picture anymore. I do have the page with Seliph and his close allies, though, and he's about 182cm/6 feet tall. Tall for Awakening, but average for Jugdral; Oifey on the same page is 195 cm/6'5". So Chrom is less than 5'9"? I support manlet Chrom.
I feel like heavy armor adds 2 con in the GBA games, based on Amelia's knight promotion while accounting for her natural bulking up. This is supported by Ross gaining 2 con when promoting to Pirate and three when promoting to Fighter, since he would focus more on his bulk to be like Garcia. My point is that Generals compared to Berserkers would have 2 less Con. Light armor adds 1 con, also per Amelia.
Hawkeye is big enough that Hector comments on how nice the shade is when he first appears behind him. So I'm going to guess Hawkeye is getting close to 7 feet, not knowing how tall Hector is. The dragons I assume are much taller in dragon form but I suppose they must be around there too in human form
I've played Thracia, but I had no idea Galzus was that big. The name just doesn't "sound" big, like Dedue or Mordecai or Gareth or Hector. Sounds more... sharp and bony.
That's not how genetics work. Just because there is a white couple doesn't mean that their child would definitely be white. Depending on the genes of each parent (like let's say one of them has 1/4 of an African gene), there's still a chance that their child could end up having a dark skin tone. Genes isn't always direct. There can be many factors that affect the genetics of a child.
@@lionelmarcussolaris2858 we are talking about probability, not exceptional circumstances. He says "most likely", which is accurate, in any calculation a child of an exceptionally tall 7 foot+ father will also be taller than average
Thank you for the super interesting video! I am glad people think about these random topics as much as I do lol. However, like a few other people, I definitely argue your conclusion on Hawkeye's size. For someone to stand behind you and give you noticeable shade/relief from the sun they would have to be significantly taller than you; just go outside and test it. My guess is Hawkeye is 7'+ I really don't know where you got the 6'4"-6'8" guess from? Seems arbitrary. Either way thanks again for the video and I hope you do more because now I want to know every character's height!
I thought Constitution was the ability to eat a rotten tomato. Though now that I'm thinking about it, I guess the situations that would normally require DnD Constitution wouldn't really happen in a strategy game like Fire Emblem
