SPEED is the BEST Stat. 

The best stat is actually movement, but speed is definitely paramount.

Only with Anna

Depending on how you think about it. Build is a worse version of speed. 1 build essential gives you 1 speed to a cap. While speed is capped at the class cap.

Build gets overlooked because if you have 5 less build than you need for a weapon thats only -5 speed. You can more effectively stack speed in this game than you can build. Lyn gives a flat +spd and Speedtaker as inherits and a DLC emblem also gives a flat +spd. There are probably other ways to get speed but even with low speed there are work arounds that let you do an additional attack with some exception.

BLD ≤ SPD. BLD helps prevent your SPD from being minus-ed. But if your weight is less than BLD, BLD is a wasted stat. 1 speed is always going to be better/equal to 1 build.

@@kaidestinyz right, but a weak version of speed is still a considerable stat because speed is that good. There's also just not that many good ways to increase build

I'll never be upset about getting extra build. But I'll always prefer more speed.

It's worth noting that hitting twice improves your Crit, but not by doubling it. The formula for chance of at least one Crit in two attacks is 1-(1-crit chance)^2. So 50 Crit turns into a 75% chance of getting at least one Crit, rather than 100. Still good, but not double

I do prefer the newer movement

Not always is that better but It can be.

a lot of the characters in this game have enough build to not lose any speed when using heavy weapons. You don't have to equip every one with light weapons.

Just to confirm the speed difference in engage has to be 5 for doubling

Why one rounding frail generals when you could be plowing through hordes of griffins and swordmasters? That's what speed let's you do!

@@marcoasturias8520 Because nobody except your mages can kill the generals so they kinda need to be the ones doing that

@@leonardzein5056 ok, then kill generals and griffins

@@marcoasturias8520 he explained in his initial comment. There are enough armors in the game that your mages will be focused mainly on that, which leaves the griffins for your other units.

Lol panette halberdier is so fun, her base class is so bad so it feels good when you get to put her in something better

You know Clanne has 35 strength and 50 speed growth ,

very true. easily one of the best classes in the game

Yeah build is good for allowing you to wield something heavier.

Movement can't break maps with Lucina bonded shield though :)

True... But you can't do anything without moving first.

Louis is defs the exception that proves the rule, imo.

@@yuukiv7502 yea louis is still very good late game but i have to look on the map where the mages are as well whereas with a dodge tank, i just turn off my brain and send them wherever.

I think a variety of stats are needed. Speed to a point helps you but honestly after you are + 5 higher than your opponent it's not better than other stats.

@@barcster2003 to be fair, stacking speed provides avoid, so more is almost always better, even if you already double. But because of backup units, you can't avoid everything.

by this logic hp would be the most important stat, since if you only have 1hp you die in one hit.

@teamguapogames2015 the difference is that you have very limited control over how much damage an enemy can do to you. On normal, enemies deal such minor damage you generally have more hp than you need, and on maddening it's the reverse, you often don't have enough and enemies can hit you so hard you might as well be stuck on 1 hp. I hope that's an obvious oversimplification, but I stand by my previous point: if you can't deal damage, you can't win. Every other stat helps you get there, but without enough str/mag you're not even in the race.

@@malusvir Sorry, but even with your simplification, I feel like everything you said applies to str as well. You have no control over how much defense/hp an enemy has, on normal you often have more strength than you need, and on maddening it's the reverse. If we take an example of the first level of the game let's say you have a run where your character has 100 str and 1 in all other stats, vs a run where your character has 100 spd and 1 in all other stats. The character with 100 stats might kill one of the units that surrounds you at the beginning of the game (but with 1 dex odds are stacked against you), but after that you're guaranteed to die on enemy phase because you have 1hp and no chance to avoid their attack. On the other hand the speed character will be unhittable due to insane avoid stats, and doubling. As long as you can do one damage, and have even a 1% chance to hit you will eventually beat all the enemies. Not to say that this is the best way to compare stats, but it seems like based on what you're saying that you are trying to compare these stats in a vacuum so I'm giving an example that is a vacuum to make my point. In practice I think speed is the obvious choice. Strength scales linearly (at least it did in older titles) so 5 levels of strength gives you 5 extra damage. If your opponent has 30 hp, and you are doing 15 damage, 5 points in strength is useless. 10 points in strength is useless. It still is going to take you two rounds to kill the enemy. Whereas 5 points in speed could potentially double your damage, resulting in the ORKO, and even if it doesn't each point of speed gives you an extra 2% chance to take 0 damage on enemy phase. Based purely on the amount of value one stat gives you over the other speed wins every time.

Plus you can fix with stat ups or weapon ups as wel since speed doubles the effectiveness of most ups you can do. Harder to fix speed.

Levin sword is good can't go wrong

I mean the characters that are meant to be tanks can do that.

You can buy a lot of damage though, via higher level weapons and forging. Not to mention as he stated in the video speed increases dodge rate. If you're doing 2 damage twice and the other unit is doing 0 damage because they can't hit you then speed still wins.

if enemies can't hit you (minus chain attacks) then you just need to do at least 1 damage to completely nullify the game

@@t_kon Firstly, you can't dodge 100% in the game, that would mean you somehow have all your units at insane speed levels to dodge everything in the game which is probably impossible. Secondly, chain attacks exist. So it's not a viable strategy. Thirdly, if you could do that, you could technically just have one unit if you never ever get hit. Lastly, if you just do one damage in the game, you are going to take 6 hours to complete one chapter. So idk what kind of comment you were trying to imply by that, sound dumb af NGL.

@@kaidestinyz I have beaten the game 3 times on maddening, and anyone would know that dodge tank works. I have stated excluding chain attacks in my original comment (which you can nullify from corrin). Again, someone has already beaten the game with just Alear on maddening. How can they do it? The answer is speed. A lot of effects in this game (whether you like it or not) encourages you to be faster. Bonded shield benefits a lot from units that can't be doubled. Covert stacks avoid like no days, and maddening AI will ignore you. Speedtaker makes you insanely fast. Tempest trial level 50 easiest way to finish is by having a juggernaut unit, either with avoid or tiki lifesphere++ and a tanky unit (which requires DLC). Dodging 100% is definitely possible, and the only thing which will still hit you is engage attacks. This alone nullifies 80% of the game.

@@t_kon If what you say is true. Beating everything in the game with just Alear, the game sounds broken tbh. Is there a video link for that? Is it on RU-vid?

@@kaidestinyz there is this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cIVb8B5kDyQ.html

12 bld still gets weighed down by flame lance so doesn't it make more sense to just make him a sword griffin for levin sword? Not like you can't do that with more than 1 unit

@@b-d9099 12 bld gets weighed down by flame lance. 13-14 bld plus a bunch of bonus speed from changing classes to Gryphon Knight is significantly less weighed down by the flame lance.

SP gain is just 1:1 with exp when you have an emblem ring equipped, 1:2 with exp when you have a bond ring equipped, and 0 when you have no ring equipped. The only quirk is that in the arena you get SP from having a bond ring but *not* from having an emblem ring.

@@leonardzein5056 interesting, the arena thing. Thanks for the info, now i know how stronk is Soren for sp farming thru Reflect.

I mean, after two actions speedster is already giving you speed +4 so for most characters, speedster is better. Some characters are only a few points short so Speed 3 might be enough. If you want to use heavier stuff, speedster is probably better because you can start the map with lighter weapons to last hit stuff before switching to silver, brave, and effective weapons. Also speedtaker is really nice for mages :)

@@ThoniusB so speedtaker for Ivy then

Both, run both and wreck some wolves

How do you offset low speed? In my experience it's usually easier to offset strength/mag. All you have to do is buy better weapons and upgrade them.

You can offset low speed with food, tonics, rings, skills, dire thunder ring, brave weapons, great weapons, engage skills and crit builds. With all these tools the maximum amount of damage you can do is more important than overkilling doubling thresholds. I'm not saying you don't want any speed but it's pretty easy for most units to hit the doubling threshold for average speed enemies while also finding ways to one-shot the faster ones if they have a high str/mag. Fast units like Merrin need to reclass to high str classes if they want to be doing relevant damage endgame.

High speed enemy units on maddening are the bane of that difficulty in Three Houses. Like sword masters and pegasus knights are the most dangerous enemies.

I want to use Etie in my playthrough too. Is warrior the best advanced class for her?

@@Average-00 It's probably one of her better classes but you'll need to invest a second seal and master seal.

@@Average-00 Etie loses value later in the game because she can´t reliably doubly pretty much anything. I kept mine as sniper and used her mainly as mage poker or flyer killer. Haven´t used Alcryst but he could be better.

You dont really use Celine for damage necessarily. She's extremely flexible in that she can do physical damage, magic damage, use staves, dodge tank due to high speed and luck (half of luck is added to Avo total on all characters), can have high hitrate even if she has debuff due to Byleth's Divine Pulse proc'ing off luck, and makes use of both bond rings that proc off of luck. Plus she will never get crit. She's kinda sleeper OP. Just slap Marth on her for the first part of the story and get his +Avo. If you need her to be a mage get Celica's Tome Precision. If you want her to be a dodge tank get Marth's sword skill, and then get her Leif's Finn S-bond ring so she has a 50% to dodge any attack that would kill her.

Also spd without high str/mag doesn't mean anything. High str/mag without spd is still useful.