WAIFU: Lysithea 

WARP AT B RANK THAT'S ALL I NEED TO KNOW

Ah yes, the most powerful of all Fodlan Relics: The Thesaurus.

"Lysithea has the durability of wet tissue paper" huh? *Tell that to my gauntlet wielding Fortress Knight Lysithea with 35 defense*

Death Knight: "I fear no man... But that thing, it scares me..."

How GOOD was Annette ACTUALLY? Wait, wrong channel. Oh, well. The suggestion still stands.

I only just realize how her being the glass canon archetype mirrors her character in how she does a lot of work but is going to die a lot faster than everyone else...

I could play through this chapter normally OR I COULD USE THE WARP SPELL

New Pitfall got discovered: Using Relics only with their crest

Dark flier comes out... Lysithea: I see no god up here... OTHER THAN ME!!

“I think you’re making a mistake if you consider Thyrsus the personal staff of Lysithea.” Would you say it’s a... PITFALL?

“You should trade Thyrsus around to your other magic users.” Implying I would ever use more than one 4 move unit.

Delthea: Come on. Who needs gods when you're as strong as me? Lysithea: Hold my cake!

God bless. As Rengor put it. "The most overrated and underrated unit"

I love that thumbnail and how the death knight is literally just weeping in the corner lmao. I can just imagine Chaz being in the thumbnail right there with him

Also of note if you're using a Sword Lysithea, a forged Levin Sword has 3 range and does some pretty solid work with her using it.

I would like to point out that the Gremory movement can be helped by equipping the March ring. She can equip it before moving then equip the Thyrsus to attack so she basically has 6 move that way.

Tip: you can certify Lysithea as an Armored Knight as early as lv 10. The requirement is C in Axes and D in Heavy Armor, but you can get ~65% probability with D+ in axes. While it does require you to sacrifice a few tutoring sessions training Lysithea's weaknesses, it causes her Def to raise to the class floor of 12 (from ~4) and her HP to raise to the class floor of 30 (from ~24). In my current BL run, Lysithea hilariously became the tankiest unit on my team apart from Dimitri and Dedue. Of course other squishy units can also certify for Armored Knight, but Lysithea benefits from it the most, due to 1) her extremely low Def growth, and 2) her ability Mastermind which makes up for the extra tutoring sessions.

In terms of construction, content and editing this is probably your best video yet

I picked edelgard's route first and I didn't know how good her damage was when I recruited her and ended up making her a dancer. This was not a good move

FE 3 Houses: "Let's give the player all kinds of options for meme builds like Mage Raphael or Grappler Hanneman." Also FE 3 Houses: "Let's still gender lock classes that synergize perfectly with certain characters so they can't access them"

MMMMMM NOW THAT'S QUALITY EDITING

Obligatory "Chaz" comment

Ah yes.The deadly yet fragile magical girls of FE: Lilina. Nino. Lute. Sanaki. Delthea. Nyx. And Lysithea.

I actually recommend mastering Mercenary after Mage since you will have time before promotion since she learns so fast just to get Vantage. It helps her enemy phase A LOT. Especially if you have Nosferatu attached when you go back to a magic class, she becomes VERY hard to kill. It worked incredibly well for me and helped it helps SPD growth anyway so she gets doubled less. Levin Sword + is also 3 range so that helps as well.

Starting off 2020 strong already Mekkah

On maddening she's great at almost killing most enemies. But she kills the assassins which is nice.

“Lysithea will never double.” Tell that to my 36 speed Lysithea who doubles practically everything

Death Knight: All of you will die Lysithea: Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

Another advantage to Gremory is that a flat bonus to her mag rather than a faire skill will increase her warp range.

"Low mobility" Dark Flier Lysithea: Lol Free +2 movement: *Lol*

Lysithea is fun to use. Like warp with her magic. Also nuking things out of orbit. Although I do get the sentiment that if she's not one-shotting something, she's a goner. Hell the Lilina nod is what i was thinking.

Personal Crest items. PITFALL EPISODE SOON GUYS

3:31 - so she's kind of like a mini-jeigan!!

I'm doing a maddening BE run right now and she's much more useful in maddening than I would've initially thought. She seemed overrated on hard mode because everyone outpaced her, but her utility is damn good on maddening.

I don't understand the reason for the debate between lysithea's classes, specifically between dark knight and gremory. Lysithea is never locked to either class, and neither is any unit in this game, she could always pass the exam for both and switch classes whenever convenient. It requires some work, but i'd argue it's worth it and feasible if you make good use of your free time. Lysithea on a horse with thyrsus has amazing range and power, and i think it's her best class in maps that do not punish cavaliers too harshly, otherwise she can be a gremory.

Sometimes the best Lysitheas we use to nuke enemies are the Chazs we make along the way.

Imagine only surviving one Hit. This Shitpost was made by the Fortress knight gang.

12:30 - (trying to use lysithea in a black magic tourney) F

Mekkah if you don't have a crest and use thyrsus you will take 10 damage every round of combat not every turn. (which basically means that even if it doesn't hit you, you still take 10 damage) so it is not advised to be used by non crest fellows.

Personally I love her as a Valkyrie, because she gets not only extra movement but dark magic range +1 and with thyrsus and her insane damage output it really does make miracles happen.

Dude, Lorenz pronounces Thyrsus when he gives it to you. Begins the same way as “thirsty”.

I'll admit on my first playthrough, I was lazy and kept Thrsys on Lysithea. On every other playthrough, I pass that around like a joint. edit: okay wasn't expecting the blunt joke at the end.

My Lysithea got the most kills in my run because I paired her with a dancer. She got 2 kills every round and rarely was in harm's way. -The rest of my army was fliers+Elightened Byleth. She could fend for herself pretty well.

The fact that the background changes from a forest to Ailell is such a nice touch

Good analysis. Sick editing. I agree that people overrate Lysithea a bit, but I definitely stand by the fact that she is a very solid unit. Her lack of move didn't bother me much, since I always have dancers ready and use other units for stride. I always either keep her in range for chip damage, healing, or have her deal with problematic enemies/cut their numbers to save to make it easier for the frontliners. As you mentioned, there are other mages that have 2+ range spells, and most of the magic users on my team are often relegated to healing, so Thyrsus is just kept on Lysithea. I will definitely give the staff a shot on non-crest units after watching this though, so thanks for shedding some light on that.

[Chaz disliked that]

4 months later: given that DLC class, so much for mobility issues!

My first playthrough of the game I used Lysithea as a dancer and just had her running around with a Levin sword. I've since realized she's meant to melt faces off with pure magic, but I still will have fond memories of small snowflake screaming "I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!" as she runs people through with a lightning sword

Lysithea is Chaz's WAIFU since she deals A LOT OF DAMAGE and WHAT A RANGE she have with a special staff.

Hey, @Mekkah, it's really nice to see you uploading more FE3H WAIFU episodes. Since Lysithea's episode is the only one that came out before the DLC's final wave, I would like to share my experience with Lysithea on my first playthrough (which was on GD after the DLC). Since this was not on Maddening, Lysithea of course was pretty powerful and one-shotted or one-rounded something every turn. After getting the Def and Res boosts from promoting into Bishop, she also became significantly less frail (btw, this is something that might have been worth mentioning in the video). I was able to get her Reason and Magic ranks to A before being able to promote into Gremory, and so I had plenty of chapters to instruct her in Flying and then Riding. With the help of the sauna, it didn't take long to get C-Flying and certify her as a Dark Flyer. Giving her a some Flying ranks gave an excuse to try and get a Pegasus Knight certification to get Darting Blow, just as I had previously done with Marianne, whom I trained as a Dark Flyer rather than a healer from the beginning (btw, Marianne is amazing and maybe you should do a WAIFU about her, talking about her post-DLC options, since Dark Flyer and Valkyrie offensive builds are actually viable on her). Some time around the last five or six chapters, I was able to certify Lysithea as a Valkyrie, and then got the mastery skill, Uncannny Blow (+30 Hit on initiation, which also boosts Gambit Hit). Lysithea's endgame skill build was Reason prowess, Fiendish Blow, Darting Blow, Uncanny Blow, and Dark Magic range +1. It was around the endgame (last three chapters) that I decided whom to give my +2 Movement DLC stat booster to, and it was Lysithea. Yes, it was a beginner's mistake to hold on to that item for so long, but boosting Lysithea's movement by two points is something that I definitely did not regret (and now I actually give it to her from the point I recruit recruit her). 8 Movement, Canto, and 6 Range made Lysithea's killing potential even better and I had a blast with it. Even as a Gremory (7 Movement and no Canto) she has been really good in my other routes, and that's what I have used her as (I really like double Warp, but I also switch to Valkyrie sometimes, if I have time to regain her Riding ranks). To close, I would also like to talk about one more option that Lysithea (and non-flyer magic users) gets from the DLC (even though I didn't use it on my first playthrough). If you complete Hapi's paralogue with her on your team, you get a B-rank magical batallion (Timotheos Magi Corps) with Resonant Flames (60 base hit and wide AOE) that grants +8 Magic Attack, +10 Hit and Crit, +7 Charm, and some defensive boosts. This batallion can be accessed much earlier than Macuil Evil-Repelling Co., and it is comparatibly as good.

Personal experience and all, but I used Lysithea as Dark Knight on maddening in the church route and I preferred her as Dark Knight over Gremory. The faire skill did allow her to barely get those one shots and the mobility was very helpful. I didn't have thrysus so she got the sacred item that only gives +1 range nor did I feed her magic stat boosters as I gave it to my other mages. For warp I didn't need another warp as I had lindhart and Manuala so an extra use wasn't needed. The extra tome use on attacking spells even on maddening is rarely useful since she has so many attack spells. Training her for dark Knight did slow her other ranks but not too much since she used group activities to rank up riding. I can see why people prefer Gremory though.

It's also worth noting that you can kill the Death Knight pretty easily without Lysithea's dark spikes, even on Maddening. If you have rally strength and speed (Raph and Ignatz on GD) That paired with the lance horse slaying combat art and a few gambits can kill him just as well. Also I figure I should mention that you are best to unlock both Gremory and Dark Knight, you can freely switch and she hits A rank in both Reason and Faith easy with her personal skill giving you room to train her riding and lance. Gremory is there for when you need 2 warps and Dark Knight for other chapters, like any that can't be warpskipped i.e. many Paralogues.

Lysithea's personal skill lets you do some pretty cheesy strats. In my NG Golden Deer maddening run I focused on raising armor and axes so she could advance to armor knight just for the bases, then swapped back to a magic class immediately. She was the most durable unit I had for much of the early game and she never fell too far behind in magic rank.

Although she is my favorite girl in Three Houses, but I have no clue why people are calling her strong. NOW RAPHAEL ON THE OTHER HAND, ONE SHOTS EVERYTHING. (Literally level up his Brawling skill and he Dodges everything and one shots everything)

I think it's worth it to train Lysithea in swords even if you aren't using swords at all; you train her enough you can promote her to Swordmaster, which will give her a certainly massive boost in strength and allow her to double many enemies she otherwise would not. With her personal she trains reason/faith/authority on her own so easily that it doesn't cost all that much to spend the extra effort on swords. Might be a bad idea in CF since it's a shorter route, but my VW Maddening mode I had so many extra trainings after I had gotten everyone as high as I needed them to go that it was like "well I might as well train her swords".

Lysethea as a Dark Flier is amazing

Player phase matters more than ever in three houses. Glass canons are indirectly buffed

the datamined info on the upcoming DLC classes genuinely has me excited for Lysithea and most other magic users, I'm gonna have fun planning class routing

Lute the Nuke would like to know your location. Great vid once more, it is nice to see someone looking at Lysithea without overhyping her.

what is this? production quality? in Mekkkah's video? we are truly entering a new decade!

I only played the golden deer route so far but it seems that three houses has a lot of very interesting units to analyze Personally I'd like to see one on Marianne, she seems to be very flexible unit with a lot of viable paths

I love the intro, with the "Tactical nuke, incoming!" sound effect. Describes Lysithea perfectly.

commenting to influence the youtube algorithm (also good video btw)

Regardless of the opinion, this was a great video with lots of in depth info about the character & how it performs in battle. Very well done. I hope you do one of these for all the characters frankly.

Haven't finished 3H yet but Lys here is my favorite unit, so here's my like and my comment, I'mma be back once I finish it!

Dark flier, thyrsus, warp, premium magic herbs + Lysithea = Peace in Fodlan

What a fool, didn't even mention the true final form of lysithea: Levin Sword dancer

I gave mine +1 movement, that combined with Lorenz relic staff = ultimate destruction

"Thir-sus?" "INGREE"

Wow, I just watched a video from 2017 and then jumped to this. Your speaking skills have gone way up

incoming Chaz response video

You keep getting better in your editing Mekkkah, keep it up!

We need a Waifu on Ferdinand. My body od a total beast

That juicy thumbnail and editing... so good!

levin sword fixes her sword problems and vantage on lysithea breaks the game

The little sound effects when things come in and out is a great touch. Glad to see your videos gradually improve in quality! hope to see continued growth of your channel

I love these videos, Mekkah. I feel like Lowen may be a contender for this series. Seems like everybody forgets about him.

One way to put Mortal Savant to use is through Forged Levin Swords imo. 1-3 Range and 6 Movement essentially equals Gremory having 1-4 Range with Thyrsus and 5 Movement, Lysithea benefits from a -faire skill, opens up her Item Slot for a Ring or similar equipment and she can always fall back on her 1-2 Range Spells if necessary. This does essentially halve Warp Uses compared to Gremory tho, in addition to the somewhat hefty materials required to repair Levin Swords (However, the Dark Merchant available sometime after the Timeskip sells Arcane Crystals at 1000 Gold a piece, so that eases repairs a bit).

Lysithea is my favourite Fe3H character🥺

Time traveler here. There are two new classes that will cause Lysithea to absolutely destroy. We now have Dark Fliers and Valkyries. Both grant her access to Canto, and, depending on preference, you can put her on a Pegasus to ignore terrain, or on a horse to get +1 range and black tomefare. I tried Dark Flier (Flysithea, as I've dubbed it) on a playthrough, and it's extremely strong, and I plan to put Lysithea on a horse in my next run through.

Just a quick tip for anyone playing NG+: Lysithea's low defense can be patched by giving her ranks in Armor and Axe so that she gets certifications for Armored Knight at level 10 and Fortress Knight at level 20. You don't even need to reclass Lysithea into an armor unit; just make her pass the exams. (This is a little known fact, but every class has a set of "base stats". When a unit gets a certification for a new class, any stats that are lower than the class' base are forced into the base value. For example, Fortress Knight has a base of 17 on both Str and Def, so if Lysithea passes the exam, her Str and Def will get buffed all the way up to 17). Getting the ranks for Armored Knight doesn't take so much time, but getting the ones for Fortress Knight did take until around chapter 7 or 8 (I recruited Lysithea in chapter 2 of CF NG+). I did this on my first NG+ run, and now I just spend renown to buy the Axe and Armor ranks. *You can make similar investments on other frail magical girls*, all of which have a bane in Axe, Armor, or both (because the game really wants to make it difficult for you to have physically tanky magic users).

With the added DLC Her as a Valkyrie is pretty fun and gives her a bonus in Magic range, though you will have to train her in riding. And on my playthrough I didn't get Thesaurus, Soo I just gave her with Flayn's Staff for a added plus one.

Lysithea was essentially my Death Knight killer/Warp user in basically every route, mainly cause she comes with Luna, Dark Spikes, and Seraphim, which is a really nice set of murder utility that is pretty hard to match, especially with Lysithea's high magic stat. She makes for a pretty decent anti raid boss unit, considering how her raw damage means that chip damage on a tough unit will allow me to kill them; it's how I managed to beat Maddening Golden Deer final map anyway, using Luna after chip damage to kill the final boss, who is a beast.

Him:U r probably doing something rly risky with Lysithea and I recomend you to stopp doing that right now.... My very intelligent self: *Lysithea-Solo-Run*

Could you make a waifu on Lorenz. I think he is a very interesting unit. He can be physical unit or magic unit.

Since dark flyer exists now, she has movement!

But... where is she on the tier list? Also the Marty at the end is god-like

The fact this video is 20.20 min. long,really sums up Lysithea

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think Mekkkah might be selling short a mounted class. The Dark Knight is a very good choice for Lysithea on Golden Deer route. The mistake is thinking it's an either/or choice with Gremory, instead of a competing choice that you swap between for each map. Dark Knight does seem to have an issue with opportunity cost at first glance. As you said she gets no benefit from mastermind in the classroom and the high riding rank takes time to reach. The lance penalty doesn't help either. But, realistically, professor ranks grow quickly even if you're not playing optimally, and it's not too hard to keep your students fed and happy (or gift bomb them) while training your avatar's own ranks on monastery days. From that perspective the only cost is giving up grinding days, and spacing out any paralogues you play. But even then I almost never do more than one set at a time because tutoring motivation is so valuable, and so quickly spent because of fast professor growth if I'm not renewing it in the monastery. So getting the riding and lances up is just an issue of time, not lost opportunity. Authority, reason, and faith should mostly grow fine on their own after the very early game, reaching where they need to be for any class build. And I have no shame trying a seal on a +60% chance or so. And the reward of a seven move, eleven range unit with effective damage that - with fast skill acquisition - becomes an eight move, thirteen range unit can't be understated in the late game. You have basically meteor range with Canto, and enough power to delete just about any unit on the map while keeping forward momentum. A lot of those late game maps encourage fast play before dangerous reinforcements show up, and reward player phase action. No mage unit does dark knight as effectively as her, and it's a gift I would hate to give up. That -5% + riding speed penalty does not matter at this point. The only drawback is being reduced to a *mere* one warp, but with the pace of those late game maps even that isn't felt much, especially if playing casually. And given how effective mastermind is at raising her ranks, if you *do* need the double warp, or hell are just playing a desert map, just switch her back for a bit. Master seals aren't that rare or pricey, not once Anna shows up.

To share my own experience, I did Golden Deer as my first no ng+ maddening run. Dark Knight Lysithea WAS a large investment in training, but it was worthwhile, as on maddening every last point of damage can mean the difference between a 1-shot or not, wheras claude/leonie/byleth were relying on brave weapons and/or crits to get 1 shots. I like that you point out thrysus trading though, as it is easily overlooked. I believe she was my most danced unit in that run. While overall I'd say dark knight is her best for maddening, I agree with Gremory for hard.

Wow, a full 20 minutes and no mention of her best weapon... the Aura Knuckles! Great video but do not discount the super meme of being able to guarantee a double with her massive mag stat

Me: sees tittle Also me: YOU WANNA TEST THAT THEROY!?

* insert chaz hates lysithea meme here *

Lysithea was the first character I saw break 300 damage in one hit. Girl is crazy.

Deku link getting blasted away actually got me. 😂

I cried because I accidentally killed Lysithia and just AAAAAAA I didn't KNOW you could actually help her and I just-MMMMMKKNKKsmsnms I was so pissed

Do my man Caspar!

Petra with Myrmidon, Thief, Brigand, Wyvern Rider, Wyvern Lord. Ohh and a evade ring to make her sexier.

I can't really say anything "definitive" about Lysithea as everything I'd say wpuld be due to personal experience, but I do believe that she's good.

Mekkah, awesome content as always. One note is that lysithea can make use of mastermind to collect ranks for things like riding and lances by using her as an adjutant during skirmishes. That's how i got her darting blow and mov +1 in my maddening mode.