Some of you have been waiting for a long time and here you have it. The universal tier list for all versions of Final Fantasy IV! Thumbnail Template by www.freepik.com
Rosa is definitely god tier. She can do great physical damage and she has way more survivability than Edge or Rydia which is good because she is the one reviving. In some boss fights it’s easier to let Edge and Rydia drop while Cecil, Rosa and Kain take on the boss
Dude, he IS better than people give him credit for. Even though his harps don't deal massive damage, they don't HAVE to! The status ailments they give can make trash encounters super easy. Lamia Harp FTW. 👍🏻
As for edge I tend to use a boomerang and katana because for some reason having edge with a boomerang in his right hand makes the whole attack long range so for the normal end game party my formation is b f b f b with kain and cecil in front
Funny thing is that Cecil would definitely lose ranking because of him being a character can't do much because of plot I mean the only thing I used him for was that 1 specific battle in the final chapter
I tend to rank parties instead of individual characters. The game constantly forces you to change you party and thus your tactics. Some parties are designed to be more of a challenge than others. Going up to Mt Ordeals with dark knight Cecil, and the magnet cave before you defeat the dark elf are my two least favorite. I usually just run from battles until I get through these sections and check the chests later once I don't have a handicap. For me characters are more about what role they serve in my party. Bad party members often just don't stand out as another party member does the job better. Porom suffers from having Tellah in the party most of the time and she doesn't have as much utility as Tellah (and later paladin Cecil) can heal too. Cid doesn't stand out because he's a physical attacker but Yang and Cecil are better. Then you get Kain making Cid the weakest in a party of 4 physical attackers. Edward I don't mind as I use him to status an enemy that is not currently being attacked to keep it incapacitated. The sages (Tellah and FuSoYa) I find that Osmose is a necessity for them to keep their MP high and their utility with both black and white magic is incredibly useful.
Yes after years please! I wanna play it but I don't own it and I don't have the time for a grand rpg. Your lists are great and I recently subscribed even tho you said I didn't have too lol. Keep it up!
Love this channel so much! Didn't necessarily agree with the list, but a very fun watch anyway! I also just have a different playstyle sooooo... Honestly, it's a hard game to rank with so many versions lol 😅 an FF4 character ranking was my first video I ever made lol
Edward is actually kinda insane in the GBA and PSP versions 😅 and he's fine in the DS versions lol, hastemarch life's blessing and hero's song are pretty good 😅 cid is not too bad or good in GBA and 100% trash in the 3D versions
personally, i put Decil above Pecil. reason being.... why the FCK should i care about his white magic? sure it's situationally good but so are items. his cover mechanic is cool and all but rather situational as well. his hp and defenses are bonkers though so good on him for those. but Decil's darkness ability is just insanely useful for screen clearing in the versions that it's an AoE and in the DS where it's a huge buff it's technically even better. the only thing stunting him is equipment and weakness to undeads. but he has a sword that can insta-kill and against undeads throwing potions is a thing. dunno just kinda wish we could have had a NG+ where we could keep Decil. or could interchange between the forms at will like his dissidia stuff.
White Mages are S tier in a lot of FF games. Rosa is especially important because nobody comes close to matching her healing abilities and the damage ratios in FF4 demand high-volume healing. No megalixirs in sight, either (at least the original releases).
I have to ask, you were nervous about doing this game... How do you feel about making a tier list for the playable cast in Hajimari no Kiseki (trails into reverie)? If you haven't been keeping up with the series, there are 51 playable characters in that one =P. Though I guess suikoden games still have more lol.
@@locloudanerpg Ahh looking forward to it then? nice. I already watched yours awhile back. But I think the cast jump from 4 to reverie is quite large, plus 4 kinda restricts what many of the party members wear, and I don't think Reverie does at all! Looking forward to the game since it has a high replay value post game dungeon thing like CS2 to my understanding, with the cast size to go wild with. eeek. I just hope Alfin makes a good caster. I don't like emma much, and Alfin has the good colour restrictions (unless they change it in Reverie).
I definitely agree with Cid being shit tier. He has no good abilities, his hammers deal less damage than any other physical attacker. In the games where you can swap him in at the end, I just wouldn’t, he’s bad, unless you want a challenge. Challenge run for the final boss could be Porom, Cid, Edward (if you don’t get his super busted gear in his trial dungeon otherwise he’ll become a God of DPS as he’ll get two turns to every other characters one and he becomes untargetable with hide), Palom, and Cecil (because he can’t be switched out). Cecil will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting DPS wise with this party.
I would've put Edge on top because Steal, but agree with everybody else's placement! I now have a higher attachment to Porom because she was one of my first white mages in FFRK, but agree she doesn't bring anything Rosa can't in IV.
I only played the SNES version and when you got to Rydia I thought 'eh? I thought Edge was the one that was always dying'. But then you said the ds version+ buffed his tankiness by a lot, and you STILL criticized his survivability. So eh, I guess I agree. I played my snes ff4 to death, got the artemis bow and the dragon whip for Rydia (well the bow is for rosa but I'm just saying I got the rare weapons). Given that like 1/3 of the trash in the final dungeon are dragons of some kind, Rydia actually makes a pretty decent physical attacker as well with the dragonwhip. Though when she finally learns flare it's hard to compete since it's a fast cast that consistently does cap or near cap damage.
I wouldn't mind a tier list for the After Years. I will say though, I think Rosa is one of the hottest Final Fantasy girls of all time. Adult Rydia as well.
Real fast S Tier Cecil (Paladin), Rosa A tier is Cecil(DK), Rydia, Kain. B tier Edge, Yang C tier Tellah Palom Porom CID D tier Edward Fuyaso??? F tier Kain again cause he pisses me off. (This is solely from the 3Ds version. I gave Rosa Dual cast and that made her kinda OP)
Really nice list :) Edward and Cid are actully quite formiddable in the psp remake. Though being said. They are awful in their part in the game itself. And Yang imo is a god tier charachter with his end game gear. But I largely agree with this list :) nicely done!!!
Yeah Edward is actually kind of great in the GBA version. His final weapon hits all enemy types for critical health from the back row, and he’s lightning fast. Plus his special move can be upgraded to a stackable mighty guard.
Edward should be also on the god tier as well because of how his stats Skyrocket at random after level 70. By the time you get to the lunar ruins and versions that allow you to change party members everybody should be around that level anyways. Even though his stats go up randomly if everybody is at level 99 Edward will have better stats than most of the cast. Also the way damage multipliers work in Final Fantasy 4 if an enemy is week to more than one thing they're it's going to increase how much damage is given. The Apollo's harp which is his third best weapon that you get for doing his trial in Mount ordeals deals extra damage to both dragons and things that are weak to Fire. Now think about how many dragons there are on the moon and in the lunar subterrain. In the Game Boy Advance version there is what is known as the psycho Edward glitch if you cast berserk on Edward and he goes into low hit points he will hide but instead of regular hiding when he comes back out on his next turn he will attack an enemy then go back and hiding immediately. He will only come out in hiding if he is the last party member left so due to the psycho Edward glitch you have one character who was literally impervious. Edward is simultaneously the worst character in the franchise and the most broken.
I'm back here after playing the pixel remaster after only playing the GBA and PSP port where you can change the party...Edge is the worst party member in JRPGs. He starts out underleveled (he was 15 levels lower than everyone else when I got him with Rydia doing more damage,more HP and better defence),he only has a few long range weapons and you have to buy them before he joins and you are cut off on returning there for awhile and anything he can do everyone else can do better. He starts behind and he stays left behind due to him having 0hp at the end of most battles.
Its too bad you don't like this game. FF4 is my favorite in the entire series and I've played them all. Whats funny is with the exception of FF2 I've heard people say that each different game in the series was their favorite. My top three favs of the whole series are 1: FF4, 2: FF Tactics and 3: FF13. I'm also not sure why 13 gets so much hate. The ending of that game I felt was amazing.
Tellah too low, he's honestly there for quite a while, consistently useful, and leaves when he would cease to be. Cid also seems more like a low tier character to me, I never really had any issues with him dying and his damage is okay. Not comparable to Edward imo.
