Social "Friends being fought for!" Ike General Discussion

[Rayman!]

One time in team battle on for glory, there were these 2 Ike spammers on the same team, my team lost and at the end they both said "I fight for my friends" I literally laughed 3 minutes after hearing that, because of the meme and TWO ikes saying it.

 

[Sol0ke]

Favorite FE games?

1. Radiant Dawn
2. Path of Radiance
3. Fire Emblem 7
4. Awakening
5. Sacred Stones
6. Shadow Dragon

 

[Deathcarter]

Favorite FE games:

1. Path of Radiance
2. Awakening/Radiant Dawn

*Big gap*

4. Shadow Dragon

 

[Slaps]

After 4 years I would have figured the discussion of Fire Emblem would have been rung dry in the Ike Social Thread..... Sigh

 

[-RedX-]

New members m8

 

[Ekans647]

I'm the new member he's talking about. Hoping to get my first FE game for Christmas.

 

[Slaps]

Every time I come back here it is either everyone talking about fanfic or a FE game....

 

[KingKilik]

So why would you ever leave?

 

[Ekans647]

Hey guys. A friend of mine made this fan art banner:

Awesome, right?

 

[|RK|]

Hey, Ike mains! What do you use Eruption for?

 

[Deleted member 269706]

Hey, Ike mains! What do you use Eruption for?

Abuse the hell out of the ledge snapping vulnerability. See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpax41DC_Y The timing is really weird at first, but I bet you can get it. I usually release eruption as the opponent is initiating an attack or jump. So as soon as you can tell that they are jumping or using an up-special, release it. I also use it to catch rollers on rare occasion since the hitbox does go behind Ike after a minor amount of charge.

 

[|RK|]

Abuse the hell out of the ledge snapping vulnerability. See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpax41DC_Y The timing is really weird at first, but I bet you can get it. I usually release eruption as the opponent is initiating an attack or jump. So as soon as you can tell that they are jumping or using an up-special, release it. I also use it to catch rollers on rare occasion since the hitbox does go behind Ike after a minor amount of charge.

Gotcha, thanks! It also has super armor, right? At what point?

 

[Deleted member 269706]

Gotcha, thanks! It also has super armor, right? At what point?

The super armor doesn't really come into play until about 3/4ths of the way through the charge, so don't rely on it. It's much better to miss and get away then get hit because you're relying on protection. Chances are you'll never get the charge that far and have an opponent still close enough to be caught by the blast (unless you're edge-guarding).

 

[Ekans647]

Hey, Ike mains! What do you use Eruption for?

I found that when you're being juggled against slower characters, you can use Eruption to remove pressure.

 

[Oblivion129]

Hey, Ike mains! What do you use Eruption for?

I use it against someone trying to grab the edge. It hits below the stage so you don't really need to wait for that 1 frame before ledge snapping against some characters.
Like against Pac-man

Spoiler

EDIT: Pardon the quality but I wanted to show this with the percents

 

[cron0]

Popping in here too.

New to Smashboards, not too old to Smash. I'm maining Shulk this go around, but after watching a playthrough of Path of Radiance and wanting to give him another shot, I really want to pick up Ike! So I figured I'd introduce myself to you lovely Ike people!

 

[Deleted member 269706]

Hey, Ike mains! What do you use Eruption for?

Made this video of a couple awesome instances of eruption:

 

[Aether9000]

Has anyone here heard of an Ike player named GoldenPsycho? He told me on Reddit that he was top 5 worldwide Ike, but I've never heard of him.

 

[san.]

Has anyone here heard of an Ike player named GoldenPsycho? He told me on Reddit that he was top 5 worldwide Ike, but I've never heard of him.

http://smashboards.com/members/g-p.151131/

He's not, but he was a decent player from what I recall

 

[Oblivion129]

@G~P brah they're calling for you lol

 

[Zatchiel]

Hope everyone's having a great Christmas. Mine's been awesome so far, looking forward to seeing some new faces for those just getting the game today.

 

[Oblivion129]

Merry Christmas to everyone and you, too, @ Zatchiel ! I'm up for some Christmas smashes for anyone available.

 

[cron0]

I'm down for Christmas smash!

 

[Ekans647]

I got my first FE game! There's a lot to learn. Do you guys have any tips?

 

[Oblivion129]

I got my first FE game! There's a lot to learn. Do you guys have any tips?

Which FE game?

 

[Ekans647]

Which FE game?

Awakening. I just cleared chapter 3. I'm Easy & Casual.

 

[Oblivion129]

Awakening. I just cleared chapter 3. I'm Easy & Casual.

Easy casual? You won't need any help at all lol. Make your units go to level 20 and then use a master seal (You'll have to wait a lot to get to level 20). Don't use Frederick much or at all, because he doesn't grow much. Make some pairings, and remember the weapon triangle.
Oh, and try to recruit all the characters that appear. Some need a special requirement but most are just by talking to them with Chrom.

 

[XLR8TION]

Happy Holidays guys

 

[Oblivion129]

Happy Holidays, @ XLR8TION and GGs yesterday!

 

[Ekans647]

Easy casual? You won't need any help at all lol. Make your units go to level 20 and then use a master seal (You'll have to wait a lot to get to level 20). Don't use Frederick much or at all, because he doesn't grow much. Make some pairings, and remember the weapon triangle.
Oh, and try to recruit all the characters that appear. Some need a special requirement but most are just by talking to them with Chrom.

Okay. I think in the game easy is called "Normal". Next time I play an FE game I'll a little harder.

 

[Oblivion129]

Okay. I think in the game easy is called "Normal". Next time I play an FE game I'll a little harder.

In Awakening, yes. Normal is a good way to start as a beginner or if you don't want to restart a chapter so much. And classic is what you'd want to play to get the FE feel to it.

 

[Nidtendofreak]

Easy casual? You won't need any help at all lol. Make your units go to level 20 and then use a master seal (You'll have to wait a lot to get to level 20). Don't use Frederick much or at all, because he doesn't grow much. Make some pairings, and remember the weapon triangle.
Oh, and try to recruit all the characters that appear. Some need a special requirement but most are just by talking to them with Chrom.

This is actually pretty bad advice for Awakening. Awakening plays differently from other FEs.

When in a pre-promoted class, use a second seal at level 10. Get all of the low level skills you want before using a master seal and then bouncing around the promoted classes.

Frederick is just fine. He's promoted yes, but you can second seal him back down to a pre-promotion class. His growth rates are actually in the same range as everyone else.

Make sure you get Chrom to an S-Rank pairing ASAP. He's the only one on a time limit and if you somehow manage to REALLY REALLY mess it up, he'll marry a generic villager and that will hurt another unit down the line.

Really, Awakening is "Baby's first FE" if you would. Unlimited EXP thanks to second seals means its impossible to have a bad character, the only question is how long it takes until they have max stat everything. Pair Up makes it even easier and harder to lose with absolutely massive stat boosts for S-Rank pairings + free extra attacks/nullifying attacks. You basically don't need any sort of strategy for the vast majority of the maps as well. On Easy Mode it is completely brain dead.

 

[Ekans647]

This is actually pretty bad advice for Awakening. Awakening plays differently from other FEs.

When in a pre-promoted class, use a second seal at level 10. Get all of the low level skills you want before using a master seal and then bouncing around the promoted classes.

Frederick is just fine. He's promoted yes, but you can second seal him back down to a pre-promotion class. His growth rates are actually in the same range as everyone else.

Make sure you get Chrom to an S-Rank pairing ASAP. He's the only one on a time limit and if you somehow manage to REALLY REALLY mess it up, he'll marry a generic villager and that will hurt another unit down the line.

Really, Awakening is "Baby's first FE" if you would. Unlimited EXP thanks to second seals means its impossible to have a bad character, the only question is how long it takes until they have max stat everything. Pair Up makes it even easier and harder to lose with absolutely massive stat boosts for S-Rank pairings + free extra attacks/nullifying attacks. You basically don't need any sort of strategy for the vast majority of the maps as well. On Easy Mode it is completely brain dead.

Okay. I've never played a FE game before, so I choose this one. After I beat it, I'll try it at a more difficult level.

Is there any good ways to earn gold?

 

[Oblivion129]

This is actually pretty bad advice for Awakening. Awakening plays differently from other FEs.

When in a pre-promoted class, use a second seal at level 10. Get all of the low level skills you want before using a master seal and then bouncing around the promoted classes.

Frederick is just fine. He's promoted yes, but you can second seal him back down to a pre-promotion class. His growth rates are actually in the same range as everyone else.

Make sure you get Chrom to an S-Rank pairing ASAP. He's the only one on a time limit and if you somehow manage to REALLY REALLY mess it up, he'll marry a generic villager and that will hurt another unit down the line.

Really, Awakening is "Baby's first FE" if you would. Unlimited EXP thanks to second seals means its impossible to have a bad character, the only question is how long it takes until they have max stat everything. Pair Up makes it even easier and harder to lose with absolutely massive stat boosts for S-Rank pairings + free extra attacks/nullifying attacks. You basically don't need any sort of strategy for the vast majority of the maps as well. On Easy Mode it is completely brain dead.

Yeah, he can get all those skills but since he's on easy he won't need any at all. On hard mode I had to do that, especially to second seal the manaketes and taguels.

I didn't know the thing about Frederick, though. I assumed he was the typical "strong at the beginning" unit.

You don't really need to get Chrom to S-Rank. He'll only marry the generic villager if you didn't get any supports with him at all with his candidates, or if his candidates are all married or incapacitated.

 

[Nidtendofreak]

Ya, but Chrom auto-jumps to S. I don't know if you miss out on the convos that get skipped or not.

Gold you get naturally/selling weapons you don't need. Won't be an issue after a few chapters.

 

[Oblivion129]

It skips the convo but you can see it whenever you want, I believe.

There's also a Barbarian skill that gets you money, but I don't think you'll be needing that much money. Just sell what you don't need like @Nintendofreak said.

 

[Ekans647]

I plan to play Radiant Dawn after Awakening. I just want to get comfortable with the series. There's so much going on it a little overwhelming. Stats, supports, items, gold, managing all this is new to me. I only play about 4 hour of it, but I love the game so far.

 

[Deleted member 269706]

I'd recommend Path of Radiance before you play Radiant Dawn cause the story will make a lot more sense.

 

[Ekans647]

I can't afford PoR, so I'm going to watch a play though of the game online. Then I'll get RD.

 

[Deleted member 269706]

If you're computer is good enough I would recommend downloading the ROM buying it, and playing it on an emulator a Gamecube or Wii. Your idea of watching a play through isn't a bad idea, though it may take a bit of time to get through. Another idea would be to check out Serene's Forest and just read the game script.