#GAMEPEDIA FEH TIER LIST UPDATE#

Beyond that, AR introduced more variables that a tier list can't account for: it operates on a strict time limit, every single map is different with varying structures, and traps force a 50/50 guess that can often ruin a game despite everything. This meant you could literally see any unit in the game, even though only a certain amount of units are currently 'meta' defensively. This might surprise some of you, but we concluded that AR couldn't be tiered with any degree of accuracy because there wasn't any type of 'control' to weed out units, like Arena score. Aether Raids cannot be tiered accurately due to extremely high unit variance and the mode itself being much more than 1v1 battles The rest of the matches being pure counterpicking, there was little point in trying, so the idea was dropped.

We had some discussion about tiering Arena Assault, but it was eventually dismissed because the only match that really matters tiering wise is the very first one - the one where you put your highest scoring units anyway. The game began to revolve around how many support effects you could stack on a team at any given time, and that spread outside of arena too. Because of this, it's led to various units with great support effects resurging (MCorrin, Soren, especially Surtr), while traditional armor cores mostly faded. It no longer matters if your offense is basically busted or not if you're not the bonus unit, you're effectively useless unless you have a way to make it easier for the bonus unit to kill things. Cheerleader Meta is largely reviled across the community, but there's no denying it's here to stay. This goes back to the point above, where the maintainers had agreed that tiering Arena Offense on its own was pointless. Offensive potential is largely meaningless to tier now - Support has basically become the meta Now, as for the reasons why.well, here's how the team largely sees it: At this point, the list was put on a long break, which eventually leads us here to now. It wasn't just everyone being apathetic about it - the game and the meta had morphed into something that couldn't be encapsulated in a tier list. However, issues began to arise with the latter two.Ī lack of energy after the holidays sapped everyone's will to try and tier things for a while, but by mid-January we began to realize that we were running into very serious problems in formulating any of the lists. The first two were easily done and simply need to be updated/organized. Regardless of that, we eventually thought to split the list into four different sections: Support, Score, AR Offense, and AR Defense.īudget/General was also being considered. Why have one if you just needed to shovel kills to the bonus unit anyway? This point eventually prevailed amongst a majority of the maintainers, so it was decided to take the lists in a different direction.Īether Raids also hit us right about this time, so it was an exciting week or so before we were all reminded of why we were all glad horses were largely absent in higher tier arena. Keep in mind that one of the criticisms of the tier list at this time was that it made no sense to have it when Cheerleading Meta basically made it useless. The tier list maintainers were somewhat at an impasse at this point - do they continue like normal despite the list no longer reflecting the Arena's current reality, or do they change it up to better state the game's current meta? Well, 3.0 came and gone, and it was basically more of the status quo.

#GAMEPEDIA FEH TIER LIST UPDATE#

It made no sense to make an update if the meta would be shaken up immediately afterward. New mechanics were being discussed quite a bit, as were the inevitable inclusion of Beast units. When Update 3.0 hit a few months back, many of us had been expecting something big to change the game, which is why tiering updates were put off for so long. Now, before some of you start asking why - or start celebrating, I'm sure, - I'll describe how we got to this point and why it came to this.

There have been questions about where they are and why they're gone, so I feel that it's as good a time as any to post an update.Īt the current moment, the Gamepedia FEH Tier Lists are indefinitely on hiatus/retired. As some of you may have already noticed, Gamepedia's tier lists have been delinked from its front page.

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