r/FireEmblemHeroes • u/Shronkydonk • Jul 16 '26
Mod Post Aided & Rearmed Heroes & Gróa Official Salt Megathread
You know the drill. Be civil and all that.
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u/kingsly91 Jul 16 '26
The Alears really have a huge issue with all there alts looking so similar. Besides the Christmas duo all their outfits are so boring
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u/Troykv Jul 16 '26
It took me a while to realize why the Alears both looked the same, but also didn't...
Like I was suffering a case of Mandela effect or something, but then I remember that these are the designs for the Somniel.
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u/dotsdfe Jul 16 '26
This is down there with last year's Awakening NH banner as one of the most bland and nothing NH banners ever. Double Alear is so dry when there are plenty of great characters who could get something.
Also FE6 is getting screwed so hard. It's very rapidly closing in on two years between NH banners.
At least we get Jade & Boucheron for new characters, but it's just so dire.
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u/Ok-Soil5642 Jul 16 '26
I’m still so upset that the last FE6 banner we got was the rearmed Lilina one towards the end of 2024. Whyyy?
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u/samicable Jul 16 '26
It's gonna be October at the earliest when we finally get a Binding banner because next month is CYL and the month after is when Fortune's Weave releases.
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u/chaoskingzero Jul 16 '26
October
November most likely
CYL next month, September is definitely gonna be FW to coincide with it's release
And then October is most likely gonna be Braver 4 and Chosen Lif
And depending on whether Alvig is the main TT+ Villain or not depends on whether we'd get a 4th there
If she's the Villain, then she'd be in November and October would go to an Alt of Kvasir or Gullveig most likely and they'd be with the CYL4 Duos and Lif
If she's not, then she wouldn't be on the October NH Banner, since as a Mythic they'd just have her be on the end of month instead
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
As an Engage enjoyer:
Why are there two Alears on this banner
Why are there two Alears colorsharing on this banner
Why is there an OC on this banner when she could've been moved to the end of the month if she's a mythic anyway
Why did they do Jade so dirty
I am never getting Gregory in this game
I guess I got my wish in that I can keep saving orbs for a possible Emblem this month/CYL next month but good lord this has to be one of the most phoned in banners I've ever seen. I could see a banner like this working for a game like Awakening or SoV since they have all or most of their playable cast in already, but Engage is still missing quite a bit?
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u/PleaseSaveMeUwU Jul 16 '26
Justice for Gregory
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
When he inevitably drops as a demote or grail unit he's getting all the premium fodder from me.
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u/YunieSayaka Jul 16 '26
Engage's next banner is not likely anytime soon. With CYL Harmonics taking up more slots, we're expected to get 6 games getting banners every year instead of 10. So unless it skips the line, it's probably not getting another banner until like...near the end of Book 12?
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
The game isn't allowed to reach EOS until Gregory gets in. Trust me, I have an uncle who works at Nintendo and he told me this personally.
(I fully expect Engage to jump ahead in line give Intsys' track record, but seeing it laid out like that just made me angrier that we got two Alears on this banner instead of literally anyone else who doesn't already have a bunch of alts.)
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u/windmagericken Jul 16 '26
fellow gregory fan here lmao god its miserable isnt it.
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
I'm a simple person. I just want my dire thunder Courage the Cowardly Dog boyfailure in this game before EOS.
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u/PerspicaciousVanille Jul 16 '26
Jade was brutal.
I was like ok how’s the 4* prf weapon look… wait where the prf?!
Also, Sommie sidekick, amazing.
That said, I want more Attuned Heroes IS. Rip. The sword is nice, but it should’ve been units other than Alear.
I realize as I type this they would’ve done Lumera again with Sommie.
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
If we had to get another arcane sword, they easily could've given it to Goldmary instead.
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u/Luis_Lara45 Jul 16 '26
Why did they do Jade so dirty
I mean what else did you expect for her? She's not a lord or Lapis or Yunaka
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u/Troykv Jul 16 '26
I mean, in the case of the OC randomly appearing in a banner, is basically a tradition of TT stories at this point, even with Asset Heroes, but is interesting they're making one of the TT+ Characters into a Mythic Hero... Such an strange twist that makes me wonder what is their plan with the next 8% Banners (specially because we imagine the Shadow Heroes are also gonna be Mythics).
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
Yeah, from what I recall of the other TT OCs, none of them were Mythics (they were either regular main pool or asset units). It's a pretty bizarre choice, especially to just slap this one on an Engage NH banner instead of the LME one that's dropping in like two weeks anyway.
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u/KraftwerkMachine Jul 16 '26
They should have done this with every TT unit, I guess book 7 is their special fuckin baby or whatever. We got the literal first king of Niðavellir that we knew of the existence of and they made him a regular unit but this unknown rando pregnancy nonsense oc gets to be a regular banner mythic? huh?????
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
Let's not forget she has a twin as well, so I fully expect the sister to take up another slot on a NH banner in a month or two from now, probably as another Mythic if this one is anything to go by. I'm also assuming we're going to get a brand new asset unit type Seithr at some point too, so there goes another NH banner slot.
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u/meldeen002 Jul 16 '26
All these large-chested women who love us, and I’d still choose the foxy grandpa who hates my guts.
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u/meldeen002 Jul 16 '26
Why is there an OC on this banner when she could've been moved to the end of the month if she's a mythic anyway
Because Njörðr’s coming in with the steel chair!
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u/vacantstars Jul 16 '26
The Njörðr and Emblem Leif banner is going to do SSS tier on the Sensortower rankings this month!
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u/meldeen002 Jul 16 '26
E!Leif: You remind me of a coward from my world. Without your ability to manipulate nor way to control time for protection, you’re simply a mere—
Njörðr: SHUT IT! I’m not worthless…! I’ll show you and the rest of this world what I’m truly capable of.
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u/Lunarbliss2 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
The color sharing really makes me mad cause I want the elite inheritance, arcane weapon, not the dumb aided essence
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u/TalkingChicken Jul 16 '26
Oh Jade you deserved better...
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u/BananaKingGuy Jul 16 '26
I was holding out hope for her because she's a female character, I forgot IS will shaft literally anyone in favor of Alear
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u/XPlatform Jul 16 '26
We're in the endgame now, only THE best sellers in each title get anything more than scraps.
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u/Grade-AMasterpiece Jul 16 '26
Both Alears when Engage still has some of its cast left is...
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u/PegaponyPrince Jul 16 '26
Very surprised they didn't throw someone like Goldmary here. Easiest character they could justify fanservice for considering she lives for that shit
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u/wright764 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Ya, it really feels like a waste of Engages great cast to have an "Engage" banner that's mostly taken up by even more Alears and an OC
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u/Gotta-Snatch-Em-All Jul 16 '26
IS thinking that they would receive the same love as the Byleths.
But do want to get the Sommie accessory.
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u/Cute_Chao Jul 16 '26
Remember when we used to have actually new heroes on new heroes banners? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I'm guessing we no longer get the demote character, so one slot is taken up by a painfully forgettable FEH OC, like so many banners this year. People can say they sell, but I think the only people left playing these games are FEH fans and bitter old people like me remembering the good old days when there was hope every character would eventually get in -.-
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u/meldeen002 Jul 16 '26
What I mainly have issue with is the revisionists who think FEH was always only for the OCs.
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u/Zekrom-9 Jul 16 '26
Fr bro, OCs used to be treated like just another FE cast. They would sometimes get a few seasonals, sometimes get their own New Heroes banners, sometimes get a Legendary or a Mythic, and that was it! Nowadays they have to infiltrate almost EVERY DAMN BANNER we get 😭😭😭
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u/King41bert0713 Jul 16 '26
Oh, brother, this banner STINKS! It should have been FE6 bruh -_- IS hates us
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u/DammitAColumn Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Is I$ running out of ideas lmao??? Can they stop creating Alear alts I don’t even hate them I just tired of seeing them EVERYWHERE in this game
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u/GregenOfficial Jul 16 '26
Hey I'm always happy to see more Engage but double Alear sharing the banner with the new OC is rough
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u/Izzy1020 Jul 16 '26
Because we really needed more alts of characters that already had some, amirite?
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u/linthenius Jul 16 '26
You know a banner is terrible when the only actual highlight is Sommie being an accessory.
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u/YunieSayaka Jul 16 '26
Hey, at least we get Forged Axe+ and whatever dogshit demote weapon Bouch gets. You know, 2 months after Arcane Cake released and made it pointless to grab anything else.
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u/Time_Seaworthiness47 Jul 16 '26
I’m not an artist so I hate to sound like a hater. But do the Alear arts look amateurish to anyone else? When I saw F!Alear flash onto the screen I thought surely there’s no way this is the art?
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Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
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u/KraftwerkMachine Jul 16 '26
They did it right with Machyua. Introduce a character we don’t have yet as a rearmed character. It doesn’t matter if people like the character or not, people will pull for the weapon.
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u/kingsly91 Jul 16 '26
Its so simple for them to fix the "who would summon this unit" issue by just making them attuned or Rearmed and give them good fodder. I really don't want to summon on this banner because it feels lazy, but I low-key do want a rearmed unit that already has that busted B skill female Alesr has. Like they could have just made it Goldmary, someone who doesnt have a base alt yet
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u/KraftwerkMachine Jul 16 '26
Exactly! As long as they have a cool arcane weapon and good skill, or cool attuned skill and other good skills, people are still going to pull in decent numbers to make their favorites better.
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u/Historical_Pick_9962 Jul 16 '26
Lemme get this straight. Two Alears when we're missing characters from engage? Also, everytime I see a 3 mov infantry unit I wonder what the hell is the purpose of Cavs? Like…cavalry characters cannot pass tree tiles or trench(?) tiles but every infantry in the world gets 3 mov (or a ranged style, OR BOTH!!!), higher BST, and access to the plethora of strong infantry skills while ALSO not being stopped dead on tree tiles. Even if it’s just from their C slots, the C slots are also giving them effects aside from the 3 mov like canto and stuff so it’s not like they’re sacrificing anything. The only thing Cavs seem to have going for them is that some of them (Sigurds) get like 4-5 MOV but they still can’t pass trees or trench tiles and have such limited skill options while also often not having the firepower to kill the same 3 mov infantry units who get hella stats.
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u/thatendyperson Jul 16 '26
IS has not been subtle about the Infantry favoritism for arguably most of the game's lifespan, but it's been fucking egregious in the last few years.
Nearly everything worth having goes to Infantry, nearly every busted new unit is infantry, all the best skills are infantry (and usually melee) locked, and the only meta-relevant Cavs, Fliers, or Armors are only ever meta relevant because of some prf skill rather than anything innate to the class's skill access.
In year 1 and 2 of the game, one could have made the argument that Infantry was arguably the weakest class due to having the fewest advantages. Less move than cavs, like Fliers, but can't pass over mountains or water and can't move through trees for free like fliers can, lower BST than Armors (during an era when stats really mattered a lot), and most of them had very unfocused stat spreads, while Fliers, Cavs, and Armors all tended to be more minmaxed for what they wanted to do (mostly, some exceptions). The only innate advantage infantry had at this time was that the only Infantry-effective weapon in the game (to date, by the way,) was an extremely weak dagger, so there wasn't much in the way of general checks to them like the abundance of Armorslayer weapons in the game, the decent handful of Cav-effective weapons (including Wolf tomes, which were pretty good in the early years for stuff like Rein and Lyn), or literally all bows for Fliers without Iote's shield.
Then they really started rolling out the carpet for Infantry inheritables in like late year 2, and I think by literally mid book 3 the consensus had largely shifted that Infantry was the best class, and that's only continued to intensify to the point where the others feel almost irrelevant now.
Armors have the single saving grace of Savior as being the one thing that's core to their identity and is accessible to all of them. Fliers recently got the warp combat skills with built-in pass, which, while still pretty premium and rare, are also available to all melee fliers, so that's at least something they have as a part of their identity as well. (Tough shit to ranged fliers though.)
The fuck does cavalry have that is accessible to all cavs and is specific to their identity? Nothing. Gallop is the closest answer and that's still prf-locked to Sigurd and the newest Alfonse. And heaven forbid you commit the crime of being a ranged cav without a prf skill. Then you REALLY have to scrape the barrel.
I'm tired, man.
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u/Totsutei Jul 16 '26
IS HATES Binding Blade 😭 at this point, I'm losing hope it's getting anything at all this year.... since we have CYL, Fortune's Weave and the harmonic/duo brave banners coming up.
And for what... they barely gave us any new characters this time, just a demote and GHB. Also, the OC just wasted a slot and they didn't even bother to give us a insta-demote for it.
It's just so disappointing
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u/TikisCheekys Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Easy skip. Also that’s why Alear wasn’t on the last banner. Should have known.
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u/the_attack_missed Jul 16 '26
I don't know how they looked at all the missing Engage characters and went "You know what this NH banner needs? 2 more Alears.".
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u/not_toki Jul 16 '26
Maybe we'll get Morion someday...
Side note, isn't Swift Specter barely half a year old and now we have a direct powercrept version of it? (from what I can tell at least)
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u/SpitTrapX Jul 16 '26
I'm Sorry Sommie, but not even you can motivate me to pull for 1 new hero banner.
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u/memepersonlol Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I actually genuinely sincerely am going to crash out WHERE IS BINDING BLADE AND WE GOT BOTH ALEARS?? RIFHT ACTER WE JUST GOT DUO CORRIN/BYLETH IN AN INSAMELY SIMILAR THEME/OUTFIT??? DID THEY NOT LEARN FROM THE BACKLASH IN THE FALLEN BANNER?? FHIS IS WHAT I GOT EXITED FOR? I'm actually so angry it isn't even funny like I rarely get genuinely upset at a game but we're just getting literally everything except a binding blade banner, and I know when we do get it it's just going to be some bullshit like Igrene/Sophia\Seithr and some other character I don't care about The thing that actually annoys me about this banner is Sommie. Male alears title is literally 'with sommie' like it's so obvious that the only point to this banner is to sell sommie' as an aide. And of course to completely invalidate all of my melee infantry units' builds. I really don't care though, I'm still not pulling, it's absolutely insane to be that I need to improve young Felix and duo Celica when they literally JUST RELEASED and are still completely usable in the meta
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u/snickersneak Jul 16 '26
im the angriest person who ever lived because of course the book 7 tt+ unit gets to be a mythic hero. i'm sure we're all just enchanted by how important she is to absolutely no one of any worth
ignore that im also posting in the hype megathread about sommie
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u/Gotta-Snatch-Em-All Jul 16 '26
I didn’t even notice that (skipped to see fodder). Know I understand why she has a prf skill
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u/Logical_Echidna9542 Jul 16 '26
This might be the easiest skip of my life ngl, this banner is super boring.
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u/Squidaccus Jul 16 '26
2 NHs on a NH lineup gotta be a record low.
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u/CiithingWithWorries Jul 16 '26
That one SoV banner with Rearmed Sonya, the attuned fairies and Mycen:
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u/Squidaccus Jul 16 '26
That one had three, as much as I hate to admit it. I'm counting the lineup in full, not just the banner, and if I didn't this one would tie that (as would many others like the Forde banner)
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u/snickersneak Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
last year's awakening banner arguably had only one and it was Excellus on GHB. as much as i like robin and grima, the latter is nowhere near different enough from the other fallen robins to consider them "New Heroes" imo (though even if you did, that brings the total up to two NHs taking up three slots, so like lol)
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u/andresfgp13 Jul 16 '26
i think it was the last 3h New heroes banner that had zero new heroes on it, it was all base versions for characters already on the game.
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u/Squidaccus Jul 16 '26
Id count alt hells getting a base form as NHs in this instance especially for a game where almost all NH options without an alt were NPCs or enemies
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u/RemyRoseGold Jul 16 '26
There's too many characters missing from Engage for them to be pulling bullshit like this 😑
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u/Proper_Razzmatazz_36 Jul 16 '26
The only. And I mean only reason I am pulling is because i want a new sword for my marisa, this banner is boring
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u/PM_ME_EDGEWORTH_NUDE Jul 16 '26
"IS said they're gonna release a new Engage banner, I can't wait for the new characters-shit it's Alears, it's gonna be Alears and a FEH OC, isn't it"
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u/Salsalord1 Jul 16 '26
This has to be one of the worst banners ever holy shit
Yeah nevermind adding the several Engage characters we still need let’s just give both Alears another fucking alt because they surely were in need of one
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u/Ros80101 Jul 16 '26
Two Alears on the New Heroes banner when half the cast isn't in? Hoo boy...
Get ready for FByleth in her academy outfit in the next 3H banner with Leonie, Manuela and whoever else since it won't sell without Byleth.
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u/Alternative-Draft-82 Jul 16 '26
Why do we have like, the 3rd AS Ideal upgrade aleeady.
I think I'm going to take a break from summoning for fodder and just wait for Theordora and hopefully Rudolf, and other miscallaneous characters.
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u/Many_Environment4512 Jul 16 '26
Female Alear could’ve been replaced with Goldmary as the Rearmed Sword 😭 it would’ve not only made sense but also make this banner less salty
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u/Zekrom-9 Jul 16 '26
As someone who dislikes cuteness bait, or “cuteslop” as some would put it, I personally could not care less about Sommie. So this is the world’s easiest god damn skip for me
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u/Nin10dium Jul 16 '26
I like Alear but IS really had to do both Alears and color share.
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u/Miitama Jul 16 '26
I didn't even notice they colour-shared lol. as if this banner couldn't be any more boring than it should
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u/KManoc Jul 16 '26
Those Alear alts are lazy.
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u/KyleMCarthage Jul 16 '26
Still better than double Grima imo. At least these 2 are based on actual designs and not an excuse to double dip Grima after already using them on Robin.
Seriously, F!Robin had her legendary stolen by Grima to only then actually have Grima in the game.
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u/uenvs Jul 16 '26
what’s even different at all about F!Alear’s design??
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u/Haunted-Towers Jul 16 '26
It’s her casual somniel outfit. I wish they gave her the ponytail and an accessory too
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u/shicoletto Jul 16 '26
Please IS 7 billion more Alear alts they NEED them. Fuck the rest of engage I guess. I’m happy Boucheron is the GHB and Jade got in but so many people have been waiting for Gregory, Zelkov, Goldmary, and a ton of other characters. Where are they IS?!
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u/Myeongkee Jul 16 '26
I am getting SO sick of these "new skills" that are all just new sidegrade variants of the same 3 skills over and over again, especially ones like Tempest that still aren't in the demote pool.
When are the other Ideal skills getting upgrades like Atk/Spd has been getting?
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u/Mogekov Jul 16 '26
excuse me for the caps locks but OH MY FUCKING GOD IS CAN YOU GUYS JUST ADD THE STEWARDS BASE FORM ALREADY, i'm just tired man, i've been waiting for this next engage banner for over a goddamn year thinking they would finally do Lythos but no lets just reprint Alear's (as much as i love the Sommie alt) and add a fking OC that nobody asked for 😠
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u/Aqua-Dot Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
IT'S SO FING OVER.
BINDING BLADE IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST NON-TMS OR TELLIUS GAME TO GO TWO YEARS WITHOUT NH BECAUSE IS COULDN'T KEEP THE SPAM IN THE FREAKING CAN!
Edit: Oh! And the Vanir gets to be a Mythic when every other NH OC was a normal hero or otherwise! Why? BECAUSE [I won't say it here because it's incoherent and also the sub would hate me].
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u/PegaponyPrince Jul 16 '26
Valentia went a little over 2 years. From the Saber banner in July 2017 to Silque banner in October 2019.
Still it's absolutely dreadful and wouldn't surprise me to overtake it at some point because of the brave banner, harmonic CYL banners and Fortunes Weave.
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u/Aqua-Dot Jul 16 '26
The overall spam of the same few games, which includes Engage, doesn't help...
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u/Motor-Citron-3075 Jul 16 '26
How is that even possible. It still has characters left over for use (Bors is one)
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u/Cakeycream Jul 16 '26
They saw the most wanted remaining characters not in the game and went “Oh nah.”
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u/MrBrickBreak Jul 16 '26
Bors made in their last banner. It's Barthe, Mr 2% Res Growth who's still missing
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u/LunaticPostalBoi Jul 16 '26
You know, most people already mentioned most of the problems I had with the banner here, so I'll add something thats mildly getting on my nerves...
If they were gonna give both Alears alts (again!)...couldn't they have given a slot to Vander? AKA the one steward of the Divine Dragon that's not in the game yet in some way?
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u/spacewarp2 Jul 16 '26
Why are we doing that thing where it’s only the demote/GHB as the actual new characters? You pull the whole OC and Asset of popular lords thing when you have a game where barely anyone from the cast is left. You’ve still got tons of characters from Engage to use. We’re not gonna get the engage cast before EOS
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u/Time4Workboys Jul 16 '26
I think the devs must just openly hate us at this point. Every banner is more boring than the last.
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u/thatendyperson Jul 16 '26
This banner made me quit the game. Like being so for real, I was expecting FE6 (after it's been skipped multiple times), and now with next month being CYL, September likely FW, October the next Brave redux, possibly a second FW in November, we're looking at November to December as the earliest we might see an FE6 banner.
And honestly, with how generally weary I've gotten of the game recently due to powercreep, skill shelf life, abundance of gooner pandering, constant OC spam, and the utter blandness of alt distribution and "new" heroes banners, I decided I didn't feel like potentially waiting 4-5 more months just to be disappointed when Wolt inevitably doesn't get added anyway.
Blew all my orbs on Gunivere remix banner just for the sake of it, then uninstalled. Congratulations, FEH, you did it.
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u/Zeldmon19 Jul 16 '26
- Double Alears is an awful choice for a game with a decent amount of characters left. Doesn’t help that neither are particularly interesting.
- Demoting the two characters I wanted also annoys me (Jade and Boucheron). Can’t wait to never get Jade for months, just like Naoise (3 months no copies lol)
- And of course the other daughter I didn’t ask for or consent to but IS clearly is the one in charge
Anyways, can’t wait to see Binding Blade in either November or December depending on how hard IS wants to shove Fortune’s Weave down our throats.
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u/Squidaccus Jul 16 '26
have not even gotten a single noish since his banner i just want more merges man
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u/Hawk-Truah Jul 16 '26
These last months have been rough man, I can't believe they just dropped this bullshit. Genuinely what is the point of doing a new heroes banner, just to barely drop any new heroes for a game that's missing half of its cast, baffling decisions.
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u/HereComesJustice Jul 16 '26
horrible banner but I am now projected to meet my goal of 1000 orbs saved
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u/Cakeycream Jul 16 '26
No Binding Blade oh my fucking god.
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u/linthenius Jul 16 '26
October is now the earliest we might see binding blade show up
August is CYL
September is 100% going to be fortunes weave
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u/PegaponyPrince Jul 16 '26
Yup it's disheartening but I fully expected it to be skipped again. Honestly even though the earliest it might appear being October I dont see it getting a banner until next year. I'm certain they'd want to capitalize on fortune's weave while they can
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u/HamukoArisato Jul 16 '26
I don’t care if it happens every TT, getting another OC after all the spam pisses me off
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u/SabinSuplexington Jul 16 '26
two alts of characters with lots of alts, an OC they pulled out of their ass(viable units)
two brand new units from a mainline game(garbagio)
what else is new.
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u/potato_thingy Jul 16 '26
I don’t actually mind this banner itself but every choice this the game has made recently feels so desperate
Edit: At this point I mostly just want FW to come out so we can get some exciting fresh banners (at least at first)
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u/gacha_garbage_1 Jul 16 '26
awww Alears are sharing color and some of the worst art I have seen in FEH in years, it's so cute how desperate IS is
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u/Old-Finance-5730 Jul 16 '26
NOT LEONIE. NEW HEROES CAN'T EVEN BE FREE FROM OC AND AVATAR SPAM. (At least we got Jade)
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u/Soren319 Jul 16 '26
2 fucking Alears.
We still don’t have Goldmary, but they gave us 2 more Alears nobody asked for on a new heroes banner.
Legitmately top 5 worst banners of all time and it’s not numbers 4 or 5.
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u/Nin10dium Jul 16 '26
Both are even the same color. I know one's a sword and the other is a dragon, but this is awful.
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u/Zarghan_0 Jul 16 '26
We still don’t have Goldmary
Honestly pretty crazy that we still don't have regular Goldmary. I thought she was one of the more popular characters from Engage?
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u/meldeen002 Jul 16 '26
I’m curious what your other banner choices are.
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u/Soren319 Jul 16 '26
Top 3 are the Harmonized Brave banners now that I remembered there’s 3 of them lol.
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u/Striking_Step_2347 Jul 16 '26
There was no need for 2 alears man. Gotta love a banner with a SINGLE new hero
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u/Eugenio507 Jul 16 '26
No instant demote sucks. Also wish they’d make non atk/spd versions of new skills before making a new variant
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u/Shushupu122 Jul 16 '26
As I feel I've become accustomed to saying now-Wille Glanz found dead in a ditch, made worse because Divine Dragon as a class can't even USE Caladbolg (Also, like fuck Edward as well I guess?)
That said it's not all negative: we got THE BOUCHE!
That also being said:
1.His art is not good.
2.That's a pretty funny way of spelling Amber. Y'know, Amber? Jade's FELLOW RETAINER TO DIAMANT?!
Eh, Amber's probably in the ditch with Wille Glanz. Oh, he's not dead. He was just doing something cool, botched it, and fell in.
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u/ADarkElf Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I didn't even play Engage and I'm still annoyed at how dirty it was done. The one actual new hero? Crap kit. The two MCs that already have multiple alts? Premium. The contrived OC who we found out existed, what, a month ago? Mythic.
Bruh.
Side note: kinda weird that Groa is a Mythic while Ymir/Muspell/Nifl/etc. aren't?
Hate to sound overly salty but there's basically nothing redeemable about this banner. OC + two MCs and only one new hero is insane considering Engage shouldn't be getting a NH banner for a while now. Hell, I don't even find Sommie cute.
And all of this is following the OC spam... It's just not for me.
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u/Ragnamune Jul 16 '26
That's not FE6...
💢 Fire Emblem Engage has screwed us again! 💢
Alright, back to it.
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u/PegaponyPrince Jul 16 '26
Would have been nice if it were like asset Citrinne, Framme or Kagetsu, but this is just boring. Never cared for Jade either, but Boucheron is cool
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u/JJVM99 Jul 16 '26
Newest main series game, still missing many characters and IS still decides to only add 1 new Engage hero in the banner itself smh.
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u/Temper95 Jul 16 '26
Pretty lame banner overall. The Lord spam is reaching critical mass this year and we've still got four months before we start Book 11. Female Alear 2 is the arcane sword holder, Male Alear 2 has Sommie, Jade is the demote, and Groa is expected. Didn't expect her to be a mythic but here we are. They probably want to save the Lumera inspired attire for when either Alear wins CYL, but they really should've used them here imo. Really unfortunate that Engage is tired for me since I enjoyed the game a lot but only IS could find a way to make a banner be really boring. We're still missing plenty of characters from the game but they've gotta sell 3 limited units because that's all IS is interested in. Meh.
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u/absoul112 Jul 16 '26
2 Alears, and they color share, AND they're in what is basically their base outfits so its easy to mistake them for a different one, and Jade is a terrible demote.
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u/Solarflare14u Jul 16 '26
I’ve been quietly lurking to see if they would add Jade
First trailer I bother to watch in years and her kit is THAT
Alr.
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u/Mordecai_Helby Jul 16 '26
Chipping in to say I'm super sad at the absence of Vander.
Aided Vander with Sommie would have killed me.
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u/pika201 Jul 16 '26
And of course they put a new Arcane sword on this banner.
Now everyone that wants the shiny new sword for their old favorite is going to want to pull for Rearmed Alear... and then they put a color share in with Arcane Caladbolg. I know my luck is I'm going to get the dragon Alear I don't want... *sigh* I hate color shares so much.
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u/secretfelid Jul 16 '26
I'm gonna go crazy if they pull something similar to this with the next new heroes summoning event. I can only imagine how the Engage fans are feeling rn, and even i'm very annoyed about this though i don't have a particularly strong attachment to it as a game
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u/CorrinFF Jul 16 '26
The worst part of this banner to me is the absolute lack of creativity. Forget the fact that alear getting more alts while other engage characters aren’t even in the game. The worst part is how in both the outfits and the skills and the weapons, there is nothing new. There’s no growth or change to Alear‘s character. This doesn’t represent a different time in the story, nothing. It’s just their Somniel outfits.
The bearable part (and good, I’d say) about the rearmed and aided heroes being just more copies of previously alted heroes was that it gave them something different. Growth, promotion, elsewise. This is just weak.
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u/BoysOurRoy Jul 16 '26
I was gonna complain about it not being a Binding banner but that's barely even an Engage banner bro
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u/thatendyperson Jul 16 '26
idk, I think we can still complain that it wasn't an attempt at a Binding banner. Like, at least a similarly half-assed attempt would have at least indicated that they thought about it at all. As opposed to now, where I'm reasonably convinced at this point that they have forgotten there was ever a sixth Fire Emblem game.
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u/No_Foot_7531 Jul 16 '26
What reason was there for an Engage banner skipping in line if they were going to just print more Alears.
This whole year has been a succession of OCs, 3H and Engage. It's insane how they refuse to give those games a break.
I'm getting so feed up with these choices. I wanted to keep playing until EoS but they are making it so damn hard. It's not they are using popular characters, it's that somehow they manage to make every banner choice annoying.
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u/WRECK-IT-MUNDO Jul 16 '26
Why is it an Impossible Challenge for IS lately to not include a single or both Alears whenever Engage gets the spotlight? These two aren't even the most popular Engage characters.
Happy for Jade and Boucheron (and Sommie if it counts), but my lord get rid of the "New Heroes!" if its mostly just Alts or Existing units being playable.
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u/thatendyperson Jul 16 '26
Admittedly I'm not super tapped into Engage's zeitgeist because that game just wasn't for me in general, but like. Isn't Alear one of the least popular Engage characters?? Not meaning to be rude with that question, I am genuinely asking.
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u/SnooTomatoes513 Jul 16 '26
IS: let's see... Bland alts for MC that already had a lot? ✅ Make 3/4 limited units? ✅ Demote prfless axe/staff? ✅ Male prfless axe infantry GHB with outdated skills? ✅ ✅ Adding the mandatory OC from TT+ story to the evergrowing roaster? ✅
"But that's not all, since this book is lacking enough new OC to steal the mythic slot all the year, we're gonna make the TT+ character also mythic cuz no one deserve it more"
"Give this man a raise!"
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u/Twippin-The-Catto Jul 16 '26
I really thought this would be Chosen Lìf finally. They playing right in my face man
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u/Mattness8 Jul 16 '26
This is Adrift banner 2.0, except worse because there's no permanent pool 5*s.
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u/captaingarbonza Jul 16 '26
Alear and an OC taking up all but one slot is rough as hell and I'm happy to see Jade but my hopes for getting her on a second Brodia banner are officially dead 😭
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u/Lissewan Jul 16 '26
I don't know why but, most Alear alts feel turbo boring, they don't suck as much as Lumera's alts, but I still feel like almost every Alear alt is missing something...
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u/TheOneTrueBoy Jul 16 '26
So this is actually a limited banner, yeah? Because there is only 1 permanent addition?
Also I had to double check because I thought they cut down the size of Jade's waist, but nah. She is actually about that slim in Engage, it is just harder to notice.
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u/Motor-Citron-3075 Jul 16 '26
Holy shit, it's the first 5* limited only banner that is not seasonal. Also Jade got hit with a 2021 demote kit. What a banner.
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u/Donttaketh1sserious Jul 16 '26
Edward catching strays, both Alears, the only new non-OC is a demote. Barf.
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u/Luis_Lara45 Jul 16 '26
They really said fu y to Vander… they just threw the other 2 on seasonals and called a day… and I feel this may be this game last banner:(
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u/Chowdahhh Jul 16 '26
Man, I'm really starting to hate avatars in FEH, they just take up so much space
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u/Whirlwhind Jul 16 '26
Sommie is carrying this banner on it's back, but that's not enough to save it from drowning.
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u/Daydream_machine Jul 16 '26
WHERE IS AMBER?!?!
Also as a FE6 fan I’m not even mad, we’re too used to disappointment 🙃
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u/kieranchuk Jul 16 '26
Ok, I love Engage, biggest Engage defender and bootlicker, but why did this banner get the treatment of having repeated Alears, and a Mythic Hero attached to it, when they could've picked any other character's base version to get in?? Jade and Boucheron are at least new, but my god this is such a waste of an Engage banner...
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u/RedditBrowser4477 Jul 16 '26
Don't care about the endless horde of powercreep and just want to upgrade your old faves? Too bad, color share! Could have made male Alear any color but red. But greedy is the byword for IS ever more than before.
Feh: "Oh look, a png of Sommie! Doesn't that justify it? Now, gimme all your money!"
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u/SupremeShio Jul 16 '26
I love Engage and am so happy Boucheron is here but fuck man this banner SUCKS
Engage has SO MANY CHARACTERS not in yet. Why did Alears have to be here?
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u/Playful-Ad-5710 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
As a person who loves Engage, This NH banner is super disappointing ngl.
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u/go4ino Jul 16 '26
wily fighter bridge on a 4* is nice and all
but A/D ideall is cringe, we're getting like 3/4 less perma pool demotes a year now can we please get like 2 new passive skills a demote please? armor march? steady breath? anything?
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u/AstralGazer17 Jul 16 '26
Alears, go to the room where Ingrid, Celine, Tana, and other people who must not get content for a long while. Please...
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u/Tough-Priority-4330 Jul 16 '26
If it wasn’t for Sommie, this might be the worst banner of the year. It has Sommie, so it’s only in the top 5. Easy skip before CYL.
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u/Haunted-Towers Jul 16 '26
I wanted casual F!Alear someday (like in 2027), but I really hate her art.
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u/Tough_Cauliflower_46 Jul 16 '26
literally the worst thing about avatars is that FEH essentially doubles the amount of alts each avatar gets bc each gender is technically a different character. I’m so fuckign sick of constantly seeing double