Is she the strongest non-leader Unit in the game?

I just finished my first route of the game, and I went yellow. She was absolutely my best unit, hands down. Gave her the + 2 range and made her go the gremory route. 1 shot nuking enemies from a safe distance consistently made this game a cake walk.

made her a dark knight after she mastered gremory because i figured i had enough time to get enough lance and riding in, so now she's absolutely fucking ridiculous

>proceeds to get oneshot even with capped HP
Dark spikes for some early kills is ok, otherwise her only utility is warp really.

What difficulty are you playing on that Lysithea can double fucking assassins? Assassins on maddening can hit almost like 50 fucking speed late game. No way in hell in Lysithea doubling them.

Even in Hard Lysithea hardly doubles anything non-armored, unless you pump every bit of EXP in her. She's not bad, just not as good as some people make her out to be.

>can't take a hit
>eventually steals kills from everyone else

how bad are you at these kinds of games to ever let her get hit?

As far as player turn nukers go her only real competition is killer lance/bow Bernie. Bernie is better for the shear fact that she isn't made of tissue.

playing on hard cause it's my first FE

Yeah, but if you keep her out of enemy range, you can't kill any of them either, noob.

She may not be doubling, but she never gets doubled either. She can still take a few hits since Thyrsus's Aegis/Pavise effect procs pretty regularly anyways.

>Bernie
my bernie is completely useless, maybe because of bad level up rng? she's sporting 23 strength at level 32, and even if she doubles she can't even put a dent into most enemies.
if there was a reliable way to get some damage on her for her special maybe she'd be good but i basically had to bench her and ashe too.
Shamir is better than both of them because of high str and crit, even though Shamir's speed isn't super good (still better than those two losers though)

But then there is Leonie who is basically better than all 3 of them combined and my personal runner up for best Unit in the game after Lysithea. Actually, she might actually be the best unit in the game because she can actually get hit 2-3 times and just counter kill everything during the enemy turn.

so i guess you just never got the lorenz relic or the +1 magic range staff?

Even on hard I find it hard to believe that Lyisthea is doubling pretty much everything but I'll just take your word for it. She's probably really speed blessed if that's really the case.

Yeah, I 've used her before. Definitely good but she has some problems a lot of people like to ignore because she hits hard and gets warp.

any unit with access to the A Rank Lance Skill 'Swift Strikes' is really good. Sylvain, Ferdinand and Seteth learn it.
Unfortunately for melee units, they all want Death Blow if they are playerphase units.

Here's my Lysithea. I'm at chapter 18 Blue Lions route

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>any unit with access to the A Rank Lance Skill 'Swift Strikes' is really good.
desu i must be doing something wrong because these skills are basically useless on my units. astra too, my felix has it but it just does less damage than just doubling with auto attacks (which he almost always does cause he's at like 47 speed at level 42)

Bernie has access to both Vengeance and Battalion Wrath which makes her a monster at low HP combined with her personal skill.
Without making use of those she's very underwhelming.

What you need to understand about Bernie is that she has some of the best skills and combat arts in the game. And Shamir's str growth is only 5% higher than both Ashe and Bernie; Bernie's persecution complex should boost Bernie to be stronger. But people usually use Bernie for her vengance crits. She's a nuker that one shots enemies on maddening while being able to take a hit and has dead shot to weaken foes from afar. She pretty much a physical Lysithea with slightly more bulk.

how do you get her to low hp without straight up getting her killed though...

Probably in Hard mode but in Maddening I found she falls off quite a bit since she can no longer one-shot things. I’d say the strongest in Maddening is one of the Swift Strikers. Probably Sylvain since he’s the easiest to recruit, but Seteth always manages to have the best performance of the three for me.

Defense adjutant, anyone in armor or brawler classes, will make a fatal followup attack do only 1 damage.
Careful planning can get her down to 1 HP pretty easily.

>And Shamir's str growth is only 5% higher than both Ashe and Bernie
Yea but because of RNG in my particular playthrough Bernie ended up with 9 less strength at the same level as Shamir.
All that said, i benched Shamir too because Leonie is just better and i don't really have space for another archer. My felix does archer stuff as a side gig even though he's a sword master. For some reason felix is better at bow than a lot of designed-to-be-archer units

Most physical units are better archers than the designated archer units because they gave the designated archer units the typical trash growths they give most archers in the series in a game where anyone can use bows, even if they're not actually an archer.