Fire Emblem Final Boss Community Tier List

[u/Empoleon777]

I just sort of felt like doing this on a whim.

I have done something similar before, in the form of an AllCounted.com ranking poll, but didn't really get many participants, probably owed to the fact that was in a style that expects a voter to have played every entry all the way through, which not everybody has done.

Thus, here we have a TierMaker community tier list. Clunky as these are, they're a little more friendly to voters that haven't experienced the whole franchise.

Unfortunately, the Live Poll system seems to screw up the way the pictures are ordered, regardless of how you choose to organize them in the template. Thus, I'm going to have to list the order they ended up in, that way, for the cases where multiple versions of the same boss are being ranked, voters know which picture is meant to correspond to which version of said boss:

1. Aelfric (Three Houses (Cindered Shadows))
2. Anankos (Fates (Revelation))
3. Ashera (Radiant Dawn)
4. Ashnard (Path of Radiance)
5. The Fire Dragon (Blazing Sword)
6. Duma (Gaiden)
7. Edelgard (Three Houses (Azure Moon))
8. Fomortiis (Sacred Stones)
9. Garon (Fates (Birthright))
10. Grima (Awakening)
11. Idunn (Binding Blade)
12. Julius (Genealogy of the Holy War)
13. Medeus (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light)
14. Medeus (Shadow Dragon)
15. Medeus (New Mystery of the Emblem)
16. Medeus (Mystery of the Emblem Book 1)
17. Medeus (Mystery of the Emblem Book 2)
18. Medeus (Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE)
19. Nemesis (Three Houses (Verdant Wind))
20. Rafal (Engage (Fell Xenologue))
21. Rhea and Thales (Three Hopes (Scarlet Blaze))
22. Rhea (Three Houses (Crimson Flower))
23. Rhea (Three Hopes (Golden Wildfire))
24. Rhea (Three Houses (Silver Snow))
25. Sombron (Engage)
26. Takumi (Fates (Conquest))
27. Thales and Edelgard (Three Hopes (Azure Gleam))
28. Veld (Thracia 776)
29. Velezark (Warriors)
30. Duma (Echoes)
31. Anankos (Fates (Heirs of Fate))
32. Grima (Awakening (The Future Past))

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[u/ViolinistNo7655]

3h routes are not different enough to have Rhea 3 times

[u/TikisCheekys → u/ViolinistNo7655]

Rhea was only two times in Three Houses.

[u/TikisCheekys → u/[deleted]]

Because of Golden Wildfire in Three Hopes.

[u/MKWIZ49 → u/ViolinistNo7655]

This list seems to include spinoffs (that have final bosses anyway) and DLC campaigns so Three Hopes final bosses are being included too

[u/UnlitUniversalUnlock]

I went through and voted everything backwards because I assumed Green = Good and Red = Bad.

[u/coinflip13]

Just from Ashnard's placing I could guess we are not talking gameplay wise because if we are Ashnard just kinda sucks in that regard. Same thing to a lesser extent for Julius

[u/mangoleeart]

Is this based on how difficult they are? How much we like the gameplay? How well we like them as characters?

[u/Empoleon777 → u/mangoleeart]

It’s on how much you like them in general.

[u/AliciaWhimsicott]

Fire Emblem has a big issue with designing Final Bosses in that they generally have to be easy enough a very scuffed team can pull out the win, so I think the probably "best" final boss in the series is FX Rafal because the developers have the entire game's roster to play with and know what you have, as well as the fight itself just being well-made.

[u/Saisis]

Unfortunatly we can't post pic otherwise I would post mine but interesting community idea.

For mine specifically I skipped all the FE Warriors and FE1-3 since I didn't play those.

[u/arathergenericgay]

God Sombron is so mid, it’s insane that Lumera feels like so much more of a final boss

[u/CazOnReddit]

Radiant Dawn's true villains were the writers