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DeadBankerDream posted...

I feel like the Fire Emblem fandom at large is past the dark age where every pre-promote was considered bad. I think most people generally view Pent as superior to Erk these days.

Louise is still awful, though.

Louise is an Archer. Before Three Houses there was probably a single digit number of Archers who could be considered good units in the whole series.

And yeah, Erk ends up roughly with the same stats as Pent, but with much more effort while competing for a Guiding Ring with Canas and Lucius. Canas beats Erk at combat and Lucius gets a better staff rank on promotion so Erk is a tough sell. But if you do use him you effectively get a second Pent and that's very nice.