LogFAQs > #935944261

I'm just catching up with this topic now, and I think one thing that fails to get mentioned is just how bad the original Jagen was. FE1 growth rates were pretty bad all around, so perhaps this is easier said than done, but it really wouldn't take very long at all for your other units to pass Jagen. Aside from Resistance, because resistance growths are nonexistent in that game but for some reason Paladins are given a resistance stat, Abel can equal him in every stat by level 4 and there's only one stat (skill) that would have to level up all three times. Cain is already his equal in Strength at level 1, and Caeda outspeeds him and has the necessary weapon rank to use his Silver Lance. And if the starting units weren't good enough for you, you need only reach Chapter 5 to get a Level 6 Cavalier who's already 2 points ahead of Jagen in HP, Strength, and Luck, even in Speed, and only 1 behind in Defense and 3 in Skill. Again, at base stats. And Cavaliers were not among the many classes that were unable to promote in FE1 for no good reason, so there you go. Even if you got nothing but empty levels, the promotion bonus alone is enough to make Hardin greater than or equal to Jagen in every stat. Abel, who, again, is one of your starting units, only needs a single point of defense to say the same.

Then just for good measure, halfway through the game they drop another Level 1 Paladin on you whose bases are, you guessed it, equal to or better than Jagen's in every stat.

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