Best Fire Emblem: Fates Characters

Fire Emblem: Fates is without a doubt my favorite game of 2016. Its main campaign, which had to be split into two versions, and the perfect gameplay were two main reasons!

However, the characters of the game were absolutely fantastic as well! That's why I decided to create a list of the ten best characters in Fire Emblem: Fates!

The Top Ten

Takumi

Takumi was such a good and well-developed character. I love how he didn't love your Avatar like the other siblings did because it seems more realistic to be skeptical about someone you don't know who was raised in the enemy country for so long. He is so human with his constant worry and self-belittlement (which makes me sad because I love him so much).
He made Conquest all the more painful to play because he really wanted to bond with you but just couldn't express it, and ended up the way he did in the end. Protect this cinnamon roll.
Use in the game: A+ because he crits so much (at least for me). Also, his son is great too, to be honest.
Camilla

I liked that last part you said about Camilla, CastlevaniaFanboy128. It's official. Fire Emblem is a guilty pleasure and a great video game series. Camilla has quite a unique personality and is pretty intimidating. Other than that, I love her.

Camilla is sweet, tough, and funny. She's a great combination of these characteristics, making her lovable.
Arthur

Beware his fists of justice! Normally, most Fighters are actually some standard characters... EXCEPT Arthur. This guy, I mean, Super Hero, made my Conquest run even more entertaining than it actually was!

"When will this bad luck streak end?"
Charlotte

She's an interesting character and has lots of depth to her. She tried to be fragile and ladylike, but she couldn't be a royal guard since she was too fragile, so now she's a border guard.

Charlotte is a BEAST in all my playthroughs! With her psychotic personality and biceps of doom, she ends up being my favorite character!

Although she looks like she's disgusted, she is nice. And she's like Forrest's mother.
Kaze

Kaze is my favorite character in Fates. He is the number one waifu! I mean, just LOOK at him. He is so handsome and fast. Faster than Sonic! And the best thing: he is based on a ninja!
He is a unit who will follow you on every route. He is a very friendly guy and very charming too. He has got insane speed and doubles the enemy almost every time. His personal skill is really helpful, and this skill has saved my other units plenty of times.

He has Midori, the most moe daughter in all of recorded history! That is why Kaze must be protected at ALL COSTS!
Ryoma

As a Fire Emblem fan, I have always liked the characters that are strong leaders and have one of the sacred blades. He is very cool and instantly became my favorite FE character after chapter 25 in the Conquest route.

He's very dependable as a unit and very cool as a character.

He is a game breaker in Birthright. And he has such amazing lobster armor.
Xander

Best character. His supports with Camilla, Corrin, and Leo are endearing, and his character is simultaneously tragic and amazing.
Elise

Umm, she's Elise. Her retainers are Arthur and Effie, who are really good. I mean, you should always use Elise whenever possible because she is very useful for healing and support, and she is very cute! Also very selfless, she loves her ONII-CHAN! As well as makes friends very easily, as seen in the Revelations ending.

She is a top-tier character in the game and is just so good at being a defender against all kinds of crap during that Conquest run. I just can't deny her becoming one of my strongest units.

The girl who cares about Corrin and distracts Xander, who was about to hurt Corrin.
Leo

Best boy. Not even contested.
He's easily one of the best-written characters in the game, not having any weird out-of-character moments like 99.9% of the time. (Forrest's paralogue feels very out of character to me if you got him to at least A support with Charlotte, but he gets over it, and I think that's really good character development for him.)
He's got complexities that a lot of characters don't have, like feeling like he's the least cared about in the family and having a lot of middle child syndrome and inferiority complex traits, in kind of a similar way to Takumi.
He's a character that you not only can laugh at when he messes up his clothes and stuff, but you can also really feel for him in moments like his supports with Xander, Camilla, or Corrin, or in Birthright Chapter 18.
He was the protagonist in the official Fates manga. I really don't understand why that wasn't just the case for the actual game. Watching him be smart and figure out the plot of this game would be 100 times more interesting than watching Corrin flop around for 28 chapters. (Not that I hate that. I've played this game for like 200 hours and haven't lost my mind yet.)
I will be patiently waiting for that Legendary alt that Leo rightfully deserves in FEH, if anybody wants to wait with me.
Benny

The Newcomers

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Rinkah

Severely underrated. Give her a good weapon, and she destroys. And she is a tsundere! But I swear to God, if you make her anything BUT an Oni Chieftain, she SUCKS.
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Velouria

The Contenders

Azura

I really like Azura. I feel that people don't give her credit where it's due. She's certainly not perfect, but I like her.

Azura is the best! She is cute, useful in battle, and both her light and dark dances are incredible!

Best in my opinion. Her song (Lost in Thoughts) is the best!
And fellow players and fans, you are the ocean's gray waves.
Felicia

A girl who cares for her sister and the Ice Tribe.

She's just amazing. I want to give her a hug.

Her personality is great. It suits her very well, and she's a spectacular mage killer.
Anna

Although Anna is a playful girl, she's the one who guided me into playing Fire Emblem Heroes on my phone.
Silas

He's your best friend that you never knew you had!
Effie
Niles

Honestly, who doesn't like the extremely seductive homosexual outlaw?
Odin
Peri

Finally, Peri isn't being crapped on. I like that.
Oh, yeah, why is she my favorite? Simple, great unit and great character.
Oh, and best girl.
Selkie

I love Selkie. She is just so adorable. Out of all the Birthright characters, she's definitely my favorite.
Avatar

Corrin is a very awesome character who had to make one of the hardest decisions in any of the games I've played. They deserve lots of respect for being so brave, compassionate, and kind.

The Avatar character, if you choose your boons and banes correctly, is potentially and quite handily the best character in the game. (S)he can even be a better Swordmaster than Rutger, which is inconceivable!
Plus, it doesn't hurt that I get to be the hero!

This is your Avatar, so if this is at number 20 does that mean that you like 19 more people than yourself? Shouldn't Corrin at least be in the top 10?
Selena

The same figure as Severa, but she's a mother and Severa's a daughter. She's also the mother of Caeldori.
Sakura
Laslow

Dang, Laslow is just so sweet and his English voice is what first got my attention. He's so cute. What a babe.
Mozu
Kiragi