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Fire Emblem is a franchise that spans 16 games with nearly 600 overall playable characters. As such, it is not surprising that fire emblem heroes, their mega-crossover mobile game, has an equally intimidating number of units. It doesn’t help that many of them come in multiple versions (only Chrome has five).
That’s why this tier list only contains the useful characters. If you take out Spring Xander, Mist, or any other units that aren’t here, feel free to let them collect dust.
Some things you should know about Fire Emblem Heroes
- First, starting stars don’t matter in FEH. You can easily level up from three stars to five stars with time and resources. Most importantly, the characters themselves have high basic stats and great abilities.
- Second, the familiar FE triangle weapon system is still in place: red beats blue, blue beats green, and green beats red. However, FEH has added a fourth category of “Colorless” weapons. They are not strong or effective against the other three. Heroes with colorless weapons also gain useful abilities, such as poison, as they level up.
- Finally, the easiest way to build decent teams is to unite units with the same types of movement, as many of their abilities work well together. For example, cavalry units often have enhanced abilities, making cavalry teams very durable. We’ve sorted this tier list by movement types for this reason.
With all that said, here are all the FEH units you can invest in.
Best armored units
Unit | weapon color | Level |
caineghis | Colorless | S |
fallen tiki | Colorless | S |
idun | Red | S |
legendary tiki | Blue | S |
Spring Idun | Red | S |
Surtr | Green | S |
fay valentine | Colorless | S |
winter sothis | Green | S |
fallen robin (male) | Green | A |
forsyth | Blue | A |
halloween hector | Red | A |
hardin | Blue | A |
Mamori | Green | A |
Picnic Felicia | Green | A |
winter fairy | Green | A |
winter tuesday | Colorless | A |
winter child | Blue | A |
brave ephraim | Green | B. |
brave hector | Blue | B. |
duma | Colorless | B. |
Halloween Jakob | Colorless | B. |
Halloween Myrrh | Red | B. |
picnic flower | Red | B. |
Valentine’s Hector | Green | B. |
valentine’s ike | Red | B. |
Valentine’s Rudolf | Blue | B. |
Amelia | Green | C. |
black knight | Red | C. |
hardin fallen | Blue | C. |
gwendolyn | Blue | C. |
Halloween dozla | Colorless | C. |
Halloween Ilyana | Blue | C. |
Halloween Kagero | Green | C. |
halloween niles | Blue | C. |
cecilia winter | Colorless | C. |
winter ephraim | Blue | C. |
winter jaffar | Green | C. |
winter zefiel | Red | C. |
zelgius | Red | C. |
Draug | Red | D. |
effie | Blue | D. |
flame emperor | Green | D. |
Halloween Dorcas | Green | D. |
Halloween Henry | Green | D. |
Hector | Green | D. |
kjelle | Blue | D. |
Lucas Picnic | Blue | D. |
Sheena | Green | D. |
Valbar | Blue | D. |
Valentine’s Greil | Green | D. |
winter chrome | Green | D. |
winter lisa | Green | D. |
winter robin | Blue | D. |
winter tharja | Red | D. |
zefiel | Red | D. |
Sheena | Green | D. |
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The best cavalry units
Unit | weapon color | Level |
Veronica | Colorless | S |
bernardetta | Colorless | A |
Brave Eliwood | Blue | A |
legendary legend | Colorless | A |
reinhardt | Blue | A |
Sigurd | Red | A |
Yarne | Green | A |
brave lyn | Colorless | B. |
legendary eliwood | Red | B. |
legendary ephraim | Blue | B. |
legendary selfie | Red | B. |
Ares | Red | C. |
berkut | Blue | C. |
clarine | Colorless | C. |
claudio | Colorless | C. |
dimitry | Blue | C. |
eldigan | Red | C. |
elisa | Colorless | C. |
ethlyn | Colorless | C. |
berkut fallen | Blue | C. |
for rest | Colorless | C. |
hostile springs elise | Red | C. |
hrid | Red | C. |
legendary erika | Red | C. |
lethe | Red | C. |
matilda | Blue | C. |
lullaby | Colorless | C. |
new year lethe | Green | C. |
Olwen | Green | C. |
Oscar | Blue | C. |
picnic genny | Colorless | C. |
priscilla | Colorless | C. |
siegbert | Red | C. |
Summer Gunnthrá | Colorless | C. |
summer edge | Colorless | C. |
selena summer | Green | C. |
bridal louise | Colorless | D. |
clive | Blue | D. |
Death Knight | Blue | D. |
Gunnthrá | Green | D. |
Halloween L’Arachel | Green | D. |
Corduroy | Blue | D. |
Piton | Green | D. |
ranulf | Green | D. |
Rath | Green | D. |
Roy | Colorless | D. |
Selkie | Blue | D. |
bruno spring | Colorless | D. |
summer cordelia | Blue | D. |
summer lilin | Red | D. |
summer wolf | Green | D. |
ursula | Blue | D. |
Silque Valentine | Colorless | D. |
Olwen | Blue | D. |
Selkie | Blue | D. |
best flying units
Unit | weapon color | Level |
Julia Fallen | Red | S |
legendary azura | Blue | S |
Peony | Blue | S |
tibarn | Red | S |
fall young | Red | S |
Altina | Red | A |
Brave Camilla | Colorless | A |
bridal micaiah | Colorless | A |
flying olivia | Red | A |
Myrrh | Green | A |
reyson | Green | A |
spring east | Blue | A |
Summer Tiki (Young) | Red | A |
tsubasa | Blue | A |
young shovel | Blue | A |
Brave Micaiah | Green | B. |
Bridal Fjord | Colorless | B. |
lilith | Blue | B. |
Mirabilis | Red | B. |
Naga | Blue | B. |
ishtar evening | Red | B. |
spring fir | Green | B. |
reverse | Red | C. |
ninian bridal | Blue | C. |
fall | Red | C. |
Cherche | Green | C. |
Clear | Blue | C. |
Cordelia | Blue | C. |
Elincia | Red | C. |
my halloween | Colorless | C. |
Hostile Springs Sakura | Colorless | C. |
kagero spring | Colorless | C. |
veronica spring | Green | C. |
summer ingrid | Blue | C. |
summer laegjarn | Blue | C. |
Valencian Catria | Red | C. |
young minerva | Green | C. |
Camila | Green | D. |
Catria | Blue | D. |
Its T | Blue | D. |
fallen ashnard | Red | D. |
hinoka | Colorless | D. |
hostile springs stretcher | Colorless | D. |
Hostile Waters Hinoka | Green | D. |
Naesala | Blue | D. |
azure new year | Green | D. |
New Year’s Eve | Red | D. |
New Year’s Fjord | Green | D. |
olivia | Red | D. |
Petra | Blue | D. |
spring shovel | Red | D. |
summer takumi | Colorless | D. |
hinoka | Colorless | D. |
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Best infantry units
Unit | weapon color | Level |
brave ike | Green | S |
Ephraim Duo | Blue | S |
fallen corrin (female) | Colorless | S |
Fallen Corrin (Male) | Blue | S |
ike fallen | Red | S |
legendary soul | Colorless | S |
legendary julia | Blue | S |
nagi | Green | S |
new year alfonso | Blue | S |
So this | Red | S |
trasir | Green | S |
Valentine’s Soul | Green | S |
brave alms | Red | A |
nailah bridal | Green | A |
leonora | Colorless | A |
fallen lion | Green | A |
Hoshidan Summer Micaiah | Red | A |
kyria | Red | A |
Larcei | Red | A |
legendary celica | Green | A |
leila | Colorless | A |
nailah | Blue | A |
zeros | Blue | A |
Ophelia | Blue | A |
Shannan | Red | A |
Brave Lucina | Blue | B. |
Byleth (Female) | Red | B. |
Byleth (Male) | Red | B. |
Iago | Red | B. |
igrene | Red | B. |
legendary chrome | Blue | B. |
legendary ike | Red | B. |
Life | Red | B. |
tidal wave | Red | B. |
mila | Colorless | B. |
osian | Green | B. |
young merric | Green | B. |
bramimond | Colorless | B. |
brave celica | Red | C. |
CED | Green | C. |
Chad | Colorless | C. |
delthea fall | Blue | C. |
Faye | Colorless | C. |
Fir tree | Red | C. |
fjord | Blue | C. |
gangrel | Colorless | C. |
Gordin | Colorless | C. |
Hawk Eye | Green | C. |
hilda | Green | C. |
Ishtar | Blue | C. |
carel | Red | C. |
legal | Colorless | C. |
legendary lucina | Blue | C. |
legendary marth | Red | C. |
legendary roy | Red | C. |
Lion | Colorless | C. |
Lewyn | Green | C. |
lilina | Red | C. |
Linde | Blue | C. |
linus | Green | C. |
lon’qu | Red | C. |
Lute | Blue | C. |
lysithea | Red | C. |
happy | Green | C. |
Micaiah | Blue | C. |
Midori | Red | C. |
Ninian | Blue | C. |
owaine | Red | C. |
Raven | Green | C. |
ryoma | Red | C. |
Say’ri | Red | C. |
Silque | Colorless | C. |
nephenee evening | Colorless | C. |
summer joshua | Red | C. |
tailtiu | Blue | C. |
Tanya | Colorless | C. |
virion | Colorless | C. |
ylgr | Blue | C. |
Arthur | Green | D. |
astram | Red | D. |
athena | Red | D. |
air | Red | D. |
Bantu | Red | D. |
Brady | Colorless | D. |
lyn bridal | Colorless | D. |
bridal oboro | Red | D. |
clarisse | Colorless | D. |
Delthea | Blue | D. |
donnel | Blue | D. |
Dorcas | Green | D. |
echidna | Green | D. |
eirika | Red | D. |
emmeryn | Colorless | D. |
ephraim | Blue | D. |
evan | Red | D. |
eyvel | Red | D. |
garon | Red | D. |
helbindi | Green | D. |
Enrique | Red | D. |
Hoshidan’s Summer Ryoma | Blue | D. |
hubert | Red | D. |
Itsuki | Red | D. |
Jamke | Colorless | D. |
Kazé | Colorless | D. |
klein | Colorless | D. |
Pound | Green | D. |
lugh | Green | D. |
mother | Blue | D. |
Marisa | Red | D. |
masked marth | Red | D. |
Matthew | Colorless | D. |
Mercedes | Colorless | D. |
Mikoto | Colorless | D. |
mordecai | Blue | D. |
Nephenee | Blue | D. |
new year anna | Red | D. |
girl | Colorless | D. |
Now I | Blue | D. |
playing Íñigo | Green | D. |
Interpreting Shigure | Blue | D. |
Rajat | Green | D. |
rinkah | Green | D. |
ross | Green | D. |
rugger | Red | D. |
Saber | Red | D. |
sanaki | Red | D. |
selena | Red | D. |
Sun | Red | D. |
summer elisa | Green | D. |
black summer | Colorless | D. |
summer ylgr | Green | D. |
Takumi | Colorless | D. |
echidna | Green | D. |
emmeryn | Colorless | D. |
hubert | Red | D. |
klein | Colorless | D. |
Pound | Green | D. |
For more tier lists, you can check out Pokemon Unite tier list (post patch) and Epic Seven Character | All Epic Seven Characters, Ranked in MyFullGames.