Meals are the best for both motivation and support. By the end game you'll probably be having 5+ meals per exploration day.
Claude's only a genuine asshole to Ingrid cuz he knows she's racist.
They don't memorize all moves (it's literally impossible). Only specific stuff like character level ups (or certifications in 3H).
I think the difference between Hilda and Ingrid is that the only case of it from Hilda is one misguided line towards Cyril because of her house's history of fighting Almyrans and she ends up keeping an open mind at the end of their support. Ingrid's outright malicious though and I don't think she'll ever escape her support with Dedue (which ends with her thinking he's "one of the good ones" rather than setting aside her hate for the whole race, which is where Hilda basically started) or the fact she literally has "people of Duscur" in her lists of dislikes in her profile, unfortunately.
Didn't finish the game using Blue Lions, but looked up the number and:
Personally I had good luck with Raphael as a Fortress Knight, but Defiant Strength could be fun with his massive HP pool.
I'm slightly self-sabotaging this round by trying not to build any purely tanky units, because by halfway through the last run half my team was invincible and it got kinda boring. Trying to shake it up so I don't burn out. Raphael as a fortress sounds solid, though. A two-fer of Raphael and Hilda as fortress knights would be an impenetrable wall.
Claude teasing ignatz about the goddess was the best shit, especially how he gets ignatz to admit he thinks the goddess is hot
Might have missed something, but yeah, dummied out (BE).
I think that label prevails because Nintendo has tended, in marketing and in interviews, to refer to the Switch as a home console first. Presumably they felt that was necessary to justify the price tag at launch. They're starting to get away from that with the Switch Mini, but by and large most people will see Three Houses as a console release simply by virtue of the Switch being a "console" first.
First Fire Emblem with school stuff. FE is more about the combat. You can skip the school stuff or do it manually.
I just got that Petra x Ignatz support the other night, and I was totally considering switching to glasses-wearing Petra for my avatar lol nice one!
going to trim a bit. if it's still over the limit, guess i'll just use strawpoll for it
Let's just address the core discussion question right up front:
It's probably about 50/50. You WILL need to do the school stuff to be able to help out your battles. However it doesn't work completely like Persona, as you can only walk around the school on the "free" days (Sundays), but that's not your only option of what to do. You'll have a mission you have to do at the end of each month (like Persona) where you'll have to go to a battle. during the weeks, starting on Mondays, you can instruct your students and that goes for the whole week, and then you get the free day. On the free day your options are to Explore the monastery, have a Seminar (teaches a subset of people some skills and increases their motivation), go to battle (free battles, rare monster sightings, paralogues), and rest (increases everyone's motivation and restore uses to Byleth's special weapon). You can also skip the free days, but I really don't recommend doing that.
