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ZaziGuado posted...

Marcus in whatever Fire Emblem made Fire Emblem popular in the U.S. because I was advised that you shouldn't use Marcus because he has pitiful stat gains and will take valuable early game experience away from your other characters. Also, I never used Merlin or whatever the tent guy's name was.

Its funny because this is actually a hugely outdated recommendation. Marcus is actually considered one of the best characters in the game now, due to how people have come around to evaluating characters in the series.

You still don't generally want to put all of your eggs in the one basket (basically just don't have him do literally everything by himself), but proper use of him makes the game much easier on the harder difficulties.

Anyway, I really don't not use many characters. As long as the cast isn't HUGE like Suikoden or Chrono Cross I will generally try to use everyone a decent bit, and even in those I still rotate more than most people probably would.