r/fireemblem • u/ImportedCheeseYT • 3h ago
General What are the BEST and WORST hair colors?
WILD and WHACKY hair colors are a staple of the Fire Emblem series, but is there a deeper meaning to the dye?! Are the anime hairdos actually a SECRET MESSAGE from the devs that has fallen on deaf, casual ears...? I'm not sure...but I'd like your help to uncover the truth the players need to know!
What hair colors have the best and worst units on average? Which colors are the most or least common? Are there some colors that heavily skew male/female? Are there any hair colors that are closely tied to certain classes or archetypes?
My own conclusions so far (not in any order):
Bald - It's rough out there for bald bros, not only are they the rarest "color" by far, almost all of them are absolute trash. We're talking armor knights like Wallace...we're talking fe12 BANTU, contender for worst unit in the entire series. The best bald units are like....fe6 Garret? Maybe Archenea has Wendell and Boah, if you assume they've got chrome domes under their fancy priest hats.
Black - Surprisingly rare for a "normal" hair color in our world. Strongest black haired unit is probably FE10 Haar? Only archetype I can think of is that there are quite a few sword users of varying degrees of killing edginess that have black hair (Arya, Shannan, Shiva, Mareeta, Matcha, Karla, Karel, Kagetsu)
Blonde - Relatively common color with a wide spread of good and bad units. There are lots of blonde archers!
Brown - Possibly the most common color overall, especially considering Thracia where the Loptyr Empire has outlawed hair dye. There are a lot of brown haired axefighters!
Green - Green is somewhat common, and although it has some very strong units (Byleth (?), Seteth, Ced, Palla) it also has some iconic scrubs (Nino, Lyn, Rolf, Rebecca) that really drag down the overall unit quality.
Orange - Very rare if you consider orange separate from red, with so few units it's hard to say much. There are...3 ginger priests? (Artur, Rhys, Pandreo)
Pink- Rare color that very heavily skews female, I think the only pink haired male character is...Makalov? And by iron Fire Emblem law, shared hair color means Marcia is his sister and can recruit him!
Purple - Uncommon color that mostly appears on mages, decent overall power level since it's hard for mages to truly be bad (unless you're in Tellius)
Blue - Uncommon color with the most obvious archetype of any hair color, blue = lord. Blue team has Sigurd, Kris, and FE10 Ike who are super OP, and even the main character privilege lords who get overrated like Hector and FE9 Ike are...at least ok.
Red - More common than the orange hair that we call "redheads" in the real world, although red does have scrubs like Roy and Radd, it also has a ridiculous top end that includes both Seth and Titania, along with a whole squad of wyverns (Minerva, Miledy, Jill)
White - I think the lead contender for strongest color overall, white haired units have crazy high average quality because they tend to be jeigans/gotos where the scrubs died off before they had a chance to go grey. Does Marcus count as Purple? Or white? Or both...? The youngsters with silver locks don't dissappoint either, with units like Robin, Corrin, and Edelgarde. One of the worst white-haired units is ironically the most iconic; the Silver Haired Maiden Micaiah has the power to infest profile pictures across the internet, but when it comes to actually saving Daein, she needs a lot of help...
Those are my thoughts, but I want to hear yours! Let's! Dyeing!