Who’s your favourite character?

[🌸🌈Pink Queendom💄🍒]

If you need to absolutely pick one favourite besides Rean, who’s gonna be?

Mine’s Sharon, she’s strong in battle, she’s tender in life, she’s the one in love, who else would I need? :P

[HarbingerOfDestruction「俺様」]

Crow Armbrust. He is a cool, composed and a fun character, despite his betrayal in the first Cold Steel game, despite his wrongdoings, he clearly still cares for Rean and the other Class VII-ers. Unlike a certain Douchebag from other franchise, (Persona 5). Which I like him too.

But it's really difficult to pick one. There's so many good characters in this franchise.
Top 10 with Rean excluded with no explicit order:
Crow Armbrust
Sara Valestein
McBurn
Giliath Osborne
Laura S. Arseid
Estelle Bright
Olivert Reise Arnor
Bleublanc
Valimar
Victor S. Arseid

[NisseDood]

Randy and Alex Dudley.
Best boys from best arc.
Rean I find boring, hes just a worse harem protag than Lloyd.

[Mr. Do Everything]

Laura and Fie are both tied for my #1. I just cant pick one over the other. #2 is Towa and #3 are Machias and Jusis for actual school people.

Outside of that I really adore Duvalie and Bleublanc.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

SS tier: Rean, Aurelia

S tier: Jusis, Millium, Gaius, Sara, Crow

A tier: Patrick, Kurt, Fie, Laura, Elliot, Machias, Alisa, Emma, Celine, Towa, Randy, Angie, Osborne, Rufus

B tier: Major Michael, Celestin, George, Victor, Thomas, Toval, Agate, Vita, Sharon, Irina, Alfin, Elise, Neithardt, Cedric, Lechter, McBurn, Duvalie, Olivier, Alan, Kenneth, Linde, Becky, Mint, Ferris, Rutger, Xeno, Leo, Munk, Rosine, Schmidt, Vivi, Leonora, Wayne, Taitana, Stark, Sydney, Ada, Fritz

C tier: Juna, Altina, Ash, Arianrhod, Tio, Tita, Claire, Roselia, Jessica, Freddy, Kairi, Louise, Maya, Pablo, Gustav, Valerie, Franky, Ennea

F tier (actual BAD, unlikable characters who drag down my enjoyment of the game whenever they're onscreen): Musse, Campanella, Ines, Shirley

No opinion: Black Alberich (too little characterization and screentime)

[stm8022]

Originally posted by Val the Moofia Boss:

C tier: Altina

"Sir, the Special Support Section determined cause of death to be suicide by slight against the best OZ"
+2AP

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Originally posted by stm8022:

Originally posted by Val the Moofia Boss:

C tier: Altina

"Sir, the Special Support Section determined cause of death to be suicide by slight against the best OZ"
+2AP

To me, the problem with Altina is that we have seen her before. Thrice. She is both yet another Rei Ayanami expy (cold, robotic doll like girl - probably with some sort of traumatic or supernatural past - whose character arc involves "defrosting", culminating in a scene where she smiles or cries), which we had with Renne, Tio, and Fie in prior games. And she is yet another surrogate daughter figure, which we already had with Renne and KeA. Altina doesn't really bring anything new to the table. The only time I was really interested in Altina was when Millium tried treating her as her little sister.

I'm personally hoping that if we get a surrogate child again, that it's a shota. I don't think Falcom can do anything interesting with a fourth surrogate daughter loli. Give me sons!

[♡NeKO PriNCeSS♡]

Me top 5:
Crow,Towa,Juna,Alisa,Altina Orion (tho towa not fight in this game)
I like musse also

[Miesmann - allkeyshop]

i got 3 characters sharing top 1 favourite character spots i just CANNOT come to outcome whos the True 1st, *Crow-Fie-Viscount Arseid*
2 characters i absolutily hate over evryone else.. Machias attitude problem+Towa high pinch voice

[🌸🌈Pink Queendom💄🍒]

Wow, I kinda surprise that Crow got so many loves <3 Haven't got y chance to play the previous 2 games, knowing a little about Crow Armbrust

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Val the Moofia Boss:

F tier (actual BAD, unlikable characters who drag down my enjoyment of the game whenever they're onscreen): Musse, Campanella, Ines, Shirley

Oh yeah, that is right, you hate CS3.

[Kuro]

Top Bro Tier: Crow Armbrust, Gaius Worzel, Randy Orlando
Top All Of Me Omnipotent Tier: McBurn, Aurelia Le Guinn, Ein Selnate
Top Daddy-o Tier: Arios McLane, Victor S. Arseid
Top Gralsritter Tier: Thomas Lysander, Wazy Hemisphere
Top Snakes-in-the-bushes Tier: Mariabell Crois, Vita Clotilde
Top crazy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hunter Tier: Shirley Orlando
Top Student tier: Leonora, Friedel
Top All According to Plan Tier: Giliath Osborne, Kilika Rouran, Alberich of Black Demise
Top Mr. Ambition with Charisma Tier: Rufus Albarea
Top I'll spend my life with you Waifu Tier: Rixia Mao

[♡NeKO PriNCeSS♡]

Gaius and Victor not bad looking guys too..Crow is so bad ass and cool seeing him and rean in the 4th wouldnt mind being in the sandwich of those 2 a woo

[stm8022]

Originally posted by Val the Moofia Boss:

To me, the problem with Altina is that we have seen her before. Thrice. She is both yet another Rei Ayanami expy (cold, robotic doll like girl - probably with some sort of traumatic or supernatural past - whose character arc involves "defrosting", culminating in a scene where she smiles or cries), which we had with Renne, Tio, and Fie in prior games. And she is yet another surrogate daughter figure, which we already had with Renne and KeA. Altina doesn't really bring anything new to the table

I have to disagree with this, on several accounts:

* as it happens Fie is my actual favourite character, and that's in part because she's *not* the 'unemotional girl learns how to smile in the end' trope but if anything, a subversion of one -- she might initially appear like "Rei expy" but it quickly becomes clear she's simply keeping her guard up in presence of strangers she doesn't *want* to get attached to (as opposed to not knowing how human relationships work) That guard comes down *fast* and for most of the CS1 and onward Fie is her actual self -- she's easygoing and unflappable, but protective of these she considers her 'adopted family' and takes pleasure in lightheared teasing and trolling these she cares about. She's in this sense nothing like Altina, to the point the others from old Class 7 actually call her out on this in CS3, when the subject pops up during their reunion.

* Altina genuinely has limited understanding of emotions and is reserved in displaying them, but her actual weak point and what she learns to overcome is inability to realize, express (and eventually follow) her own personal preferences. Even then, this is only a part of her character; another, just as large part is that she considers herself a professional when it comes to carrying out assigned tasks, and someone at least as capable in terms of combat prowess as members of the old Class 7. She's (adorably) earnest in this regard, takes pride in it, and it frustrates her to no end that Rean who was put in her charge is treating her like a small child that needs to be protected all the time, to the point where she begins to question her own skills (and discovering there's some areas like soldat piloting where she comes bit short compared to people with less overall experience only adds to that insecurity). In this sense she isn't "yet another surrogate daughter figure" but rather the opposite -- that's how *Rean* may be erroneously treating her, and it's part of his arc to finally, eventually acknowledge that she's *not* one, and she's always been his "business partner", someone on pretty equal terms.

(ironically enough it's Millium whose entire CS1-2 arc culminates in the "learning how to cry" scene)

[Thecarlosmff]

I am playing the older games now and writing down names that are left out, then I add them but I think the most important at least from CS series are there.
https://tiermaker.com/create/the-legend-of-heroes-character-ts-csiv-272890
I don't think that there are any CS4 spoilers there (except how they look...). I removed the only thing that I considered a spoiler Grandmaster .

[🌸🌈Pink Queendom💄🍒]

This game is truly incredible, the community is nice too （＾_＾）