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- The Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave tier list is still settling three weeks after the game's September 17, 2026 launch on Nintendo Switch 2.
- Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave launched on September 17, 2026 with 57 units split across five recruitable tiers, and almost none of them are dead weight.
- Sirocco shows up near the top of nearly every ranking for Fortune's Weave, thanks to a kit that holds up in combat without needing the heavy investment some A-tier units demand.
The Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave tier list is still settling three weeks after the game’s September 17, 2026 launch on Nintendo Switch 2. Five units — Esmeralda, Fabio, Guzran, Sirocco and Sofia — hold the top S-tier spot as of late September, each pairing strong growths with a role few other units in the roster can fill.
Current Tier List at a Glance
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave launched on September 17, 2026 with 57 units split across five recruitable tiers, and almost none of them are dead weight. Pocket Tactics, which updated its full ranking a week later, put it bluntly: there aren’t any straight-up stinkers in this roster, just a gap between the units who carry a run and the ones who need more investment to keep up.
| Tier | Characters |
|---|---|
| S | Esmeralda, Fabio, Guzran, Sirocco, Sofia |
| A | Peter, Tialla, Bonaventure, Talimun, Orchel, Anatolia, Bertrand, Mu, Lilian, Hong Hua, Dante, Diego, Catania, Gaitz, Ultand, Alexandra, Creek, Olympia, Nathan, Nuzzuo, Goliath, Aswan, Inyoni, Jasmine, Troy |
| B | Seteth, Tobias, Ursula, Simon, Ludia, Halvin, Buccar, Fianna, Nezha, Ninae, Mikaela, Kiroc, Dadao, Jester, Yang Jie, Io, Noctula, Nydine, Peppe, Loretta, Lysander, Sha Lan, Centurio, Tahonia |
| C | Zarcone, Majide, Benditz |
The 5 S-Tier Units Worth Prioritizing
Sirocco shows up near the top of nearly every ranking for Fortune’s Weave, thanks to a kit that holds up in combat without needing the heavy investment some A-tier units demand. Sofia is the outlier of the group — her raw combat numbers trail the other four, but Pocket Tactics singled her out for “elite healing support” that keeps a squad alive through the harder story battles.
Esmeralda, Fabio and Guzran round out the S-tier on the strength of growths and personal abilities that few other units in the 57-character roster can match.
Best A-Tier Picks If You Want a Faster Early Game
The 25-strong A-tier is where most of a typical run’s roster actually comes from. KeenGamer’s own tier list singles out Mu and Dante as standouts here, each pairing strong growths with a role few other A-tier units can fill. Olympia brings high magic damage with healing utility built in, and Peter and Bonaventure are common early recruits who scale into the midgame without needing rare resources to stay viable.
What’s notable is how little daylight there is between this A-tier and the S-tier above it — unlike a beginner-friendly pick list built around characters who are easy to learn, Fortune’s Weave’s A-tier units are competitive on raw performance, not just ease of use.
Who to Skip: The C-Tier Three
Only three units land in C-tier — Zarcone, Majide and Benditz — and even those aren’t unusable, just the weakest return on investment if you’re optimizing a specific route. With 54 of the game’s 57 recruitable units sitting at B-tier or higher, Fortune’s Weave is unusually forgiving: you can build around almost anyone you like and still clear the story, a rarer trait than you’d guess from how punishing our own Elden Ring starting-class tier list turned out to be.
What About Your Flame Lord?
Fortune’s Weave splits its cast into a customizable protagonist, Eshmel by default, and four story-specific Flame Lords — Cai, Dietrich, Theodora and Leda, as detailed in dotesports’ release breakdown — each with their own campaign. None of them appear on recruitable-unit tier lists because you don’t choose whether to use them: your Flame Lord is locked in as your protagonist for that playthrough, and the tier list only covers the other 57 units you can freely recruit around them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are the best S-tier characters in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave?
As of the September 24, 2026 tier list from Pocket Tactics, the five S-tier units are Esmeralda, Fabio, Guzran, Sirocco and Sofia.
How many recruitable characters does Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave have?
The game ships with 57 recruitable units across S, A, B and C tiers, plus four unlockable Flame Lord protagonists who aren’t part of the recruit pool.
Is Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave on the original Nintendo Switch?
No. It released exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 on September 17, 2026, with no original Switch version announced.
Are there any bad characters to avoid in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave?
Not really. Only three units, Zarcone, Majide and Benditz, land in the bottom C-tier, and reviewers note the roster has no outright unusable units.
