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Choose Your Legends
Choose Your Legends (Japanese: 英雄総選挙 General Election Heroes) is the name of a popularity polling event associated with Fire Emblem Heroes. The first Choose Your Legends poll was run in 2017 with a second running occurring in 2018.
Overview
In the weeks prior to Fire Emblem Heroes's release, specifically Wednesday, January 18th to Tuesday, 31st January 2017, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems held a voting campaign known as Choose Your Legends. Visitors to the campaign's site were allowed to vote for their favourite characters, with the two highest-polling characters of each gender being selected to receive special playable versions of themselves wearing unique outfits. The development of these special outfits was shared through official Nintendo channels. The top ten ranked characters of each gender also featured in a series of 2017 calendar images, which were be released each month throughout 2017.
The candidates for voting included every playable character in the entire series, as well as significant bosses and non-player characters. Characters who appear in multiple games were also counted separately. Visitors could submit one vote per day, and voting with a My Nintendo account also awarded them 200 platinum points for the My Nintendo service.
Near the first anniversary of Fire Emblem Heroes, on January 19 2018, a second Choose Your Legends event was announced. Fire Emblem Gaiden characters had their images updated to their Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia appearances and all characters original to Heroes were added to the voting pool, while the four winners of the original Choose Your Legends event have been entirely removed (including the Radiant Dawn version of Ike and "Masked Marth", even though it was the Path of Radiance Ike and regular Lucina which won).
Voting
There are two ways to choose a vote. One may choose the random button to randomly select any character from the ballot or search for a character by game. When viewing characters by game they are sorted alphabetically.
A voter may vote once per day, and if they have a My Nintendo account they can track their previous votes on their Battle Ballot page. Users without a My Nintendo account cannot view their previous votes. If a day of voting is missed the voter cannot "make up" their missed vote, so they become limited to one less overall vote; if there are seven days of voting and the first day is missed one can only vote six times if they make sure to vote every subsequent day.
One voter can vote for the same character multiple times, or they can choose to vote for a variety of characters.
Choose Your Legends 2017
- Main article:
Choose Your Legends/2017 results
2017 midterm poll results
On January 25th 2017 Nintendo released the status of the poll halfway through the voting period. The twenty highest male and female character rankings were revealed. The standings provided at the time were as follows:[1]
style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|January 25th 2017 Midterm Results | ||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222;" width="10%"| Placement | Males | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="45%"| Females |
First | Ike (Path of Radiance) |
Lyn |
Second | Roy |
Lucina |
Third | Hector (The Blazing Blade) |
Tharja |
Fourth | Chrom |
Camilla |
Fifth | Ike (Radiant Dawn) |
Corrin (female) |
Sixth | Marth (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light/Shadow Dragon) |
Eirika |
Seventh | Ephraim |
Cordelia |
Eighth | Robin (male) (Awakening) |
Azura |
Ninth | Takumi |
Micaiah |
Tenth | Donnel |
Robin (female) (Awakening) |
Eleventh | Henry |
Nowi |
Twelfth | Leo (Fates) |
Tiki (Awakening) |
Thirteenth | Lon'qu |
Elise |
Fourteenth | Marth (Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery of the Emblem) |
Anna (Awakening) |
Fifteenth | Gaius |
Lute |
Sixteenth | Niles |
Felicia |
Seventeenth | Joshua |
Mia (Radiant Dawn) |
Eighteenth | Dorcas |
Nephenee (Path of Radiance) |
Nineteenth | Corrin (male) |
Sakura |
style="Template:Roundbl; border:none; background-color:#222222"| Twentieth | Owain |
style="Template:Roundbr; border:none; background-color:#222222"| Nino |
2017 overall results
The overall results were revealed on February 9th, 2017.[2] The highest rankings remained largely unchanged from the midterm results, with Ike and Roy topping the male poll, and Lyn and Lucina topping the female poll. As a show of gratitude for the large number of votes cast, it was announced that in addition to the poll winners, as was originally announced, the second-place male and female characters would also receive special costumes, while the top ten characters of each gender would receive special calendar images.
A later interview with staff from Intelligent Systems revealed that they were highly surprised by Lyn's performance in the poll; they fully expected Lucina to win. They also stated that they were surprised by the overall high performance of characters from the GBA games. Due to the, to them, surprising results, development of the Choose Your Legend character variants took longer than anticipated.[3]
The Choose Your Legend's version of Lucina's lance, Geirskögul, has Ancient Letters inscribed on it, that, when translated using the cipher provided in The Art of Fire Emblem Awakening, state "animeprojectsubcess". The phrase is typically interpreted as "anime project success" though it is unclear what this implies.
style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|2017 Overall Results (top 20) | ||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222;" width="10%"| Placement | Males | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="45%"| Females |
First | Ike Path of Radiance 33,871 votes |
Lyn The Blazing Blade 49,917 votes |
Second | Roy The Binding Blade 28,982 votes |
Lucina Awakening 42,875 votes |
Third | Hector The Blazing Blade 26,557 votes |
Tharja Awakening 29,540 votes |
Fourth | Chrom Awakening 23,803 votes |
Camilla Fates 25,766 votes |
Fifth | Ike (Radiant Dawn) 17,684 votes |
Corrin (female) Fates 19,599 votes |
Sixth | Marth (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light/Shadow Dragon) 15,877 votes |
Eirika The Sacred Stones 16,423 votes |
Seventh | Ephraim The Sacred Stones 14,908 votes |
Cordelia Awakening 14,362 votes |
Eighth | Robin (male) (Awakening) 14,149 votes |
Azura Fates 14,198 votes |
Ninth | Takumi Fates 12,662 votes |
Micaiah Radiant Dawn 13,491 votes |
Tenth | Leo Fates 12,175 votes |
Nowi Awakening 10,571 votes |
Eleventh | Henry Awakening 12,131 votes |
Robin (female) Awakening 10,387 votes |
Twelfth | Dorcas The Blazing Blade 12,083 votes |
Tiki Awakening 9,794 votes |
Thirteenth | Donnel Awakening 10,479 votes |
Lute The Sacred Stones 9,176 votes |
Fourteenth | Lon'qu Awakening 10,002 votes |
Felicia Fates 9,121 votes |
Fifteenth | Gaius Awakening 9,465 votes |
Elise Fates 8,962 votes |
Sixteenth | Niles Fates 8,703 votes |
Mia Radiant Dawn 8,946 votes |
Seventeenth | Marth Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery of the Emblem 8,670 votes |
Anna Awakening 8,431 votes |
Eighteenth | Joshua The Sacred Stones 8,623 votes |
Nephenee Path of Radiance 7,916 votes |
Nineteenth | Eliwood The Blazing Blade 8,393 votes |
Nino The Blazing Blade 7,825 votes |
style="border:none; background-color:#222222; Template:Roundbl;"| Twentieth | Owain Awakening 8,383 votes |
style="border:none; background-color:#222222; Template:Roundbr;"| Sakura Fates 7,782 votes |
Winner's variants
The variant units for the four winners were released around Heroes's six-month anniversary on August 31, 2017. These variants were revealed in a Feh Channel concerning Choose Your Legends on August 28, 2017.
The variants appear to have been mostly themed around each character's father's classes and weapons. The characters were initially released in the New Heroes: Brave Heroes summoning event, and were added to the general summoning poll afterwards; meaning it is possible to summon them at any time if luck permits. Their initial release was also accompanied with a summoning event where the player can make their free pick of one of the four variants; this free pick banner has remained since its initial debut and is currently still available to any new players as of writing.
style="Template:Roundtl; width:100px; border:1px solid #b0b0b0; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | File:FEH Lyn CYL 01.png | File:FEH Ike CYL 01.png | File:FEH Lucina CYL 01.png | style="Template:Roundtr; width:100px; border:1px solid #b0b0b0; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | File:FEH Roy CYL 01.png | ||
style="Template:Roundbl; width:100px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Lyn (Brave Lady) |
Ike (Brave Mercenary) |
Lucina (Brave Princess) |
style="Template:Roundbr; width:100px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Roy (Brave Lion) |
Choose Your Legends 2018
- Main article:
Choose Your Legends/2018 results
2018 midterm poll results
Like the first event, the standings were revealed halfway through the polling period, on January 25th. Like last time the top twenty men and women were shown and the vote numbers were absent.
style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|January 25th 2018 Midterm Results | ||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222;" width="10%"| Placement | Males | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="45%"| Females |
First | Hector (The Blazing Blade) |
Celica |
Second | Ephraim |
Camilla |
Third | Marth (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light/Shadow Dragon) |
Eirika |
Fourth | Alm |
Azura |
Fifth | Reinhardt |
Veronica |
Sixth | Chrom |
Micaiah |
Seventh | Robin (male) |
Loki |
Eighth | Takumi |
Nino |
Ninth | Marth (Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery of the Emblem) |
Corrin (female) |
Tenth | Leif (Thracia 776)* |
Tharja |
Eleventh | Ryoma |
Cordelia |
Twelfth | Owain |
Morgan (female) (Awakening) |
Thirteenth | Eliwood |
Selkie |
Fourteenth | Leo |
Nowi |
Fifteenth | Kliff |
Lilina |
Sixteenth | Xander |
Laevatein |
Seventeenth | Sigurd |
Ninian |
Eighteenth | Keaton |
Myrrh |
Nineteenth | Alfonse |
Mia (Radiant Dawn) |
style="Template:Roundbl; border:none; background-color:#222222"| Twentieth | Kaden |
style="Template:Roundbr; border:none; background-color:#222222"| Delthea |
2018 overall results
The final results of the second event were posted on February 1, 2018. Like the previous poll, the highest rankings were largely unchanged. Hector and Ephraim remained in the top two spots respectively for the men's division, and while Celica remained in the first place spot of the women's division, Veronica received enough votes to push her up to second place from fifth.
style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|2018 Overall Results (top 20) | ||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222;" width="10%"| Placement | Males | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="45%"| Females |
First | Hector The Blazing Blade 38,527 votes |
Celica Gaiden / Echoes: Shadows of Valentia 36,302 votes |
Second | Ephraim The Sacred Stones 31,027 votes |
Veronica Heroes 29,206 votes |
Third | Marth Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light/Shadow Dragon 29,058 votes |
Camilla Fates 28,166 votes |
Fourth | Alm Gaiden / Echoes: Shadows of Valentia 18,176 votes |
Eirika The Sacred Stones 27,503 votes |
Fifth | Reinhardt Thracia 776 15,931 votes |
Azura Fates 20,430 votes |
Sixth | Chrom Awakening 13,638 votes |
Loki Heroes 16,811 votes |
Seventh | Robin (male) Awakening 10,912 votes |
Nino The Blazing Blade 15,532 |
Eighth | Takumi Fates 10,407 votes |
Micaiah Radiant Dawn 15,493 votes |
Ninth | Leif (Thracia 776) 9,001 votes |
Corrin (female) Fates 13,833 votes |
Tenth | Ryoma Fates 8,238 votes |
Tharja Awakening 12,459 votes |
Eleventh | Marth Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery of the Emblem 8,134 votes |
Cordelia Awakening 9,547 votes |
Twelfth | Owain Awakening 7,835 votes |
Selkie Fates 8,855 votes |
Thirteenth | Eliwood The Blazing Blade 7,492 votes |
Morgan (female) Awakening 8,394 votes |
Fourteenth | Leo Fates 7,162 votes |
Lilina The Binding Blade 7,993 votes |
Fifteenth | Kliff Gaiden / Echoes: Shadows of Valentia 5,995 votes |
Nowi Awakening 7,705 votes |
Sixteenth | Keaton Fates 5,989 votes |
Laevatein Heroes 7,199 votes |
Seventeenth | Xander Fates 5,669 votes |
Mia Radiant Dawn 7,101 votes |
Eighteenth | Alfonse Heroes 5,542 votes |
Ninian The Blazing Blade 6,442 votes |
Nineteenth | Kaden Fates 4,763 votes |
Delthea Gaiden / Echoes: Shadows of Valentia 5,643 votes |
style="Template:Roundbl; border:none; background-color:#222222"| Twentieth | Soren Path of Radiance 4,753 votes |
style="Template:Roundbr; border:none; background-color:#222222"| Robin (female) Awakening 5,481 votes |
Winner's variants
The variants for Celica, Hector, Veronica, and Ephraim have yet to be revealed.
Trivia
- A Nintendo of America tweet for the 2017 running of the event mistakenly refers to it as "Choose your Heroes".[4]
- Jedah was excluded from the eligible voting list of characters in the 2017 Choose Your Legends poll, despite other major antagonists from Fire Emblem Gaiden, like Rudolf, Desaix, and Grieth, being present. The reason behind Jedah's exclusion is unknown; though he was added to the ballot for Choose Your Legends: Round 2.
- Despite being major bosses with legendary weapons, both Bryce of Path of Radiance and Levail of Radiant Dawn are absent from the poll. Unlike Jedah these characters have remained absent from Choose Your Legends: Round 2.
- Despite being called "Thea" in Shanna's dialogue in Fire Emblem Heroes, the 2018 poll still calls Thea "Thite".
Gallery
Voting confirmation screen, confirming a vote for the character Myrrh.
Wallpapers
These wallpapers were given as rewards to people who voted in Choose Your Legends: Round 2.
External links
- Official website - [1]
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/824421860142092289
- ↑ https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/829525247875543040
- ↑ "We did not expect Lyn to get first place. We knew that Lucina was very popular, but we never expected Lucina to lose to Lyn. One other thing we noticed is that characters from the Game Boy Advance era tended to be popular, and that was a little unexpected. Also, because the final results were a little unexpected, it also meant that development for the Choose Your Legends characters took a bit more time than expected." — An Interview with the Directors of 'Fire Emblem Heroes': On Events, Design Challenges, and the Possibility of 'Advance Wars' on Mobile, toucharcade.com, Published: September 4th 2017, Retrieved: December 24th 2017
- ↑ https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/826924344962060289