Through high mobility and solid offensive stats, mounted units are often viewed as some of the most useful characters at a player's disposal in the series. While flying units like wyvern riders and promoted units like paladins are frequently considered some of the best mounteᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd units, cavaliers are often available early into each game in the series. These units are unpromoted soldiers that ride horseback.
Cavaliers often have 🎀the potential to be the strongest characters at a player's disposal and can be a staple of one's army throughout the entirety of a game. Therefore, let's examine the v♛arious cavaliers from across Fire Emblem's history to see which are the best!
It should be noted that characters from 🎃 will be omitted due to the free-form nature of that game'🍒s class system.
10 ꧑ Cain And Abel
Cain and Abel set the standard for cavaliers from the word go in the very first entry in the series, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, as well as in its remake,﷽ .
Available from the very first chapter, their solid growth rates paired with their stellar availability aꦕllow them to be two of the most reliable units across an entire playthrough. Through their high movement and access to Javelins, Cain an෴d Abel immediately set the bar of what to expect from a cavalier.
9 Silas
Silas is one of the few characters that is avai♐lable in every single route of , and he is also among the most reliable units in the gam🌳e.
Like many of the other cavaliers on this list, Silas has great availability alongside solid growth rates that can make using him over the course of a playthrough pay off. Additionally, Silas's personal ability, Vow of Friendship, can raise both his offense and defense if Corrin's HP is less💯 than half its max.
8 S꧃ain𒁃 And Kent
Appearing in , like Cain and Abel, Sain and Kent are a duo of red and g♏reen cavaliers that are excellent additions to any army. Though they're available right off the bat in Lyn's story, they aren't recruitable in Eliwood or Hector's stories until the Noble Lady of Caelin chapter.
Though they have the same availability and much of the same utility and uses, Sain is more offensively focused while Kent is a more well-rounded unit. Therefore, players can either choose the unit that better fits their playstyle or deploy both for෴ a highly mobil🐓e strategy.
7 Lowen
The third cavalier available in The Blazing Blade, Lowe༺n is available as soon as Eliwood's story begins and within the second chapter of Hector's story, giving him unparalleled availability between the game's cavaliers.
This allows Lowen to rack up tons of experience in the game's earliest chapters and quickly grow into a veritable threat. It should be noted that Lowen has a substantially higher defense growt💜h than both Sain and Kent, allowing him to function as a tankier unit reminiscent of a Great Knight.
6 Hardin
Though not available as early as Cain and Abel, Haꦚrdin is a unit in the first Fire Emblem and its remake, joining a player's army in Chapter 5.
As soon as he becomes available, Hardin is instantly one of the most useful units under a player's control. He joins with serviceable base stats and notably joins✃ with a B rank in lances, allowing him to deal substantial damage with silver lances.
5 🐲 🌺 Alen And Lance
Another pair of red and green cavaliers🐭, are among the strongest units available in . Both available from the very beginning of the game, they can be trained into some of the most useful units at a player's disposal through their access to numerous weapon types, high mobility,🍸 and easy access to rescue-drop strategies.
This duo has all of the strength and utility o꧂f Sain and Kent, but with superior availabilit🌜y that makes them easier to train.
4 Ares
Ares is among the strongest units available within Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. With an incredible 90% strength growth, holy blood, and access to three of the most useful skills in the game in the form of Pursuit, Adept, and Vantage, it's hard to complain🍌 about anything that Ares brings to the table.
As if Ares wasn't already a stellar unit, he comes w💯ith his own personal weapon, Mystletainn, that bestows him with the critical skill.
3 Kieran (Pa🔴th Of Radiance)
Unlike the vast majorඣity of cavalier duos in Fire Emblem, Kieran of Path of Radiance is recruited at a different time than his counterpart. An axe knight that is recruited after completing Chapter 10, like Hardin, Kieran is immediately a potent asset as soon as he becomes usable.
With offense-oriented base stats and growth rates, Kieran can do significant damage to enemies near and far with hand axes. As cavaliers have access to an improved variation of canto in Path of Radiance, Kieran is only made better than he𝔍 already would be.
2 Franz
As a cavalier, ' Franz is the complete package. Great availability? Check. Solid growths? Check. Consistent🦋 ac🥀cess to numerous weapon types and the ability to consistently attack from both near and far with javelins? Check, check, check.
When a unit ☂still seems consistently useful when compared to Seth, one of the most brokenly overpowered units in the franchise's history, it should speak volumes of their quality.
1 ✨ ไ Oscar (Path Of Radiance)
Oscar is another cavalier from Path of Radiance that ti✨es together elements from numerous other characters mentioned in this article. With some of the best availability in the game, Oscar benefits from a great weapon type in lances, allowing him to immediately use javelins, solid growth rates, and Path of Radiance's improved canto.
As if all of these elem✱ents weren't good enough, if Oscar has a support with Kieran, both of them receive improved evasion that makes them nearly impossible to kill.