Choose Your Legends

Choose Your Legends 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.

The splash screen for the 2017 results.

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.

The two voting options.

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:

style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|January 25th 2017 Midterm Results
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. 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.

The Choose Your Legend's version of Lucina's lance, Geirskögul, has characters inscribed on it, that, when translated using the cipher provided in The Art of Fire Emblem Awakening, state "animeprojectsuccess". This is possibly teasing an anime series relating to the Fire Emblem series occurring in the future, though there have yet to be any official announcements aside from this teaser.

style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|2017 Overall Results (top 20)
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

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
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

Trivia

• Despite being major bosses with legendary weapons, both Bryce of Path of Radiance and Levail of Radiant Dawn are absent from the poll.
• Despite being called "Thea" in Shanna's dialogue in Fire Emblem Heroes, the 2018 poll still calls Thea "Thite".

Gallery

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  The splash screen for the 2017 results.

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  The splash screen for the 2018 voting, randomly featuring Ephraim, Eirika, Reinhardt, and Hector.

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  Viewing the character selection by game.

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  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 Two.

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  Three-vote reward.

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  Five-vote reward.

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  Seven-vote reward.

External links

• Official website - [1]