History FireEmblemHeroes / TropesFToL

*** May 2023's New Heroes & Rearmed Chrom banner includes Female Byleth (possessed by Sothis after her father Jeralt died by Shez's hands and want vengeance against them), Maria (mind controlled by Gharnef to serve and sacrifice herself to Medeus), Anankos (going insane due to dragon degeneration after many years unable to become a spirit), and Chrom (based on his ''Cipher'' art where he is a Risen and is called the Risen King), with a Grand Hero Battle for Linus (resurrected as a Morph to protect Nergal).

** Skills and Weapons that give [Canto] allows the user to move after they performed an action once per turn, including attacking a unit or obstacle, and using an assist skill, such as the Near/Far Trace skills and the unique refine for Sumia's Flower Lance, with Canto (X) using up to the allocated number, Canto (Rem.(+X)) using the remaining spaces the user did not use beforehand, plus X spaces if any, Canto (Unit X) within a fixed area around the user, Canto (Ally X) moving to an adjacent space of an ally within the allocated space, and Canto (Recall) moving back to the starting space of the unit before the action. However, there are limitations to this, where it cannot stack with other Canto skills and only the highest movement value applies, the user can only move by the amount of spaces given by Canto effect, the unit can only warp to another space if it is within the amount of spaces Canto provided, and Canto skills that uses the remaining of the amount of spaces the user has moved before performing their action will have that number be reduced to 0 if the user has warped before performing their action.

** The Dark Desert Rituals weapons, as well as Plegian Katarina's Fell Flambeau, allows the user to debuff the foe during combat if the user is not adjacent to an ally, with the Dark Desert Rituals weapons applying -5 to two of the foe's stats during combat as well as doubling any stat penalties the foe has on those stats at the start of combat, and the Fell Flambeau applying -5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res on the foe during combat as well as double any stat penalties the foe has at the start of combat.

** Downplayed with Volke's Fireman's Hook, Eitri's Grimm Brokkr and the refines for Regular Ishtar's Mjölnir, Regular and Legendary Ephraim's Flame Siegmund, Legendary Eirika's Storm Sieglinde, Brave Alm's Dracofalchion and Walhart's Wolf Berg, where they gain effects and/or stats if the user either initiates combat or is not adjacent to an ally.

** In Kagetsu's Forging Bonds events, Kagetsu meets Navarre, Lon'qu, Niles and finally Seteth, who then invites Kagetsu to a tea party because he feels a "kinship" with him. The tea party includes the three other heroes Kagetsu encountered as well as Lewyn, Pent and Saber.
Every character involved was voiced by Creator/TakehitoKoyasu in Japanese, which would be lost on players only familiar with the English cast. The English translation has Kagetsu mention he feels a similiar kinship with Wolt and Nils (Voiced by Creator/KohiDao, Kagetsu's EN voice), to clue EN players into the joke.

** The release of Legendary Lilina in December 2020 introduced the game's first, and so far only AOE special that is a SecretArt (Gifted Magic). This is despite the fact the ones did exist before then are all inheritable and released in 2017, and that's not counting the Rokkr specials, which are enemy-only and can't be obtained through normal means. Gifted Magic also stands out from the other AOE specials, as it boasts a faster cooldown and is a Blazing Wind clone that deals weaker damage, but it's a bit more BoringButPractical than the opposite. The same special would later get an upgraded variant in January 2024, which, aside from no longer being affected by a percentage, is by far the only one that grants at least one bonus to adjacent allies.

** Legendary Lilina's unique AOE special, Gifted Magic, was released in December 2020. This is especially jarring, as the ones that existed before then are all inheritable and released in 2017, and that's not counting the Rokkr specials, which are enemy-only and can't be obtained through normal means. Gifted Magic also stands out from the other AOE specials, as it boasts a faster cooldown and is a Blazing Wind clone that deals weaker damage, but it's a bit more BoringButPractical than the opposite. In addition, Lilina herself is a red tome legendary hero, while every other red legendary hero released before her, as well as Legendary Sigurd and Legendary Nanna, are all sword wielders.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** The "Winter Festival vs. New Year's" Voting Gauntlet starred Winter Chrom, Winter Robin, Winter Lissa, Winter Tharja, New Year's Azura, New Year's Takumi, New Year's Camilla... and Ryoma? This seems to be because the fourth New Year's unit, Corrin, was a Tempest Trials reward that had yet to come out, so Ryoma was picked as the fourth New Year's rep instead.
** The spring 2020 banner consisted of four units hailing from ''The Binding Blade'' (Fir, Bartre, Idunn/Fae, and Narcian)... plus Est, who hails from ''Mystery of the Emblem''.
** The Halloween 2020 banner (and accompanying paralogue) is called Dragons Harvest, and the featured units use dragonstones as their weapon... except Xane, who uses a colorless tome.

** Micaiah and Sanaki being sisters, one of the major ''Radiant Dawn'' spoilers, was never brought up until they star in Grand Conquests.

** Fallen Ike's Chaos Ragnell allows him essentially reverse stat debuffs during combat equal to what he has outside of combat, where for example he gains +14 Spd if he has -7 Spd on him before combat, effectively gaining +7 during combat. However, players were also inheriting the Tier 4 Bond skills, commonly Atk/Spd Bond 4, onto him because there was a strange interaction with the Bond 4 skills, where if the user is adjacent to an ally, it did not remove the debuffs during combat and just add onto it instead, where for example if there is -5 Spd on the user, the skill just adds on +5 Spd on top of the natural +7 Spd the skill gives if the activation requirements are met. With Fallen Ike and Atk/Spd Bond 4 active, with -7 Atk/Spd before combat, he effectively has '''+21''' Atk/Spd during combat. Update 4.6.0 later changed it so that certain skills that neutralizes penalties during combat, the Tier 4 Bond skills included, now removes the debuff on specific stats during combat instead of just adding on, effectively nerfing this tactic, where it now just give +7 Atk/Spd if Fallen Ike uses Atk/Spd Bond 4 instead of the previous +21 Atk/Spd. However, this exploit can be used with the Unity skills, where it give similar effects the Bond skills did before the 4.6.0 update, but has a larger activation requirement, but lower initial boost to +5 to two of the user's stats during combat, as well as the [Grand Strategy] status effect from Legendary Male Robin's Master's Tactics and Valentine Duo Chrom & Male Robin's Duo Skill, which has the same effect as Fallen Ike's Chaos Ragnell, especially if those two are combined together since those effect will stack. Regular Dagr, who was released after update 4.6.0, as well as Legendary Marth, can perform the same exploit with Dagr's Skinfaxi and the unique refine for Legendary Marth's Exalted Falchion.

** Skills and weapon such as Nyx's Ginnungagap and Eitri's Divine Recreation allows them to reduce damage taken from the foe's first attack during combat and allows them to boost their damage equal to the amount reduced until the end of combat, where Ginnungagap reduces damage by 40% if the user is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat and either the user initiates combat or the foe wields a Tome or Staff weapon and they initiate combat and Divine Recreation reduces damage by 30% if the foe is at 50% HP or above at the start of combat. While the damage they can reduce can stack with other sources of DamageReduction from allies such as Flayn's Caduceus Staff and Nifl's Domain of Ice, which can increase that to 58% damage reduced with their 30% boost for Ginnungagap and 51% for Divine Recreation, this also include Miracle as well as their Special or have Ymir's Everliving Domain effect, which allows them to survive with a LastChanceHitPoint when it activates, and since those skills work by reducing the damage taken to make sure that they can survive with 1 HP left, that is also added to the total that they can use to deal damage with their next attack to potentially even OneHitKill the foe, especially if the foe also activates a damage special with their attack like Glimmer or Dragon Fang, and even more so with Divine Recreation if the foe wields a flying effective weapon like bows against Eitri, who is a Flying unit.

** In the "Divine Hair Duels!" Voting, the contestants are Caineghis, New Year Yarne, Regular Ash, Regular Askr, Celiné, Female Alear, Garon and Nemesis, where most of them either have unusual hair and/or are divine beings, but not everyone fits the theme. This is because the Japanese name of the the Voting Gauntlet is "自分のカミを誇れよ！", translated as "Take pride in your kami!", where "カミ", katakana for "kami" in Japanese, is the pronunciation for "神", translated as "god", "髪", translated as "head hair" or "噛み", translated as "(to) bite", so kami is actually a homophone used as part of the title of the Voting Gauntlet and explains the contestant choices, especially when some of them fit multiple of the homophones, which is nearly impossible to tranfer over fully in English, where even "hare" and "hair" as homophones is not enough to fit the entire theme.

** The Falchion, the Binding Blade, the Elibean Legendary Weapons, and Sol Katti were crafted to kill dragons. The Falchion is the only one of the list that has a gameplay effect related to this, and even then it only does effective damage against Manaketes and not dragons of any other category (e.g. Minerva's wyvern mount or Male Corrin's dragon heritage). Similarly, Fae cannot deal effective damage to manaketes despite being a Divine Dragon. The Binding Blade can't deal effective damage against dragons until it receives a Refinery upgrade.

** The Falchion, the Binding Blade, Durandal, Armads, Forblaze, Aureola, Mulagir, Maltet, and Sol Katti were crafted to kill dragons. The Falchion is the only one of the list that has a gameplay effect related to this, and even then it only does effective damage against Manaketes and not dragons of any other category (e.g. Minerva's wyvern mount or Male Corrin's dragon heritage). Similarly, Fae cannot deal effective damage to manaketes despite being a Divine Dragon. The Binding Blade can't deal effective damage against dragons until it receives a Refinery upgrade.

** The Falchion, the Binding Blade, Durandal, Armads, Forblaze, and Sol Katti were crafted to kill dragons. The Falchion is the only one of the list that has a gameplay effect related to this, and even then it only does effective damage against Manaketes and not dragons of any other category (e.g. Minerva's wyvern mount or Male Corrin's dragon heritage). Similarly, Fae cannot deal effective damage to manaketes despite being a Divine Dragon. The Binding Blade can't deal effective damage against dragons until it receives a Refinery upgrade.

** Guinivere's Aureola and the unique refine for Regular Genny's Springtime Staff allows the user to recover 7 HP to the user and any allies within 2 spaces of the user after combat. The Staff of Tribute(+) has a stronger effect, where it recovers 7 HP to the user and any allies within 3 spaces of the user after combat, but only triggers if the user is within 3 spaces of an ally.

** Mystic Boost allows the user to recover 6 HP after combat, even if the user did not counterattack. The Bulwark skills has a slightly stronger version, where it allows the user to recover 7 HP after combat. Legendary Ephraim's Solar Brace II has a stronger version, where it allows him to recover 10 HP after combat.

* LimitedLoadout: While characters can accumulate a number of weapons, Skills, etc. via Skill Inheritance, they can go into battle with one weapon, one Assist, one Special, 3 Skills, and one Sacred Seal. Additionally, each Skill has a designated slot: A, B, or C. This means that there are a number of Skills that are mutually exclusive with each other (e.g. you cannot equip both Vantage and Swordbreaker because they are both B Skills).

** 2023's "Merchant's Harvest" features Timerra dressed as a ghost, Flayn dressed as a cat, Seadall dressed as a witch, Kellam dressed as a pumpkin knight, ''Engage'' Anna dressed as ''Awakening'' Anna and ''Awakening'' Anna dressed as ''Engage'' Anna, with the latter two paired up as a Harmonized Hero.

'''Hinoka:''' I'm a Legendary Hero? ...Might be a stretch, but I'll take it.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Book II Chapter 13 came alongside the banner that introduced Silas, Flora, Ophelia, and Nina, with another banner to be announced in a week's time. However, the fact that the aforementioned characters' update also added the previously non-playable Laegjarn, Laevatein, and Helbindi to the Catalog of Heroes made it pretty clear what the next banner was going to be.

** Bramimond's Void Tome allows the user to gain +5 Atk/Def/Res during combat if the foe either has a [Penalty] inflicted on them or if their Atk is 50 or more at the start of combat, and allows the user to gain a guaranteed follow-up attack if the foe either has a [Penalty] inflicted on them or if their Spd is 35 or more at the start of combat.
** Fallen Ike's Chaos Ragnell, Regular Dagr's Skinfaxi and the unique refine for Legendary Marth's Exalted Falchion allows them to give stats during combat equal to double their debuffs he has at the start of combat, essentially reversing any debuffs onto them. For example, if they has -7 Atk and -5 Spd, they effectively gains +7 Atk and +5 Spd during combat.

** Valentine Gustav's Loyalist Axe, Pirate Surtr's Sea-Sear Lance, the Courtly Mask+, Courtly Bow+, Courtly Candle+, and the Stout weapons reduces damage taken from the first attack during combat by 75% for the former two, and 50% for the latter four if the foe either initiates combat or have 75% HP or above at the start of combat for the former two, and the user has 50% HP or over at the start of combat for the latter, and the foe can perform a follow-up attack, either by having higher Spd than the user and have any of their skills negated by Null Follow-Up and similar effects or they have a skill that can guaranteed a follow-up attack such as the -breaker and Fighter skills.
** There are skills that basically steals the field stat buffs of foes during combat and inflicts penalties on those stats on the foe during combat equal to those values, where for example if the foe has +6 Atk/Spd and +4 Def, the user gains +6 Atk/Spd and +4 Def and inflict -6 Atk/Spd and -4 Def on the foe during combat. Freyja's Binding Necklace gains this effect if the user is not adjacent to an ally, Legendary Caeda's Wing-Lifted Spear if the user either initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally, and Thief Cath's Lofty Leaflet if the foe is at 50% HP or above at the start of combat. Summer Ashe's Divine Sea Spear has a similar effect where if either the user initiates combat or the foe is at 75% HP or above at the start of combat the user gain stats equal to the field stat buffs to the foe's Atk, Spd and Def and inflict the foe debuffs to those stats with the same value. and The Summer Vibrance's weapons have a weaker version, where if the foe is at 75% HP or above at the start of combat, the user gain Def or Res during combat equal to the field stat buffs the foe has to those stats, and inflict the foe debuffs to those stats with the same value.

** Fallen Ike's Chaos Ragnell allows him essentially reverse stat debuffs during combat equal to what he has outside of combat, where for example he gains +14 Spd if he has -7 Spd on him before combat, effectively gaining +7 during combat. However, players were also inheriting the Tier 4 Bond skills, commonly Atk/Spd Bond 4, onto him because there was a strange interaction with the Bond 4 skills, where if the user is adjacent to an ally, it did not remove the debuffs during combat and just add onto it instead, where for example if there is -5 Spd on the user, the skill just adds on +5 Spd on top of the natural +7 Spd the skill gives if the activation requirements are met. With Fallen Ike and Atk/Spd Bond 4 active, with -7 Atk/Spd before combat, he effectively has '''+21''' Atk/Spd during combat. Update 4.6.0 later changed it so that certain skills that neutralizes penalties during combat, the Tier 4 Bond skills included, now removes the debuff on specific stats during combat instead of just adding on, effectively nerfing this tactic, where it now just give +7 Atk/Spd if Fallen Ike uses Atk/Spd Bond 4 instead of the previous +21 Atk/Spd. However, this exploit can be used with the Unity skills, where it give similar effects the Bond skills did before the 4.6.0 update, but has a larger activation requirement, but lower initial boost to +5 to two of the user's stats during combat, as well as the [Grand Strategy] status effect from Valentine Duo Chrom & Male Robin's Duo Skill, which has the same effect as Fallen Ike's Chaos Ragnell, especially if those two are combined together since those effect will stack. Regular Dagr, who was released after update 4.6.0, as well as Legendary Marth, can perform the same exploit with Dagr's Skinfaxi and the unique refine for Legendary Marth's Exalted Falchion.

* LastLousyPoint: Any playable unit that can't be encountered in normal PVE gameplay, is 5-star locked, and isn't granted as a storyline reward can be excruciating to find so that you can mark all heroes in the Catalog of Heroes as seen. Currently, this includes Regular Azura, Regular Gunnthrá, Legendary Ephraim, Regular Larum, and Regular Mirabilis.

** Nyx's Ginnungagap and Eitri's Divine Recreation allows them to reduce damage taken from the foe's first attack during combat and allows them to boost their damage equal to the amount reduced until the end of combat, where Ginnungagap reduces damage by 40% if the user is at 25% HP or above at the start of combat and either the user initiates combat or the foe wields a Tome or Staff weapon and they initiate combat and Divine Recreation reduces damage by 30% if the foe is at 50% HP or above at the start of combat. While the damage they can reduce can stack with other sources of DamageReduction from allies such as Flayn's Caduceus Staff and Nifl's Domain of Ice, which can increase that to 58% damage reduced with their 30% boost for Ginnungagap and 51% for Divine Recreation, this also include Miracle as well as their Special or have Ymir's Everliving Domain effect, which allows them to survive with a LastChanceHitPoint when it activates, and since those skills work by reducing the damage taken to make sure that they can survive with 1 HP left, that is also added to the total that they can use to deal damage with their next attack to potentially even OneHitKill the foe, especially if the foe also activates a damage special with their attack like Glimmer or Dragon Fang, and even more so with Divine Recreation if the foe wields a flying effective weapon like bows against Eitri, who is a Flying unit.

** In Heroes Journey, viewing all the Memento Events becomes this, as while there are 5 different types of events per Heroes Journey event, those 5 also have 3 variations of them giving 3, 4, and 5 Rapport each, totaling at 15 Mementos Events per Heroes Journey event with the initial versions, and an extra event with reruns, adding an additional 3 Mementos Events per update. Slightly alleviated with update 5.10.0 with the introduction of Memory Fragments being given as rewards for watching Memento Events already seen by players equal to the amount of Rapport given on that Mementos Event, where players spend 20 Memory Fragments to view a specific unseen Mementos Event, even those from previous Heroes Journey events, but each Heroes Journey event only allows up to 3 chances for players to pick an unseen Mementos Event to watch.

* FourElementEnsemble: Skills, healing specials, blessings, and legendary hero affinities fall into this, with skills and specials applying a certain stat focus depending on which element they are. Fire is associated with Atk, Wind is with Spd, Earth is Def, and Water is Res; however, Legendary Hero boosts don't strictly follow this pattern.

'''Male Robin:''' Me, Legendary? I don't see how. / If my achievements are worthy of legend, it's only because I've had the support of so many wonderful friends and allies. / I'm sure Chrom will find it hilarious that people think of me as a Legendary Hero.

*** May 2022's Beyond Control banner includes Lilith (Anankos' insanity given form and is loyal to him), Ninian (brainwashed by Nergal to open the Dragon's Gate and uncontrollably transforms into a dragon as a result), Gustav ([[spoiler:being revived by Hel after his death in Book III and was forcefully revived to serve her]]), and Rhea (going insane after her body cannot contain her power after being mortally wounded protecting Byleth from the "javelins of light" in her Immaculate One form beforehand in the ''Silver Snow'' route), with a Grand Hero Battle for Muarim (unintentionally consumed the Feral elixir from Izuka after the latter mixed it in his food).

*** February 2018's Fallen Heroes banner features Hardin (from the influence of the Darksphere, an ArtifactOfDoom), Celica (from being sacrificed to Duma and turning into a Witch), and Male Robin (from being used as a SoulJar for the Fell Dragon Grima), with an accompanying Grand Hero Battle for Takumi (from MoreThanMindControl and his corpse being fully possessed by the Silent Dragon Anankos). Legendary Robin would be released roughly one month later, also being possessed by Grima like Male Robin before her.

*** May 2020's Dark Burden banner includes Male Corrin (losing himself in rage after losing his mother), Lyon (who was possessed by the Demon King Fomortiis after forming a pact to save his country), Julia (being mind controlled by Manfroy to serve Loptous), and Ike (going on a murderous rampage after touching Lehran's Medallion), with a Grand Hero Battle for Ashnard (intentionally touching Lehran's Medallion as a last ditch effort to make and prove himself stronger).

*** May 2022's Beyond Control banner includes Lilith (who was Anankos' insanity given form and is loyal to him), Ninian (who was brainwashed by Nergal to open the Dragon's Gate and uncontrollably transforms into a dragon as a result), Gustav ([[spoiler:him being revived by Hel after his death in Book III and was forcefully revived to serve her]]), and Rhea (going insane after her body cannot contain her power after being mortally wounded protecting Byleth from the "javelins of light" in her Immaculate One form beforehand in the ''Silver Snow'' route), with a Grand Hero Battle for Muarim (who unintentionally consumed the Feral elixir from Izuka after the latter mixed it in his food).
*** May 2023's New Heroes & Rearmed Chrom banner includes Female Byleth (possessed by Sothis after her father Jeralt died by Shez's hands and want vengeance against them), Maria (mind controlled by Gharnef to serve and sacrifice herself to Medeus), Anankos (going insane due to dragon degeneration after many years unable to become a spirit), and Chrom (based on his ''Cipher'' art where he is now a Risen and is called the Risen King).