History FireEmblemHeroes / TropesMToR

*** You can have 3 different versions of Tharja[[note]]Regular, Winter, Bridal[[/note]], Cordelia[[note]]Regular, Bridal, Summer[[/note]], Olivia[[note]]Regular, Performing Arts, Ylissean Travelers[[/note]], Kagero[[note]]Regular, Spring, Halloween[[/note]], Sakura[[note]]Regular, Halloween, Bath[[/note]], Elise[[note]]Regular, Summer, Bath[[/note]], Hinoka[[note]]Regular, Kinshi, Bath[[/note]], Fjorm[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Bridal[[/note]], Gunnthrá[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Laevatein[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Laegjarn[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Micaiah[[note]]Regular, Yukata, Brave[[/note]], Berkut[[note]]Regular, Fallen, Dancing[[/note]], Reinhardt[[note]]Regular, World of Thracia, Dancing[[/note]], Catria[[note]]Regular, Spring, Zofia's Call[[/note]], Nino[[note]]Regular, Scattered Fangs, Winter[[/note]], Alfonse[[note]]Regular, Spring, New Year Duo (with Sharena)[[/note]], Sharena[[note]]Regular, Spring, New Year Duo (with Alfonse)[[/note]], or Fae[[note]]Regular, Winter, Spring Duo (with Idunn)[[/note]] fighting at once.
*** You can have a team that consists entirely of Takumi[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Fallen, Summer[[/note]], Xander[[note]]Regular, Spring, Summer, Yukata[[/note]], Eirika [[note]]Regular, Sacred Memories, Legendary, Winter[[/note]], Ryoma[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Yukata, Bath[[/note]], Ike[[note]]Regular, Brave, Legendary, Valentine[[/note]], Roy[[note]]Regular, Brave, Valentine, Legendary[[/note]], Eliwood[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Legendary, Brave[[/note]], Lilina[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Summer, Duo Halloween (with Hector)[[/note]], Marth [[note]]Regular, Groom, Legendary, Duo Winter (with Elice)[[/note]], and Alm[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Brave, Duo Valentine (with Celica)[[/note]].
*** There are 5 different versions of Lucina[[note]]Regular, Spring, Masked, Brave, and Legendary[[/note]], Azura[[note]]Regular, Performing Arts, New Year's, Adrift, Legendary[[/note]], Hector[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Legendary, Brave, Duo Halloween (with Lilina)[[/note]], and Ephraim[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Brave, Winter, Duo (with Lyon)[[/note]], Celica[[note]]Regular, Fallen, Brave, Legendary, Duo Valentine (with Alm)[[/note]], and Chrom[[note]]Regular, Spring, Winter, Branded King, Legendary[[/note]].

** The Røkkr's Umbra Burst and Umbra specials were attempts at countering trapping Røkkr units with player units. The Umbra Burst weapons will at least deal 1 damage per attack and have Distant/Close Counter built into them, and the Umbra specials allow them to deal damage to all enemies within 2 spaces of them after combat and switch places with their target after combat, giving them an escape mechainsm should they be trapped. However, there are specific builds that allow players to still be able to trap them since the switch is Special-based.

* PowerFloats: Legendary Robin, Yune, Naga, Brave Micaiah, and Altina are seen as units floating without using wings, which makes them fliers without a mount, much like regular Myrrh.

** Lightning Breath(+) allows the user to counterattack even when attacked at a distance, but its Mt is lower than other Breath attacks, and slows special charge by 1.

** Weapons such as the Brave weapons, Dire Thunder, and Vafþrúðnir allow the user to attack twice regardless of Speed before the opponent can counterattack. On top of that, if the user has enough Speed to double, this leads to them attacking up to four times in a single round. However, the user also suffers either -2 or -5 Spd depending on the weapon, making it difficult to reach that quadruple attack threshold while also leaving the user more likely to get doubled themselves. These weapons don't have the highest of Mt, either.

** Julius' Loptous tome gives him +3 Resistance and inflicts -6 Attack on an enemy that fights him without an anti-dragon weapon, but also makes him weak to anti-dragon weapons.

** The Spendthrift Bow+ allows the user to gain +7 Atk and inflict -7 Atk on the foe during combat, but if the user has attack, they get inflicted +2 special cooldown.

*** Lloyd's Regal Blade, which gave +2 Atk/Spd during combat if the enemy is at full HP at the start of combat, was powercreeped by both Sacred Memories Eirika's Glepnir and Regular L'arachel's Ivaldi with +3 Atk/Spd with the same conditions and additional stat boosts, but was later able to be refined to get up to par with them, with the refined Regal Blade now giving +3 Atk/Spd. However, all three of them were later powercreeped by Perceval's Prized Lance, which gave +4 Atk/Spd/'''Def'''/'''Res''' in addition to inflicting -1 special buildup on the enemy per attack if the enemy is at full HP at the start of combat.

** The unique effect for Oscar's Loyal Greatlance grants all Infantry and Cavalry allies within 2 spaces of him +3 Atk/Spd during combat, as well as granting himself +3 Atk/Spd during combat if he's within 2 spaces of an Infantry or Cavalry ally.

** Characters that had previously been unplayable antagonists and supporting characters in their home games can be recruited in ''Heroes'' as playable units. Naga, Duma, Rudolf, Reinhardt, Kempf, Idunn, Leila, Bramimond, Greil, Yune, Altina, Iago, Garon, Mikoto, Lilith, Berkut, Rinea, Sothis, and Kronya in particular have never been controllable in any form, while the Death Knight made his first playable appearance in ''Heroes''.

** Dragons Breaths which are released post-2.0.0, including refined and charater exclusive, are a DownplayedTrope. They target the lower defensive stat of any unit with an attack range of two, including tome users, whose defense is usually lower than their resistance.

** Averted with several skills and weapons. The Wave skills, Link skills, Legendary Tiki's With Everyone!, Armor March, Joint Hone skills, and the weapons Ardent Service and Fresh Bouquet all can boost the stats of their user and their user's allies.

** Characters that had previously been unplayable antagonists and supporting characters in their home games can be recruited in ''Heroes'' as playable units. Naga, Duma, Rudolf, Reinhardt, Kempf, Idunn, Leila, Bramimond, Greil, Yune, Altina, Garon, Mikoto, Lilith, Berkut, Rinea, Sothis, and Kronya in particular have never been controllable in any form, while the Death Knight made his first playable appearance in ''Heroes''.

** Characters that had previously been unplayable antagonists and supporting characters in their home games can be recruited in ''Heroes'' as playable units. Naga, Duma, Rudolf, Reinhardt, Kempf, Idunn, Leila, Bramimond, Greil, Yune, Altina, Garon, Mikoto, Berkut, Rinea, Sothis, and Kronya in particular have never been controllable in any form, while the Death Knight made his first playable appearance in ''Heroes''.

** Characters that had previously been unplayable antagonists and supporting characters in their home games can be recruited in ''Heroes'' as playable units. Naga, Duma, Rudolf, Reinhardt, Kempf, Idunn, Leila, Greil, Yune, Altina, Garon, Mikoto, Berkut, Rinea, Sothis, and Kronya in particular have never been controllable in any form, while the Death Knight made his first playable appearance in ''Heroes''.

** Spring Est's Eagle's Egg, in addition to giving +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res, allows the user to ignore any penalies they have if they are within 2 spaces of an ally. The 2020 Spring weapons have similar effects, only that it gives +5 Atk/Def to the user and ignore any penalties to those two stats.
** Spring Duo Idunn & Fae's Zephyr Breath, in addition to inflicting -6 Atk and deny any follow-up attacks on the foe, allows the user to ignore any penalites they have if either they have a field stat buff or are within 2 spaces of the user.

** The Pegasus Flight skill, which allows them to inflict -1 Atk/Def on the foe during combat for every 2 Res they have over the foe, up to -7 Atk/Def, if their Spd is not more than 7 lower than their foe at the start of combat, is intended for units with high Spd and Res and are riding pegasi to give them an edge during combat, with what the name implies. However, due to the restrictions only allowing flying units wielding a Sword, Lance, or Axe to inherit it, it doesn't prevent ''wyvern riders'' to get it as well, the most who can make use of that being Regular Camilla, or even those not riding a mount ''at all'', like Altina. Ironically, many other units riding pegasi have low to average Res, meaning that only a select few can even use this skill to its maximum potential.

* MagicallyBindingContract: The reason why you fight all the Heroes in the story. Heroes defeated by the Emblian Empire must agree to the contract, which states that they must serve the empire, or they'll presumably be killed. However, the contract is null and void if someone else defeats them in combat. A majority of Book I (and a few Paralogues) focuses on freeing the Heroes from the Empire's contracts. In Book II, the plot is less focused on the contracts, although some Heroes (i.e. Regular Micaiah, Sacred Memories Eirika, Exalted Chrom, Kaze) still comment on them.

*** You can have 3 different versions of Tharja[[note]]Regular, Winter, Bridal[[/note]], Cordelia[[note]]Regular, Bridal, Summer[[/note]], Olivia[[note]]Regular, Performing Arts, Ylissean Travelers[[/note]], Kagero[[note]]Regular, Spring, Halloween[[/note]], Sakura[[note]]Regular, Halloween, Bath[[/note]], Elise[[note]]Regular, Summer, Bath[[/note]], Hinoka[[note]]Regular, Kinshi, Bath[[/note]], Fjorm[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Bridal[[/note]], Gunnthrá[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Laevatein[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Laegjarn[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Micaiah[[note]]Regular, Yukata, Brave[[/note]], Berkut[[note]]Regular, Fallen, Dancing[[/note]], Reinhardt[[note]]Regular, World of Thracia, Dancing[[/note]], Catria[[note]]Regular, Spring, Zofia's Call[[/note]], Nino[[note]]Regular, Scattered Fangs, Winter[[/note]], Alfonse[[note]]Regular, Spring, New Year Duo (with Sharena)[[/note]], or Sharena[[note]]Regular, Spring, New Year Duo (with Alfonse)[[/note]] fighting at once.

** After Xenologue 1 is completed, a cutscene plays where Veronica asks the Masked Man to have tea with her. He declines and instead asks Veronica about how she's been feeling, which leads to her talking about a voice in her head that compels her to kill people.

** Downplayed with the five characters drawn by Yamada Akihiro (Jagen, Ogma, Zephiel, Gunter, and Bantu), Rebecca (drawn by Hoshino Lily), and Idunn (drawn by Yamada Kotaro). While most characters' special attack portraits are edited versions of their normal attack portraits, these characters possess unique artwork for their special attacks.

** Idunn's Demonic Breath and Brunnya's Fimbulvetr allows them to ignore any penalties they have, as well as gain +4 Atk/Spd/Def/Res, during combat, if they either have any negative status effect or is not at full HP before the start of combat.

*** Eliwood's unrefined Durandal (+4 Atk on player phase) and Corrin's unrefined Yato (+4 Spd on player phase) were both powercrept by Siegbert's Dark Greatsword (+4 Atk ''and'' Spd on player phase). Eliwood's refined Durandal paid him back in kind later on (a flat +3 HP, and +'''10''' Atk and +4 Spd on player phase).

** The -owl tomes, Innes' Nidhogg, Soren's refined Wind's Brand, Raigh's refined Hermit's Tome, and Katarina's Reese's Tome increase all of the user's stats by 2 for each ally adjacent to them during battle.

** The exclusive refinement for Sanaki's Cymbeline grants her +5 Atk/Res during combat whenever there is a flier unit within 2 spaces of the user.
** Hinoka's Spear grants the user +4 Atk/Spd during combat if there is a flier or infantry unit within 2 spaces of the user.
** Camilla's Axe grants the user +4 Atk/Spd during combat if there is a filer or cavalry unit within 2 spaces of the user.
** The exclusive refinement for Male Corrin's Yato grants an ally +4 in all their stats during combat if they are within 2 spaces of the user's support partner.

** The exclusive refinement for both Tikis' Breath of Fog grants them +5 Atk/Def during combat whenever there is a sword or breath wielder within 2 spaces of her.
** The exclusive refinement for Linde's Aura and Merric's Excalibur grants them +5 Atk/Spd during combat whenever there is a tome or staff wielder within 2 spaces of them.

** The exclusive refinement for Tana's Vidofnir grants her +4 Atk/Spd in combat if there is an infantry or armored ally within 2 spaces of her.

** Glittering Breath and Goodie Boot grants the user +2 Def/Res for every ally within 2 spaces of the user during combat, but maxes out at +6.

** Most of the Familial Festivities units allow the user to gain effects as well as ignore any penalies if they have an ally within 2 spaces of them.

** Xander is fought a few times during the story mode. Once during the prologue, twice during Ch 2, and once more in Ch 9-5, where he fights alongside Veronica.

* RecurringElement: Since the DarkerAndEdgier Book 2, there has been a banner featuring Fallen Heroes (which usually come with a Grand Hero Battle as well). These heroes are supposedly based off possessed or cursed versions from the games they come from. They usually feature at least one new unit and the rest of them are alts. For Book 2, there's Hardin, Male Robin (as Grima), Celica and Takumi. In Book 3, there's Mareeta, Berkut, Corrin (Female), Tiki (Young) and Delthea.
* RedHerring: The intro for Book 3 implies that [[spoiler:Sharena will die in Book III. While it does happen, it's actually [[AlternateSelf "Líf's" Sharena]]]]

* {{Retcon}}: When the game first launched, Virion was the first hero you summoned during the Preface map "The Legend". After the 2.5.0 update, Takumi is summoned instead. Virion still joins, but now he does so at the end of the map, along with Raigh and Matthew.

** Null Follow-Up allows the user ignore skills that negate any of the user's follow-up attacks, and negates any skills that guarantees any of the enemy's follow-up attacks. Legendary Celica's Soul of Zofia also has this effect.

** Bruno is fought several times during the story mode. He's fought in Ch 9-4, 10-3, 11-5, 12-5, 13-1, and 13-5, notably being the main boss of 9-4 and the ClimaxBoss of 12-5 and 13-5.

** The Dull Skills allows the user to ignore any field stat boosts on enemies during combat, with Dull Close ignoring boosts from enemies equipped with melee weapons, while Dull Ranged ignoring boosts from enemies with ranged weapons. Certain weapons, such as Divine Naga, Mulagir, and the inheritable 2018 Valentine weapons also has this effect, with different limitations, such as the 2018 Valentine weapons having the same conditions as Dull Ranged, the unrefined Mulagir being limited to Tome users only (the refined Mulagnir having Dull Ranged), and Divine Naga having no weapon limitations.

*** Other Downplayed examples are heroes who are stronger in their niche, but have at least one or two of their stats be lower than their competition, such as Regular Conrad being a better Res tank Lance Cavalier than Regular Berkut, Mathilda, and Jagen, but misses a few HP and Atk for Regular Berkut, a few points of Spd for Jagen, and a lot of Spd for Mathilda, which are sometimes vital for surviving against certain enemies, and the latter two have access to [=IVs=] over Regular Conrad.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Due to the nature of ''Heroes'' being a {{Crossover}} of many ''Fire Emblem'' games, this was going to be inevitable. With the range of characters such as common villagers, knights, mercenaries, royalty, and gods among the heroes who can be summoned, you can expect a few matchups where some charaters do poorly against another character, or have an equal matchup against those who have a weaker power level in their home games where they have the clear advantage, and things gets worst when seasonal variants of units are involved. As such, you can expect matchups ranging from a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Mordecai:_Kindhearted_Tiger tiger from Gallia]] going toe-to-toe against a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Effie:_Army_of_One knight and retainer of a princess of Nohr]], to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hawkeye:_Desert_Guardian guardian of Arcadia]] losing to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Ross:_His_Father%27s_Son teenage son of a warrior of Renais]], to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Naga:_Dragon_Divinity divine dragon who is worshiped as a god and created divine weapons in 6 of the main games and their remakes]] losing to... women wielding [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Elincia:_Estival_Princess paper fans]] and [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hinoka:_Relaxed_Warrior water buckets]].

* MagicallyBindingContract: The reason why you fight all the Heroes in the story. Heroes defeated by the Emblian Empire must agree to the contract, which states that they must serve the empire, or they'll presumably be killed. However, the contract is null and void if someone else defeats them in combat. A majority of Book I (and a few Paralogues) focuses on freeing the Heroes from the Empire's contracts. In Book II, the plot is less focused on the contracts, although some Heroes (i.e. Micaiah, Sacred Memories Eirika, Exalted Chrom, Kaze) still comment on them.

* MightyGlacier:
** Armored units. While their individual stats vary and they can be everything from a StoneWall to a LightningBruiser, their defining characteristics are very high stat totals, and having the slowest movement type in the game, being only 1 space per turn. (With that said, there are some skills that allow them to move further on certain conditions.)
** [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Arden]] takes this to an extreme. With a whopping ''60 HP'' backed by an excellent Defense stat of 41, very few physical attacks are going to put so much as a dent into him. This is off-set by tying with Zephiel as the slowest unit in the game.

** The Pegasus Flight skill, which allows them to inflict -1 Atk/Def on the foe during combat for every 2 Res they have over the foe, up to -7 Atk/Def, if their Spd is not more than 7 lower than their foe at the start of combat, is intended for units with high Spd and Res and are riding pegasi to give them an edge during combat, with what the name implies. However, due to the restrictions only allowing flying units wielding a Sword, Lance, or Axe to inherit it, it doesn't prevent ''wyvern riders'' to get it as well, the most who can make use of that being Regular Camilla, or even not riding a mount ''at all'', like Altina. Ironically, many other units riding pegasi have low to average Res, meaning that only a select few can even use this skill to its maximum potential.

** The enemy heroes in Mjölnir's Strike, the successor to Relay Defense. The higher you go on Askr Levels, the higher the stats enemies have will become.

** Lunge, Drag Back, Hit and Run, and Knock Back are restricted to melee units only, since ranged units using it in ''Heroes'' would create problems with unit and map design, such as a flying ranged unit with Lunge making some maps UnwinnableByMistake if they get an enemy unit stuck in terrain, blocking the unit from moving, or Knock Back moving units diagonally, moving them 2 spaces instead of the intended 1, which would make that skill a GameBreaker against armored units.
** Dancers cannot chain Dance or Sing onto each other if both are equipped with either, likely to prevent infinite movement between the two units, either to escape enemy attacks, or reach themselves or another unit to attack an enemy across the map.

* OneGenderRace: Dragon units used to be all female--including the generic Manakete enemies--until the arrival of the Fallen Heroes banner, which included Male Robin as a green armored dragon, and many mor male Manaketes has been released since then.[[note]]Male Corrin is also a dragon in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates his home game]], but in ''Heroes'', is treated as a sword or (in his New Year's variant) bow user and thus isn't affected by dragon-related buffs or anti-dragon weapons.[[/note]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The Manaketes Young Tiki, Adult Tiki, Nowi, Fae, Ninian, Myrrh, and female Corrin use their Dragonstones to transform between human and draconic forms here, just like in their respective games. While the Tikis, Nowi, Myrrh, and Ninian have forms that resemble traditional western dragons, Fae's is covered with feathers while Corrin's vaguely resembles a qilin.

* PlayboyBunny: Spring Lucina, Spring Camilla, Spring Catria, Spring Sharena, and Spring Kagero are dressed in provocative rabbit costumes.

** On the opposite end, Fortress Def and Fortress Res grant +5 Def or Res respectively, but also inflict -3 Atk. Fortress Def/Res 3 instead grants +6 Def ''and'' Res, and only inflicts -2 Atk.

*** Other Downplayed examples are heroes who are stronger in their niche, but have at least one or two of their stats be lower than their competition, such as Regular Conrad being a better Res tank Lance Cavalier than Regular Berkut, Matilda, and Jagen, but misses a few HP and Atk for Regular Berkut, a few points of Spd for Jagen, and a lot of Spd for Matilda, which are sometimes vital for surviving against certain enemies, and the latter two have access to [=IVs=] over Regular Conrad.

*** You can have a team that consists entirely of Chrom[[note]]Regular, Spring, Winter, Branded King[[/note]], Takumi[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Fallen, Summer[[/note]], Xander[[note]]Regular, Spring, Summer, Yukata[[/note]], Eirika [[note]]Regular, Sacred Memories, Legendary, Winter[[/note]], Ryoma[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Yukata, Bath[[/note]], Ike[[note]]Regular, Brave, Legendary, Valentine[[/note]], Roy[[note]]Regular, Brave, Valentine, Legendary[[/note]], Eliwood[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Legendary, Brave[[/note]], Lilina[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Summer, Duo Halloween (with Hector)[[/note]], Marth [[note]]Regular, Groom, Legendary, Duo Winter (with Elice)[[/note]], and Alm[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Brave, Duo Valentine (with Celica)[[/note]].
*** There are 5 different versions of Lucina[[note]]Regular, Spring, Masked, Brave, and Legendary[[/note]], Azura[[note]]Regular, Performing Arts, New Year's, Adrift, Legendary[[/note]], Hector[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Legendary, Brave, Duo Halloween (with Lilina)[[/note]], and Ephraim[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Brave, Winter, Duo (with Lyon)[[/note]], and Celica[[note]]Regular, Fallen, Brave, Legendary, Duo Valentine (with Alm)[[/note]].

** Geirskögul, Thögn, and Sanngriðr, exclusive weapons for Lucina's Brave and Legendary variants and Camillla's Brave variant, respectively, are three of the names of Valkyries.

** Dragons with refined and character exclusive Breaths are a DownplayedTrope. They target the lower defensive stat of any unit with an attack range of two, including tome users, whose defense is usually lower than their resistance.

** Characters that had previously been unplayable antagonists and supporting characters in their home games can be recruited in ''Heroes'' as playable units. Naga, Duma, Rudolf, Reinhardt, Kempf, Idunn, Greil, Yune, Altina, Garon, Mikoto, Berkut, Rinea, Sothis, and Kronya in particular have never been controllable in any form, while the Death Knight made his first playable appearance in ''Heroes''.

*** Other Downplayed examples are heroes who are stronger in their niche, but have at least one or two of their stats be lower than their competition, such as Conrad being a better Res tank Lance Cavalier than Regular Berkut, Matilda, and Jagen, but misses a few HP and Atk for Regular Berkut, a few points of Spd for Jagen, and a lot of Spd for Matilda, which are sometimes vital for surviving against certain enemies, and the latter two have access to [=IVs=] over Conrad.

** The Brazen skills are far more effective than the Defiant skills. While Defiant skills boost one stat by 7 and only activate if the unit starts its turn with 50% HP or less, Brazen skills boost two stats by 7 and activate if the unit enters battle with 80% HP or less, even if it's the middle of the enemy's turn. Additionally, Brazen skills can stack with other stat boosts, aren't affected by Panic since the boost only applies in battle, and are unaffected by skills that ignore stat boosts since they only affect visible stat boosts. The only advantage Defiant skills have is that they trigger Blade tome and refined Sieglinde's boosts.

* RocketTagGameplay: The Arena all but requires one-round kills, especially if you want to win without casualties. If you can't one-shot an enemy hero, prepare to be one-shotted by them, especially if enemy dancers come into play.

** The Lull Skills are a {{Downplayed|trope}} example, which, in addition to inflicting -3 to two of the foe's stats, allows them to ignore any field buffs on those stats during combat, but not the other two without using the Dull Skills as well. Altena's Earthly Gáe Bolg also has this effect, except it inflicts -5 Atk/Def instead.

** The ''Fire Emblem Warriors'' maps had numerous reinforcements or many more enemies than usual, and they were much weaker than even the typical fodder unit. This made them the best way to grind experience and SP while they were available. This was so beneficial to the player, that the devs eventually created special training maps specifically for that purpose, as the ''Warriors'' maps were only available for a limited time.

** Life and Death grants its user up to +5 Atk and Spd, but also inflicts up to -5 Def and Res.

** Brave weapons, Dire Thunder, and Vafþrúðnir allow the user to attack twice regardless of Speed before the opponent can counterattack. On top of that, if the user has enough Speed to double, this leads to them attacking up to four times in a single round. However, the user also suffers a Speed penalty of 5, making it difficult to reach that quadruple attack threshold while also leaving the user more likely to get doubled themselves. These weapons don't have the highest of Mt, either.

*** Other Downplayed examples are heroes who are stronger in their niche, but have at least one or two of their stats be lower than their competition, such as Conrad being a better Res tank Lance Cavalier than Regular Berkut, Matilda, and Jagen, but misses a few HP and Atk on Regular Berkut, a few points of Spd for Jagen, and a lot of Spd for Matilda, which are sometimes vital for surviving against certain enemies, and the latter two have access to [=IVs=] over Conrad.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Due to the nature of ''Heroes'' being a {{Crossover}} of many ''Fire Emblem'' games, this was going to be inevitable. With the range of characters such as common villagers, mercenaries, royalty, and gods among the heroes who can be summoned, you can expect a few matchups where some charaters do poorly against another character, or have an equal matchup against those who have a weaker power level in their home games where they have the clear advantage, and things gets worst when seasonal variants of units are involved. As such, you can expect matchups ranging from a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Mordecai:_Kindhearted_Tiger tiger from Gallia]] going toe-to-toe against a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Effie:_Army_of_One knight and retainer of a princess of Nohr]], to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hawkeye:_Desert_Guardian guardian of Arcadia]] losing to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Ross:_His_Father%27s_Son teenage son of a warrior of Renais]], to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Naga:_Dragon_Divinity divine dragon who is worshiped as a god and created divine weapons in 6 of the main games and their remakes]] losing to... women wielding [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Elincia:_Estival_Princess paper fans]] and [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hinoka:_Relaxed_Warrior water buckets]].

** The Dull Skills allows the user to ignore any field stat boosts on enemies during combat, with Dull Close ignoring boosts from enemies equipped with 1-ranged weapons, while Dull Ranged ignoring boosts from enemies with 2-ranged weapons. Certain weapons, such as Divine Naga, Mulagir, and the inheritable 2018 Valentine weapons also has this effect, with different limitations, such as the 2018 Valentine weapons having the same conditions as Dull Ranged, the unrefined Mulagir being limited to Tome users only (the refined Mulagnir having Dull Ranged), and Divine Naga having no weapon limitations.

*** You can have 3 different versions of Tharja[[note]]Regular, Winter, Bridal[[/note]], Cordelia[[note]]Regular, Bridal, Summer[[/note]], Olivia[[note]]Regular, Performing Arts, Ylissean Travelers[[/note]], Celica[[note]]Regular, Fallen, Brave[[/note]], Kagero[[note]]Regular, Spring, Halloween[[/note]], Sakura[[note]]Regular, Halloween, Bath[[/note]], Elise[[note]]Regular, Summer, Bath[[/note]], Hinoka[[note]]Regular, Kinshi, Bath[[/note]], Fjorm[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Bridal[[/note]], Gunnthrá[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Laevatein[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Laegjarn[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Summer[[/note]], Micaiah[[note]]Regular, Yukata, Brave[[/note]], Alm[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Brave[[/note]], Berkut[[note]]Regular, Fallen, Dancing[[/note]], Reinhardt[[note]]Regular, World of Thracia, Dancing[[/note]], Catria[[note]]Regular, Spring, Zofia's Call[[/note]], Nino[[note]]Regular, Scattered Fangs, Winter[[/note]], Alfonse[[note]]Regular, Spring, New Year Duo (with Sharena)[[/note]], or Sharena[[note]]Regular, Spring, New Year Duo (with Alfonse)[[/note]] fighting at once.
*** You can have a team that consists entirely of Chrom[[note]]Regular, Spring, Winter, Branded King[[/note]], Takumi[[note]]Regular, New Year's, Fallen, Summer[[/note]], Xander[[note]]Regular, Spring, Summer, Yukata[[/note]], Eirika [[note]]Regular, Sacred Memories, Legendary, Winter[[/note]], Ryoma[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Yukata, Bath[[/note]], Ike[[note]]Regular, Brave, Legendary, Valentine[[/note]], Roy[[note]]Regular, Brave, Valentine, Legendary[[/note]], Eliwood[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Legendary, Brave[[/note]], Lilina[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Summer, Duo Halloween (with Hector)[[/note]], and Marth [[note]]Regular, Groom, Legendary, Duo Winter (with Elice)[[/note]].
*** There are 5 different versions of Lucina[[note]]Regular, Spring, Masked, Brave, and Legendary[[/note]], Azura[[note]]Regular, Performing Arts, New Year's, Adrift, Legendary[[/note]], Hector[[note]]Regular, Valentine, Legendary, Brave, Duo Halloween (with Lilina)[[/note]], and Ephraim[[note]]Regular, Legendary, Brave, Winter, Duo (with Lyon)[[/note]].

** "Duel" skills are Arena-centric passives that treat a unit's BST (Base Stat Total) as 170 (in addition to a +5 HP bonus) before factoring in skills or merges. This allows low-BST units to function in Arena modes without tanking Arena Score, giving them more options than running full teams of Armors all the time.[[note]]For reference, BST bins are done in counts of 5. The only units that hit the 170 tier naturally are Armors, with only a handful of them reaching 175 (and most of them needing a superasset with no superflaws to do it). Currently, a few units hit the 180 tier without any superassets or merges.)[[/note]]

* RedHerring: The intro for Book 3 implies that [[spoiler:Sharena will die in Book III. While it does happen, it's actually [[AlternateSelf "Lif's" Sharena]]]]

** While for the most part the game's new content is balanced compared to what's been there since launch, the Slayer weapons became the first items added that objectively outclass their older counterparts. They're identical to Killer weapons but with higher Mt. Later on, the game also added stronger versions of the AntiArmor weapons and the -wolf tomes. Thankfully, the same update allows units to upgrade their weaker weapons into the stronger versions without Skill Inheritance.

** Characters that had previously been unplayable antagonists and supporting characters in their home games can be recruited in ''Heroes'' as playable units. Naga, Duma, Reinhardt, Kempf, Idunn, Greil, Yune, Altina, Garon, Mikoto, Berkut, Rinea, Sothis, and Kronya in particular have never been controllable in any form, while the Death Knight made his first playable appearance in ''Heroes''.

** Most NPC antagonists eventually join the playable roster one way or another. [[BigBad Veronica]] gained a playable alternate version in Arrival of the Brave, the 2.9.1 update added Múspell generals Laevatein, Laegjarn, and Helbindi to the roster, the Brave Redux banner gave players a chance to add Loki to their ranks, the Whispers of Death update put Surtr and Ylgr in players' hands, the Regal Rabbits update gave Bruno his first playable alternate, and the September Mythic Hero update made Thrasir playable.

%%* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Due to the nature of ''Heroes'' being a {{Crossover}} of many ''Fire Emblem'' games, this was going to be inevitable. With the range of characters such as common villagers, mercenaries, royalty, and gods among the heroes who can be summoned, you can expect a few matchups where some charaters do poorly against another character, or have an equal matchup against those who have a weaker power level in their home games where they have the clear advantage, and things gets worst when seasonal variants of units are involved. As such, you can expect matchups ranging from a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Mordecai:_Kindhearted_Tiger tiger from Gallia]] going toe-to-toe against a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Effie:_Army_of_One knight and retainer of a princess of Nohr]], to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hawkeye:_Desert_Guardian guardian of Arcadia]] losing to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Ross:_His_Father%27s_Son teenage son of a warrior of Renais]], to a [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Naga:_Dragon_Divinity divine dragon who is worshiped as a god and created divine weapons in 6 of the main games and their remakes]] losing to... women wielding [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Elincia:_Estival_Princess paper fans]] and [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hinoka:_Relaxed_Warrior water buckets]].

* PurposelyOverpowered: Some Heroes are a cut above others in the weapon and movement type they belong to, or perform a certain role better, but many Legendary and Mythic Heroes are this on purpose due to their exclusive weapons, skills, and/or their optimized statline, such as Legendary Hector being better than some Axe Armored heroes, including Regular Hector.