History FireEmblemHeroes / TropesSToZ

** The [Null Follow-Up] status effect allows the user to ignore skills that guarantee the foe's follow-up attack and deny any of the user's follow-up attacks if the user has more Spd than the foe during combat. Sources of this status effect includes Inf. Null Follow skill, Halloween Duo Sothis & Male Byleth's Duo Skill, Legendary Female Byleth's Goddess Bearer and Legendary Xander's Ebon Bölverk.

** The [Treachery] status effect allows the user to deals damage equal to the total field stat buffs the user has during combat. Sources of this status effect include Groom Harmonized Roy & Eliwood's and Winter Harmonized Cordelia & Fates Selena's Harmonized Skills.
** The [Warp Bubble] status effect allows the user to prevent foes from warping within 4 spaces of the user without Pass or using the warp spaces in Rival Domains and Grand Conquests. The only source of this status effect is with Legendary Myrrh's Darkling Guardian.

** The [Foe Penalty Doubler] status effect allows the user to inflict Atk, Spd, Def, and Res during combat equal to the value on those foe's field stat debuff during combat. Sources of this status effect includes the Panic Smoke 4 skill and Spring Triandra's Nightmare's Egg.

** Units with the [Isolation] status cannot perform or be the target of assist skills, such as Reposition, Rally, Dance, or even any healing assist skills from staff users. Due to being unable to use Restore+ or Harsh Command+ to remove, this status is hard to dispel outside of having an ally effects like Odd/Even Recovery, using Valentine Duo Alm & Celica's Duo Skill or Regular Sara's Kia Staff. This status is inflicted by Bridal Fjorm's Gjallarbrú, Mila's unique C skill Mila's Turnwheel (II), and Summer Duo Hilda & Marianne's Duo Skill. Legendary and Valentine's Chrom's unique Assist, To Change Fate! (II), as well as Brave Chrom's A Fate Changed! and Fallen Rearmed Chrom's Fate Unchanged... also inflicts Isolation, but on himself and his Pair Up ally after using it, just to prevent him from abusing his Assist too much.

** The [Cancel Affinity] status effect allows the user to reverse triangle advantage granted by the foe's skills and status effects if the user is at a weapons triangle disadvantage. The only source of this status is the unique refine for Maribelle's Punishment Staff.

** The [Triangle Adept] status grants the Triangle Adept effect to the afflicted unit, which amplifies the effects of the colour triangle during combat. This status is currently only afflicted by Trilemma(+) and Maribelle's Punishment Staff.

** The [Ploy] status effect has it disables the effects of [Bonus Doubler], [Treachery] and [Grand Strategy] on the one affected by it. The only source of this status effect are the Tier 4 Ploy skills.

** The [Svalinn Shield]* status effect allows thuer user to neutralize 'effective against armored' bonuses on the foe. Sources of this status effect includes Spring Duo Idunn & Fae and Winter Duo Male & Female Byleth's Duo skills.

** [Follow-Up Denial]* prevents the foe from performing any follow-up attacks against the user for one turn. Sources of this status effect include Atk Smoke 4, August's Diplomacy Staff, and Harmonized Spring Myrrh & Nah's Harmonized skill.

** The [Charge] status effect allows units to move 3 spaces in any cardinal directions, but is treated as a warp movement when moving spaces beyond the user's initial movement and as such is affected by Warp-reliant effects, such as [Warp Bubble] and Brave Gatekeeper's Detailed Report. Sources of this status effect includes Female Alear's Libération, Legendary Hinoka's Rallying Cry and the Assault Troops skill.

** The [Incited] status effect allows the user to gain +1 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat for each space the user moved before combat if the user initiates combat, up to +3 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat. The only source of this status effect is with the Incite skills.

** Units with the [Guard] status are inflicted with -1 Special charge per attack during combat, making them unable to charge their Specials unless they have skills that grant them extra Special charges for each attack given or taken or ignore this effect during combat. This status is inflicted by the Witchy Wand(+), Melancholy(+), Iago's eponymous Tome, Regular Triandra's Frightful Dream, Regular Fáfnir's Hreiðmarr, Solon's Banshee Θ and the Ruse Skills.
** Units with the [Isolation] status cannot perform or be the target of assist skills, such as Reposition, Rally, Dance, or even any healing assist skills from staff users. Due to being unable to use Restore+ or Harsh Command+ to remove, this status is hard to dispel outside of having an ally Odd/Even Recovery, using Valentine Duo Alm & Celica's Duo Skill, or Regular Sara's Kia Staff. This status is inflicted by Bridal Fjorm's Gjallarbrú, Mila's unique C skill Mila's Turnwheel (II), and Summer Duo Hilda & Marianne's Duo Skill. Legendary and Valentine's Chrom's unique Assist, To Change Fate! (II), as well as Brave Chrom's A Fate Changed! and Fallen Rearmed Chrom's Fate Unchanged... also inflicts Isolation, but on himself and his Pair Up ally after using it, just to prevent him from abusing his Assist too much.

** The [False Start] status effect prevents the user to activate all start of turn effects, such as skills like Time's Pulse or Armoured Stride, but does not affect the transformation of Beast units and Duo and Harmonic Skills that can be refreshed, and effects that can either recover HP or deals damage such as Renewal and Fallen Takumi's Skadi can still be activated if the [False Start] status effect was neutralized at the same time by skills from other unaffected allies such as Sara's Kia Staff and the Odd/Even Recovery skills. In Summoner Duels, the opposite happens where the start of turn effects that are negated are those that recover HP and deals damage. This status is currently only inflicted by Elimine's Staff of the Saint.

** The [Sabotage] status effect as the one affected by it be inflicted penalties to their Atk, Spd, Def and Res during combat equal to the highest field stat debuff between the unit and allies within 2 spaces of that unit. Sources of this status effect include the Tier 4 Snag skills, Young Duo Mark & Lyn's Total War Tome amd the unique refine for Kiria's Mirage Rod.

* StoneWall: The Fortress skills grant a flat boost to Def or Res at the cost of Atk. Fortress Def 3 gives +5 Def but -3 Atk, Fortress Res 3 gives +5 Res but -3 Atk, and Fort. Def/Res 3 gives +6 Def/Res but -2 Atk. These can stack with the Seals, so a unit could go all in on Def or Res with double Fortress Def or Res, granting +10 Def or Res at the cost of -6 Atk, or if the unit has Fort. Def/Res 3, equipping the Fort. Def/Res 2 Seal will grant +10 Def ''and'' Res but at the cost of -5 Atk.

** Hall of Forms is where players are limited to 4 units to use in a 2 week period, most of which are rare units, but can give them any skills and weapons that they can inherit as well as merges if that unit was able to get the first kill, including the 300 SP skills like Distant Counter and Joint Drive Atk, the 400 SP assist skills like Harsh Command+ and Rally Atk/Spd+, the 500 SP specials like Ruptured Sky and No Quarter, and refines for certain weapons.

** Using Forma Souls. While one was given as a quest reward for the 4th Anniversary and another in Summoner Duels, more are [[BribingYourWayToVictory behind a paywall]] and one can be gained by exchanging 3 Celestial Stones around every several months since update 5.4.0 in April 2021, they let a player be able to let a Forma that players used in the Hall of Forms to join your barracks, but only one Forma each for every Forma Soul. Not only that, but it's a LuckBasedMission to get those units desirable skills such as Distant/Close Counter and their variants and the Tier 4 Skills, while still having their entire base skill kit at their disposal when you add them to your barracks, and they're available for a limited time after the event has finished. Do you get one rare unit that has no assets and flaws, cannot be turned into a combat manual, and cannot be used as a source for Skill Inheritance, but can be used as a base for merges of other copies of the hero and get skills from other heroes, or do you wait for a future Hall of Forms with more desirable heroes and get more Forma Souls in the future so you can get more than one Forma added to your barracks from one event?

** Downplayed with skills such as Múspell's Flamelick Breath, the Fatal Smoke skill, and Serpentine Staff/Incurable+, which inflict the [Deep Wounds] status effect on a target and other foes within two spaces of the target, preventing them from being able to recover HP through their next actions. There are skills and weapons that reduces the effectiveness of this, however, where for example Brave Claude's refined Wind Parthia reducing their effects by 60% and Forsyth's Sol Lance and Special Fighter 4 reducing their effects by 50%.

** The [Desperation] status effect allows the user to have any of their follow-up attacks go before the foe's counterattack if they initiate combat, regardless of their HP. Sources of this status effect includes Summer Duo Female Byleth & Rhea's Duo Skill and Harmonized Bridal Catria & Thea's Harmonized Skill.

** The [Dual Strike] status effect allows the user to attack twice if the user is adjacent to an ally that also has the same status effect. Sources of this status effect include Winter Harmonized Cordelia & Fates Selena's Inseverable Spear and Heiðr's Gold Serpent.

** The [Hexblade] status effect allows the user to target the lower of the foe's defenses, including using AOE specials. Sources of this status effect include Regular Plumeria's Sweet Dreams+ and the Hexblade skills.
** The [Rally Spectrum] status effect grants the user +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat, and grants -X special cooldown before the unit's first attack, where X = 1 if the user has an effect that either allows the unit to attack twice in one round or has -1 maximum special cooldown, or 2 otherwise. The only source of this status effect is with Brave Male Robin's Tip the Scales!.

** The [Duelist's Blow]* status effect allows the user to reduce damage taken from the foe's first attack by 40% during combat if the user initiates combat. The only source of this status effect is with Rearmed Lucina's Future Sight.

** The [Undefended] status effect has the one affected by it unable to be the target of [Savior]. The only source of this status effect is with Embla's Severance.

** The [Sabotage] status effect as the one affected by it be inflicted penalties to their Atk, Spd, Def and Res during combat equal to the highest field stat debuff between the unit and allies within 2 spaces of that unit. Sources of this status effect include the Tier 4 Snag skills and Young Duo Mark & Lyn's Total War Tome.

** The [Anti-Miracle]* status effect has it disable non-Special effects that allow the user to have a LastChanceHitPoint if they are above a certain HP threshold and are hit by a lethal attack. The only source of this effect is the Fatal Smoke 4 skill.

* SupportPartyMember: Staff users aren't very good in fights due to reduced damage output without Wrathful Staff (whether it's as a B-skill or weapon refinement) or Poetic Justice, but they can heal your other units, provide {{Status Buff}}s, and their weapons have secondary effects that can inflict debuffs on foes. Even after weapon refinery allowed staff users to craft a Wrathful Staff effect onto their weapon, their colorless weapon-type removes them from the weapon triangle (unless they're fighting a -raven tome user, which turns the weapon triangle against them). However, the increased area of effect granted by the + versions of their staffs as well as the ability to prevent counterattacks by crafting the Dazzling Staff effect onto their staffs gives them much more viability for support combat.

** Hall of Forms is where players are limited to 4 units to use in a 2 week period, most of which are rare units, but can give them any skills and weapons that they can inherit as well as merges if that unit was able to get the first kill, including the 300 SP skills like Distant Counter and Joint Drive Atk, the 400 SP assist skills like Harsh Command+ and Rally Atk/Spd+, the 500 SP specials like Ruptured Sky and Blue Flame, and refines for certain weapons.

** Downplayed by Thoron+ and Atlas+, which cannot be obtained under normal circumstances. One can get it for Forma in Hall of Forms, though only if a unit starts with that weapon, never has it replaced with another weapon for the entire run of that event, and that unit is added to one's barracks with a Forma Soul during the recruitment period. The tome is also locked to that specific unit due to the restrictions of Forma Heroes added to one's barracks.

** Obstruct prevents enemies from moving through spaces adjacent to the user so long as the user is above or at a certain HP threshold. [[NotCompletelyUseless While it can prevent Wings of Mercy teleportation]], the skill is useless the vast majority of the time since it accomplishes barely anything more than a unit sitting in a chokepoint can. Furthermore, the small maps and low collective movement of units prevents the skill from actually doing much to limit enemy movement.

** All of the Umbra Burst weapons [[note]]which allow their users to counterattack regardless of range and will always deal at least 1 damage (with the Staff version having in-built Wrathful Staff)[[/note]], Umbra Specials [[note]]Umbra Blast, Umbra Calamity, and Umbra Eruption[[/note]], and the Røkkr Sacred Seal[[note]]which negates out-of-combat damage except from AoE Specials, prevents its user's HP from being reduced to 0 except by allied armies, and prevents the user from healing itself[[/note]] are only available to the Røkkr in Røkkr Sieges.

* SecretArt: With a lot of heroes having their own exclusive set of weapons and skills, they have their own page [[SecretArt/FireEmblemHeroes here]].

** The [Foe Penalty Doubler] status effect allows the user to inflict Atk, Spd, Def, and Res during combat equal to the value on those foe's field stat debuff during combat. Sources of this skill include the Panic Smoke 4 skill and Spring Triandra's Nightmare's Egg.

** The [AOE Damage Reduction]* status effect allows the user to reduce damage taken from foe's non-Røkkr AOE specials by 80%. The only source of this status effect is with Gotoh's Brilliant Starlight.

** The [Time's Gate] status effect allows allies within 4 spaces of the user to warp to an adjacent space of the user. The only source of this status effect is with Kvasir's Light is Time.

** The [Exposure] status effect has the unit inflicted with it receive 10 extra damage from attacks during combat. Sources of this status effect include Summer Thórr & Loki's Divine Whimsy and the unique refines for Hubert's Retainer's Report and Kronya's Athame.

** The [Pierce]* status effect reduces the foe's non-Special DamageReduction skills by 50% during combat. The only source of this skill is with Legendary Camilla's Spoil Rotten.