History FireEmblemHeroes / TropesSToZ

** Ayra and Larcei has Regnal Astra, which boosts the user's damage by 40% of the user's Spd.

** Legendary Marth and Duo Winter Marth & Elice have Fire Emblem, a 2 cooldown special which adds 30% of their speed to their attack, and grants them and his allies +4 Atk/Spd/Def/Res after a battle in which it activates, even if the user was KO'd during that battle. Legendary Marth also has Binding Shield as his exclusive B skill, which gives him a guaranteed follow-up attack and prevents his foes from counterattacking or having a follow-up attack, if he enters combat versus a dragon.

** Shannan has Imperial Astra, which boosts the user's damage by 40% of the user's Spd.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Invoked in game with the Limited Hero Battles. The game explicitly restricts team variety by limiting you from only using heroes from a selection of games (for example, Oliver's Grand Hero Battle only allows you to use units that [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight took place]] [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem in Archanea]]) - and some of them limit you on dance/sing skills.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Invoked in game with the Limited Hero Battles. The game explicitly restricts team variety by limiting you from only using heroes from a selection of games (for example, Oliver's Grand Hero Battle only allows you to use units that [[took place VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight]] [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem in Archanea]]) - and some of them limit you on dance/sing skills.

** Units with the Guard status enter combat as though their opponent has Guard 3 and more than 80% HP, and thus become unable to charge their specials unless they have a skill that grants them an extra special charge for each attack landed/taken. This status is currently only inflicted by the Witchy Wand(+), Melancholy(+) and the Ruse Skills.

** Extra movement gives the user one extra space to move until the start of the next turn. Such sources include Armored Boots, Armor March, Infantry Boots in Arena Assault, Duo Ephraim & Lyon's Duo Skill, and Annette when she uses a Rally skill on an ally if she has her Crusher equipped (though it does not activate on Ranged Cavalry units).

** Legendary Eliwood's Ardent Durandal is the only source of the Bonus Doubler status effect, only giving it to an ally that has the highest Atk at the start of the user's turn.

* SoLastSeason: Early in the game's life, Silver weapons, exclusive weapons with one effect that is usually the 2nd tier of existing skills, Rally, stat Balm, stat plus, Defiant, Seal, Spur, Hone and Fortify skills were common on newly released heroes. Around update 2.0.0 however, heroes began packing inheritable weapons with effects of new, stronger skills, and exclusive ones getting 2 to 3 effects with one of them being a 3rd tier or higher version of an existing skill, including stat increases. Rally ''dual stat''+ and Rally Up ''stat''+, ''dual stat'' Balm+, double stat plus, Brazen, Chill, double stat Spur, Drive, Wave, Joint Hone, Joint Drive, and Tactic skills have replaced the older ones they are based on, which are not as viable to use nowadays.

** The Hone and Fortify skills, which give +4 to a single stat to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn, have three variants, all which are stronger than the Hone 3 versions: the Hone and Fortify 4 skills, which give +7 to a single stat instead of +4, the Joint Hone skills, which give adjacent allies and the user +5 to a single stat if they're adjacent to an ally at the start of their turn, and the Joint Drive skills, which give allies within 2 spaces of the user and the user +4 to a single stat if there is an ally within 2 spaces of the user.

** Harsh Command allows a unit to reverse a friendly unit's debuffs into buffs. Only Daggers, Staff and certain units focus on debuffs, outside of Seal/Threaten/Chill/Ploy skills. Harsh Command takes up the slot for more valuable Assist skills like Draw Back, Dance, or Rally [Stat(s)]. Should the user use it, it will also eat up their turn, which they could've spent attacking or healing, and the user must be adjacent to an ally to use it. Harsh Command+, however, allows the user to also remove negative status effects on top of inverting stat debuffs into buffs, so recovering status effects on an ally are now no longer being limited to Staff allies with their Restore(+).

* SoLastSeason: Early in the game's life, Silver weapons, exclusive weapons with one effect that is usually the 2nd tier of existing skills, Rally, stat Balm, stat plus, Defiant, Seal, Spur, Hone and Fortify skills were common on newly released heroes. Around update 2.0.0 however, heroes began packing inheritable weapons with effects of new, stronger skills, and exclusive ones getting 2 to 3 effects with one of them being a 3rd tier or higher version of an existing skill, including stat increases. Rally ''dual stat''+ and Rally Up ''stat''+, ''dual stat'' Balm+, double stat plus, Brazen, Chill, double stat Spur, Drive, Wave, Joint Hone, and Tactic skills have replaced the older ones they are based on, which are not as viable to use nowadays.

** The Hone and Fortify skills, which give +4 to a single stat to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn, have two variants, both which are stronger than the Hone 3 versions: the Hone and Fortify 4 skills, which give +7 to a single stat instead of +4, and the Joint Hone skills, which give adjacent allies and the user +5 to a single stat if they're adjacent to an ally at the start of their turn.

* ShaggyDogStory: Throughout Book II, [[spoiler:the Order tries to find a way to neutralize the Múspellflame to defeat Surtr. Before she dies, Gunnthrá powers the Summoner's weapon to make them capable of using the Rite of Frost to neutralize Surtr's invincibility. After gaining the Rite of Frost, the party confront and seemingly defeat Surtr with their new power...only for them to learn that the Rite of Flames made Surtr immortal, making everything so far all for naught...[[SubvertedTrope but they later find out that his immortality is not limited and requires constant human sacrifices to keep his immortality active.]]]]

** The Røkkr Siege modes sees a lot more use of skills that are otherwise considered subpar or useless in other modes due to countering how the Umbra specials works and the Umbra weapon's ScratchDamage to allow survivability, and to an extention more damage, against the Røkkr, the big examples being [[CooldownManipulation Guard]] and [[LifeDrain Noontime]].

* TokenEvilTeammate: Beating Grand Hero Battles will reward you with new Heroes, which are typically various villains from the franchise. Their dialogue makes it clear that most are still pretty evil, and at best only listen to you out of a very slight degree of respect. Then there are the units from the [[FallenHero Fallen Heroes]] banner as well as Legendary Female Robin, all of whom have succumbed to DemonicPossession.

** Arvis, Valter, and Berkut are absent from the story, but are all in the weekly rotation for Grand Hero Battles.

** Downplayed by Thoron+, which cannot be obtained under normal circumstances. You can get it temporarily in Hall of Forms, though.

** The Stance skills, which give stats if the enemy initiates combat, are stat increases with the addition of inflicting -1 special buildup on the foe, with +8 for the single stat version and +6 to two stats with the dual version, with the additional restriction that Healers cannot inherit the 4th Tier version.

** The Armorslayer, Hammer, Heavy Spear, Sky Maiougi, Pegasus Carrot, Nephenee's Dauntless Lance, Bartre's Axe of Virility, Florina's Lance, Est's Whitewing Spear, Idunn's Demonic Breath, Selena's Blade, Frederick's Axe and Halloween Hector's Conjurer Curios deal bonus damage to armored units, as do the upgraded versions of the first three.
** Caeda's Wing Sword, Micaiah's Thani, Clair's Rhomphaia, Yukata Micaiah's Dawn Suzu, Brave Micaiah's Light of Dawn, Phina's Rapier, and Tsubasa's Mirage Feather all deal bonus damage against both armored and cavalry units.

** Extra movement gives the user one extra space to move until the start of the next turn. Such sources include Armored Boots, Armor March, Infantry Boots in Arena Assault, Duo Ephraim & Lyon's Duo Skill, and Annette when uses a Rally skill on an ally if she has her Crusher equipped (though it does not activate on Ranged Cavalry units).

** Extra movement gives the user one extra space to move until the start of the next turn. Such sources include Armored Boots, Armor March, Infantry Boots in Arena Assault, Duo Ephraim & Lyon's Duo Skill, and Annette when uses a Rally skill on an ally if she has her Crusher equipped.

** Hall of Formes is where players are limited to 4 units to use in a 2 week period, some 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, the 400 SP assist skills, the 500 SP specials, and refines for certain weapons.

* UnbreakableWeapons: Like in ''Gaiden'' and ''Fates'', none of the weapons are breakable.

** Extra movement gives the user one extra space to move until the start of the next turn. Such sources include Armored Boots, Armor March, Infantry Boots in Arena Assault, and Duo Ephraim & Lyon's Duo Skill.

* ATasteOfPower: Some of the Tactics Drills challenges gives players some powerful units and/or skills to use to solve the maps, especially those who have yet to summon those units.

** 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. This status is currently inflicted by Bridal Fjorm's Gjallarbrú.

** Kinshi Hinoka's Warrior Princess and Summer Lyn's Deep-Blue Bow are effective against armor and flying units.

** In Røkkr Siege, you have a damage multiplier to deal damage to the Røkkr in order to remove the starting HP of '''200000''' (and increases for each successive Røkkr defeated beforehand), which starts at x1 for Beginner, x2 for Intermediate, and x4 for Advanced, which multiplies for each Havoc Axe used on that battle, and increases further by dealing damage to the Røkkr or eliminating enemy reinforcements, but the increases only last through that battle.

* SoLastSeason: Early in the game's life, Silver weapons, exclusive weapons with one effect, Rally, stat Balm, stat plus, Defiant, Seal, Spur, Hone and Fortify skills were common on newly released heroes. Around update 2.0.0 however, heroes began packing inheritable weapons with effects of new, stronger skills, and exclusive ones getting 2 to 3 effects, including stat increases. Rally ''dual stat''+ and Rally Up ''stat''+, ''dual stat'' Balm+, double stat plus, Brazen, Chill, double stat Spur, Drive, Wave, Joint Hone, and Tactic skills have replaced the older ones they are based on, which are not as viable to use nowadays.

** Extra movement gives the user one extra space until the start of the next turn. Such sources include Armored Boots, Armor March, Infantry Boots in Arena Assault, and Duo Ephraim & Lyon's Duo Skill.

** The Hone and Fortify skills, which give +4 to a single stat to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn, have two variants, both which are stronger than the Hone 4 versions: the Hone and Fortify 4 skills, which give +7 to a single stat instead of +4, and the Joint Hone skills, which give adjacent allies and the user +5 to a single stat if they're adjacent to an ally at the start of their turn.

* VillainSong: Though it doesn't become obvious until several chapters in, Book 3's boss theme is one [[spoiler:for Lif, explaining his backstory and motivations.]]

* SwitchOutMove: Swap allows the user to switch positions with a friendly target. Legendary Lucina has Future Vision, which has her switch positions with an ally and lets her take another action.

* TagTeam: The Pair Up mechanic returns in a limited fashion. Only certain Legendary Heroes and the fourth team member during Allegiance Battles can use it, the pairs have to be pre-set before battle, and Pair Up can only be used in certain modes on top of all that.

** Legendary Alm has Lunar Flash, which on a 2 special cooldown which reduces the enemy's Def/Res by 20% and boosts his damage equal to 20% of his Spd.

** New Year Duo Alfonse & Sharena and Líf has Open the Future, where it boost the user's damage by 50% of the user's Def, and recovers HP equal to 25% of the damage dealt. Líf also has Deadly Balance, where if either the user is at 50% HP or over or if the user is inflicted with a penalty, they inflict -5 Atk/Def on the foe and gain +1 special buildup for every attack the foe performs.

** New Year Duo Alfonse & Sharena has Open the Future, where it boost the user's damage by 50% of the user's Def, and recovers HP equal to 25% of the damage dealt.

** The Mysterious Man's Valaskjálf, Veronica's Élivágar, Líf's Sökkvabekkr, Hel's Hel Scythe, Gustav's Glitnir, Triandra's Flower of Sorrow, and Plumeria's Flower of Plenty are unobtainable by players.

** Draug, Sheena, Igrene, Perceval, Echidna, Chad, Azura, both Corrins, Jakob, Male Byleth, and Ylgr are never encountered as enemies in the game's Story Mode or regular Hero Battles, but, with the exception of the refreshers Larum and Azura, can still be fought in the Training Tower. They have also appeared in certain special maps, and Male Corrin and Azura even had their own Bound Hero Battle.

** Anna, Alfonse, Sharena, Larum, Brunnya, Sigrun, Masked Marth, Young Azura, Fjorm, Gunnthrá, and the Legendary versions of Ike and Ephraim are never fought as standard enemies; they can only be battled in the Arena, the Voting Gauntlet, Aether Raids, Heroic Ordeals, or limited-time special maps.

* SpoilerOpening: The intro of Book III shows Sharena getting killed by Hel in front of her brother Alfonse. [[spoiler:It's acually Sharena from an alternate timeline, and her death causes Alfonse to snap and become Lif.]]

** Manaketes (namely and specifically ones that use Breath weapons) and Julius with the Loptous tome equipped take extra damage from the Falchion (wielded by Marth, Alm, Chrom and Lucina), Julia and Deirdre's Book of Naga and Divine Naga, Tiki's Breath of Fog, Summer Young Tiki's Summer's Breath, Legendary Young Tiki's Divine Mist, Fallen Young Tiki's Razing Breath, Naga's Divine Breath, Legendary Julia's Virtuous Naga, Nagi's Ethereal Breath, any unit with the "effective against dragons" status effect granted by Naga's Divine Fang, Roy's refined Binding Blade, Legendary Roy's Dragonbind, Brave Alm's Dracofalchion, Brave Lucina's refined Geirskögul, the Cloud Maiougi dagger, the Splashy Bucket dagger, the Dragonslasher dagger, and Thrasir's Ífingr.

* WeddingDay: The spring bridal events, "Bridal Blessings" and "Bridal Bloom" are not weddings, but a festival that is meant to bring good luck for wannabe brides, complete with catching a bouquet.

* ShaggyDogStory: Throughout Book II, [[spoiler:the Order tries to find a way to neutralize the Múspellflame to defeat Surtr. Before she dies, Gunnthrá powers the Summoner's weapon to make them capable of using the Rite of Frost to neutralize Surtr's invincibility. After gaining the Rite of Frost, the party confront and seemingly defeat Surtr with their new power...only for them to learn that the Rite of Flames made Surtr immortal, making everything so far all for naught.]]

** In-combat buff give units stats that only are active during combat. Common sources include the Blow, Spur, Goad, and Ward skills.

* UpToEleven:
** Before the release of Choose Your Legends 2, all A, B, and C skills with tiers had up to 3 tiers. However, since then, that limit has been broken by increasing skills to a 4th tier, and sometimes even giving them an additional effect, and sometimes with additional restrictions.
** Brave Celica brings [[FourIsDeath Death Blow 4]], which give +8 Atk on initiation during combat, rather than +6 Atk from Death Blow 3.
** Kliff brings Fortress Def/Res 3, which gives +6 Def/Res at the cost of -2 Atk, rather than +4 Def/Res at the cost of -3 Atk from Fortress Def/Res 2.
** Surtr brings Steady Stance 4, which give the user +8 Def and -1 special buildup for the enemy during combat if the enemy initiates, rather than +6 Def during combat if the enemy initiates from Steady Stance 3. However, Steady Stance 4 cannot be inherited to Staff users, while Steady Stance 3 can be inherited to them.
** New Year's Hríd brings Hone Atk 4, which gives +7 Atk to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn, rather than +4 Atk with the same conditions for Hone Atk 3.
** New Year's Gunnthrá brings Joint Hone Spd, which gives +5 Spd to the user and all adjacent allies if the user is adjacent to an ally at the start of their turn, rather than +4 Spd to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn with Hone Spd 3.
** Tibarn brings Sturdy Impact, which gives the user +6 Atk, +10 Def, and the enemy cannot perform a follow-up attack if they initiate combat, rather than +4 Atk/Def if the user initiates combat from Sturdy Blow 2. However, Sturdy Impact is restricted to Infantry and Flying units, rather than being available to all movement types with Sturdy Blow 2.
** Valentine Greil brings Fury 4, which gives the user +4 Atk/Spd/Def/Res at the cost of -8 HP after combat, rather than +3 Atk/Spd/Def/Res at the cost of -6 HP after combat from Fury 3.
** Sue brings Hone Spd 4, which gives +7 Spd to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn, rather than +4 Spd with the same conditions for Hone Spd 3.
** Caineghis brings Distant Def 4, which gives the user +8 Def/Res during combat and negates enemy stat bonuses like from Rally and Fortify skills if the enemy initiates combat and they wield a ranged weapon, rather than +6 Def/Res during combat if the enemy initiates combat and they wield a ranged weapon from Distant Def 3.
** Legendary Alm brings Darting Blow 4, which gives the user +9 Spd on initiation during combat, rather than +6 Spd from Darting Blow 3.
** Fallen Mareeta brings Flashing Blade 4, where if the user is faster than the opponent, they gains +1 special buildup and +5 Damage during combat, rather than just +1 special cooldown with the same conditions from Flashing Blade 3.
** Fallen Berkut brings Warding Stance 4, which give the user +8 Res and -1 special buildup for the enemy during combat if the enemy initiates, rather than +6 Res during combat if the enemy initiates from Warding Stance 3. However, Warding Stance 4 cannot be inherited to Staff users, while Warding Stance 3 can be inherited to them.
** Summer Laevatein has Mirror Impact, which gives the user +6 Atk, +10 Res, and the enemy cannot perform a follow-up attack if they initiate combat, rather than +4 Atk/Res if the user initiates combat from Mirror Strike 2. However, Mirror Impact is restricted to Infantry and Flying units, rather than being available to all movement types with Mirror Strike 2.
** Summer Laegjarn has Swift Sparrow 3, which gives the user +6 Atk and +7 Spd if they initate combat, rather than the +4 Atk/Spd with the same conditions from Swift Sparrow 2.
** Summer Wolt has Brazen Atk/Spd 4, where the user gains +9 Atk and +10 Spd during combat if the user is at 80% HP or under before the start of combat, rather than +7 Atk/Spd with the same conditions with Brazen Atk/Spd 3.
** Brave Camilla brings Atk/Spd Push 4, which if the user is at 25% or more HP, they gain +7 Atk/Spd during combat, but if they attacked, they lose 5 HP after combat, instead of +5 Atk/Spd during combat if the user is at full HP before combat, but the user loses 1 HP after combat with Atk/Spd Push 3.
** Brave Micaiah brings Atk/Res Bond 4, where the user gains +7 Atk/Res during combat and neutralizes any penalies on the user's Atk and Res during combat if the user is adjacent to an ally, as opposed to +5 Atk/Res with the same conditions with Atk/Res Bond 3.
** Brave Alm brings Threaten Atk/Spd 3, where at the start of the user's turn if the user is within 2 spaces of a foe, they gains +5 Atk/Spd and inflicts -5 Atk/Spd on all foes within 2 spaces of the user, rather than inflicting -4 Atk/Spd to all foes within 2 spaces of the user at the start of the user's turn from Threaten Atk/Spd 2.
** Dancing Reinhardt brings Joint Hone Atk, which gives +5 Atk to the user and all adjacent allies if the user is adjacent to an ally at the start of their turn, rather than +4 Atk to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn with Hone Atk 3.
** Forsyth brings Joint Hone Def, which gives +5 Def to the user and all adjacent allies if the user is adjacent to an ally at the start of their turn, rather than +4 Def to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn with Fortify Def 3.
** Zofia's Call Catria brings Atk/Spd Bond 4, where the user gains +7 Atk/Spd during combat and neutralizes any penalies on the user's Atk and Spd during combat if the user is adjacent to an ally, as opposed to +5 Atk/Spd with the same conditions with Atk/Spd Bond 3.
** Legendary Leif brings Atk/Res Push 4, which if the user is at 25% or more HP, they gain +7 Atk/Res during combat, but if they attacked, they lose 5 HP after combat, instead of +5 Atk/Res during combat if the user is at full HP before combat, but the user loses 1 HP after combat with Atk/Res Push 3.
** Duo Ephraim & Lyon bring Heavy Blade 4, where if the user has higher Atk than the opponent, they gains +1 special buildup and +5 Damage during combat, rather than just +1 special cooldown with the same conditions from Heavy Blade 3.
** Igrene brings Life and Death 4, which gives the user +7 Atk/Spd but inflicts -5 Def/Res, rather than just +5 Atk/Spd and -5 Def/Res from Life and Death 3.
** Peony brings Fortify Res 4, which gives +7 Res to adjacent allies at the start of the user's turn, rather than +4 Res with the same conditions for Fortify Res 3.
** Osian brings Mirror Stance 3, which give the user +6 Atk/Res and -1 special buildup for the enemy during combat if the enemy initiates, rather than +4 Atk/Res during combat if the enemy initiates from Mirror Stance 2.
** Winter Sothis brings Threaten Atk/Res 3, where at the start of the user's turn if the user is within 2 spaces of a foe, they gains +5 Atk/Res and inflicts -5 Atk/Res on all foes within 2 spaces of the user, rather than inflicting -4 Atk/Res to all foes within 2 spaces of the user at the start of the user's turn from Threaten Atk/Res 2.
** Shannan brings Steady Posture 3, which give the user +6 Spd/Def and -1 special buildup for the enemy during combat if the enemy initiates, rather than +4 Def/Spd during combat if the enemy initiates from Steady Posture 2.

** Harsh Command allows a unit to reverse a friendly unit's debuffs into buffs. Only Daggers, Staff and certain units focus on debuffs, outside of Seal/Threaten/Chill/Ploy skills. Harsh Command takes up the slot for more valuable Assist skills like Draw Back, Dance, or Rally [Stat(s)]. Should the user use it, it will also eat up their turn, which they could've spent attacking or healing, and the user must be adjacent to an ally to use it. Harsh Command+, however, allows the user to also remove negative status effects on top of inverting stat debuffs into buffs, so recovering status effects on an ally are now no longer being limited to Staff allies.

** Caeda's Wing Sword, Micaiah's Thani, Clair's Rhomphaia, Yukata Micaiah's Dawn Suzu, and Brave Micaiah's Light of Dawn all deal bonus damage against both armored and cavalry units.

** Gharnef, Fallen Delthea, Julius, Saias, Lyon, Haar, Walhart, Garon, Fallen Takumi, and Kronya are absent from the story and are only fought in Grand Hero Battles that have not entered the weekly rotation yet.

** The Mysterious Man's Valaskjálf, Veronica's Élivágar, Líf's Sökkvabekkr, Hel's Hel Scythe, Gustav's Glitnir, and Triandra's Flower of Sorrow are unobtainable by players.

** Draug, Sheena, Igrene, Perceval, Echidna, Chad, Larum, Azura, both Corrins, Jakob, Male Byleth, and Ylgr are never encountered as enemies in the game's Story Mode or regular Hero Battles, but, with the exception of the refreshers Larum and Azura, can still be fought in the Training Tower. They have also appeared in certain special maps, and Male Corrin and Azura even had their own Bound Hero Battle.

** Anna, Alfonse, Sharena, Brunnya, Sigrun, Masked Marth, Young Azura, Fjorm, Gunnthrá, and the Legendary versions of Ike and Ephraim are never fought as standard enemies; they can only be battled in the Arena, the Voting Gauntlet, Aether Raids, Heroic Ordeals, or limited-time special maps.

** Ayra has Regnal Astra, which boosts the damage dealt by 40% of her speed.