History ThatOneBoss / FireEmblem

** The DS version of ''Shadow Dragon'' is known to have HardLevelsEasyBosses, with the vast majority dying in a single round to a forged [[WeaponOfXSlaying effective weapon]]... which is why it's rather surprising that Gomer, the second boss, is generally considered to be one of the hardest bosses in the series. He's fought when you're still well within EarlyGameHell, with only a small amount of XP to work with and no access to reclassing or forging. As a Pirate, there is no weapon capable of hitting him effectively. Unlike the first boss, Gazzak, he has a handaxe, so you can't outrange him. But what puts him here is what his stats become on higher difficulties--capping out on Merciless at around 36 HP, 16 Strength, and 12 Speed, with his standard 5 Defense boosted to 7 by his gate and the benefits of A-rank axes. With that kind of statline, he doubles the vast majority of base-level units (most of the time, this includes ''[[CrutchCharacter Jagen]]''!), two-shots everything at minimum, is pretty dodgy and accurate against non-swordsmen, and takes about four or five hits to die before accounting for his gate's healing. Ogma is fast, accurate, and has weapon triangle, making him the only one with a real chance, but he barely survives one hit. Wrys, your only healer, who has only one heal staff and doesn't heal for much, can't heal Ogma without placing himself in Gomer's range. The only other source of healing are one vulnerary and the nearby forts. It says quite a lot about Gomer that the most oft-recommended strategy for reliably beating him is to simply weather his hits with fort healing until his weapon breaks.

** Even by the standards of a final boss, the Fire Dragon is absurdly overpowered. With a whopping 40 defense AND resistance, most of your units won't be able to so much as scratch the thing. It's Flametongue [[FixedDamageAttack hits for exactly 37 damage,]] ignoring defense and resistance, easily killing your toughest unit in two hits, on top of very rarely missing! If you didn't stock up on Elixirs and level up your Lords like a fiend, you are in for an absolute nightmare of a fight. To make matters worse, in the American and European versions, the decision to reduce effective weaponry down to 2x has the side effect of making the already durable Fire Dragon even more bulkier!

** Even by the standards of a final boss, the Fire Dragon is absurdly overpowered. With a whopping 40 defense AND resistance, most of your units won't be able to so much as scratch the thing. It's Flametongue hits for exactly 37 damage, ignoring defense and resistance, easily killing your toughest unit in two hits, on top of very rarely missing! If you didn't stock up on Elixirs and level up your Lords like a fiend, you are in for an absolute nightmare of a fight. To make matters worse, in the American and European versions, the decision to reduce effective weaponry down to 2x has the side effect of making the already durable Fire Dragon even more bulkier!

** Even by the standards of a final boss, the Fire Dragon is absurdly overpowered. With a whopping 40 defense AND resistance, most of your units won't be able to so much as scratch the thing. It hits for 37 damage, ignoring defense and resistance, easily killing your toughest unit in two hits, on top of very rarely missing! If you didn't stock up on Elixirs and level up your Lords like a fiend, you are in for an absolute nightmare of a fight. To make matters worse, in the American and European versions, the decision to reduce effective weaponry down to 2x has the side effect of making the already durable Fire Dragon even more bulkier!

** Any boss becomes That One whenever Saias is on the field. He has a whopping 10 Leadership Stars, giving +30 Accuracy and Avoid to ''every enemy on the map''. He himself can also pelt you with StandardStatusEffects like Sleep and Berserk from anywhere on the map, on top of making it harder to hit and avoid everything. Fortunately, he never stays for the entire duration of a chapter, and only appears in a few chapters. It's also possible to scare him off by [[OutsideTheBoxTactic using Warp to send someone past a certain map threshhold that triggers an event to make him leave]].

** Even by the standards of a final boss, the Dragon is absurdly overpowered. With a whopping 40 defense, most of your units won't be able to so much as scratch the thing. It hits for 37 damage, ignoring defense and resistance, easily killing your toughest unit in two hits. If you didn't stock up on Elixirs and level up your Lords like a fiend, you are in for an absolute nightmare of a fight.

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another '''50% chance''' to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (and only a high level Seliph or Ares with their MageKiller Holy weapons stand any real chance of taking one than one hit from her). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with a holy weapon (preferably Forseti, which might not be around then)), or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead (though it is possible to go around and kill the actual boss and seize the castle, which will also cause them to go away). She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses and the [[DemonicSpiders strongest generic units you will ever see]]. Hope you got Ced to 28+ Magic and gave him the Magic bracelet so he can use the Silence or Sleep staff on her, because her crazy accuracy from Mjolnir and her leadership bonuses gives her a real chance to kill even the Forseti user in one round if Adept activates!

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another '''50% chance''' to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (and only a high level Seliph or Ares with their MageKiller Holy weapons stand any real chance of taking one than one hit from her). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with a holy weapon (preferably Forseti, which might not be around then)), or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead (though it is possible to go around and kill the actual boss and seize the castle, which will also cause them to go away). She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses and the [[DemonicSpiders strongest generic units you will ever see]]. Hope you got Ced to 28+ Magic and gave him the Magic bracelet so he can use the Silence or Sleep staff on her, because her crazy accuracy from Mjolnir and her leadership bonuses gives her a real chance to kill even the Forseti user in one round in Adept activates!

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another '''50% chance''' to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (which equates to a dead unit). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with a holy weapon (preferably Forseti, which might not be around then)), or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead (though it is possible to go around and kill the actual boss and seize the castle, which will also cause them to go away). She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses and the [[DemonicSpiders strongest generic units you will ever see]]. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!
** [[spoiler:Arvis]] is arguably even worse. He has an absolutely ludicrous attack power of ''70'', meaning that he will one-shot a lot of your units. His holy weapon grants him ''ridiculous'' defence boosts (as in 40 defense and 40 resistance), and his defences were high to begin with. Making this even worse is the fact that he's a level 30 unit with pavise, which equates to a 30% chance to NoSell '''ANYTHING''' you throw at him. You'll need holy weapons if you want to give him anything worse than a scratch. Oh, he's also guarding a castle, which makes his '''evasion''' skyrocket as well. To add insult to injury, he also has the Nihil skill, which cancels out any chance of a critical hit on your side. If you don't have units with legendary weapons, high resistance, enough strength to actually dent him, and a shitload of healers... godspeed, soldier.
** [[spoiler:Arion.]] He's packing an [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Lance]] that is guaranteed to make any player burst into tears. If the EliteMooks with Sleep Swords, Slim Lances, and hyper-accuracy due to his ''5-star'' leadership aura doesn't make you rage, the boss himself will. Nihil and good defenses makes him resistant, if not immune, to most tried-and-true killing strategies, and the sadistic combination of Follow-Up, Adept, and insane speed means he'll either [[OneHitPointWonder double your units normally, or double consecutively before you can counter]]. The only units that will stand a chance against this boss without being [[LudicrousGibs ludicrously gibbed]] are either your legendary-wielding bow-user, or your [[GlassCannon legendary-wielding sage]]. Oh, and if you're unfortunate enough to reduce his HP below 10 without killing him? He trips his Miracle skill, and for one turn, he'll dodge everything, and during his phase he'll fly and stab an unfortunate unit in the face. GLARGH. As one seeming final insult, he comes back in the endgame with everything save Miracle, but this time [[spoiler:Altena can talk him into [[HeelFaceTurn becoming a partner unit]]. [[WhosLaughingNow Mwahahahaha!]]]]

** Even by the standards of a final boss, the Dragon is absurdly overpowered. With a whopping 40 defense, most of your units won't be able to so much as scratch the thing. It hits for 37 damage, ignoring defense and resistance. If you didn't stock up on Elixirs and level up your Lords like a fiend, you are in for an absolute nightmare of a fight.

** The DS version of ''Shadow Dragon'' is known to have HardLevelsEasyBosses, with the vast majority dying in a single round to a forged [[WeaponOfXSlaying effective weapon]]... which is why it's rather surprising that Gomer, the second boss, is generally considered to be one of the hardest bosses in the series. He's fought when you're still well within EarlyGameHell, with only a small amount of XP to work with and no access to reclassing or forging. As a Pirate, there is no weapon capable of hitting him effectively. Unlike the first boss, Gazzak, he has a handaxe, so you can't outrange him. But what puts him here is what his stats become on higher difficulties--capping out on Merciless at around 36 HP, 16 Strength, and 12 Speed, with his standard 5 Defense boosted to 7 by his gate and the benefits of A-rank axes. With that kind of statline, he doubles the vast majority of base-level units (including ''Jagen''!), two-shots everything at minimum, is pretty dodgy and accurate against non-swordsmen, and takes about four or five hits to die before accounting for his gate's healing. Ogma is fast and has weapon triangle, making him the only one with a real chance, but he barely survives one hit. Wrys, who has only one heal staff and doesn't heal for much, can't heal Ogma without placing himself in Gomer's range. The only other source of healing are one vulnerary and the nearby forts. It says quite a lot about Gomer that the most oft-recommended strategy for reliably beating him is to simply weather his hits with fort healing until his weapon breaks.

** The fight with the Black Knight is a full-on LuckBasedMission. Even if Ike has maxed Strength, Skill, Speed, and Defense, you still rely entirely on him activating [[SignatureMove Aether]] enough times to bypass the Black Knight's defense and self-healing. (Technically, if Ike has capped Strength, he can defeat the Black Knight without Aether if he attacks and hits the Black Knight every turn... though that too makes for a Luck Based Mission.) Leveling up Mist, the only healer you'll have access to in the fight, helps, but only so much. Oh, and you have five turns to win. (Fortunately, you're not forced to win to proceed, though you recruit a crappier unit if you don't win.)

** The DS version of ''Shadow Dragon'' is known to have HardLevelsEasyBosses, with the vast majority dying in a single round to a forged [[WeaponOfXSlaying effective weapon]]... which is why it's rather surprising that Gomer, the second boss, is generally considered to be one of the hardest bosses in the series. He's fought when you're still well within EarlyGameHell, with only a small amount of XP to work with and no access to reclassing or forging. As a Pirate, there is no weapon capable of hitting him effectively. Unlike the first boss, Gazzak, he has a handaxe, so you can't outrange him. But what puts him here is what his stats become on higher difficulties--capping out on Merciless at around 36 HP, 16 Strength, and 12 Speed, with his standard 5 Defense boosted to 7 by his gate and the benefits of A-rank axes. With that kind of statline, he doubles the vast majority of base-level units (including ''Jagen''!), two-shots everything at minimum, is pretty dodgy and accurate against non-swordsmen, and takes about four or five hits to die before accounting for his gate's healing. Ogma is fast and has weapon triangle, making him the only one with a real chance, but he barely survives one hit. Wrys, who has only one heal staff and doesn't heal for much, can't heal Ogma without placing himself in Gomer's range. The only other source of healing are one vulnerary and the nearby forts. It says quite a lot about Gomer that, while ''Shadow Dragon'' is generally known for having the most oft-recommended strategy for reliably beating him is to simply weather his hits with fort healing until his weapon breaks.

** In the DS version of ''Shadow Dragon'', Hyman, the boss of Chapter 3 has absurdly high stats for his placement in the game. He has absurd levels of strength and HP alongside having a 1-2 range Hand Axe, which makes going toe-to-toe with him a gambit no matter who you use. However he's only really a spike on average difficulties, if you're playing higher difficulties, then he's outright one of the hardest bosses in the game, as his stats suddenly become ludicrously high and can potentially one-shot most of your party. Not helping either scenario is that he comes incredibly early on, so reclassing is not yet available and otherwise GameBreaker units like Marth or Cain and Abel have yet to fully flourish.

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another '''50% chance''' to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (which equates to a dead unit). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with Febail's Yewfelle, or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead (though it is possible to go around and kill the actual boss and seize the castle, which will also cause them to go away). She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses and the [[DemonicSpiders strongest generic units you will ever see]]. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!

** Henning, the boss of chapter 8x, is an extremely blatant DifficultySpike in an otherwise straightforward map. He has stats that aren't out of place for bosses ''five chapters'' ahead of him, and is well-equipped: a Hand Axe to strike at range and a Steel Blade to hit hard in melee. You can't even exploit his pitiful resistance because he will double or OneHitKill your [[SquishyWizard magic users]]. Coupled with the throne boosts, there is not really any easy solution to beating him.
** Gel, the Swordmaster boss of Chapter 19 (Sacae route). Being a Swordmaster is bad enough in a game with low hit rates like this one, but he's also on a Gate (which, while not as bad as a Throne, is still +20% Avoid) and carries a Light Brand so you can't just bombard him from a distance. He's got high skill and speed, too, making it even harder to hit him.

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another '''50% chance''' to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (which equates to a dead unit). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with Febail's Yewfelle, or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead (though it is possible to go around and kill the actual boss and seize the castle, which will also cause them to go away). She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses at the same time. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another '''50% chance''' to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (which equates to a dead unit). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with Febail's Yewfelle, or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead. She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses at the same time. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range and her Adept skill gives her another 30% chance to Mjolnir them ''again'' if they survived (which equates to a dead unit). Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with Febail's Yewfelle, or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead. She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses at the same time. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!

** Henning, the boss of chapter 8x, is an extremely blatant DifficultySpike in an otherwise straightforward map. He has stats that aren't out of place for bosses ''five chapters'' ahead of him, and is well-equipped: a Hand Axe to strike at range and a Steel Blade to hit hard in melee. Coupled with the throne boosts, there is not really any easy solution to beating him.

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range. Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with Febail's Yewfelle, or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until she is defeated or one of your units is dead. She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses at the same time. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!

** [[spoiler:Arvis]] is arguably even worse. He has an absolutely ludicrous attack power of ''70'', meaning that he will one-shot a lot of your units. His holy weapon grants him ''ridiculous'' defence boosts, and his defences were high to begin with. You'll need holy weapons if you want to give him anything worse than a scratch. Oh, he's also guarding a castle, which makes his '''evasion''' skyrocket as well. To add insult to injury, he also has the Nihil skill, which cancels out any chance of a critical hit on your side. If you don't have units with legendary weapons, high resistance, enough strength to actually dent him, and a shitload of healers... godspeed, soldier.

** The Dark Warlords are mostly just annoying, but Bovis and Canis are genuinely very difficult. Bovis is functionally identical to [[spoiler:Galzus]], meaning he's got high stats and strong weapons, in addition to Astra and Luna. Canis has the same skills as [[spoiler:Sara]] and comes with a Berserk Staff (and statuses in this game are 100% accurate) and [[LifeDrain Resire]], [[WhyWontYouDie making it difficult to ensure that she actually takes any damage.]] Canis also has Wrath, meaning that whenever you attack her she responds with a critical hit.

** The Dark Warlords are mostly just annoying, but Bovis and Canis are genuinely very difficult. Bovis is functionally identical to [[spoiler:Galzus]], meaning he's got high stats and strong weapons, in addition to Astra and Luna. Canis has the same skills as [[spoiler:Sara]] and comes with a Berserk Staff (and statuses in this game are 100% accurate) and [[LifeDrain Resire]], making it difficult to ensure that she actually takes any damage. Canis also has Wrath, meaning that whenever you attack her she responds with a critical hit.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' has enough to fill [[ThatOneBoss/FireEmblemHeroes its own page]]

** The final boss. He has an area of effect attack that damages the player's team heavily unless a Dragon Vein is used to soften the blow, but even then, it will still leave quite a mark. To say [[ThatOneLevel nothing of the hardest level in the entire game]], simply reaching the final boss is a daunting task in and of itself. Once the player has reached him, the player has to contend with his massive 1-4 range weapon which is effective against fliers. He has Dragonskin, which mitigates any damage taken, almost requiring Corrin's Shadow Yato to break through, Draconic Hex to debuff all of any assailant's stats by -4, and on higher difficulties, skills like Vengeance and Lifetaker. Finally, what makes the final boss particularly special is that he is paired up with a clone of himself and has the skill Bold Stance, which lets him fight with the benefits of both Attack Stance and Guard Stance, being able to do extra damage and also potentially block attacks. He is easily one of the toughest bosses in the game and is an incredibly dangerous opponent to face. And just who is this asshole who makes the end of ''Conquest'' so miserable? [[spoiler:It's none other than Takumi, bringing his [[RecurringBoss amount of appearances as a boss]] to a total of four times, culminating in him being the final boss, and he makes for one hell of a boss fight every time.]]

** When it comes to ridiculous ''Fire Emblem'' bosses, Ishtar might as well take the cake. Not merely content with being ThatOneBoss, she insists on being a RecurringBoss as well! Not only are her stats absurdly high in each appearance, but she always wields the Mjolnir tome, which has an insane 30 might, +20 skill, and +10 speed. Combined with her maxed out magic and speed stats, Ishtar is able to 1-shot most of your characters with perfect accuracy at 1-2 range. Unlike other bosses sporting legendary weapons, Ishtar has free range of movement every time she appears. Her first appearance is in chapter 8, before most of your units are even promoted; good luck landing a critical hit with Febail's Yewfelle, or you'll be losing some characters. [[note]]Though if you can avoid her for a couple of turns, Julius will show up to take her away with him without you having to fight her.[[/note]] For her second appearance in chapter 10, she's backed up by [[spoiler:Julius (who's nearly impossible to kill at this stage of the game)]], and she won't leave until one of your units is dead. She returns one last time on the final chapter, flanked by three other difficult bosses at the same time. Better hope you have the Forseti tome ready by then!