Death Blow

This article is about the skill first present in Fates. For the combat art from Shadows of Valentia, see Death Blow (combat art).

Death Blow Icon of the Death Blow skill in Engage. When unit initiates combat, grants Crit+20 during combat.

Type(s) Class (Fates, Three Houses, Engage, Warriors: Three Hopes) Passive (Type A) (Heroes) First game Fates

Death Blow (Japanese: 鬼神の一撃 Fierce God Blow) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. In Fates, it is a class skill associated with the Oni Chieftain class; in Heroes, it is a four-tiered type A passive skill (whose individual tiers are Death Blow 1, Death Blow 2, Death Blow 3, and Death Blow 4 in order from lowest to highest).

In Fates, Death Blow increases the user's critical rate considerably whenever its user initiates a battle; in Heroes, the skill instead boosts the user's attack stat when initiating combat, with the bonus size increasing with the skill's tier. This version of the skill also appears in Three Houses, where it only has one version boosting attack by 6, only works on physical attacks instead of all attacks, and is learned by mastering the Brigand class.

In Engage, the skill returns to its original form, and boosts the user's critical rate once again. In this game, it is one of several skills that are exclusively used by some high-level enemies on the game's hardest difficulty mode, Maddening. Death Blow is exclusive to enemy Swordmasters.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Fates		+20 critical rate when activated.	If user initiates combat	--	Base cost: 1,000 G
Three Houses		+6 physical attack when activated.	If user initiates combat	--	--
Engage		+20 critical rate when activated.	If user initiates combat	--	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Type	Effect	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes (Death Blow 1)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +2 attack to user during combat.	50	--		✓	--
Heroes (Death Blow 2)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +4 attack to user during combat.	100	Death Blow 1		✓	--
Heroes (Death Blow 3)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +6 attack to user during combat.	200	Death Blow 2		✓	--
Heroes (Death Blow 4)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +8 attack to user during combat.	300	Death Blow 3		✓	--

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors: Three Hopes		The Stun Gauge stays visible longer.	--	--	--

Availability

Fates

Classes

Oni Chieftain (Learned from level 5 and up)

Three Houses

Class mastery

Brigand (100 class Exp required)

Engage

Unobtainable

Exclusively used by enemy Swordmasters on Maddening Mode.

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Death Blow is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B02-035HN Aloof Flame, Rinkah. It always gives Rinkah a +20 attack power bonus during her player's turn, which is temporarily doubled to +40 on the same turn that a base Rinkah changes class into this card.

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Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Fates	Grants Crit+20 when the unit initiates an attack.	自分から攻撃した時、 その戦闘中、必殺+20
Three Houses	If unit initiates combat, grants Str +6 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、力＋６
Engage	When unit initiates combat, grants Crit+20 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、必殺＋20
Heroes (Death Blow 1)	If unit initiates combat, grants Atk+2 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の攻撃＋２
Heroes (Death Blow 2)	If unit initiates combat, grants Atk+4 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の攻撃＋４
Heroes (Death Blow 3)	If unit initiates combat, grants Atk+6 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の攻撃＋６
Heroes (Death Blow 4)	If unit initiates combat, grants Atk+8 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の攻撃＋８
Warriors: Three Hopes	Keeps the Stun Gauge visible for longer.	??

Trivia

• Death Blow is the first skill in Heroes to get a fourth-tier version, with this tier added to the game in the Arrival of the Brave update.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Death Blow	--
Japanese	鬼神の一撃	Fierce God Blow; "fierce god" literally translates to "ogre/oni god".
Spanish	Muerte inminente Golpe mortal	Imminent death; used in Fates, Three Houses, and the European localization of Engage. Mortal blow; used in Heroes and the Latin American localization of Engage.
French	Coup fatal	Death blow
German	Voll ins Schwarze	Bullseye (literally, "fully into the black")
Italian	Colpo mortale	Death blow
Portuguese	Golpe mortal	Mortal blow
Korean	귀신의 일격	Fierce god blow
Simplified Chinese	鬼神一击	Fierce god blow
Traditional Chinese	鬼神一擊	Fierce god blow

See also

• Armored Blow
• Certain Blow
• Darting Blow
• Death Blow Echo
• Duelist's Blow
• Warding Blow
• Quick Draw
• Fiendish Blow
• Uncanny Blow