Gamble

Gamble Icon of the Gamble skill in Fates. Causes Hit-10, but grants Crit+10.

Type(s) Personal (Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn) Class (Awakening, Fates) Capacity 10 First game Path of Radiance

Gamble (Japanese: 一発屋 Gamble) is a combat skill which debuted in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. It boosts a units's critical hit rate when it is active, in exchange for lowering their accuracy. In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn in particular it is designed as a risky skill to use with its high increases to the critical rate and steep penalties to hit rate, making it just as likely to make its user completely miss an attack as it is to reward them with a critical hit. Additionally, the skill is activated by command when moving the user in order to have its effect, so an allied unit's Gamble skill cannot be in effect on the enemy phase. Awakening and Fates changed the skill to make its stat modifiers much less extreme, and always in effect.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Path of Radiance		Doubles user's critical rate and halves user's hit rate for the current round of combat.	Command	10	--
Radiant Dawn		Doubles user's critical rate and halves user's hit rate for the current round of combat.	Command	10	--
Awakening		Grants +10 critical rate, -5 hit rate.	--	--	--
Fates		Grants +10 critical rate, -10 hit rate.	--	--	Base cost: 500 G

Availability

Path of Radiance

Units	Kieran
Items	Gamble

Radiant Dawn

Units	Kieran
Items	Gamble

Awakening

Units	Dagdar • Legion • Lewyn
Classes	Barbarian (Learned at level 10)

Fates

Units	Charlotte • Kelly (Bond unit; personal skill)
Classes	Fighter (Learned from level 10 and up)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Gamble is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B03-030HN Red-Hot Knightly Soul, Kieran. It is automatically triggered when a base Kieran changes class into this card, giving him an enormous +50 attack boost until the end of the turn in which he changed class.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Path of Radiance (skill assignment menu)	Halves this unit's chance to hit, but doubles its chance to land a critical hit. All units	命中値半分、必殺値倍の 攻撃をすることができる 取得可能 全ユニット
Path of Radiance (help)	Halves this unit's chance to hit, but doubles its chance to land a critical hit.	命中値半分、必殺値倍の 攻撃をすることができます
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu)	Reduce the unit's hit chance by half, but double the critical-hit percentage.	『命中』を半減させて 『必殺』を２倍にする 攻撃ができる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Halves this unit's chance to hit, but doubles its chance to land a critical hit.	『命中』を半減させる代わりに 『必殺』を２倍にする攻撃ができる
Awakening	Reduces hit by 5, but grants Crit +10.	ユニットの命中－５・必殺＋１０
Fates	Causes Hit-10, but grants Crit+10.	自分の命中-10、必殺+10

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Gamble	The act of taking a risk with the potential of a gain, usually used to refer to the act of gambling for money.
Japanese	• 一発屋 • 大振り	• Romanized as GAMBLE in the skill's internal names. Literally, it is an expression which can be roughly translated as "all or nothing", a risk which resembles the skill's function. • Big Swing. This name is used only in Fates.
Spanish	Ventura	Chance
French	Aléa	Chance
German	Fortuna	Latin: "fortune"
Italian	Azzardo	Risk
Korean	마구 휘두르기	Careless swing

Gallery

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  Kieran activating Gamble in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Heaven or Hell
• Wild Abandon