Guard

For the skill known as "Guard" in Radiant Dawn, see Guard (Radiant Dawn). For the skill in Berwick Saga, see Saga:Guard.

Guard Icon of the Cancel skill in Radiant Dawn. Can cancel an enemy's counterattack.

Type(s) Personal (Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn) Passive (Type B) (Heroes) Capacity 10 (Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn) First game Path of Radiance

Guard, also known as Cancel, (Japanese: キャンセル Cancel) is a combat skill which first appeared in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, it is a personal skill equippable to any unit that, when activated, gives successful hits by its user the added ability of completely preventing the enemy from counterattacking or double attacking them afterward for the rest of the round of combat, temporarily protecting the user from the risk of being damaged by the enemy.

In Heroes, Guard is a four-tiered type B passive skill (whose individual tiers are known as Guard 1, Guard 2, Guard 3, and Guard 4 in order from lowest to highest), and is a skill that slows down the target's cooldown for special skills when the user's HP is at or above a certain threshold at the start of combat; the percentage of total HP required to activate the skill decreases with the skill's tier. It should be noted, however, that despite Guard's help description, its actual effect in practice is that it merely pauses the target's special cooldown counter. This is due to the fact that the special cooldown counter always counts down by 1 when the unit is either hit, or performs an attack, and Guard does not nullify this; as a result, this charge is merely canceled out by Guard, resulting in no actual change to the target's cooldown counter. As a result, Guard will not prevent a special skill from being activated if the target's special cooldown is already at 0 at the start of a battle.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Path of Radiance		Nullifies any further attacks from the target in the current round of attack.	(Skill)%	10	--
Radiant Dawn		Nullifies any further attacks from the target in the current round of attack.	(Skill)%	10	Can only activate if the user initiates combat

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Type	Effect	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes (Guard 1)		B	If user's HP = 100% at start of combat, inflicts −1 special cooldown charge per attack on foe.	50	--	--	✓	--
Heroes (Guard 2)		B	If user's HP ≥ 90% at start of combat, inflicts −1 special cooldown charge per attack on foe.	100	Guard 1	--	✓	--
Heroes (Guard 3)		B	If user's HP ≥ 80% at start of combat, inflicts −1 special cooldown charge per attack on foe.	200	Guard 2	--	✓	--
Heroes (Guard 4)		B	If user's HP ≥ 25% at start of combat, inflicts −4 attack and −1 special cooldown charge per attack on foe and foe's first attack deals −30% damage.	300	Guard 3	--	✓	--

Availability

Path of Radiance

Units	Haar
Items	Guard

Radiant Dawn

Units	Leonardo • Haar
Items	Cancel

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Path of Radiance (skill assignment menu)	In certain conditions, nullifies one enemy attack. All units	一定の確率で、相手の 攻撃を１回無効にする 取得可能 全ユニット
Path of Radiance (help)	In certain conditions, nullifies one enemy attack.	一定の確率で 相手の攻撃を１回無効にします
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu)	Can cancel an enemy's counterattack.	発動すると 敵の反撃を封じる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Can cancel an enemy's counterattack.	発動すると 敵の反撃を封じる
Heroes (Guard 1)	At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100%, inflicts Special cooldown charge -1 on foe per attack. (Only highest value applied. Does not stack.)	戦闘開始時、自身のＨＰが１００％なら敵の奥義発動 カウント変動量－１（同系統効果複数時、最大値適用）
Heroes (Guard 2)	At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 90%, inflicts Special cooldown charge -1 on foe per attack. (Only highest value applied. Does not stack.)	戦闘開始時、自身のＨＰが９０％以上なら敵の奥義発動 カウント変動量－１（同系統効果複数時、最大値適用）
Heroes (Guard 3)	At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 80%, inflicts Special cooldown charge -1 on foe per attack. (Only highest value applied. Does not stack.)	戦闘開始時、自身のＨＰが８０％以上なら敵の奥義発動 カウント変動量－１（同系統効果複数時、最大値適用）
Heroes (Guard 4)	At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, inflicts Atk-4 and Special cooldown charge -1 on foe per attack during combat (only highest value applied; does not stack) and reduces damage from foe's first attack during combat by 30%.	戦闘開始時、自身のＨＰが２５％以上なら、 戦闘中、敵の攻撃－４、 敵の奥義発動カウント変動量－１ （同系統効果複数時、最大値適用）、 最初に受けた攻撃のダメージを３０％軽減

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	• Guard • Cancel	• This name is used in Path of Radiance and Heroes; it was likely used in Heroes as it was introduced in a Path of Radiance-themed banner. • This name is used in Radiant Dawn.
Japanese	キャンセル	Romanized as CANCEL in its internal file name in Radiant Dawn. In Path of Radiance, the skill is internally referred to as DEFENCE, which may be why the localization renamed it to "Guard".
Spanish	• Defensa • Cancelar	• Defense. This name is used in Path of Radiance. • Cancel. This name is used in Radiant Dawn and Heroes.
French	• Garde • Négation	• Guard. This name is used in Path of Radiance. • Negation. This name is used in Radiant Dawn and Heroes.
German	• Wache • Wacht	• Guard. This name is used in Path of Radiance. • Guard. This name is used in Radiant Dawn and Heroes.
Italian	• Guardia • Neutralizza	• Guard. This name is used in Path of Radiance. • Nullify. This name is used in Radiant Dawn and Heroes.
Portuguese	Guarda	Guard
Traditional Chinese	取消	Cancel

Gallery

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  Haar activating Guard in Path of Radiance.
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  Nolan activating Cancel in Radiant Dawn.