Quick Riposte

Quick Riposte Icon of the Quick Riposte ability Three Houses. If foe initiates combat while unit's HP is ≥ 50%, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack.

Type(s) Class (Three Houses, Warriors: Three Hopes) Emblem Ring (Engage) Passive (Type B) (Heroes) First game Heroes

Quick Riposte (Japanese: 切り返し Comeback Cutter) is a four-tiered passive type B skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Heroes; the individual tiers of the skill are Quick Riposte 1, Quick Riposte 2, Quick Riposte 3, and Quick Riposte 4 in order from lowest to highest. Quick Riposte guarantees its user a follow-up attack if their HP is above a certain percentage threshold; the threshold to activate the skill decreases with the skill's tier, with the fourth tier also adding a reduction to the damage of the foe's first strike.

The skill was later introduced to the main series in Three Houses, where it is an ability obtained by mastering the War Master class. It retains the same effect and use it had in Heroes.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Three Houses		Treats unit as having AS > (target's AS + 4) for the purpose of follow-up attacks. This grants the unit a follow-up attack and denies the target theirs, if they had any normally.	If user's HP ≥ 50% and foe initiates combat	--	Does not affect avoid.
Engage (Quick Riposte)		Guarantees the user a follow-up attack.	If user's HP ≥ 80% and foe initiates combat	--	Does not work with Smash weapons. Cost: 2,000 SP
Engage (Quick Riposte+)		Guarantees the user a follow-up attack.	If user's HP ≥ 60% and foe initiates combat	--	Does not work with Smash weapons. Cost: 3,000 SP

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Type	Effect	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes (Quick Riposte 1)		B	If user's HP ≥ 90% and foe initiates combat, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack.	60	--	--	✓	--
Heroes (Quick Riposte 2)		B	If user's HP ≥ 80% and foe initiates combat, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack.	120	Quick Riposte 1	--	✓	--
Heroes (Quick Riposte 3)		B	If user's HP ≥ 70% and foe initiates combat, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack.	240	Quick Riposte 2	--	✓	--
Heroes (Quick Riposte 4)		B	If user's HP ≥ 25% at start of combat and foe initiates combat, foe's first attack deals −25% damage and user makes guaranteed follow-up attack.	300	Quick Riposte 3	--	✓	--

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors: Three Hopes		Deals the damage taken by the user to the foe.	If user's HP ≤ 50%	--	--

Availability

Three Houses

Class mastery

War Master (200 class Exp required)

Engage

Quick Riposte

Emblem Bracelets

Hector (bond level 1)

Quick Riposte+

Emblem Bracelets

Hector (bond level 16)

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Three Houses	If foe initiates combat while unit's HP is ≥ 50%, unit makes guaranteed follow-up attack.	ＨＰが５０％以上で 敵から攻撃された時、 斧ず追撃する
Engage (Quick Riposte)	If unit's HP is 80% or more and foe initiates combat, unit will always follow up (if weapon allows).	敵から攻撃された時、自分のHPが 80％以上なら追撃が発生する
Engage (Quick Riposte+)	If unit's HP is 60% or more and foe initiates combat, unit will always follow up (if weapon allows).	敵から攻撃された時、自分のHPが 60％以上なら追撃が発生する
Heroes (Quick Riposte 1)	If unit’s HP ≥ 90% and foe initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack.	自分のＨＰが９０％以上で、 敵から攻撃された時、絶対追撃
Heroes (Quick Riposte 2)	If unit’s HP ≥ 80% and foe initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack.	自分のＨＰが８０％以上で、 敵から攻撃された時、絶対追撃
Heroes (Quick Riposte 3)	If unit’s HP ≥ 70% and foe initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack.	自分のＨＰが７０％以上で、 敵から攻撃された時、絶対追撃
Heroes (Quick Riposte 4)	If unit's HP ≥ 25% at start of combat and foe initiates combat, reduces damage from foe's first attack during combat by 25% and unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack.	戦闘開始時、自分のＨＰが２５％以上で、 敵から攻撃された時、戦闘中、絶対追撃、 最初に受けた攻撃のダメージを２５％軽減
Warriors: Three Hopes	When HP is at 50% or below: forces enemies to sustain damage proportional to the damage they inflict.	HP50％以下の時、受けたダメージに応じて相手もダメージを受ける

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Quick Riposte	--
Japanese	切り返し	Comeback Cutter
Spanish	Presteza	Swiftness
French	Double riposte	Double response
German	Flinke Riposte	Nimble Riposte
Italian	Reazione lesta	Quick reaction
Portuguese	Reação certeira	Accurate reaction
Korean	받아치기	Response strike
Simplified Chinese	回击	Return strike
Traditional Chinese	回擊	Return strike

See also

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