Armored Blow

Armored Blow Icon of the Armored Blow skill in Fates. Unit receives -10 physical damage when the unit initiates an attack.

Type(s) Class (Fates) Passive (Type A) (Heroes) Game(s) Fates Heroes

Armored Blow (Japanese: 金剛の一撃 Diamond Strike) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. In Fates, it is a class skill associated with the Great Knight class; in Heroes, it is a three-tiered type A passive skill (whose individiual tiers are known as Armored Blow 1, Armored Blow 2, and Armored Blow 3 in order from lowest to highest). Armored Blow is a skill decreases the damage the user takes by a physical attack whenever the user initiates the battle; in Heroes, the size of the protection increases with the skill's tier.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Heroes (Armored Blow 1)		+2 Defense when activated.	100%, if user initiates the attack	--	Cost: 50 SP
Heroes (Armored Blow 2)		+4 Defense when activated.	100%, if user initiates the attack	--	Cost: 100 SP
Heroes (Armored Blow 3)		+6 Defense when activated.	100%, if user initiates the attack	--	Cost: 200 SP

Availability

Fates

Classes

Great Knight (Learned from Level 15 and up)

Warriors

Learned	Tiki (requires Tiki's Anklets ×3)
Borrowed	Requires ×1 each of Tiki's Essence and Tiki's Hairpin

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Armored Blow	--
Spanish	Ataque blindado	--
French	Coup blindé	--
German	Defensiver Hieb	--
Italian	Colpo corazzato	--

See also

• Certain Blow
• Darting Blow
• Death Blow
• Duelist's Blow
• Warding Blow