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[[File:Ss fe11 arena battle.png|thumb|256px|[[Marth]] fighting an enemy [[Warrior]] in an arena match in {{title|Shadow Dragon}}.]]

Arenas are not present at all in {{FE2}}, its remake {{title|Echoes: Shadows of Valentia}}, {{title|Path of Radiance}}, {{title|Radiant Dawn}}, or {{title|Awakening}}, although the latter does have [[Arena Ferox|a specific arena]] as the setting of one chapter.

==Overview==

[[File:Ss fe11 arena entrance.png|thumb|256px|The arena's host inviting a unit to participate in {{title|Shadow Dragon}}.]]

A battle in the arena is similar to standard fights on the map. One battle is performed within the arena, wherein the first unit to attack is determined by the combatant's [[attack speed]]. Should this one round be insufficient to determine a winner, and it often is, another battle is performed, and the cycle continues until one combatant is defeated. Between battles, the player can yield by pressing the B button during this pause if they feel that their unit stands no hope of surviving; doing so, however, causes the player to lose whatever gold they placed as their bet. Fleeing battles is not an option in {{FE1}}.

Arenas made their debut in {{title|Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light}}, acting as a risky method to raising units in the game. Unlike the various arenas found in later games, the arenas here allowed the player to bet various wagers before entering the fray, with higher bets resulting in higher payouts, but also more powerful enemies. Unlike later games in the series, the player cannot yield.

==={{FE3}}===

[[File:Ss fe03 arena battle.png|thumb|[[Draug]] in an arena match in {{title|Mystery of the Emblem}}.]]

{{title|Mystery of the Emblem}} brought back most of the previous features of the previous game, including the ability to change wagers; ''Mystery of the Emblem'', however, added the ability to yield if the player feels that the fight will end in the character's death.

Arenas can be found in Chapters [[The Shield of Thracia|7]], [[The Banner of Njörun|9]], [[Nowell Valley|10]], [[The Bandits of Dacia|12]], [[The Onslaught|14]], [[Norden Line|16 (west route)]], [[The Scion of Light|20]], [[The War of Liberation|21]], and [[Across the River|22]],  

[[File:Ss fe07 arena battle.png|thumb|[[Nino]] in an arena match in  {{title|The Blazing Blade}}.]]

The amount of gold to be wagered depends on the class, level, and stats of the opponent, compared to those of your unit.

In ''The Sacred Stones'', while usable during the course of normal chapters, arenas are completely inaccessible during [[skirmish]]es that take place on the [[world map]]. As a result, once a chapter with an arena has been completed, it can never be accessed again. They also cannot be accessed from any sort of menu, unlike [[shop]]s or [[armory|armories]].

A rare glitch exclusive to ''The Binding Blade'' can cause the arena to spawn [[Brigand]]s wielding an [[Iron Bow]] or [[Warrior]]s with a [[Fire]] tome. In these circumstances, damage will be inflicted to one or both of the combatants, and the battle abruptly ends; no reward is dispensed if this occurs. This was fixed in both subsequent games.

All three Game Boy Advance games also feature the [[Link Arena]], a multiplayer mode based loosely on the gameplay of the traditional arenas.

==={{FE11}} and {{title|New Mystery of the Emblem}}===

[[File:Ss fe12 drill grounds battle.png|thumb|[[Phina]] in a Training Grounds session in {{title|New Mystery of the Emblem}}.]]

Being remakes of the first and third games in the series, the remakes of ''Shadow Dragon'' and ''New Mystery of the Emblem: Heroes of Light and Shadow'' feature an arena system more similar to their original source material.  

Furthermore, arena battles are capped at 6 rounds of combat. If both combatants are alive by the end of 6 rounds of combat, a draw will be declared, the wager will not be charged and the combatant will be ejected from the arena with any damage they have sustained.  

A variation of the Training Grounds feature is used in {{FEWA1}}, though this version is a simple menu used to level-up characters for a fee without any of the arena-style gameplay.

==={{FEH}}===

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In {{FEH}} the Arena serves as the game's competitive mode. In this mode players assemble teams and fight other player's teams to earn points for victories. Players may also set up defense teams which also reward points when they defeat challengers.

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