Site News |
---|
Warning: This wiki contains spoilers. Read at your own risk! Social media: If you would like, please join our Discord server, and/or follow us on Twitter (X) or Tumblr! |
Bowbreaker
Bowbreaker (Japanese: 弓殺し Bow Slayer) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Awakening. It gives its user enormous advantages when fighting an enemy who is wielding a bow or yumi. In Awakening, it is a class skill learned by Bow Knights; in Fates, it is a class skill learned by Sorcerers; while in Three Houses, it is the class mastery skill of the Warlock. In these games, it provides boosts to its user's hit rate and avoid when fighting these weapons.
| ||||
|
In Heroes, it is a type B passive skill split into three levels, in order from lowest to highest: Bowbreaker 1, Bowbreaker 2, and Bowbreaker 3. Units with a Bowbreaker skill will, when fighting the user of a colorless bow skill while this skill's user's own HP is at a certain threshold or higher, automatically make a follow-up attack and prevent the bow skill's user from doing so themselves. The minimum amount of current HP required to activate the skill decreases with each level. Bowbreaker will only activate against colorless bow users, and will not activate against red, green, or blue bow users. Unlike earlier main series titles, it also has this effect in Engage, but only has one tier, activated by remaining above half health.
Data
In the main Fire Emblem series
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Awakening | +50 hit, +50 avoid when activated. | If foe has a bow equipped | -- | -- | |
Fates | +50 hit, +50 avoid when activated. | If foe has a bow or yumi equipped | -- | Base cost: 1500 G | |
Three Houses | +20 hit, +20 avoid when activated. | If foe has a bow equipped and user has black magic, white magic, or dark magic equipped | -- | -- | |
Engage | User makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Foe cannot make follow-up attacks. |
If user's HP ≥ 50% and foe has a bow equipped | -- | -- |
In other Fire Emblem series titles
Game | Icon | Type | Effect | SP cost | Prerequisites | Usable by | Inheritable | Other effects and notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Heroes (Bowbreaker 1) |
B | If user's HP ≥ 90% at start of combat against colorless bow foe, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make follow-up attacks. | 50 | -- | ✓ | -- | ||
Heroes (Bowbreaker 2) |
B | If user's HP ≥ 70% at start of combat against colorless bow foe, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make follow-up attacks. | 100 | Bowbreaker 1 | ✓ | -- | ||
Heroes (Bowbreaker 3) |
B | If user's HP ≥ 50% at start of combat against colorless bow foe, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make follow-up attacks. | 200 | Bowbreaker 2 | ✓ | -- |
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Warriors | -- | A weapon attribute. If forged onto a weapon, damage dealt by that weapon against bow users is increased. | -- | -- | Forging cost: 2,000G |
Warriors: Three Hopes | Increases advantage against enemies by one tier. Increases damage dealt by 50%. |
If foe has a bow equipped | -- | -- |
Availability
Awakening
Classes | Bow Knight (Learned at Level 15) |
Items | Superior Bow |
Fates
Classes | Sorcerer (Learned from Level 15 and up) |
Three Houses
Class mastery | Warlock (150 class Exp required) |
Engage
Unobtainable | Exclusively used by enemy Paladins on Maddening mode. |
Heroes
Method | Data | ||
---|---|---|---|
Bowbreaker 1 | Bowbreaker 2 | Bowbreaker 3 | |
Unit (★★★) | Setsuna: Absent Archer | Setsuna: Absent Archer | — |
Unit (★★★★) | — | — | Setsuna: Absent Archer |
Unit (★★★★★) | Takumi: Prince of Soup | Takumi: Prince of Soup | Takumi: Prince of Soup |
Warriors
Bowbreaker can appear as a weapon attribute on weapons acquired from battle.
Warriors: Three Hopes
Class mastery (★) | Dark Bishop: Hubert • Linhardt Gremory: Annette • Arval • Constance • Dorothea • Flayn • Hapi • Lysithea • Manuela • Marianne • Mercedes • Monica • Sothis |
Other appearances
Fire Emblem Cipher
Bowbreaker is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B08-010R Head of House Virion, Virion. It prevents all bow-using enemy units from inflicting critical hits.
Flavor text
This section has been marked as a stub. Please help improve the page by adding information.
Game | Text (English) |
Text (Japanese) |
---|---|---|
Awakening | Grants Hit/Avo +50 if the
enemy is using a bow. |
敵が弓装備時、命中・回避+50
|
Fates | Grants Hit/Avo+50 if the enemy
is using a bow/yumi. |
敵が弓を装備している場合、
自分の命中・回避+50 |
Three Houses | Grants Hit/Avo +20 when using magic
against bow users. |
自分が魔法を装備して、
弓の敵と戦う時、命中・回避+20 |
Engage | If unit's HP is 50% or higher at start
of combat and foe has a bow equipped, unit can follow up and foe cannot follow up. |
HPが50%以上の時、敵の武器が弓なら
自分は追撃し、敵は追撃できない |
Heroes (Bowbreaker 1) |
If unit's HP ≥ 90% in combat against a
colorless bow foe, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make a follow-up attack. |
敵の武器種が無属性弓で、
自分のHPが90%以上の時、 自分は絶対追撃、敵は追撃不可 |
Heroes (Bowbreaker 2) |
If unit's HP ≥ 70% in combat against a
colorless bow foe, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make a follow-up attack. |
敵の武器種が無属性弓で、
自分のHPが70%以上の時、 自分は絶対追撃、敵は追撃不可 |
Heroes (Bowbreaker 3) |
If unit's HP ≥ 50% in combat against a
colorless bow foe, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make a follow-up attack. |
敵の武器種が無属性弓で、
自分のHPが50%以上の時、 自分は絶対追撃、敵は追撃不可 |
Warriors: Three Hopes | Effective against enemies equipped with bows.
|
??
|
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
---|---|---|
Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
Bowbreaker |
-- |
Japanese |
弓殺し |
Bow Slayer |
Spanish |
Rompearcos |
Bowbreaker |
French |
Anti-arc |
Anti-bow |
German |
Bogenbrecher |
Bowbreaker |
Italian |
Spezzarco |
Bowbreaker |
Portuguese |
Antiarco |
Anti-bow |
Korean |
활 킬러 |
Bow killer |
Simplified Chinese |
破弓者 |
Bow breaker |
Traditional Chinese |
破弓者 |
Bow breaker |
References
See also
Skills in Fire Emblem Fates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Abilities in Fire Emblem: Three Houses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Type B passive skills in Heroes | ||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Abilities in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|