Deadly Balance

Deadly Balance Icon of the Deadly Balance skill in Heroes. At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 50% or if [Penalty] is active on unit, inflicts Atk/Def-5 on foe and grants Special cooldown charge +1 per foe's attack during combat. (Only highest value applied. Does not stack. Special cooldown charge granted even if foe's attack deals 0 damage.)

Type(s) Passive (Type B) Game(s) Heroes

Deadly Balance (Japanese: 死者の帳尻を To Balance the Cohort of the Dead) is a passive type B skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Heroes; Deadly Balance comes in only one tier. Deadly Balance is a skill that activates whenever its user either has sufficiently high health or a negative status effect in place, and drops its target's Attack and Defense during combat while also slowing down its target's special skill cooldown count.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Heroes		During combat, if user's HP is 50% or higher or if user has a status effect active that clears after its following action, drops target's Attack and Defense by 5 each and slows target's special skill cooldown count by 1 per target's strike.	--	--	Cost: 300 SP

Availability

Heroes

Units

Líf: Arcane Blade • Líf: Lethal Swordsman

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Deadly Balance	--
Japanese	死者の帳尻を	To Balance the Cohort of the Dead; the Japanese name uses similar wording to how Líf describes his deal with Hel: ヘルが言った、死者の数の帳尻を合わせよ "Hel told me to balance the cohort of the dead".
Spanish	Equilibrio mortal	Mortal balance
French	Équilibre mortel	Mortal balance
German	Tödliche Balance	Deadly Balance
Italian	Equilibrio funereo	Mournful balance
Portuguese (Brazil)	Equilíbrio mortal	Mortal balance
Traditional Chinese	填補死者的數量	Fill the number of the dead

Type B passive skills in Heroes

Debuffing skills Armored Wall • Atrocity • Atk Cantrip • Atk Feint • Atk/Def Bulwark • A/D Cantrip • Atk/Def Snag • A/D Far Trace • A/D Near Trace • Atk/Def Ruse • A/R Far Trace • A/R Near Trace • A/S Far Trace • Atk/Res Ruse • Atk/Res Snag • Atk/Res Tempo • Atk/Spd Bulwark • A/S Near Trace • Atk/Spd Ruse • Atk/Spd Snag • Barbarity • Beast N Trace • Belief in Love • Chill Atk • Chill Atk/Def • Chill Atk/Res • Chill Atk/Spd • Chill Def • Chill Def/Res • Chill Res • Chill Spd • Chill Spd/Def • Chill Spd/Res • Chilling Seal • Crafty Fighter • Dazzle Far Trace • Deadly Balance • Def Cantrip • Def Feint • Def/Res Ruse • Def/Res Smoke • Def/Res Snag • Divine Recreation • Dull Close • Dull Ranged • Fallen Star • Freezing Seal • Fruit of Life • Gold Unwinding • Guard • Killing Intent • Light and Dark • Lull Atk/Def • Lull Atk/Res • Lull Atk/Spd • Lull Spd/Def • Lull Spd/Res • Moon-Twin Wing • New Divinity • Pegasus Flight • Prescience • Res Cantrip • Res Feint • Sabotage Atk • Sabotage A/D • Sabotage A/R • Sabotage Def • Sabotage Res • Sabotage Spd • Sabotage S/R • Savvy Fighter • Seal Atk • Seal Atk/Def • Seal Atk/Spd • Seal Atk/Res • Seal Def • Seal Def/Res • Seal Res • Seal Spd • Seal Spd/Def • Seal Spd/Res • Special Fighter • Spd/Def Bulwark • S/D Far Trace • S/D Near Trace • Spd/Def Ruse • Spd/Def Snag • Spd/Def Tempo • Spd Cantrip • Spd Feint • Spd/Res Bulwark • S/R Far Trace • S/R Near Trace • Spd/Res Tempo • Spd Preempt • Spd/Res Ruse • Spd/Res Snag • Spoil Rotten • Sun-Twin Wing • Twin-Sky Wing • Vengeful Fighter • Wyvern Flight • Wyvern Rift • Yune's Whispers Follow-up skills Aerial Maneuvers • Assured Rebirth • Axebreaker • Beast Agility • Beast Follow-Up • Binding Shield • Black Eagle Rule • Blue Lion Rule • B Tomebreaker • Bold Fighter • Bowbreaker • Brash Assault • Canny Fighter • Crafty Fighter • Crusader's Ward • Daggerbreaker • Dive-Bomb • Dragon's Ire • Even Follow-Up • Faithful Loyalty • Flow Feather • Flow Flight • Flow Force • Flow Guard • Flow N Trace • Flow Refresh • Follow-Up Ring • G Tomebreaker • Hardy Fighter • Hoðr's Zeal • Holy War's End • Killing Intent • Lancebreaker • Mag. Null Follow • Null Follow-Up‎ • Odd Follow-Up • Phys. Null Follow • Potent • Quick Riposte • Raging Storm • R Tomebreaker • Slick Fighter • Soul of Zofia • Sun-Twin Wing • Swordbreaker • Vengeful Fighter • Wary Fighter • Watersweep • Weaving Fighter • Wily Fighter • Windsweep • Wyvern Rift • Yngvi Ascendant Healing skills Armored Wall • Flow Refresh • Live to Serve • Mystic Boost • Recover Ring • Renewal • S Drink • Solar Brace Mobility skills Aerobatics • A/D Far Trace • A/D Near Trace • A/R Far Trace • A/R Near Trace • A/S Far Trace • A/S Near Trace • Beast N Trace • Chivalry • Close Call • Deep Star • Detailed Report • Drag Back • Escape Route • Flier Formation • Flow N Trace • Hit and Run • Knock Back • Lunge • Moonlight Bangle • Moonlit Bangle F • Murderous Lion • Obstruct • Pass • Raging Storm • Raging Tempest • Repel • S/D Far Trace • S/D Near Trace • S/R Far Trace • S/R Near Trace • Soaring Wings • Sunlight Bangle • Sunlit Bangle D • Warp Powder • Wings of Mercy Proximity skills Binding Necklace • Get Behind Me! • Murderous Lion • Ruler of Nihility • Sabotage Atk • Sabotage A/R • Sabotage Def • Sabotage Res • Sabotage Spd • Sudden Panic • Yune's Whispers Stat-boosting skills Atk/Def Link • Atk/Res Link • Atk/Spd Link • Believe in Love? • Blaze Dance • Buffer • Caldera Dance • Def/Res Link • Deluge Dance • Earth Dance • Fireflood Dance • Firestorm Dance • Gale Dance • Geyser Dance • Lunar Brace • Rockslide Dance • Shield Pulse • Spd/Def Link • Spd/Res Link • Spurn • Torrent Dance • Velocity • Wrath Turn-related skills Aerial Maneuvers • Assassin's Strike • Blue Lion Rule • Bold Fighter • Brash Assault • Close Call • Crafty Fighter • Daring Fighter • Desperation • Dive-Bomb • Double Lion • Dragon's Ire • Even Pulse Tie • Flow Desperation • Flow Refresh • Frenzy • Hardy Fighter • Holy War's End • Killing Intent • Lunge • Occultist's Strike • Odd Pulse Tie • Poison Strike • Prescience • Quick Riposte • Raging Storm • Repel • Slick Fighter • Soul of Zofia • Special Spiral • Vantage • Vengeful Fighter • Yngvi Ascendant Miscellaneous skills Beast Sense • Beorc's Blessing • Bushido • Cancel Affinity • Counter Roar • Dazzling Shift • Dazzling Staff • Disarm Trap • Dragon Wall • Dragon's Wrath • Gambit • Guard Bearing • Laguz Friend • Live for Bounty • Live for Honor • Magic Gambit • Moon-Twin Wing • Null C-Disrupt • Poetic Justice • Sacae's Blessing • True Dragon Wall • Wrathful Staff • Wrathful Tempo