Daggerbreaker

Daggerbreaker Icon of the Daggerbreaker 1 skill in Heroes. If unit's HP ≥ 90% in combat against a dagger user, unit makes a follow-up attack and foe cannot.

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

Daggerbreaker (Japanese: 暗器殺し Concealed Weapon Slayer), known as Shurikenbreaker prior to Fire Emblem Heroes, is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. It gives its user enormous advantages when fighting an enemy who is wielding a dagger or shuriken. In Fates, where it a class skill learned by Bow Knights, it provides enormous 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: Daggerbreaker 1, Daggerbreaker 2, and Daggerbreaker 3. Units with a Daggerbreaker skill will, when fighting the user of a dagger 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 dagger skill's user from doing so themselves. The minimum amount of current HP required to activate the skill decreases with each level.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Fates		+50 hit and avoid when activated.	100%, if the target has a dagger or shuriken equipped	--	--
Heroes (Daggerbreaker 1)		Guarantees that the user will perform a double-attack, and nullifies the target's ability to double-attack, when activated.	100%, if HP is at or above 90% and if the target has a dagger skill equipped	--	Cost: 50 SP If used against another breaker skill, they cancel each other out. If the target has Wary Fighter equipped, the user may double-attack if their speed allows them to do so naturally. If the target has Brash Assault or Quick Riposte equipped, they may double-attack only if their speed allows them to do so naturally.
Heroes (Daggerbreaker 2)		Guarantees that the user will perform a double-attack, and nullifies the target's ability to double-attack, when activated.	100%, if HP is at or above 70% and if the target has a dagger skill equipped	--	Cost: 100 SP If used against another breaker skill, they cancel each other out. If the target has Wary Fighter equipped, the user may double-attack if their speed allows them to do so naturally. If the target has Brash Assault or Quick Riposte equipped, they may double-attack only if their speed allows them to do so naturally.
Heroes (Daggerbreaker 3)		Guarantees that the user will perform a double-attack, and nullifies the target's ability to double-attack, when activated.	100%, if HP is at or above 50% and if the target has a dagger skill equipped	--	Cost: 200 SP If used against another breaker skill, they cancel each other out. If the target has Wary Fighter equipped, the user may double-attack if their speed allows them to do so naturally. If the target has Brash Assault or Quick Riposte equipped, they may double-attack only if their speed allows them to do so naturally.

Availability

Fates

Classes

Bow Knight (Learned from Level 15 and up)

Heroes

Units

Kagero: Honorable Ninja (★★★★)

Trivia

• As a result of daggers and shuriken not existing in Awakening, Shurikenbreaker is the only one of the "-breaker" skills that did not debut in Awakening. This also makes Shurikenbreaker the only "-breaker" skill to not be granted by a "superior" weapon such as the Superior Edge. In all non-Japanese localizations of Fates, it is also the only "-breaker" skill which is named after a Hoshidan weapon type instead of the Nohr counterpart.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	• Shurikenbreaker • Daggerbreaker	• Used in Fates. • Used in Heroes.
Japanese	暗器殺し	Concealed Weapon Slayer
Spanish	• Achatashurikens • Quiebradagas	Shurikensquasher. Used in Fates. • Daggerbreaker. Used in Heroes.
French	• Anti-shuriken • Anti-Dague	• Anti-shuriken. Used in Fates. • Anti-dagger. Used in Heroes.
German	Shurikenbrecher	Shurikenbreaker
Italian	• Spezzashuriken • Spezzapugnale	• Shurikenbreaker. Used in Fates. • Daggerbreaker. Used in Heroes.

See also

Axebreaker B Tomebreaker

Bowbreaker G Tomebreaker

Lancebreaker R Tomebreaker

Swordbreaker Tomebreaker

Passive skills in Heroes

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