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: Lethal Swordsman

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
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.) 【Penalty】 All effects that last "on foe through its next action." Includes penalties inflicted by a skill like Panic or Threaten and negative status effects (preventing counterattacks, restricting movement, or the effects of a skill like Triangle Adept or Guard).	戦闘開始時、自分のＨＰが５０％以上、または 自分が【不利な状態異常】を受けている時、 戦闘中、敵の攻撃、守備－５、かつ、敵の攻撃により ダメージを受けた時、奥義発動カウント変動量＋１ （同系統効果複数時、最大値適用） （この効果は受けたダメージが０の場合も発動する） 【不利な状態異常】 「敵の次回行動終了まで」の効果全般 （弱化、移動制限、パニック、反撃不可、 相性激化、キャンセル等）

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/Def Snag • Atk Feint • A/D Far Trace • A/R Far Trace • A/S Far Trace • Atk/Res Ruse • Atk/Spd Ruse • Atk/Spd Snag • Belief in Love • Chill Atk • Chill Atk/Def • Chill Atk/Res • Chill Atk/Spd • Chill Def • Chill Res • Chill Spd • Chill Spd/Res • Chilling Seal • Crafty Fighter • Deadly Balance • Def Cantrip • Def Feint • Def/Res Ruse • Def/Res Snag • Divine Recreation • Dull Close • Dull Ranged • Fallen Star • Freezing Seal • Guard • Killing Intent • Light and Dark • Lull Atk/Def • Lull Atk/Res • Lull Atk/Spd • Lull Spd/Def • Lull Spd/Res • Moon-Twin Wing • Prescience • Res Cantrip • Res Feint • Sabotage Atk • Sabotage Def • Sabotage Res • Sabotage Spd • Savvy Fighter • Seal Atk • Seal Atk/Def • Seal Atk/Spd • Seal Def • Seal Def/Res • Seal Res • Seal Spd • Seal Spd/Def • Seal Spd/Res • Special Fighter • S/D Near Trace • Spd/Def Ruse • Spd/Def Snag • Spd/Def Tempo • Spd Cantrip • Spd Feint • S/R Far Trace • Spd/Res Ruse • Spd/Res Snag • Sun-Twin Wing • Vengeful Fighter • Yune's Whispers Follow-up strike skills Assured Rebirth • Axebreaker • Binding Shield • Black Eagle Rule • Blue Lion Rule • B Tomebreaker • Bold Fighter • Bowbreaker • Brash Assault • Crafty Fighter • Crusader's Ward • Daggerbreaker • Dive-Bomb • Dragon's Ire • Even Follow-Up • Faithful Loyalty • Flow Flight • Flow Force• Flow Guard • Flow Refresh • Follow-Up Ring • G Tomebreaker • Hardy Fighter • Hoðr's Zeal • Holy War's End • Killing Intent • Lancebreaker • Null Follow-Up‎ • Odd Follow-Up • Quick Riposte • Raging Storm • R Tomebreaker • Slick Fighter • Soul of Zofia • Sun-Twin Wing • Swordbreaker • Vengeful Fighter • Wary Fighter • Watersweep • Wily Fighter • Windsweep • 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/S Far Trace • Close Call • Drag Back • Escape Route • Flier Formation • Hit and Run • Knock Back • Lunge • Moonlight Bangle • Murderous Lion • Obstruct • Pass • Raging Storm • Repel • S/R Far Trace • Warp Powder • Wings of Mercy Proximity skills Binding Necklace • Murderous Lion • Sabotage Atk • Sabotage Def • Sabotage Res • Sabotage Spd • Sudden Panic • Yune's Whispers Stat boosting skills Atk/Def Link • Atk/Res Link • Atk/Spd Link • Blaze Dance • 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 • Wrath Turn-related skills Blue Lion Rule • Bold Fighter • Brash Assault • Close Call • Crafty Fighter • Daring Fighter • Desperation • Dive-Bomb • Double Lion • Dragon's Ire • Flow Refresh • Frenzy • Hardy Fighter • Holy War's End • Killing Intent • Lunge • Poison Strike • Prescience • Quick Riposte • Raging Storm • Repel • Slick Fighter • Soul of Zofia • Special Spiral • Vantage • Vengeful Fighter • Yngvi Ascendant Miscellaneous skills Beorc's Blessing • Bushido • Cancel Affinity • Dazzling Staff • Disarm Trap • Dragon Wall • Dragon's Wrath • Guard Bearing • Live for Bounty • Live for Honor • Moon-Twin Wing • Null C-Disrupt • Sacae's Blessing • True Dragon Wall • Wrathful Staff