Dragonskin

Dragonskin Icon of Dragonskin in Fates. Nullifies Lethality and Counter, and more than halves damage.

Type(s) Personal (Awakening and Fates) Class (Echoes: Shadows of Valenta) Game(s) Awakening Fates Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Dragonskin (Japanese: 竜鱗 Dragon Scales) is an enemy-exclusive combat skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Awakening. It is primarily used by draconic late-to-endgame bosses such as Grima and Anankos. It halves damage dealt to its bearer and negates the effects of certain skills. Its Fates version also weakens critical hits and certain other skills, whereas its Echoes: Shadows of Valentia incarnation only serves to halve damage dealt.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Awakening		Reduces all damage dealt to the user by 50%. Negates Counter and Lethality.	100%	--	--
Fates		Reduces all damage dealt to the user by 50%. Negates Counter, Countermagic, Lethality, and Poison Strike. Weakens critical hits and offensive skills by 50%.	100%	--	Critical hits deal 1.5× damage instead of 3×. Sol and Aether heal 25% of damage dealt as HP instead of 50%.
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia		Reduces all damage dealt to the user by 50%.	100%	--	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Heroes		Nullifies bonus damage targeting flying units, and boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +4 each when enemy initiates combat.	--	--	Cost: 300 SP

Availability

Awakening

Unobtainable

Exclusively used by Grima on all difficulties, Validar on Hard Mode and above, and enemies in Apotheosis on all difficulties.

Fates

Unobtainable

Exclusively used by Garon, Takumi*, Gunter*, and Anankos on all difficulties.

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Classes

Fell Dragon

Heroes

Units

Robin: Fell Vessel

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Dragonskin is present as a skill on two cards in Fire Emblem Cipher, albeit with different effects between the two:

• Gunter's Dragonskin skill (B06-096R Traitorous Old Knight) protects him from being destroyed by the effects of skills or as the cost paid to activate a skill.
• Grima's Dragonskin skill (B08-048R Baleful Dragon) increases her attack power by 20 points if her player controls more units than the opponent. This incentivizes the use of one of her other skills, "The Grimleal", which enhances the player's ability to deploy as many Risen at once as they can to keep their numbers high and trigger Dragonskin.

Trivia

• In Mystery of the Emblem, Medeus and all enemy Earth Dragons are protected by a similar effect to Dragonskin, which halves the attack power of all enemies. This effect is also given by Loptous to Julius in Genealogy of the Holy War.
• Unlike most skills that appear in both Awakening and Fates, Dragonskin has different skill icons between the games.
• An item appearing in TearRingSaga: Yutona Heroes War Chronicles, Holy Dragon's Scales, is known by the name "Dragon Skin" in some versions of Yutona Heroes War Chronicles fan translations. The Dragon Mail, another item appearing in Yutona Heroes War Chronicles, is closer to this skill in effect and use, halving incoming damage and being used by Gerxel, the game's final boss.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Dragonskin	--
Japanese	• 邪竜の鱗 • 竜鱗	• Evil Dragon's Scales. This name is used in Awakening and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. • Dragon Scales. This name is used in Fates.
Spanish	Piel dragontina	Draconic skin
French	Écailles de dragon	Dragon's scales
German	Drachenhaut	Dragonskin
Italian	Scaglie di drago	Dragon's scales

References

Passive skills in Heroes

Type A skills Aether Raids-Defensive Attack⁄Resistance • Aether Raids-Offensive Attack⁄Defense • Armored Blow • Attack + • Attack/Defense + • Attack/Defense Bond • Attack/Defense Push • Attack/Defense Solo • Attack/Resistance • Attack/Resistance Bond • Attack/Resistance Solo • Attack/Speed • Attack/Speed Bond • Attack/Speed Push • Blue Duel Flying • Bonus Doubler • Bracing Blow • Bracing Stance • Brazen Attack/Defense • Brazen Attack/Resistance • Brazen Attack/Speed • Brazen Defense/Resistance • Close Counter • Close Defense • Colorless Duel Infantry • Darting Blow • Darting Stance • Death Blow • Defense + • Defense/Resistance Bond • Defense/Resistance Solo • Defense/Resistance • Defiant Attack • Defiant Defense • Defiant Resistance • Defiant Speed • Distant Counter • Distant Defense • Dragonskin • Earth Boost • Fierce Breath • Fierce Stance • Fire Boost • Flashing Blade • Fortress Defense • Fortress Defense/Resistance • Fortress Resistance • Fury • Grani's Shield • Green Duel Flying • Green Duel Infantry • Heavy Blade • HP + • HP/Attack • HP/Defense • HP/Resistance • HP/Speed • Iote's Shield • Kestrel Stance • Laws of Sacae • Life and Death • Mirror Stance • Mirror Strike • Ostian Counter • Red Duel Flying • Resistance + • Sorcery Blade • Speed + • Speed/Defense • Speed/Defense Bond • Speed/Defense Solo • Speed/Resistance • Speed/Resistance Bond • Steady Blow • Steady Breath • Steady Stance • Sturdy Blow • Sturdy Impact • Sturdy Stance • Svalinn Shield • Swift Sparrow • Swift Stance • Swift Strike • Triangle Adept • Warding Blow • Warding Breath • Warding Stance • Water Boost • Wind Boost Type B skills Aerobatics • Attack Feint • Attack/Defense Link • Attack/Resistance Link • Attack/Speed Link • Axebreaker • Beorc's Blessing • Binding Shield • Blaze Dance • Blue Tomebreaker • Bold Fighter • Bowbreaker • Brash Assault • Bushido • Cancel Affinity • Chill Attack • Chill Defense • Chill Resistance • Chill Speed • Chilling Seal • Crusader's Ward • Daggerbreaker • Dazzling Staff • Defense Feint • Defense/Resistance Link • Desperation • Disarm Trap • Double Lion • Drag Back • Dull Close • Dull Ranged • Earth Dance • Escape Route • Fireflood Dance • Firestorm Dance • Flier Formation • Follow-Up Ring • Freezing Seal • Gale Dance • Geyser Dance • Green Tomebreaker • Guard • Hit and Run • Knock Back • Lancebreaker • Live for Bounty • Live for Honor • Live to Serve • Lunge • Mystic Boost • Null C-Disrupt • Null Follow-Up‎ • Obstruct • Pass • Poison Strike • Quick Riposte • Recover Ring • Red Tomebreaker • Renewal • Resistance Feint • Rockslide Dance • S Drink • Sabotage Attack • Sabotage Resistance • Sacae's Blessing • Seal Attack • Seal Attack/Defense • Seal Attack/Speed • Seal Defense • Seal Defense/Resistance • Seal Resistance • Seal Speed • Seal Speed/Defense • Shield Pulse • Solar Brace • Special Fighter • Speed Feint • Speed/Defense Link • Speed/Resistance Link • Sudden Panic • Swordbreaker • Torrent Dance • Vantage • Vengeful Fighter • Warp Powder • Wary Fighter • Watersweep • Windsweep • Wings of Mercy • Wrath • Wrathful Staff Type C skills Air Orders • Armor March • Attack Opening • Attack Ploy • Attack Smoke • Attack Tactic • Axe Experience • Axe Valor • Beast Experience • Beast Valor • Blue Tome Experience • Blue Tome Valor • Bow Experience • Bow Valor • Breath of Life • Chaos Named • Close Guard • Dagger Valor • Defense Opening • Defense Ploy • Defense Smoke • Defense Tactic • Distant Guard • Dragon Valor • Drive Attack • Drive Defense • Drive Resistance • Drive Speed • Even Attack Wave • Even Defense Wave • Even Resistance Wave • Even Speed Wave • Flier Guidance • Fortify Armor • Fortify Beasts • Fortify Cavalry • Fortify Defense • Fortify Dragons • Fortify Fliers • Fortify Resistance • Glare • Goad Armor • Goad Beasts • Goad Cavalry • Goad Dragons • Goad Fliers • Green Tome Experience • Green Tome Valor • Guidance • Hone Armor • Hone Attack • Hone Beasts • Hone Cavalry • Hone Dragons • Hone Fliers • Hone Speed • Human Virtue • Infantry Flash • Infantry Pulse • Infantry Rush • Joint Hone Speed • Lance Valor • Odd Attack Wave • Odd Defense Wave • Odd Resistance Wave • Odd Speed Wave • Ostia's Pulse • Panic Ploy • Red Tome Experience • Red Tome Valor • Resistance Opening • Resistance Ploy • Resistance Smoke • Resistance Tactic • Savage Blow • Solitary Dream • Speed Opening • Speed Ploy • Speed Smoke • Speed Tactic • Spur Attack • Spur Attack/Defense • Spur Attack/Resistance • Spur Attack/Speed • Spur Defense • Spur Defense/Resistance • Spur Resistance • Spur Speed • Spur Speed/Defense • Spur Speed/Resistance • Staff Valor • Surtr's Menace • Sword Experience • Sword Valor • Threaten Attack • Threaten Defense • Threaten Resistance • Threaten Speed • Upheaval • Ward Armor • Ward Beasts • Ward Cavalry • Ward Dragons • Ward Fliers • With Everyone! Sacred Seals Armored Boots • Attack Ploy • Attack + • Attack/Defense Bond • Attack/Defense + • Attack/Speed • Attack/Speed Bond • Attack Smoke • Blaze Dance • Brash Assault • Brazen Attack/Resistance • Breath of Life • Chill Attack • Close Defense • Darting Stance • Defense Ploy • Defense + • Defense Tactic • Deflect Magic • Deflect Melee • Deflect Missile • Distant Defense • Drive Attack • Drive Defense • Drive Resistance • Drive Speed • Earth Dance • Embla's Ward • Even Resistance Wave • Fierce Stance • Flashing Blade • Flier Formation • Fortify Defense • Fortify Resistance • Fortress Defense • Fortress Resistance • Gale Dance • Guidance • Hardy Bearing • Heavy Blade • Hone Attack • Hone Speed • HP + • HP/Resistance • HP/Speed • Initiate Seal Attack • Initiate Seal Defense • Initiate Seal HP • Initiate Seal Resistance • Initiate Seal Speed • Iote's Shield • Live to Serve • Múspellflame • Obstruct • Panic Ploy • Phantom Speed • Poison Strike • Quick Riposte • Quickened Pulse • Resistance Ploy • Resistance + • Resistance Tactic • Savage Blow • Seal Attack • Seal Speed • Sparkling Boost • Speed Ploy • Speed + • Speed/Defense • Speed/Resistance Bond • Speed Smoke • Spur Attack • Spur Defense • Spur Defense/Resistance • Spur Resistance • Spur Speed • Squad Ace A • Squad Ace B • Squad Ace C • Squad Ace D • Squad Ace E • Squad Ace F • Squad Ace G • Squad Ace H • Squad Ace I • Squad Ace J • Squad Ace K • Squad Ace L • Squad Ace M • Squad Ace N • Squad Ace O • Squad Ace P • Squad Ace Q • Squad Ace R • Squad Ace S • Squad Ace T • Squad Ace U • Squad Ace V • Threaten Attack • Threaten Defense • Threaten Resistance • Threaten Speed • Warding Stance • Water Boost • Wind Boost