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Formshift

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Formshift

Is wii formshift.png
Icon of the Formshift skill in Radiant Dawn.


Allows the unit to transform at any time. The unit will stay transformed until choosing to revert forms.

Type(s)

Personal

Capacity

0

First game

Radiant Dawn

Formshift (Japanese: 王者 King) is a combat skill which is exclusive to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Exclusively used by the kings and queens of the laguz tribes, it allows these characters to completely ignore the effects of their transform gauge and allows them to transform or revert from their animal form at any time, without any stat penalty or gauge decay. Royal laguz units still enter chapters untransformed, but transforming through this skill does not count as an action, and the unit is free to move, enter combat or use items and skills. It replaces the Laguz Band item of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, which performed the same function.

The Laguz Gem item grants non royal laguz units a similar effect, but unlike Formshift this counts as an action the turn it is used, and they are very limited in supply. Wildheart is similar mechanically, but the user still experiences gauge decay and suffers a significant stat penalty.

Data

Game Icon Effect Activation Capacity Notes
Radiant Dawn Is wii formshift.png Keeps user's transform gauge full at all times and negates transform point losses, allowing the user to shift and revert at will. Passive 0 Laguz royals only. Cannot be unequipped.

Availability

Radiant Dawn

Units CaineghisNailahNaesalaTibarn
Event Part IV, Endgame (3), granted to Kurthnaga upon clearing chapter

Flavor text

Game Text
(English)
Text
(Japanese)
Radiant Dawn
(skill assignment menu)
Transform at any time.
The unit will stay
transformed until
choosing to revert.
Cannot unnasign
いつでも『化身』できる
『化身解除』しない限り
ずっと『化身』状態
書に戻せない
Radiant Dawn
(help)
Allows the unit to transform at any
time. The unit will stay transformed
until choosing to revert forms.
いつでも『化身』できる
『化身解除』を選ぶまで
ずっと『化身』していられる

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language Name Definition, etymology, and notes
English

Formshift

--

Japanese

王者

Romanized as KING in its internal file name.

Spanish

Transforma

Transform

French

Forme

Form

German

Regent

Regent

Italian

Mutaforma

Shapeshift

Gallery

References

See also

Skills in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Command skills FlourishGambleGaldrarGlareParitySacrificeShoveSmiteStealWildheart
Counter skills CounterHowlMaelstromQuickclawShriek
Bonus damage skills BeastfoeBirdfoeDragonfoeNullify
Experience-related skills BlossomDisciplineParagon
Healing skills BlessingBoonGaldrarImbueMantleRenewalSacrifice
Low-HP skills MiracleResolveWrath
Mobility skills CantoCelerityGaldrarPassSaviorShoveSmite
Proximity skills Blood TideDauntNight TideWhite Pool
Miscellaneous skills AdeptCancelFortuneGuardMercyNihilPaviseProvokeVantage
Beorc-exclusive skills CorrosionDisarmDisciplineShadeStillness
Laguz-exclusive skills BlessingBlood TideBoonFormshiftGaldrarHowlInsightMaelstromNight TideQuickclawShriekVigilanceWhite PoolWildheart
Class skills CantoCritical +ShoveSteal
Mastery skills AetherAstraBaneColossusCoronaDeadeyeEclipseFlareImpaleIreLethalityLunaRendRoarSavageSolStunTear
Enemy-exclusive skills Aurora