Grandmaster

For the maps in Fire Emblem Heroes with the common title "Grandmaster", see Tactics Drills.

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Grandmaster A default avatar as a Grandmaster in Awakening. An otherworldly class. A natural leader and tactician. Uses swords and tomes

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Sword, Tome Skill(s) Ignis, Rally Spectrum (Awakening) Tactical Advice, Solidarity, Ignis, Rally Spectrum (Fates)

The Grandmaster (Japanese: 神軍師 Grandmaster) is an advanced class debuting in Fire Emblem Awakening. It is the promoted class of the Tactician, primarily used by the game's avatar character, and shares its status as a wielder of both magic and swords. As with the Tactician, the Grandmaster in and of itself has balanced stats across the board, possessing the same maximum possible value in all stats except HP and luck, though in practice the individual asset/flaw stat modifiers of any individual avatar will ensure its stats vary considerably.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weight	Experience	CRP	Weapon Level
Awakening	20	7	6	7	7	0	7	5	6	--	--	--	--	E E
Fates	18	7	6	8	7	2	6	8	6	--	--	--	--	?  ?
Warriors (Robin)	138	25	40	33	21	16	15	42	5	--	--	--	--	E

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon Level
Awakening	80	40	40	40	40	45	40	40	8	--	A A
Fates	55	31	33	33	29	26	28	33	8	--	B A
Warriors (Robin)	898	109	169	142	92	71	64	182	5	--	S

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon Level*
Awakening	40/80%	15/40%	15/40%	15/40%	15/40%	0/40%	10/25%	10/25%	--	--	--	--
Fates	10%	15%	15%	15%	5%	0%	5%	15%	--	--	--	--

Click here for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Awakening Fates	Ignis	• Awakening: Learned at Level 5. • Fates: Learned from Level 25 and up.
Awakening Fates	Rally Spectrum	• Awakening: Learned at Level 15. • Fates: Learned from Level 35 and up.
Fates	Tactical Advice	Learned from Level 1 and up.
Fates	Solidarity	Learned from Level 10 and up.

Class change

Awakening

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Tactician	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10.	Grandmaster

Fates

Any class	Promotion method	Special class
? Any male class	Using a Fell Brand.	Grandmaster

Warriors

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Tactician	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 15.	Grandmaster

Playable Grandmasters

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Katarina	Awakening (DLC version only)
Playable Grandmaster units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Awakening	A seasoned tactician upon whom victory hinges.	天才的な指揮力を誇る軍師。 軍の要となる上級職。
Fates	An otherworldly class. A natural leader and tactician. Uses swords and tomes.	異界の兵種。天才的な指揮力を誇る軍師。 剣と魔法を使って戦う。

Trivia

• Of the four bonus amiibo classes in Fates, the Grandmaster has the fewest completely new skills among them, with only Tactical Advice not having appeared in Awakening.
  • The Grandmaster is, however, the only one of the four bonus amiibo classes who does not have at least one skill that overlaps with another bonus amiibo class.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Grandmaster	In modern parlance, "grandmaster" is a title bestowed upon chess players of high proficiency. As Fire Emblem is a strategy game loosely resembling chess, this was the likely intention of the name.
English (unofficial)	Master Tactician	This name was coined by Serenes Forest as a temporary name for the class, after it was sighted in an early Japanese trailer with no proper name provided at the time.
Japanese	神軍師	Officially romanized as Grandmaster; literally "divine strategist".
Spanish	Gran estratega	Great strategist
French	Maître stratège	Master strategist
German	Großmeister	Grandmaster
Italian	Gran Maestro	Grandmaster
Korean	참모

Gallery

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  Concept artwork of male and female Grandmasters from Awakening.

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  A default avatar as a Grandmaster in Awakening.

See also

• Mage Fighter

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.