Panic Ploy

Panic Ploy Icon of the Panic Ploy 1 skill in Heroes. At start of turn, converts bonuses on foes in cardinal directions with HP ≤ unit's HP-5 into penalties through their next actions.

Type(s) Passive (Type C) Game(s) Heroes

Panic Ploy (Japanese: 恐慌の奇策 Panic Ploy) is a three-tiered passive type C skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Heroes; the individual tiers of the skill are known as Panic Ploy 1, Panic Ploy 2, and Panic Ploy 3 in order from lowest to highest. Units with a Panic Ploy skill allows their wielders to turn any bonuses on foes in cardinal directions from the user into penalties provided their HP is below a certain threshold of the user's through their following actions; the HP threshold needed for activation decreases with the skill's tier.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Heroes (Panic Ploy 1)		At start of turn, all foes in a cardinal direction of user whose HP is at least 5 lower than user have their bonuses turned into penalties through foe's next action.	--	--	Cost: 60 SP
Heroes (Panic Ploy 2)		At start of turn, all foes in a cardinal direction of user whose HP is at least 3 lower than user have their bonuses turned into penalties through foe's next action.	--	--	Cost: 120 SP
Heroes (Panic Ploy 3)		At start of turn, all foes in a cardinal direction of user whose HP is lower than user have their bonuses turned into penalties through foe's next action.	--	--	Cost: 240 SP

Availability

Heroes

Panic Ploy 1

Units	Gangrel: Plegia's Mad King • Garon: King of Nohr • Helbindi: Seaside Scourge • Luke: Rowdy Squire • Valter: Dark Moonstone • Zelgius: Jet-Black General (Rarity requirements vary per character)
Tempest Trials	September 2017: 40,000 points
Sacred Seal Forge (Creation)	Requires 100 regular Transparent Badges, 20 Great Transparent Badges, and 40 Sacred Coins.

Panic Ploy 2

Units	Gangrel: Plegia's Mad King • Garon: King of Nohr • Helbindi: Seaside Scourge • Luke: Rowdy Squire • Valter: Dark Moonstone • Zelgius: Jet-Black General (Rarity requirements vary per character)
Sacred Seal Forge (Enhancement)	Requires 200 regular Transparent Badges, 60 Great Transparent Badges, 50 Sacred Coins, and the Panic Ploy 1 seal.

Panic Ploy 3

Units	Gangrel: Plegia's Mad King • Garon: King of Nohr • Helbindi: Seaside Scourge • Luke: Rowdy Squire • Valter: Dark Moonstone • Zelgius: Jet-Black General (Rarity requirements vary per character)
Sacred Seal Forge (Enhancement)	Requires 400 regular Transparent Badges, 1,000 Great Transparent Badges, 100 Sacred Coins, and the Panic Ploy 2 seal

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Heroes (Panic Ploy 1)	At start of turn, converts bonuses on foes in cardinal directions with HP ≤ unit's HP-5 into penalties through their next actions.	ターン開始時、十字方向にいる、自身よりＨＰが５以上低い 敵の強化を＋ではなく－とする（敵の次回行動終了まで）
Heroes (Panic Ploy 2)	At start of turn, converts bonuses on foes in cardinal directions with HP ≤ unit's HP-3 into penalties through their next actions.	ターン開始時、十字方向にいる、自身よりＨＰが３以上低い 敵の強化を＋ではなく－とする（敵の次回行動終了まで）
Heroes (Panic Ploy 3)	At start of turn, converts bonuses on foes in cardinal directions with HP < unit's HP into penalties through their next actions.	ターン開始時、十字方向にいる、自身よりＨＰが１以上低い 敵の強化を＋ではなく－とする（敵の次回行動終了まで）

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Panic Ploy	--
Japanese	恐慌の奇策	Panic Ploy
Spanish	Ardid pavoroso	Dreadful ruse
French	Ruse Panique	Panic ruse
German	Paniktrick	Panic Trick
Italian	Schema panico	Panic scheme
Portuguese (Brazil)	Manobra pânico	Panic maneuver
Traditional Chinese	恐慌奇策	Panic odd scheme

See also

Passive skills in Heroes

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