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Vantage
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Vantage (Japanese: 待ち伏せ Ambush) is a combat skill which debuted in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. In all of its appearances, it allows the user to strike the enemy first when said enemy initiates an attack on the user during the enemy phase. The activation criteria vary from game to game, but typically involve the user being at 50% or less HP. Awakening features a stronger variation, known as Vantage+, that activates regardless of the user's HP, exclusive to enemies on Lunatic+ difficulty. In Heroes, it is a three-tiered type B passive skill (whose individiual tiers are Vantage 1, Vantage 2, and Vantage 3 in order from lowest to highest), and activates its effect when its HP is at or below a certain threshold; the amount of HP remaining needed to activate the skill increases with the skill's tier.
Data
In the main Fire Emblem series
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
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Genealogy of the Holy War | The user always strikes first. Negates the foe's Accost. |
If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | -- | |
Thracia 776 | The user always strikes first. | If foe initiates combat | -- | If the user also has Wrath, Wrath will not activate unless the foe also has Vantage, as the user would strike first. If the foe has Wrath and does not have Vantage, this causes the foe's Wrath to activate. | |
Path of Radiance | The user always strikes first. | If foe initiates combat | 10 | -- | |
Radiant Dawn | The user strikes first. | (Speed)%, if foe initiates combat | 15 | -- | |
Awakening | The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | -- | |
Awakening (Vantage+) |
The user always strikes first. | If foe initiates combat | -- | -- | |
Fates | The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | Base cost: 750 G | |
Three Houses | The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cannot be equipped by Heroes. | |
Engage (Vantage) |
The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 25% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cost: 500 SP | |
Engage (Vantage+) |
The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cost: 1,000 SP | |
Engage (Vantage++) |
The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 75% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cost: 2,000 SP |
In other Fire Emblem series titles
Game | Icon | Type | Effect | SP cost | Prerequisites | Unusable by | Inheritable | Other effects and notes |
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Heroes (Vantage 1) |
B | If user's HP ≤ 25% and foe initiates combat, user can counterattack before foe's first attack. | 50 | -- | -- | ✓ | -- | |
Heroes (Vantage 2) |
B | If user's HP ≤ 50% and user initiates combat, user can counterattack before foe's first attack. | 100 | Vantage 1 | -- | ✓ | -- | |
Heroes (Vantage 3) |
B | If user's HP ≤ 75% and user initiates combat, user can counterattack before foe's first attack. | 200 | Vantage 2 | -- | ✓ | -- |
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
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Warriors: Three Hopes | Perfect Guards restore a small amount of the Warrior and Awakening Gauges. | If user's HP ≤ 50% | -- | -- |
Availability
Genealogy of the Holy War
Units (As a personal skill) | First Generation: Arden • Lex Second Generation: (Any set of two children*), if Arden or Lex was their father • Ares • Hannibal • Iuchar • Dalvin |
Thracia 776
Units (As a personal skill) | Halvan • Machyua |
Units (As a class skill) | Perne After promotion: Lara • Lifis |
Classes | Thief Fighter |
Items | Vantage M • Beo's Sword • Dragon Lance |
Path of Radiance
Units | Mia • Naesala |
Items | Vantage |
Radiant Dawn
Units | Mia • Naesala |
Items | Vantage |
Awakening
Vantage
Units | Arden • Athena • Ayra • Deen • Eyvel • Karel • Larcei • Lloyd • Lucia • Lyn (SpotPass version) • Marisa • Mia • Olwen • Owain • Navarre • Say'ri • Seliph (SpotPass version) • Ulster • Yen'fay • Zihark |
Classes | Myrmidon (Learned at Level 10) |
Vantage+
Unobtainable | Exclusively used by enemies on Lunatic+ Mode, and by enemies in Apotheosis on all difficulties. |
Fates
Units | Fuga • Hinata • Hisame • Ryoma |
Classes | Samurai (Learned at Level 10) |
Three Houses
Classes | Hero |
Class mastery | Mercenary (100 class Exp required) |
Engage
Vantage
Emblem Rings | Leif (bond level 3) |
Vantage+
Emblem Rings | Leif (bond level 12) |
Vantage++
Emblem Rings | Leif (bond level 18) |
Heroes
Warriors: Three Hopes
Class mastery (★) | Mercenary: All units except Byleth • Catherine • Dimitri • Edelgard • Felix • Ignatz • Lorenz • Rodrigue • Sylvain |
Flavor text
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Game | Text (English) |
Text (Japanese) |
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Genealogy of the Holy War | User will always
strike first in a pinch.* |
ピンチになったとき
せんせいこうげき をする |
Thracia 776 | Initiate fight when
attacked (Cannot stack with Wrath)* |
必ず
せんせい攻撃 をする |
Path of Radiance (skill assignment menu) |
Allows this unit to
attack first in all fights. All units |
常に先制攻撃を行なう
取得可能 全ユニット |
Path of Radiance (help) |
Allows this unit to attack
first in all fights. |
常に先制攻撃を行ないます
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Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu) |
Can allow this unit to
attack first even when an enemy initiates combat. |
発動すると
敵から攻撃された場合でも 自分が先制攻撃できる |
Radiant Dawn (help) |
Can allow this unit to attack first even
when an enemy initiates combat. |
発動すると
敵から攻撃された場合でも 自分が先制攻撃できる |
Awakening (Vantage) |
If HP is half or less, always
strike first, even when attacked. |
HPが半分以下の時、敵から
攻撃を受けても先制攻撃できる |
Awakening (Vantage+) |
Always strike first, even
when attacked. |
常時、敵から
攻撃を受けても先制攻撃できる |
Fates | At start of combat, if HP=50% or less,
always strike first, even when attacked. |
戦闘開始時、自分のHPが半分以下の時、
敵から攻撃されても自分から先に攻撃を行う |
Three Houses | When foe initiates combat, unit still attacks
first if HP is ≤ 50%. |
HPが50%以下で
敵から攻撃された時、 先制攻撃する |
Engage (Vantage) |
If unit's HP is 25% or less and foe
initiates combat, unit can counter before foe's first attack. |
敵から攻撃された時
自分のHPが25%以下なら先制攻撃する |
Engage (Vantage+) |
If unit's HP is 50% or less and foe
initiates combat, unit can counter before foe's first attack. |
敵から攻撃された時
自分のHPが50%以下なら先制攻撃する |
Engage (Vantage++) |
If unit's HP is 75% or less and foe
initiates combat, unit can counter before foe's first attack. |
敵から攻撃された時
自分のHPが75%以下なら先制攻撃する |
Heroes (Vantage 1) |
If unit’s HP ≤ 25% and foe initiates combat, unit
can counterattack before foe’s first attack. |
自分のHPが25%以下で、
敵から攻撃された時、先制攻撃 |
Heroes (Vantage 2) |
If unit’s HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat, unit
can counterattack before foe’s first attack. |
自分のHPが50%以下で、
敵から攻撃された時、先制攻撃 |
Heroes (Vantage 3) |
If unit’s HP ≤ 75% and foe initiates combat, unit
can counterattack before foe’s first attack. |
自分のHPが75%以下で、
敵から攻撃された時、先制攻撃 |
Warriors: Three Hopes | When HP is at 50% or below:
Perfect Guards restore a small amount of the Warrior and Awakening Gauges. |
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Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
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Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
Vantage |
An advantage, usually in the context of situations and conditions which provide an advantage. |
Japanese |
待ち伏せ |
Ambush |
Spanish |
Emboscada |
Ambush |
Spanish (Latin America) |
Ventaja |
Advantage; used in the Latin American localizations of Heroes and Engage. |
French |
Initiative |
Initiative |
German |
Vorteil |
Advantage |
Italian |
Vantaggio |
Advantage |
Portuguese |
Vantagem |
Vantage |
Korean |
매복 |
Ambush |
Simplified Chinese |
埋伏 |
Ambush |
Traditional Chinese |
埋伏 |
Ambush |
Gallery
Artwork of the Vantage manual from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.
Mia activating Vantage in Path of Radiance.
Mia activating Vantage in Radiant Dawn.
References
See also
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