Bandit

Bandit Concept art of a Bandit from Tellius Recollection: Volume 1. Axe-wielding brutes of terrible strength who live only to loot and pillage.

Unit type(s) Unknown Weapon(s) Axe Skill(s) Shove

For the similar class known by this name in the Mystery of the Emblem fan translation, see Brigand.

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The Bandit (Japanese: 強盗バンデット Bandit) is an base infantry class introduced in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, appearing exclusively in it and Radiant Dawn. They are an axe-wielding, enemy-only class, and act as a replacement for other enemy-only axe classes from earlier Fire Emblem series games such as the Barbarian, Brigand and Pirate. Like these classes, they have an easier time crossing certain rough terrain: they are the only non-flying class able to cross bodies of water, while in Radiant Dawn they also have an easier time crossing desert sands than most infantry classes.

Bandits have similar stats to the earlier enemy-only axe classes, with very high strength and HP, as well as decent speed. However, not only do they suffer from the traditional poor skill stat of axe-wielding classes, which along with the low accuracy of axes gives them poor hit rates, but they are also affected by poor defense and resistance, with their high HP failing to do much to mitigate this. This makes them risky to fight carelessly but relatively easy to quickly damage and defeat.

In Path of Radiance Bandits are able to promote to the Berserker class, although since there are no playable Bandits the player cannot do this without hacking the game. In Radiant Dawn, they have no known promotion options, since the Berserker is not present in the game at all.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Path of Radiance	25	5	0	2	4	0	2	0	6	13	D

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Path of Radiance	40	20	15	20	20	40	20	20	??	??	A

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Path of Radiance	90%	60%	10%	30%	50%	25%	40%	20%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions

Class change

Path of Radiance

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Bandit	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Berserker

Radiant Dawn

Base class
Bandit

Notable enemy Bandits

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Zawana	Path of Radiance
Ikanau	Path of Radiance
Havetti	Path of Radiance
Nedata	Path of Radiance
Enemy Bandit units in the Fire Emblem series.

Gallery

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  Concept artwork for bandits in Path of Radiance.

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  An enemy Bandit in Path of Radiance.

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  An enemy Bandit in Radiant Dawn.

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  Bandit based portrait in Radiant Dawn.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Bandit	--
Spanish	Bandido	Bandit
French	Bandit	Bandit
German	Bandit	Bandit
Italian	Bandito	Bandit

See also

• Barbarian
• Brigand
• Pirate

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