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Bowbreaker
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Bowbreaker (Japanese: 弓殺し Bow Slayer) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Awakening. It gives its user enormous advantages when fighting an enemy who is wielding a bow or yumi. In Awakening, it is a class skill learned by Bow Knights; in Fates, it is a class skill learned by Sorcerers; while in Three Houses, it is the class mastery skill of the Warlock. It provides enormous boosts to its user's hit rate and avoid when fighting these weapons.
In Heroes, it is a type B passive skill split into three levels, in order from lowest to highest: Bowbreaker 1, Bowbreaker 2, and Bowbreaker 3. Units with a Bowbreaker skill will, when fighting the user of a colorless bow skill while this skill's user's own HP is at a certain threshold or higher, automatically make a follow-up attack and prevent the bow skill's user from doing so themselves. The minimum amount of current HP required to activate the skill decreases with each level. Bowbreaker will only activate against colorless bow users, and will not activate against red, green, or blue bow users.
Data
In the main Fire Emblem series
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
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Awakening | +50 hit, +50 avoid when activated. | If foe has a bow equipped | -- | -- | |
Fates | +50 hit, +50 avoid when activated. | If foe has a bow or yumi equipped | -- | -- | |
Three Houses | +20 hit, +20 avoid when activated. | If foe has a bow equipped and user has black magic, white magic, or dark magic equipped | -- | -- |
In other Fire Emblem series titles
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
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Heroes (Bowbreaker 1) |
Guarantees that the user will perform a follow-up attack, and nullifies the target's ability to follow-up attack, when activated. | If HP ≥ 90% and if the target is a colorless bow user | -- | Cost: 50 SP If used against another breaker skill, they cancel each other out. If the target has Wary Fighter equipped, the user may follow-up attack if their speed allows them to do so naturally. If the target has Brash Assault or Quick Riposte equipped, they may follow-up attack only if their speed allows them to do so naturally. | |
Heroes (Bowbreaker 2) |
Guarantees that the user will perform a follow-up attack, and nullifies the target's ability to follow-up attack, when activated. | If HP ≥ 70% and if the target is a colorless bow user | -- | Cost: 100 SP If used against another breaker skill, they cancel each other out. If the target has Wary Fighter equipped, the user may follow-up attack if their speed allows them to do so naturally. If the target has Brash Assault or Quick Riposte equipped, they may follow-up attack only if their speed allows them to do so naturally. | |
Heroes (Bowbreaker 3) |
Guarantees that the user will perform a follow-up attack, and nullifies the target's ability to follow-up attack, when activated. | If HP ≥ 50% and if the target is a colorless bow user | -- | Cost: 200 SP If used against another breaker skill, they cancel each other out. If the target has Wary Fighter equipped, the user may follow-up attack if their speed allows them to do so naturally. If the target has Brash Assault or Quick Riposte equipped, they may follow-up attack only if their speed allows them to do so naturally. | |
Warriors | -- | A weapon attribute. If forged onto a weapon, damage dealt by that weapon against bow users is increased. | -- | -- | Forging cost: 2,000G |
Availability
Awakening
Classes | Bow Knight (Learned at Level 15) |
Items | Superior Bow |
Fates
Classes | Sorcerer (Learned from Level 15 and up) |
Three Houses
Class mastery | Warlock (150 class Exp required) |
Heroes
Units | Setsuna: Absent Archer (★★★★) • Takumi: Prince of Soup |
Warriors
Bowbreaker can appear as a weapon attribute on weapons acquired from battle, and will allow you to deal increased damage against foes using bows.
Other appearances
Fire Emblem Cipher
Bowbreaker is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B08-010R Head of House Virion, Virion. It prevents all bow-using enemy units from inflicting critical hits.
Flavor text
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
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Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
Bowbreaker |
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Spanish |
Rompearcos |
Bowbreaker |
French |
Anti-arc |
Anti-bow |
German |
Bogenbrecher |
Bowbreaker |
Italian |
Spezzarco |
Bowbreaker |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Antiarco |
Anti-bow |
Korean |
활 킬러 |
Bow killer |
Simplified Chinese |
破弓者 |
Bow breaker |
Traditional Chinese |
破弓者 |
Bow breaker |
References
See also
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