Bowgun

Bowgun Icon of the Bowgun from Radiant Dawn. A short, mounted bow that shoots stones or quarrels. It can also hit adjacent enemies.

Type Bow First game Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light

The Bowgun (Japanese: ボウガン Bowgun) is a rare bow-type weapon which was introduced in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light and has only appeared in one game since, Radiant Dawn. It originated as a basic bow whose main selling points were its increased critical rate, high hit rate, and its low weapon level, ensuring that all playable bow users could wield it immediately. It did not appear in either remake of this game.

In its second appearance, seventeen years later, the Bowgun was reclassified as a crossbow, and is the weakest of the crossbow series of weapons. Unlike conventional bows, the Bowgun and other crossbows can attack adjacent and distant enemies alike, but in exchange its damage calculation completely ignores the user's strength stat and is based only on its own might, giving it a fixed, mostly consistent damage output no matter who uses it.

Stats

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light	--	2	5	2	100	20	2	37	950	--	--

Trivia

• When equipping the bowgun in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, the characters' sprites change to show that a different kind of bow is being used:

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Archer
Hunter
Sniper
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Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Bowgun	--
Spanish	Lanzadardos	Dart shooter
French	Petite arbalète	Little crossbow
German	Balester	Bullet-shooting crossbow
Italian	Balestra-fionda	Crossbow-slingshot

Gallery

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  An enemy Sniper wielding a Bowgun in Radiant Dawn.