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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 known as 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.
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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 enemy also has Vantage. | |
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 | -- | -- | |
Three Houses | The user always strikes first. | If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cannot be equipped by Heroes. |
In other Fire Emblem series titles
Game | Icon | Effect | Activation | Capacity | Notes |
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Heroes (Vantage 1) |
Unit counterattacks first. | If user's HP ≤ 25% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cost: 50 SP | |
Heroes (Vantage 2) |
Unit counterattacks first. | If user's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cost: 100 SP | |
Heroes (Vantage 3) |
Unit counterattacks first. | If user's HP ≤ 75% and foe initiates combat | -- | Cost: 200 SP |
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 • Dragonpike |
Path of Radiance
Units | Mia • Naesala |
Items | Vantage |
Radiant Dawn
Units | Mia • Naesala |
Items | Vantage |
Awakening
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 | Revelation: Fuga Birthright and Revelation: Hinata • Hisame • Ryoma |
Classes | Samurai (Learned at Level 10) |
Three Houses
Classes | Hero |
Class mastery | Mercenary (100 class Exp required) |
Heroes
Units | Anna: Commander • Altina: Dawn's Trueblade • Gaius: Thief Exposed • Gordin: Altean Archer • Ishtar: Thunder Goddess • Laevatein: Ninja of Múspell • Lon'qu: Solitary Blade • Mia: Lady of Blades • Orson: Passion's Folly • Reinhardt: Thunder's Fist • Reinhardt: Thunder's Sword • Rutger: Lone Swordsman (Rarity requirements vary per character) |
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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. |
Spanish |
Emboscada |
Ambush |
Spanish (Latin America) |
Ventaja |
Advantage; used only in the Latin American localization of Heroes. |
French |
Initiative |
Initiative |
German |
Vorteil |
Advantage |
Italian |
Vantaggio |
Advantage |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
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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