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Make a Killing

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Make a Killing

Is ns02 make a killing.png
Icon of the Make a Killing skill in Engage.


May obtain 500G when unit defeats
a foe. Trigger %=Lck.

Type(s)

Personal

First game

Fates

Make a Killing (Japanese: 一攫千金 Make a Killing) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. The personal skill of Anna, it gives its user a chance to obtain gold upon defeating the enemy.

In Warriors, it is translated as Payday, and it gives its user a chance to boost their gold yields based on the user's Luck.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game Icon Effect Activation Capacity Notes
Fates Is 3ds02 make a killing.png Rewards the user with a random amount of gold after combat. (Luck)%, if user initiates combat and defeats the target -- --
Engage Is ns02 make a killing.png Rewards the user with 500 gold after combat. (Luck)%, if user defeats the target -- --

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game Icon Effect Activation Capacity Notes
Warriors Is fewa payday.png May increase gold yields; chance increases with user's Luck. -- -- --

Availability

Fates

Units Anna

Engage

Units Anna

Warriors

Learned Anna (requires Anna's Cap ×3)
Borrowed Requires ×1 each of Anna's Essence and Anna's Purse

Flavor text

Game Text
(English)
Text
(Japanese)
Fates
Obtain gold when this unit attacks and
defeats a foe. Trigger % = (Lck stat)
幸運%で発動
敵撃破時、ゴールドを入手
Engage
May obtain 500G when unit defeats
a foe. Trigger %=Lck.
幸運%で発動
敵撃破時、500Gを入手
Warriors
Receive more gold. Increases
with Lck.
獲得できるお金が増加する
幸運の値に応じて効果上昇

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language Name Definition, etymology, and notes
English

• Make a Killing
• Payday

• This skill's mechanics are based on Anna's greed for money. The idiom "make a killing" means to have great success in making money.[1] This name is used in Fates and Engage.
• This name is used in Warriors.

Japanese

一攫千金

A phrase roughly equivalent to "make a killing" or "get rich quick"; literally "one grab, a thousand gold".

Spanish

Liquidación total

Total liquidation

French

• Prix du sang
• Jour de paie

• Blood money. Used in Fates and Engage.
• Payday. Used in Warriors.

German

• Todsicherer Profit
• Bombengeschäft

• Dead certain profit; used in Fates.
• Booming business; used in Engage.

Italian

Soldi facili

Easy money

Korean

일확천금

Equivalent expression to "make a killing"; literally "one grab, a thousand gold".

Simplified Chinese

一夕致富

Get rich overnight

Traditional Chinese

一夕致富

Get rich overnight

Gallery

References

  1. Make a killing, idioms.thefreedictionary.com, Retrieved: April 2, 2016

See also

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