Assassin

The Assassin (Japanese: アサシン Assassin) is an advanced class which was introduced in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. It is the most common promoted form of the Thief class, appearing in five games since.

Assassins are designed to add powerful offensive abilities on top of the Thief's traditional utility functions. Though their stats remain in the same pattern as Thieves, with fantastic skill and speed but average strength, their most iconic feature is their exclusive access to the Lethality skill, which gives them the ability to instantly kill a foe if it triggers. They also tend to have significant bonuses added to their critical hit rate. However, they are still fairly frail, with below-average HP and defense, and poor resistance. Assassins are very much a luck-based class, relying on random chance of activating critical hits or Lethality, but are extremely dangerous when luck works in their favor.

In nearly every appearance, Assassins are a class change option for Thieves; in The Sacred Stones and Awakening, Myrmidons also have the option to promote to Assassin. In Path of Radiance, however, only Volke is allowed to promote to Assassin, and the game's other playable Thief, Sothe, cannot promote at all. In Radiant Dawn, the Assassin is a third-tier class which is entirely exclusive to Volke again and is not a promotion option for any class, although the extremely similar third-tier class Whisper is still an option for Rogues who promoted from Thieves. In Fates, their role is supplanted by the Master Ninja class, a similarly functioning promotion option for the Thief's Hoshidan counterpart—the Ninja. In Three Houses, they are not restricted to any character and do not necessitate needing to class change from the Thief class, although the Thief class is the easiest route to reach the Assassin class from due to its specialties; this is changed in Warriors: Three Hopes where the Assassin must be promoted into from the Thief as per the norm, and they in turn promote into the Trickster this time around.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	16	3	--	1	9	0	2	0	6	6	E
The Sacred Stones	16	3	--	1	9	0	2	0	6	8/6	D
Path of Radiance	18	5	1	5	11	0	4	2	7	10	-- (+Knives)
Radiant Dawn	60	28	10	36	38	0	22	20	7	11	S
Awakening	21	8	0	13	12	0	5	1	6	--	E E
Three Houses	30	17	8	12	14	10	12	8	6	--	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	60	20	--	30	30	30	20	20	15	20	S
The Sacred Stones	60	20	--	30	30	30	20	20	15	20	S
Path of Radiance	60	23	20	30	30	40	22	20	20	99	-- (+Knives)
Radiant Dawn	55	32	15	40	40	25	30	25	20	99	SS
Awakening	80	40	30	48	46	45	31	30	8	--	A A

Miscellaneous stats

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	50%	5%	--	45%	40%	40%	5%	20%	--	--	--	--
The Sacred Stones	50%	5%	--	45%	40%	40%	5%	20%	--	--	--	--
Path of Radiance	50%	40%	15%	50%	55%	35%	20%	15%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	65%	50%	5%	55%	65%	20%	35%	15%	--	--	--	--
Awakening	40/80%	20/40%	0%	30/50%	25/50%	0/30%	5/25%	5/15%	--	--	--	--
Three Houses	20/30%	0/18%	0%	20%	20/30%	0%	0/25%	0%	0%	--	--	+3 +2
Warriors: Three Hopes	20%	0%	0%	30%	30%	0%	0%	0%	0%	--	--	--

Class modifiers

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
The Blazing Blade The Sacred Stones Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn Awakening Three Houses	Lethality	• The Blazing Blade and The Sacred Stones: Innate. • Path of Radiance: Occult skill. • Radiant Dawn: Innate (mastery skill). • Awakening: Learned at level 5. • Three Houses: Class mastery. (150 class Exp required)
Path of Radiance	Steal	Innate.
Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate; hidden in Path of Radiance.
Radiant Dawn	Critical +25	Innate.
Awakening Warriors: Three Hopes	Pass	• Awakening: Learned at level 15. • Warriors: Three Hopes: Innate.
Three Houses Warriors: Three Hopes	Swordfaire	Innate.
Three Houses Warriors: Three Hopes	Locktouch	Innate.
Three Houses	Stealth	Innate.
Three Houses	Assassinate	Class mastery. (150 class Exp required)
Warriors: Three Hopes	Axe Buster Lv 3	Innate.

• The Blazing Blade: Assassins are able to pick up placed mines if they end their turn on one.

Class change

The Blazing Blade

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Thief	Using a Fell Contract after reaching level 10.	Assassin

The Sacred Stones

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Thief and Myrmidon	Using an Ocean Seal* or Hero Crest* after reaching level 10.	Assassin

Path of Radiance

Radiant Dawn

Awakening

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Thief and Myrmidon	Using a Master Seal after reaching level 10.	Assassin

Three Houses

Base class	Certification requirements	Advanced class
Any class	Level 20 Advanced Seal B, C	Assassin
This class is available for any unit.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Archer	Using a Master Seal while talking to Tiki.	Sniper or Assassin
Promotion choice criteria: The player can freely choose.

Warriors: Three Hopes

Beginner class	Method	Intermediate class	Method	Advanced class	Method	Master class
Myrmidon	Using an Intermediate Seal after mastering Myrmidon.	Thief	Using an Advanced Seal after mastering Thief.	Assassin	Using a Master Seal after mastering Assassin.	Trickster
					Using a Master Seal after mastering Assassin or Swordmaster.	Dancer
Promotion choice criteria: The dancer class only becomes available upon visiting a survey spot in Chapter 12 , Chapter 12 or Chapter 13 .

Playable assassins

Playable units
Name	Game
Jaffar	The Blazing Blade, Awakening
Volke	Radiant Dawn
Petra	Warriors: Three Hopes
Yuri	Warriors: Three Hopes
Playable Assassin units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Assassins

Enemy units
Name	Game
Jerme	The Blazing Blade
Gecko	Awakening
Jamil	Awakening
Porcus	Awakening
Kronya	Three Houses, Warriors: Three Hopes
Metodey	Three Houses
Manuela	Three Houses
Petra	Three Houses , Warriors: Three Hopes
Yuri	Warriors: Three Hopes
Enemy Assassin units in the Fire Emblem series.

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Trivia

• In The Blazing Blade and The Sacred Stones, Assassins lose access to the Steal skill when they promote from Thieves, though they are still able to use Lockpicks. This was changed in Path of Radiance, but the class lost Steal again in Radiant Dawn.
• Path of Radiance has an unused female version of the Assassin with slightly different stats.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

Portraits

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  The generic Assassin portrait in Awakening.

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  The generic Risen Assassin portrait in Awakening.

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  The generic allied Assassin portrait in Awakening.

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  Portrait of Gecko/Jamil as an Assassin in Awakening.

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  One of the generic male Assassin portraits in Three Houses.

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  The generic female Assassin portrait in Three Houses.

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  Portrait of Virion as an Assassin in Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE.

Concept artwork

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  Concept artwork of the Assassin class from Awakening.

Screenshots

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  Volke as an Assassin in Path of Radiance.

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  Volke as an Assassin in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ferdinand as an Assassin in Three Houses.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Gaius as an Assassin.

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  Artwork of Gaius as an Assassin.

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  Artwork of Owain as an Assassin.

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  Artwork of Byleth as an Assassin.

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  Artwork of Byleth as an Assassin.

See also

• Thief Fighter
• Rogue
• Whisper
• Master Ninja

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