Bane

Bane (Japanese: 瞬殺 Instant Kill) is an offensive skill that debuted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is the mastery skill of the Whisper class, and is similar to Lethality. When activated, it reduces the target to 1 HP with a single strike. It cannot activate on attacks that would have otherwise done enough damage to kill the target.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Radiant Dawn		Deals (target's current HP − 1) damage to the target, leaving them with 1 HP.	(Skill/2)%	30	Nullified against bosses and Nihil, or if either combatant has Parity active. Will not activate if the user's attack would otherwise defeat the target. For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.
Engage		Deals (target's current HP − 1) damage to the target, leaving them with 1 HP.	(Dexterity/2)%	--	Nullified against bosses.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Cooldown	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes		When special triggers, treats foe's defense and resistance as if inflicted −40%, disables foe's non-special "reduces damage by X%" effects, and if damage dealt before damage reduction < (foe's HP − 1), user deals (foe's HP − 1) damage (excluding certain foes[clarification needed]). If user's for foe's special is ready to trigger or triggered before or during this combat, foe's next attack deals −30% damage during combat (once per combat).	4	500	Moonbow		✓	--

Availability

Radiant Dawn

Engage

Heroes

Flavor text

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Bane is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B05-054SR Guardian of Hope, Sothe. It is a trigger skill which comes into play during the opponent's turn when they deploy a new unit, which lets Sothe disrupt the deployment. Sothe's player may flip 2 bonds face down to destroy the foe as soon as they are deployed.

Trivia

• Bane derives its icon and Japanese name from the Path of Radiance icon and Japanese name for Lethality, which has a different icon and Japanese name from Radiant Dawn onward. In Radiant Dawn, it also uses a variant of the Lethality screen flash, colored purple like how Lethality looked in the western version of The Sacred Stones.
• The North American help description erroneously states that Bane incapacitates an enemy. It does reduce an enemy to 1 HP with a single strike, but it does not technically incapacitate them.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

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  Heather activating Bane (start-up flash) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Heather activating Bane (attack) in Radiant Dawn.

References

See also

• Lethality