Daggerbreaker

Daggerbreaker (Japanese: 暗器殺し Concealed Weapon Slayer), known as Shurikenbreaker in Fire Emblem Fates and Knifebreaker in Fire Emblem Engage (Japanese: 短剣殺し Knife slayer), is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. It gives its user enormous advantages when fighting an enemy who is wielding a dagger or shuriken. In Fates, where it a class skill learned by Bow Knights, it provides boosts to its user's hit rate and avoid when fighting these weapons.

In Heroes, it is a type B passive skill split into three levels, in order from lowest to highest: Daggerbreaker 1, Daggerbreaker 2, and Daggerbreaker 3. Units with a Daggerbreaker skill will, when fighting the user of a dagger skill while this skill's user's own HP is at a certain threshold or higher, automatically make a follow-up attack and prevent the dagger skill's user from doing so themselves. The minimum amount of current HP required to activate the skill decreases with each level.

In Fire Emblem Engage, the skill retains its effect from Heroes, though it does not have multiple versions and activates by remaining above half health. In this game, it is one of several skills that are exclusively used by some high-level enemies on the game's hardest difficulty mode, Maddening. Knifebreaker and all other "breaker" skills are exclusive to enemy Paladins.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Fates		+50 hit, +50 avoid when active.	If foe has a dagger or shuriken equipped	--	Base cost: 1,500 G
Engage		User makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Foe cannot make follow-up attacks.	If user's HP ≥ 50% and foe has a knife equipped	--	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Type	Effect	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes (Daggerbreaker 1)		B	If user's HP ≥ 90% at start of combat against colorless dagger foe, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make follow-up attacks.	50	--	--	✓	--
Heroes (Daggerbreaker 2)		B	If user's HP ≥ 70% at start of combat against colorless dagger foe, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make follow-up attacks.	100	Daggerbreaker 1	--	✓	--
Heroes (Daggerbreaker 3)		B	If user's HP ≥ 50% at start of combat against colorless dagger foe, user makes guaranteed follow-up attack and foe cannot make follow-up attacks.	200	Daggerbreaker 2	--	✓	--

Availability

Fates

Engage

Heroes

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Trivia

• In all non-Japanese localizations of Fates, Daggerbreaker is also the only "-⁠breaker" skill which is named after a Hoshidan weapon type instead of the Nohr counterpart.

Etymology and other languages

Daggerbreaker

Knifebreaker

References

See also