Dragonskin

Dragonskin (Japanese: 竜鱗 Dragon Scales) is an enemy-exclusive combat skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Awakening. It is primarily used by draconic late-to-endgame bosses such as Grima and Anankos. It halves damage dealt to its bearer and negates the effects of certain skills. Its Fates version also weakens critical hits and certain other skills, whereas its Echoes: Shadows of Valentia incarnation only serves to halve damage dealt.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Awakening		−50% damage taken by user. Negates Counter and Lethality.	--	--	--
Fates		−50% damage taken by user. Negates Counter, Countermagic, Countercurse, Divine Retribution, Lethality, and out-of-combat damage such as Poison Strike. Weakens critical hits and offensive skills by −50%.	--	--	Critical hits deal ×1.5 damage instead of ×3. Sol and Aether heal −25% of damage dealt as HP instead of 50%. Damage reduction and offensive skill-weakening is reduced to 25% when attacked with the Blazing Yato, the Shadow Yato, or the Omega Yato.
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia		−50% damage taken by user.	--	--	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Type	Effect	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes (Dragonskin)		A	Neutralizes bonus damage against flying units. If foe initiates combat, grants +4 each to defense and resistance to user during combat.	300	--	--	✗	--
Heroes (Dragonskin II)		A	Neutralizes bonus damage against flying units. If foe initiates combat or foe's HP ≥ 75% at start of combat, grants +6 each to attack, speed, defense, and resistance to user and neutralizes foe's bonuses during combat.	300	Dragonskin	--	✗	--

Availability

Awakening

Fates

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Heroes

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Dragonskin is present as a skill on two cards in Fire Emblem Cipher, albeit with different effects between the two:

• Gunter's Dragonskin skill (B06-096R Traitorous Old Knight) protects him from being destroyed by the effects of skills or as the cost paid to activate a skill.
• Grima's Dragonskin skill (B08-048R Baleful Dragon) increases her attack power by 20 points if her player controls more units than the opponent. This incentivizes the use of one of her other skills, "The Grimleal", which enhances the player's ability to deploy as many Risen at once as they can to keep their numbers high and trigger Dragonskin.

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Trivia

• In Mystery of the Emblem, Medeus and all enemy Earth Dragons are protected by a similar effect to Dragonskin, which halves the attack power of all enemies. This effect is also given by Loptous to Julius in Genealogy of the Holy War.

Etymology and other languages

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References

See also

• Ancient Dragonskin