Pavise

Pavise (Japanese: 大盾 Great Shield), previously known as Great Shield and Cancel, is a combat skill debuting in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. In most appearances, when activated, it protects the user from a single attack by reducing or—prior to Awakening—completely nullifying the damage that would have been inflicted on them by that attack. The skill's activation rate has widely varied from game to game, as has its availability, but it is most commonly available to Generals and members of other advanced armored classes. Awakening split its functionality in two and restrict Pavise to working only against physical attacks, while a new skill, Aegis, offers the same protection against magical and bow attacks; Echoes: Shadows of Valentia also splits its functionality with another skill, Earth's Kiss in this case, with Pavise reducing physical damage and Earth's Kiss applying to magical damage. Additionally, only in Awakening and exclusive to enemies in Lunatic+ difficulty, an enhanced variation of this skill exists, known as Pavise+, which will always activate.

In Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, The Sacred Stones, Awakening, and Fates, Pavise is a class skill belonging to Generals and similar classes, and in Path of Radiance, Cancel is the mastery skill of the Hawk laguz. In Radiant Dawn, Pavise is a personal skill which can be equipped to any unit, while in Shadows of Valentia, it is an item skill associated with the Duma's Shield and Sage's Shield. In Three Houses, it is a class skill for the Fortress Knight. Additionally, it and Aegis are item skills of all non-weapon Heroes' Relics when equipped by a unit with the compatible crest; paralleling the durability costs of the signature combat arts of the other Heroes' Relics, this form of Pavise is more likely to trigger depending on the potency of the user's crest.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Genealogy of the Holy War		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(User's level)%	--	Will not activate if foe is using Nosferatu or a Lands Sword.
Thracia 776		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(User's level)%	--	--
The Sacred Stones	--	Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Enemy's level)%	--	Will not activate if foe's weapon can inflict poison.
Path of Radiance		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Skill)%	20	--
Radiant Dawn		Nullifies damage dealt by the enemy.	(Skill)%	20	--
Awakening		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, Blighted Claws and Blighted Talons.	(Skill)%	--	Will not activate against a Dual Strike.
Awakening (Pavise+)		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, Blighted Claws and Blighted Talons.	Always	--	Will not activate against a Dual Strike.
Fates		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, Beaststones, monster attacks, and automaton attacks.	(Skill)%	--	Must be triggered again for a Dual Strike. Base cost: 2,000 G
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia		Halves damage dealt by physical strikes.	Command (Cost: 4 HP)	--	Requires 20 SP to learn.
Three Houses		Halves damage dealt by enemy attacks using swords, lances, axes, gauntlets, gambits, and Crest Stones.	(Dexterity)% for ability 50%/30%/10% for Major/Minor/Crest Item from equipped accessory Heroes' Relics	--	Only one instance can activate at a time. Matching crest is required for the effect if the user equips Aegis Shield, Rafail Gem, Thyrsus, Fetters of Dromi, or dark equivalent.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Cooldown	SP cost	Prerequisites	Usable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes		Adjacent foe deals −50% damage.	3	200	Buckler		✓	--

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors		May reduce damage dealt to user by swords, lances, and axes; chance increases with user's Luck.	??	--	--
Warriors: Three Hopes		Nullifies damage dealt to user by swords, lances, axes, and gauntlets.	(Dexterity × 0.25%)	--	--

Availability

Genealogy of the Holy War

Thracia 776

The Sacred Stones

Path of Radiance

Radiant Dawn

Awakening

Pavise

Pavise+

Fates

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Three Houses

Heroes

Warriors

Warriors: Three Hopes

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Trivia

• In The Sacred Stones, Great Shield will never activate if the enemy is attacking with a poison weapon (Toxin Lance, Poison Sword). This was implemented to prevent special effects conflicts with the purple glow used by poisoned units and the yellow glow produced by Great Shield.
• Radiant Dawn's North American help description erroneously states that Pavise nullifies the effects of an enemy attack, which is untrue as Pavise does not prevent poisoned weapons from poisoning the target. This was corrected in the PAL release.

Etymology and other languages

Pavise

Cancel

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Pavise manual from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Hannibal activating Pavise in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  Gilliam activating Great Shield in The Sacred Stones.

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  Janaff activating Cancel in Path of Radiance.

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  Meg activating Pavise in Radiant Dawn.

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  Kellam activating Pavise in Awakening.

References

See also

• Aegis
• Earth's Kiss