Swordbreaker

For the weapon with a similar name, see Swordslayer.

Swordbreaker (Japanese: 剣殺し Sword Slayer) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Awakening. It gives its user enormous advantages when fighting an enemy who is wielding a sword or katana. In Awakening and Fates, it is a class skill learned by Wyvern Lords; in Three Houses, it is an ability learned by units when they raise their skill level in lances. In these games, 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: Swordbreaker 1, Swordbreaker 2, and Swordbreaker 3. Units with a Swordbreaker skill will, when fighting the user of a sword 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 sword 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. Swordbreaker and all other "breaker" skills are exclusive to enemy Paladins.

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In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Awakening		+50 hit, +50 avoid when active.	If foe has a sword equipped	--	--
Fates		+50 hit, +50 avoid when active.	If foe has a sword or katana equipped	--	Base cost: 1,500 G
Three Houses		+20 hit, +20 avoid when active.	If foe has a sword equipped and user has a lance equipped	--	--
Three Houses (Swordbreaker+)		+30 hit, +30 avoid when active.	If foe has a sword equipped and user has a lance equipped	--	--
Engage		User makes a guaranteed follow-up attack. Foe cannot make follow-up attacks.	If user's HP ≥ 50% and foe has a sword equipped	--	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

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

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors	--	A weapon attribute. If forged onto a weapon, damage dealt by that weapon against sword users is increased.	--	--	Forging cost: 2,000G
Warriors: Three Hopes		Increases advantage against enemies by one tier. Increases damage dealt by 50%.	If foe has a sword equipped	--	--

Availability

Awakening

Fates

Three Houses

Swordbreaker

Swordbreaker+

Engage

Heroes

Warriors

Swordbreaker can appear as a weapon attribute on weapons acquired from battle.

Warriors: Three Hopes

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Swordbreaker is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B01-089HN Soaring Black Wing, Gerome. It gives Gerome a +20 increase to his attack power whenever he is involved in combat against a sword-affinity unit.

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