Armored Blow

Armored Blow Icon of the Armored Blow ability in Engage. When unit initiates combat, unit takes 10 less physical damage during combat.

Type(s) Class (Fates, Three Houses, Engage) Combat art (Fortune's Weave) Passive (Type A) (Heroes) First game Fates

Armored Blow (Japanese: 金剛の一撃 Diamond Strike) is a skill which debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. In Fates, it is a class skill associated with the Great Knight class; in Three Houses, it is learned by mastering the Armored Knight class; in Heroes, it is a three-tiered type A passive skill (whose individual tiers are Armored Blow 1, Armored Blow 2, and Armored Blow 3 in order from lowest to highest).

Armored Blow decreases the damage the user takes by a physical attack whenever the user initiates the battle; in Heroes, the size of the protection increases with the skill's tier.

Armored Blow appears as unused content in Fire Emblem Engage, where it has a finished icon, flavor text and effect but is not assigned to any units or classes.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Fates		−10 physical damage taken during combat when activated.	If user initiates combat	--	Base cost: 1,500 G
Three Houses		+6 protection when activated.	If user initiates combat	--	--
Engage		−10 physical damage taken during combat when activated.	If user initiates combat	--	--

Game	Icon	Might	Hit	Crit	Avo / Crit Avo*	Range	Cost	Other effects and notes
Fortune's Weave		+3	+0	+0	+0	1	4 durability	If the user defeats the target, grants +3 protection for one turn. Cannot make follow-up attacks.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Type	Effect	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes (Armored Blow 1)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +2 defense to user during combat.	50	--		✔	--
Heroes (Armored Blow 2)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +4 defense to user during combat.	100	Armored Blow 1		✔	--
Heroes (Armored Blow 3)		A	If user initiates combat, grants +6 defense to user during combat.	200	Armored Blow 2		✔	--

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors		Prevents user's attacks from being interrupted by enemy attacks.	--	--	--

Availability

Fates

Classes

Great Knight (Learned from level 15 and up)

Three Houses

Class mastery

Armored Knight (100 class Exp required)

Engage

Unobtainable

Unused.

Warriors

Learned	Tiki (requires Tiki's Anklet ×3)
Borrowed	Requires ×1 each of Tiki's Essence and Tiki's Hairpin

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Fates	Unit receives -10 physical damage when the unit initiates an attack.	自分から攻撃した時、 その戦闘で受ける物理ダメージ-10
Three Houses	If unit initiates combat, grants Def +6 during combat[sic]	自分から攻撃した時、守備＋６
Engage	When unit initiates combat, unit takes 10 less physical damage during combat.	自分から攻撃した時 物理攻撃で受けるダメージ－10
Fortune's Weave	After defeating a foe, grants Prt+3 until unit's next phase. Cannot make a follow-up.	敵を倒せば、耐物+3 (次の自分のフェイズまで) (追擊不可能)
Heroes (Armored Blow 1)	If unit initiates combat, grants Def+2 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の守備＋２
Heroes (Armored Blow 2)	If unit initiates combat, grants Def+4 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の守備＋４
Heroes (Armored Blow 3)	If unit initiates combat, grants Def+6 during combat.	自分から攻撃した時、戦闘中の守備＋６
Warriors	Prevents enemy attacks from interrupting your attacks.	攻撃中に敵から攻撃を受けても ひるまなくなる

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Armored Blow	--
Japanese	金剛の一撃	Diamond Strike
Spanish (Spain)	Ataque blindado	Armored attack
Spanish (Latin America)	Ataque blindado Golpe blindado	Armored attack; used in Fates and Three Houses. Armored blow; used in Heroes and Engage.
French	Coup blindé	Armored Blow
German	Defensiver Hieb	Defensive Blow; abbreviated as Defens. Hieb in Heroes.
Italian	Colpo corazzato	Armored Blow; abbreviated as Colpo corazz. in Heroes.
Portuguese	Golpe blindado	Armored blow
Korean	금강의 일격	Diamond strike
Simplified Chinese	金刚一击	Diamond strike
Traditional Chinese	金剛一擊	Diamond Strike

Gallery

• 
  Icon of the Armored Blow 1 skill in Heroes.
• 
  Icon of the Armored Blow 2 skill in Heroes.
• 
  Icon of the Armored Blow 3 skill in Heroes.

See also

• Certain Blow
• Darting Blow
• Death Blow
• Duelist's Blow
• Fiendish Blow
• Uncanny Blow
• Warding Blow