Hello, dear reader, I hope you’re having a good day. I’ve played Fire Emblem Heroes for over a month. I have a few videos on it at my channel Lunar Nebula LLC Gaming. Ushi Gaming Channel, JohneAwesome, and other YouTubers have also covered the game if you need a video explanation of Skill Inheritance. This site can help you plan your skill inheritances https://arghblargh.github.io/feh-inheritance-tool/, and this one is a great resource for all parts of the game https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/tier-list. The second site includes an IV calculator, a tier list, and forums.
I’m not being paid to write this blog, and it contains the information I remember from playing the game and recently reviewing it. I think the game’s age rating is appropriate (12+ on the App Store). It contains some cartoon violence, occasional curse words, and some adult innuendos which can be mostly ignored.
I hope this information helps you in your quest to save Askr, dear reader. Feel free to comment and give more advice. Any suggestions on abilities for characters? I’m thinking of putting Swordbreaker on my five star Peri by inheriting it from my worse Abel. Peri’s only flaw at my current arena rank is she won’t always double attack sword units. Have a good day, dear reader.
by Brian Petrilli AKA Jalinon
I’m not being paid to write this blog, and it contains the information I remember from playing the game and recently reviewing it. I think the game’s age rating is appropriate (12+ on the App Store). It contains some cartoon violence, occasional curse words, and some adult innuendos which can be mostly ignored.
- Inherited skills will cost 1.5 times their previous cost. You may find the perfect skill to make your five-star lance wielder an absolute monster on the battlefield. Too bad you forgot to calculate it would take you around 200 more SP (Skill Points) to afford the skill. Getting SP at level 40 is hard. You’ll get about 3 SP for every kill your character gets of other level 40 characters. The arena and highest stratums in the training tower will be your only farming options unless you plan ahead, or you are raising your unit through several rarity levels, all the way to level 40, in order to grab more SP.
- The character you ‘spend’ must be at the rarity level of the skills you want for you to inherit them. A four star Abel can give you all three ranks in Swordbreaker. A 3 star Abel will only get you two ranks in Swordbreaker. The Abels don’t need to have spent any SP, learned them and equipped the skills. The Abel only needs to be at the rarity level capable of learning the skill to give Swordbreaker to another unit.
- You can only inherit 3 skills from a unit, and later skills require the previous ranks. You can get all 3 ranks of Swordbreaker from a four star Abel. Or you can mix and match from his skillset. Let’s say you only take 1 rank in Swordbreaker. You then want the rank 3 Swordbreaker. It won’t let you inherit Swordbreaker rank 3 unless you also take rank 2 Swordbreaker the next time you inherit skills. You need a skill’s prerequisites before you can inherit it. Simple right?
- Unique skills and weapons can’t be inherited. Non-dancers can’t learn Dance. You can’t give Falchion from your Lucina to an Eliwood. You can give a Brave Sword from Draug to another red sword unit, like Lucina. You can give a five-star Draug’s Brave Sword to a two star Stahl if you really want to, but that’s a waste. To prevent accidentally erasing your best units the game allows you to favorite your most important characters and automatically adds the favorite ‘heart’ icon to any four and five-star units you summon.
- Your characters can also inherit utility, combat, and A, B, and C slot skills. This can create some deadly combos which were impossible before the update. More importantly, it could give a team with weaker characters an edge in combat. It will certainly make the story levels and events easier to defeat. Note, I think the arena will match you with characters of similarly equipped skill number. This is a hypothesis and not a proven fact. I don’t think my team has seen any characters in the arena with all three A, B, and C slots filled. This also means my team’s rating is less in the arena due to having fewer stats and skills. I will not be able to achieve the highest point total in the arena due to this.
- You may want to summon all units at summoning circles to get the discount. No unit is worthless anymore. As far as my research has shown, even Donnell has a Brave Lance to inherit. Most units have at least one good skill to give away.
- Check your units IVs or stats to determine which version of your character is best to spend time farming SP for. Yes, units can have a difference of + or – 3 stat values based on their IVs (individual values). It's easiest to determine these values at levels 1 and 40. Units will always have one plus and one minus stat. For example, the best IVs Abel can get are + Attack and – Resistance IVs. Every other stat will be average. At level 40 Abel will have 36 Attack (average is 33) and 22 Resistance (average is 25). I have two Abels. Neither Abel is perfect. One has + Attack, and the other has a meaningless plus 3 Resistance because Abel was meant to be an attacker, not a defender. Because of this, it makes more sense for me to focus getting SP on my Abel with better attack. It adds at least 3 damage to any one attack, and Abel will attack twice when initiating combat. In future updates this may not matter since merging allies, Abel with a better IV Abel in this case, will merge skills as well. I don’t think it’s part of the game yet. It should be in version 1.2.0. This feature could get around the massive SP costs by effectively splitting the costs among two of the same characters.
I hope this information helps you in your quest to save Askr, dear reader. Feel free to comment and give more advice. Any suggestions on abilities for characters? I’m thinking of putting Swordbreaker on my five star Peri by inheriting it from my worse Abel. Peri’s only flaw at my current arena rank is she won’t always double attack sword units. Have a good day, dear reader.
by Brian Petrilli AKA Jalinon