Having units battle adjacent to each other helps improve and develop their Support Levels. Read on to learn how to build Support between your characters, how to unlock support conversations, and the benefits of having high Support ranks in Fire Emblem Engage.

How to Increase Support in Battle

Support Building Actions
Position Allies Adjacent Allies Together Have Allies Assist Each Other

Position Allies Adjacent Allies Together

Support builds between units beside the attacker.

Units who battle while standing adjacent to an ally will increase the Support between those two characters. This applies to attacking in Player Phase only, so try to have your units standing close to each other as much as possible when you're building Supports.

Pro Tip: Support gains are gained when attacking only, so try to have your units around in a big square formation and use ranged weapons to keep formation and efficiently build support between all of your participating characters.

Have Allies Assist Each Other

Alternatively, allies that perform actions like healing on another ally also receive an increase in Support. Assist moves like Reposition from Ike and activating Corrin's Quality Time when healing allies also improve Support.

How to Increase Support in the Somniel

Support Building Activities
Talk to Allies Give Gifts Train at the Arena Dine at Cafe Terrace Enjoy Recreational Activities

Talk to Allies

Populating the Somniel are the allies you've met along your journeys. Always take the opportunity to speak and interact with them in order to strengthen their Support and the stats of your army.

▶︎ Things to Do at the Somniel

Give Gifts

Giving gifts to your companions increases the Support between Alear and the receiving character. Each character has a favored gift that will boost your Support even more if you give it to them. To know what type of gift a character prefers, look at the description of the gift.

▶︎ Best Gifts to Give Each Character

Train at the Arena

Allies that can Support one another can build their Support when fighting each other during Standard Training at the Arena. The chosen opponent will be random though, so this isn't the most reliable way to gain Supports between characters.

▶︎ What You Can Do During Training at the Arena

Dine at Cafe Terrace

At Cafe Terrace, you can place an order with any of the characters in the rotation for cooking duty and share the prepared meal with your allies. Depending on how much your allies liked the meal, you will earn a certain amount of increase in Support.

▶︎ How to Cook Better and Get Bentos

Enjoy Recreational Activities

Recreational Activies allow you to increase support between allies! This is especially useful if you want to unlock support conversations between characters that don't often battle together!
▶︎ Recreation Guide: How to Build Support at the Stable, Orchard, and Pool

How to Unlock Support Conversations

Unlocked by Increasing Support Levels

"According to my fortune-telling, yes. The chosen legendary savior should be able to do it."

Supports are given a ranking from C to A, with higher rankings providing bigger stat bumps. By reaching certain Support milestones between characters, you unlock what is known as Support Conversations. These conversations further increase your Support ranking cap, and unlock better Support bonuses.

Is There an S Rank Support Level?

Not Exactly S Rank

There are no explicity S-Rank Support levels in Fire Emblem Engage. S-Supports were the highest ranking Support Level you could reach in previous Fire Emblem games. It's also how you could pursue romantic relationships with your allies. Without S Rank Support, romance features don't appear in Fire Emblem Engage as well.

▶︎ Are There Romance Options?

Pact Ring Can Be Given to 1 A Rank Support

The Pact Ring is found in the Memento Drawer in Alear's room after competing the Paralogue: The Connector. To give the Pact Ring to an ally, you first need to have an ally with A Rank Support.

You may choose only 1 A Rank character to receive the Pact Ring. It will give that A Rank ally and Alear a greater boost to stats than the A Rank Support. Additionally, the ally will be denoted with a special ring icon, above the A Rank.

▶︎ How to Get the Pact Ring and Who To Give It To?

What is Support?

Provides Boosts Between Allies

A difference in stats between a unit with and without a support bonus

Support is a visual and statistical measure of the closeness between two units. Support levels provide a bonus to both their stats when they stand next to each other during battles.

▶︎ How to Build Characters

Different from Bond Levels

Support Levels is a different (but similar) mechanic to Bond Levels, a new feature of Fire Emblem Engage. In FE Engage, you have Emblem Characters that you can deepen your relationships with in order to gain various stat buffs and battle bonuses. However, these characters are not real people in the physical world.

This deepening of relationships happens when you increase your Bond Level, which can be done via Emblem Training at the Arena, polishing Emblem Rings, and Bond Conversations.

▶︎ How to Raise Bond Level

Fire Emblem: Engage Related Guides

▶︎ Beginner's Guide to Fire Emblem Engage

All Tips and Tricks

Tier Lists and Builds
Best Units	Best Classes for Each Unit
Best Emblem Ring Pairings	Class Tier List
Best Party Composition	Best Units for Maddening Run
How to Build Characters	Emblem Tier List
Unit Guides
How to Recruit Units	Class Change: When to Promote Units
Best Gifts for All Characters	Growth Rates and Stat Caps
Every Stat Explained	How to Increase Weapon Proficiency
How to Get the Pact Ring	All Paired Endings
Romance Options	What Happens on Your Birthday?
How to Get S Rank Support	Should you Gift the Horse Manure?
Valuable Items/Farming Guides
SP Farming	EXP Farming
Gold Farming	Where to Get Master Seals
Where to Get Second Seals	How to Get the Silver Card
How to Farm Iron, Steel, and Silver Ingots	How to Farm Bane Books
Emblem Guides
Skill Inheritance	How to Farm Bond Fragments
All Synchro Skills	How to Reach Level 20 Bond Level
How to Use Emblem Rings	Bond Effects
Engage Mechanic Explained	-
Battle and Combat Guides
How to Reroll Skirmishes	How to Reroll Stats on Level Up
Should You Optimize?	Poison Mechanic Explained
Permadeath Explained	How to Open Treasure Chests and Doors
Dodge vs Avoid Explained	What Does Luck Affect?
Build Stat and Attack Speed	Follow-Up Attack Guide
How to Rewind	Exploration Guide
How to Use Auto-Battle	Break Mechanic Explained
Battle Symbols Explained	Weapon Durability
Spirits of the Fallen	Weapon Triangle Explained
How to Navigate Dark Maps	Terrains Explained
Other Guides/FAQs
Missable Items	Post Game Content
How to Unlock DLC	Lookout Ridge
Difficulty Level Differences	Maddening Difficulty Guide
Lost Items	Are There Dark Seals?
Fell Xenologue Unlock Guide	-