Inherit Skill Tier List | Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH)

This page lists the best skills in Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH) presented as a tier list. Read on to find out which skills from each skill type are best for your heroes!

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Weapon Skill Tier List

Sword

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Ninja Katana+	One of the best weapons for speedy infantry; it allows the wielder to attack twice while boosting Spd at the same time.
2nd	Melee Bouquet+	This sword negates enemy follow-up attacks while providing a decent boost to Atk and Def.
3rd	Allied Sword+	This sword is perfect for support units, boosting allies and themselves at the same time.

Lance

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Ninja Yari+	One of the best weapons for speedy infantry; it allows the wielder to attack twice while boosting Spd at the same time.
2nd	Piercing Tribute+	This lance neutralizes effects that guarantee follow-up attacks while providing a good boost to Atk and Spd.
3rd	It's Curtains...+	This lance provides -2 special cooldown reduction at the start of turn 1, which makes charging Galeforce easier compared to other weapons.

Axe

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Ninja Masakari+	One of the best weapons for speedy infantry; it allows the wielder to attack twice while boosting Spd at the same time.
2nd	Vulture Axe+	This axe increases in power whenever penalties are applied to the opponent. This effect is easily applied and can even stack.
3rd	Slaying Axe+	Special cooldown reduction is essential for most hero builds.

Staff

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Flash+ Candlelight+	Disable enemy counterattacks after combat, allowing the rest of your team to safely attack the target afterwards.
2nd	Palm Staff+	This staff provides a good -5 debuff to the foe's Atk and Spd, increasing the wielder's chances of doubling and reducing the foe's damage.
3rd	Grandscratcher+	This staff reduces the special cooldown of the ally with the highest Atk at the start of turn 1. If the team is set up properly, this can lead to devastating effects.
4th	Serpentine Staff+	The main gimmick of this staff is inflicting Deep Wounds to targets, and that alone is deserving of a worthy mention. It's a niche effect, but in the right situations, it can win you maps!

Red Tome

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Unity Blooms+	This tome provides both a debuff to the foe's Atk/Res and 4 HP healing after combat.
2nd	Rauðrvulture+	This tome amplifies Atk/Res debuffs on the opponent on top of adding an additional -5 Atk/Res debuff.
3rd	Rauðrserpent+	This tome has built-in Distant Def 3, which is perfect for ranged tank units.

Blue Tome

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Pact Blooms+	This tome provides both a debuff to the foe's Atk/Res and 4 HP healing after combat.
2nd	Flora Guide+	This tome debuffs nearby foes with -5 Spd/Res, allowing both the wielder and his/her allies to win speed checks and deal more damage.
3rd	Love Bouquet+	One of the best support weapons; it provides a decent Atk and Res boost to both the wielder and his/her allies.

Green Tome

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Amity Blooms+	This tome provides both a debuff to the foe's Atk/Res and 4 HP healing after combat.
2nd	Gronnvulture+ Plegian Torch+	This tome amplifies Atk/Res debuffs on the opponent on top of adding an additional -5 Atk/Res debuff.
3rd	Gronnserpent+	This tome has built-in Distant Defense 3, which is perfect for ranged tank units.

Bow

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Spendthrift Bow+	This bow provides -7 Atk to foes and +7 Atk to the wielder; a large 14 point swing in stats. It also applies a +2 special cooldown penalty on the wielder after combat, which can be mitigated by running 2 charge specials.
2nd	Firesweep Bow+	This bow prevents the foe from counterattacking, which is perfect for either killing them or applying damage safely.
3rd	Budding Bow+	This bow negates enemy follow-up attacks while providing a decent boost to Atk and Def.
4th	Whitecap Bow+	This bow boosts Atk/Spd can can provide a brave effect if conditions are met.

Breath

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Lightning Breath+	This breath allows the wielder to counterattack regardless of foe's range.
2nd	Pale Breath+	This breath provides a +5 Atk/Def buff and neutralizes penalties on the wielder.
3rd	Blackfire Breath+	This breath applies a -5 Atk/Res debuff to the foe as well as neutralizing bonuses to their Atk/Res; indirectly adding bulk to the wielder and applying more damage per attack.

Dagger

Rank	Skill	Reason to Inherit
1st	Broadleaf Fan+	This dagger increases in power based on the opponent's debuffs.
2nd	Courtly Mask+	This dagger boosts the wielder's Atk/Res and reduces damage done by the foe's first attack, perfect for tanking multiple units.
3rd	Temari+	This dagger applies a map-wide -5 Atk/Spd debuff to foes who are adjacent to another foe.

List of all Weapon Skills

Tips for Inheriting Weapon Skills

Weapons that can gain unique effects in the Weapon Refinery are extremely useful!

Many of the weapon skills that placed highly on our rankings get stronger when upgraded via the Weapon Refinery.

These weapons can boost a unit's Atk/Spd/Def/Res depending on what you choose, so choose wisely to best maximize your unit's stats and their role in your party!

Some builds are very high investment! Think carefully before foddering heroes.

To inherit a powerful weapon with a + attached to its name, you will need to give up a 5 star hero. Since they do not exactly come easy, you had best think carefully about how useful a weapon skill will be before letting another unit inherit it.

You cannot inherit another unit's exclusive weapon!

Weapons like Twin-Crest Power, Skinfaxi, or Gradivus that are exclusive to only one or two heroes cannot be inherited by another unit.

There are a lot of great weapon skills that cannot be inherited in this way, and a unit's exclusive skills play a large part in determining how good they are.

Assist Skill Tier List

Healing Assists

Movement Assists

Other Assists

List of all Assist Skills

Tips for Inheriting Assist Skills

Movement Assists depend on the type of unit you are using

The ranking for assist skills is mostly centered around movement assists like Reposition and powerful buff skills.

With movement assists you can pull heroes out of the danger zone and increase the mobility of armored units, making them extremely useful. Consider what type of unit will be inheriting a skill and how well it will work with their abilities.

Skills that grant an extra turn cannot be inherited

Refresher skills like Sing and Dance grant an extra action to a unit, but since they are exclusive, they cannot be inherited.

Since these skills are extremely useful in battles, try to raise a unit who already has the skill like Azura, Olivia, or Ninian.

Special Skill Tier List

List of all Special Skills

Tips for Inheriting Special Skills

Specials with low cooldown are of high demand

Within the Special Skills Ranking, low cooldown skills such as Ruptured Sky and Moonbow, as well as skills that deal more damage when a unit has a high Def or Res like Iceberg and Bonfire placed high due to their low cooldown and the power they give to a unit.

500 SP skills raise your score!

In order to raise your score in Arena Battles, we recommend using skills with high SP costs.

If Ruptured Sky or Blue Flame are unavailable, you can opt for skills such as Galeforce or Aether.

Scoring skills are assessed on how high or low their SP cost is, so using these types of skills is one way to increase your score.

Passive A Skill Tier List

List of all Type A Skills

Tips for Inheriting Passive A Skills

The top Passive A Skills are in close competition!

Passive A Skills are generally always active and will grant buffs to its owner.

For the most part, they raise a hero's stats or give them some sort of effect in combat. Distant Counter is extremely popular because it makes many melee units extremely flexible in their roles and can negate ranged threats. The same holds true for ranged units with Close Counter and Close Reversal.

Build according to role!

While counterattacking from any range sounds like a fantastic skill to have on most units, you have to keep in mind what role you want your unit to play in the party.

Barring units that already have Distant Counter effects on their weapon, you may want to inherit skills like Atk/Spd Solo 4 for more offense-based units to one-shot enemies.

Passive B Skill Tier List

List of all Type B Skills

Tips for Inheriting Passive B Skills

Passive B Skills typically have effects that become active through battle

Passive B Skills are usually supportive effects for your unit that help them during battle.

Skills such as Spurn 3 will grant damage reduction the more Spd a unit has, while Special Fighter 3 is a very good skill for armored units as it accelerates their Special and slows down their target's Special at the same time.

Breaker skills are extremely useful with certain units!

Skills like Swordbreaker and Lancebreaker, which effect a wielder of a certain weapon type, can help further balance your team.

A good example of this is Reinhardt, as he can quad attack lance units.

Inherit a breaker skill for whatever type of weapon is difficult to take down and increase your team's efficiency!

Passive C Skill Tier List

List of all Type C Skills

Tips for Inheriting Passive C Skills

C Passives effect nearby units

For the most part, Passive C Skills give a bonus to nearby allies (Hone, Goad, Fortify, or Drive skills), or they inflict a penalty on nearby foes (Threaten, Smoke, and Ploy skills).

In general, Threaten-type debuff skills work well with units who fight in the front lines while Drive/Fortify/Hone skills work well with units who support or attack from the rear.

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