This page lists our top 10 recommended Sacred Seal Creations and Enhancements for the game Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). Read on if you are curious as to where you should be spending those Sacred Coins!

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Ranking	Sacred Seal Name	Effect
1st	Distant Counter (D) Distant Counter (M)	These seals allow specific units to counterattack regardless of range.
2nd	Mystic Boost 3	This seal provides an after-combat heal, disables the Wrathful Staff effect, and blocks adaptive damage — good against dragonstone and staff units.
3rd	Atk/Def Finish 3 Spd/Res Finish 3	Finish seals grant stat bonuses to two stats and additional true damage during combat.
4th	Blade Session 3	This seal provides the best boost to the unit's Atk and Spd compared to other seals.
5th	Atk/Spd Catch 3 Atk/Def Catch 3 Atk/Res Catch 3 Atk/Spd Ideal 3 Atk/Def Ideal 3 Atk/Res Ideal 3	Catch and Ideal seals provide a great boost early in the battle, when stats are most important.
6th	Bold Fighter 3	Grants armored units a guaranteed follow-up attack and extra Special cooldown charges for unit's attacks. This seal is perfect for player phase armored units.
7th	Atk/Spd Form 3 Atk/Def Form 3 Atk/Res Form 3 Def/Res Form 3 Spd/Def Form 3 Spd/Res Form 3	Form seals provide a significant boost when keeping allies close to each other. Perfect for units like Savior armors that are aided by support allies
8th	Atk/Spd Clash 3 Atk/Def Clash 3	Clash seals grant bonus stats based on distance moved by the initiator unit and generally give more stats than other similar effects.
9th	Quickened Pulse	This seal grants a Special cooldown reduction in the first player phase—good against quickly taking out a priority unit with a Special attack.
10th	Spd/Def Tempo 3	Tempo skills neutralize effects that slow down the unit's Special cooldown charges and effects that speed up the foe's Special cooldown charges. This Seal is better suited to units that rely on Special triggers.
Honorable Mention	Atk/Def Prime 3	Prime skills grant two stat bonuses based on the number of 【Bonus】 effects active. These seals are good if set up properly.
Honorable Mention	Heavy Blade 3 Flashing Blade 3	Grants bonus Special cooldown charge when unit wins Atk or Spd checks. Heavy Blade can be equipped to more units while Flashing Blade has more restrictions.
Honorable Mention	Atk/Spd Solo 3 Atk/Def Solo 3 Atk/Res Solo 3 Def/Res Solo 3 Spd/Def Solo 3 Spd/Res Solo 3	Solo seals grants +6 to 2 stats of choice in-combat when having no adjacent allies.
Honorable Mention	Quick Riposte 3	If unit's HP ≥ 70% and foe initiates combat, unit makes a guaranteed follow-up attack.
Honorable Mention	Ground Orders 3	Vastly improves mobility of non-flying allies on the team.
Honorable Mention	Swift Sparrow 2	Grants a useful +4 Atk/Spd bonus when initiating attacks.
Honorable Mention	Deflect Magic 3	Allows your defensive units to take significantly less damage from foes with magical brave weapons such as Ninja Corrin (F)'s Ninjutsu Scrolls.
Honorable Mention	Distant Guard 3 Close Guard 3	The former grants +4 Def/Res to allies within 2 spaces when ranged foes attack them and the latter seal does the same thing, but against melee foes.
Honorable Mention	Darting Breath Steady Breath Warding Breath Fierce Breath	The breath skills provides a small boost to a specific stat and special acceleration per attack when the foe initiates combat.

Best Sacred Seals Specific Situations and General Recommendations

Best Sacred Seals for Specific Situations

Recommended for Infantry
Sorcery Blade 3	Grants adaptive damage to a unit if they as long as they are adjacent to a magic ally
Recommended for Armored Units
Bold Fighter 3	Grants armored units a guaranteed follow-up attack and extra Special cooldown charges for unit's attacks.
Wily Fighter 3	Grants armored units a guaranteed follow-up attack and neutralizes foe's bonuses.
Armor March 3	Grants Armored units extra movement if they are adjacent to another Armored unit (both the user and the adjacent Armored allies benefit)
Armored Boots	Grants an extra space of movement to an Armored unit if they are at 100% HP at the start of the turn
Recommended for Fliers in Mixed Teams
Atk/Spd Rein 3 Spd/Def Rein 3	The Rein skills provide combat debuffs to enemies within 2 spaces that still apply even if the wielder isn't in combat
Ground Orders 3	This Seal allows non-flying allies to warp to tiles adjacent to allies within 2 spaces, granting unpredictable and superior mobility
Guidance 3	This Seal makes it easy for Infantry and Armored allies to move along with the flying wielder. In other words, the flier Guides, the ground allies
Aerobatics 3	This Seal makes allows its wielder to warp to spaces adjacent to infantry, armored, and cavalry allies within 2 spaces
Iote's Shield	Neutralizes flying-effective damage
Recommended for All-Flier Teams (Flier Emblem)
Flier Formation 3	Similar to Aerobatics, this Seal allows its wielder to warp to spaces adjacent to co-flying allies within 2 spaces
Flier Guidance 3	This Seal makes it easy for co-flying allies to move along with the flying wielder. In other words, the flier Guides, the flying allies

General Recommendations

Creating Distant Counter (D) and (M) should be a top priority

The Sacred Seals Distant Counter (D) and Distant Counter (M) top our list of recommended Sacred Seals. It allows dragon or melee units to counterattack at any range.

This Sacred Seal is perfect for dragon or melee units, allowing them to retaliate against all foes. Dragons specifically have adaptive damage against ranged units, giving that little bit of extra help against them.

As of February 2024, these are the only Sacred Seals resembling a 300 SP skill, allowing for higher Arena scoring.

Creating and Enhancing Mystic Boost should be a top priority

The Sacred Seal Mystic Boost ranks high in our list of recommended Sacred Seals. It provides healing for sustain to keep your main tank alive, disables the Wrathful Staff effect, and blocks adaptive damage. This seal single-handedly reduces the threat of enemy offensive staff units to near-zero for its wielder.

It does multiple things very well, all in one seal slot! We highly recommend you create and upgrade this seal as soon as possible.

Creating Breath seals should also be a top priority

The Sacred Seals Darting Breath, Steady Breath, and Warding Breath ranked high in our list of recommended Sacred Seal Creations/Enhancements. These skills provides a small stat boost, and more importantly, special cooldown acceleration per attack when the foe initiates combat. The special cooldown acceleration part is what makes this seal very powerful compared to other Sacred Seals.

It also helps that these Sacred Seals are already fully upgraded upon receiving them. No additional upgrades are necessary.

Creating and Enhancing all of the Solo skills is worth the investment

The Solo skills ranked in this list are very effective, and easy-to-use! They might be the boost that your units need to get that extra bite in battle, or the missing puzzle piece in solving an Infernal or Abyssal map! They work with almost every unit, so we strongly recommend that you use up your Sacred Coins to max out these seals first!

Player phase-centered Seals are very useful for offensive units

Player phase-centered Sacred Seals that activate upon initiating an attack, are easy-to-use, and very reliable on offensive player phase units whose playstyles revolves around initiating attacks. They can provide units with the extra stats that help them widen their KO range. The extra Spd from Swift Sparrow 2 can also prevent a follow-up attack that can knock 'em out.

Versatile skills like Close/Distant Def are of high importance

The X Defense and Deflect X-type Sacred Seals are all great skills, but Distant Def 3 and Close Def 3 are extremely versatile, and you have nothing to lose from enhancing them both to level 3. Whether it is Arena Duels, high difficulty map quests, or leveling your heroes up, these seals can be used in practically any scenario.

For Smoke-type seals, we recommend going with Atk Smoke.

In addition to the seal Atk Smoke, there is a similar seal called Spd Smoke, but of these two, we recommend investing your resources into Atk Smoke. A speed debuff will be completely useless if your opponent has a skill that gives them a guaranteed follow-up attack, but a debuff to the foe's attack can never really be a bad thing.

As of 2021, Smoke type Seals are not as powerful anymore so keep that in mind when trying to integrate them into your teams.

Armor March and Armored Boots are very helpful

One of the biggest banes of an Armored unit is the limited movement that they come with. These seals help them with mobility if they meet fairly easy-to-meet trigger conditions. If picked up, they can easily keep up with their lightfooted allies in mixed teams.

Seals such as Guidance 3 also help with Armored mobility.

Guidance is great to use with an aerial ace

The seal Guidance can only be equipped to flying-type units, so it will go to waste will if you do not have the right hero for it.

However, Guidance increases the range that both armored and infantry units can move, making it very useful when doing Arena Duels or dealing with difficult maps. If you have a powerful flying ally that you often use in a mixed colored team, we highly recommend creating and enhancing this seal.

Choose Sacred Seals that best fit your units!

This is a reliable ranking of the different Sacred Seals available, but always take into consideration the synergy of the Seals with your characters. For example, Quickened Pulse might be ranked lower compared to the Solo seals, but Reinhardt in particular is very good with it as it allows him to potentially unleash a skill like Moonbow on a priority target in the first turn!

Always remember that Sacred Seals are more flexible when compared to their skill counterparts as they can be transferred to other units any time at a whim!

Example of Sacred Seal-kit Synergy

This is an example of the Swift Sparrow 2 Sacred Seal. Since Eir already has the same skill on the A slot, and she sports a player phase playstyle anyway, it would not hurt to get another copy of it in the Seal slot. This increases her KO range, makes it easy for her to land follow-up attacks and lessens her susceptibility to hostile follow-up attacks.

Summary

While it may take some time to gather all of the materials needed for creating and enhancing these skills (Sacred Coins and Hero Badges), this guide should give you an idea of which seals to save these materials for and get even more out of your heroes.

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