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Here you can see how to get Failnaught, a weapon skill in Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). Check out Failnaught, Failnaught's effects, units with Failnaught, as well as Inherit Skill Information!

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Failnaught Effect and Basic Information

Basic Information

Skill
Failnaught
Type
Weapon Skill IconWeapon Skill
Mt 14 Range 2
Effect Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes. At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25% grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit during combat and neutralizes effects that guarantee foe's follow-up attacks and effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.
Required SP 400
Sacred Seal None

Additional Info

Accelerates Special trigger, grants buffs when above a certain HP threshold and also grants the Null Follow-Up effect. This is a powerful skill that ensures that you can have follow-up attacks while denying skills that guarantee an enemy unit's follow-up attack.

Skill Family

Failnaught Fire Emblem Heroes FEHFailnaught

Failnaught Weapon Refinery Information

Special Effect Upgrade Stats and Effect

Might 14 Range 2
HP -
Atk - Spd -
Def - Res -
Effect Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes.
At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, inflicts Spd/Def-7, 【Guard】, and 【Sabotage】 on closest foes and any foe within 2 spaces of those foes through their next actions.
At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and neutralizes effects that guarantee foe's follow-up attacks and effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.
Enables 【Canto (1)】.
Inflicts Spd/Def-5 on foes within 3 rows or 3 columns centered on unit during combat. At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+4 to unit, neutralizes effects that inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit, and reduces the percentage of foe's non-Special "reduce damage by X%" skills by 50% during combat (excluding area-of-effect Specials).

Required Materials for this Upgrade

Arena Medals 500 Refining Stones -
Divine Dew 200 SP 400

Mt Upgrade Stats and Effect

Might 15 Range 2
HP 2
Atk - Spd -
Def - Res -
Effect Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes.
At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, inflicts Spd/Def-7, 【Guard】, and 【Sabotage】 on closest foes and any foe within 2 spaces of those foes through their next actions.
At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and neutralizes effects that guarantee foe's follow-up attacks and effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.

Required Materials for this Upgrade

Arena Medals 500 Refining Stones -
Divine Dew 200 SP 400

Spd Upgrade Stats and Effect

Might 14 Range 2
HP 2
Atk - Spd 3
Def - Res -
Effect Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes.
At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, inflicts Spd/Def-7, 【Guard】, and 【Sabotage】 on closest foes and any foe within 2 spaces of those foes through their next actions.
At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and neutralizes effects that guarantee foe's follow-up attacks and effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.

Required Materials for this Upgrade

Arena Medals 500 Refining Stones -
Divine Dew 200 SP 400

Def Upgrade Stats and Effect

Might 14 Range 2
HP 2
Atk - Spd -
Def 4 Res -
Effect Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes.
At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, inflicts Spd/Def-7, 【Guard】, and 【Sabotage】 on closest foes and any foe within 2 spaces of those foes through their next actions.
At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and neutralizes effects that guarantee foe's follow-up attacks and effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.

Required Materials for this Upgrade

Arena Medals 500 Refining Stones -
Divine Dew 200 SP 400

Res Upgrade Stats and Effect

Might 14 Range 2
HP 2
Atk - Spd -
Def - Res 4
Effect Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). Effective against flying foes.
At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, inflicts Spd/Def-7, 【Guard】, and 【Sabotage】 on closest foes and any foe within 2 spaces of those foes through their next actions.
At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and neutralizes effects that guarantee foe's follow-up attacks and effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks during combat.

Required Materials for this Upgrade

Arena Medals 500 Refining Stones -
Divine Dew 200 SP 400

Failnaught Rating

Rating 9.5/10.0 Ranking Unranked

Inherit Skill Restrictions for Failnaught

Units able to Inherit Failnaught

Inheritable? Move Type that can Inherit this Skill
No -
Weapon Type that can Inherit this Skill
-

Units who have Failnaught as Fodder

Hero Name Learns At
FEH icon Legendary Claude 5★

Which Units Should Inherit?

This skill cannot be Inherited!

Failnaught is an Exclusive Skill, so it cannot be learned through Inherit Skill.

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