This is a ranking page for the hero Innes - New Year's Aim from the game Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). Read on to learn the best IVs (Individual Values), best builds (Inherit Skill), weapon refinement, stats at Lv 40, and more for New Year Innes.

Heroes With the Same Name
Summer Innes	Innes
Young Innes	New Year Innes

New Year Innes Rating and Basic Information

Innes - New Year's Aim: Basic Information

Color / Weapon Type / Move Type	Colorless / Bow / Infantry
Rarity	5 Star 4 Star
What Kind of Character Are They?	・A 4★ free-to-play unit with competitive Spd and decent Atk. ・Snaking Bow+ grants bonus stats, true damage, and a damage reduction piercing effect on Special trigger.

New Year Innes Skills at 5★

Snaking Bow+ Effective against flying foes. If unit initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit, and deals damage= 10% of unit's Atk during combat (excluding area-of-effect Specials), and also, when unit's Special triggers, neutralizes foe's "reduces damage by X%" effects from foe's non-Special skills (excluding area-of-effect Specials).

Glacies Cooldown Count = 4 Boosts damage dealt by 80% of unit’s Res.

Spd/Res Finish 3 If unit is within 3 spaces of an ally, grants Spd/Res+6 to unit during combat, and also, if unit's Special is ready or unit's Special triggered before or during this combat, deals +5 damage during combat. (Except when dealing damage with area-of-effect Specials.)

Null Follow-Up 3 Disables foe’s skills that guarantee foe’s follow-up attack and foe’s skills that prevent unit’s follow-up attack.

New Year Innes Best IVs

Recommended IVs

Stat	Superboon/Superbane	IV Recommendation
HP (18)		★★★☆☆
Atk (14)		★★★★☆
Spd (12)		★★★★★
Def (6)		★★☆☆☆
Res (4)		★★★☆☆

◯ = Stat gains +4 with a superboon, ✕= Stat goes down by -4 with a superbane, - = No assets or flaws

When using an Ascendant Floret, we recommend getting the next superboon if it fits the hero. If not, consider what stat your hero needs most.

Neutral IVs by default!

As a hero obtainable only through Tempest Trials, New Year Innes will always have neutral IVs by default. The only way to access IVs for this unit is through using Trait Fruits.

+Spd / -Def

The best IVs for New Year Innes are +Spd and -Def. Despite Spd not being a superboon and Atk being a superboon, Spd is still the better boon of choice due to Innes's high base 47 Spd (50 with a boon) allowing him to compete with the fastest metagame units.

If building New Year Innes on a budget using his default Snaking Bow+, we recommend +Atk instead, as without investment, he won't be able to outspeed fast metagame units. Thus, more damage is the way to go, especially with Snaking Bow+'s bonus damage based on Atk.

New Year Innes's Res stat is very good. Because of this, we recommend -Def as a bane as it is his least important stat.

+Spd for a +10 merge

We recommend +Spd when merging New Year Innes up to +10 to allow him to compete with all the fast metagame units.

New Year Innes Best Builds

Offensive New Year Innes

HOT
： Arcane Darkbow ： Draw Back ： Curved Shot ： Emblem Lyn	： Sly Swift Sparrow ： Speedtaker 4 ： Incite Atk/Spd ： Blade Session 3 ： -
Updated on 12/30/2024

How to Use, Explanation

This build stacks up on offensive skills to allow New Year Innes to hit as hard as possible.

General Use / Budget New Year Innes

： Snaking Bow+ ： Draw Back ： Glimmer ： -	： Atk/Spd Finish 4 ： Phys. Null Follow ： Time's Pulse 4 ： Blade Session 3 ： -
Updated on 12/30/2024

How to Use, Explanation

This is a budget build using skills available from Divine Codes. Notably - Ascended Fir's combat manual has both Atk/Spd Finish and Phys. Null Follow.

Source Heroes for All Skills

New Year Innes Stats

Stat Rankings

Neutral Stats at Lv. 40 (5★)
193
HP	40	Rank: 498/1190
Atk	44	Rank: 169/1190
Spd	47	Rank: 12/1190
Def	25	Rank: 753/1190
Res	37	Rank: 156/1190

Stat Values

Lv 40+10 Stats (5★)

Stats at Lv 40

Initial Stats (with Skills)

Stat Comparison of Similar Heroes

Hero	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res	Total
New Year Innes	40	44	47	25	37	193
Leonardo	40	44	42	26	36	188
Etie	40	45	40	30	28	183
Young Rebecca	39	44	45	22	33	183
Dorothy	40	46	43	25	28	182
Kiragi	40	38	43	37	23	181
Young Innes	43	37	38	26	27	171

Note: Stats bonuses from skills are not taken into account.

New Year Innes Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses

New Year Innes Roles

Innes - New Year's Aim Roles
Close-Physical	Ranged-Physical	Close-Magic	Ranged-Magic
Physical Wall	Magic Wall	Effective Weapon	Movement Assist
Exclusive Skill	All-Range Counter	Recovery	Refresher
Legendary	Mythic	Duo / Harmonized	Resplendent

New Year Innes is a ranged physical attacker (range = 2). Therefore, when not accounting for the Weapon Triangle, the amount of damage he deals will be equivalent to his Atk minus the foe's Def stat.

New Year Innes Strengths

Snaking Bow+ grants bonus stats, true damage, and damage reduction piercing

New Year Innes comes with a good inheritable weapon in Snaking Bow+. This bow grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5, bonus true damage equal to 10% of its wielder's Atk, and neutralizes foe's non-Special percentage-based damage reduction effects upon triggering a Special.

While not providing as many effects as modern exclusive weapons, Snaking Bow+ provides just enough to be useful.

New Year Innes Weaknesses

Lack of Unique Skills

New Year Innes suffers from not having any unique skills to call his own, making him unable to stand out amongst other units.

Bow Infantry units are quite abundant in the game, and lacking an exclusive weapon makes New Year Innes replaceable by better units.

Low Def

New Year Innes only has base 25 Def, leaving him vulnerable to attackers that deal physical damage.

The modern metagame's Far Save tanks are usually melee units with Distant Counter effects, and most of them deal physical damage. Pick your spots with New Year Innes in order to ensure his survival.

Should you Unlock Potential?

Should You Unlock Potential for this Hero?

We Recommend You Unlock Potential for Innes - New Year's Aim!

We recommend that you use Unlock Potential to bring Innes - New Year's Aim from 4 Stars to 5 Stars. Innes - New Year's Aim is a very useful high Spd bow infantry, so we recommend you Unlock Potential for Innes - New Year's Aim if your team lacks a strong high Spd bow infantry.

Unlock Potential Tier List

New Year Innes - List of Skills

Weapons

Skill Name	Might	Range	Effect	Learned At
Iron Bow	4	2	Effective against flying units.	3★
Steel Bow	6	2	Effective against flying units.	3★
Snaking Bow			Effective against flying foes. If unit initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit, and deals damage= 10% of unit's Atk during combat (excluding area-of-effect Specials), and also, when unit's Special triggers, neutralizes foe's "reduces damage by X%" effects from foe's non-Special skills (excluding area-of-effect Specials).	3★
Snaking Bow+			Effective against flying foes. If unit initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit, and deals damage= 10% of unit's Atk during combat (excluding area-of-effect Specials), and also, when unit's Special triggers, neutralizes foe's "reduces damage by X%" effects from foe's non-Special skills (excluding area-of-effect Specials).	5★

Assists

Specials

Skill Name	Effect	Learned At
Chilling Wind	(Cooldown Count = 4) Boosts damage dealt by 50% of unit’s Res.	3★
Glacies	(Cooldown Count = 4) Boosts damage dealt by 80% of unit’s Res.	4★

Passives

Skill Name	Effect	Learned At
Spd/Res Finish 1	If unit is within 3 spaces of an ally, grants Spd/Res+2 to unit during combat, and also, if unit's Special is ready or unit's Special triggered before or during this combat, deals +1 damage during combat. (Except when dealing damage with area-of-effect Specials.)	3★
Spd/Res Finish 2	If unit is within 3 spaces of an ally, grants Spd/Res+4 to unit during combat, and also, if unit's Special is ready or unit's Special triggered before or during this combat, deals +3 damage during combat. (Except when dealing damage with area-of-effect Specials.)	4★
Spd/Res Finish 3	If unit is within 3 spaces of an ally, grants Spd/Res+6 to unit during combat, and also, if unit's Special is ready or unit's Special triggered before or during this combat, deals +5 damage during combat. (Except when dealing damage with area-of-effect Specials.)	5★
Null Follow-Up 1	At start of combat, if unit’s HP  = 100%, disables foe’s skills that guarantee foe’s follow-up attack and foe’s skills that prevent unit’s follow-up attack.	3★
Null Follow-Up 2	At start of combat, if unit’s HP ≥ 50%, disables foe’s skills that guarantee foe’s follow-up attack and foe’s skills that prevent unit’s follow-up attack.	3★
Null Follow-Up 3	Disables foe’s skills that guarantee foe’s follow-up attack and foe’s skills that prevent unit’s follow-up attack.	4★

New Year Innes as a Source Hero

New Year Innes has Snaking Bow+, Spd/Res Finish 3, and Null Follow-Up 3 as inheritable options.

Unless you have other units that would appreciate Snaking Bow+, we recommend merging up your New Year Innes copies instead.

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How to Get New Year Innes

Obtained as a Reward in Tempest Trials

New Year Innes is a limited time Hero who can be obtained as a reward for your score in the Tempest Trials. They do not appear in regular summons. After the event has ended, they can be obtained by using Heroic Grails.

Voice Actor and Illustrator Information

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