Combat Arts Tier List

This is a tier list for Combat Arts found in Fire Emblem Three Houses (FE3H). Use our Tier List to find out which combat arts will serve you the best during your battles throughout the game.

Combat Art Tier List

Combat arts are special abilities your units can use during your turn. They can provide several effects, from increasing your damage, to moving allies on the map. We will list down below all the combat arts that we think are the best ones to have during your playthrough.

List of Combat Arts

S Tier

These combat arts are deemed the best combat arts available in the game. Make sure to abuse them if your units have them in their possession.

A Tier

While not as great as the S Tier Combat Arts, these are still great skills to equip and make use of if you've got them.

B Tier

These skills are good to throw on a unit if you are unsure of what other skills to equip. If you have an extra slot and one of these is available, you can get some use out of it.

C Tier

While no combat art is without its utility, these are simply inferior to the higher tier ones. Most of these are learned earlier in the game and can be traded out for better combat arts as your units level up.

Tier List Criteria

Effectiveness and Utility Is Prioritized

Fire Emblem is all about positioning, and we highlighted abilities that allow you to put the necessary units in their proper positions. This is why abilities like Smite , Foul Play, and Swap are positioned high in the tier list.

Reliability

Damage output would only be seen if the ability can always be used in its maximum effect. This is why combat arts that can freely grant you multi hits and abilities like Atrocity, which is effective against all units, are placed in the S tier.

Unit Compatibility

Marianne in melee range of a demon beast using Soul Blade.

There are several abilities on the list that are actually quite good, but are placed in a lower tier than you might expect. This is due to the fact that the units that learn them aren't really supposed to use those abilities.

For example, Soul Blade is an extremely powerful ability, but it requires units who use it to be in melee range of enemies. Soul Blade is an ability that can be learned by mage units, and placing them in melee range would prove to be much more dangerous than their normal playstyle of hitting enemies with magic from afar.

Uniqueness

There are abilities that are unique in the sense that out of all the combat arts, only they can provide the effect they can give. A good example is Curved Shot, which allows you to snipe normally unreachable enemies consistently with ease.

Fire Emblem Three Houses Related Links

List of Combat Arts

Combat Arts Pages
Combat Arts Tier List
Sword Combat Arts List
Wrath Strike	Grounder	Bane of Monsters
Haze Slice	Hexblade	Sunder
Soulblade	Windsweep	Finesse Blade
Assassinate	Astra	Subdue
Axe Combat Arts List
Smash	Helm Splitter	Monster Breaker
Focused Strike	Wild Abandon	Lightning Axe
Spike	Diamond Axe	Armored Strike
Exhaustive Strike	Flickering Flower	War Master's Strike
Lance Combat Arts List
Tempest Lance	Knightkneeler	Shatter Slash
Vengeance	Monster Piercer	Hit and Run
Frozen Lance	Swift Strikes	Glowing Ember
Lance Jab	Paraselene
Bow Combat Arts List
Curved Shot	Heavy Draw	Deadeye
Waning Shot	Monster Blast	Break Shot
Schism Shot	Point-Blank Volley	Encloser
Ward Arrow	Wind God	Hunter's Volley
Utility Combat Arts List
Draw Back	Reposition	Shove
Swap	Smite
Relic Combat Arts List
Eviscerate	Beast Fang	Apocalyptic Flame
Dust	Burning Quake	Ruined Sky
Fallen Star	Atrocity	Raging Storm
Foudroyant Strike	Sublime Heaven	Ruptured Heaven