Dancer

Dancer
First Seen	Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem
Promotes From	Thief (Lara only, Thracia 776)
Promotes To	-
Usable Weapon Types	Sword (FE3-5/FE12-13 only)
Class Skills	Dance, Luck +4, Special Dance
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A Dancer (ダンサー Dansā) is an all-female class which can give another allied unit an extra turn to move.

The term 'dancer' is used for all units which have this ability, although some are not technically this class (for instance, Rafiel is of the Heron class). Dancers are typically player exclusive, only being encountered as enemy units in various chapters of Thracia 776, or when fighting another player's team in Awakening.

Combat

Dancers overall tend to lack any sort of offensive presence in battle with generally low base stats across the board, extremely low offensive and defensive stat growths, and some dancers, such as Ninian in Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, cannot equip any sort of weapon. They are highly evasive however with high speed, skill, and luck growths and generally great HP growths. Inversely this means that they usually can double attack and can critical very often if used offensively, especially since most Dancers that can equip weapons utilize swords, though they will need Energy Drops and other strength boosting items to get an offensively viable Dancer. Overall, Dancers are not suited to stand in the front lines and should avoid combat as much as possible.

To make up for their general offensive shortcomings, their Dance command/skill allows them to reinvigorate troops to perform a second turn of action in the same turn. This allows them to give the more offensively capable an opportunity to attack in their stead. Occasionally, such units can produce other effects in other units, such as Ninian using Rings, such as Thor's Ire, or Olivia from Fire Emblem: Awakening who can equip the Special Dance skill to boost another units stats when she dances for them.

Stats

Base

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE3	16	1	-	2	7	0	1	0	Sword ?
FE4	26	3	0	1	7	0	1	3	C
FE5	14	0	0	0	2	0	0	-	E
FE6	14	1	-	2	7	0	0	1	-
FE7	14	1	-	2	7	0	0	1	-
FE8	14	1	-	2	7	0	0	1	-
FE12	16	1	0	1	8	0	3	0	E
FE13	16	1	1	5	8	0	3	1	E

Maximum

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE3	52	20	-	20	20	20	20	20	Sword ?
FE4	80	18	15	16	22	30	16	18	-
FE5	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
FE6	60	20	-	20	20	30	20	20	-
FE7	60	20	-	20	20	30	20	20	-
FE8	60	20	-	20	20	30	20	20	-
FE12	60	20	20	25	25	30	20	20	A
FE13	80	30	30	40	40	45	30	30	A

Notable Dancers

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

• Feena

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

• Sylvia (first generation)
• Leen (second generation)
• Laylea (Only as a replacement for Leen if Sylvia has no children)

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

• Promotion for: Lara

Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

• Lalum

Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken

• Ninian

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

• Tethys

Fire Emblem: Awakening

• Olivia

Trivia

• In Awakening, Dancers boast an equal defense and resistance, a trait shared with Villagers/Merchants, Lords, female Great Lords, Tacticians, Grandmasters, Cavaliers, Paladins, Manaketes, and Grima's personal class. Additionally, they boast an equal attack and magic, a trait shared by Tacticians, Grandmasters, and Villagers/Merchants.

See Also

• Bard - The male counterpart to Dancer
• Heron - The Laguz counterpart to Dancer.
• Singer - The replacement for the Dancer class in Fire Emblem: Fates.

Gallery

Dancer concept art in Genealogy of the Holy War.

Dancer concept art in Awakening

A Dancer as she appears in series 5 of the TCG.

A generic dancer in Thracia 776.

Plum`s Dancer sprite.

Unused Dancer portrait from TearRing Saga.

Ninian the Dancer's animation in Rekka no Ken.

Feena's dancer sprite from Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyū~.

Olivia as a Dancer from Awakening.

Dancer map sprite from Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.

Dancer map sprite from Genealogy of the Holy War.

Unused dancer map sprite from TearRing Saga.

Dancer map sprite from Rekka no Ken.

Dancer map sprite from The Sacred Stones.

Dancer map sprite from Shin Monshō no Nazo.

Map sprite of Olivia as a Dancer in Awakening.