Inherit Skill is a gameplay feature in Fire Emblem Heroes.
Overview[]
Inherit Skill is an Advanced Growth option for the player to have their Heroes inherit skills from outside of the base skill set. Players sacrifice units with the skills they desire to pass on to the other units.
Players select one Hero in their playable roster to inherit a skill and either a second Hero or a Combat Manual to bequeath a skill in their current possible learnable skill set to the first hero. When inheriting, players are freely able to select any skill from the second hero or Combat Manual to the inheriting Hero so long as said inheriting Hero bypasses any restrictions on said skills related to weapon, movement types, or can be inherited in the first place.
Players may choose up to five applicable inheritable skills from the second Hero or Combat manual. Each tier of a skill is individually considered a skill in this count. Hence inheriting Death Blow 3 consumes three skills from the count while the fourth tier consumes four. Units must inherit all lower tiers of a skill before being able to inherit the highest, but not necessarily from the same unit. For example, inheriting Death Blow 1 to 3 from Klein allows a Hero to inherit Death Blow 4 from Dimitri after while allowing the player to select four other skills from his skill. Otherwise, the Hero has to inherit Death Blow 1 to 4 from Dimitri and only be able to inherit 1 other skill.
Once a Hero or Combat Manual has been utilized to give skills to another ally, the sacrificed unit is permanently removed from the player's Hero Roster or Combat Manual Roster. The sole exceptions to this rule are any Rearmed Hero or Attuned Hero. Both Heroes follow the same rules as mentioned above if they are used as the sacrificed units, except they are not removed when sacrificed. Instead, they are disabled from further sacrifice unless they are Merged with a fresh, unused version of themselves. Players can freely give said Rearmed or Attuned Heroes other skills which can then be transferred to other units. Both have dedicated icons which are displayed on top of their roster icons indicating if they are available to be used as the sacrificed Hero in the inheritance process.
Inheritance Restrictions[]
The Inheritance restrictions are as follows:
- All characters can only inherit weapons of their original weapon type.
- Tome users are restricted to inheriting tomes from the same color.
- Breath, Bow, and Dagger weapons are an exception, as any Breath/Bow/Dagger user can inherit them regardless of color.
- Beast weapons can only be passed down to other beast units of the same movement type.
- Several skills are considered unit preferred skills and cannot be inherited off of its original user under any circumstance. For the most part, this is restricted to weapons. For example, only Lady of the Plains Lyn can wield the Sol Katti. Some skills in the other possible skill types are restricted to their native unit such as Imperial Ascent Alm having Scendscale as his unique Skill A or Vallite Songstress Azura having Gray Waves as her unique Support Skill.
- Dance and Sing cannot be inherited.
- Any Support skill related to healing such as Physic or Mend can only be inherited by a Staff unit.
- Several skills have restrictions such as not being inheritable by certain weapon or movement types such as Spurn or must be a very specific weapon and/or movement type to be inherited such as Dive-Bomb.
- Attuned Skills can be inherited by any applicable unit, however they cannot be equipped if the inheritor has a unique, non-weapon skill equipped except for Rearmed Heroes.