As part of 2017’s Choose Your Legends event, you can get one of four “Brave” heroes for free: Ike: Brave Mercenary (Green), Lyn: Brave Lady (Gray), Roy: Brave Lion (Red), and Lucina: Brave Princess (Blue). Under Summon, one of them should be the Free Summon: Brave Heroes banner which gives a free neutral Summon, where you get to pick one of the colored orbs to indicate your choice. They’re all potent.

Completing Book 2 Chapter 1 gives you a neutral Fjorm: Princess of Ice, who is a Water Element Legendary Hero (more on Legendary Heroes later).

Completing Xenologue 3 gives you a neutral Vanguard Legend Ike, who is an Earth Legendary Hero.

Players who made an account before 2018/05/09 will receive a 4★ Takumi: Wild Card along with 13,200 feathers and several shards and badges as a present.

As part of 2018’s Choose Your Legend event, you can get one of four “Brave” heroes for free under the Arrival of the Brave banner: Veronica: Brave Princess (Gray), Ephraim: Sacred Twin Lord (Green), Celica: Warrior Priestess (Red), Hector: Brave Warrior (Blue). Under Summon, one of them should be the Free Summon: Brave Heroes banner which gives a free neutral Summon, where you get to pick one of the colored orbs to indicate your choice. They’re all potent.

Completing Book 3 Chapter 1 gives you a neutral Eir: Merciful Death, who is a Light Element Mythical Hero (more on Mythical Heroes later).

II. Banners

There are 4 types of banners:

Regular banners which give a 3% chance for 5★ Focus characters and another 3% for 5★ characters. Each month, you can expect a regular banner featuring new characters, and a regular banner featuring seasonal (i.e. not necessarily available in future banners) characters.

Hero Fest banners which give a 5% chance for 5★ Focus characters and another 3% chance for 5★ characters. These are usually available once every quarter, and new players will always have access to the latest Hero Fest banner for a few days.

Legendary banners which gives a 8% chance for 5★ Focus characters (and 0% chance for other 5★ characters) but features 3 characters per Orb color. This is the only way to get Legendary characters and previous seasonal characters. They are usually available at the end of each month (or at the start of each month in some cases).

4★ banners which, in addition to providing the same chances as regular banners, they also provide 4★ Focus characters and a 29% chance to obtain them. Features 3 characters per Orb color. Good for obtaining units used for Skill Inheritance or units you need multiple copies of.

Also, your first pull in every banner is free.

III. Sacred Seals (2017/04/12)

Sacred Seals are items that can be equipped on characters, and occupy their S-slot. They usually replicate A/B/C skills, and there are a few skills which are available only as Sacred Seals.

They usually start out as Level 1 versions of their corresponding skill, but can be upgraded via Sacred Coins and Badges.

To unlock this feature, you need to complete Chapter 13 and Intermission: A Power Awakens.

You can earn Sacred Seals from quests, events like the Tempest Trials, or craft them at the Sacred Forge.

You can earn Sacred Coins from Arena, Arena Assault, and quests and events.

To craft or upgrade a Sacred Seal, you can click on the Sacred Coin icon at the top right corner of your castle.

Fire Emblem Heroes will no longer be releasing previously-released Seals as rewards. Instead, they will eventually appear as craftable Seals at the Sacred Forge.

For more info, see

https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Sacred_Seals_(Guide) and https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/sacred-seal-forging

IV. Weapon Refinery (2017/11/28)

Some weapons can now be upgraded.

To unlock this feature, you need to complete Chapter 13 and Intermission: The Rite of Blades.

You can upgrade weapons by spending Arena Medals and either Refining Stones or Divine Dew (for Legendary Weapons).

You can earn Arena Medals from Arena.

You can earn Refining Stones from Arena, Arena Assault, and quests and events.

You can earn Divine Dew from events like Rival Domains and Blessed Gardens, and by refining weapons using Refining Stones.

Some characters can also learn new weapons when they are promoted to 5★ which includes healers. Just click on Learn Skills to see these.

For more info, see https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Weapon_Refinery

V. Skill Inheritance (2017/03/16)

You can sacrifice a character to bestow up to three of their Skills to another character. These skills will cost 1.5x their normal SP cost for the character that inherited those skills.

For more info, see

https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Inherit_Skill and https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/skill-inheritance-dos-and-donts

VI. Summoner and Ally Support (2017/09/07)

Under Advanced Growth, you will get these options.

Summoner Support: Pick one character, and they will get a stat bonus (+3 HP, +2 RES at the start). The more fights they complete, the higher their Summoner Support Rank will be. At Rank S, you can get +5 HP and +2 to ATK/SPD/DEF/RES. Will inherit ranking upon merging, will lose all of the benefits upon changing your Summoner Support pick.

Ally Support: You can have as many unique pairs as you want. Pick two characters. When they are adjacent to each other, they will get a bonus depending on their rank. That bonus is halved if they are 1 tile away. At the lowest Rank, it starts at +2 Res, while at the highest Rank, +2/ATK/SPD/DEF/RES during combat.

More info at https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/ally-support-guide

VII. Legendary Heroes (2017/11/28)

Legendary Heroes can only be obtained via the monthly legendary banners, or via the story (for Fjorm: Princess of Ice and Ike: Vanguard Legend). They also come with blessings corresponding to their element.

You can Confer Blessings to a non-Legendary Hero. (Go to Advanced Growth –> Confer Blessings.) Characters with Blessings receive double SP. A character cannot have more than one Blessing. (These can be inherited to other characters when using Merge Allies)

Legendary Heroes get double SP.
When it is the Legendary Hero’s season (see top left icon as each week, there are four elements, two of which apply to Legendary Heroes) and they are in the same team as a character with the corresponding element, the character receives a stat bonus. These stat bonuses will vary depending on the Legendary Hero.
Legendary Heroes or characters with Blessings are required to play the Blessed Gardens.

More info at https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/blessed-legends-guide-legendary-heroes-blessings-and-seasons

VII. Mythical Heroes Heroes (2018/12/10)

Mythical Heroes can only be obtained via the monthly legendary banners, specific banners, or via the story (for Eir: Merciful Death). They also come with blessings corresponding to their element.

Legendary Heroes get double SP.
When it is the Mythical Hero’s season (see top left icon as each week, there are four elements, two of which applies to Mythical Heroes) and they are in the same team as a character with the corresponding element, the character receives a stat bonus. These stat bonuses will vary depending on the Mythical Hero.
In Aether Raids, Mythical Heroes plus a character with the corresponding Blessing increases your score.

VIII. Old Game Modes

Story Maps

Story Maps now have a maximum cost of 10 Stamina.
Completed Story Maps no longer give 50% XP and SP (they will give the normal value).

Grand Hero Battles

Grand Hero Battles now cost 0 Stamina.
Infernal difficulty added. Gives a 4★ character and 2,000 feathers.
Two sets of Grand Hero Battles are on rotation every day.

Day	Grand Hero Battle 1	Grand Hero Battle 2
Sunday	Xander: Paragon Knight	Arvis: Emperor of Flame
Monday	Narcian: Wyvern General	Zephiel: The Liberator
Tuesday	Navarre: Scarlet Sword	Camus: Sable Knight
Wednesday	Robin: Mystery Tactician	Legion: Masked Maniac
Thursday	Ursula: Blue Crow	Clarisse: Sniper in the Dark
Friday	Lloyd: White Wolf	Berkut: Prideful Prince
Saturday	Michalis: Ambitious King	Valter: Dark Moonstone

There are video guides to complete various GHBs at https://yaycupcake.com/feh/archive.php

Arena

Depending on when you’ve played the game, the way how Arena is scored may have changed.

See https://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?/topic/79359-how-to-calculate-arena-score-now-updated-with-arena-matchmaking-changes-calc-site-read-the-op-or-else/ for the latest updates.

http://arcticsilverfox.com/score_calc/ is also a helpful tool to calculate your Arena Score.

Arena rewards have also changed. Some of the significant changes:

Chain bonus now reduced from 7 consecutive victories to 5 consecutive victories.
New Chain Rewards but Offense Rewards have been removed.
Bonus allies will now receive stat boosts (HP +10, ATK/SPD/DEF/RES+4). These bonuses will not apply to the enemy team.
Kills from bonus units now increases your Arena score and provide medal drops.
Tier 21 has been added.

IX. New Non-Event Game Modes

Arena Assault (2017/08/08)

Basically Arena without bonus units, but during each battle, you have to pick a new team (no repeat characters). You also get 3 items to use during all the battles (i.e. either use all 3 items on a single fight and have none left for the other rounds, or spread their use out across 7 rounds).

Why you want to play this game mode: Highest weekly source of Sacred Coins and Refining Stones.

Priority? You want to at least do the minimum to get some weekly Feathers, Sacred Coins, and Refining Stones.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Arena_Assault

Updates: Legendary Heroes or characters with Blessings that match the season will add to your score.

Chain Challenge (2017/07/05)

Play the Story Maps missions in sequential order, retaining your team’s HP and Special cooldowns across missions.

Why you want to play this game mode: Orbs and Feathers.

Priority? Play it only when you need the Orbs and Feathers.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Chain_Challenge

Squad Assault (2017/07/05)

Play 5 different Story Maps, except you need to use a different team each time (no repeat characters) and you cannot have casualties.

Why you want to play this game mode: Basic Seals (ATK/SPD/DEF/RES +1 and HP+3) and Orbs.

Priority? Only if you need the Seals.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Squad_Assault

Blessed Gardens (2018/03/08)

Basic maps with one-time rewards but requires characters of the corresponding Elemental Blessing or Legendary Hero. A new map is added every week.

Why you want to play this game mode: Rewards.

Priority? Play it only when you need the rewards.

More info at

https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Blessed_Gardens and https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/hallowed-grounds-blessed-gardens-guide

Rival Domains (2018/03/08)

New game mode where you create a team of 20 characters (can be recruited from Friends list) and deployed in a map 2x the size of the regular map. Capture the flag mechanics. New rewards every week.

Why you want to play this game mode: Rewards.

Priority? Complete the maps at least once a week.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Rival_Domains

Updates: Characters that teleport in no longer attack on the same turn.

Relay Defense (2018/09/08)

Replaces Rival Domains. Identical to Rival Domains except goal is to defend your base.

Why you want to play this game mode: Rewards.

Priority? Complete the maps at least once a week.

Training Maps (2018/02/09)

Under Special Maps, there are new Training Maps that changes daily.

Why you want to play this game mode: Aside from the one-time rewards, good place to level up and grind SP.

Priority? Utilize whenever you need SP or XP.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Special_Training_Maps

Tactics Drills (2018/07/09)

Under Story Mode, there are maps (new maps added every Thursday) that provide puzzle-like challenges.

Why you want to play this game mode: To improve your skill and gain the rewards.

Priority? When you need the rewards or want a puzzle challenge.

Aether Raids (2018/11/8)

A new competitive mode where you can compete and defend against other player’s teams. You can eventually field up to 6 units, and build structures to aid you.

Aether Stones can be spent to build structures.

Why you want to play this game mode: To earn Heroic Grails.

Priority? You want, at the very least, to do the minimum to earn Heroic Grails and Aether Stones.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Aether_Raids and https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/raiding-castle-guide-aether-raids

X. Regular Special Events

Voting Gauntlet

Popularity contest that gives lots of rewards.

Changes:

Better rewards.
Voting Gauntlet now has a maximum multiplier of 7.5.
Voting Gauntlet multiplier can now trigger if one side has a 1% lead.
If you lose a battle, you can retry again.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Voting_Gauntlet

Bound Hero Battles

Similar to Grand Hero Battles, except they give Orbs as rewards instead of characters. Costs 0 Stamina.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Bound_Hero_Battle_maps

Legendary Hero Battles

Similar to Bound Hero Battles, except they only occur during the release of Legendary Banners and features the new Legendary Hero as an opponent. Rewards Blessings and Orbs. Costs 0 Stamina.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Legendary_Hero_Battle_maps

Tempest Trials+

Play up to 7 maps, retaining your team’s HP and Special cooldowns across each map. The higher the difficulty and the more maps you play, the higher your score.

Changes:

Lasts 10 days.
Enemies retain their damage or have their their HP reduced by 20% when you switch teams, whichever is higher.
Bonus units receive stat boosts (HP +10, ATK/SPD/DEF/RES+4), receive double the XP and SP, and increases your score by 40%.
The first two times you play Tempest Trials+ during each reset, your final score is multiplied by 3 and all your units receive the Bonus unit stat boost and XP/SP boost.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Tempest_Trials

Tap Battle

Requires one complete team. Tapping/reflex game that resembles a simple rhythm game. Characters with Ally Support at Rank S unlocks the secret ending. Completed maps give rewards.

Changes: Tap Battle now provides Hero Merit.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Tap_Battle:_Illusory_Dungeon

Grand Conquests

Players are grouped into one of three teams. Each team attempts to gain as much territory as possible. Maps play our similar to Rival Domains. Provides lots of rewards.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Grand_Conquests

Forging Bonds

Play random maps to gain rewards (including Accessories) and unlock character conversations.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Forging_Bonds

XI. Miscellaneous Game Mechanics

Hero Merit

Characters can now earn Hero Merit. Every time a character accumulates 500 Hero Merit, they can be redeemed for 500 Feathers (by clicking at the character in your Castle; they will have a feather effect on them).

The current maximum is 5,000 Hero Merit on each character.

More info at https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Hero_Merit

Unit Types

The game now has the following units:

Colorless Dragonstone users (2018/03/29)
Colored Archers (2018/05/01)

Maps

Some maps have the following features:

Defensive Terrain

These tiles increase a unit’s DEF and RES by 30% during combat. Sometimes they overlap with Trenches.

See https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Defensive_terrain for more info.

Trenches

These tiles prevent cavalry units from moving into them if you are not adjacent to them at the start of your turn. Sometimes they overlap with Defensive Terrain.

See https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Trenches for more info.

Packs

Each month, there are packs that you purchase once. These packs are more efficient compared to the Orbs packs available.

In addition, you can purchase a Starter Support Pack for $3.99 (price may vary from region to region). This gives:

A 5★ Black Knight: Sinister General.
12 Orbs.
12 Stamina Potions.
12 Light’s Blessings.

Nintendo Platinum Points

You can now spend 100 Nintendo Platinum points to get 2,000 feathers (maximum 10,000 feathers).

Music

You can now stop the music from changing during an enemy’s turn.

Accessories (2018/06/08)

Characters can now be equipped with Accessories. These are cosmetic changes to your character.

User Interface

The menu has been changed. Previous options have now been moved to Ally Growth, Change Equipment, and Interact with Allies menu.

An “Auto-Learn” function has been added.

There are now 8 distinct Favorite markers.

Skill Manuals (2018/09/06)

Skill Manuals have been added. You can turn characters into Skill Manuals. They retain their Skills (for Skill Inheritance) and their ★ value (for Merging). You can still use Unlock Potential on Skill Manuals without leveling the characters to level 20. Does not consume Barrack space.

Heroic Grails (2018/11/08)

Heroic Grails have have been added. You can spend Heroic Grails to acquire Tempest Trial and Grand Hero Battle 4★ characters. You can avail each character up to 20 times. It costs 100 Heroic Grails for the first copy of a character, and an additional 50 (to a maximum of 500) for each additional copy of the same character. Heroic Grails can be earned by competing in Aether Raids.

Summon Tickets (2018/12/10)

These are banner specific and can be spent to start a Summoning Session. The first pull is free.

Merge Allies (2019/2/7)

Starting in February 2019, using Merge Allies will remove the Flaw of any character with at least one Merge. If the character has no Asset or Flaw, the character instead gets +1 to its 3 highest stats. This affects Arena scoring. Changes will be retroactive.

Assets/Flaws (2019/2/7)

You can now view a character’s Asssets/Flaws (previously Boon/Bane). This option can be toggled on/off.

Dragon Flowers (2019/2/7)

A new currency has been introduced. Dragon Flowers can be spent on units before the update to increase one of their stats (maximum 5, or +1 to all stats). Infantry units before the update can be bestowed up to ten Dragon Flowers (or +2 to all stats).

XII. FAQ

Is my team good?

To complete the new game modes and quests, you don’t need just one team, but several teams. Be sure to have at least (these are non-exclusive and can overlap) the following:

One team for each movement type for various quests.
One team for each elemental blessing for Blessed Gardens and various quests.
Five teams with unique characters for Squad Assault.
Seven teams with unique characters for Arena Assault.
20 unique characters for Rival Domains.

On iOS, the game downloads a large (more than 600 MB) update whenever I restart the game. Is this normal?

This happens when your iOS device doesn’t have enough free space. You should allot at least 1 GB or more of free space on your device.

I’m transferring devices (iOS to Android or Android to iOS). Will my progress be saved?

As long as you linked both devices to your Nintendo account, your progress will be saved. However, Orbs do not transfer across platforms, so Orbs on iOS will not carry over to Android and vice versa.

You can juggle the game between two different devices running the same Operating System (i.e. two Android devices, two iOS devices). Just don’t open them at the same time.

How does Cancel Affinity work?

Any weapon triangle affinity granted by unit’s skills is negated. If affinity disadvantage exists, weapon triangle affinity granted by foe’s skills is reversed.

First, Cancel Affinity works only if the enemy unit has a skill that increases their weapon advantage. This usually means either the Triangle Adept skill, or they have one of the gem weapons (Ruby Sword/Sapphire Lance/Emerald Axe) equipped.

Second, such skills usually increase their Weapon Advantage by an addition 20% (or 40% total if you include their natural Weapon Advantage). What Cancel Affinity does is negate this extra bonus.

Here’s an example:

Stahl is a red cavalry unit. Normally, when facing green units, he deals 20% damage more, and receives 20% damage less. However, he is equipped with a Ruby Sword, which increases this bonus by an additional 20%. So against green units, he deals 40% damage more, and receives 40% damage less.

If he is facing a green unit with Cancel Affinity, that green unit will remove the extra 20% he receives, and passes it on to the green unit. So in effect, both Stahl and the green unit have a 20% bonus against each other, which basically neutralizes each other’s bonuses (i.e. damage is calculated normally).

I have X units whose movement speed is 2 or less. Why aren’t they getting buffs from Attack Tactic/Defense Tactic/Resistance Tactic?

At start of turn, grants Atk/Def/Res+6 to allies within 2 spaces for 1 turn. Granted only if number of that ally’s movement type on current team ≤ 2.

The wording on the Tactics skill could be phrased better.

Basically, it will only work on characters on your team if the number of characters they share a movement type with is 2 or less. For example, it will trigger on all the units if you have 1 Flier, 1 Armored unit, and 2 Cavalry units. But if you have 3 Infantry units (or 3 units with the same movement type), they will not trigger it.

I. New Free Heroes

II. Banners

III. Sacred Seals (2017/04/12)

IV. Weapon Refinery (2017/11/28)

V. Skill Inheritance (2017/03/16)

VI. Summoner and Ally Support (2017/09/07)

VII. Legendary Heroes (2017/11/28)

VII. Mythical Heroes Heroes (2018/12/10)

VIII. Old Game Modes

Story Maps

Grand Hero Battles

Arena

IX. New Non-Event Game Modes

Arena Assault (2017/08/08)

Chain Challenge (2017/07/05)

Squad Assault (2017/07/05)

Blessed Gardens (2018/03/08)

Rival Domains (2018/03/08)

Relay Defense (2018/09/08)

Training Maps (2018/02/09)

Tactics Drills (2018/07/09)

Aether Raids (2018/11/8)

X. Regular Special Events

Voting Gauntlet

Bound Hero Battles

Legendary Hero Battles

Tempest Trials+

Tap Battle

Grand Conquests

Forging Bonds

XI. Miscellaneous Game Mechanics

Hero Merit

Unit Types

Maps

Packs

Nintendo Platinum Points

Music

Accessories (2018/06/08)

User Interface

Skill Manuals (2018/09/06)

Heroic Grails (2018/11/08)

Summon Tickets (2018/12/10)

Merge Allies (2019/2/7)

Assets/Flaws (2019/2/7)

Dragon Flowers (2019/2/7)

XII. FAQ

Is my team good?

On iOS, the game downloads a large (more than 600 MB) update whenever I restart the game. Is this normal?

I’m transferring devices (iOS to Android or Android to iOS). Will my progress be saved?

How does Cancel Affinity work?

I have X units whose movement speed is 2 or less. Why aren’t they getting buffs from Attack Tactic/Defense Tactic/Resistance Tactic?

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