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List of Mercedes's Abilities and Arts
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

List of Mercedes's Abilities and Arts

Learn all of Mercedes's unique abilities like Radiant Love and Live to Serve, plus learnable arts in fire emblem warriors three hopes. Max Devotion reduces damage by 50%.

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Learn all of Mercedes's unique abilities like Radiant Love and Live to Serve, plus learnable arts in fire emblem warriors three hopes. Max Devotion reduces damage by 50%.

Unique Abilities

These abilities are always equipped to Mercedes.

Action Ability

  • Radiant Love Lv 1: Attacking very slightly fills the Unique Ability Gauge and gradually restores HP. When the gauge is full, press the unique ability button to damage enemies and heal allies.
  • Radiant Love Lv 2: Attacking slightly fills the Unique Ability Gauge and gradually restores HP. .
  • Radiant Love Lv 3: Attacking moderately fills the Unique Ability Gauge and gradually restores HP. .

Support Ability

  • Live to Serve Lv 1: When magic is used to restore an ally’s HP, allows the caster to also recover half the amount of the restored HP.
  • Live to Serve Lv 2: When magic is used to restore an ally’s HP, allows the caster to also recover three-quarters the amount of the restored HP.
  • Live to Serve Lv 3: When magic is used to restore an ally’s HP, allows the caster to also recover an equal amount to the restored HP.

Tactical Ability

  • Devotion Lv 1: When ordered to defend: reduces damage received from enemies by 30%.
  • Devotion Lv 2: When ordered to defend: reduces damage received from enemies by 40%.
  • Devotion Lv 3: When ordered to defend: reduces damage received from enemies by 50%.

Learnable Abilities & Arts

You can learn these abilities/arts by ranking up various classes. After learning an ability/art, you can equip up to 2 arts and 4 abilities regardless of current class. Or up to 10 abilities after upgrading the Tactics Academy. If a character learns multiple of the same Prowess (or similar) ability, these abilities will combine into a stronger version. For example, learning Faith twice will give you Faith Lv 2. Learning a third one will bump it to Faith Lv 3.

Myrmidon

  • 1-star: Spd +2 (Increases Spd by 2.)
  • 2-star: Sword Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with a sword.)
  • 3-star: Grounder (Strike swiftly with a trio of slashes.)

Soldier

  • 1-star: Max HP +500 (Increases max HP by 500.)
  • 2-star: Lance Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with a lance.)
  • 3-star: Knightkneeler (Perform a powerful lance thrust.)

Fighter

  • 1-star: Str +2 (Increases Str by 2.)
  • 2-star: Axe Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with an axe.)
  • 3-star: Swinging Fury (Perform a consecutive series of axe swings.)

Monk

  • 1-star: Res +2 (Increases Res by 2.)
  • 2-star: Faith (Increases the recovery amount of healing magic.)
  • 3-star: Fire (Grants the unit Fire, or increases the spell’s potency if already learned.)

Mercenary

  • 1-star: Vantage (When HP is at 50% or below: Perfect Guards restore a small amount of the Warrior and Awakening Gauges.)
  • 2-star: Sword Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with a sword.)
  • 2-star: Windsweep (Generate a cyclone.)
  • 3-star: Mercenary’s Ploy (Increases the critical hit rate of Mercenary, Swordmaster, and Mortal Savant class actions.)

Thief

  • 1-star: Dex +2 (Increases Dex by 2.)
  • 2-star: Sword Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with a sword.)
  • 3-star: Thief’s Ploy (Gives Thieves, Assassins, and Tricksters a rare chance to instantly defeat non-commander units with class actions.)
  • 3-star: Lightblade (Absorb a portion of inflicted damage as HP. Deals damage based on Mag.)

Armored Knight

  • 1-star: Def +2 (Increases Def by 2.)
  • 2-star: Axe Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with an axe.)
  • 2-star: Lightning Axe (Hurl a lightning-charged axe. Deals damage based on Mag.)
  • 3-star: Armored Infantry’s Ploy (Improves physical damage reduction inside areas created by Armor Knight and Fortress Knight class actions.)

Cavalier

  • 1-star: Desperation (When HP is at 50% or below: strong attacks will break an enemy’s guard.)
  • 2-star: Lance Prowess (Increases damage dealt to enemies when equipped with a lance.)
  • 2-star: Glowing Ember (Hurl a fiery lance straight ahead. Damage dealt will increase with Def.)
  • 3-star: Knight’s Ploy (Guarantees the enemy’s guard will break when activating the class actions of lance-wielding cavalry with at least one bar filled.)

Brigand

  • 1-star: Death Blow (Keeps the Stun Gauge visible for longer.)
  • 2-star: Invigorating Spirit (Temporarily increase Str.)
  • 3-star: Warrior’s Ploy (When using Brigand and Warrior class actions, temporarily reduces enemy Def in proportion to the number of bars filled.)

Archer

  • 1-star: Archer’s Ploy (Increases the critical hit rate of Archer, Sniper, and Bow Knight class actions.)
  • 1-star: Spiral Shot (L)

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