—Olivia in Fire Emblem Awakening
Dance is a skill that debuted in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.
Overview[]
Dance, Play, and Sing are commands available exclusively to Dancers, Bards, and Songstresses (with the exception of bards from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776), respectively.
This skill is mainly used to revitalize an adjacent unit that has already moved, allowing them to move once more in the same turn. The number of units affected depends on the game; in the earlier games, all adjacent units are affected (allowing a maximum of 4 units to move again), while from Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 onwards, it affects only one unit chosen by the player.
In TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga, Dance appears as an exclusive skill that only Plum is able to learn. After dancing 150 times, Plum gains the additional ability to either increase her target's Strength or Magic by 10, or halve the damage the target takes for the rest of the map, although this effect is triggered at random.
Sing also appears as a skill exclusive to Lyria. When used, Sing heals all party members around Lyria and also has a chance to refresh them. The amount of HP restored, chance to grant another turn and range all increase with usage, maxing at 5 HP, 20% chance, and 4 tiles respectively.
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade feature Rings that can be used by dancers and bards to perform alternative dances/songs. These dances/songs will not allow a unit move again; instead, they will give them certain statistical boosts for one turn, such as increased Defense or a boost to their Critical rate. Like most items, these rings have limited Uses.
In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the Dance/Play skills are replaced by the Galdrar sung by Herons.
In Fire Emblem Awakening, the Dance ability is exclusive to Olivia as long as she is in the Dancer class. If Olivia has the Special Dance skill equipped, her Dance will not only revitalize ally units, but also boost an ally's Strength, Magic, Defense, and Resistance by 2 points for the turn that she danced for them.
In Fire Emblem Fates, the singing ability is exclusive to Azura as long as she is in the Songstress class. If Azura has the Inspiring Song skill equipped, her Song will not only revitalize ally units, but also boost an ally's Skill, Speed, and Luck by 3 points for the turn that she sang for them.
In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Dance ability is given to the winner of the White Heron Cup. Additionally, there exists a Battalion whose single Gambit use counts as a Dance.
Fire Emblem Engage features several different forms of the Dance ability. It appears in the traditional sense on Seadall in his exclusive Dancer class, which learns the Special Dance skill introduced in Awakening. Emblems Byleth and Veronica also introduce their own forms of dance through their respective Engage skills, Goddess Dance and Contract.
In Fire Emblem Heroes the Dance, Play, and Sing command serve as Support Skills on various characters. Both skills are non-inheritable off of their native unit but can be unequipped. Units with either skill equipped cannot use it on another unit with either command, preventing a continuous Dance/Sing movement chain. Several characters have advanced versions of Dance which us exclusive to that unit such as Legendary Azura with Gray Waves and Peony with Gentle Dream. Units who have a Dance skill in their Skill B slot refresh an ally as well as boost a specific set of stats while certain weapons such as Skuld or Prayer Wheel achieve similar effects. On a Brigade, only one unit with Dance/Sing in their skill list is allowed to be in it, even if the player removes it off of another character.
- Units with Dance include: Phina, Sylvia, Lene, all forms of Larum, Ninian in her default and Bridal form, Tethys, all forms of Olivia, Soiree Berkut, Soiree Rinea, Masquerade Sigurd, Masquerade Quan, Masquerade Ethlyn, Masquerade Eldigan, Masquerade Lachesis, Soiree Reinhardt, Soiree Ishtar, Soiree Nephenee, Festival Micaiah, Festival Elincia, Performing Inigo, Festival Ryoma, Festival Xander, and Summer and Plegian Dorothea,
- Units with Sing include: All forms of Azura except Legendary, Reyson, Leanne, Groom Rafiel, and Performing Shigure.
- The only unit with Play is Nils in all of his versions.
- The following are advanced versions of Sing/Dance with their respective users: All versions of Peony have Gentle Dream, all versions of Mirabilis have Whimsical Dream, all versions of Plumeria has Sweet Dreams, Triandra has Frightful Dream, Fallen Ninian has Call to Flame, Legendary Ninian has Dragon's Dance, and Legendary and Hatari Azura both have Gray Waves, though her Legendary variant has a second tier version.
Stats[]
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
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Dance |
Command | - |
Effects | After dancing, all four grayed-out, or "moved" units adjacent to the dancer get activated. | |
Users | Base skill of the Dancer class. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Dance |
Command | - |
Effects | After dancing, one grayed-out, or "moved" unit adjacent to the dancer gets activated. | |
Users | Base skill of the Dancer class. | |
Notes | - |
TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Dance |
Command | - |
Effects | After dancing, one grayed-out, or "moved" unit adjacent to the dancer gets activated. Chance to increase stats of halve damage taken for the rest of the map. | |
Users | Plum only. | |
Notes | - |
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Sing |
Command | - |
Effects | After singing, restores HP to all units within range and has a chance to give them another turn. Effect and range increase with usage. | |
Users | Lyria only. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Dance | Command | - |
Effects | After dancing, one grayed-out, or "moved" unit adjacent to the dancer gets activated.
Additional Rings can be used to perform various types of stat boost for 1 turn. | |
Users | Base skill of the Dancer and Bard classes. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Canto |
Command | 20 |
Effects | Restores Movement to 1 ally unit. When transformed, the user will be able to restore Movement to a maximum of 4 ally units. | |
Users | Base skill of Reyson. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem Awakening[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Dance | Command | - |
Effects | Rejuvenates 1 adjacent ally to allow them to perform another turn. | |
Users | Base skill of the Dancer class. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem Fates[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Sing | Command | - |
Effects | Rejuvenates 1 adjacent ally to allow them to perform another turn. | |
Users | Base skill of the Songstress class. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem Heroes[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Dance | - | 150 |
Effects | Enables target to take another action. Cannot be used on units with Sing or Dance. | |
Users | Phina, Sylvia, Lene, Larum, Ninian, Tethys, Olivia, Peony, Mirabilis, Triandra, Plumeria and various seasonal heroes only. | |
Notes | - |
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Sing | - | 150 |
Effects | Enables target to take another action. Cannot be used on units with Sing or Dance. | |
Users | Reyson, Leanne, Rafiel, Azura, and various seasonal heroes only. | |
Notes | - |
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Play | - | 150 |
Effects | Grants another action to target ally. (That turn only. Does not stack. Cannot target an ally with Sing or Dance. This skill treated as Sing or Dance.) | |
Users | Nils only. | |
Notes | - |
Fire Emblem Three Houses[]
Name | Activation | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Dance |
Command | - |
Effects | Use Dance to allow an ally to move again. | |
Users | Class skill of the Dancer class. | |
Notes | - |
Trivia[]
- In Heroes, Performing Inigo is the first male unit in the entire series to be able to use the Dance ability.