Wyvern Rider

Wyvern Rider
Generic class portrait of a Wyvern Rider from Fates.
First Seen	Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi
Promotes From	Pegasus Knight (FE1/3/11/12/TS) Dragon Rider (FE5 only)
Promotes To	Wyvern Lord Wyvern Knight (FE8 only) Griffon Rider (FE13 only) Malig Knight (FE14 only)
Usable Weapon Types	Lance (FE1-9, 11-12) Sword (FE1, 4-5, TS) Axe (FE10-14)
Class Skills	Canto Strength +2 (FE13-14) Tantivy (FE13 only) Lunge (FE14 only)
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The Wyvern Rider (ドラゴンナイト Doragon naito lit. Dragon Knight in the Japanese versions and Dracoknight in the English version of Radiant Dawn and Shadow Dragon) is a wyvern-mounted combat physical class that recurrently appears across the Fire Emblem Series, beginning from Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi. This class features warriors soaring into battle atop the backs of Wyverns, and are usually armed with Lances and/or Axes as their primary weapons of choice.

History in the Series

In its original inception in Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi and Mystery of the Emblem, the Dracoknight class is the promoted form of the Pegasus Knight class, and is thus unable to promote any further.

Beginning from Genealogy of the Holy War, Dragon Knights are cleanly separated from the Pegasus Knight class, with the Dragonmaster class introduced and instituted to be the promoted form of the class. Like its predecessors, the Dragon Knight class wields Swords and Lances as its weapons of choice in this installment.

Dragon Knights are the promoted form of the Dragon Rider class in Thracia 776. Eda is the only member of the Dragon Rider class, acting as the wyvern equivalent of a standard Trainee class.

In TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga, the Dragon Knight class, like its original iteration, is once again intertwined with the Pegasus Knight class by acting as its promoted form. The Dragon Knight class also functions as the promoted form of a Commando Knight named Raffin, owing to the plot establishing him as being originally a wyvern—riding combatant.

In Binding Blade and its prequel Rekka no Ken, the Wyvern Rider class loses the ability to wield Swords, only gaining it when it promotes into the Wyvern Lord class.

In The Sacred Stones, Wyvern Riders are further given the option to promote into Wyvern Knights alongside Wyvern Lords, a class granted the devastating Pierce skill.

The Wyvern Rider class is redubbed Dracoknight (竜騎士 ドラゴンナイト Doragon Naito) in Radiant Dawn and promotes into the Dragonmaster class. This title is credited as being the pioneer of the class being outfitted with the Axe as its sole weapon of choice instead of the Lance.

In Shadow Dragon and Shin Monshō no Nazo, remakes of the Akaneia Series, the Dracoknight class is re-instituted as the main promoted form of the Pegasus Knight class.

Dracoknights are again referred to as Wyvern Riders in Awakening. This version of the class is further given the option to promote into the unique Griffon Rider alongside Wyvern Lord.

In Fates, the Wyvern Rider class is treated as a Nohrian class, and is further given the option to promote into Malig Knights, a class arms Tomes and Axes as its weapons of choice. The class' Hoshidan counterpart is the Sky Knight.

Overview

Combat

Like all other flying units, Wyvern Riders are units that stand out for not just high Movement, but also the ability to traverse terrain that is normally impassable. Wyvern Riders typically excel in HP, Strength and Defense, and thus make for fairly decent combatants against regular enemy units.

Wyvern Riders do, however, suffer from having easily exploitable weaknesses. The most glaring of these is that of the fact that in most of their iterations, they are vulnerable to attacks inflicted by Bows and Wind Magic (save for Radiant Dawn, where they are weak to Thunder Magic and no longer vulnerable to bows). Apart from this, they are also vulnerable to dragon-slaying weapons like the Wyrmslayer. Given these facts, it is thus common to charge Wyvern Riders forward into areas where there are few bow or magic users and hold them back when bow users are abundant. However, these weaknesses can be nullified by placing Iote's Shield, Delphi Shield or Fili Shield into their inventories, all of which are imbued with blessings that guard their holders from sustaining bonus damage from weapons effective against them.

In WiFi battles, Dracoknights are occasionally used due to their strong Defense allowing them to survive being attacked by Brave Sword-wielding Swordmasters. However, they can still be killed one-on-one by Berserkers. The main reason Dracoknights are used, despite this weakness, is because of their unparalleled movement; 10 base movement (12 with Boots), with no terrain hindrance, gives them the best scouting ability of any unit (tied with Falcon Knights). However, because they are weak to bows, a squad is usually limited to one Dracoknight only. Several tactics rely on the Dracoknight's ability to embark on reconnaissance missions to determine the strength of immediate foes. Their weakness to Berserkers is usually avoided by actively scouting a Berserker and killing them preemptively.

In-Game

Base Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE1	22	9	-	3	6	0	14	0	10	-	-	Sword/Lance 10
FE3	20	8	-	5	7	0	10	0	10	-	-	Lance 9
FE4	40	10	0	7	6	0	11	0	9	-	-	B B
FE5 (Mounted)	24/20	7	1	6	6	0	9	-	9	8/5	-	D
FE5 (Dismounted)	24/20	4	1	4	4	0	4	-	6	8/5	-	D
TS	25	8/5	0	5/3	6/4	0	7/4	-	7/4	-	-	4 4
FE6	20/19	7/6	-	3/5	5	0	8/7	0	7	10/9	-	D
FE7	20/19	7/6	-	3/5	5	0	8/7	0	7	10/9	-	D
FE8	20/19	7/6	-	3/5	5	0	8/7	0	7	10/9	-	D
FE9	20/19	6	0	4	3	0	8/7	0/1	8	11/7	39/35	D
FE10	20	7/6	0	5/3	5	0	9	0/2	8	12/7	41/36	D
FE11	20	8	1	5	7	0	10	3	10	-	-	D E
FE12	20	8	1	5	7	0	10	3	10	-	-	D E
FE13	19	7	0	6	5	0	8	0	7	-	-	E
FE14	17	6	0	5	4	2	7	0	7	-	-	E

Maximum Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE1	52	20	-	20	20	20	20	20	10	-	-	Sword/Lance 20
FE3	52	-	20	20	20	20	20	20	10	-	-	Lance 20
FE4	80	25	15	22	21	30	26	15	9	-	-	B B
FE5	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	-	20	20	-	A A
FE6	60	20	-	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	-	A
FE7	60	20	-	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	-	A
FE8	60	20	-	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	-	A
FE9	40	20	15	20	20	40	20	20	8	11/7	39/35	A
FE10	40	20	5	20	20	30	20	10	8	12/7	41/36	A
FE11	60	26	20	26	23	30	30	21	10	-	-	A A
FE12	60	26	20	26	23	30	30	21	10	-	-	A A
FE13	60	28	20	24	24	30	28	20	7	-	-	A
FE14	40	22	17	21	20	19	24	15	7	-	-	A

Growth Rates

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE4	100%	30%	10%	30%	30%	0%	30%	10%	-	-	-	-
FE5	50%	20%	3%	15%	10%	10%	15%	-	0%	5%	-	-
FE6	80%	45%	-	35%	30%	25%	25%	10%	-	-	-	-
FE7	80%	45%	-	35%	30%	25%	25%	15/17%	-	-	-	-
FE8	80%	45%	-	35%	30%	25%	25%	15/17%	-	-	-	-
FE9	80%	55/50%	10%	50%	40/45%	25%	55/50%	40/45%	-	-	-	-
FE10	80/70%	65/45%	0/25%	55/40%	55/65%	15/30%	45/40%	5/40%	-	-	-	-
FE11	30/40%	10%	-15%	20%	25%	0%	10%	0%	-	-	-	-
FE12	30%	10%	-15%	20%	25%	0%	10%	0%	-	-	-	-
FE13	45%	30%	0%	15%	15%	0%	10%	5%	-	-	-	-
FE14	10%	15%	5%	10%	10%	5%	20%	0%	-	-	-	-

Class Skills

	Skill	Requirements
FE4	Re-Move	Hidden base skill of all mounted and flying units.
FE10	Canto	Base skill of all mounted and flying units.
FE13	Strength +2 Tantivy	Learnt at Level 1. Learnt at Level 10.
FE14	Strength +2 Lunge	Learnt at Level 1 and above. Learnt at Level 10 and above.

Promotions

	Base Class	Promotion Method	Promoted Class
FE1	Pegasus Knight	Use a Dragon Whip on a Level 10+ Pegasus Knight.	Dracoknight
FE3	Pegasus Knight	Use a Dragon Whip on a Level 10+ Pegasus Knight.	Dracoknight
FE4	Dragon Knight	Choose the "Class Change" option in the Home Castle when the relevant unit reaches Level 20.	Dragonmaster
FE5	Dragon Rider	Use a Knight Proof on a Level 10+ Dragon Rider.	Dragon Knight
TS	Pegasus Knight	Use a Dragon Flute on a Level 10+ Pegasus Knight.	Dragon Knight
TS (Raffin)	Commando Knight	Clear Map 10 and choose to activate the promotion event.	Dragon Knight
FE6	Wyvern Rider	Use an Elysian Whip on a Level 10+ Wyvern Rider.	Wyvern Lord
FE7	Wyvern Rider	Use an Elysian Whip on a Level 10+ Wyvern Rider.	Wyvern Lord
FE8	Wyvern Rider	Use an Elysian Whip on a Level 10+ Wyvern Rider.	Wyvern Lord Wyvern Knight
FE9	Wyvern Rider	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Wyvern Rider.	Wyvern Lord
FE10	Dracoknight	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Dracoknight or train a Dracoknight to Level 21.	Dragonmaster
FE11	Pegasus Knight	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Pegasus Knight.	Dracoknight
FE12	Pegasus Knight	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Pegasus Knight.	Dracoknight
FE13	Wyvern Rider	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Wyvern Rider.	Wyvern Lord Griffon Rider
FE14	Wyvern Rider	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Wyvern Rider.	Wyvern Lord Malig Knight

Notable Wyvern Riders

Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi

• Minerva - The Princess of Medon.
• Michalis - The Prince of Medon and brother of Minerva and Maria.
• Promotion for: Shiida, Palla, Catria, and Est

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

• Rumel - A Medon rebel serving under Rucke.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

• Papilion - A Dragon Knight of Thracia.
• Altena - Daughter of Prince Quan of Leonster and Ethlyn and the sister of Leif.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

• Dean - Thracian Dragon Knight assigned as Linoan's bodyguard.
• Promotion for: Eda

TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga

• Reshe - Princess of Canaan.
• Simon - Leader of Canaan's Condor Squad.
• Marco - Member of the Condor Squad who rescues Leteena.
• Toms - Member of the Condor Squad.
• Philip - Member of the Condor Squad.
• Andrew - Member of the Condor Squad.
• Possible Promotion for: Sasha, Raffin, Mahter, Frau, and Verna

Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

• Milady - The elder sister of Zeiss, a renowned captain in Bern's army. Loyal to Princess Guinivere.
• Zeiss - The younger brother of Milady.

Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken

• Heath - An honorable knight who deserted the army of Bern.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

• Cormag - A proud knight who admires his brother, an Imperial General of Grado.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

• Jill - A girl from Daein, who is the daughter of Shiharam.

TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga

• Larentia - A Dragon Knight of Peshire.

Fire Emblem Awakening

• Cherche - The former vassal of Virion's from Valm.
• Gerome - Cherche's son from the future.

Fire Emblem Fates

• Beruka - A Nohrian soldier under Camilla's command.
• Percy - Arthur's son

Gallery

The first set of concept artwork featuring the male Wyvern Rider class from Awakening.

The second set of concept artwork featuring the male Wyvern Rider class from Awakening.

Concept artwork of the female Wyvern Rider class from Awakening.

Concept artwork of the Wyvern Rider mount from Awakening.

Artwork of Shiida as a Dragon Knight from Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE.

A Level 1 generic Dragon Knight, as he appears in the first series of the TCG.

A Level 10 generic Dragon Knight, as he appears in the sixth series of the TCG.

Generic CG portrait of the Dracoknight class from the DS titles.

Generic portrait of the Wyvern Rider class from Awakening.

Battle model of Altena, a female Dragon Knight from Genealogy of the Holy War.

Battle model of Raffin, a male Dragon Knight from TearRing Saga.

Battle model of Frau, a female Dragon Knight from TearRing Saga.

Attack animation of a Wyvern Rider from the Game Boy Advance titles.

Battle model of Jill, a Wyvern Rider from Path of Radiance.

Battle model of Jill, a Dracoknight from Radiant Dawn.

Cherche's unique Wyvern Rider model from Awakening.

Gerome's unique Wyvern Rider model from Awakening.

Battle model of Brady, a male Wyvern Rider from Awakening.

Battle model of Tiki, a female Wyvern Rider from Awakening.

Battle model of Beruka, a female Wyvern Rider from Fates.

Map sprite of the Dracoknight class from Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi.

Map sprite of the Dracoknight class from Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.

Map sprite of the male Dragon Knight class from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.

Map sprite of the female Dragon Knight class from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.

Map sprite of the Dragon Knight class from Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.

Map sprite of the Dragon Knight class from TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga.

Map sprite of the Wyvern Rider class from the GBA titles.

Map model of Jill, a Wyvern Rider from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

Map model of Jill, a Dracoknight from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

Map sprite of the Dracoknight class from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Map sprite of the Dracoknight class from Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyū~.

Map sprite of the Wyvern Rider class from Fire Emblem Awakening.

Map sprite of the Wyvern Rider class from Fire Emblem Fates.