Vantage

Type	Icon	Name	SP	Required	Description
B		Vantage 1	50	—	If unit's HP ≤ 25% and foe initiates combat, unit can counterattack before foe's first attack.
		Vantage 2	100	Vantage 1	If unit's HP ≤ 50% and foe initiates combat, unit can counterattack before foe's first attack.
		Vantage 3	200	Vantage 2	If unit's HP ≤ 75% and foe initiates combat, unit can counterattack before foe's first attack.
No restrictions.

Notes

• Vantage does not grant the user the ability to counterattack regardless of foe's range.
• If the user can counterattack, either from using a weapon with the same range as the foe's weapon or from skills such as Counter passives, the user's counterattack will occur before the foe's initial attack.
• Vantage changes the attack priority, or order of attacks, and therefore can be disabled by skills such as  Hardy Bearing 3.

List of owners

Unit	Skill chain
Anna: Commander	Vantage 1 4	Vantage 2 4	Vantage 3 5
Mia: Lady of Blades	Vantage 1 5	Vantage 2 5	Vantage 3 5
Gaius: Thief Exposed	Vantage 1 5	Vantage 2 5	Vantage 3 5
Gordin: Altean Archer	Vantage 1 3	Vantage 2 4	Vantage 3 5
Lon'qu: Solitary Blade	Vantage 1 3	Vantage 2 3	Vantage 3 4
Rutger: Lone Swordsman	Vantage 1 3	Vantage 2 4	Vantage 3 5
Ishtar: Thunder Goddess	Vantage 1 5	Vantage 2 5	Vantage 3 5
Altina: Dawn's Trueblade	Vantage 1 5	Vantage 2 5	Vantage 3 5
Travant: King of Thracia	Vantage 1 3	Vantage 2 3	Vantage 3 4
Reinhardt: Thunder's Fist	Vantage 1 3	Vantage 2 3	Vantage 3 4
Reinhardt: Thunder's Sword	Vantage 1 5	Vantage 2 5	Vantage 3 5
Laevatein: Ninja of Múspell	Vantage 1 5	Vantage 2 5	Vantage 3 5

*  Alfonse: Prince of Askr,  Sharena: Princess of Askr,  Anna: Commander, and Forma units cannot be used for skill inheritance or turned into combat manuals.

Availability

Summoning event

Start	End	Event	Skill
2017-02-27	2017-03-14	New Heroes: Sibling Bonds	Vantage 3
2017-03-24	2017-03-28	Focus: Battling Michalis	Vantage 3
2017-04-20	2017-04-24	Focus: Battling Zephiel	Vantage 3
2017-06-12	2017-06-26	Focus: Heroes with Vantage	Vantage 3
2017-06-30	2017-08-01	Ylissean Summer	Vantage 3
2017-11-15	2017-12-04	New Heroes: Farfetched Heroes	Vantage 3
2018-02-28	2018-03-05	Legendary Heroes - Ephraim	Vantage 3
2018-04-07	2018-04-22	Focus: Cooldown Bonuses	Vantage 3
2018-04-11	2018-04-24	New Heroes: World of Thracia	Vantage 3
2018-04-18	2018-05-01	Focus: Tempest Trials	Vantage 3
2018-05-10	2018-05-21	New Heroes: Genealogy	Vantage 3
2018-06-23	2018-07-04	Focus: Heroes with Death Blow	Vantage 3
2018-06-25	2018-07-25	Ylissean Summer	Vantage 3
2018-07-06	2018-07-17	Focus: Heroes with Luna	Vantage 3
2018-07-31	2018-08-07	Legendary Heroes - Lucina	Vantage 3
2018-08-03	2018-08-04	Focus: Heroes with Vantage	Vantage 3
2018-08-28	2018-09-04	Legendary Heroes - Marth	Vantage 3
2018-10-04	2018-10-13	Focus: Ishtar & Reinhardt	Vantage 3
2018-10-11	2018-10-24	Focus: Tempest Trials	Vantage 3
2018-10-17	2018-10-29	Focus: New Power	Vantage 3
2018-10-28	2018-11-07	Focus: Clashing Thunderers (1)	Vantage 3
2018-10-28	2018-11-07	Focus: Clashing Thunderers (2)	Vantage 3
2018-11-24	2018-12-02	Focus: Heroes with Vantage	Vantage 3
2019-02-02	2019-02-09	Special Hero Summon (Year 1)	Vantage 3
2019-02-05	2019-02-06	Focus: Ishtar & Reinhardt	Vantage 3
2019-02-09	2019-02-20	Focus: Tempest Trials	Vantage 3
2019-04-05	2019-04-16	Focus: Heroes with Odd Wave Skills	Vantage 3
2019-06-26	2019-07-26	Ylissean Summer	Vantage 3
2019-06-27	2019-07-07	Focus: Headband Brawl (Block A)	Vantage 3
2019-08-05	2019-08-06	Focus: Cooldown Bonuses	Vantage 3
2019-08-09	2019-08-10	Focus: Heroes with Death Blow	Vantage 3
2019-08-10	2019-08-11	Focus: Heroes with Luna	Vantage 3
2019-08-20	2019-08-21	Focus: Heroes with Vantage	Vantage 3
2019-08-25	2019-09-01	Focus: Weekly Revival 12	Vantage 3
2019-08-31	2019-09-09	Focus: Jeorge & Gordin's Battle	Vantage 3
2019-11-09	2019-11-20	Focus: New Power	Vantage 3
2019-11-28	2019-12-05	Mythic Heroes - Altina	Vantage 3
2019-12-09	2019-12-21	Focus: New Power	Vantage 3
2020-01-12	2020-01-19	Focus: Weekly Revival 12	Vantage 3
2020-02-17	2020-02-18	Focus: Ishtar & Reinhardt	Vantage 3
2020-03-31	2020-04-10	Mythic Hero - Bramimond	Vantage 3
2020-05-31	2020-06-07	Focus: Weekly Revival 12	Vantage 3
2020-06-16	2020-06-29	Focus: Tempest Trials	Vantage 3
2020-06-18	2020-07-02	Call of the Sea - Special Hero Gift	Vantage 3
2020-07-07	2020-07-21	Ylissean Summer	Vantage 3
2020-07-30	2020-08-06	Mythic Heroes - Hel	Vantage 3
2020-08-11	2020-08-12	Focus: Jeorge & Gordin's Battle	Vantage 3
2020-10-11	2020-10-18	Focus: Weekly Revival 11	Vantage 3
2020-11-06	2020-12-06	In the Moment	Vantage 3
2020-11-08	2020-11-15	Focus: Weekly Revival 15	Vantage 3
2021-01-03	2021-01-10	Focus: Weekly Revival 23	Vantage 3
2021-02-02	2021-03-01	Special Hero Summon (Year 4)	Vantage 3
2021-02-09	2021-02-18	Focus: New Power	Vantage 3

Distributed units

• Automatically (×1)
• Grand Hero Battles quest (November 2020) (×1)
• Grand Hero Battles quest (October 2019) (×1)
• Grand Hero Party quest (April 2020) (×1)
• Grand Hero Party quest (September 2020) (×1)
• Sacred Seals quest (September 2017) (×1)
• Three Heroes quest (March 2018) (×1)
• Heroes' Path - Rank 1 completion (×1)
• Rutger: Lone Swordsman (×1)
• Rutger: Lone Swordsman (×2)
• A Hero Rises 2020 (×1)
• Travant: King of Thracia (×1)
• Travant: King of Thracia (×2)
• Use Heroic Grails (×20)
• Use Heroic Grails (×20)

Combat Manuals

Start	End	Hero	Currency
2020-06-05 03:00:00	2020-07-28 06:59:59	Lon'qu: Solitary Blade	Divine Code: Ephemera 6
2020-11-05 03:00:00	2020-12-28 06:59:59	Reinhardt: Thunder's Fist	Divine Code: Ephemera 11

In other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	待ち伏せ
German	Vorteil
Spanish (Europe)	Emboscada
Spanish (Latin America)	Ventaja
French	Initiative
Italian	Vantaggio
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	埋伏
Portuguese	Vantagem

See also

• Athame
• Feather Sword
• Rapier
• Valaskjálf