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 a skill such as  Distant Counter or  Close Counter, 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  Hardy Bearing 3.

List of owners

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

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

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

• Valaskjálf
• Rapier