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Fire Emblem: Awakening

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Support Relationships

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Vincent Lau

When two characters continue to fight together or help each other, their relationships may improve. This will be shown by red hearts floating above the characters on the battle map.

Note that not all characters are compatible with one another. The “Support” menu, which can be accessed before beginning a battle, shows which characters are compatible.

Your Avatar has the perk of being able to support everybody.

Once a relationship has sufficiently developed, the two characters will be able to “Talk” in the “Support” menu, when outside of battle. These support talks give a little insight into the characters and cements the relationship with a support rank.

Support ranks start at C and then go up to B, A and finally S, with a special talk before each rank up.

Characters can have any number of support relationships with other characters, but only one S Rank support.

(1 of 2) Bonuses to combat stats will be shown before you fight an enemy.

Bonuses to combat stats will be shown before you fight an enemy. (left), (right)

When characters fight adjacent to or paired up with a character whom they share a support rank with, their combat stats will increase slightly, as will their chance of performing a Dual Strike or Dual Guard. The higher the support rank, the higher the bonuses.

Each time you complete a map, check to see if any new support ranks can be created or improved. Not only will your units fight better, but you’ll also learn more about them!

Marriage

An S Rank support can only be formed between opposite gender characters (and if they aren’t related, eg. siblings or parent/child) and it results in the two characters getting married.

Since your Avatar can support everybody, this means they can marry anybody of the opposite gender.

Upon completion of Chapter 13, depending on which characters have married, you will be able to recruit their children in optional sidequests and enlist them into your army. The children will inherit attributes from both their parents, such as stats and skills.

(1 of 2) Awakening isn’t the first Fire Emblem to have marriage: that was Genealogy of the Holy.

Awakening isn’t the first Fire Emblem to have marriage: that was Genealogy of the Holy. (left), (right)

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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    Nintendo
  • Platforms,
    3DS
  • Genre
    Tactical RPG
  • Guide Release
    6 June 2013
  • Last Updated
    29 December 2020
  • Guide Author
    Vincent Lau

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Join Chrom, brother to Ylisse’s empress and commander of its forces, in a fantasy world teetering on the brink of war. It’s your duty to guide a team of Ylisse’s finest soldiers - knights, mages, archers, and more - against the marauding Plegian bandits. To succeed, you will need to carefully choose the units you take into battle. As you lead your team through battles across maps that span entire kingdoms, your army will grow. Some characters are willing to join you quickly, while others may need more persuasion. Each character earns experience in battle, leveling up and gaining strength and abilities as they do so. It’s up to you to guide their moves, choose their weapons, and direct their attacks.

Inside our detailed guide you will find:

  • How to complete every campaign map.
  • The tactics needed to survive Lunatic difficulty!
  • How to recruit every character (with full character stats).
  • What class every character can be with full class stats for each!
  • How to unlock and beat every Side-Quest.
  • All DLC maps covered (Euro version timetable).
  • Who can marry who and what children they can have.
  • All weapons and item data.
  • All of the released DLC.
  • Profiles for the Generation 2 and Postgame characters.

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