Gift for Magic

Name	Cooldown	Description	SP	Required
Gift for Magic	2	Before combat this unit initiates, foes in an area near target take damage equal to (unit's Atk minus foe's Def or Res). Disables unit's and foe's skills that change attack priority. If unit's Special is triggered before combat, reduces the percentage of foe's non-Special "reduce damage by X%" skills by 50% during combat (excluding area-of-effect Specials). If unit's or foe's Special is ready or triggered before or during this combat, reduces damage from foe's next attack by 40% (once per combat; excluding area-of-effect Specials).	500	Blazing Flame
This skill can only be equipped by its original unit.

* Unused restrictions: Cannot use:

Effects[ | ]

Effects	Targets	Conditions
Map effects
Deals X damage X = Unit's Atk - Foe's Def/Res	Target & Foes adjacent to Target	Special triggered before combat
Combat effects
Neutralizes priority changing effects	Unit & Foe	—
Reduces the effect of "Reduces damage by X%" by 50%	Foe	Special triggered before combat
Reduces damage by 40% from Foe's next attack	Unit	Unit or Foe's Special is ready or triggered before or during combat

Notes[ | ]

Def is chosen if the unit does Physical damage. Res is chosen if the unit does Magical damage.
- Gift for Magic is affected by skills that "calculate damage using the lower of foe's Def or Res", as well as skills that disable such effect.
  - Exceptions include skills that grant or disable this effect only "during combat", such as Inf. Hexblade 3 and Light and Dark II.
- Damage dealt "before combat", such as from Gift for Magic, is affected by Bonuses, Penalties, Dominance, and Treachery.
  - Damage dealt "before combat", such as from Gift for Magic, is not affected by "during combat" effects such as Bonus Doubler, Foe Penalty Doubler, Cross Spur Atk, or weapon-triangle advantages.
- Skills such as Queensblade, Sentinel Bow, or Breezy Spear can prevent Gift for Magic from triggering.

Gift for Magic inflicts out of combat damage.
- Out of combat damage cannot reduce a unit's HP to 0.
- A foe equipped with Embla's Ward, Múspellflame, Niðavellir Axiom, Gold Perfection, or Nine-Realm Pact will neutralize all sources of out of combat damage except from Røkkr area-of-effect Specials.
- A foe equipped with Røkkr or a unit with En Garde will neutralize all sources of out of combat damage except Area-of-effect Specials.

Sources of Area-of-effect Special damage-reduction:

Gift for Magic has the same effect as Hardy Bearing 3.
Gift for Magic only neutralizes effects that change the priority, or order of attacks, such as Desperation, Vantage, and Paranoia.
- Effects such as Guaranteed Follow-Ups and Quick Riposte 4, which do not change the order, but rather guarantee that an attack will occur in whatever order is natural, are not affected.
Gift for Magic will reduce the effect of non-Special "reduces damage by X%" effects from Specials such as Vital Astra.
- Damage-reduction reducing effects stack multiplicatively, unlike interactions related to the weapon-triangle, such as Triangle Adept and the weapon-triangle advantage boost.
  - For example, if a unit has Halves non-Special damage reduction and a foe with Dodge is on a space with 【Divine Vein (Water)】, the maximum total damage-reduction is reduced to 10%, since the two effects reduce the damage to (1 − ((40% − 50%) − 50%)) = 90% of the original damage instead of 60% of the original damage.
- Each damage-reduction effect is reduced individually.
  - For example, if a unit has Halves non-Special damage reduction and the foe has both Spurn 4 and Dodge, the maximum total damage-reduction is reduced to 40%, since the two effects reduce the damage to (1 − (50% − 50%)) × (1 − (40% − 50%)) = 60% of the original damage instead of 30% of the original damage.
- Gift for Magic will not reduce the effect of Special "reduces damage by X%" effects such as Gust or Laguz Friend 4.
- For more information, see Damage calculation.

The damage-reduction effect is calculated after offensive Specials and damage boosting effects such as Arcane Lúin and Dominance.
- If a skill such as Miracle or Everliving Domain can trigger, the damage-reduction effect will not trigger and the user will still survive with only 1 HP.
- "Reduces damage by X%" effects stack multiplicatively, unlike interactions related to the weapon-triangle, such as Triangle Adept and the weapon-triangle advantage boost.
  - For example, if both Dodge and Gust trigger, the maximum total damage-reduction is 64% instead of 80%, since the two skills reduce the damage to (1 − 40%) × (1 − 40%) = 36% of the original damage.
- Special "reduces damage by X%" effects cannot be neutralized or reduced by effects such as Share Spoils or Halves non-Special damage reduction.
- For more information, see Damage calculation.