Growing Wind

Name	Cooldown	Description	SP	Required
Growing Wind	4	Before combat this unit initiates, foes in a wide area around target take damage equal to (unit's Atk minus foe's Def or Res).	300	Rising Wind
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Def is chosen if the unit does physical damage. Res is chosen if the unit does magical damage.
Growing Wind is affected by skills that "calculate damage using the lower of foe's Def or Res", as well as skills that disable such effect. The only exceptions are Inf. Hexblade 3 and Light and Dark.
Damage dealt "before combat", like from Growing Wind, is affected by bonuses and penalties, but not by "during combat" effects such as Spur Atk 3 or weapon-triangle advantages.
A unit with skills such as Dragon Wall 3, Frenzy 3, or the Dodge status effect will reduce damage dealt from Growing Wind by a maximum of 40%.
A unit with Dark Creator S can reduce damage dealt from Growing Wind by a maximum of 45%.
A unit with Gilt Goblet can reduce damage dealt from Growing Wind by 50%.
A unit with Ethereal Breath or Blood Tome can reduce damage dealt from Growing Wind by 80%.
Growing Wind 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, or Niðavellir Axiom will neutralize all sources of out of combat damage except Røkkr area-of-effect Specials.
- A foe equipped with Røkkr will neutralize all sources of out of combat damage except area-of-effect Specials.

Main article: Area of Effect Specials

Unit	Skill chain
Merric: Wind Mage	Rising Wind 3	Growing Wind 4
Soren: Shrewd Strategist	Rising Wind 3	Growing Wind 4

Growing Wind's cooldown was reduced by 1 with Version 2.0.0, released on November 28th, 2017.