Pavise

Name	Cooldown	Description	SP	Required
Pavise	3	Reduces damage from an adjacent foe's attack by 50%.	200	Buckler
Cannot use:

Notes

• Pavise is triggered by the foe's attack and reduces the damage taken from that attack.
  • A foe with skills such as  Lands Sword,  Queensblade,  Sentinel Bow,  Sisterly War Axe, or  Breezy Spear will prevent Pavise from triggering.

• 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.

List of owners

Unit	Skill chain
Arden: Strong and Tough	Buckler 4	Pavise 4
Benny: Sensitive Soul	Buckler 3	Pavise 4
Dedue: Dimitri's Vassal	Buckler 5	Pavise 5
Dedue: Loyal Life Guard	Buckler 4	Pavise 4
Draug: Gentle Giant	Buckler 3	Pavise 4
Hector: General of Ostia	Buckler 5	Pavise 5
Hinata: Wild Samurai	Buckler 3	Pavise 4
Reinhardt: Thunder's Sword	Buckler 5	Pavise 5
Robin: Fell Tactician	Buckler 5	Pavise 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.
**  Rearmed and  Attuned Heroes cannot be used for normal skill inheritance or turned into combat manuals after using their Arcane/Elite Inheritance unless their Arcane/Elite Inheritance is restored via merges.

In other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	大盾
German	Pavise
Spanish (Europe)	Pavés
Spanish (Latin America)	Pavés
French	Pavois
Italian	Ultradifesa
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	大盾
Portuguese	Pavês