This is a ranking page for the hero Yunaka - Spirited Envoy from the game Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). Read on to learn the best IVs (Individual Values), best builds (Inherit Skill), weapon refinement, stats at Lv 40, and more for Winter Yunaka.
List of Contents
- Rating and Basic Information
- Best IVs
- Best Builds
- Stats
- Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses
- Should you Unlock Potential?
- List of Skills
- Community Feedback
- How to Obtain / Illustrations / Voice Actor / Quotes
- Related Guides
| Special Heroes - Holiday Lessons Featured Heroes | |||
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| Winter Byleth (M) [9.5/10] | Winter Edelgard [9.9/10] | Winter Dimitri [9.5/10] |  Winter Yunaka[9.5/10] |
Winter Yunaka Rating and Basic Information
| Overall Rating | 9.5/10 |
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| Reroll Ranking (excluding Inherit Skill) | S (▶Reroll Ranking) |
| Ranking (including Inherit Skill) | S (▶FEH Tier List) |
Yunaka - Spirited Envoy: Basic Information
| Color / Weapon Type / Move Type | Colorless/Dagger/Cavalry |
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| Rarity | 5 Star |
| What Kind of Character Are They? | ・Weapon skill grants Canto and bonus stats during combat, neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks and effects that slow down unit's Special cooldown charges, cuts the effectiveness of foe's non-Special damage reduction effects by up to 90%, and grants up to 90% damage reduction on foe's first attack. |
Winter Yunaka Skills at 5★
Silent Yule Knife Enables 【 Canto (Dist.; Max 3)】. Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and grants bonus to unit's Atk/Spd = 9 -number of allies adjacent to unit x 2 (min 0), neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks, and neutralizes effects that inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit during combat, and also, if unit initiates combat, reduces the percentage of foe's non-Special "reduce damage by X%" skills by percentage = X x 30 and reduces damage from foe's first attack by percentage = X x 30 during combat (X = number of spaces from start position to end position of whoever initiated combat, max 3; if any space within 2 spaces of unit has a Divine Vein effect applied or counts as difficult terrain, excluding impassable terrain, value is treated as 3; "first attack" normally means only the first strike; for effects that grant "unit attacks twice," it means the first and second strikes). After combat, if unit attacked, inflicts Def/Res-7 on target and foes within 2 spaces of target through their next actions. |
Luna Treats foe's Def/Res as if reduced by 50% during combat. |
Flared Sparrow 【Divine Vein (Flame)】 Applies the following effects on space: Acts as difficult terrain for foes with Range = 2 (moving over this space costs +1 movement; movement cost cannot exceed unit's allowed movement; "cannot be slowed by terrain" effects do not apply). At start of enemy phase, deals 7 damage to foe, and also, as combat begins, deals an additional 7 damage to foe (effects that reduce damage "during combat" do not apply; will not reduce foe's HP below 1). (Divine Vein effects do not stack; replaces any existing Divine Vein effect; Divine Vein effects applied simultaneously cancel each other out.) |
Assassin's Strike |
Fatal Smoke 4 |
Winter Yunaka Best IVs
Recommended IVs
| Stat | Superboon/Superbane | IV Recommendation |
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| HP (17) |  | ★★★☆☆ |
| Atk (10) | | ★★★★☆ |
| Spd (8) |  | ★★★★★ |
| Def (8) | | ★★☆☆☆ |
| Res (6) |  | ★★★☆☆ |
◯ = Stat gains +4 with a superboon, ✕= Stat goes down by -4 with a superbane, - = No assets or flaws
| See the IV Checker for All Units | Trait Fruits—How to Change IVs |
When using an Ascendant Floret, we recommend getting the next superboon if it fits the hero. If not, consider what stat your hero needs most.
+Spd / -Def
The best IVs for Winter Yunaka are +Spd and -Def. Boosting Spd improves her already high base 47 Spd to base 51, outspeeding a majority of the metagame. With Silent Yule Knife neutralizing effects that prevent Yunaka's follow-up attacks, having a Spd advantage is key in both doubling her foes and preventing her foes from doubling her in return.
Winter Yunaka's Def is her least important stat at only base 21 and can be safely taken as a bane.
+Spd for a +10 Merge
We recommend a +Spd IV when merging Winter Yunaka up to +10, as she needs the Spd boost to ensure she can create follow-up attacks against her foes.
Winter Yunaka Best Builds
General Use Winter Yunaka
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Winter Yunaka already comes with a great kit that allows her to effectively fulfill the role of a nuke, hitting enemies with fatal blows and then retreating to safety with Canto.
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Winter Yunaka Stats
Stat Rankings
| Neutral Stats at Lv. 40 (5★) | ||
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| 180 | ||
| HP |
| Rank: 750/1136 |
| Atk |
| Rank: 180/1136 |
| Spd |
| Rank: 3/1136 |
| Def |
| Rank: 882/1136 |
| Res |
| Rank: 370/1136 |
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Lv 40+10 Stats (5★)
| HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res | Total | |
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| +10 Merges W/ Skill Bonuses | 44 | 62 | 52 | 25 | 34 | 217 | Lv.40 +10 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 25 | 34 | 203 |
| HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res | Total | |
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| +HP Lv.40 +10 | 46 | 47 | 51 | 25 | 34 | 203 |
| +Atk Lv.40 +10 | 43 | 50 | 51 | 25 | 34 | 203 |
| +Spd Lv.40 +10 | 43 | 47 | 55 | 25 | 34 | 204 |
| +Def Lv.40 +10 | 43 | 47 | 51 | 28 | 34 | 203 |
| +Res Lv.40 +10 | 43 | 47 | 51 | 25 | 37 | 203 |
Stats at Lv 40
| HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res | Total | |
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| 5★- Adjusted for Skills | 39 | 57 | 47 | 21 | 30 | 194 |
| 5★ Lv.40 | 39 | 43 | 47 | 21 | 30 | 180 |
Initial Stats (with Skills)
| HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res | Total | |
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| 5★ Lv.1 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 63 |
Stat Comparison of Similar Heroes
| Hero | HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ginnungagap | 40 | 47 | 31 | 30 | 32 | 180 |
| 39 | 43 | 47 | 21 | 30 | 180 |
Yukimura | 40 | 46 | 16 | 33 | 45 | 180 |
Wind Tribe Kagero | 43 | 47 | 45 | 20 | 23 | 178 |
Ascended Eir | 35 | 42 | 45 | 16 | 35 | 173 |
New Year Fafnir | 40 | 43 | 39 | 31 | 16 | 169 |
Hatari Deen | 43 | 36 | 39 | 27 | 23 | 168 |
Thief Nina | 38 | 37 | 43 | 18 | 32 | 168 |
Merlinus | 50 | 20 | 35 | 31 | 27 | 163 |
Summer Mia | 38 | 35 | 41 | 17 | 25 | 156 |
Summer Gunnthrá | 39 | 33 | 37 | 17 | 24 | 150 |
Summer Ursula | 36 | 36 | 34 | 16 | 28 | 150 |
Summer Lilina | 35 | 38 | 25 | 16 | 35 | 149 |
Hostile Springs Elise | 34 | 33 | 37 | 18 | 22 | 144 |
Summer Linde | 33 | 34 | 35 | 16 | 26 | 144 |
Note: Stats bonuses from skills are not taken into account.
Winter Yunaka Roles, Strengths, and Weaknesses
Winter Yunaka Roles
| Yunaka - Spirited Envoy Roles | |||
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| Close-Physical | Ranged-Physical | Close-Magic | Ranged-Magic |
| Physical Wall | Magic Wall | Effective Weapon | Movement Assist |
| Exclusive Skill | All-Range Counter | Recovery | Refresher |
| Legendary | Mythic | Duo / Harmonized | Resplendent |
Winter Yunaka is a ranged physical attacker (range = 2). Therefore, when not accounting for the Weapon Triangle, the amount of damage she deals will be equivalent to her Atk minus the foe's Def stat.
Winter Yunaka Strengths
Silent Yule Knife Provides 90% Damage Reduction
Winter Yunaka is a powerful dagger unit who can take advantage of her mobility to simultaneously decrease the damage reduction of enemies and boost her own. This is made possible by her signature weapon, the Silent Yule Knife, which only calculates the starting and ending points when initiating combat to trigger these effects.
If all conditions are met, she can achieve up to a 90% damage reduction, gaining a flat 30% multiplier for each movement space she takes. This effect also penalizes the foe's non-Special damage reduction by up to 90%, 30% for each space she moves. Additionally, if she lands on difficult terrain or is within two spaces of Divine Veins, the damage reduction and damage reduction cut effects are immediately raised to the maximum amount of 90%!
Winter Yunaka Weaknesses
Weak to Cavalry Effective Weapons
Yunaka takes 1.5x damage from cavalry-effective weapons like Thani or Binding Reginleif, and one blow from this type of weapon will deal significant damage. Make sure you know what weapons you are up against before hopping too far into the line of battle!
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Should you Unlock Potential?
| Should You Unlock Potential for this Hero? | Cannot Unlock Potential |
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Yunaka - Spirited Envoy Only Appears as a 5 Star Hero!
Yunaka - Spirited Envoy only appears as a 5 Star Hero. We will include whether or not you should Unlock Potential for Yunaka - Spirited Envoy if a 4 Star version is released!
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Winter Yunaka - List of Skills
Weapons
| Skill Name | Might | Range | Effect | Learned At |
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Iron Dagger | 3 | 2 | After combat, inflicts Def/Res -3 on foe through its next action. | 5★ |
Steel Dagger | 5 | 2 | After combat, inflicts Def/Res -3 on foe through its next action. | 5★ |
Silver Dagger | 7 | 2 | After combat, inflicts Def/Res -5 on foe through its next action. | 5★ |
Silent Yule Knife | 14 | 2 | Enables 【 Canto (Dist.; Max 3)】. Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+5 to unit and grants bonus to unit's Atk/Spd = 9 -number of allies adjacent to unit x 2 (min 0), neutralizes effects that prevent unit's follow-up attacks, and neutralizes effects that inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit during combat, and also, if unit initiates combat, reduces the percentage of foe's non-Special "reduce damage by X%" skills by percentage = X x 30 and reduces damage from foe's first attack by percentage = X x 30 during combat (X = number of spaces from start position to end position of whoever initiated combat, max 3; if any space within 2 spaces of unit has a Divine Vein effect applied or counts as difficult terrain, excluding impassable terrain, value is treated as 3; "first attack" normally means only the first strike; for effects that grant "unit attacks twice," it means the first and second strikes). After combat, if unit attacked, inflicts Def/Res-7 on target and foes within 2 spaces of target through their next actions. | 5★ |
Assists
This Hero has no Assist skills that can be learned.
Specials
| Skill Name | Effect | Learned At |
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New Moon | (Cooldown Count = 3) Resolve combat as if foe suffered Def/Res -30%. | 5★ |
Luna | (Cooldown Count = 3) Treats foe's Def/Res as if reduced by 50% during combat. | 5★ |
Passives
| Skill Name | Effect | Learned At |
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Darting Blow 1 | If unit initiates combat, grants Spd+2 during combat. | 5★ |
Swift Sparrow 1 | If unit initiates combat, grants Atk/Spd +2 during combat. | 5★ |
Swift Sparrow 2 | If unit initiates combat, grants Atk/Spd +4 during combat. | 5★ |
Flared Sparrow | If unit initiates combat, deals 7 damage to foe as combat begins (effects that reduce damage "during comabt" do not apply; will not reduce foe's HP below 1), grants Atk/Spd+7 to unit during combat, and applies 【Divine Vein (Flame)】 on 5 spaces in a line centered on foe's space (oriented left to right based on the direction unit is facing) for 1 turn after combat. 【Divine Vein (Flame)】 Applies the following effects on space: Acts as difficult terrain for foes with Range = 2 (moving over this space costs +1 movement; movement cost cannot exceed unit's allowed movement; "cannot be slowed by terrain" effects do not apply). At start of enemy phase, deals 7 damage to foe, and also, as combat begins, deals an additional 7 damage to foe (effects that reduce damage "during combat" do not apply; will not reduce foe's HP below 1). (Divine Vein effects do not stack; replaces any existing Divine Vein effect; Divine Vein effects applied simultaneously cancel each other out.) | 5★ |
Poison Strike 1 | If unit initiates combat, deals 4 damage to foe after combat. | 5★ |
Poison Strike 2 | If unit initiates combat, deals 7 damage to foe after combat. | 5★ |
Poison Strike 3 | If unit initiates combat, deals 10 damage to foe after combat. | 5★ |
Assassin's Strike | If unit initiates combat, deals 7 damage to foe as combat begins (effects that reduce damage during combat do not apply; will not reduce foe's HP below 1), inflicts Spd/Def-4 on foe during combat, and deals damage = 20% of foe's Def (excluding area-of-effect Specials). | 5★ |
Fatal Smoke 1 | If unit initiates combat, foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 1 space of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit's HP cannot be healed through its next action. | 5★ |
Fatal Smoke 2 | If unit initiates combat, foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 2 spaces of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit's HP cannot be healed through its next action. | 5★ |
Fatal Smoke 3 | Foe cannot recover HP during or after combat, and after combat, inflicts【Deep Wounds】on target and foes within 2 spaces of target. 【Deep Wounds】 Unit’s HP cannot be healed through its next action. | 5★ |
Fatal Smoke 4 | Foe cannot recover HP during or after combat. Neutralizes foe's non-Special "if foe would reduce unit's HP to 0, unit survives with 1 HP" effects during combat. After combat, inflicts 【Deep Wounds】 and a penalty that neutralizes non-Special "if foe would reduce unit's HP to 0, unit survives with 1 HP" effects on target and foes within 2 spaces of target through their next actions. | 5★ |
Winter Yunaka as a Source Hero
| Value of Skills | ★★★★★ |
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Winter Yunaka comes with several valuable skills that can be foddered to other units, including Flared Sparrow, Assassin's Strike, and Fatal Smoke 4.
While we recommend prioritizing Assassin's Strike due to its rarity, it's also possible to acquire all skills at once, given that Poison Strike 3 and Swift Sparrow 2 are readily available in the summoning pool. Heroes like Saizo and Luthier come with these skills, making it easy to get them through regular summons.
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Community Feedback
How would you rate Winter Yunaka?
Top tier hero. Must summon. 51
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Summon if you need his/her hero archetype. 2
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Summon if you like this hero. 5
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Summon for his/her Skill Inheritance options. 3
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How to Get Winter Yunaka / Illustrations / Voice Actor / Quotes
How to Get Winter Yunaka
Obtained through a Special Summoning Event!
Winter Yunaka is a limited time Hero who can be pulled from a Special Heroes Summoning Event. They do not appear in regular summons.
Note: Not currently a featured hero in any Summon events.
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Voice Actor and Illustrator Information
| Voice Actor (English) | Laura Post |
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| Illustrator | nekomochi |
| Appears In | Fire Emblem: Engage |
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FEH: Related Guides
Special Heroes: Holiday Lessons
| Heroes from Special Heroes - Holiday Lessons | |||
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| Winter Byleth (M) [9.5/10] | Winter Edelgard [9.9/10] | Winter Dimitri [9.5/10] | Winter Yunaka [9.5/10] |
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