"Aid" redirects here. For the staff fromHeroes, seeAid (staff).

The constitution stat help prompt inFire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.

Constitution (Japanese:体格Build), abbreviated asCon orCn; also known asBuild, abbreviatedBld; is a statistic applied tounits that represents that unit's physical size. Its original function was to alleviate the effects of theweight of the unit's currently-equippedweapon on that unit'sattack speed in battle—prior to the statistic's introduction inThracia 776, units' attack speed bore the full brunt of a weapon's weight, often crippling users of heavy weapon types such asaxes. Constitution also affects whether or not units can rescue each other: inThracia 776 a unit with a higher constitution can rescue one with lower, but not vice versa. In later games with the rescue command, the Aid stat was introduced to allow mounted units to have a high rescuing capability without being able to easily wield heavy weapons, but it is still compared against the rescued unit's Constitution.

In its introductory game,Thracia 776, andEngage, Constitution (Build inEngage) can increase when leveling up like any other stat, although itsgrowth rates are commonly very low compared to other statistics, usually in the 5–20% range. All other games featuring Constitution keep it as a semi-static value likeMovement, only increasing in special circumstances likeClass Changes or upon stat-boostingitems being used.

The Constitution stat lost many of its functions in theTellius games,Path of Radiance andRadiant Dawn: in the attack speed calculation, it was replaced byStrength; therescuing calculation instead used the newweight stat; and Aid was removed entirely. It, however, retained some niche usage in the calculations for theColossus andShove skills, inPath of Radiance andRadiant Dawn respectively.

Constitution was removed entirely inShadow Dragon, and did not reappear untilEngage.

Calculations

Attack speed

Main article:Attack speed

Aid

The Aid stat exists only in theGame Boy Advance games, and its formulae are identical across all three games. Its main purpose is to determine whether or not one unit mayRescue another.

Ability to rescue

Main article:Rescue (command) § Calculations

Other

Stealing

Main article:Steal

InThracia 776, constitution affects the ability tosteal. If a thief's constitution is greater than the weight of a weapon held by an enemy, the thief can steal that weapon (assuming that the thief isfaster than the target).

Colossus skill

Main article:Colossus

InPath of Radiance only, constitution affects the Colossus skill's ability to trigger.

Ability to shove

Main articles:Shove andSmite

InRadiant Dawn andEngage, a unit's constitution stat affects that unit's ability to use the Shove and Smite skills.

Items affecting constitution

Items providing a permanent increase
	Item	Constitution increase	Games
	Body Ring	Permanent+3/+2 increase when used.	Thracia 776,The Binding Blade,The Blazing Blade,The Sacred Stones
	Statue Frag	Permanent +2 increase when used.	Path of Radiance,Radiant Dawn

Items and skills modifying the growth rate
	Item/skill	Constitution growth modification	Games
	Nál Scroll	+10% to growth rate when in inventory.	Thracia 776

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Trivia

• According to Taeko Kaneda, game designer ofPath of Radiance, the reason thatweight was introduced was due to confusion over what the constitution stat was supposed to represent. According to Kaneda, in the previous titles, constitution included armor and equipment, but this was ambiguous; thus,Path of Radiance separated a unit's constitution (before armor and equipment) from weight.^[1]

Etymology and other languages

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