Not to be confused with the class of the same name in Fire Emblem Engage.

The Sentinel is a physical combat class that debuted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. A strictly lance-wielding class, it is the highest tier of lance-wielding infantry classes in the games in which it appears.

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What is the role of the Sentinel class in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn?

In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the Sentinel class is the final promotion of the Halberdier class, excelling with Lances. Sentinels are strong units with high stats, capable of sustaining, dodging, and delivering powerful attacks. They are easier to train than Marshalls and can master the Impale skill.

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How does the Sentinel class differ from the Halberdier class?

The Sentinel class is the ultimate promotion from the Halberdier class in the Soldier line. Sentinels excel with Lances and can use the Impale skill. Unlike Sentinels, Halberdiers are enemy-only in Fire Emblem Warriors. Sentinels also benefit from a 15% critical hit bonus.

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What unique skill does the Sentinel class gain access to?

The Sentinel class, the final promotion in the Soldier class line, gains the unique Impale skill. This skill allows Sentinels to master the Lance with devastating effect. In Fire Emblem Fates, the class is known as the Spear Master and serves as a promoted form of the Spear Fighter class.

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Why is the Sentinel class considered the highest tier for lance-wielding infantry?

The Sentinel class is the top tier for lance-wielding infantry, as it is the final promotion from the Halberdier class. Sentinels excel with Lances and can master the powerful Impale skill. They have high stats, enabling them to sustain, dodge, and inflict significant damage, making them more favorable than Marshalls.

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How does the Sentinel class enhance gameplay in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn?

In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the Sentinel class enhances gameplay by being the final promotion in the Soldier class line, evolving from Halberdiers. Sentinels are strong units with high stats, capable of sustaining damage, dodging or blocking attacks with shields, and delivering powerful blows. They wield Lances and can master the Impale skill for significant damage, making them preferable to Marshalls due to easier training.

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History in the Series

In its original appearance in Radiant Dawn, the Sentinel class is the final promotion in the Soldier class line, directly promoting from the Halberdier class. The class grants access to the Impale skill when the necessary requirements are met.

The class reappears in Fire Emblem Fates, where it is referred to as the Spear Master. Treated as a Hoshidan class, Spear Master acts as one of the promoted forms of the Spear Fighter class.

The Spear Master class also appears in Fire Emblem Warriors as the promotion class of Oboro.

Overview

Radiant Dawn

Sentinels are very strong units. With all-around high stats, they can sustain, dodge (or block, since Sentinels use shields for their dodge animations), and deliver many blows to inflict substantial amounts of damage. They are more preferable to Marshalls, since they are easier to train in all class forms, although they are only confined to wielding Lances while Marshalls are able to handle all physical melee weapons.

Fates

Spear Masters are similar to Nohr's Heroes, as they have good Strength, Skill and Speed growths making them balanced units that are ideal for combat. However, a Spear Master's skills are more offensive, since they have two different Seal skills and Lancefaire to boost their impressive attack, while a Hero is more of a counterunit given its class' skills.

The Spear Master class is one of the four Hoshidan classes capable of achieving an S-Rank (the others being Swordmaster, Master Ninja, Sniper and Butler/Maid); this ensures the Spear Master will gain additional damage once they have obtained an S-Rank in Lances, and makes them able to use the Waterwheel naginata. With Rend Heaven and Quixotic from their other class, the Basara, the Spear Master can activate Rend Heaven quite often and their high strength will always ensure that they will deal large amounts of damage in the process.

In-Game

Base Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE10	53	21	3	21	17	0	21/19	8/10	7	12/7	20/14	A
FE14	18	9	0	8	8	3	7	3	6	-	-	E

Maximum Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE10	60/58	35/34	20	35	33/34	30	34/33	27/30	7	12/7	20/14	SS
FE14	60	34	25	33	32	29	30	29	6	-	-	S
FEW	987	118	26	134	137	115	135	87	5	-	-	S

Growth Rates

Class Skills

	Skill	Requirements
FE10	Shove Critical +10 Impale	Base skill of all foot units. Class skill of the Sentinel, Swordmaster and Sniper classes. Class skill of the Sentinel class.
FE14	Seal Speed Lancefaire Critical +10 Critical Evade +10	Learnt at Level 5 and above. Learnt at Level 15 and above. Innate. Innate.

Promotions

	Base Class	Promotion Method	Promoted Class
FE10	Halberdier	Use a Master Crown on a Level 10+ Halberdier or train a Halberdier to Level 21.	Sentinel
FE14	Spear Fighter	Use a Master Seal on a Level 10+ Spear Fighter.	Spear Master
FEW	Spear Fighter	Use a Master Seal on Oboro.	Spear Master

Notable Sentinels

Radiant Dawn

• Levail - A Begnion general under Zelgius who wields the Wishblade.
• Promotion for Nephenee, Danved and Aran.

Fates

• Possible promotion for Oboro, Shiro and Haitaka.

Trivia

• In the European version of Radiant Dawn, even though the European release renames the Sentinel class to "Lancer", Impale's description still refers to the class as "Sentinel".
• In Radiant Dawn, the promotion gains for male Sentinels are the same as Warriors promoting into Reavers.
• In Fates, Spear Masters use a different set of animations if wielding a lance instead of a naginata. The Great Master uses the same set of animations (barring finishing and critical hits).
  • In addition, they also wear the Battle Flag. However, this Battle Flag is for the Spear Master model; the player can still put in another back accessory like a Water Gourd without causing the Battle Flag to disappear.

Gallery

Concept art of a male Spear Master from Fates

Concept art of a female Spear Master from Fates

Nephenee's battle model as a Sentinel in Radiant Dawn.

Aran's battle model as a Sentinel in Radiant Dawn.

Danved's battle model as a Sentinel in Radiant Dawn.

Oboro's battle model as a Spear Master in Fates.