Difference between revisions of "Skills"

All cards start at skill level 1.

Some quests drop items called {{Item|Skill Up}}s that are used to increase a character's skill level; each weapon has a corresponding soul. Like {{Item|XP Stars}}, you don't have to match them up; any {{Item|Skill Up}} would do. However, you won't fully benefit from the skill level increase that the matching {{Item|Skill Up}} would yield. You will see your chance for success after picking the skill up gems, with a 100% chance or above indicating that failure is impossible.  Furthermore, percentages such as 260% indicate that your unit's skill level is guaranteed to go up 2 levels, with a 60% chance of going up a third.

Like {{Item|XP Stars}}, you also have to use coins to increase a unit's skill level, but unlike unit leveling, the coin cost is steeper.

This means that using higher quality skill up items minimizes the total cost needed to skill up.

 

Below is a suggested path optimized for the least amount of <em>matching</em> {{Star|4}} {{Item|Skill Up}}s and coins consumed. In reality, you can use any manner to reach Skill Level 67, such as through lower tiered {{Item|Skill Up}}s.

== Skill Timings ==

| ''Beginning of Phase'' 【フェーズ開始時】 || Activates when a Phase begins.<ref>This means a new wave of enemies. It does not mean the beginning of each turn.</ref>

| ''When Appearing'' 【登場時】 || Activates when a character enters the battle field.  

| ''When Leaving'' 【退場時】 || Activates when a character leaves the battle field.

| ''After Missing'' 【空振り時】 || Activates when a character fails to hit any enemies.

| ''Before Damage'' 【ダメージ前】 || Activates right before a character is attacked and damaged.

| ''After Damage'' 【ダメージ後】 || Activates after a character has been attacked and damaged.  Used for skills that buff you or your allies.

| ''When Damaged'' 【対ダメージ】 || Activates after a character has been attacked and damaged.  Used for skills that debuff enemies.   

| ''While Moving (Forced)'' 【強制移動時】 || Activates when a character is forced to move. Used for {{Status_effect|引き寄せ}}.

| ''After Moving'' 【移動後】 || Activates after a character moves.  This is one of the most common types of activation timings, so please read the footnote to better understand it. <ref>What "After Moving" really means is that a skill will activate after you select a unit for movement and let go of it. You do not actually have to move the character around. Forcefully moving other characters will not activate their own ''After Moving'' skills. In other words, you can only activate one character's ''After Moving'' skill a turn.</ref>

| ''Special Attack'' 【特攻】 || Activates when attacking, but only in certain conditions (E.g. If the opponent has a certain skill or weapon type<ref>For example, a character with the ''Special Attack'' skill 屠竜の勇者 (Dragon Slayer Hero) will do extra damage to enemy characters who possess the skill 竜を継ぐ者 (Dragon Inheritor)</ref>). Increases damage by 1.5x. Does not increase with skill level.

| ''Special Status Attack''【状態特攻】 || Activates when attacking unit that is currently under the effects of a certain buff or debuff. Increases damage by 1.5x. 

| ''Special Defense'' 【特防】 || Activates when attacked by a weapon or skill of a certain type. Decreases damage taken by 0.7x. Does not increase with skill level.

| ''During Status Ailment'' 【状態異常時】 || Activates when afflicted with a specific debuff or status ailment.

| ''After Debuff'' 【弱体後】 || Activates when given any debuff or status ailment.

| ''During Victory'' 【勝利時】 || Activates when you win a battle.

== Charge Skill Effect Increase ==

A Charge Skills effect will activate for each ALIVE enemy hit during the Charge Skill.  For most Charge Skills that apply buffs or debuffs, such as Charm, this has little meaning, but this greatly changes the power of Charge Skills with healing effects. <br />

However, an enemy has to have HP remaining when hit by a Charge Skill for it to count. If the enemy is already "defeated" by the time the Charge Skill activates, the effect will not stack. This means it is also possible for a Charge Skill's effect to activate '''0''' times if it doesn't hit any enemies with HP remaining.<br />

It is recommended you make whoever you want to hit the most enemies FIRST with their Charge Skill your Leader, as Ally attack order is determined by their order in your deck slot.  Allies in your Support slot will have more trouble activating their Charge Skill effects multiple times, as they attack last and thus have a higher chance of only hitting dead enemies.

'''1. Buffs and debuffs do not have their durations refreshed when applied again.'''  For example, if you were to cast Blessing on an ally with Youl, they would be Blessed for 4 turns.  If you were to wait 3 turns and cast it on the same ally with Youl again, the buff will '''not''' reset and the Blessing will wear off the next turn.  Also, buffs that have an activation timing of Beginning of Phase are applied AFTER buffs have counted down.  Therefore it's safe to wipe out an enemy Phase with 1 buff turn remaining if you want to reapply a buff that has a Beginning of Phase timing.<br />

For example, if you apply the buff Blessing to an ally, it will have a countdown of 4.  Then, at the start of your turn, Blessing healing effect will apply, and THEN count down by 1, for 4 turns. This means Blessing will heal you 4 times, the same as its listed turn duration.<br />

For example, even though Curse technically lasts "5" turns, it will only reduce the Attack of your enemies for 4 of their attacks, because it instantly counts down from 5 to 4 at the start of their turn. (assuming you applied Curse to the enemy during your turn).  The same is true for when the enemy puts Curse on you.<br />

The reason for this is it allows you and the enemy team to have a debuff-free turn.  Otherwise, debuffs could be applied to you or the enemy team infinitely.  <br />

'''4.  ALL healing and damaging debuffs either heal or deal at the end of the enemies team for BOTH team.'''<br />

"The enemies team" means the team that is not your team in all cases. In effect, this actually means that debuffs like Poison will actually damage you more than the enemy team.  Because damage happens at the end of the enemies team, this means it happens before any debuffs on you have counted down.  However, in the enemies case, they had their turn first, and the debuff has already counted down for them.  So Poison will damage you 5 times, but the enemy can only be damaged by Poison 4 times before it has to be reapplied. While this is biased in the enemies favor, it is only biased for the damage ticks of damage debuffs.  Everything else is equal for both teams.

1.  Buffs and debuffs don't have their durations reset when activated again if already on you.<br />

3.  Buffs and debuff durations on the Enemy team count down at the start of the Enemy Turn, no matter when it was applied.<br />

4.  For all intents and purposes, debuffs basically affect the enemy for 1 less turn what is listed in the chart below (because chances are good you'll be applying said debuff during your turn and it will countdown by 1 at the start of their turn). <br />

5.  Healing buffs and damaging debuffs ALL heal or damage at the end of the enemies turn for both teams no matter what.

== Attacking Proc Chance ==

Skills that apply buffs or debuffs to the enemy, such as [[Tailed Demon]], [[Lover]], [[Maker of Bonds]], etc. simply have individual proc chances per square.  A Harlot that hits 5 enemies could apply Blessing to all enemies hit, only one enemy, or any number of enemies.<br />

== Additional Skills ==

Some skills like [[Hero]] and [[Creator]] grants additional skills separate from the base skill. These skills ignore their tied skill's activation timings and chances (always 100%). Usually these skills include movement modifiers ([[Winged One]], [[Swimmer]]) or damage modifiers (increases damage dealt or decreases damaged received against specific units). For these skills, they also scale based on Skill Level (maximum of 1.5x for increases, 0.75x for decreases).

However, due to how some skills were originally documented, additional effects like [During Status Ailment] Nullify [X] will be listed with a skill, but isn't 100%. In these instances, the activation change is the same as the main skill.

Recently, skills can possess more than two effects, such as [[Concililator]] and [[Opener of Iwato]]. Each separate effect (by activation timing and chance) are documented, but won't be described directly with the parent skill.

== [[Skill Quest|Skill Evolution]] ==

== Status Effects ==

Almost every status effect are easily implemented by providing modifier values (HP/CP added, HP multiplied(?), damaged added, damage multiplied, skill activation rate added, movement lock, attack lock, (charge) skill lock, and knockback resistance (backwards, pulled, or horizontal)). These values are then scaled according to the status's level. Some statuses do have a maximum amount, but these values are almost always what the value will be at SL 100. Status effects that apply additional mechanics are:

{| class="wikitable"

! Buff Type !! width="20%" | Name (Eng/Jpn) !! Icon !! Description !! Base Value !! Max Value

! rowspan="14" | Offensive

| [[Fervor]] ''(Ardor)'' 【熱情】 || [[File:Fervor.png|30px]] || Increases damage dealt and increases CP for 2 turns.  || 1.2x || 2.4x

! rowspan="5" | Defensive

! rowspan="6" | Healing

! rowspan="4" | CP

| [[Acceleration]] ''(Rev)'' 【加速】 || [[File:Acceleration.png|30px]] || Increases CP of the buffed character at the end of the enemies turn for 3 turns.<ref>The behavior of this skill is odd. It will always say CP 8 at the end of the turn, but the actual CP you gain is often more. It seems to increase based on the CP you gained previously in the turn from attacking or getting hit. It's unknown if skill level affects the amount gained.</ref> || 8 || N/A

| [[Encouragement]] ''(Arousal)'' 【奮起】 || [[File:Encouragement.png|30px]] || Increases CP of the buffed character at the end of the enemies turn for 1 turn.<ref>See previous footnote.</ref> || 10 || N/A

| [[Insight]] ''(Glint)'' 【閃き】|| [[File:Insight.png|30px]] || Increases the activation rate of Skills for 2 turns. || +10% || +10%

| [[Bind]] 【束縛】 || [[File:Bind.png|30px]] || Prevents afflicted target's skill from activating and reduces damages dealt for 4 turns. || 0.9x || 0.45x

| [[CS Seal]] 【CS封印】 || [[File:CS_Seal.png|30px]] || Prevents afflicted target's Charge Skill from activating for 3 turns.  || N/A || N/A

| [[Double Seal]] 【二重封印】 || [[File:Double_Seal.jpg|30px]] || Prevents afflicted target's skills and Charge Skills from activating for 3 turns.  || N/A || N/A

| [[Fear]] 【恐怖】 || [[File:Icon_status_feared.png|30px]] || Prevents afflicted target from moving themselves and reduces CP by 10 each turn for 5 turns.  Enemies and Allies can not use After Moving skills while Feared.|| N/A || N/A

|[[Intimidated]] ''(Oppression)'' 【威圧】 || [[File:Intimidated.png|30px]] || Prevents the afflicted target from moving themselves for 2 turns. Enemies and Allies can not use After Moving skills while Intimidated. || N/A || N/A

|[[Immobile]] ''(Unmoving)'' 【不動】 || [[File:icon_status_immobile.png|30px]] || Prevents the afflicted from moving themselves and increases CP at the end of each turn for 3 turns. || N/A || N/A

| [[Omen]] ''(Countdown)'' 【告死】 || [[File:Omen.png|30px]] || Deals massive amounts of damage to the afflicted unit at the end of the enemies turn for 2 turns.  Can't kill.  || 11000 || 20000

|[[Crushed]] ''(Break)'' 【崩し】 || [[File:icon_status_kuzushi.png|30px]] || Prevents the afflicted from moving themselves and increases damage taken for 2 turns. Enemies and Allies can not use After Moving skills while Crushed. || 1.2x || 2.4x

| [[Branded]] ''(Stigma)'' 【烙印】|| [[File:icon_status_brand.png|30px]]  || Deals damage to the afflicted unit at the end of the enemies turn for 3 turns and increase damage taken. || 150 damage and 1.15x ||| 300 damage, 2.3x

| [[Frozen]]【凍結】 || [[File:Frozen.png|30px]] || Deals damage to the afflicted unit at the end of the enemies turn and increases damage taken by a multiplier for 4 turns.  || 200 dmg, 1.1x || 400 damage, 2.2x

| [[Exhausted]]【脱力】 || [[File:Exhausted.png|30px]] || -10 Skill activation rate and -10 CP decrease for 2 turns. || ? || ?

| [[All Purge]] 【強化全解除】 ||  || Removes all positive buffs per cast from afflicted target. || N/A || N/A

| [[CP Decrease]] 【CP減少】　||  || Decreases the CP of the afflicted target. || N/A || N/A

|  [[Possessed]] 【憑依】　|| [[File:Possession.png|30px]] || Reverses the direction of an allies attack and enables friendly-fire for 2 turns. || N/A || N/A

|  [[Nullify Buff]] 【強化無効】　|| [[File:Nullify_Buff.png|30px]] || Blocks 1 buff. Lasts 3 turn, but disappears after use. || N/A || N/A

| In a Wide Radius 【距離2マス】 || Affects friendly units 2 spaces away from the unit horizontally and vertically, 1 space away diagonally, not including the caster.

[[File:f_skill_effect_1.png|x16px]]

To give an example, the buff 闘志 (Fighting Spirit) increases the damage a character will do.  

It has a base value of 1.2.  A character using it has a skill level of 12.

To find out the full damage increase, it would be 1.2 * (1 + 0.01 * 12)

Or an increase of 1.34400.  At skill level 99, it would increase damage by 2.38800.  At level 100, a 2.4x increase.

The general formula for most skills that decrease taken (ie Defense buffs) or debuff an enemy to decrease the damage they deal deal is

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