Category PvP

Sanguine Sword (action) – Absorbs HP from the target. This simple skill is one of the best ways to sustain long-term fights as it directly heals you for the damage done.

Crushing Blow (action) – This hard-hitting ability does a ton of single-target damage with a 25% chance to inflict stop status.

Abyssal Blade (action) – This conal attack deals more damage the closer the target is to the caster. Inflicts 20% of your maximum HP to yourself afterwards.

Unholy Sacrifice (action) – Considered a “bomb,” the user deals dark area damage around themselves and inflicts 30% of their maximum HP to themselves afterwards. Works best around loosely stacked or tightly stacked enemy formations.

Vehemence (support) – Increases your damage dealt by 50% and increases your damage taken by 50%. This is a risk/reward support ability that incentives the “glass cannon” playstyle, trading sustain for raw damage. Works well on both physical and magick builds.

HP Boost (support) – Increases your maximum HP by 20%. The more a character is stacking into HP through job and gear, the futher your sustainability increases.

Move +3 (movement) – Though this ability is not available in the Starter format, this is the quintisential mobility option if looking at easily traversing the map.

• Mimes cannot slot any abilities or gear.

• They can mimic basic attacks and generic abilities but cannot mimic unique character and monster abilities. Uses the ally’s weapon when mimicking a basic attack.

• Since Mimes have no abilities, they can only move or attack during their turn.

• Mimes cannot mimic the action of a previous Mime.

• A Mime cannot mimic if they are affected by negative status effects.

• Regarding ability range: If an ability was cast 2 tiles forward and 1 left, then the Mime will mimic 2 tiles forward and 1 left from its position and facing.

Slow Dance (action) – 50% chance to lower each of your opponent’s Speed by 1. This ability can make the difference in one of your units acting before another when comparing Speed.

Polka/Heathen Frolick (action) – 50% chance to lower each of your opponent’s Phyiscal Attack or Magick Attack by 1 respectively. Though their effectiveness relies on the type of composition your opponent is mostly comprised of, reducing their PA or MA in the early game can slow down the flow of combat in your favor since incoming damage is less.

Forbidden Dance (action) – 50% chance to inflict one of blind, confuse, silence, sleep, toad, stop, slow or poison status. Though even more random since its a randomized selection at which gets applied (making it a 1/8 of a chance for a particular status on top of 50% chance to hit). Stop, slow, and toad are the best ones to get since they are the most disruptive.

Last Waltz (action) – 50% chance to set each opposing unit’s CT to 0. Though it can net a positive reward as long it affects at least half of the opposition, Last Waltz’s biggest drawback is the amount of time (20+ in-game clock ticks) it takes to even cast.

Fury (reaction) – This ability has a Bravery% chance to increase your PA by 1 after taking damage. Mostly only plausible on physical-based builds that can sustain long-term damage to make use of this proc.

Fly (movement) – This ability is a built-in Ignore Elevation, go over characters and obstacles when traversing, and ignores fall damage. While Fly has advantages, Teleport tends to be the better option for traversing height differences since there is no penalty for teleporting height differences.

Rousing Melody (action) – 50% chance to increase all allies’ Speed by 1. With this having a fairly short charge time, upping your allies’ Speed enables them more turns, as well as other benefits, such as more damage to Throw or faster Jump landing.

Battle Chant/Magickal Refrain (action) – 50% chance to increase all allies’ Physical Attack or Magick Attack by 1 respectively. These abilities become more effective when your team composition is mostly physical or magick-focused builds.

Finale (action) – 50% chance to set allies’ CT to 100, causing them to have immediate next turns. This sounds great on paper and works wonders when it goes off on at least half of your units, but its biggest drawback is is the amount of time (20+ in-game clock ticks) it takes to even cast.

Move +3 (movement) – Though this ability is prohibited in the Starter format, it is by far the most versatile form of movement in PvP.

Fly (movement) – This ability is a built-in Ignore Elevation, go over characters and obstacles when traversing, and ignores fall damage. While Fly has advantages, Teleport tends to be the better option for traversing height differences since there is no penalty for teleporting height differences.

Arithmeticks (action) – Since there are so many variables that can be applied here, instead I’ll go over some tips when using Arithmeticks:
● Absorb-element gear, such as Sage’s Ring, can heal from using certain types of magicks, such as Holy.
● Boost-element gear, such as Black Robe, can increase the damage of select elements.
● Magicks cast this way cannot be reflected, but can be evaded.

Cup of Life (reaction) – Being overhealed from another source other than yourself has a Bravery% chance to heal all other allies, rounded up, based on the excess value, regardless of distance. This can be used as a “battery” method to heal remotely from a distance.

Soulbind (reaction) – This Bravery% chance ability returns half the damage taken and heals HP from that same amount. This ability is very welcoming on high HP units, increasing their sustain further for longer fights.

Belief/Disbelief (action) – These abiliites either cause Faith or Atheist status on the target, treating their Faith value as if it were 100 or 0 respectively. As mentioned earlier, having higher Faith makes targets more suspectible to magicks so Belief is one easier method to apply that. Disbelief’s use is in reducing the effectiveness of enemy casters.

Induration (action) – This ability inflicts stone status on the target, treating them as if they were KO’ed and preventing them from moving. Causing stone status can be a major disruption to usable units even in the early game.

Harmony (action) – Removes all positive status effects from the target. Removing protect and shell damage mitigation, slowing CT generation via haste, and getting rid of reraise status can be effective in the mid-game as most of these buffs are vital to staying ahead and protecting the opposition’s team.

Defense Boost (support) – Reduces physical damage taken by 33%. This passive stacks with protect status and is important when going up against top tier skillsets such as Darkness or Throw.

Manafont (movement) – Restores approximately 1/10th of your maximum MP after moving at least 1 tile. This ability when paired with the reaction, Mana Shield, is one way to sustain longer fights especially in the Starter format.