An overly detailed guide to victory

Various details and in-depth explanation of various mechanics to help you avoid dealing with sacrificing children.

Added level-up tables for children since levels are not random, will improve upon as time willing

Also added an update history, because it helps me keep track of what to do next

S-Ranking battles for maximum EXP

In order to S-Rank a battle, you need at least one category at S-Rank and two categories at A-Rank or two categories at S-Rank and one category at B-Rank to get the maximum experience multiplier of +50%

While you are extremely unlikely to be able to get an S-Rank on every single fight of the game, its more then reasonable to get an overall A-Rank minimum fairly consistently, with only the occasional kerfuffle elite that you just had a bad match-up against.




Turns is fairly self explanatory, keep your turn count as low as possible to secure an S-Rank

Damage taken is also fairly self explanatory, keep your damage taken through a battle as low as possible, the number itself is read as a percentage of your maximum health.

Technique is scored based on the following actions

• 3000 Link Attack
  
• 2000 Inflict status ailment
  
• 1000 Attack enemy weakness
  
• 1000 Use a skill
  
• 100 Use the basic attack

Turns

A rule of thumb for S-Ranking turns is 2 turns +1 turn per enemy for single wave battles, 3 turns +1 turn per enemy for two wave battles and 4 turns +1 turn per enemy for three wave battles but never exceeding ten turns, this wont actually get you S-Rank on literally every battle but it will come close enough that more often then not you will S-Rank and should always A-Rank otherwise

Elite Battles follow largely the same outcome but add an additional 5 turns, the final wave of elite enemies is usually significantly harder then earlier waves if any were present, enough that some battles can still S-Rank at the twenty turn mark.

Boss battles should usually follow the basic idea of 15 turns +1 or 2 turns per chapter, most bosses will S-Rank turns with this amount.

Cannons are better and getting S-Rank turn counts as they on average do more damage per turn then Grenade Launchers which are better on average then Machine Guns, but you still need to be able to hit air units in the first place otherwise you are just wasting turns.




Damage

The damage number displayed at the end of battle is a % value, seeing 105 at the end of a battle for example means you took 105% of the Taranis' maximum health in damage over the course of that battle, healing does not reverse this value as all damage is tracked so its best to avoid and mitigate damage then it is to heal damage taken.

For non elite battles 10% to 15% of the Taranis' maximum HP is the limit you can take, elite battles can up this to around 15% to 25%

Unfortunately i have little to share on bosses, ive either taken extremely little damage or more then the Taranis' maximum health pool in every boss battle ive been in, a good guess is probably 40% but its honestly an unknown for me.

Id suggest keeping damage to a minimum as a larger priority against elites and bosses over turn counts, losing too much HP will cause the Taranis to dip under 50% which can lead to fear and depression, these greatly impact your ability to keep your turn count, damage and technique scores in S-Rank range, however you will also build hero mode faster once you get below 50% HP and it builds faster and faster the lower it goes so if you can prevent damage in the first place remaining at very low HP can in fact be the best way to prevent damage in the first place.

Weakness reduces damage by roughly 50%, Smoke inflicts an accuracy penalty against foes and Shock prevents foes from advancing on the timeline, these three statuses should be used liberally to help not only your technique score but your damage score as well.

If a character isnt going to defeat an opponent before an enemy gets to attack then its probably better to defend, defend will reduce the damage of the next enemy attack by 50%, this multiplies in effect with weakness bringing it to just 25% of the damage it would have otherwise inflicted, you can only block one enemy however so a chain of enemy turns is not very efficiently blocked, in that case its probably better to deal damage and attempt to get an S-Rank turn count and hope for no lower then a B-Rank in damage.




Technique

Normal attacks are very undesirable for high technique scores for obvious reasons, we want to avoid using these exclusively, but we dont have unlimited SP either so we cant just spam skills relentlessly either, the cost of a skill and the amount of targets it hits however has no impact, a skill simply grants 1000 score if used so if you think you still need to boost your score, spam the cheapest skills like Piercing Shot 1.

Enemy weakness refers to successfully delaying a target, all watch icons must be destroyed before an enemy is considered delayed thus granting you the bonus, kill shots still destroy watches and will grant the delay bonus so make sure to keep matching the correct weapons when possible.

Status effects grant 2000 points per successful application, these will be our real bread and butter method for boosting technique scores past the early game and most of them make it easier to get a higher damage score as well, status effects that trigger on kill shots still count towards technique score.

Link attacks give 3000 points on use, but more often then not in smaller battles just end up destroying all the weaker foes before you can delay them successfully, but its a powerful option in longer battles with multiple waves to clear a single wave out rapidly to save on turn count and damage.

Special mention to Sock's Link attack, it attempts to apply three different status effects on every target on the field, listing a 70% success rate for each status effect assuming no enemy resist any status, on a screen with the maximum enemy count of 6 this leads to potentially netting 39,000 technique from a single link attack. More realistically assuming only two thirds of them succeed still leads to 27,000 total score.

A good target thumb to maintain S-Rank for technique is a base of 4,000 + 1,000 per enemy + 2,000 per wave, add an additional 500 per chapter on top of that and if they are elite enemies add a further 5,000 too.

Unfortunately i cant say anything specific for bosses, ive yet to not get an S-Rank on technique for bosses so i cant really give proper advice. All i can say is that the first boss i got over 15,000 technique and that gave me an S-Rank and on average i increased by 2,500 to 3,500 score for each boss as the game progressed, matching this at the very least that will assure you an S-Rank for technique but is likely overkill for the later game bosses.

Status Ailments

Status Ailments are one of the best methods for dealing with strong threats that deal lots of damage, ailments have a standard application rate of 70%, most enemies do not resist status ailments by any capacity, but most bosses resist one or more status ailments by at least 30, causing most effects to be less then one in two odds of successfully applying

Ailments cannot be reapplied until they have completely worn off, all ailments can be applied to the same enemy at the same time, so keep applying new status ailments to keep enemy turns blunted in damage output.

The player is able to inflict the following five status ailments upon enemies.



Bad Luck increases the likelihood of the afflicted target to receive status ailments by +30, Bad Luck also has a higher then normal application rate at a default 100% success rate, few enemies resist Bad Luck but the ones who do usually have 100% resistance to it.

Burn causes foes to receive a percentage of their max health in damage each after each action they perform, foes that perform multiple actions back to back will trigger burn damage for each action, bosses most frequently have the ability to chain multiple actions back to back via reinforcement calls, bosses however also take significantly less damage from burn ticks and usually have some or total resistance to it.
Mark 3 enemies who enter wrath will also receive a tick of burn damage because of it.

Shock prevents afflicted targets from advancing on the timeline until it wears off, because shock prevents all action outright it inherently lacks synergy with burn.

Smoke applies an accuracy penalty to afflicted targets, the game unfortunately does not state how significant this accuracy reduction is, however most accuracy changes in Fuga are in increments of 30 so that will be what is assumed here.

Weakness multiplies the damage of afflicted enemies by 0.5, any attack that is also defended against will see its attack multiplied again by another 0.5, resulting in only a quarter of the damage being taken.

Malt Marzipan Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1	77	102	14
2	84	104	14
3	91	106	14
4	98	108	14
5	106	110	14	Brave Shot
6	144	112	14
7	122	114	14
8	130	116	14
9	138	119	14
10	147	121	15
11	156	123	15	Bravery
12	165	123	15
13	174	127	15
14	183	129	15
15	192	131	15
16	201	133	15
17	210	135	15	Fragmented Shot
18	219	137	15
19	229	139	16
20	239	131	16
21	249	144	16
22	259	146	16	Hot Blood
23	269	148	16
24	279	150	16
25	289	152	16
26	298	154	16
27	308	156	16	Triple Strike
28	318	158	17
29	329	160	17

Hanna Fondant Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1	48	182	20
2	52	185	20
3	56	189	20
4	60	192	20
5	64	196	20	Soothing Song
6	69	199	20
7	74	203	20
8	79	203	20
9	84	210	20	White Grenade
10	89	213	21
11	94	217	21
12	99	220	21
13	104	224	21
14	109	228	21
15	114	231	21	Ballad
16	119	235	21
17	125	238	21
18	131	242	21
19	137	245	22

Kyle Bavarois Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1	33	161	25
2	36	164	25
3	39	166	25
4	42	169	25
5	45	172	25
6	48	175	25
7	51	177	25	Sharp Arrow
8	54	180	25
9	57	183	25
10	60	186	26
11	63	186	26
12	66	191	26
13	70	194	26	Piercing Shot 2
14	74	196	26
15	78	199	26
16	82	201	26
17	86	204	26
18	90	207	26
19	94	210	27	Air Strike
20	98	213	27
21	102	216	27
22	106	219	27
23	111	222	27

Boron Brioche Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1	84	97	12
2	92	98	12
3	100	100	12
4	108	101	12
5	117	102	12
6	126	104	12	Protection
7	135	106	12
8	144	107	12
9	153	109	12
10	162	110	12
11	171	112	13
12	181	113	13	Shell Festival
13	191	115	13
14	201	116	13
15	210	118	13
16	221	120	13
17	231	121	13
18	241	123	13
19	251	124	13	Reinforce

Socks Million Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1	55	198	20
2	60	202	20
3	65	206	20
4	70	210	20	Smoke Grenade
5	75	214	20
6	80	218	20
7	86	222	20
8	92	227	20	Burning Spirit
9	98	231	21
10	104	235	21
11	110	239	21
12	116	243	21
13	122	247	21	Stun Grenade
14	128	251	21
15	134	255	21
16	140	259	21
17	147	264	21
18	154	268	22
19	161	272	22	Mine Field
20	168	276	22
21	175	280	22
22	182	284	22
23	189	288	22

Mei Marzipan Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1	27	140	27
2	29	143	27
3	31	146	27	Quick Assault
4	33	149	27
5	35	152	27
6	37	156	27
7	39	159	28
8	41	162	28
9	43	165	28	Encourage
10	45	168	28
11	48	172	28
12	51	175	28
13	54	178	28
14	57	181	28	Lullaby
15	60	184	29
16	63	187	29
17	66	190	29
18	69	194	29
19	72	197	29
20	75	200	29	Encouraging Shot
21	79	203	29
22	83	206	30
23	87	209	30

Chick Montblanc Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1
2
3
4
5
6	65	218	22
7	69	222	22	Risky Grenade
8	73	225	22
9	77	229	23
10	81	233	23
11	86	236	23
12	91	240	23	Vanish
13	96	243	23
14	101	247	23
15	106	250	23
16	111	254	23
17	116	257	24
18	121	261	24	White Grenade
19	126	264	24
20	131	268	24
21	137	271	24
22	143	275	24
23	149	278	24
24	155	282	25	Electro-Mines
25	161	285	25

Hack Montblanc Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1
2
3
4
5
6	99	129	22
7	106	131	22
8	113	133	22
9	120	135	23
10	127	138*	23	Burning Trigger
11	134	140	23
12	141	142	23
13	148	144	23
14	156	146	23
15	164	148	23
16	172	150	23	Black Shell
17	180	152	23
18	188	154	24
19	196	156	24
20	204	158	24
21	212	160	24	Double Strike
22	220	165	24
23	228	165	24
24	236	167	24
25	245	169	24

Sheena Falafel Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9	48	184	25
10	51	188	25
11	54	191	25	Syphon Beam
12	57	194	25
13	60	197	25
14	63	200	25
15	66	203	25
16	69	207	25
17	73	210	25	Piercing Shot 2
18	77	213	26
19	81	216	26

Jin Macchiato Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14	140	233	19
15	147	226	19
16	154	230	19
17	161	233	19
18	168	237	19
19	175	240	19
20	182	244	20	Black Ground

Wappa Charlotte Level Table

Level	Attack	Critical	Speed	Skill
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16	166	451	20
17	174	454	20	Bang Bang!
18	182	458	20
19	190	461	20
20	198	465	20

Update History

Initial creation: S-Rank Details
Update 1: Status Ailment Details
Update 2: Children level-up table pass 1 & Update History
Update 3: Children level-up table pass 2, adding tables for Jin and Wappa