Character Combat Guide

This is a quick combat guide going over the characters for Fuga: Melodies of Steel, so that you can determine how best to utilize your game strategy. Contains some, but not all, hard numbers for skills and similar combat effects.

Combat Overview

As Fuga is a strategy RPG type of game, you'll be dealing with various statistics for damage output, HP for counting down to death, and SP which limits skill use. The objective is to do enough damage to enemies so that they go down before you do. As the game progresses you'll eventually be able to manage your HP and SP in a way that keeps you in tip-top shape against any enemy you come across.


Screenshot from the game's Store Page.

HP stands for Hit Points, which if they go down to zero, the target is destroyed.
SP is for Skill Points, a resource necessary to use skills.
Attack modifies the damage dealt to an enemy. More of this, more damage.
Speed is generally how often your character is allowed to act. The lower the Speed, the longer you have to wait between actions, also called delay.
Luck is essentially critical hit rate. From my experience, I believe it adds 0.05% critical rate per 1 Luck, but it's not easy to confirm at a glance. With 2000 Luck, I've never failed to get a critical, however. Criticals deal about +50~60% damage.


The timeline is the most important part of the turn-based combat. On using any form of action, player or enemy, delay is incurred, pushing the user towards the right. After a turn is made and the last action's delay is set, all of the icons start moving left. When the icon of the corresponding child or enemy reaches the Taranis, it's their turn to act. If a child and an enemy are at the same point on the timeline, the child always goes first.

When you highlight an action, you'll be able to see a mini icon on the timeline for the currently active child. This is the delay that action will incur. Be sure you are watching how much you're using, so that you could potentially make another action before an enemy or enemies.

Some children and some enemies have faster or slower speeds than normal, and using skills can have greater or lesser delay than using a normal attack.

Each child has a specific type of gun they use. Machine Gun, Grenade Launcher, and Cannon are the three, given blue, yellow, and red coloring for visual ease.

Machine Guns have high accuracy and low attack. The users of these focus on reducing enemy armor, combating flying enemies, and buffing allies, and all of them have high speed. The standard hit rate for Machine Guns is 160%.

Grenade Launchers are the middle weapon in each respect. These users have many ways to deal status effects, making combat far easier to deal with. The standard hit rate for Grenade Launchers is 130%.

Cannons are the big guns with big damage and low accuracy. They're all about putting out big numbers, whether on multiple or single targets. The standard hit rate for Cannons is 100%.

Delay markers, as seen on the right, are considered the weakness of the enemy machine in question. When hitting the enemy with the matching color weapon, a clock is removed. When all of them are removed, the target experiences a delay penalty, pushing them back on the timeline. The clocks only refresh once the enemy takes an action, but they will not reset unless all of them are gone first. You can only remove one clock at a time, no matter how many hits a child performs at once, with sole exception to Boron.

Affinity is important not only for developing these cute characters, but each level also increases the potency of the Support Effect for each child, so that they can better help their partner on the gun. I'll be detailing each of those in the character sections.

Status Effects

These make or break your combat experience. Take care to handle them well.

These are all mostly explained with the in-game Help menu, but I'll place them here for thoroughness and further explanation.

Child Status

Defend: The Taranis takes half damage from the next attack by using the Defend action. It only reduces damage once, so if multiple enemies are able to act in a row, the Taranis will take full damage from the rest.


Courage: The owner's Attack is raised by 1.4x.



Fortune: The owner's Luck is raised by 2.5x.



Accuracy Up: The owner's accuracy is raised by an additive 30%.



Fortitude: Injury resistance is increased. This appears in the Help menu, but it doesn't seem to actually appear when the Protection skill is activated.


Link Attack: The gauge for when a Link Attack is preparing between two children that have had their link events. Once maxed, you can use an attack that strikes all enemies, an additional effect of which is different based on the support gunner. The gauge increases a little by being hit, a bit more by doing normal attacks, and the most by using skills. It powers up its damage and secondary effect when the pair's affinity reaches level 5 and again at 10.

Hero Mode: After fulfilling a wish at the Taranis during an Intermission, the child can attain Hero Mode status during combat. Each child has their own special trait to enhance their effectiveness in combat during this time. The gauge is increased by both dishing out and receiving damage. Once the gauge is maxed out, it lasts for 5 turns taken by the owner. They will all reset once reaching another Intermission, where you will have to fulfill their wishes again.

Fear: The owner's hit rate is halved. This applies multiplicatively and after any accuracy increases.


Depression: The owner cannot use Skills or Link Attacks. This status can only be cleared during an Intermission, where you will have to use AP to test your friendship by cheering them up. If you don't give the 'correct' answer, you will have to use more AP.

Injury: The child is injured. You can clear this status by having them rest at the Dormitory during an Intermission. Injured children can't go on Expeditions.


KO: The child is knocked out, and unusable for combat or anything else. KO is applied if a child would be injured while already carrying the status. You can clear this status by having them rest at the Dormitory during an Intermission.

Enemy Debuffs

Burn: Enemy takes damage after every action they take. Normal enemies take damage equal to 15% of their maximum HP, while bosses take 5%.


Smoke: Enemy's accuracy is decreased. Unknown by how much, but it does make a difference in this game.


Shock: Invokes a large delay on an enemy, approximately 80% of the timeline, less if the enemy has resistance. There's no indicator to when the status will expire, so be sure you take into account when the enemy may move again.

Weakness: Enemy's damage is decreased by about 25% or so.



Bad Luck: Enemy has a 30% higher chance to receive a status effect. Some enemies are still normally immune to certain statuses even after applying Bad Luck.

Enemy Status

Armor Rank: A number given to an enemy, reducing damage by more and more based on its number. Use Piercing Shot available on Machine Guns or the Pierce Ammo item to reduce its armor.

Armor Rank	Approx. Damage Taken
0	100%
1	80%
2	66.6%
3	50%
4	33.3%
5	25%
6	15%
7	8%

Wrath: Increases the owner's damage dealt by 50%. Accessible by several different types of enemies, especially Mk-III or red-colored enemies, which will cast the Wrath skill to activate this status when below 50% HP. The Wrath skill counts as a separate action with 0 delay, which will, as a result, elapse time on debuff statuses, such as receiving damage from Burn. Due to being 0 delay to activate, their next attack will be boosted, so be wary when those enemies are under 50%.

Speed: Reduces the delay after actions slightly.



Stealth: Increases the owner's evasion rate by an additive 30%.



Reinforcing: The enemy will call an additional enemy into combat. When used by bosses, the additional enemy or enemies are called immediately. Standard enemies require an additional turn, so eliminate them before they get the chance.

Malt Marzipan

• He's the oldest.

Malt uses a Cannon, and has a good damage output. He's quite slow, though. His skills overall are damage or damage buffs, very straightforward. It should be fitting that his Support Effect as a support gunner is also a straight Attack increase to his partner, and certainly one of the best supports at that. He's a solid character, perhaps not the best, but he IS the oldest.

His Link Attack is Brave, which deals straight damage; since it doesn't have a special effect, it deals up to 30% more damage compared to other Link Attacks.

Hero Mode: Doubles the damage of his normal attacks. Simple like the rest of his kit, but effective.

Support Effect: Increases Attack by a percentage.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
1.1x	1.12x	1.14x	1.16x	1.2x	1.23x	1.26x	1.29x	1.32x	1.35x

The Attack increase will stack multiplicatively with other Attack increases, such as food and buffs.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Double Strike	6	75%	35	2	120%	2-hit attack on an enemy.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Brave Shot	7	120%	35	1	120%	Attack an enemy with damage that increases as the Taranis' HP decreases.	Effectiveness not currently known, testing needed.
Bravery	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary attack increase.	Increases Attack by 1.4x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Fragmented Shot	10	80%	40	1x All	110%	Attack on all enemies.	-
Hot Blood	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary luck (critical rate) increase.	Increases Luck by 2.5x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Triple Strike	11	70%	40	3	120%	3-hit attack on an enemy.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Megaton Blast	18	170%	45	1	110%	Strong attack on all enemies.	-
Top Dog	13	-	30	-	100%	Temporary attack increase on all allies.	'All allies' means all active gunners. Increases Attack by 1.4x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.

Hanna Fondant

• The nicest big sister slash mother figure.

Hanna is the sort of token White Mage character for your party. She has heals and status effects to weaken the enemy's damage output. Her Support Effect also gives a minor heal for every attack you do, which can add up in a pinch. As the main healer, you'll want to rely on her if you're taking lots of damage.

Her Link Attack is Healing, which gives up to a 30% maximum HP heal to the Taranis on use.

Hero Mode: Doubles the amount of healing the Taranis receives when using one of her healing skills.

Support Effect: Heals the Taranis's HP based on maximum with a normal attack.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
0.5%	0.7%	0.9%	1.1%	1.4%	1.7%	2%	2.3%	2.6%	3%

The healing will only apply once, regardless of the number of hits.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Lullaby	5	-	30	-	100%	HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 25% of its max.
Soothing Song	4	-	30	-	100%	Fear is relieved from all allies.	Only applies to active gunners, including herself.
White Grenade	5	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict weakness on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Ballad	10	-	35	-	100%	Great HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 40% of its max.
Smoke Grenade	4	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict smoke on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Smoke Zone	13	50%	35	1x All	140%	Weak attack that may inflict smoke on all enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Aria	16	-	40	-	100%	High HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 55% of its max.
White Zone	13	50%	35	1x All	140%	Weak attack that may inflict weakness on all enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.

Kyle Bavarois

• Bratty prettyboy from the city.

Kyle as the first Machine Gunner is a middling speedy fighter, able to dish out decent damage while offering you solid options for removing enemy armor and dealing with aerial enemies. He gives you the earliest access to Piercing Shot 2, which will likely be one of the most frequent skills you'll be using along the course of the game. His Support Effect gives extra accuracy, a real boon to cannoneers dealing with pesky fliers. Overall, he's a solid character, and a lovable grump.

His Link Attack is Pierce, which has up to a 75% chance to reduce all targets' armor by 1, or 2 at max level.

Hero Mode: All attacks become critical hits. This loses usefulness once you get access to higher tiers of Luck-boosting food, but it's still useful for ensuring good damage output.

Support Effect: Increases accuracy.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
5%	10%	15%	20%	25%	30%	35%	40%	45%	50%

The boost is an additive bonus. Applies to any form of attack on enemies, including Ammo items. Applied before the Fear status, which will still reduce the total hit rate by half.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Piercing Shot	1	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 1 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Sharp Arrow	5	150%	25	1	160%	Strong attack that ignores the enemy's armor.	Main option for dealing straight damage.
Piercing Shot 2	3	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 2 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Air Strike	10	40%	30	3x Air	140%	3-hit attack on all aerial enemies.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Eagle Eye	8	-	30	-	100%	Temporary accuracy increase on all allies.	Applies a buff to the three active gunners for 5 of their own turns, increasing hit rate by an additive 30%.
Piercing Rain	13	70%	30	2x Air	150%	2-hit attack with 2 armor rank decrease on all aerial enemies.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Hot Blood	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary luck (critical rate) increase.	Increases Luck by 2.5x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Piercing Shot 3	9	33%	30	3	160%	3-hit attack with 3 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.

Boron Brioche

• The biggest, sweetest, goodest boy.

Boron is all power, while having some supportive skills. He's the strongest, but the slowest. Quite straightforward; if you need to blow something up, he'll do it quickly. His Support Effect supposedly increases resistance to the injury status, but it's very difficult to figure out how effective it is. While he's slow and has a questionable Support Effect, he possesses some of if not the best Link Attack and Hero Mode in the game.

His Link Attack is Heavy, which induces a 30 delay to enemies, as a separate effect (and stacks with) the weakness delay mechanic.

Hero Mode: Boron's normal attack removes all armor rank and delay icons from an enemy. Incredible boss buster.

Support Effect: Increases resistance to Injury.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	60%

Unknown if the chance is additive or multiplicative.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Fragmented Shot	10	80%	40	1x All	110%	Attack on all enemies.	-
Protection	7	-	20	-	100%	Temporary injury resistance on all allies.	50% chance reduction. Implied to have a visual status effect icon, but it does not display.
Shell Festival	15	33%	40	4x All	110%	4-hit attack on all enemies.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Reinforce	15	-	40	-	100%	Damage received by the Taranis slightly decreases until the end of battle.	Duration is incorrect, only lasts 5 turns, but not sure whose. Damage reduction is -10%.
Overload	15	60%	50	5	120%	5-hit attack on an enemy, but inflicts Boron with fear.	Fear duration is erroneously set to 0, which likely loops down to a 255 turn duration. Hanna can still cure it. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Megaton Blast	18	170%	45	1x All	110%	Strong attack on all enemies.	-
Lullaby	5	-	30	-	100%	HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 25% of its max.
Giga Bazooka	22	190%	50	1x All	110%	Very strong attack on all enemies, but delays all allies.	Invokes a delay of 30 to all characters, including Boron himself receiving an additional delay.

Socks Million

• Brainiac with a heart of gold... circuits.

Socks offers you your first taste of status debuff support early on. With his various types of status, you can control enemies to your liking, just be wary of RNG. His Support Effect is substantial, adding a base Luck boost to his partner, and criticals are a great way to get your damage up. He also boasts the second highest Luck stat for his own criticals. Overall, Socks is as solid as the rest of the starter children. You can't go wrong with what he offers.

His Link Attack is Smart, which can inflict Smoke, Burn, and/or Shock. I'm not positive if it can inflict more than one at a time.

Hero Mode: Normal attack inflicts Smoke, Burn, or Shock, chosen randomly, with up to a 80% chance. This status effect will ignore immunity and inflict the status regardless of enemy's resistance to the best status skills.

Support Effect: Increases base Luck.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
50	100	150	200	250	300	350	400	450	500

Will be multiplied by other luck increases, such as from food or buffs.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Flame Grenade	5	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict burns on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Smoke Grenade	4	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict smoke on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Burning Spirit	8	-	30	-	100%	Temporary luck (critical rate) increase on all allies.	'All allies' means all active gunners. Increases Luck by 2.5x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Stun Grenade	7	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict shock on an enemy.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Mine Field	8	120%	35	1x Ground	140%	Attack on all ground enemies.	-
Flame Zone	13	50%	35	1x All	140%	Weak attack that may inflict burns on all enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Smoke Zone	13	50%	35	1x All	140%	Weak attack that may inflict smoke on all enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Delta Cloud	18	50%	40	3x Ground	140%	3-hit attack on all ground enemies that may inflict burns, shock, and/or smoke.	Base 50% affliction rate for each status. Not sure if it's possible to inflict multiple status at once. Multiple hits check accuracy separately. Unknown if one miss will fail to inflict a specific status, as each shot is colored.

Mei Marzipan

• The cutest smol with a machine gun you'd ever see.

Mei is the speediest character in the game, and can even add more speed to her allies. Her damage output is the lowest in the game, but she far makes up for it with her best skills, making her potentially even more effective than straight stronger options. She offers great support, her only real weakness being no access to shaving off more than one armor rank at a time.

Her Link Attack is Cheer, which increases the Link Attack gauges of the other two turret pairs by up to 40%.

Hero Mode: Double action speed, or halved delay with any of her actions. This applies before any other speed boosts, such as from food or skills.

Support Effect: Reduced delay after normal attacks.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	+7

Increases speed, reducing delay of normal attacks by a fixed amount rather than a percentage, so faster children actually benefit more.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Piercing Shot	1	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 1 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Quick Assault	5	40%	15	2	160%	2-hit attack on an enemy with speed increase.	'Speed increase' means reduced delay compared to other actions. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Encourage	5	-	30	-	100%	Speed increase on all allies.	'Speed increase' actually means all allies, including Mei, will receive -7 delay, pulling all allies to the left on the timeline.
Lullaby	5	-	30	-	100%	HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 25% of its max.
Encouraging Shot	7	150%	30	1	160%	Attack an enemy and speed increase on all allies.	'Speed increase' actually means all allies, including Mei, will receive -5 delay, pulling all allies to the left on the timeline.
Multi-Piercing Shot	10	33%	30	3x All	140%	3-hit attack with 1 armor rank decrease on all enemies.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Syphon Beam	7	150%	25	1	160%	Strong attack on an enemy and small HP recovery.	Restores 10% of the Taranis's HP when the attack is complete.
Chit-Chat	7	-	35	-	100%	Link attack gauge fills.	Raises the Link Attack gauge by 30%.

Chick Montblanc

• A mature lady wrapped up in tiny corgi fluff.

Chick is possibly the best character in the game due to her skillset and good stats on top. She controls the battlefield better than anyone else with her many Shock skills, her status rate being able to be boosted by her access to inflicting Bad Luck, which means she can also assist anyone else with status skills. Not only that, her Support Effect and Hero Mode save you a lot of SP. The girl even has Lullaby so you can always stay in tip-top shape. If you want to win, you'll take this puppy.

Her Link Attack is Weak, which has up to a 80% chance to inflict Weakness status.

Hero Mode: All of Chick's SP costs are reduced to 0. Spam those stuns, or get some free healing.

Support Effect: Reduced SP cost for skills.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
-1	-1	-1	-1	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-3

The SP cost reduction stacks with the food effect, allowing for up to -5 total. SP cost for skills can't go under 1.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Lullaby	5	-	30	-	100%	HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 25% of its max.
Stun Grenade	7	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict shock on an enemy.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Risky Grenade	5	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict bad luck on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Vanish	5	80%	35	1	140%	Weak attack that may remove an enemy's buff effects.	Base 70% chance to remove enemy buff. Does not apply to charging a big attack. Unknown if Bad Luck increases success rate.
White Grenade	5	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict weakness on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Electro-Mines	16	160%	35	1x Ground	140%	Strong attack that may inflict shock on all ground enemies.	Base 50% affliction rate.
Risky Zone	10	50%	35	1x All	140%	Weak attack that may inflict bad luck on all enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Stun Zone	17	50%	40	1x All	140%	Weak attack that may inflict shock on all enemies.	Base 50% affliction rate.

Hack Montblanc

• Pranky boi with an appetite for booms.

Hack is the fastest Cannon user by a long shot, and it shows, as he can deal a great amount of damage... but only to one target. His unique skill Burning Trigger has no equal to damage output and it also has low delay, but he is a bit lacking in area coverage compared to the others. He's a one-trick corgi in this respect, but if you need to melt a big target, he's your kid. Hack also has one of the best Support Effects, increasing skill damage by a large amount.

His Link Attack is Pyro, which has up to a 80% chance to inflict Burn status.

Hero Mode: Normal attack delay is reduced to one-third. He can put out a lot of hits in a short time, but remember, this will interrupt Burning Trigger's damage bonus.

Support Effect: Increased skill damage.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
1.1x	1.12x	1.14x	1.16x	1.2x	1.23x	1.26x	1.29x	1.32x	1.35x

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Twin Sparks	7	60%	25	2	120%	2-hit attack that may inflict burns on an enemy.	Base 70% affliction rate. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Hot Blood	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary luck (critical rate) increase.	Increases Luck by 2.5x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Burning Trigger	5	120% 150% 180% 210%	20	1	120%	Attack an enemy and damage increase with consecutive use (max 3 times).	Each consecutive cast of Burning Trigger increases the damage. The damage will cap on the 4th consecutive use, but you can continue to use it and retain its maximum damage. It will track even if Hack is benched, and even across different battles , so long as he doesn't use a different action on his next turn.
Black Shell	7	120%	25	1	120%	Attack that may inflict smoke on an enemy.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Double Strike	6	75%	35	2	120%	2-hit attack on an enemy.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Bravery	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary attack increase.	Increases Attack by 1.4x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Chit-Chat	7	-	35	-	100%	Link attack gauge fills.	Raises the Link Attack gauge by 30%.
Eruption	16	50%	35	3x Ground	110%	3-hit attack on all ground enemies that may inflict burns.	Base 70% affliction rate. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.

Sheena Falafel

• A magical kitten as shy as she is precious.

Sheena is mildly speedy and somewhat lacking in damage output, but her main usefulness is in her supportive skills, which are quite varied. However, once you don't need that support, it may be advisable to switch to someone with a higher damage or support output as a fight evolves. She fulfills her specific niche very well when you need her. Her Support Effect also helps your SP efficiency, and would be worth taking her along for long stretches of combat. Sheena's Hero Mode is up on top among the best in the game. However, her biggest weakness is that she is the only child that doesn't have a multi-target skill of any kind.

Her Link Attack is Spirit, which restores the Taranis's SP by up to 30% of its maximum.

Hero Mode: Act right away after using a skill. That's right, all of her skills have ZERO delay for 5 turns, allowing her to act up to 6 times in a row. Make sure your SP looks good before you send out for the pain train.

Support Effect: Recovers the Taranis's SP on a normal attack.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3

The recovery will only apply once, regardless of the number of hits.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Piercing Shot	1	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 1 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Lullaby	5	-	30	-	100%	HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 25% of its max.
Syphon Beam	7	150%	25	1	160%	Strong attack on an enemy and small HP recovery.	Restores 10% of the Taranis's HP when the attack is complete.
Piercing Shot 2	3	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 2 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Mystic Veil	19	-	35	-	100%	Temporary small HP recovery with each ally's action.	Recovers 10% of the Taranis's maximum HP as a child's turn starts, up to 5 times for a total recovery of 50%.
Ballad	10	-	35	-	100%	Great HP recovery.	Restores the Taranis's HP by 40% of its max.
Arcana Blast	10	150%	30	1	160%	Strong attack on an enemy and 5 armor ranks decrease (low probability).	35% chance to reduce a target's armor by 5. If it fails, armor is unaffected.
Peace Shield	22	-	40	-	100%	Temporarily ignores any damage below 15% of the Taranis' max HP.	If the Taranis has 10000 HP, and you would receive 1500 damage or less, that damage will simply count as a Miss. The check will also apply after the Defend status. Lasts for 5 turns.

Jin Macchiato

• Angry doggo of mechanical knowledge.

Jin is by far the strongest Grenade Launcher user, and has a slew of strong skills to go with it. With his Hero Mode doubling his skill damage, he can get some serious damage output, and even on multiple targets, so long as they're on the ground. You'll want to take him along for clearing out annoying tanks with ease.

His Link Attack is Carbon, which has up to a 80% chance to inflict Smoke status.

Hero Mode: Skills deal double damage. Very strong Hero Mode.

Support Effect: Increases resistance to Fear and Depression.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	60%

Unknown if the chance is additive or multiplicative.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Mine Field	8	120%	35	1x Ground	140%	Attack on all ground enemies.	-
Smoke Grenade	4	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict smoke on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Bravery	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary attack increase.	Increases Attack by 1.4x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Flame Grenade	5	130%	30	1	150%	Attack that may inflict burns on an enemy.	Base 100% affliction rate.
Black Ground	13	160%	35	1x Ground	140%	Strong attack that may inflict smoke on all ground enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Reinforce	15	-	40	-	100%	Damage received by the Taranis slightly decreases until the end of battle.	Duration is incorrect, only lasts 5 turns, but not sure whose. Damage reduction is -10%.
Geo Flare	16	180%	40	1x Ground	140%	Strong attack that may inflict burns on all ground enemies.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Earth Strike	18	80%	40	3x Ground	140%	3-hit attack on all ground enemies.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.

Wappa Charlotte

• She's the leader, as well as a stinker, in more ways than one.

Wappa is a bit on the weaker side for Cannons, but her best asset is her enormously high Luck, and thus critical rate. It's quite easy for her to get a lot of them and even max out the rate, particularly with Luck-boosting food and Socks support. Her kit generally revolves around chancing RNG like so, and building a rapport with her teammates. She's the leader, after all. With most of her skills having multiple hits, she also chances her way towards taking out more evasive types if you need to.

Her Link Attack is Crazy, which has no special effect, but similar to Malt's in that there's only a damage increase. It has up to a 70% chance of dealing up to 150% damage instead.

Hero Mode: Normal attack becomes 2 hits. Nothing special to say about it, but it doesn't really compete with her skills unless you're using a Support Effect to add something to normal attacks.

Support Effect: Increases Link Attack gauge rate.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	+35%

Multiplicative increase from the standard means of normal attack, skill, or receiving damage increasing the gauge. Does not affect Chit-Chat.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Scavenger Hit	5	60%	35	2	120%	2-hit attack on an enemy that increases their item drop rate.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately. Unknown effect on drop rate.
Chit-Chat	7	-	35	-	100%	Link attack gauge fills.	Raises the Link Attack gauge by 30%.
Shell Festival	15	33%	40	4x All	110%	4-hit attack on all enemies.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Bang Bang!	9	60%	35	2	120%	2-hit attack on an enemy and the link attack gauge fills slightly.	Raises the Link Attack gauge by 20%. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Hot Blood	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary luck (critical rate) increase.	Increases Luck by 2.5x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Black Shell	7	120%	25	1	120%	Attack that may inflict smoke on an enemy.	Base 70% affliction rate.
Burning Spirit	8	-	30	-	100%	Temporary luck (critical rate) increase on all allies.	'All allies' means all active gunners. Increases Luck by 2.5x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Fireworks	18	50%	40	1-10% 2-20% 3-25% 4-25% 5-20%	110%	1 to 5-hit attack on all enemies.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately. Number of hits is random, but the number of hits is consistent across multiple targets; if it rolls 4 hits, it will strike all enemies with 4 hits.

Britz Strudel

• He's just a poor boy, he needs no sympathy.

Britz is the strongest Machine Gun user, and with Speed nearly as good as Mei's, his general effectiveness is solid. He has a good skillset to deal with armor as well as dealing Shock as an alternative source to a grenadier. His Support Effect is useful for anyone, given you spend the time to raise his affinity levels. He's a strong kid, and useful in most any situation thanks to his kit.

His Link Attack is Spark, which has up to a 80% chance to inflict Shock status.

Hero Mode: Normal attack becomes 6 hits, essentially being a double attack.

Support Effect: Reduced delay after using skills.

Lv1	Lv2	Lv3	Lv4	Lv5	Lv6	Lv7	Lv8	Lv9	Lv10
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	+7

Increases speed, reducing delay of skills by a fixed amount rather than a percentage, so faster children actually benefit more.

Skill List

Skill	SP Cost	Power	Delay	Hits	Accuracy	Description	Notes
Piercing Shot	1	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 1 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Sharp Arrow	5	150%	25	1	160%	Strong attack that ignores the enemy's armor.	Main option for dealing straight damage.
Blitzspeer	8	200%	25	1	160%	Attack that may inflict shock on an enemy.	Base 70% affliction chance.
Piercing Shot 2	3	33%	25	3	160%	3-hit attack with 2 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Gewitter	15	120%	30	1x Air	150%	Chance to inflict shock on all aerial enemies.	Base 70% affliction chance.
Bravery	3	-	15	-	100%	Temporary attack increase.	Increases Attack by 1.4x for 5 turns taken by the one with the buff.
Dreizack	10	80%	35	3	160%	3-hit attack on an enemy that ignores their armor.	Multiple hits check accuracy separately.
Piercing Shot 3	9	33%	30	3	160%	3-hit attack with 3 armor rank decrease on an enemy.	Armor will be reduced even if all hits miss. Multiple hits check accuracy separately.

Pairing Suggestions

If you want to go hard damage, use Malt, Socks, and Hack as supports. Sheena and Chick as supports help to maintain your SP. These five cover general use that's effective in any situation. The following pairings would be for more interesting and unique setups...

Malt + Kyle

Kyle assures Malt can hit aerial targets, and Malt gives him a Machine Gun's much-needed damage boost, taking advantage of that high speed to really make a difference over time. Plus, they're clearly bros.

Hanna + Sheena

A sisterly pair, these two can ensure you get some good bonus HP or SP when you have free moments to do normal attacks, while also having their great support skills on hand when you need them.

Socks + Wappa

Socks gives Wappa a major Luck boost that would also get multiplied by food or buffs. It's a cinch to max out her critical rate so that she can always do maximum damage.

Sheena + Wappa

Wappa's Bang Bang! raises the Link Attack gauge by a decent amount, and Sheena's Link Attack restores SP. You can get a lot of SP-efficient damage out of cycling through using Bang Bang! and Spirit Burst, on top of Sheena's standard support.

Mei + Britz

Britz is very fast and can lay on normal attacks particularly with Mei's speed boost, and in exchange, Mei can put out a ton of skills, especially Encouraging Shot for more and more speed for everyone. Speedy pair!


Hope the guide was informative. Good luck out there fighting the Berman.

[Scrub Marchioness]

Hey am I crazy, or wasn't there a similar guide for Fuga 2 that you did? I can't seem to find it.

[Magic Al]

No love for Chick pairings makes me sad as she's a fine support choice after Hack for any skill-focused gunner (armor-strippers, Jin, Socks), not just her brother. If you can fulfil Sheena's wish and trigger her skill spam, Chick and her discount has her back.

I try to get Chick's affinities up with Hack (duh), Sheena, Britz, Socks, and Jin (though I do prefer Jin and Hack's pairing to clear the ground via mines).

[Scrub Marchioness]

Seconding the Kyle + Boron combo. Although you can substitute that with Kyle casting Eagle Eye and pairing Boron n' Hack together for stronger Megaton Blasts. Personally once Eagle Eye is unlocked, I stop pairing Kyle with Boron unless I want to churn out as many Overloads as I can without having to cycle Hanna in to cure the big lug.

Just one question: Is Malt + Boron overall better than Hack + Boron since Malt boosts ALL attacks, not just skills? I was under the impression he only boosted normal attacks, making him useless to me since I like to spam skills with Boron.

[rabbit]

Brave Shot on Malt is absolutely godly. It's a fantastic finisher to anything really, even if it's a Hail Mary. I often hold off on healing purely to keep the Taranis' health in a good spot to switch out and Brave Shot. It's mostly anecdotal but I've found it effective in pretty much every fight at any point in the game (I even finished the final boss off with it).

Tbh Malt might not seem very good at first glance but his solid stats, fantastic hero mode, and having the best move in the game IMO make him my #1. Kyle is still Our Guy though, Sharp Arrow comes in clutch and can seal the deal on tough enemies that like to regen armor.

Also Britz needs love from everyone. That poor fucking kid. He needs to smile.

[Serryx Dergus]

Yeah; just ran it against the Chapter 7 Boss again on NG+ and the boss was too busy getting stunlocked and nuked by the Hack+Malt, Jin+Chick, and Britz+Mei combo that the boss was at half health before entering assault mode and died before even beginning to charge his ultimate attack. Chick and Britz being out would almost always ensure a stun and Mei and Jin being out will maximize damage output. Just have malt back Hack up.

[Serryx Dergus]

I have always loved the idea behind Malt and Hack/Malt and Boron Combos just to crank out damage, Britz and Jin interestingly enough also make a good duo in that sense when it comes to having Jin act more often during his hero mode with high skill damage, but Britz and Chick also make a super strong duo for throwing enemies into ailment jail.

Though both of the Britz combos could just be swapped for running Britz and Mei as a duo with Chick and Jin as a duo to get both ailment hell, speed boosts, and massive skill damage with Malt/Hack or Malt/Boron Nuking targets. But I do also want to figure out how strong Brave Shot can be due to how swapping to Malt; using Top Dog, and ending with a Brave Shot Nuke may end up making it the strongest attack in the game for players alright with risk.

[David The Gnome]

You've put a lot of effort into this guide! Very nice.

[Punchy]

just wanted to say thanks for working and writing out the exact values where possible on support abilities and accuracy buffs for moves and stuff, it's been helpful

[Minneyar]

Good guide. I'd also add Kyle + Boron as a pair suggestion; Kyle's improved accuracy as a support makes it easier for Boron to hit flying enemies, and there are a lot of encounters he can end in one round with Shell Festival (if he can hit everything). Kyle can be paired with other Shell Festival users, of course, but Boron gets it earlier than anybody else.

[fallenangelaire]

Very useful guide, thanks!