Competences are OFF's equivalent to special attacks, spells, etc. that are typically found in other RPGs. They vary significantly in terms of power and effects, depending on the particular character and situation. The Competences of most main characters and Guardians each tend to revolve around a theme or motif.
Competence Points & Effects[]
In battle, the Competences of The Batter and Add-Ons is shown with the abbreviation CP, which stands for Competence Points, along with a numerical value. Said value displays how much CP each party member can use at that time, for varying attacks and status effects. Should CP run out, and there are no items to restore it, one has to resort to attacking normally.
On the right of the image, The Batter and Alpha's Competence Points (CP), CP value, and refill gauge are shown just before attacking.
A gauge below each member's CP value is the battle meter, which begins filling the moment the Attack option is selected at the start of battle, prevents any further attacks until fully restored. When another member is selecting their own move within their own menu, the refill for all others is paused. The speed at which this meter refills depends on one's agility in-game.
Most Competences used have a status effect or two tied to them, which can affect The Batter, Add-Ons, and vice versa. Below is a list of the status effects that one can encounter in-game.
- Blinded: Target's accuracy is reduced
- Furious: Target attacks at random, ignoring command inputs
- Madness: Target attacks itself and other party members
- Muted: Target is unable to use CP
- Palsied: Target is unable to attack and battle meter refill is paused
- Poisoned: Target takes repeated amounts of 50 damage each until death, even outside of battle
- Asleep: Target attacks much more sporadically, leaving itself open to further damage
- Hasty: Target's battle meter fills quicker
Unless otherwise specified, most times the status effects will clear up on their own. Other non-status effects include lowering or restoring CP, buffing or de-buffing stats, and attacking multiple targets at once. All the information about enemies competences listed bellow was substracted from the 3.0 version of the game via RPG Maker 2003. The words and phrases that appears in the Effect cells are visual effects of the competence, and now states if the competence deals damage or not.
Enemy Competences[]
|
Competence |
Effect |
CP Cost | Target | Base Effect/
Damage |
Accuracy | Elements | Stat Influence |
Users | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATK | ESP | Variance | ||||||||
|
??? (Help 1) |
H E L P Boosts ESP stat |
0 | All Allies | 1 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Critic-burnt |
??? (Help 2) |
H E L P Boosts DFS stat |
0 | All Allies | 1 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 | Critic-burnt |
??? (Help 3) |
H E L P Boosts AGL stat |
0 | All Allies | 1 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 | Critic-burnt |
|
笑 |
Spawns “笑” |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dedan |
|
ah, ah! |
Spawns “ah, ah!” |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Fat Spectre |
|
Alto |
Deals Damage Inflicts Mute |
5 | Single Enemy | 60 | 100% | None | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Japhet (Valérie), Japhet |
|
Alto Clef |
Restores CP |
0 | Single Ally | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Ipsilon |
|
Aneurysm Rupture |
Deals Damage |
25% | Single Enemy | 950 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Aspirating Suzerain |
Heals Removes Poisoned |
5 | Single Ally | 90 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Crown of the Dead, Pastel-burnt |
Attack |
Deals Damage |
- | Single Enemy | ??? | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | Crown of the Dead, Pastel-burnt |
|
Atypical Sclerosis |
Deals Damage Drops AGL stat Inflicts Blind |
8 | Single Enemy | 80 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Ball Gun |
zap! Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 300 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Ballman |
|
Ball Ray |
bang! Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 200 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Ballman |
|
Blind Mask |
Boosts ATK stat |
10 | All Allies | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Dummie |
|
Castling King |
No dessert for you. Deals Damage Inflicts Furious |
5 | Single Enemy | 150 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
|
Castling Queen |
He loves you not. Deals Damage Inflicts Poisoned |
6 | Single Enemy | 150 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
|
Chronic Migraine |
Inflicts Blinded |
5 | Single Enemy | 0 | 60% | Smoke | 0 | 2 | 1 |
ah, ah!, Magnolia |
|
Domestic Socket (Classical Taking) |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 30 | 100% | None | 0 | 10 | 4 |
Arpagon, Fat Spectre, January |
|
Climax |
Deals Damage |
5 | All Enemies | 80 | 100% | Metal, Smoke, Plastic, Meat | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Enoch |
|
Conniving Aneurysm |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 70 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Critical Aneurysm |
Deals Damage |
26 | Single Enemy | 400 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Dame Blanche (White Lady Sundae) |
Deals Damage Inflicts Madness |
5 | Single Enemy | 90 | 90% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sugar |
|
Dance of the Nails |
Deals Damage Inflicts Asleep |
5 | Single Enemy | 140 | 100% | Smoke, Meat | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Obese Spectre |
Defend |
Reduces Damage |
- | Self | ??? | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | Secretary (Zone 2) |
|
Derivation |
Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 200 | 100% | None | 0 | 5 | 4 |
Secretary (Zone 2) |
|
Division by zero |
Deals Damage Inflicts Poisoned Inflicts Asleep |
0 | Single Enemy | 100 | 100% | None | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Secretary (Zone 3) |
|
Double Attack |
Deals Damage Hits Twice |
- | Any Enemy | ??? | N/A | N/A | - | - | - |
Enoch |
|
Dramatic Crescendo |
Lowers CP |
5 | Single Enemy | 15 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Enoch |
|
Dramatic Irony |
Deals Damage Inflicts Furious |
5 | Single Enemy | 130 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Enoch |
|
Empathetic Mask |
Boosts AGL stat |
10 | All Allies | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Dummie |
|
Fool’s Mate |
You’ve been wrong since the beginning. Absorbs CP |
5 | All Enemies | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 4 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
|
Forejudgment (Hasty Judgement) |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 95 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Blind Spectre |
|
Furious Homerun |
None |
7 | Single Enemy | 70 | 80% | Bat*, Special* | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Bad Batter |
|
Hard Caramel |
Deals Damage Inflicts Palsied |
5 | Single Enemy | 250 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sugar |
|
Head-Voice |
Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 180 | 100% | None | 4 | 9 | 7 |
Japhet |
|
Heavy Silence |
Deals Damage Multiple impact Inflicts Mute |
5 | Single Enemy | 50 | 100% | None | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Massu, Mute Spectre, Upside-down Spectre |
|
Hour Hand |
Inflicts Asleep |
5 | Single Enemy | 0 | 75% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Dedan |
|
Immediate Forfeiture |
Deals Damage Inflicts Madness |
5 | Single Enemy | 120 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Abstract Spectre |
|
Immediate Sclerosis (Staggering Sclerosis) |
Deals Damage Lowers CP Inflicts Palsied |
8 | Single Enemy | 80 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Immortal Anderssen |
You don’t even know his first name. Deals Damage Multiple impact |
5 | All Enemies | 120 | 100% | None | 0 | 4 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
|
Inhuman Decadence |
Deals Damage Inflicts Furious Inflicts Poisoned |
5 | Single Enemy | 40 | 100% | Meat | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Calvary-burnt, Pastel-burnt |
|
Law of Causation (Law of Causality) |
Deals Damage Inflicts Poisoned |
5 | Single Enemy | 80 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Enoch |
|
Logical Value |
Deals Damage Inflicts Furious Inflicts Muted Inflicts Poisoned |
0 | Single Enemy | 20 | 50% | None | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Secretary (Zone 1) |
|
Long Silence |
Deals Damage Multiple impact |
5 | All Enemies | 50 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Delta |
|
Loose Mask |
boosts ESP stat |
10 | All Allies | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Dummie |
|
Love Game |
Deals Damage Inflicts Furious |
0 | Single Enemy | 130 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Infernal Spectre |
|
Magical Amnesia |
Deals Damage Inflicts Blind |
5 | Single Enemy | 65 | 70% | None | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Bear |
|
Magic Homerun |
Deals Damage |
30 | Single Enemy | 400 | 80% | Bat*, Special* | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Bad Batter |
|
Major Chord |
Boosts ATK stat |
5 | Single Ally | 5 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sigma |
|
Malicious Aneurysm (Malignant Aneurysm) |
Deals Damage |
13 | Single Enemy | 160 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Mille-Feuilles (Napoleon Cake) |
Drops ATK stat Inflicts Furious |
5 | Single Enemy | 12 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sugar |
|
Minor Chord |
Boosts DFS stat |
5 | Single Ally | 5 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sigma |
|
Minute Hand |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 85 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Dedan |
|
Mirror Play |
There is nothing but the void after me. Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 230 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
|
Murmur of the Flies |
Deals Damage Inflicts Muted |
5 | Single Enemy | 80 | 100% | Smoke, Meat | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Valzong-burnt, Whale |
|
Natural Logarithm |
Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 95 | 100% | Metal, Smoke, Plastic, Meat | 5 | 5 | 8 |
Secretary (Zone 1) |
No Action |
Depletes gauge/ Wastes turn |
- | Self | None | - | - | - | - | - | |
|
Oblique Asymptote |
Absorbs HP Inflicts Poisoned |
0 | Single Enemy | 60 | 100% | None | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Secretary (Zone 2) |
|
Paradise Smile (Heaven's Smile) |
Drops DFS stat |
5 | Single Enemy | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Troquantary |
|
Parfait au Chocolat (Chocolate Sundae) |
Deals Damage Multiple impact |
5 | All Enemies | 100 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sugar |
|
Purulent Sclerosis |
Deals Damage Inflicts Poisoned |
8 | Single Enemies | 80 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Quatre Quarts (Pound Cake) |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 400 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Sugar |
|
Run with Courage |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 40 | 100% | Metal, Bat*, Special* | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Bad Batter |
|
Run with Dementia |
Deals Damage |
10 | Single Enemy | 90 | 100% | Smoke, Bat*, Special* | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Bad Batter |
|
Run with Grace |
Deals Damage |
7 | Single Enemy | 60 | 100% | Plastic, Bat*, Special* | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Bad Batter |
|
Scholar’s Mate |
I am gravely disappointed. Deals Damage Inflicts Asleep |
5 | Single Enemy | 150 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
|
Se défend (Defends himself) (Defend) |
Reduces Damage |
- | Self | ??? | N/A | - | - | - | - |
Hugo |
Self-Destruct |
Deals Damage User dies at use |
- | All Enemies | ??? | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | Junior Spectre |
Short Silence |
Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 200 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 | Delta |
|
Sick Mask |
Boosts DFS stat |
10 | All Allies | 10 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Dummie |
|
Soprano |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 100 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Japhet |
|
Special Homerun |
Deals Damage |
15 | Single Enemy | 160 | 80% | Bat*, Special* | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Bad Batter |
|
Square Game (Partie Quarrée) |
Lowers CP |
5 | Single Enemy | 10 | 100% | None | 3 | 7 | 4 |
Tiburce |
|
Swan Dive |
Deals Damage Inflicts Palsied |
5 | Single Enemy | 100 | 100% | Metal, Plastic | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Von Gacy |
|
Sweep Hand |
Furious |
5 | Single Enemy | 70 | 75% | None | 0 | 7 | 4 |
Dedan |
|
Swing |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 40 | 100% | None | 0 | 10 | 4 |
Arpagon, Burnt, One-eyed Spectre |
|
Tenor |
Deals Damage Inflicts Poisoned |
10 | Single Enemy | 100 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Japhet |
|
Treble Clef |
Heals |
20 | Single Ally | 100 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Ipsilon |
|
Trigger Element (Inciting Incident) |
Deals Damage |
5 | Single Enemy | 200 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Enoch |
|
Unknown Sclerosis |
Deals Damage Drops DFS stat Inflicts Muted |
8 | Single Enemy | 80 | 100% | Special | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Judge (Pablo) |
|
Vertical Limit |
Deals Damage |
0 | Single Enemy | 350 | 100% | None | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Secretary (Zone 3) |
|
White Fianchetto |
Have you filled your life with beauty? Deals Damage Inflicts Blind |
7 | Single Enemy | 150 | 100% | None | 0 | 3 | 4 |
The Queen (Vader Eloha) |
Trivia[]
- Several Competence names are different in the OFF English 3.0 translation. It's unclear as to whether or not these are placeholder names, or if there were translation errors in past versions:
- "Forejudgment" is called "Hasty Judgment"
- "Law of Causation" is called "Law of Causality"
- "Paradise Smile" is called "Heaven's Smile"
- "Square Game" remains untranslated, and is called "Partie Quarrée"
- It's not entirely certain as to whether "Classical Taking" is actually called "Classical Talking" or not. Furthermore, it seems that this competence has been replaced by Domestic Socket (as of version 3.0).