#anti bind

The Hand Arisa Held

Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Anti-Stun [100%]

TLDR: "The Hand Arisa Held” is extremely good at negating Stun and Bind when they are both to be expected from an enemy battle, and bad at anything else. This memoria is exclusive to the Cross Connection event. 

Review: "The Hand Arisa Held” combines two Negate effects for some obnoxious Status Ailments: Stun and Bind. Both of these are actually part of the same class of Status Ailment, where said Ailment will prevent your character from taking a turn (as opposed to the potential for missing or the potential for damage).

Bind is a Status Ailment that will cause the affected unit to be unable to take any actions (attack or use active skills) for the number of turns shown, make said target take 80% increased damage from its weak element, and also be unable to heal. You really don’t want this Status Ailment on your characters, so it’s important to prevent it when needed. Stun is a Status Ailment that will cause the affected unit to be unable to take any actions (attack or use active skills) for the number of turns shown, and it will also take 80% more damage from its weak element. It is a weaker version of Bind.

When facing an enemy that has the potential for Stun or Bind, then "The Hand Arisa Held” is extremely good. However... when facing an Enemy with only Stun or Bind, then you’ll be better off equipping something else that only has one of the effects. This is because "The Hand Arisa Held” doesn’t offer any damage benefits besides its passive ATK stats, and even those are low.

So, overall, this memoria is extremely niche in what it can do. But, when you come across a battle with Stun and Bind, then it excels.

Everlasting Light

Single Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Regenerate HP [3%]

MLB Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Regenerate HP [4%]

TLDR: Anti-Bind makes “Everlasting Light” important to keep, though you won’t be using it much outside of that. There are few sources of Anti-Bind in the game, and this one is the only one that is an unlimited four-star. Even Whales (who have been unlucky or just not playing during the right times) might need to keep this one around.

Review: “Everlasting Light” is pretty terrible, but it’s Anti-Bind is what saves it. Anti-Bind will prevent the equipped character from being hit by Bind. Bind is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to take any actions (attacks or skills) for the number of turns shown, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP.

The Regenerate HP in this case is sort of just a bonus to go along with the Anti-Bind. Regenerate HP will cause the equipped character to regenerate a percentage of of their HP for the number of listed turns. The regen will occur at the end of the turn (note: the end of the enemy’s turn). Regenerate HP can stack.

So why is the Anti-Bind what is important here? Well, there are only two unlimited ways to get it from a memoria: “Everlasting Light” itself and “This Is the Fragrance of Love,” a two-star memoria.

(2*) “This Is the Fragrance of Love” Anti-Bind [100%] & Defense Up [15%]

(Limited 4*) “Food Stall Paradise” Anti-Bind [100%] & Accele MP Gain Up [15%] & Blast Damage Up [30%]

(Limited 4*) “The Hand Arisa Held” Anti-Bind [100%] & Anti-Stun [100%]

(Limited 3*) “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [15%]

You’ll see here that most sources of Anti-Bind come from limited events, two of them being either event rewards or from the event shop, and one of them being something you can actually roll for. Without them, “Everlasting Light” is going to be your best bet at a four-star memoria for Anti-Bind.

So, outside of the need for negating a Bind, “Everlasting Light” isn’t going to be helpful. Its’ Regenerate HP is low and there are other sources in the game where you can have a higher passive than that. Its passive ATK stats are fairly low as well-- if you’re completely new to the game then any passive memoria with its passive ATK stats will make do, but hopefully you’ll find a way to replace this one soon.

Because the Anti-Bind is 100% regardless of whether or not it is max awakened, you shouldn’t feel the need to max awaken this one if you’d rather have two sources of Anti-Bind instead.

Food Stall Paradise

Single Effect: Accele MP Gain Up [12.5%] & Anti-Bind [100%] & Blast Damage Up [20%]

MLB Effect: Accele MP Gain Up [15%] & Anti-Bind [100%] & Blast Damage Up [30%]

TLDR: "Food Stall Paradise” is one of the better Anti-Bind memoria in the game, although that isn’t saying very much. Its other two effects don’t synergize well, but they can be useful for using on your Supports as this means Followers can use your units for Blast or Magia strats. This memoria is exclusive to the Mitama and the Delicious New Year’s Party gacha. This can potentially be used as event memoria and should be saved in the case of a rerun.

Review:  "Food Stall Paradise” is very similar to “Once Again, Taking Your Hand.” Both offer 15% Accele MP Gain Up and 25% Blast Damage Up. The big difference between the two is that “Once Again, Taking Your Hand” comes fully awakened and “Food Stall Paradise” is a limited memoria that does not; and that “Food Stall Paradise” gives Anti-Bind.

Now, the last part is key. Bind is a Status Ailment that will stun the target, make said target take 80% increased damage from its weak element, and also be unable to heal. You really don’t want this Status Ailment on your characters, so it’s important to prevent it when needed. Many of the Anti-Bind memoria in the game aren’t that great. You have a few unlimited options, such as the two-star memoria “This Is the Fragrance of Love” or the four-star memoria “Everlasting Light,” but these two memoria have quite a few flaws. Everlasting Light in particular gives a pitiful amount of Regenerate HP along with bad passive ATK stats, and “This Is the Fragrance of Love” is bad by the virtue of its two-star status.

Of the memoria in the game currently, the best Anti-Bind is a limited three-star "The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties,” which was event shop memoria and may not get a rerun. And even if it’s comparatively better, “Food Stall Paradise” still wins out here by its four-star status and in the potential usefulness of its two effects, even if those two effects are somewhat opposed.

Accele MP Up will increase the amount of MP gained by using Accele disks through the given percentage. It does not increase the damage done by them. You can contrast this effect with MP Gain Up, which will increase the MP from all sources, including charge disks, damage taken, accele, ect. For this reason, MP Gain Up is usually superior to Accele MP Up. Blast Damage Up is a straightforward buff that means blast disks will deal more damage. Blast Damage Up has a percentage ceiling at 100% that is surprisingly easy to hit.

One issue you might see with these two effects is that they don’t coordinate well together. If you want more MP from accele disks, you’re probably trying to use magia– which means you’re likely not using Blast disks. If you want your blast disks to do more damage, you’re probably not building MP– which means that the accele mp bonus doesn’t do anything for you. The amount of Accele MP Up offered here is somewhat low, as is the Blast Damage Up. So not only do the effects not mesh well, but there isn’t much offered of them either. 

However, one benefit of this memoria is that it can be useful on characters where/when you’re unsure of what will actually occur in the fight, or if you’ll need to do a little bit of everything. This can be useful on units who get MP from using blasts, such as Little Kyubey or Final Tart.

Finally, this memoria can be useful on Supports– while it’s not great, it means that the support will be able to either do a magia strategy and build MP, or a blast strategy and use disks. In this way, the memoria is versatile. Additionally, “Food Stall Paradise” will be extremely useful for any sort of fights where Anti-Bind is an issue, for example in regular Challenges or EX-Challenges.

The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties

Single Effect: Anti-Bind [50%] & Attack Up [10%]

MLB Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [15%]

TLDR: This is honestly (probably) the best Anti-Bind memoria in the game, which is kind of hilarious given that it is an event shop memoria. It’s absolutely worth keeping, even for whales due to the fact that it’s secondary buff is more straightforwardly useful. This memoria is exclusive to the Rondo of Oblivion Sleeps for Eternity event shop. This is event memoria and it should be kept in the case of a rerun.

Review: Bind is a Status Ailment that will stun the target, make said target take 80% increased damage from its weak element, and also be unable to heal. You really don’t want this Status Ailment on your characters, so it’s important to prevent it when needed. Attack Up will increase the unit’s base attack stats, making it superior to the effects Damage Up / Increase Damage, as those two effects will effect the actual damage output.

This event shop memoria is actually probably the best Anti-Bind memoria in the game? The only other contendant would be “Food Stall Paradise,” a limited four-star that will give Accele MP Gain Up and Blast Damage Up-- while “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” gives a much more straightforward Attack Up buff instead. And the Attack Up here is actually pretty fair for a three star at 15%.

So with that in mind... “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” is one of the few event shop memoria that is extremely useful for both Free-to-Play players and for Whales. You’ll definitely want to keep it if you got it, and you’ll see use for it outside of its event.

For Free-to-Play players who don’t have a lot of access to passive Attack Up memoria, “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” is a decent choice to pick.

While four-star memoria are always more preferable, you could equip this on Supports if there is an event where the best battle to farm involves enemy binds.

Gomakashi - Utsuroi

MLB Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Anti-Stun [100%] & Attack Up [5%]

Effect Definitions:

Anti-Bind prevents the equipped unit from being afflicted with Bind. Bind is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to take any actions (attacks or skills) for the number of turns shown, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP.

Anti-Stun prevents the equipped unit from being afflicted with Stun. Stun is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to take any actions (attacks or skills) for the number of turns shown, and it will also make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element.

Attack Up increases the equipped character’s base stats, meaning that its effects are calculated before buffs/debuffs are considered. The effect caps at 100%.

TLDR: This memoria belongs in the Memoria Vault Jail due to its rarity and cost. This memoria is exclusive to redeeming the code inside the Limited Edition music collection Trysail: Gomakashi / Utsuroi.

Review: “Gomakashi - Utsuroi” you probably can’t get this memoria if you haven’t already gotten it yet, because the codes attached to promotional material for this game don’t last forever. But that’s okay, because this memoria is lackluster almost to the point of being completely useless.

The 5% Attack Up is truly atrocious, but it’s not just bad because of its low percentage-- the pitiful 1000 ATK stats this passive memoria offers is completely pathetic. To put in perspective, “Gomakashi - Utsuroi” is just barely better than the two-star memoria “How Will Our Luck Be This Year” which has 957 ATK stats. The three-star memoria “A Rough Welcome in the Sewers” would completely outperform “Gomakashi - Utsuroi” with its lowly three-star ATK stats.

In essence, no one is equipping this memoria to do more damage. It’s only useful in situations against Bind or Stun-- preferably if you’re facing both of them at once. This is because there are plenty of better memoria in the game that can negate Stun or Bind. These better replacements range from limiteds to unlimiteds-- for Stun you can consider:

(Limited 4*) “Like This, For Now” Anti-Stun [100%] & Damage Increase [20%] & Regenerate HP [4%]

(4*) “Feigning Innocence School Time” Anti-Stun [100%] & Attack Up [25%]

(Limited 3*) “From the Fictitious Snow Fields” Anti-Stun [100%] & Attack Up [15%]

(3*) “A Rough Welcome in the Sewers” Anti-Stun [100%] & Defense Up [30%]

For Bind, you can consider:

(Limited 4*) “Food Stall Paradise” Anti-Bind [100%] & Accele MP Gain Up [15%] & Blast Damage Up [30%]

(4*) “Flickering Aspiration” Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [25%]

(4*) “Everlasting Light” Anti-Bind [100%] & Regenerate HP [4%]

(Limited 3*) “Be My Servant” Anti-Bind [100%] & Accele MP Gain Up [17.5%]

(2*) “This Is the Fragrance of Love” Anti-Bind [100%] & Defense Up [15%]

If you are lucky enough to have a max-awakened “Flickering Aspiration” and “Feigning Innocence School Time,” you can completely forgo “Gomakashi - Utsuroi,” as those two memoria completely outclass it.

Sadly, there aren’t any memoria in the game that can replicate what “Gomakashi - Utsuroi” does that are also available to NA Refugees. “The Hand Arisa Held” has 100% Anti-Bind and 100% Anti-Stun, but players won’t have that memoria unless they played during its subsequent event, which premiered too early for NA Refugees.

So, if you are one of the rare players who have this memoria, should you toss it?

Eh... No.

Don’t get me wrong-- it’s a terrible memoria that will rot in the Memoria Vault Jail. However, there are a few minor scenarios were it can be useful.

For one, you might want to keep it in case you encounter a situation where you need to keep a second passive slot free for something like MP Gain Up. In essance, you’d be sacrificing potential damage for a faster chance at Magia/Doppel on that specific character. Losing out on damage isn’t always a bad thing, especially if it’s on a character whose damage isn’t something you’re worried about anyhow, such as a supportive Mikage or a MP Regen Mayu.

The second reason ties into the above-- you might have multiple characters on the battlefield and not enough Anti-Bind/Anti-Stun to go around. In this scenerio, you save your more powerful Anti-Bind/Anti-Stun memoria for your more offensive characters and leave “Gomakashi - Utsuroi” for a character whose discs you need but damage you don’t.

So overall... It’s not a great memoria and it’s easily outclassed by others in the game. But its rarity and slight possible usefulness edge this one over into keeping it instead of using it as Enhancement Fodder.

Flickering Aspiration

Single Effect: Anti-Bind [70%] & Attack Up [20%] MLB Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [25%]

Effect Definitions:

Anti-Bind prevents the equipped unit from being afflicted with Bind. Bind is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to take any actions (attacks or skills) for the number of turns shown, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP.

Attack Up increases the equipped character’s base stats, meaning that its effected is calculated before buffs/debuffs are considered. The effect caps at 100%.

TLDR: “Flickering Aspiration” is a good offensive memoria with nice stats and the new standard of 25% Attack Up. Its Anti-Bind is mostly a bonus, and isn’t reliable unless you can Max Awaken the memoria. If you’re looking for Anti-Bind, you’re better off using “Everlasting Light” or “This Is the Fragrance of Love” because they give 100% regardless of how Awakened they are.

Review: These days, 25% Attack Up is becoming the new normal. It used to be that 20% was the standard, found on memoria such as “I Made Friends!” and “Iroha of the Midsummer Beach,” with memoria like “Dive into Summer (Tsukuyo/Tsukasa)” being the rare exception-- so notable in fact, that it didn’t have a secondary effect because the 25% Attack Up was just that good. But those days have past.

“Flickering Aspiration” continues the new trend of having 25% Attack Up alongside some good ATK stats (this is only notable if you manage to Max Awaken the memoria of course). Its secondary effect doesn’t impact a character’s offensive potential in any way, and honestly feels more like a bonus than a must-have.

Anti-Bind can be found on several different memoria in the game, including Limiteds and Unlimiteds:

(Limited 4*) “Food Stall Paradise” Anti-Bind [100%] & Accele MP Gain Up [15%] & Blast Damage Up [30%]

(Limited 4*) “The Hand Arisa Held” Anti-Bind [100%] & Anti-Stun [100%]

(4*) “Flickering Aspiration” Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [25%]

(4*) “Everlasting Light” Anti-Bind [100%] & Regenerate HP [4%]

(Limited 3*) “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [15%]

(2*) “This Is the Fragrance of Love” Anti-Bind [100%] & Defense Up [15%]

What is most notable about “Flickering Aspiration” is that this is the first really offensive memoria to offer Anti-Bind. Previously, the event shop memoria “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” was your best offensive bet, but “Flickering Aspiration” blows it out of the water with its four-star ATK stat status and superior effect percentages-- not to mention, NA Refugees wouldn’t have had access to it.

The tradeoff for “Flickering Aspiration,” however, is that it needs to be Max Awakened in order for that Anti-Bind percentage to be a safe 100%. A 70% isn’t the worst thing you could equip when it’s a single copy, but Bind is an annoying Status Ailment you won’t want to be bothered by. Not only can it increase the amount of damage you take and interrupt your healing, but it can cause you to lose entire turns depending on how many characters get bound, and this can lead to cascading losses. It’s good to nip it in the bud with a 100% Anti-Bind certainty. 

For Free-to-Play players (and honestly, anyone who isn’t the kind of Whale who spends hundreds and hundreds of dollars to Max Awaken a memoria ASAP), there are luckily better options to use. “Everlasting Light” might be a garbage memoria most of the time, but it’s nice to have when Bind is a problem. Even more importantly, that Bind is a 100% regardless of if it’s Max Awakened or not, so you can hold onto multiples of these just in case. If you’re unlucky enough to not have gotten it yet, “This Is the Fragrance of Love” is a two-star unlimited memoria that also offers 100% Anti-Bind regardless of how Awakened it is.

So unless you’re very lucky, most players will still use other memoria instead of the expensive-to-Max-Awaken “Flickering Aspiration.” But truthfully, this doesn’t hurt the usefulness of “Flickering Aspiration” all that much. Sure there are better offensive memoria to be found in the game, but 25% Attack Up is 25% Attack Up. Even if you only have a single copy, it still gives 20% Attack Up which is the same as a Max Awakened “I Made Friends!” or a Max Awakened “A Longing for the Beyond.”

You can compare “Flickering Aspiration” to similar 25% Attack Up memoria such as:

(Limited 4*) “Great Success in the Longed for Land” Attack Up [25%] & Bind on Attack [20%] (1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “The Young and Pretty Queen” Attack Up [25%] & Poison on Attack [25%] (3 Turns)

(Limited 4*) “Still Far From a Starry Night...” Attack Up [25%] & Accele MP Gain Up [15%]

(Limited 4*) “Miracle Heroines” Attack Up [25%] & Magia Damage Up [12.5%]

(Limited 4*) “A Fake Smile Reflected in the Mirror” Attack Up [25%] & Evade [25%]

(Limited 4*) “Dive into Summer (Tsukuyo/Tsukasa)” Attack Up [25%]

(Limited 4*) “Kyubey Knight Breaking Through” Attack Up [25%] & Charged Attack Damage Up [15%]

(4*) “To Grace with Aster” Attack Up [25%] & Charged Attack Damage Up [15%]

(4*) “Everyday Overflowing with Pride” Attack Up [25%] & Defense Up [37.5%]

(4*) “Kind-Hearted Revolutionary” Attack Up [25%] & Anti-Provoke [65%]

(4*) “Feigning Innocence School Time” Attack Up [25%] & Anti-Stun [100%]

Having high Attack Up is good, but keep in mind that it has a hard 100% cap. Be careful you don’t go over it when considering the other memoria you use alongside possible Connects, Magia, Doppels, Spirit Enhancement, and even Formation bonuses. If you’re unsure, a good general rule of thumb is combining a passive Attack Up memoria alongside a passive Damage Increase/Damage Up one (that is if you want your unit to be extremely offensive-- you may want to use a second passive slot for something else however).

This Is the Fragrance of Love

Obtainability: Unlimited Single Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Defense Up [7.5%] MLB Effect: Anti-Bind [100%] & Defense Up [15%]

Anti-Bind will prevent the equipped character from being afflicted with Bind. Bind is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to take any actions (attacks or skills) for the number of turns shown, make the target take 80% more damage from its weak element, and prevent the target from recovering HP.

Defense Up increases the target’s base defense stats.

“This is the Fragrance of Love” is useful due to its Anti-Bind. There are a few memoria that can negate Bind, and only two of those few that are unlimited-- this memoria, and the following Four-Star memoria: 

(4*) “Everlasting Light” Anti-Bind [100%] & Regenerate HP [4%]

There do exist a few limited Anti-Bind memoria, including:

(Limited 4*) “Food Stall Paradise” Anti-Bind [100%] & Accele MP Gain Up [15%] & Blast Damage Up [30%]

(Limited 4*) “The Hand Arisa Held” Anti-Bind [100%] & Anti-Stun [100%]

(Limited 3*) “The End Roll Is Full of Difficulties” Anti-Bind [100%] & Attack Up [15%]

This makes "This is the Fragrance of Love” important to keep, at least until you have a few copies of Anti-Bind from different memoria, unlimited or not. While there are Spirit Enhancement Passives that can prevent Bind, there are no current connects or magia in the game that can Negate it (at least, as of writing this), so it’s up to you and your memoria to prevent it.

The Defense Up here is really just a small bonus; if you need Defense Up specifically and not Anti-Bind, then there are other, better, unlimited memoria out there that can fill those needs without relying on this one.

As the Anti-Bind is 100% regardless of awakening, you won’t need to max awaken this memoria for it to be useful. It might be better to have two or three single copies just in case.