#damage up

Little Summer Vacation

Obtainability: Limited for the “Rainbow Colored Summer” event. This is an event reward memoria.

MLB Effect: Blast Damage Up [35%] & Damage Up [15%] (Self / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Blast Damage Up is a straightforward buff that means Blast Discs will deal more damage. Blast Damage Up has a capped percentage at 100%.

Damage Up will increase the damage done by the equipped character’s attacks and its effect takes place after the buffs and debuffs are calculated. Damage Increase and Damage Up are essentially the same effect, however Damage Up has a 100% cap while Damage Increase doesn’t. Both collectively cap at 300%.

TLDR: “Little Summer Vacation” is a decent freebie event reward memoria. It’s useful for Blast damage teams and the fact that the damage is spread out across Damage Up and Blast Damage Up means it’ll be harder to cap on both, which is very helpful considering how easy it is to cap on those two effects. There are much better memoria to use in the game, but still-- this one comes max awakened.

Whales and long-term players who have amassed a large wealth of memoria will find this one to become Enhancement Fodder.

Review: “Little Summer Vacation” is a decent event reward memoria. It’s nothing too amazing, but it’s not Enhancement Fodder either. The Blast Damage Up is slightly on the low side, but this is made up for by the Damage Up effect (which is also slightly low). Altogether the two effects will make for about 50% Damage Up on an attack that uses Blasts, which is pretty good all things considered.

Let’s take a look at other Blast Damage Up active memoria in the game for comparison’s sake:

(4*) “Unwavering Belief” Blast Damage Up [60%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Christmas Night Magic” Blast Damage Up [50%] (Self / 1 Turn) & Status Ailment Resistance Down [15%] (All / 1 Turn)

(3*) “Begin a Hunt” Blast Damage Up [50%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Consult the Closet” Blast Damage Up [45%] (Self / 1 Turn) & Defense Down [45%] (All / 1 Turn)

(Limited 3*) “Twin Shadows Sneaking Up” Blast Damage Up [45%] & Anti-Evade [100%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Fuuuusion” Blast Damage Up [40%] & Accele MP Gain Up [22.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Latent Strength of the Tokime” Blast Damage Up [40%] & Accele MP Gain Up [22.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Behind the Scene Performance” Blast Damage Up [40%] & Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 turn)

(Limited 3*) “Dive into Summer (Alina/Mifuyu)” Blast Damage Up [40%] & Critical Hit [30%] (Self / 1 turn)

(2*) “I'll Never Regret It” Blast Damage Up [40%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Little Summer Vacation” Blast Damage Up [35%] & Damage Up [15%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Greetings from the Tokime Clan” Blast Damage Up [35%] & Attack Up [40%] (Self / 1 Turn)

You might be able to notice that “Little Summer Vacation” is the free version of the unlimited four-star memoria “Behind the Scene Performance,” which gives 40% Blast Damage Up and 20% Damage Increase when max awaked. Strictly speaking, “Behind the Scene Performance” is better to use when it’s Max Awakened because of its better percentages, stats, and cooldown. But what if you only have one copy of “Behind the Scene Performance?” Funny enough, a single copy of “Behind the Scene Performance” and the already max-awakened “Little Summer Vacation” give the same percentages for Blast Damage Up (35%) and Damage Up (15%).

That means a single copy of “Behind the Scene Performance” is the same as “Little Summer Vacation;” however there are still small differences that might lead you to choose one over the other. “Little Summer Vacation” will have better passive DEF stats as it’s fully awakened, while “Behind the Scene Performance” still manages to have a better cooldown as a single copy (7 turns versus 8 turns). So which one you use depends on your needs-- do you want more protection on your character? Then “Little Summer Vacation” is better. Do you want a slightly shorter cooldown? Then “Behind the Scene Performance” is better.

Overall though, “Little Summer Vacation” is still pretty nice for free-to-play players. It should be very useful on Blast Damage teams-- spreading out the damage buff over Damage Up and Blast Damage Up means it’ll be harder to cap on either of them, particularly helpful for Blast Damage Up when it’s so easy to do so.

You can equip this on your Supports if you wish; just make sure they have two or more blast discs and can reasonably expect to use them.

Days Off Are for the Art Museum

Obtainability: Unlimited

Effect: Accele MP Up [22.5%] / Damage Up [20%] (Self for one turn)

TLDR: This is a good memoria to have on hand for Accele Gorillas, or for magia/accele teams.

Thoughts: This memoria is good to have on hand. As this memoria will last for one turn, it’s best to use it during a puella Accele combo, or one character using three accele disks. The Damage Up here is a nice bonus, but you’ll probably want to bring something else if you only need an active memoria to increase damage.

If you only need to increase your dps, then “I Won’t Stray,” “Past and Future,” “Reinforcements from Another Time,” and “Training in the Server” are better options.

Additionally, "Days Off Are for the Art Museum” is similar to a limited 4* memoria, “Is She an Angel?!” Both memoria will increase your MP gain (though one is Accele MP Up and one is MP Gain Up), and both increase your DPS (though one is Damage Up and one is Attack Up). “Is She An Angel” is likely more situationally useful, but this memoria is fine too.

Guide to Release

Single Effect: Damage Up [15%] & Fog on Attack [15%] (3 Turns)

MLB Effect: Damage Up [20%] & Fog on Attack [20%] (3 Turns)

Effect Definitions:

Damage Increase will increase the damage done by the equipped character’s attacks, and its effect takes place after the buffs and debuffs are calculated. Damage Increase and Damage Up are essentially the same effect, however Damage Up has a 100% cap while Damage Increase doesn’t.

Fog is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to have a 25% chance to miss their attacks. Fog chance can stack. .

TLDR: “Guide to Release” is offensively mediocre for a Limited memoria. It offers a terrible Status Ailment with a low chance on attack and a very low percentage for Damage Up. It’s not Enhancement Fodder, but it is kind of disappointing to get. This memoria is exclusive to the gacha for Holy Mami. Please note that this memoria will be under the tag for “The Crescent Moon Manor’s Merry Christmas” for simplicity’s sake.

Review: “Guide to Release” would probably be acceptable if it was unlimited, but as a Limited memoria it has some issues-- amusingly, this makes it similar to the limited memoria “Like This, For Now.” Overall, it can be described as lackluster. 

This is due to a few things: 

20% Damage Up is low, especially when compared to Damage Increase memoria (note that both effects arguably do the same thing).

Fog is probably the worst Status Ailment in the game (fight me).

Fog chance at 20% feels terrible for a limited memoria.

Let’s address each one in order. You can compare “Guide to Release” to other memoria, such as:

(Limited 4*) “More than an Acquaintance, Less than a Friend” Damage Increase [30%] & Anti-Provoke [65%]

(4*) “Ryouko and Sakuya: Moment of Perfection” Damage Increase [30%] & Regenerate HP [5%]

(Limited 4*) “I'll Continue to Shoulder the Burden” Damage Increase [25%] & Blast Damage Up [30%]

(4*) “Kindness Can Be Made” Damage Increase [25%] & Damage Cut [20%]

(4*) “My Bible” Damage Increase [25%] & Anti-Curse [100%]

(Limited 4*) “Successful Venue Crossover” Damage Increase [20%] & Anti-Charm [100%] & Attack Up [10%]

(Limited 4*) “Tonight We Shall Have a Banquet” Damage Increase [20%] & MP Gain Up [12.5%]

(Limited 4*) “Waiting for the Moment” Damage Increase [20%] & Accele MP Gain Up [20%]

(Limited 4*) “Ultimate VS Supreme” Damage Up [20%] & Blast Damage Up [20%] & Charged Attack Damage Up [12.5%]

(Limited 4*) “Difficult! Image Training” Damage Up [25%] & Critical Hit [25%](Limited 4*) 

“Hey, Smile” Damage Up [25%] & Status Ailment Resistance Up [30%](Limited 4*) 

“About to Leave in Haregi” Damage Up [25%] & Dazzle on Attack [20%] (1 Turn)

Note that there are three unlimited memoria that offer better Damage Increase/Up percentages than the limited and expensive to max awaken “Guide to Release.” Now, several memoria on this above list are limited and only offer 20% Damage Increase, but several of these can be justified due to how powerful and good their second effect is. “Guide to Release” doesn’t have that justification.

Here’s the issue: Fog is bad. It can have its uses, but it’s a Tier One Status Ailment and that coupled with its lower miss rate makes it feel (almost) useless.

To help clarify, Tier One Status Ailments (Fog, Poison, Charm) can only offer one effect. Tier Two (Burn, Darkness, Stun) will offer that effect and also make the afflicted enemy take increased damage from their weak element. Tier Three (Curse, Dazzle, Bind) will do all of that and make the enemy unable to regenerate HP.

This means that Fog won’t increase your damage unless your attackers have Addict Killer (increased damage done against Status Ailments). Additionally, unlike Poison or Charm, it’s possible that the Ailment won’t do anything-- sure, Poison and Charm are pretty weak, but at least when the effect actually afflicts the target you’ll know that the effect will work. Here you need to hope the target is afflicted with Fog and then further hope that the target will miss with that slim 25% chance.

That makes Fog pretty poor when you want to protect a team.

The one positive of this memoria is that when Fog does land, it’ll stay on that target for three turns. This means you can actually take advantage of that, especially with Addict Killer. Notably, Addict Killer will only take effect on an already afflicted target, and not one that afflicts the target in the same attack that applies it. For some memoria whose Status Ailments only last for one turn, that means you could have the Ailment land on Attack three but never give you any potential damage bonus.

The thing is... Fog chance at 20% feels low for a effect that is one: terrible and two: limited. In fact, the best way to illustrate this would be to compare it to another memoria:

(2*) “His Place Is Far Away...” Fog on Attack [20%] (3 Turns)

You don’t need to go to all the trouble of rolling for this memoria and spending lots of Magia Stones (or real money) to get it max awakened. In fact, if you only have a single copy, then “His Place Is Far Away” will have a much better chance at inflicing Fog than “Guide to Release” could.

The last thing to consider would be one final memoria comparison:

(4*) “To My Promising Friends” Damage Up [20%] & Skill Seal on Attack [25%] (1 Turn)

This offers the same amount of Damage Up and a higher Skill Seal percentage (at the cost of lasting for one turn). In some cases, Skill Seal will be a better way of protecting your unit than that useless Fog chance.

So overall? Don’t get rid of this memoria if you have it or anything. It’s not bad like an “Enhancement Fodder” memoria would be considered, but bad as in “why would anyone roll for this limited memoria” would be.

Deep in Thought

Single Effect: Accele MP Gain Up [12.5%] & Damage Up [10%] & MP Gain Up [7.5%]

MLB Effect: Accele MP Gain Up [15%] & Damage Up [15%] & MP Gain Up [10%]

Effect Definitions:

Accele MP Gain Up will increase the amount of MP gained by using Accele disks but note that it does not increase the damage done by them. Characters with two or more Accele disks will benefit from this effect the most. Accele MP Gain Up is generally considered a worse effect than MP Gain Up.

Damage Up will increase the damage done by the equipped character’s attacks and its effect takes place after the buffs and debuffs are calculated. Damage Increase and Damage Up are essentially the same effect, meaning you can have both side by side without hitting each their respective 100% cap ceilings. Damage Up can be harder to find than Damage Increase. The effect Attack Up is generally considered superior to either Damage Up or Damage Increase.

MP Gain Up will increase the MP gained from all sources, including Accele Disks, Charge Disks, damage taken by the equipped character, etc. It’s generally considered superior to Accele MP Gain Up.

TLDR: “Deep in Thought” is Whale Tier memoria. It has extremely high passive ATK stats (when max awakened), it combines two MP effects making it incredible for Magia teams, and it even offers a decent amount of offensive potential. Overall it’s incredibly solid and an excellent addition to any account. This is event memoria for “The Peaceful Daily life of Nayuta’s Family” and should be kept in case of a rerun.

Review: “Deep in Thought” is a very unique memoria and Whale-Tier-- if you were to make a list of the top best memoria in the game, “Deep in Thought” would belong there. Currently, this is the only memoria in the game to combine Accele MP Gain Up and MP Gain Up.

The percentages for both are low when compared to other similar memoria, but don’t let it trick you into thinking this memoria isn’t good-- it’s incredible. This memoria is practically a requirement if you were to make a Magia team. Combining both effects, even if their percentages are low, means that the equipped character will gain MP very quickly. 

You don’t even need to worry about losing out on offensive damage here, because “Deep in Thought” has a third effect with Damage Up. The Damage Up is also slightly low when compared to other memoria, but really it’s just the cherry on top here. 

This memoria is similar other memoria such as “Everyday Overflowing with Pride” or “The Way Home after the Rain (Mito)” where you are better off keeping each copy separate instead of trying to max awaken them. This way you can spread them across your team so that it can earn as much MP as possible for Magia strategies.

Lastly, if this memoria is max awakened, it has truly excellent passive ATK stats, high enough to be third highest, below “Miko Sisters Dance” and “Miracle Heroines.”

Ultimate VS Supreme

Single Effect: Blast Damage Up [20%] & Charged Attack Damage Up [10%] & Damage Up [15%]

MLB Effect: Blast Damage Up [20%] & Charged Attack Damage Up [12.5%] & Damage Up [20%]

TLDR: “Ultimate VS Supreme” is a very good whale-tier memoria. It has three effects that all synergize very well and make it ideal for charge teams. The percentages are high enough to be useful while being low enough that you won’t need to worry about hitting 100% caps. This memoria is exclusive to the gacha for the event “Kamihama Armageddon.” This is event memoria and should be kept in case of a rerun.

Review: “Ultimate VS Supreme” is pretty good. It’s similar to another limited memoria, “The Small Chocolatier” but arguably far more useful as it swaps Status Ailment Resistance Up for Damage Up, leading to a more powerful damage-dealing memoria. But first let’s go into the effects of “Ultimate VS Supreme” and then talk about how they synergize and why it’s good.

Blast Damage Up is a straightforward buff that means Blast Disks will deal more damage. Blast Damage Up has a capped percentage at 100% that is extremely easy to hit. Charged Attack Damage Up will cause the target to cause more damage from their Accele or Blast disks if used after a charge disk. You’ll want to use this memoria on the character who is using the charged attack, not the character(s) setting up the charge disks. Damage Up will increase the damage done by the equipped character’s attacks and its effect takes place after the buffs and debuffs are calculated. Damage Increase and Damage Up are essentially the same effect, meaning you can have both side by side without hitting each their respective 100% cap ceilings. Damage Up can be harder to find than Damage Increase. 

So, one can tell that all three of these effects synergize extremely well. Damage Up will raise the damage done regardless, and the Charged Attack Damage Up will lead into powerful charge combos to be unleashed as Blast attacks. While Blast is best known for its ability to take out many enemies at once, a Charge > Charge > Blast combo is the best single target damage in the game (for PVE at least, and as a puella combo).

The Blast Damage Up and Charged Attack Damage Up seem small percentage-wise here, but this is likely due to how the memoria has three effects, and it also means that there is not too much worry for overcapping on them-- particularly for Blast Damage Up. Blast Damage Up, as noted above, is stupidly easy to overcap on, so using this passive memoria in conjunction with a connect or with an active memoria is still fine as it’s unlikely you’ll go over the 100% cap.

Overall this is an extremely solid memoria that covers a lot of good effects at reasonable percentages. It would pair well with a passive memoria that gives Attack Up, such as:

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

(4*) “I Made Friends” Attack Up [20%] & Critical Hit [25%]

(4*) “A Longing for the Beyond“ Attack Up [20%] & Status Ailment Resistance Up [30%]

“Ultimate VS Supreme” qualifies as Whale tier. It will be excellent for Kimochi fights where charged attacks are extremely powerful, and for charge team strategies in general. It can be used on Supports, though try to keep it to characters who are offensive based (so for example, not on Kako) and on characters that have two or more blast disks.

The Origin Is a Monster Movie

Single Effect: Blast Damage Up [25%] & Damage Up [10%] (Self / 3 turns)

MLB Effect: Blast Damage Up [30%] & Damage Up [15%] (Self / 3 turns)

Effect Definitions:

Blast Damage Up is a straightforward buff that means Blast Disks will deal more damage. Blast Damage Up has a capped percentage at 100% that is extremely easy to hit.

Damage Up will increase the damage done by the equipped character’s attacks and its effect takes place after the buffs and debuffs are calculated. Damage Up can be harder to find than Damage Increase.

TLDR: “The Origin Is a Monster Movie” is sadly a middling sort of memoria. It offers very little of each effect, though its effects do synergize well together, and is poor in comparison to even some two-star memoria. However, it can still be used when on Blast teams or on auto-farming and it can be used for Blast supports. This is event memoria for the event "Rondo of Oblivion Sleeps for Eternity” and should be kept in case of a rerun.

Review: “The Origin Is a Monster Movie” is okay. It has really low percentages for both its effects, but compensates for that by lasting for three turns. It’s not bad, but it could be described as average. Let’s go into its two effects and describe what they do, then into what this memoria will be useful for.

Let’s first compare “The Origin Is a Monster Movie” to other active memoria with Blast Damage Up and Damage Up (or Damage Inflicted Up).

(4*) “Unwavering Belief” Blast Damage Up [60%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Latent Strength of the Tokime” Blast Damage Up [40%] & Accele MP Gain Up [22.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Behind the Scene Performance” Blast Damage Up [40%] & Damage Up [20%] (Self / 1 turn)

(3*) “The Great Father“ Blast Damage Up [30%] (Self / 3 turns)

For Blast Damage Up when compared to other active, unlimited memoria, we can see that “The Origin Is a Monster Movie” is close to the bottom, on par with “The Great Father.” Both last for three turns, both give 30% Blast Damage Up when max awakened. In fact, for most players, “The Great Father” will be easier to max awaken as a three-star, and therefore more likely offer more Blast Damage Up compared to a four-star memoria. But even so, is still pretty decent. It might have a low Blast Damage Up percentage but it also still lasts for three turns and offers an additional effect. You also want to consider how easy it is to hit the Blast Damage Up cap at 100%-- more doesn’t always mean better here, especially if the effect is grouped with something else.

With that in mind, let’s now compared “The Origin Is a Monster Movie” with other active memoria that have Damage Up/Damage Increase:

(4*) “Past and Future” Damage Increase [30%] & Damage Cut [25%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(4*) “Behind the Scene Performance” Damage Up [20%] & Blast Damage Up [40%] (Self / 1 turn)

(3*) “To Museums on the Weekends“ Damage Increase [20%] & Accele MP Gain Up [22.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(3*) “Splash Party!” Damage Increase [40%] & Damage Cut [35%] (Self / 1 Turn)

15% Damage Up is... pretty bad in comparison to these. Even “Past and Future” offers more, and that one also lasts for three turns. In fact, it’s even lower than some two-star unlimited memoria in the game that also last for three turns!

With that in mind, “The Origin Is a Monster Movie” becomes sort of... eh? Having Blast Damage Up and Damage Up isn’t bad, even if it’s low, but it’s not great when you could be using something like “Past and Future” or “I Won't Stray From This Path” which both last for three turns and offer way more for it.

That being said, this memoria does still have some uses. It’s good on Blast characters due to the combo of the two effects (which work well together), and since Damage Up is harder to find when compared to Damage Increase, you could use it to avoid hitting the cap. It should be decent for auto-farming.

Difficult! Image Training

Single Effect: Critical Hit [25%] & Damage Up [20%]

MLB Effect: Critical Hit [25%] & Damage Up [25%]

TLDR: “Difficult! Image Training” is the Damage Up version of “I Made Friends.” It has some flaws but still qualifies as Whale Tier and will be good on Supports. Check to see if the character you’re using this on has passive Critical Hit from Spirit Enhancement first! This memoria is exclusive to Bittersweet AI Memory gacha. This is event memoria and should be kept in the case of a rerun.

Review: Damage Up and Damage Increase are essentially the same effect: they both increase the damage done on actual attacks, or in other words, they increase damage after taking into account your buffs and the enemy’s buffs. However they count separately for the game’s calculations, and that means they can stack together. Damage Up can be harder to find than Damage Increase. Critical Hit is a granted effect that will deal double damage. This means that it’s a very powerful effect to have, and that it best used by a character with high attack. Critical Hit does not stack, and the highest percentage will be used. Because Critical Hit will double a unit’s damage, it’s best used on characters with high Attack stats.

“Difficult! Image Training” is very similar to another memoria in the game, the well-loved “I Made Friends.”

(4*) “I Made Friends” Attack Up [20%] & Chance to Critical Hit [25%]

The difference between these two is that “Difficult! Image Training” is limited and gives Damage Up instead of Attack Up. Otherwise, the review is very much the same, with the caveat that overall “Difficult! Image Training” will be less useful for dolphins/Free-to-Play players with the possibility of only getting one copy (or not enough copies to max awaken the memoria).

Some of the issues this memoria may have include its Critical Hit. Many Attack-type characters (AKA the ones you want to put this memoria on) will come with Critical Hit passive at 15%, and Critical Hit doesn’t stack. While 25% is better than 15%, it’s not as important as before to equip this memoria on them.

However, that doesn’t mean that this memoria is bad. Damage Up memoria are always good to have given how easy it is to find Attack Up memoria, and Critical Hit will work well on characters who don’t have Critical Hit Spirit Enhancement passives. Additionally, the passive ATK stats here are fairly excellent too.

Other memoria with Damage Up/Damage Increase include:

(4*) “Ryoko and Sakuya: Moment of Perfection“ Damage Increase [30%] & Regenerate HP [5%]

(4*) “Kindness Can Be Made” Damage Increase [25%] & Damage Cut [20%]

(4*) “My Bible” Damage Increase [25%] & Anti-Curse [100%]

(Limited 4*) “Walking an Entwined Path” Damage Increase [30%] & Regenerate HP [5%]

About to Leave in Haregi

Single Effect: Damage Up [20%] & Chance to Dazzle on Attack [15%] (1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Damage Up [25%] & Chance to Dazzle on Attack [20%] (1 Turn)

TLDR: A very good memoria to have, this qualifies as whale tier due to its two excellent effects. It is going to be very good for PVE, Mirrors, Challenges, ect, and will pair well with Attack Up memoria. This memoria is exclusive to the Happy New Year at the Mizuna Shrine gacha. This is event memoria and should be kept in the case of a rerun.

Review: This is a very good memoria which two excellent effects in Attack Up and Dazzle. A quick recap on these two effects:

Dazzle is an excellent status Ailment that will cause the afflicted to have a 50% chance of missing their attack, along with taking 80% more damage from their weak element, and be unable to recover health. This means that Dazzle can serve as both a defensive and an offensive status ailment– place Dazzle on an enemy, then attack that enemy with their weak element, and they will take increased damage.

When considering the three types of increasing-damage effects, Attack Up is generally the best effect of the three, as it changes the direct Attack stats before the enemy’s buffs (or your own) are taken into account. Remember though that Attack Up caps at 100%. Damage Increase and Damage Up are essentially the same, they increase the damage done on actual attacks, aka they increase damage after taking into account your buffs and the enemy’s buffs. However they count separately for the game’s calculations, and they stack together. This means that you could have 100% of each buff and not worry about hitting the cap. 

For this reason, “About to Leave in Haregi” is very good, with a very good amount of Damage Up offered. Paired with some Attack Up and Damage Increase, you’ll have a well-rounded unit with many buffs to their damage.

The Dazzle is excellent for reasons mentioned above, but it’s also worth considering that it’s possible you’ll kill enemies too quickly for it to take effect-- however, on enemies who last longer, Dazzle will be an excellent way for you to keep your characters protected.