#skill seal

What Flavor Is Break Time (Nemu)

Single Effect: Skill Seal [35%] (All / 1 Turn)

MLB Effect: Skill Seal [37.5%] (All / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Skill Seal is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to use Active skills, such as memoria or Spirit Enhancement Actives. Note that the target is still able to attack, and that this will also not prevent Magia/Doppels. Skill Seal can stack. You can compare Skill Seal to the Status Ailments Charm, Stun, and Bind which will prevent the target from taking any action at all, including attacks. 

TLDR: “What Flavor Is Break Time (Nemu)” should be kept as it is the only active memoria in the game to give Skill Seal-- but it also sucks. 

Review: “What Flavor Is Break Time (Nemu)” is an annoying memoria because its chance of going off is very low, but it’s also the only source of active Skill Seal in the game, making it a memoria you’ll want to keep. In fact, its chance of working is only 2.5% higher than some passive memoria in the game (such as Chisato’s memoria, “The Witch, the Wolf, and the Villager”).

With this in mind, why ever use this memoria? Especially when there are memoria that can stop an enemy from attacking, not just using their skills, such as “The Year of the Ox Is My Tasty Year” with a Stun chance, or “An Inhabitant from Another World” with a Charm chance?

Well, some enemies are immune to Charms, Stuns, and Binds, but not Skill Seal. Others, like some Kimochis, can use problematic Skills that will debuff your team, prevent your own team from using Skills, or interfere with your strategies. In this case, being able to Skill Seal the enemy is valuable.

But again, “What Flavor Is Break Time (Nemu)” is still disappointedly low. There are ways to increase your odds of forcing it to go off. Memoria that give Status Ailment Resistance Down will increase the chance of “What Flavor Is Break Time (Nemu)” working, though it does mean you’re wasting a second active memoria slot to make this one single memoria work.

Another method is to restart the game, popping you back to the latest round. Since this memoria has less than half a chance of working, you might need to restart a few times to ensure it does in fact affect the enemy.

A Witch, a Wolf, and Villagers

Obtainability: You can get one copy from completing all three of the unit’s MSS, and the rest can be rolled from the Support Fate Weave. Usable by Chisato Shion only.

To My Promising Friends

Single Effect: Damage Up [15%] & Skill Seal on Attack [20% / 1 Turn]

MLB Effect: Damage Up [20%] & Skill Seal on Attack [25% / 1 Turn]

TLDR: "To My Promising Friends” has some flaws, but it has some interesting synergy with its effects and other passives in the game due to its Skill Seal on Attack effect. That effect will stack with itself, so using it with other passive Skill Seal memoria and a character with passive Skill Seal is a viable strategy for preventing the enemy from using nasty actives on your team-- just remember it’s still up to chance and not a guarantee!

Review: "To My Promising Friends” is okay. It’s not the best memoria in the game, but it has two decent effects-- one of which is kind of rare to find, and the other which can be made more useful on characters with passive Skill Seal chance on attack.

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. Skill Seal is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to use Active skills, such as memoria or Spirit Enhancement Actives. Note that the target is still able to attack, and that this will also not prevent Magia/Doppels. Skill Seal can stack. You can compare Skill Seal to the Status Ailments Charm, Stun, and Bind which will prevent the target from taking any action at all, including attacks. Skill Seal can stack.

So first off, "To My Promising Friends” has Damage Up instead of Damage Increase. Like mentioned before, Damage Up can actually be harder to find-- in fact, there are only two unlimited passive memoria with Damage Up in the game (as of writing this review), and one of those is a two-star memoria (with the other being "To My Promising Friends”). However, unfortunately, "To My Promising Friends” has 20% Damage Up when max awakened-- compare this to other memoria in the game:

(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%]

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

(Limited 4*) “About to Leave in Haregi” Damage Up [25%] & Chance to Dazzle on Attack [20%] (1 Turn)

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

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

This 20% is notably when "To My Promising Friends” is max awakened, aka it will be 15% when it’s not.

Now, this doesn’t make "To My Promising Friends” completely garbage. As mentioned before, Damage Up can be hard to find, so this memoria is useful for that reason alone. However, the Skill Seal on Attack is also of interest. There is one other passive, unlimited memoria that gives Skill Seal and it’s the Two-Star “Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off” (Interestingly, that memoria lasts for three turns while "To My Promising Friends” lasts for one).

Something to note here is that Skill Seal on Attack will stack. So that includes the two-star memoria and the four-star one, along with any character who has it as a part of their passive Spirit Enhancement-- so, Moemura, Tsukuyo, Mayu, Oriko, Umika, Chisato, Sakuya, Valnagisa, Mami, Tsumugi, and the Amane Sisters (Swimsuit ver.). That might be worth looking into, especially for fights where you can expect a lot of enemy actives going out. Of course, the problem with this strategy is that there is no guarantee that the Skill Seal will actually go off, it’s still left to chance, but being able to increase the likelihood if it going off can be useful.

Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off

Single Effect: Skill Seal on Attack [15% / 3 Turns]

MLB Effect: Skill Seal on Attack [20% / 3 Turns]

Effect Definitions:

Skill Seal is a Status Ailment that will cause the afflicted target to be unable to use Active skills, such as memoria or Spirit Enhancement Actives. Note that the target is still able to attack, and that this will also not prevent Magia/Doppels. Skill Seal can stack. You can compare Skill Seal to the Status Ailments Charm, Stun, and Bind which will prevent the target from taking any action at all, including attacks. Skill Seal can stack.

TLDR: “Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off” is good if you want to drown the enemy in Skill Seal.

Review: “Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off” is the two-star version of the four-star “To My Promising Friends...” sort of. See, amusingly enough, “Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off” gives Skill Seal for three turns as opposed to “To My Promising Friends” giving it for one. The tradeoff however is that “To My Promising Friends” has a higher chance when max awakened by 5%, in addition to giving 20% Damage Up.

But with all that said, how likely is it that you’ll actually want to be using Skill Seal? After all, there are effects like Charm, Stun, and Bind that also prevent the enemy from activating skills along with preventing the enemy from attacking at all. So why Skill Seal?

Some enemies, such as Kimochis and certain bosses, will specifically negate the Charm/Stun/Bind status ailment family... but not Skill Seal. And on some enemies, their own actives are deadly-- deadly enough to want to prevent.

Still, the two-star “Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off” might seem a little useless here. After all, there’s a better four-star version of it in the game, and even then, a 20% chance is low, despite the whole three turn thing.

But. There is something else to consider here. Skill Seal stacks.

So, put “Napping to Your Heart's Content on a Day Off” and “To My Promising Friends” on the same character and what do you have? Boom, 45% chance of inflicting skill seal per attack. What’s that? That’s not enough for you? I understand. Let’s find a unit who has passive Skill Seal from their Spirit Enhancement. Mami seems like a good option-- boom. 70% Skill Seal chance per attack. Of course, Mami isn’t the only one with passive Skill Seal; other characters include Homura Akemi (Glasses ver), Oriko Mikuni, Umika Misaki, Nagisa Momoe (Valentines ver), Sakuya Suzuka, and Tsumugi Wakana.

The Witch, the Wolf, and the Villager

Single Effect: Skill Seal on Attack [30% / 1 Turn]

MLB Effect: Skill Seal on Attack [35% / 1 Turn]

TLDR: “The Witch, the Wolf, and the Villager” is gimmicky and using it means forgoing a more powerful passive memoria instead. There are some benefits to using it, such as when the Status Ailments Charm, Stun, and Bind can’t be used, but there are some drawbacks as well. It’s still worth keeping if you have her, but you don’t need to max ascend it right away or anything of that nature.

Review: This is a personal memoria for Chisato Shion. “The Witch, the Wolf, and the Villager” is a bit gimmick, but let’s go over it’s effect and what it does first: Skill Seal will cause the afflicted target to be unable to use Active skills, such as memoria or Spirit Enhancement Actives. The target will still be able to attack, but not buff/debuff enemies outside of those attacks. This does not count for Magia/Doppels. Note that this memoria counts as a Status Ailment.

Chisato Shion is a Support themed around Skill Seal, with it being part of her connect, Spirit Enhancement active, and her personal memoria. It can be very useful in preventing the enemy from buffing itself with extremely dangerous effects, such as Ai, or simply denying the enemies from slowly killing your team over time.

Now, the issue with her personal is that it requires her to get disks. If she has this memoria equipped, which can only offer a chance at Skill Seal (and no offensive purposes beyond that), then it’s sort of a problem-- after all, it’s not a guarantee that she’ll get Skill Seal off. Additionally, with a connect and a Spirit Enhancement active that give a chance of Skill Seal, there is question if you really need a passive 35% chance of it on top of that. Using this memoria means forgoing more powerful ones after all.

Additionally, there is also the question of why bothering with Skill Seal when you could utilize something like Charm, Stun, or Bind-- which will prevent the enemy from taking any action, as opposed to just one. Though, the answer to that would be that some enemies will have passive Negate effects for the above to prevent Mami Cheese (or other similar strategies), while those same enemies may not have Anti Skill Seal.

It’s a Holiday! Nap All You Like

Obtainability: Unlimited

" Oh, it is good to see the finest of the Obelisk dorm! I have an order from Chancellor Sheppard. You see, a visitor is coming from mainland for official business and he would like to have somebody to show our guest around and keep him company until the appointed time." 

The duelist with PhD explained and proceeded 

" Originally, this task was given to Alexis but she won't be able to do it because she's going to have a duel at the time, so maybe you as being one of the top students of this dorm could just show them the best our academy has to offer, what did you say?" 

It is always a good idea to be at Crowler's good side, so it seemed a good idea at the time. 

((I could go for one!))