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Technical is a mechanic in Persona 5. It allows users to increase the amount of damage they deal with a single attack, regardless of the target's weaknesses, by exploiting status ailments. A similar mechanic appears in the Digital Devil Saga series.
Overview
By hitting an enemy with a specific element when they are inflicted with a status ailment, a Technical hit will trigger. When a Technical hit triggers, it will make the attack that triggered it ignore weaknesses or resistances and increase its damage. Multi-hitting attacks will trigger Technical hits for each hit.
Technical combinations are used as a tactic to manually open enemies to vulnerability by combining them with affinity-based skills. Certain combatants only specialize in either afflicting or exploiting and as such require a helping hand.
The Digital Devil Saga series has a similar mechanic. In thesse games, when a target is afflicted with the Mute or Curse status effects, certain attacks deal additional damage.
Mechanics by Game
Persona 5
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When an enemy is afflicted with an ailment, certain elemental skills can trigger a Technical hit. When a Technical is triggered, the word "Technical!" is displayed across the screen and the damage dealt by the attack that triggered it is multiplied by 1.8x.
The Technical damage multiplier and the effect of Weak do not stack: for normal cases, if the enemy is Weak to the respective skill, no Technical damage will be dealt. Freeze bypasses that rule because all of the user's affinities to Physical and Gun are neutralized while frozen, weaknesses included. Similarly, Technical is suppressed when the user lands a Critical Hit or when using non-damaging skills, like Insta-Kills.
Like with Critical Hits and weaknesses, if the game is on Merciless difficulty, the damage of Technical attacks will be tripled, regardless of the source.
The attributes that can trigger Technical depend on the inflicted ailment. In particular, Psychokinesis skills and Nuclear skills have secondary effects that specifically target ailments. Ailment skills affected by Psychokinesis are collectively referred to as "mental ailments."
| Ailment | Technical |
|---|---|
| Burn | Nuclear + Wind |
| Shock | Nuclear + Physical + Gun |
| Freeze | Nuclear + Physical + Gun |
| Dizzy | Any |
| Sleep | Any |
| Forget | None |
| Confuse | Psychokinesis |
| Fear | Psychokinesis |
| Despair | Psychokinesis |
| Rage | Psychokinesis |
| Brainwash | Psychokinesis |
Persona 5 Royal
In Persona 5 Royal, Technical damage has been overhauled and expanded upon, now serving as an alternative to exploiting weaknesses for enemies that have none, while party members have altered skill sets which play more into ailment infliction and the Technical system.
The default Technical damage multiplier has been reduced to x1.4, and there is now a chance for the enemy to be knocked down if hit with a Technical, which will trigger a One More. The damage dealt by Technicals can be further increased with the Skillful Technique and Universal Law Traits. Furthermore, the Forget ailment is now vulnerable to Psychokinesis Skills, and new Technical combinations can be added after reading Knowing the Heart, which is available in Jinbocho once all the other related books have been read.
Like Baton Pass, it is now possible to rank up Technical attacks by playing billiards in Kichijoji, eventually reaching a x1.8 multiplier. The Rank is a global multiplier that applies for all allies in battle. In order to increase the rank, the protagonist must have sufficient Proficiency, have read certain books and have certain items:
| Rank | Effects | Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damage | Down rate | Proficiency Requirement | Other Requirements | ||||
| - | - | - | 1.4x | - | 1/2 (50%) | - | - |
| 1 | - | Technical Damage+ | 1.5x | - | 1/2 (50%) | - | Unlock Technical Rank |
| 2 | Back Hand | Technical Damage++ | 1.6x | - | 1/2 (50%) | Rank 2 Proficiency | Read Expert Billiards
(bought from the Shibuya Sports Shop in the Shibuya Underground Mall) |
| 3 | Jump Shot | Technical Damage+++ | 1.7x | Knockdown Rate+ | 2/3 (≈67%) | Rank 3 Proficiency | Own Jump Cue
(bought from the Shibuya Sports Shop in the Shibuya Underground Mall) |
| 4 | Massé Shot | Technical Damage++++ | 1.8x | Will knock down enemy | Guaranteed (100%) | Rank 5 Proficiency | Read Billiards Magician
(automatically recieved upon reaching Rank 3) |
| Ailment | Technical | added by Knowing the Heart |
|---|---|---|
| Burn | Nuclear + Wind | - |
| Shock | Nuclear + Physical + Gun | - |
| Freeze | Nuclear + Physical + Gun | - |
| Dizzy | Any | - |
| Sleep | Any | - |
| Forget | Psychokinesis | Electric |
| Confuse | Psychokinesis | Wind + Gun |
| Fear | Psychokinesis | Ice |
| Despair | Psychokinesis | Curse |
| Rage | Psychokinesis | Fire |
| Brainwash | Psychokinesis | Bless |
Persona 5 Strikers
The Technical combinations in Strikers are based on Persona 5, meaning the Forget ailment does not open Technical opportunities in Royal.
| Ailment | Technical |
|---|---|
| Burn | Nuclear + Wind |
| Shock | Nuclear + Physical + Gun |
| Freeze | Nuclear + Physical + Gun |
| Dizzy | Any |
| Sleep | Any |
| Forget | None |
| Fear | Psychokinesis |
| Rage | Psychokinesis |
| Brainwash | Psychokinesis |
The Passive skill Technical Adept increases the damage the user deals from Technical hits.
Digital Devil Saga series
While not specifically named, similar mechanic exists in the duology. There are two status ailments, Mute and Curse, which can induce a technical effect on the recipient.
The Mute status increases the amount of absorption via the MP Thief or Leech skills (but not HP Thief due to it not being a Mute skill). The Curse status increases chances of Insta-Kill and Petrification by Death-type skills.
In the sequel, Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2, ailment-type HP-damaging skills are introduced, the Mute-type attack Silent Howl and Death-type Wicked Curse similarly can increase their damage if the target suffers Mute or Curse respectively. A boss-exclusive attack, Conviction, also has similar technical effect which increases the damage on the target if the target is under the Mute status.
Similar to vanilla Persona 5, Technical effect does not offer a Press Turn benefit if triggered, unlike critical hit or weakness exploitation.
Nomenclature
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 Japanese
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テクニカル Tekunikaru | Technical |
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References
- ↑ "テクニカルランク解禁（0→1）： 1度プレイすると、渋谷駅地下モール:スポーツショップ『ネクストエース』で本「開眼ビリヤードテク」が売り出されるので購入し、読了する(ランク1になる) ランク1→2：バックハンド 器用さランク2以上で挑戦成功 ランク2→3：ジャンプショット 器用さランク3以上に＋『ネクストエース』で「ジャンプキュー」を購入しておく、で挑戦成功（ランク3到達後、テクニカルランク3→4に必要な本「ビリヤードの魔術師」を自動入手する） ランク3→4：マッセ 器用さランクMAXに＋本「ビリヤードの魔術師」を読了しておく、で挑戦成功" Translation: "Technical Rank Unlocked (0 → 1): After playing once, buy and read the book "Expert Billiards" at the sports shop in the Shibuya underground mall Rank 1 → 2 : Backhand dexterity rank 2 or higher required for challenge success Rank 2 → 3 : Jump shot dexterity rank 3 or higher + Purchase a "Jump Cue" in the sports shop to succeed in the challenge (after reaching rank 3, you will automatically obtain the book "Billiards Magician" required for technical rank 3 → 4) Rank 3 → 4 : Massé Succeed by raising dexterity rank to MAX and reading the book "Billiard Magician."" https://wikiwiki.jp/persona5r/%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89#ef53b24a.+Archived:+https://web.archive.org/web/20240815060142/https://wikiwiki.jp/persona5r/%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89.+wikiwiki.jp.