Technical

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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.

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Digital Devil Saga series

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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. Almighty skills can generally deal Technical damage where applicable, except for draining skills such as Life Drain.

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."

Persona 5 Ailment/Technical Combinations

Ailment	Technical
Burn	Wind Nuclear
Shock	Physical Gun Nuclear
Freeze	Physical Gun Nuclear
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 is 1.5x to begin with, but it can vary depending on the ailment, with Burn starting at 2.0x and Shock and Freeze starting at 1.75x. There is now a chance for the enemy to be knocked down if hit with a Technical, which will trigger a One More. 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 books sold there have been read. If the game is on Merciless difficulty, like the mode's boost to Critical hits and weaknesses in Royal, the damage of Technical attacks will be tripled, whether from allies or foes. The damage dealt by Technicals can also be further increased with the Skillful Technique and Universal Law Traits.

Like Baton Pass, it is now possible to rank up Technical attacks by playing billiards at Penguin Sniper in Kichijoji, which increases the damage multiplier by 0.1x per rank and eventually increases the Down rate. 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. Despite the label "Technical Damage+", there is actually no increase when unlocking the first Technical Rank.

Effects and Requirements of leveling up the Technical rank in Persona 5 Royal

Rank		Effects				Requirements
		Damage		Down rate		Proficiency Requirement	Other Requirements
-	-	-	1.5x (Most Ailments) 1.75x (Shock/Freeze) 2.0x (Burn)	-	1/2 (50%)	-	-
1	-	Technical Damage+	1.5x (Most Ailments) 1.75x (Shock/Freeze) 2.0x (Burn)	-	1/2 (50%)	-	Unlock Technical Rank
2	Back Hand	Technical Damage++	1.6x (Most Ailments) 1.85x (Shock/Freeze) 2.1x (Burn)	-	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 (Most Ailments) 1.95x (Shock/Freeze) 2.2x (Burn)	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 (Most Ailments) 2.05x (Shock/Freeze) 2.3x (Burn)	Will knock down enemy	Guaranteed (100%)	Rank 5 Proficiency	Read Billiards Magician (automatically recieved upon reaching Rank 3)

Persona 5 Royal Ailment/Technical Combinations

Ailment	Technical	added by Knowing the Heart
Burn	Wind Nuclear	-
Shock	Physical Gun Nuclear	-
Freeze	Physical Gun Nuclear	-
Dizzy	Any	-
Sleep	Any	-
Forget	Psychokinesis	Electric
Confuse	Psychokinesis	Gun Wind
Fear	Psychokinesis	Ice
Despair	Psychokinesis	Curse
Rage	Psychokinesis	Fire
Brainwash	Psychokinesis	Bless

Persona 5 Strikers

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The Technical combinations in Strikers are based on Persona 5, meaning the Forget ailment does not open Technical opportunities like in Royal.

Persona 5 Strikers Ailment/Technical Combinations

Ailment	Technical
Burn	Wind Nuclear
Shock	Physical Gun Nuclear
Freeze	Physical Gun Nuclear
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.

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Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	テクニカル Tekunikaru	Technical