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Some monsters have skills that claim to inflict "damage that ignores all damage reduction effects." However, the earlier translation used by the Samurai family was actually more accurate: "damage that ignores all beneficial effects that reduces the inflicted damage." [sic]

Effects[]

Such a skill does not actually ignore all damage reduction effects in the English sense. "Effects" in this case refers to Beneficial Effects, also known as Buffs. If the target enemy has a buff that would reduce the damage it receives, then that buff will be ignored. Specifically the following buffs will be ignored by these types of skills:

  • Status InvincibilityInvincibility
  • DefendDefend
  • Status ShieldStatus BrandShields
  • Status Increase DefenseIncrease DEF
  • Status Reflect DamageReflect DMG

So, if you are going up against that pesky Rina or Chloe defense, you might consider bringing along a monster who can ignore damage reduction effects.

Counters[]

There are some ways to counter an "ignore damage reduction effects" skill, and reduce the damage anyway:

  • Change the type of hit:
  • Passive damage reduction skills like Darion / Dias, Groggo / Laika, etc still work. (Skills not Effects)
  • Lack of Decrease DEF or Brand debuffs: skills that ignore damage reduction still benefit from harmful effects that raise damage, so if you can prevent / cleanse those, that will help.

Who has it[]

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