Continuing with my grand tradition of making stat topic for things that barely get any exposure in Not Ranked, an Anachronox stat topic!
So, first things first. Notes on the battle system. The magic system is based on MysTech, which are kind of like materia. Nobody has any, in other words. Well, one PC starts with a piece equipped, but it is worthless; nevertheless I have included it for the sake of completeness. Also important to the magic system are shieldcells, which when equipped have two functions. These are to provide PCs with NRG (MP) and shields. Each shieldcell has a different amount of NRG available, and a certain amount of this can be used for shields (which simply boost HP). The Sender Standard Shieldcell, which has been used for this stat topic, carries 256 NRG and the capacity to allocate one quarter of that to shields. This is effectively 192 NRG and a boost of 640 HP to the whole cast. This doesn’t matter, because everyone has the same HP anyway. I hate Rho for making me include this for completion.
Speed is ATB, and quite simple. Some characters have a 5 second recovery time, some have 6. It’s listed with their stats. Battles also have a sort of a row system, though all the rows change is whether or not you can target someone depending on whether you’re long- or short-range. Everyone’s best weapon is long-range, except for Paco. He has a weaker long-range weapon listed for completeness.
Speaking of stats, they don’t have numbers! Stats are qualified rather than quantified. The range is: Bad, Poor, Fair, Good, Great, Excellent. There are actually three levels that differ in power and all say “Excellent,” though, so for the purposes of the topic they are divided into Excellent, More Excellent, and Most Excellent. Bow before my creativity.
The last thing to note is Bouge. PCs’ unique skills are used by spending Bouge. Bouge is represented by a bar underneath PC HP and NRG, and fills at the rate of 1/24th a second. Charge times for various PC Bouge skills are listed with stats. When PCs reach certain Bouge benchmarks, they can use a skill and Bouge returns to 0 and charges up again. PC's start battle with 1/4th of their Bouge already filled. Pretty simple. Still not sure who came up with the word “Bouge,” though.
The cast can block the following stati with storebought accessories: Slow, Poison, Burn (identical to Poison but attached to fire-element MysTech), Freeze (identical to Stop), Nuts (identical to Confusion), Winky (ATB gauge fills eratically).
Levels are taken as 40. It doesn’t really matter what level you take stats, but 40 is a nice round number and is roughly endgame so there you go. This is what the stats do.
Health: Please don’t make me tell you what this is, because it is HP.
NRG: This is the game’s MP.
Might: Strength. Determines Beefiness, along with your weapon.
Agility: Celerity. Determines Speed, Beat, Beat Block and MysBlock.
Wisdom: Smarts. Determines Beat Block and Mys-related things.
Beefiness: Determines physical damage.
Beat: Physical accuracy.
Speed: ATB speed.
Beat Block: Physical evasion.
MysBeat: Magical accuracy.
MysBlock: Magical evasion.
~ Sylvester “Sly Boots” Bucelli ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: Good
Agility: More Excellent
Wisdom: More Excellent
Beefiness: Good
Beat: Great
Speed: Excellent (5 second recovery time)
Beat Block: Excellent
MysBeat: Excellent
MysBlock: Great
- Equipment -
Weapon: Stargent Decimator (Excellent, long range)
Mystech: --
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 1800
- Bouge -
[6 sec]FatimaShield: ½ physical damage, 30 second duration. Self-target only.
[12 sec]FlashBlind: Stun, ST, 15 second duration.
[18 sec]Aerial Trigger: 3600, MT
[24 sec]Cap: 7200, ST.
~ Grumpos Matavastros ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: Excellent
Agility: Excellent
Wisdom: Excellent
Beefiness: Excellent
Beat: Excellent
Speed: Excellent (6 second recovery time)
Beat Block: Excellent
MysBeat: Excellent
MysBlock: Excellent
- Equipment -
Weapon: Stargent Enerstrike (Excellent, long range)
Mystech: --
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 2300
- Bouge -
[6 sec]Yammer: Stun, ST, 15 second duration.
[12 sec]Staff Sweep: 3060, MT.
[18 sec]Heal Field: Full healing, MT.
[24 sec]White Light: Full healing/status healing/full revival, MT.
~ PAL-18 ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: More Excellent
Agility: Good
Wisdom: More Excellent
Beefiness: More Excellent
Beat: Great
Speed: Good (6 second recovery time)
Beat Block: Great
MysBeat: More Excellent
MysBlock: More Excellent
- Equipment -
Weapon: Cordicorps Saneslayer (Excellent, long range)
Mystech: --
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 2600
- Bouge -
[6 sec]Transfer NRG: Transfers NRG to an ally.
[12 sec]Windmill Dash: 5200, ST.
[18 sec]Teslatus Sphere: 5200, MT (Focuses on ST for 10400).
[24 sec]TaserDrain: Drains 9999 NRG, ST.
~ Dr. Rho Bowman ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: Great
Agility: Great
Wisdom: Most Excellent
Beefiness: Great
Beat: Great
Speed: Great (6 second recovery time)
Beat Block: More Excellent
MysBeat: Most Excellent
MysBlock: More Excellent
- Equipment -
Weapon: Atomic Debinder (Excellent, long range)
Mystech: Fireslag (Casts Fireslag, Fireslag+)
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 2100
Fireslag: 60, magical, Fire-elemental, medium probability of inflicting Burn status
Fireslag+: 75, magical, Fire-elemental, medium probability of inflicting Burn status
- Bouge -
[3 sec]Scanalyze: Analyze an enemy. Godlike.
[6 sec]MysShield: ½ all damage, 30 second duration.
[12 sec]Plasma Wall: 2800, MT.
[24 sec]Pocket Singularity: 8400, ST.
~ Democratus ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: More Excellent
Agility: More Excellent
Wisdom: Good
Beefiness: More Excellent
Beat: More Excellent
Speed: More Excellent (5 second recovery time)
Beat Block: Great
MysBeat: Good
MysBlock: Great
- Equipment -
Weapon: Cyclic Sensor Array (Excellent, long range)
Mystech: --
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 2600
- Bouge -
[6 sec]Tractorhold – Stun, ST, 15 second duration.
[12 sec]Stare Down – 5200, ST, Stun, 15 second duration.
[18 sec]Missile Barrage – 5200, MT.
[24 sec]LaserArray – 10400, ST.
~ Stiletto Anyway ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: Great
Agility: Most Excellent
Wisdom: Great
Beefiness: Great
Beat: More Excellent
Speed: Most Excellent (5 second recovery time)
Beat Block: More Excellent
MysBeat: Great
MysBlock: Great
- Equipment -
Weapon: Stargent Laserblade (Excellent, long range)
Mystech: --
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 2100
- Bouge -
[6 sec]Stealth – Double evasion, 30 second duration. Self-target only.
[12 sec]Charm – Charm, 15 second duration. Charmed enemies will only attack their allies or waste turns moving.
[18 sec]BladeFan – 4200, MT.
[24 sec]Pain Pirouette – 8400, MT.
~ Paco “El Puno” Estrella ~
Health: 4640
NRG: 192
Might: Most Excellent
Agility: Great
Wisdom: Great
Beefiness: Most Excellent
Beat: More Excellent
Speed: Great (6 second recovery time)
Beat Block: Great
MysBeat: Great
MysBlock: More Excellent
- Equipment -
Weapon: Tumbleslam (Excellent, short range) [Phantomfist (Great, long range)]
Mystech: --
Shieldcell: Sender Standard Shieldcell
Physical: 3500 [2400]
- Bouge -
[6 sec]FireFury – Increases damage by 50%, 30 second duration. Self-target only.
[9 sec]GroundPound – 7000 [4800], ST Stun, 15 second duration.
[12 sec]RadiusRage – 4655 [3200], MT
[24 sec]Proxima Punch – 14000 [9600], ST.
1st-Turn Damage
1. Paco - 3500
2t. Democratus - 2600
2t. PAL - 2600
4. Grumpos - 2300
5t. Rho - 2100
5t. Stiletto - 2100
7. Boots - 1800
1st-Turn damage average - 2429
Killpoint - 6073
3rd-Turn Damage
1. PAL - Physical x2 + Teslatus Sphere = 15600
2. Paco - Physical x2 + GroundPound = 14000
3. Democratus - Physical x2 + Stare Down = 10400
4. Stiletto - Physical x2 + BladeFan = 8400
5. Grumpos - Physical + Staff Sweep + Physical = 7660
6. Boots - Physical x2 + Aerial Trigger = 7200
7. Rho - Physical x2 + Plasma Wall = 7000
3rd-Turn damage average - 3346
Killpoint - 8365
