Battle Abilities

Battle Abilities are a major part of the battle mechanics in Vagrant Story and are assigned to the , and buttons. Whenever Ashley attacks an enemy or vice versa, an exclamation point appears above his head. If a Battle Ability is activated just as the exclamation point appears, Ashley will use a Chain Ability if attacking or a Defense Ability if defending. Successive uses of Battle Abilities will drive Ashley's Risk status up, increasing the chance of critical hits at the cost of accuracy.
==List of Battle Abilities==
===Chain Abilities===
Ability	Description 	Risk
 	Inflicts an amount of additional damage equal to 70% of damage dealt. 	1
 	Regenerates an amount of Ashley's HP equal to 30% of damage dealt. 	2
 	Reduces foe's MP by an amount equal to 30% of damage dealt. 	1
 	Regenerates an amount of Ashley's MP equal to 30% of damage dealt. 	2
 	Inflicts an amount of additional damage equal to 10% of the damage Ashley has sustained. 	1
 	Reduces foe's MP by an amount equal to 20% of the MP Ashley has used. 	1
 	Inflicts an additional 40% of damage on foe and repairs a small amount of weapon DP. 	2
 	Inflicts an additional 100% of damage on foe and deals 30% of base damage to Ashley. 	2
 	Inflicts additional damage equal to 10% of damage dealt and adds that amount to PP. 	1
 	Inflicts additional damage equal to the total accumulated Phantom Points in Ashley's weapon.	3
 	Adds Paralysis to attack. 	3
 	Adds Numbness to attack. 	3
 	Adds Silent to attack. 	3
 	Adds Poison to attack. 	3
===Defense Abilities===
Ability	Description 	Risk
 	Successful use of this Ability prevents Paralysis and Numbness. 	1
 	Adds 50% of the MP used in foe's magical attack to Ashley's MP. Effective vs. magical attacks.	6
 	Reflects 40% of damage. Does not reduce damage received. Effective vs. magical attacks. 	2
 	Reflects 40% of damage. Does not reduce damage received. Effective vs. non-magical attacks. 	2
 	Reduces damage received by 20%. Effective vs. magical attacks. 	4
 	Reduces damage received by 20%. Effective vs. non-magical attacks. 	4
 	Reduces physical damage by 50%. 	4
 	Reduces air-affinity damage by 50%. 	4
 	Reduces fire-affinity damage by 50%. 	4
 	Reduces earth-affinity damage by 50%. 	4
 	Reduces water-affinity damage by 50%. 	4
 	Reduces light-affinity damage by 50%. 	4
 	Reduces dark-affinity damage by 50%. 	4
 	Uses the accumulated Phantom Points in Ashley's shield to counter an equal amount of damage. 	6
 
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