Guardian Liondog

**Guardian Liondog** is a Warmaster skill in *Octopath Traveler*.

## Effect

Attack with a flurry of sword slashes. Each hit targets a random enemy. The attacks ignore accuracy and evasion and instead roll a random number of attacks with a random number of guaranteed hits, minimum 3.

Note that the base damage is extremely low and enemy defense is treated as 25% higher than for most skills; with very low P.Atk relative to enemy defense it can do almost 0 damage. This skill is best used to rapidly strip shield stacks off of a single target while all other enemies are dead.

## Formula

Makes **[5..10]** attacks (N total, rolled randomly), of which **[3..N]** are guaranteed **hits** and remainder automatically **miss**.

Dmg/Hit = **0.64** x [*Attacker P.Atk* - (Target P.Def x **0.625**)]

**Boost**: Increase damage dealt per hit by **+37.5%** per boost.

### Other Multipliers

* All damage scales with the level of the attacker (see **Level Multiplier**)
* All damage has a random multiplier (from x0.98 to x1.02) applied to it for each hit
* Critical hits deal x1.25 damage.
* Hitting an enemy with a weakness to Swords deals x1.3 damage (or x1.5 with ); hitting a Broken enemy instead deals x2.0 damage
* The  **Increased Physical Attack** buff on the attacker or the  **Decreased Physical Defense** on the target increases damage by x1.5; with both, the total multiplier is x2.25

For more details see Damage Formula.

## Synergies

### Skills

* applies the  **Aelfric's Auspices** buff for 3 turns, causing this skill to trigger twice for no additional cost, dealing double the damage and/or removing more shield points off of enemies that are weak to Swords
* applies the  **Increased Physical Attack** buff to the **user**
* applies the  **Increased Physical Attack** buff
* will cause this skill to multi-attack all foes **simultaneously**, instead of multi-attacking random foes.
* applies the  **Decreased Physical Defense** debuff to **one foe**
* applies the  **Increased Critical** and  **Increased Accuracy** buffs to **all allies**
* applies the  **Divination** buff, causing this skill to critically hit for ×1.25 damage
* and other Runelord runes will activate a follow-up hit

### Support Skills

* halves and rounds down the SP Cost of this skill
* increases the Phys. Atk. stat by +50
* increases the Critical stat by +50
* multiplies the damage output of boosted skills by an additional ×1.5
* multiplies the damage of attacks targeting an unbroken foe's weakness by ×1.5, instead of ×1.3
* increases the damage of physical attacks by +6% for every 1% of HP below 33% the equipping character has, up to a maximum of ×3 damage at 1 HP
* applies the  **Increased Physical Attack** and  **Increased Physical Defense** buffs indefinitely

## Trivia

* **Guardian Liondog** is a default Warmaster skill and does not require JP to learn.
* **Guardian Liondog** is named after the paired architectural statues of lion dogs commonly found at the front of Chinese and Japanese structures.
* While battling Winnehild, she may use an attack of the same name: **Guardian Liondog**. Despite sharing the same name and weapon type, the attack differs from the Warmaster skill:
	+ Single physical attack that targets entire party.