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SUBJECT: SUPERS
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Many factors define a unit’s usefulness in Generation of Chaos, but perhaps the greatest is what selection of Super attacks are at that
unit’s disposal. Particularly for fighting bosses, the primary thing that determines the outcome of the battle is going to be which Supers
are at your unit’s disposal and how well you use them.
What follows is a list of the five best generic Supers in the game. Characters with these Supers are the ones you want to groom as
your elite fighters and boss-killers. Also keep an eye out for character-specific Supers that have effects similar to these top Supers, as
they’ll also indicate characters really worth investing in.
SUBJECT: FREEZE EYE
Freeze Eye with a Super that has a base 70% chance of
restricting your opponent’s ability to use Supers and Skills in
battle. There is very little you can do in Generation of
Chaos to give yourself the advantage that works quite as efficiently
as successfully using Freeze Eye on your opponent,
particularly when fighting bosses. Best of
all, its effects are persistent throughout
the turn. Even if the unit that casts
Freeze Eye is defeated, the enemy
still won’t be able to cast Supers if another of your units can immediately attack it. The only real disadvantage
to Freeze Eye is its 70% success rate, which is further influenced by the INT of the unit that uses it and the PSY
of the target. If you’re in dire enough straits, giving your unit an ACY boosting Item before the battle begins and
using it immediately can help make an enormous difference.
SUBJECT: DIMENSION CHANGE
You’ve got to be a little bit careful with this one, but it can have some amazing effects when
used in the correct situation. Dimension Change has a 70%
chance of inverting your character’s primary battle stats.
If you’re a magic-user, then suddenly your damage will be
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determined by PWR instead of INT. For physical attackers,
it’s vice versa. At the same time, it inverts the function of
the target’s two defensive stats. ENY, which normally is the
defensive stat vs. physical attacks, suddenly becomes the
defense against magical attacks. PSY, the usual magic defense
stat, suddenly applies to defense vs. physical damage.
The usefulness of swapping the offensive stats is
obvious - by forcing the opponent to reduce with a weaker damage stat, you reduce their damage output. Still, if you create a situation
where a magic-user is suddenly defending against your unit’s physical attacks with a potentially hefty PSY stat, the fight may actually
become harder to win. You also want to keep in mind that even if the enemy is successfully Dimension Changed, their Supers and Skills
won’t be affected - they’ll still use their usual damage-dealing stats for determining effectiveness. Despite all these potential drawbacks,
Dimension Change’s ability to cripple the enemy’s damage output is so much to your advantage that it’s worth all the risks.
SUBJECT: BETRAYAL
Betrayal is a Super that has a 70% chance of reducing enemy
MRL by 30%. A unit that’s suffering from MRL penalties suf-
fers from commensurate penalties to its damage output,
and takes a commensurate amount of extra damage.
Betrayal can be used multiple times during the course of a
battle, and its effects stack. It is entirely possible to reduce
enemy MRL by 90% or more by hammering Betrayal. What’s
doubly amazing about this is that Betrayal is an incredibly
common Super, something you can always expect to find on
a good half-dozen or more of the units in your army. Stack an ACY-alteration on it to improve its base chances of affecting the enemy,
and you have a near-foolproof method of setting bosses up for a mangling.
SUBJECT: BRAVE VOICE
Bravery alone can turn 100% into 130%.
No idea what this has to do with betraying
anybody, but you can’t argue with results.
The AI is not quite so fond of bombing MRL as you probably
will be. Still, there are plenty of ways for your units to
lose MRL, particularly when you’re going up against Dragon
Kings, and this is one of the very few ways at your disposal
to get it back. Brave Voice has a 70% chance of boosting allied
MRL by 30%, and can keep boosting until your MRL bar
is red and your unit is getting bonuses to damage reduction
and output. It is invaluable when dealing with certain bosses and in the endgame, and rare enough that you’ll have to put some effort
into recruiting and leveling up units that have it.
SUBJECT: FALCON WING
This particular Super is only ever found in the possession
of the Birdman race, but it’s the kind of Super it is that
The only thing better than hitting a guy is hitting
him three times in rapid succession.
bears talking about. Falcon Wing is a damage-dealing
Super that has the potential to damage a single enemy
character up to three times, with the subsequent attacks
becoming more powerful but less likely to connect. There
are many character-specific Supers that work along these
same basic lines, but they’re often much more powerful.
Even Falcon Wing itself can do enormous damage even in
the hands of a unit with relatively poor stats.
The reason is a quirk of the GoC engine: a commander’s base stats have more influence over final damage totals
than the inherent power level of a damage Super. So, a character using a multi-stage damage Super with level
4/5/6 damage potential will do roughly double the total damage that same character could inflict with a singlestage
level 7 Super. Multi-stage Supers are remarkably efficient ways of rapidly eliminating an enemy’s troops,
and can even heap significant damage onto powerful enemy commanders and bosses. Boosting the unit’s ACY can
boost a multi-stage Super’s damage potential even higher
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