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These dangerous swordsmen can utilize various stances in battle that each grant their own bonuses to the Ronin. A wandering masterless samurai, to an army commander samurai.Foreign warriors who posses superior combat capabilities. However, while the Ronin is solitary and self-sufficient, the Shogun relies on and supports allies.

Not accessible until mid-game, and getting them up to speed will take effort.Once you've reached B11F of the labyrinth, head northwest, towards square A3. Weaknesses: Mediocre defenses, coupled with Stances taking an entire turn to activate, effectively slowing down their damage output. They're capable in various situations, making them powerful allies through-and-through. Strengths: Unmatched physical prowess, coupled with dangerous elemental strikes.

Crit Up: Best given to classes with builds focused on augmenting normal attacks. Severing Slash: Hand it to classes with much higher Technique/Luck stats and mow down random encounters without needing to lift a finger. Requires one of the other 3 stances to be active, cannot be extended by repeated use.Occasionally kills all enemies instantly at the start of a battle.Allows the user to find more resources while mining. Skills are too exclusive to be used effectively on Grimoire Stones.Enables Katana skills and increases damage dealt with katanas.Melee cut attack to 1 enemy, enables stance-requiring skills afterward.Follow all allies' normal attacks this turn with another attack.An overhead stance that raises physical attack for 3 turns.A stance that raises physical defense for 3 turns.A stance that raises speed/accuracy/evasion for 3 turns.Automatically dodge enemy attacks this turn.Melee line-piercing stab + volt attack to 1 enemy.Melee cut attack to 1 enemy, may bind arms.Melee cut attack to 1 enemy, may instantly kill.A stance that gives an all-round boost and enables all stance-requiring skills for 3 turns.

Their new techniques allow them to pose a greater threat to the enemy, packing a new level of formidability with their massive blades. They no longer need to spend time switching stances as those skills now constantly apply their boons. Offsetting this fragility and giving the ability to resist death saves on items and TP used to revive them.The Ronin have improved their stances, allowing them to attack quicker and fiercer than ever before. DEF Up, Aegis (Protector): Ronin are fragile.

Force skill - Issen: With this blindingly fast sword skill, the Ronin moves as if time has stopped to deliver potentially lethal strikes to the entire enemy party.Increase chances of successfully escaping from battle.Potentially nullifies any attack directed at the user.Evasion rate increases as the Ronin loses HP.Repeated katana slashes against a single enemy in the Overhead stance.A fiery, overhead katana slash directed at a single enemy.

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