Damage Calculator

744 verified rows (5 dev/test rows excluded by name-pattern filter) out of 790 total skill-damage entries in the game's own data.

Damage = Base Damage Zone × Damage Bonus Zone × CRIT Zone × Defense Zone × Resistance Zone × Stain Vulnerability Zone × Final Damage Bonus Zone × Special Multiplier Zone

• Displayed damage is always rounded DOWN to a whole number.
• There is a hard damage cap of 9,999,999 per hit.
• This chain is symmetric: it governs damage you deal to enemies AND damage enemies deal to you.

1. Base Damage Zone

Most skills scale off ATK; a minority scale off Max HP or DEF instead — check the skill's own tooltip in-game to know which.

Extra Damage is a flat add-on that ignores ATK/HP/DEF entirely. So far it has only been observed on Chiz: while she is in "Surplus" state, each hit of her Skill deals bonus flat damage scaled by how many "Grain" stacks she is holding.

2. Damage Bonus Zone

Damage-Type Bonus covers each of the 6 elements (Lakshana, Anima, Chaos, Psyche, Cosmos, Incantation) plus Mental damage, plus the two typeless categories: Normal (untyped hits like vehicle collisions, and some enemy attacks) and True (ignores nearly every multiplier zone).

Mental damage ignores the Defense Zone entirely (multiplier locked at 1). Outside the Nova Esper Cycle reaction, only Fadia's Ultimate is currently known to deal Mental damage.

Damage-Source Bonus applies per attack category: Normal Attack, Skill, Ultimate, Support Skill, Plunging Attack, Critical Riposte, Buff Damage, Basic Attack Combo, Passive Damage, Esper Cycle Damage, and Typeless Damage.

3. CRIT Zone

Base Crit Rate for playable characters is 5%, base Crit DMG is 50%. Enemies start at 0% for both by default.

Some damage-over-time effects use a FIXED 50% crit rate instead of your stat — this currently includes Scorch DoT, Adler's Skill continuous damage, Requiem's "Nightmare" DoT, and Bai Zang's DoT.

4. Defense Zone — ⚠ two community formulas that disagree

The game has never published an official defense formula. Two different community groups independently derived two DIFFERENT formulas from testing, and neither has been confirmed as the official one. We show both below rather than picking a side — please cross-check against your own in-game numbers before trusting either.

In practice, some enemies (e.g. certain "Beyond the Rails" encounters) have DEF set as if they were several levels lower than their displayed level, and some high-difficulty enemies have Defense Rate manually set to 0 — so damage may not change even after adjusting your level or DEF Ignore.

5. Resistance Zone

RES applies to every Elemental type, Mental, and Normal damage. By default, enemies resist 20% of all Elemental/Mental/Normal damage; some enemies are set to 28% instead.

An enemy's RES to its own "weak" attribute is lowered — usually to 10% or 16%, and often to 0% inside dungeon/instance content.

6. Stain Vulnerability Zone

This zone only activates once the Stain reaction (Lakshana + Psyche) has been triggered on the target — it raises the Lakshana and Psyche damage that target takes afterward. The base bonus is 20%, and it scales further with Cycle Intensity (see the Esper Cycle section below for the coefficient formula).

7. Final Damage Bonus Zone

This is a separate late-stage multiplier for effects that boost damage but don't belong in the regular Damage Bonus Zone — e.g. Sakiri's Scorch-related passive, which increases DoT damage taken by 25% per active DoT type on the target.

8. Special Multiplier Zone

A catch-all slot for one-off multipliers tied to specific mechanics (e.g. certain Esper Cycle or Break interactions). No general-purpose formula has been documented for it yet — treat it as 1 unless a specific skill/effect explicitly states otherwise.

The reaction's element/behavior is decided by the "Trigger" — whichever character produced the higher (Base Damage × Intensity Zone) value. On a tie, the character who used their Support Skill becomes the Trigger.

Blossom and Scorch inherit the Trigger's elemental attribute and respect the target's resistance plus the Trigger's own RES Ignore/DEF Ignore. Nova always deals Mental damage regardless of who triggers it.

By default, Blossom and Nova cannot land critical hits (their CRIT Zone is fixed at 1). Scorch always crits at a fixed 50% rate, with Crit DMG taken from the Trigger's own stat.

⚠ Correction: the element-pairing chart commonly shared online is wrong

A widely-circulated combo chart for these reactions has incorrect element pairings for several reactions. This page uses the corrected pairings below, cross-checked by multiple independent players — if you see a different chart elsewhere, treat it as outdated.

The enemy's Max Break value scales with its level — for example Lv.1 enemies sit around 91, Lv.80 enemies around 3,603 (growth is non-linear, split into a Lv.1–20 phase and a Lv.20–80 phase).

Total Break Damage against an enemy sums every living character's individual Break Damage contribution — characters who have died do not contribute.

⚠ Common misunderstanding: Broken does NOT increase damage taken

Putting an enemy into the Broken state does not, by itself, make that enemy take more incoming damage. It only triggers the one-time Break Damage burst above and disables the enemy briefly — any "extra vulnerability while Broken" you may have read elsewhere is not part of the base formula.

The character currently on the field receives the full gain (Distribution Factor = 1, i.e. 100%). Off-field teammates only receive 60% of that same gain.

Energy caps differ by attribute: Lakshana, Anima and Cosmos characters cap at 100 Energy; Chaos, Psyche and Incantation characters cap at 120 Energy.

The per-skill ATK/HP/DEF ratios in the calculator above come directly from the game's own data files. Every formula in the sections below (full chain, per-zone breakdown, Esper Cycle, Break, co-op scaling, Ultimate Energy) has never been officially published by the developer — it is reconstructed and cross-checked by the player community, and is marked accordingly on each block. Treat community-derived numbers as a close estimate, not a guaranteed exact value.

Priority order to raise Esper Cycle damage

1. Raise the character's level first — Esper Cycle damage scales heavily with character level, so if a character frequently triggers cycles, leveling them is the top priority.
2. Then raise Cycle Intensity — mainly through a Console's main-stat and sub-stats.
3. Then lower the enemy's DEF — triggering a cycle while the target's DEF is already reduced (via skills or Console effects) maximizes the hit.
4. Then target the enemy's elemental weakness — for Blossom and Scorch specifically, hitting the enemy's weak attribute or reducing their resistance to it increases damage further.
5. Then raise Crit DMG — since Scorch is the only cycle that can crit (fixed 50% crit rate), a higher Crit DMG stat directly raises its output.

Counter-intuitive: for Hexed and Stain, Crit DMG beats Cycle Intensity

Hexed and Stain don't deal direct damage themselves — they scale the damage of the hits that follow. Because of this, investing in stats like Crit DMG and Esper Ability DMG generally raises your overall damage more than investing further in Cycle Intensity, even though Cycle Intensity is the "obvious" stat for cycle effects.

Cycle Intensity has no effect on non-damaging cycles

Remora, Charge and Discord don't deal damage themselves (Remora slows the target, Charge restores Ultimate Energy, Discord drains the Break gauge) — Cycle Intensity does not change their effect strength at all. Only invest in Cycle Intensity for the damage-dealing or damage-scaling cycles (Blossom, Nova, Scorch, Hexed, Stain).

Hexed / Stain use the ACTIVE attacker's stats, not the trigger's

After Hexed or Stain is applied to a target, the bonus damage it adds is calculated from whichever character is dealing the follow-up hits at that moment — not necessarily the character who originally triggered the cycle. Keep your hardest hitters on the field after triggering these two.

Break Damage is a whole-team stat, not one carry's

The Break Damage burst dealt when an enemy's Break gauge hits zero is calculated from your team's OVERALL stats, not just the character currently on field. Neglecting your bench characters' gear will weaken every Break you land, even if your main damage dealer is fully built.

Combat moves that speed up breaking the gauge

• Critical Riposte — a counter-attack that triggers when you land a Basic Attack immediately after a successful Perfect Dodge. It deals significant damage straight to the enemy's Break gauge.
• Parry — when a red circular warning appears over an enemy, that attack can be parried. A successful parry staggers the enemy and can also trigger a Perfect Dodge, opening the door to a Critical Riposte.
• Weakness icon — an enemy's elemental weakness is shown as an icon above its head. Landing a Support Skill that matches that weakness depletes the Break gauge noticeably faster than a mismatched hit.

Discord: the fastest way to shred a Break gauge

Applying both Nova (Chaos × Psyche) and Scorch (Incantation × Chaos) to the same enemy at the same time creates the Discord composite reaction, which drains a large chunk of the Break gauge in one go — it requires landing this exact pair of cycles together, not just either one alone.