Glossary

General

• LI - love interest.
• OG3 - refers to original 3 men: Xavier, Rafayel, Zayne.
• FTP/F2P - free to play; a player who does not spend any money on this game
• Whale - general term for someone who spends a lot in this game
• RNG - “random number generation” except no one actually calls it that. Basically just the randomness of anything (trust us, this game’s combat has way too much RNG to explain here). A “good RNG run” means that lady luck was on your side and you got lots of high damage numbers.
• Minstat - using very low overall stats to clear a stage. Usually the lowest stats that can be used to clear that stage.
• Overstat - the team’s stats are a good deal higher than is needed to beat the stage if the companion’s kit is played properly.
• ATK/HP/DEF - Attack/hit points/defense
• Mald - went from “mad” + “bald”, which means stress from combat to the point of losing hair. Often used to describe a hard stage which requires a lot of tries and luck. 

Companion kit

• Companion - this is who you fight alongside in battles.
• Free companion - the game gives free 4⭐ companions for all LI.
• Myth companion - 5⭐ companion that needs to be unlocked from gacha.
• Kit - general term for the sum of all the skills a companion can do
• Rotation - the specific order of different attacks. When optimised, will do the maximum damage
• Button mashing - refers to repeatedly tapping an attack without consideration for rotation
• Cooldown (CD) - some actions need to be charged over time before they can be used again, namely the active, resonance and support skills
• Buff - a positive effect during battle from abilities or other sources.
• Debuff - a negative effect that can harm or decrease stats.
• AoE - “area of effect”; used to describe an attack that can cause damage over a region instead of just one specific enemy / single target.
• DoT - “damage over time”; used to describe mechanics that cause HP loss not from direct hits, but from debuff or AoE zone.
• Crowd Control - an ability some companions may have that help manage mobs.

Team and Cards

• Lunar Card - has a crescent moon icon; a maximum of 4 can be equipped in a team.
• Solar Card - has the “sun” icon; a maximum of 2 can be equipped in a team.
• Solar Pair - two solar cards that are matched; pairs are represented by two letters.
• Myth - a 5⭐ solar pair; unlocks a 5⭐ companion.
  • Standard Myth - can be obtained in all banners and from crates in XSpace Echo; cannot be obtained in Galaxy Explorer or wishing well shop.
  • Limited Myth - can only be obtained in limited banner runs and are usually stronger than standard myths.
• Card talent - each card has a talent that increases d2w; can scale off of ATK/HP/DEF.
• Rank - additional copies of a card. R0, R1, etc
• Pair Bonus - when solar pairs are equipped, they will activate a bonus based on their rank. Ranked 5⭐ solar pairs result in additions to the kit.
  • R-1 - is used in reference to a 5⭐ companion used on a team that has not equipped the companions solar pair cards.

Battle

• Stella - short for stellactrum; the “colour” of a stage or a card
• D-Pad - “directional pad”; is on the left side of the screen and controls the movement of MC
• Basic Attack (BA) - tap the weapon icon
• Charged Attack (CA) - hold the weapon icon
• Dodge (dash) - special charge/dash when you can avoid damage from an enemy’s attack and move a little bit backward.
  • Direct dodge (dash) - dodge in the direction dictated by the D-Pad.
  • Perfect dodge - tapping the dash/dodge button just as an enemy is about to hit you. This will trigger an empowered support skill.
• Animation cancel -  interrupt MC attack or skill animations with another action, usually dodge.
• Energy - allows you to use skills. Charges over time and can be sped up with eeb cores. 3 charges is the standard.
• Active Skill (active) - usually consumes 1 energy charge to deal a special attack
• Frangere/Frang - hunter claymore’s active skill when you have the full 3 stacks.
• Resonance Skill (reso) - usually consumes 2 energy charges to deal a special joint attack that can break shields.
• Ardent Oath (oath) - consumes the oath charge to deal an “ultimate” attack with your companion.
• Support skill - tap your companion’s icon to command him to perform his special attack.
  • Empowered support - when you trigger a perfect dodge, your companion’s support will become fully charged and deal special damage if used when it is flashing.
• Shield Lock - some enemies enter a phase that prevents their protocore shields from breaking from a resonance skill.
• HP Lock- some enemies enter a phase that prevents any damage from being dealt to it.
• Boss - typically only appear in stages by themselves and have special skills like HP lock; have 4 protocore shields.
• Mob - typically appear in groups, have lower HP and easier-to-deal-with skills; have 2 or no protocore shields.

Stats

• Base stat - a card’s fixed stats. The black stats in the card’s description.
• Mainstat - the top most line on a core.
• Substat - the minor stats on a core that increase every 3 levels of core.
• Scaling stat - ATK/HP/DEF that the companion uses the most to deal damage.
• Normal damage - indicated by white damage numbers.
• Critical hit (crit/critting/crit hit) - when you deal additional damage, indicated by orange damage numbers.
• Crit rate (cr, crate) - a percentage increase in the chance of dealing a critical hit.
• Crit dmg (cd, cdmg) - a percentage increase in the additional damage dealt in a critical hit.
• Weakened enemy (weakened state/weakened/weakness) - when a shielded enemy loses its shield due to resonance skills, indicated by Blue/Purple damage numbers
• DMG boost to weakened (d2w) - stat that increases the amount of damage you deal to a weakened enemy.
• Expedited Energy Boost (eeb/ee) - speeds up the charge rate of energy stars
• Oath Recovery Boost (orb) - speeds up the charge rate of ardent oath
• Oath’s Strength (os) - increases the damage of the ardent oath
• Roll - a term used to describe increasing the levels, usually of a substat, on a core.

LI’s pairs

Xavier:

5 star:

• LT - [Lightseeker] (Standard Myth, green)
• MN - [Lumiere] (Limited Myth, yellow)
• NV - [King of Darknight] (Limited Myth, red)

4 star:

• LS - green
• SN - yellow
• HC - red
• VL - pink
• GX - blue

Rafayel:

5 star:

• AB - [Abysswalker] (Standard Myth, purple)
• TP - [God of the Tides] (Limited Myth, pink)
• MS - [Lemurian Sea God] (Limited Myth, yellow)

4 star:

• RD - purple
• DT - pink
• HC - yellow
• TF - green

Zayne:

5 star:

• FS - [Foreseer] (Standard Myth, blue)
• SF - [Master of Fate] (Limited Myth, red)
• DN - God of Annihilation (Limited Myth, pink)

4 star:

• TQ - blue 
• NT - red
• HC - pink
• FR - yellow
• FL - purple

Sylus:

5 star:

• CA - [Relentless Conqueror] (Standard Myth, pink)
• AS - Abysm Sovereign (Limited Myth, green)

4 star:

• RZ - pink
• BN - blue

Caleb:

5 star:

• FA - [Farspace Colonel] (Standard Myth, red)
• LR - [Ultimate Weapon X-02] (Limited Myth, purple)

4 star:

• FD - green
• LO - red

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