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\[Novice\] Shogun
Etrian Odyssey Nexus

\[Novice\] Shogun

Learn about the Shogun's skills in Etrian Odyssey Nexus, including Front Command, Great Warrior, and Echoing Slash. Max Lv effects detailed.

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Learn about the Shogun's skills in Etrian Odyssey Nexus, including Front Command, Great Warrior, and Echoing Slash. Max Lv effects detailed.

Stat Growth: HP (B), TP (B), STR (A), INT (B), VIT (B), WIS (B), AGI (B), LUC (D).

Possible equipment: Katana, Clothes.

Skills:

  • Unified Effort (Force Boost): Increases maximum HP by 40% and damage by 15% for three turns. Stacks for multiple Shoguns.
  • Decoy Party (Force Break): Every ally can negate one attack targeted on them, including debuffs, ailments and binds.
  • Second Sword (Passive): Enables equipping a second weapon and decreases damage received by 20%. Max Lv Effect: Decreases damage received by 20%.
  • Echoing Slash (Attack): Deals cut damage at the start of turn and deals another damage using the second weapon after the target acts. The second attack won’t activate if the first attack misses the target, or the user dies after the target acts. The order of the weapon used is based on the strongest ATK weapons, not the slot order. Must equip a katana. Max Lv Effect: Deals cut damage at the start of turn and deals another damage using the second weapon after the target acts. The second attack won’t activate if the first attack misses the target, or the user dies after the target acts. The order of the weapon used is based on the strongest ATK weapons, not the slot order. Must equip a katana.
  • Front Command (Support): All party front line will counterattack all attacks targeted to selected ally. Doesn’t activate in reaction to counterattacks. Doesn’t activate if the original attack misses your ally, or if your selected ally dies. The counter attackers can counter once per attack, but they can’t participate if inflicted with Petrification, Sleep, Panic or Arm Bind. Max Lv Effect: All party front line will counterattack all attacks targeted to selected ally. Doesn’t activate in reaction to counterattacks. Doesn’t activate if the original attack misses your ally, or if your selected ally dies. The counter attackers can counter once per attack, but they can’t participate if inflicted with Petrification, Sleep, Panic or Arm Bind.
  • Bolt Slash (Attack): Deals cut and volt damage. Must equip a katana. Max Lv Effect: Deals cut and volt damage. Must equip a katana.
  • Avidya Sight (Passive): Increases damage by 20% when it’s evening or the user is inflicted with Blind. The decreased accuracy of getting Blind still applies. Max Lv Effect: Increases damage by 20% when it’s evening or the user is inflicted with Blind. The decreased accuracy of getting Blind still applies.
  • Great Warrior (Buff): Increases ATK by 60% and chance of being targeted by 40% for 4 turns. Max Lv Effect: Increases ATK by 60% and chance of being targeted by 40% for 4 turns.
  • Taunt Assassins (Field): Multiplies encounter rate by 100 and doubles battle EXP for 100 steps. Effective to be used before boss fight. This skill will override Zodiac’s Horoscope and other similar effect. Max Lv Effect: Multiplies encounter rate by 100 and doubles battle EXP for 100 steps. Effective to be used before boss fight. This skill will override Zodiac’s Horoscope and other similar effect.
  • Take (Field): Has a chance to obtain rare material at any taking point. Max Lv Effect: Has a chance to obtain rare material at any taking point.
  • Morale Boost (Passive Heal): Recovers 50 HP when the user is revived. Max Lv Effect: Recovers 50 HP when the user is revived.
Tips
  • Front Command should be your first pick, especially if you also pick targets like Protector with Taunt, units that have the Great Warrior Buff, or against enemies that are you are certain will use an AOE skill.
  • Great Warrior is a great buff if the target can survive the increased enemy targeting. Protector, Hero, Highlander, and a Landsknecht that isn’t using Vanguard make for excellent users of the Great Warrior buff.
  • If you don’t want to counterattack, Bolt Slash is perhaps your main objective.
  • Second Sword is not so useful unless you want to learn Echoing Slash, as it doesn’t make the Shogun normal attack twice.
  • If support is your goal, grab Great Warrior and level it as much as you can afford it (TP cost-wise), as the 60% physical attack buff is very good. Note that it does not benefit from Proof of Nobility from Sovereign.
  • Front Command is good to learn if you have an aggro unit (like one buffed by Great Warrior). Note that all of the Shogun’s dual-wield skills use weapon element - so having Sovereign is a boon.
  • Bolt Slash(1) is just for conditionals and Avidya Sight (4) is typically obtained because you will literally have nothing else to spend points on. Echoing Slash can be decent when you don’t want to use or can’t use Front Command, but is generally unnecessary.
  • Second Sword does reduce Damage, so if you lack a tanky DPS (Hero, Landy without Vanguard buff, Imperial not charging a Drive, Highlander) or Protector, then using a Ronin with a decent level of Clear Stance investment or a Shogun with a high level of Second Sword investment can be your “Great Warrior/Front Guard” targets.
  • Taunt Assassins is often skipped because it can lead to overleveling, and the game already gives plenty of EXP.

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