Skills

Skills are special moves that your hobo uses in battle when drunk.

Obtainment

Skills are obtained at the Skill Shop, which becomes unlocked upon completing the the Skill Shop Side Adventure. They are bought with tokens. At first, only three skills can be bought at the Skill Shop; however, as you raise your drinking stat, more skills will become unlocked at the Skill Shop, in groups of three. Each unlocked skill group costs more tokens, but has better special effects in battle. At 500 drinking, all 33 skills at the Skill Shop become unlocked. You can only have up to 999 of each skill at any time.

Mechanics

Upon buying a skill, it becomes placed in your Skill Repository on the Skills page, which is accessible through the Living Area and the "Skills" side bar link. From there, skills can be "set" into a skill slot. In order for a skill to be fired, it must be placed into a skill slot. Also, as you raise your drinking stat, you will unlock more skill slots, up to nine maximum at 400 drinking. Once a skill is placed into a skill slot, it can be dragged up and down into other skill slot positions, that is, if you have more than one skill slot. The skill in the first skill slot will fire first, the skill in the second skill slot will fire second, and so on; basically, they are used in the order you place them. You cannot set the same skill in multiple skill slots. Once you are done arranging your skills, click the "Set Order" button to save your skill arrangement. Leaving a skill slot blank will not cause a "pause" in between skill firing, so make sure you take advantage of all of your skill slots!

In battle, skills automatically fire at set intervals, which are determined by your BAL. The higher your BAL, the earlier your skills will fire. Usually, skills fire every 20 or so rounds. Once a skill is fired, it becomes used up and disappears, so, make sure your skills are always well-stocked! Also, each skill will only fire once during battle; once all of the skills in your skill slots are fired, you will not fire any more skills for the remaining duration of the battle.

The special effects of skills vary from skill to skill; some skills boost your stats, some lower your opponent's stats, some heal you, some damage your opponent, and some do something entirely unique.

If you are a donator, you can save the current skill lineup you have as a named Skill Set and switch to it when desired. You can have up to five saved Skill Sets at any time. If your donator status goes away, you will not have access to your saved Skill Sets.

If you have the Cabana Club Card special item from Bernard's Mansion active, your opponent's skills will miss 25% of the time.

The following is a comprehensive table of certain drinking stat intervals and the skill-related benefits they provide:

Comprehensive Drinking Stat and Skill-Related Benefits Information Table

Drinking Stat Max BAL Skill Fire Interval Skill Slots Number of Unlocked Skills 0 0.20% Around every 23 rounds. 1 3 50 0.22% Around every 23 rounds. 2 6 100 0.24% Around every 23 rounds. 3 9 150 0.26% Around every 22 rounds. 4 12 200 0.28% Around every 22 rounds. 5 15 250 0.30% Around every 22 rounds. 6 18 300 0.32% Around every 22 rounds. 7 21 350 0.34% Around every 21 rounds. 8 24 400 0.36% Around every 21 rounds. 9 27 450 0.38% Around every 21 rounds. 9 30 500 0.40% Around every 21 rounds. 9 33 550 0.42% Around every 20 rounds. 9 33 600 0.44% Around every 20 rounds. 9 33 650 0.46% Around every 20 rounds. 9 33 700 0.48% Around every 20 rounds. 9 33 700 + Tattoo 0.78% Around every 17 rounds. 9 33 700 + Tattoo + JS 1.56% Around every 12 rounds after firing. 9 33 700 + Tattoo + KS 2.34% Around every 8 rounds after firing. 9 33

List of Skills

There are 33 skills present in the game.

The following is a list of all them, as well as information pertaining to their costs, special effects, and unlock criterion.

Skills

ID Image Name Cost Special Effect Unlock Criterion -9999  !a -9999  !a -9999 1 Sprint 25 Tokens Increases your speed by 5%. 0 2 Strengthen 25 Tokens Increases your strength by 5%. 0 3 Empower 25 Tokens Increases your power by 5%. 0 4 Slow 50 Tokens Reduces your opponent's speed by 5%. 50 Drinking 5 Reduce 50 Tokens Reduces your opponent's strength by 5%. 50 Drinking 6 Weaken 50 Tokens Reduces your opponent's power by 5%. 50 Drinking 7 Double Punch 75 Tokens Throws a punch that deals 50% more damage than usual. 100 Drinking 8 Leap 75 Tokens Causes the opponent's next attack to miss, and, 33⅓% of the time, backfire, causing him/her damage instead. 100 Drinking 9 Jello Shot 75 Tokens Doubles your current and maximum BAL for the remaining duration of the battle, causing your skills to fire faster. 100 Drinking 10 Drain 100 Tokens Throws a punch that drains your opponent's health, adding it to yours. 150 Drinking 11 Mighty 100 Tokens Increases your power, strength, and speed by 5%. 150 Drinking 12 Sissify 100 Tokens Reduces your opponent's power, strength, and speed by 5%. 150 Drinking 13 Heal 125 Tokens Restores 15% of the health you started out with. 200 Drinking 14 Takedown 125 Tokens Halves your opponent's current health. Has a 75% chance of missing. 200 Drinking 15 Paralyze 125 Tokens Paralyzes your opponent for 5~30 rounds, preventing him/her from attacking or firing skills. 200 Drinking 16 Triple Punch 150 Tokens Throws a punch that deals 100% more damage than usual. 250 Drinking 17 Buff Rat 150 Tokens Increases your rat's damage and speed by 25%. 250 Drinking 18 Concentration 150 Tokens Doubles your net stat boosts from the skills that have fired in the battle. 250 Drinking 19 Double Drain 175 Tokens Throws a punch that deals 50% more damage than usual and drains your opponent's health, adding it to yours. 300 Drinking 20 Yoink 175 Tokens Steals your opponent's current status effect and makes it yours. 300 Drinking 21 Debuff 175 Tokens Negates your opponent's status effect and boosts from fired skills. 300 Drinking 22 Heal More 200 Tokens Restores 20% of the health you started out with. 350 Drinking 23 Defend 200 Tokens Reduces your opponent's damage by 20% for the remaining duration of the battle. 350 Drinking 24 Keg Stand 200 Tokens Triples your current and maximum BAL for the remaining duration of the battle, causing your skills to fire much faster. 350 Drinking 25 Quad Punch 225 Tokens Throws a punch that deals 150% more damage than usual. 400 Drinking 26 Cripple 225 Tokens Halves your opponent's current health. Has a 66⅔% chance of missing. 400 Drinking 27 Average 225 Tokens Averages your opponent's stats for around 10 turns. 400 Drinking 28 Triple Drain 250 Tokens Throws a punch that deals 100% more damage than usual and drains your opponent's health, adding it to yours. 450 Drinking 29 Tiebreaker 250 Tokens Gives you a 33% chance of winning a stalemate. Does not work against NPCs. 450 Drinking 30 Charm Rat 250 Tokens Charms your opponent's rat to sometimes fight for you or do nothing. 450 Drinking 31 Quint Punch 500 Tokens Throws a punch that deals 200% more damage than usual. 500 Drinking 32 Champion 500 Tokens Increases your power, strength, and speed by 12%. 500 Drinking 33 Peon 500 Tokens Reduces your opponent's power, strength, and speed by 12%. 500 Drinking 9999  !z 9999  !z 9999

Advanced Strategies and Information

The following section discusses advanced skill-related strategies and information.

Extended Skill Information

Average

When Average is fired, it averages all of your opponent's stats for 10 rounds, but over those 10 rounds, their stats gradually return to normal.

For example:

Round 19: Hobo A has 800 speed, 100 power, and 100 strength.
Round 20: Hobo B uses Average!
Round 21: Hobo A has 333 speed, 333 power, and 333 strength.
Round 22: Hobo A has 379 speed, 310 power, and 310 strength.
Round 23: Hobo A has 425 speed, 287 power, and 287 strength.
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Round 29: Hobo A has 754 speed, 123 power, and 123 strength.
Round 30: Hobo A has 800 speed, 100 power, and 100 strength.

Charm Rat

When Charm Rat is fired, it has a 20% chance of charming your opponent's rat to turn on its owner and attack him/her, a 20% chance of charming your opponent's rat to distract itself and not attack you, and a 60% chance of not charming your opponent's rat at all.

Concentration

When Concentration is fired, your net stat boosts from the skills that have been fired in the battle are doubled.

A few examples:

Round 20: Hobo A uses Mighty!               (Hobo A's stat boosts: + 5% speed, + 5% strength, + 5% power.)
Round 40: Hobo A uses Concentration!        (Hobo A's stat boosts: +10% speed, +10% strength, +10% power.)

Round 20: Hobo A uses Mighty!               (Hobo A's stat boosts: +5% speed, +5% strength, +5% power.)
Round 40: Hobo B uses Sissify!              (Hobo A's stat boosts: +0% speed, +0% strength, +0% power.)
Round 60: Hobo A uses Concentration!        (Hobo A's stat boosts: +0% speed, +0% strength, +0% power.)

Round 20: Hobo A uses Mighty!               (Hobo A's stat boosts: + 5% speed, + 5% strength, + 5% power.)
Round 40: Hobo A uses Concentration!        (Hobo A's stat boosts: +10% speed, +10% strength, +10% power.)
Round 60: Hobo B uses Sissify!              (Hobo A's stat boosts: + 5% speed, + 5% strength, + 5% power.)

Paralyze

When Paralyze is fired, it creates a counter of 30 rounds. Every turn of the player who launched the Paralyze skill decreases the counter by 1. Every blocked attack attempt of the paralyzed player decreases the counter by 6. Every blocked skill fire attempt of the paralyzed player decreases the counter by 11. Once the counter reaches 0, the paralyzed player returns to normal.

Blocked skill fire attempts of a paralyzed player are delayed, not skipped.

Stat-Boosting Skills

Sprint, Strengthen, Empower, Mighty, and Champion all stack with each other. They simply get added together, so the order in which they are fired doesn't really matter.

An example:

Round  20: Hobo A uses Mighty!              (Hobo A's stat boosts: + 5% speed, + 5% strength, + 5% power.)
Round  40: Hobo A uses Champion!            (Hobo A's stat boosts: +17% speed, +17% strength, +17% power.)
Round  60: Hobo A uses Sprint!              (Hobo A's stat boosts: +22% speed, +17% strength, +17% power.)
Round  80: Hobo A uses Strengthen!          (Hobo A's stat boosts: +22% speed, +22% strength, +17% power.)
Round 100: Hobo A uses Empower!             (Hobo A's stat boosts: +22% speed, +22% strength, +22% power.)
Round 120: Hobo A uses Concentration!       (Hobo A's stat boosts: +44% speed, +44% strength, +44% power.)

The stat boosts from these skills are based on your base combat stats. Combat stat bonuses from status effects and equipment are not affected by these skills.

Stat-Reducing Skills

Slow, Reduce, Weaken, Sissify, and Peon all stack with each other. They simply get added together, so the order in which they are fired doesn't really matter.

An example:

Round  20: Hobo A uses Sissify!             (Hobo B's stat reductions: – 5% speed, – 5% strength, – 5% power.)
Round  40: Hobo A uses Peon!                (Hobo B's stat reductions: –17% speed, –17% strength, –17% power.)
Round  60: Hobo A uses Slow!                (Hobo B's stat reductions: –22% speed, –17% strength, –17% power.)
Round  80: Hobo A uses Reduce!              (Hobo B's stat reductions: –22% speed, –22% strength, –17% power.)
Round 100: Hobo A uses Weaken!              (Hobo B's stat reductions: –22% speed, –22% strength, –22% power.)

The stat reductions from these skills are based on your opponent's base combat stats. Combat stat bonuses from status effects and equipment are not affected by these skills.

Tiebreaker

If Tiebreaker is fired by both players in a battle, the second player to fire it has a shot at getting the tiebreak if the first player to fire it fails to get it. If the first player to fire it gets the tiebreak, then the second player to fire it can't get it no matter what.

Yoink

When Yoink is fired, it steals your opponent's status effect for the battle and subtracts 10 minutes from that status effect's remaining duration, giving those 10 minutes of that status effect to you after the battle ends.

Recommended Skill Sets

For those of who haven't unlocked all 33 skills yet, replace Keg Stand with Jello Shot, Champion and Peon with Mighty and Sissify (respectively), Cripple with Takedown, Triple Drain with Double Drain, and Quint Punch and Quad Punch with Triple Punch and Double Punch (respectively).

All-Purpose

1. Keg Stand
2. Defend
3. Champion
4. Concentration
5. Peon
6. Heal More
7. Cripple/Quint Punch
8. Heal/Debuff/Yoink
9. Takedown/Quad Punch

A general, all-purpose skill set. Combines offense and defense.

General Offense

1. Cripple
2. Keg Stand
3. Champion
4. Concentration
5. Peon
6. Quint Punch
7. Quad Punch
8. Triple Drain
9. Triple Punch

A skill set that aims to hit fast and hard.

General Defense

1. Keg Stand
2. Defend
3. Champion
4. Concentration
5. Peon
6. Heal More
7. Paralyze
8. Heal
9. Tiebreaker

A skill set that prepares for the worst and tries to make you hold out for as long as possible in hope of a tie and a possible tiebreak.

Rat-Heavy Offense

1. Buff Rat
2. Keg Stand
3. Champion
4. Concentration
5. Charm Rat/Takedown/Quint Punch
6. Peon
7. Cripple/Quad Punch
8. Paralyze
9. Heal More

A skill set with a focus on boosting your rat first if it's going to be dealing the most damage in the fight.

Anti-Buff

1. Yoink
2. Keg Stand
3. Champion
4. Concentration
5. Peon
6. Debuff
7. Triple Drain
8. Heal More
9. Cripple/Quad Punch/Average

A skill set designed to counter skills and status effects.

Hobosaurus Rex Raids

1. Keg Stand
2. Champion
3. Concentration
4. Quint Punch
5. Quad Punch
6. Triple Drain
7. Triple Punch
8. Double Drain
9. Double Punch

A skill set designed to optimize the damage done against Hobosaurus Rex in gang raids.